News and Tech Update

SmartBear today added capabilities to its platform for designing and managing application programming interfaces (APIs) that make it easier to both keep track of them and detect drift. A revamped Swagger Catalog, in addition to providing a unified view of APIs, also makes it possible to govern them. At the same time, SmartBear is adding Swagger Contract Testing with drift detection that verifies the API is behaving as specified in a contract. Additionally, SmartBear later this quarter plans to revamp its API editor along with artificial intelligence (AI) tools for generating APIs, a context-aware ability to create documentation, Spectral-based governance enforcement, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server and expanded multi-protocol support, including OpenAPI 3.1. AsyncAPI 3.0, and GraphQL. Laura Kennedy, director of product management for SmartBear, said both additions extend the API lifecycle management capabilities of the company’s platform. For example, Swagger Catalog combi...

There is a dangerous conflation happening across our industry right now. Teams are plugging LLM-powered agents into their deployment pipelines, calling it “agentic CI/CD,” and treating it as the next logical step after shell scripts and Terraform modules. It is not. Automation executes predefined instructions. An agent reasons about context, makes decisions, and takes actions that were never explicitly coded. If we continue treating intelligent agents like scripts, we will fail to build the necessary governance layer that defines this next era of CI/CD. That difference is not semantic. It is architectural, operational, and, if you get it wrong, catastrophic. Think about what happens when your Terraform plan runs. It reads state, computes a diff, and presents you with a deterministic set of changes. You review. You approve. You apply. The blast radius is knowable. Now think about what happens when an AI agent decides to scale down a service because it interpreted a cost anomaly as a ...

For most of its short life, Claude has lived inside a chat window. You type, it responds. That model is changing fast. Anthropic recently expanded Claude Code and Claude Cowork with a new computer use capability that lets the AI directly control your Mac or Windows desktop — clicking, typing, opening applications, navigating browsers, and completing workflows on your behalf. It’s available now as a research preview for Pro and Max subscribers. The short version: Claude can now do things at your desk while you’re somewhere else. How it Actually Works Claude doesn’t reach for the mouse first. It prioritizes existing connectors to services like Slack or Google Calendar. When no connector is available, it steps up to browser control. Only when those options don’t apply does it take direct control of the desktop — navigating through UI elements the way a human would. Claude always requests permission before accessing any new application, and users can halt operations at any point. T...

GitHub Copilot is popular. The AI-powered code completion tool (originally developed by GitHub and OpenAI) works to give software application developers a so-called “AI pair programmer” buddy that offers suggested code snippets and (when called upon) entire functions – and it happens directly within an engineer’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE) of choice. All of which means that GitHub Copilot isn’t just popular in terms of total usage; the tool is reporting an increase in patterns of high concurrency (individual developers performing similar operations, but more likely different developers requesting the same types of functions) and intense usage among power-users. No Foul Play, Probably The GitHub blog itself doesn’t necessarily point the finger at nefarious usage techniques – the team understands that spikes “can be driven by legitimate workflows” here – but indirect prompt injection (placing malicious instructions inside a public repository or pull request) could ex...

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so when one DevOps professional takes on a new role, it tends to create opportunities for others. The 10 job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and naturally, the pay scale being offered. We’re also committed to providing additional insights into the state of the DevOps job market. In the meantime, for your consideration. LinkedIn PTC Boston, MA Principal DevOps Engineer $160,000 to $185,000 Lightfeather Alexandria, VA GCP Cloud/DevOps Engineer $160,000 to $180,000 Deloitte St. Louis, MO DevOps Engineer $110,00...

Dynatrace this week revealed it has agreed to acquire Bindplane , a provider of a platform for pre-processing and routing telemetry data. Bob Wambach, vice president of market and customer insights for Dynatrace, said the addition of the Bindplane platform will further accelerate a rapid expansion of the log management capability that Dynatrace already provides. However, instead of requiring all telemetry data to be processed in the backend on its observability platform, IT teams will have the option to pre-process that data to reduce costs and streamline workflows, he added. Additionally, Dynatrace is committed to ensuring the Bindplane platform remains agnostic after the acquisition closes this month, which means IT teams will be able to route telemetry data to multiple backend systems, noted Wambach. While there has been some debate over the merits of using, for example, an OpenTelemetry agent to pre-process telemetry data, the massive expansion of the amount of telemetry data ...