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  • Signadot Launches Plans, Bringing Governed, Inner-Loop Validation to Coding Agents Working on Microservices

    New release expands Signadot’s agent-native platform for building and validating microservices on Kubernetes.

    SAN FRANCISCO, June 4, 2026 — Signadot, the platform for building and validating microservices on Kubernetes, today announced the beta release of Signadot Plans, a new product layer that gives coding agents a structured, governed way to validate every code change against real dependencies in the agent’s inner loop.

    As coding agents take on more of the development workflow, the bottleneck has shifted from writing code to verifying it. Agents can produce changes faster than any team can review them, but in distributed systems, bugs live at the seams between services, where mocks and unit tests cannot catch them. Plans closes that gap by giving agents a reusable validation vocabulary that runs against the real cluster, fast enough to fit inside the agent’s iteration loop.

    “Coding agents need to verify their own work before handing it off, and they need to do it against the real system, not a mock,” said Anirudh Ramanathan, CTO of Signadot. “Plans gives them the structured, governed primitives to do that inside their work session, on every change.”

    Plans is built on three layers:

    • Actions are typed, platform-governed primitives that define what kinds of validation are allowed against the cluster. The catalog ships with support for Playwright, k6, and HTTP request checks, and is open to community contributions.
    • Plans wrap actions into small, reusable validation workflows scoped to specific behaviors, tagged with selection hints so coding agents can find and reuse them across sessions.
    • Skills are the agent-facing interface for authoring and running plans, surfaced inside the agent’s session as it iterates.

    The release reinforces the division of responsibility that has defined Signadot’s platform: platform teams own the governed primitives, while developers and their coding agents compose validation workflows on top. This keeps the surface area agents can reach bounded to what the platform team has approved, while still giving agents the autonomy to define the validation flows they need for the change at hand.

    Signadot Plans is available in beta today for all Signadot users. Full details, including a worked example and a quickstart guide, are available in the launch announcement.

    About Signadot

    Signadot is the agent-native platform for building and validating microservices on Kubernetes. Signadot gives engineering teams lightweight, ephemeral environments and the validation primitives coding agents need to verify their work against real dependencies, before code reaches review. Customers include leading engineering organizations like Brex, Miro, Bitso, and Wealthsimple. Learn more at signadot.com.

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    Tristan Willis

    tristan@signadot.com

  • Testkube Redefines Testing for the AI Era with Testkube AI, While Deepening Its Commitment to Open Source and Enterprise Teams

    New AI capabilities at the core, a new viewer for open source users, and a new path for enterprise procurement.

    Boston, MA, May 7, 2026 — Testkube, the open testing platform for AI-driven engineering teams, today announced three simultaneous milestones: the public launch of Testkube AI, the launch of a Test Execution Viewer for open source users, and availability on the AWS Marketplace. Together, the announcements reflect Testkube’s commitment to serving engineering teams at every stage.

    “AI is dramatically accelerating how quickly organizations can ship code, but it’s also raising the stakes on quality”, said Andy Pemberton, President at Testkube. “Teams come to Testkube because they refuse to choose between velocity and confidence – they want both. They also want a path to get there. Today’s announcements are about making sure companies have a path to get the outcomes they’re after regardless of where they are in their testing journey!”

    A new era of AI-native testing

    Testkube AI is deeply woven into the fabric of the Testkube platform, designed to make testing an active, intelligent part of the software development lifecycle rather than a passive step in a CI/CD pipeline. It gives AI agents native access to the test workflows, logs, artifacts, and execution context that shape every testing outcome.

    The distinction matters. Most AI tools that touch testing today live outside of the software testing lifecycle, interpreting results after the fact through whatever partial data they can reach. Testkube AI is built into the testing platform itself, so agents see what the test runner sees, in real time, with the same fidelity as the engineers who built the tests. That changes what AI can do, from summarizing outcomes to actually participating in the work. 

    It also changes what engineers can create. With Testkube AI, anyone can create a test for any framework, and run it immediately in their infrastructure. Most teams today struggle with test coverage, because writing, maintaining, and running tests at scale takes time most teams don’t have. Testkube AI closes that gap on both ends: lowering the barrier to creating tests, and making sure those tests run against real infrastructure, real data, and real applications, where the answers actually live.

    “Testkube is a core part of our testing orchestration. It lets our developers build fast, with powerful checks in CI/CD pipelines”. Said Valerii Timofeev, Staff QA Automation Engineer at AlphaSense. “With Testkube AI Agents, we enable automated failure analysis and troubleshooting, so we spend less time debugging and more time shipping.”

    Inside Testkube AI

    At launch, Testkube AI includes capabilities that show what this foundation makes possible. More will follow.

    AI Authoring — Engineers describe what they need to test in natural language, select any type of testing framework, provide additional context, and Testkube generates the test for immediate execution in their existing infrastructure. AI Authoring is being announced today. Availability details will follow.

    Autonomous Agents — The Testkube platform provides the deep context required for AI agents to analyze executions, open PRs, classify failures, optimize cost, and even generate new Test Workflows – both autonomously or manually when required.Testkube AI Agents plug directly into testing pipelines to eliminate manual triage, flaky-test hunting, and incident correlation. 

    Testkube MCP Server — Testkube now exposes a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, making test execution and test results — workflows, results, logs, and artifacts — available to any AI tool or agent that supports MCP. Engineering teams can connect Testkube to existing AI-powered development tools and workflows without custom integrations.

    “There’s a difference between adding AI to a product and building a product that AI can fully see,” said Ole Lensmar, CTO at Testkube. “Most AI tools that touch testing today are working with whatever data they can scrape from outside the execution layer. Testkube AI works with the same fidelity our platform has, every workflow, every artifact, every log, in real time. That’s what makes the agents so powerful – they know everything about your tests, tools and results.”

    The Testkube AI Early Access Program is open today. Engineering teams can register now.

    Investments in open source and enterprise teams

    Alongside Testkube AI, Testkube is making two additional moves to support different parts of its user base.

    Open source users have always been at the heart of Testkube, and until today they’ve been running tests without a user interface to see what’s happening. For them, Testkube is now launching the Test Execution Viewer, an on-demand user interface that aggregates logs, results, and artifacts for any test execution, so teams can debug failures faster and stop piecing together context from the CLI. Available today at no cost. No login or account required. Usage instructions are in the Testkube documentation.

    For enterprise teams, Testkube is now available on the AWS Marketplace. Engineering organizations standardized on AWS can procure the platform through the channel they already use, consolidate spend under existing agreements, apply committed spend toward Testkube, and skip new vendor onboarding entirely. Deployment continues to run through Testkube’s standard install path into the customer’s Kubernetes environment.

    Together, these announcements reflect a broader investment in meeting different parts of Testkube’s user base where they are.

    About Testkube

    Testkube is the open testing platform for AI-driven engineering teams. Built for cloud-native teams, Testkube decouples test execution from CI/CD pipelines and runs tests as jobs inside your own infrastructure — with full visibility, any type of testing tool, and now AI built in. Learn more at testkube.io

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    Lucio Daza
    Head of Product Marketing
    press@testkube.io
    646-262-6252
    www.testkube.io

  • DBmaestro Introduces Agentic Database DevOps with MCP Server

    Transforming Natural Language into Governed Platform Workflows

    Orlando, FL, April 7, 2026 – DBmaestro, the leading database DevSecOps platform, today announced the launch of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, making DBmaestro the first database DevOps platform purpose-built for agentic AI workflows.

    The DBmaestro MCP server exposes the company’s industry-leading database release automation, source control, CI/CD orchestration, and compliance capabilities to AI agents and enterprise copilots. Teams can now use natural language to trigger real DBmaestro workflows – automating project creation, multi-environment deployments, package management, and release orchestration – while preserving enterprise governance, role-based access control, and full auditability.

    “DBmaestro MCP turns our enterprise-grade database DevOps platform into an agentic operational layer for AI,” said Gil Nizri, CEO of DBmaestro. “DBAs and DevOps engineers can now interact in natural language to accelerate repetitive tasks, while AI becomes the interface to deterministic, governed workflows. This is not replacing database expertise – it’s amplifying it with enterprise-grade control.”

    Key capabilities include:

    • Agentic Database DevOps: AI agents execute complex database operations across dev, QA, and production environments
    • Natural Language Workflows: Prompts such as “Create an MsSQL release pipeline with Dev/QA/Prod environments, and update Dev and QA to the latest version” become real platform execution
    • Enterprise Governance: Role-based permissions, compliance tracking, and full audit trails remain intact
    • Deterministic Reliability: AI accelerates setup and self-service while engineers retain control over critical paths

    As IBM’s strategic OEM partner for database release automation, DBmaestro MCP extends this leadership into the agentic era, enabling organizations to scale database delivery while maintaining the security and compliance standards enterprises demand.

    “Every enterprise adopting AI agents needs secure, governed access to their core platforms,” said Yaniv Yehuda, DBmaestro Founder & CPO. “DBmaestro’s MCP implementation shows how database DevOps can evolve from manual processes to agent-driven automation without sacrificing control.”

    The DBmaestro MCP server is available immediately to all customers and partners. For more information, visit https://www.dbmaestro.com/ai/dbmaestro-mcp-server  

    About DBmaestro

    DBmaestro is a leading provider of Agent-Governed database DevOps and release automation, enabling CI/CD for databases with controlled, auditable change management. The platform extends DevOps to the database layer with built-in compliance, observability, and governed AI execution, including MCP-based workflows for natural-language operations and intelligent troubleshooting under enterprise control. As IBM’s strategic OEM partner, DBmaestro powers database release automation in some of the world’s most complex and regulated environments and augments DevOps, automation, and governance solutions. Learn more at www.dbmaestro.com. 

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    Ben Gross
    +972-50-8452086
    beng@dbmaestro.com

  • SerpApi Files Suit Against SearchApi for Stealing Proprietary Technology

    AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 20, 2026 — SerpApi filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas against Zilvinas Kucinskas and his company, SearchApi, for systematically stealing SerpApi’s proprietary technology and using its trade secrets to build a product that directly copies and competes with SerpApi.

    As detailed in SerpApi’s complaint, Mr. Kucinskas, a former software engineering contractor for SerpApi, exploited his access to SerpApi’s proprietary information to pilfer the company’s intellectual property. The evidence is damning: Mr. Kucinskas improperly retained SerpApi’s source code, and he repeatedly accessed SerpApi servers after stopping work for SerpApi in 2021. Even more egregiously, just 11 days before leaving SerpApi, he downloaded SerpApi’s proprietary customer list. Mr. Kucinskas not only stole all this information, he used it to start a copycat company, SearchApi.

    “Mr. Kucinskas tried to cover his tracks, but we uncovered his scheme. When confronted, he stonewalled our investigation and feigned ignorance. He refused to cooperate despite multiple attempts to resolve this matter directly. His conduct left us no choice but to file suit. We’ve only touched on the facts at a high-level here. Our complaint lays out the evidence in detail, supported by a forensic expert’s sworn declaration,” said Chad Anson, SerpApi’s general counsel.

    SerpApi has invested tens of millions of dollars and nearly a decade of work building a solution that gives its customers structured access to public data at enterprise scale. Mr. Kucinskas spent a few months stealing it. SerpApi filed this suit to protect that investment, to protect its customers, and to hold him accountable. This action is also part of a broader commitment to reinforcing the security and trust SerpApi’s customers rely on.

    In the interest of transparency, SerpApi is making the full complaint, the forensic expert’s declaration, and all supporting exhibits available below:

    About SerpApi

    SerpApi is the leading platform for search data, offering API solutions to parse data from Google, Bing, YouTube, and more. Founded in 2017, SerpApi was among the first platforms to provide developers and enterprises worldwide with access to real-time search data. With more than 100 specialized APIs, SerpApi empowers developers, researchers, innovators, and organizations to harness live search data to support their products and missions. Use cases span AI models, SEO, cybersecurity, E-commerce competitor research, and more.

    Media Contact: press@serpapi.com

  • Signadot Unveils Kubernetes-Native Developer Platform to Scale Agentic Development

    As AI agents generate 10x more code, Signadot eliminates the validation bottleneck with high-concurrency, Kubernetes-native ephemeral environments.

    SAN FRANCISCO — Signadot today announced its evolution into the Kubernetes-native developer platform for the agentic software development lifecycle (SDLC), marking a strategic shift to meet the demands of modern, high-velocity engineering teams. Building on its leadership in high-fidelity local development and ephemeral environments, Signadot is introducing a platform designed to solve the primary challenge of the AI era: the validation bottleneck.

    As engineering teams adopt coding agents to accelerate velocity, the industry is witnessing a fundamental shift in the SDLC. While agents have accelerated code generation, the bottleneck has moved downstream to verification. Traditional staging environments and CI/CD pipelines were not built to handle this level of volume and concurrency, leading to resource contention, long queues, and soaring cloud costs that negate the velocity gains of AI.

    The true potential of AI coding agents isn’t just about writing code faster. It’s about verifying and merging it faster,” said Arjun Iyer, CEO and Co-founder of Signadot. “Most teams have agents perform basic unit or mocked tests, but this isn’t sufficient for complex cloud-native software. Without testing against real cluster dependencies, integration issues surface much later in the cycle and eliminate the productivity gains.”

    Signadot bridges this gap by providing the high-performance infrastructure necessary to scale the agentic SDLC. Using Signadot, engineering teams can spin up lightweight, ephemeral environments at scale. This enables hundreds of concurrent developers and coding agents to write, run, and verify code in parallel loops without contention or the prohibitive costs of duplicating full clusters.

    Powering Agentic Development at Scale

    Signadot is the ephemeral environment platform of choice for high-velocity engineering organizations that demand efficient scaling for their internal agentic development workflows and customer-facing agents. This includes teams at Brex, Wealthsimple, and Bitso. 

    The platform team at DoorDash (DASH) uses Signadot to accelerate productivity for their developers and coding agents by bringing production fidelity into their local environments. 

    “Signadot allows us to fast-track development by working locally rather than waiting for changes to be deployed to our staging environment. This includes our agents, that need the same access our engineers do.” – Adam Rogal, Eng. Director of Developer Platforms @ DoorDash  

    For more information about Signadot’s Kubernetes-native platform for the agentic SDLC, visit www.signadot.com.

    About Signadot

    Signadot is a Kubernetes-native developer platform that accelerates the software development lifecycle for high-velocity teams. With on-demand lightweight ephemeral environments that connect to real cluster dependencies, Signadot enables developers and agents to iterate locally with high fidelity and validate PRs instantly with massive concurrency and zero contention. This eliminates the infrastructure bottlenecks of traditional CI/CD and equips modern engineering teams for agentic development at scale.

  • Techstrong Group Opens Nominations for the DevOps Dozen 2025 Awards

    Techstrong Group Opens Nominations for the DevOps Dozen 2025 Awards

    Nominations are open through October 17 for the DevOps Dozen 2025 Awards, honoring outstanding achievements and contributions in the DevOps community.

    Boca Raton, FL, September 8, 2025 — Techstrong Group, the power source for people and technology, today announced that nominations are open for the DevOps Dozen 2025 Awards, celebrating the individuals, organizations, tools, and services driving excellence in DevOps. The program features 24 categories across Community Awards (9) and Tools & Services Awards (15).

    “The DevOps Dozen are not about trophies or vanity. They are about momentum and validation. These awards honor the people, practices, and products that shaped the community and moved it forward over the past year,” said Alan Shimel, Founder and CEO, Techstrong Group.

    This year, Agentic AI and Generative AI each get their own category, while Platform Engineering has a dedicated slot as the practice matures from trend to table stakes. Supply Chain Security Solution also earns standalone recognition, reflecting how software integrity, attestations and provenance have shifted from ‘nice to have’ to ‘non-negotiable.’

    Important Dates

    • Nominations close: October 17, 2025
    • Finalists announced and public voting opens: November 10, 2025
    • Public voting closes: December 31, 2025
    • Winners announced: January 2026 at the Predict 2026 Virtual Summit

    Awards Process and Eligibility

    There are no nomination fees in the Community Awards category, though commercial vendors are not eligible for the following three: Top DevOps Community Evangelist, DevOps Enterprise Leader of the Year, and Best Application of AI in Enterprise DevOps Practices. Tools & Services Award nominations carry a $300 fee to ensure serious entries and discourage spam. Fees are refunded for those not advancing to the finals. Vendors may nominate themselves.

    Public voting will account for 40% of each winner’s total, while judges’ scores will account for 60%. There is a limit for finalists at 10 per Tools & Services category to keep the field competitive and focused.

    DevOps Dozen 2025 Awards Categories

    Tools & Services Awards

    1. Best DevOps Industry Implementation
      Many organizations have transformed their business by successfully adopting and implementing DevOps principles, practices and solutions. This award recognizes those enterprises that have successfully achieved DevOps success and have worked with their solution partner to do so.
    2. DevOps Industry Leader of the Year
      Tool & Service providers play a critical role in bringing innovative tools, platforms and services to the market. This award recognizes a strong Tools & Services leader who guides their company through the challenges of developing and bringing to market innovative DevOps technologies and services.
    3. Top DevOps Vendor Evangelist
      DevOps solution providers typically are on the leading edge of new DevOps strategies, tools and practices. This award recognizes the individual that does the best job of informing the DevOps community about new and exciting tools and practices to deliver DevOps success and business value.
    4. Best End-to-End DevOps Platform
      Consolidation in the DevOps space has led to a greater selection of platforms offering end-to-end solutions with increasing feature sets. This award honors the platform with the most diverse and robust solution for DevOps teams.
    5. Best application of Generative AI in a DevOps Tool/Platform (Updated for 2025)
      Generative AI is transforming DevOps by automating tasks, improving code quality, and enhancing efficiency. It leverages AI models to generate code, automate deployments, and streamline workflows, ultimately leading to faster development cycles and more robust software. This award honors the best use of Generative AI in a DevOps Tool or Platform.
    6. Best application of Agentic AI in a DevOps Tool/Platform (Added for 2025)
      Agentic AI refers to autonomous AI capabilities in a DevOps tool or service that can plan, reason, and act to complete DevOps tasks with minimal human oversight. This involves perception, decision-making, and execution, creating a value stream lifecycle where the AI agent interacts with the DevOps environment. This award honors the best use of Agentic AI in a DevOps Tool or Platform.
    7. Best DevSecOps Solution
      This award honors the best DevSecOps solution, which enables security to be included earlier and continuously throughout the SDLC.
    8. Best Supply Chain Security Solution (Added for 2025)
      Software supply chain security refers to the measures taken to protect the integrity and security of software throughout its entire development and delivery lifecycle, from initial code to final deployment. This award honors the best solution for ensuring that the software is trustworthy and hasn’t been tampered with at any point in its journey.
    9. Best Observability Solution
      This award recognizes the best observability solution for observing and monitoring to understand the performance of individual components, systems and entire applications.
    10. Best Platform Engineering Solution
      This award recognizes the best platform engineering solution enabling self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era, covering the operational necessities of the entire lifecycle of an application.
    11. Best Testing Service/Tool
      Testing is a mainstay in the DevOps toolchain, and this award recognizes the best testing tool for ensuring the quality of code.
    12. Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution
      Mainframes are far from being the dinosaur of the IT world. This award recognizes the best solution for implementing DevOps practices in mainframe environments and hybrid environments.
    13. Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution
      Databases often have been left out of the DevOps conversation, but that is changing. This award recognizes the best database related solution for DevOps and DataOps.
    14. Best New DevOps Tool
      This award recognizes the best tool that has brought innovation to the DevOps space in the past year (less than 24 months old).
    15. Best New DevOps Service Provider
      A DevOps services provider helps organizations implement and manage DevOps practices through consulting, implementation, and ongoing support. Typically they offer a range of services, including DevOps consulting, CI/CD pipeline implementation, infrastructure automation, and DevSecOps services, to streamline software development and delivery. This award recognizes a service provider that excels in delivering quality services to the DevOps community.

    Community Awards

    1. Best DevOps-Related Video or Audio Podcast
      Podcasts are popular ways for DevOps leaders and practitioners to keep current. This award recognizes the most educational, informative and inspirational DevOps video or audio podcast series — those with the most engaging and highest-quality content that keeps listeners coming back for more.
    2. Best devopsy.kinsta.cloud Article of the Year
      devopsy.kinsta.cloud publishes multiple new articles every day. This award recognizes the best article from this year. Let us know so we can recognize the author.
    3. Best DevOps Book of the Year
      Each year sees a number of well-crafted DevOps-related books. This category recognizes the most popular and best read of the year.
    4. Top DevOps Community Evangelist (No vendor nominees)
      Every community has those who stand out as leaders in their field who spread the DevOps gospel every day. This award recognizes the individual whom peers in the DevOps community recognize for outstanding leadership, knowledge, and communication.
    5. DevOps Enterprise Leader of the Year (No vendor nominees)
      An organization’s leadership plays a critical role in shepherding its team through innovation and change. This award recognizes a strong DevOps leader who guides their team through the challenges of developing and implementing DevOps strategies, policies, culture, and practices to improve software development and delivery.
    6. Best DevOps Survey/ Research/Report (Updated for 2025)
      Ongoing research in the application of DevOps tracks trends and provides standards that organizations can use to measure themselves. This award recognizes industry research, reporting and analysis that has significantly and positively impacted the DevOps community.
    7. Best DevOps Event of the Year
      Events and conferences are an important part of IT life. This category includes both in-person and virtual events. Which DevOps event stands out from the others and delivers the best content, speakers and attendee experience?
    8. Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project
      Open source software is an important part of every organization’s set of development assets promoting innovation, velocity, quality and efficiency. This award recognizes the open source project that delivers the greatest value through a community of people who work on and with the open source technology and support each other.
    9. Best Application of AI in Enterprise DevOps Practices (No vendor nominees)
      Leading enterprises are integrating the use of AI within their DevOps practices at an incredible pace. This award recognizes the organization that has applied AI in the most interesting and productive way to accelerate and improve various aspects of software delivery, leading to increased efficiency, higher quality, and faster time-to-market.

    Finalists receive badges and recognition across the Techstrong network; winners receive trophies and the full spotlight they’ve earned.

    For more information about award categories and nomination forms, please visit the DevOps Dozen website. For questions regarding entry process, timing, or technical issues, please contact us at DD@devops.com.

    About Techstrong Group

    Techstrong Group is the power source for people and technology. Techstrong Group accelerates understanding of technologies that drive business. With a broad set of IT-related communities and offerings, Techstrong Group is the only media company serving the needs of IT leaders and practitioners with news, research, events, education, and professional development. Our focus is DevOps, cybersecurity, AI, digital transformation, cloud and cloud native. Techstrong Group business units include: Techstrong Media (devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Techstrong.ai, DigitalCxO, PlatformEngineering.com, Techstrong.IT, Techstrong TV and Techstrong Group Podcasts), and Techstrong Learning. For technology providers, Techstrong business units offer many ways to share their stories, expand their audience and grow their business.

    Techstrong is part of Futurum Group, a leading technology research and advisory firm, expanding its capabilities in research, advisory, and media.

    Techstrong Group is based in Boca Raton, Florida. For more information, visit our website and follow us on LinkedIn.

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  • IBM and DBmaestro Expand Strategic OEM Partnership to Deliver Enterprise-Grade Database DevOps and Observability

    Orlando, FL, July 1, 2025 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and DBmaestro, the leading enterprise-grade database DevOps platform, today announced the signing of a landmark OEM partnership agreement. This expansion will make DBmaestro’s advanced database DevSecOps and observability suite available through IBM’s solutions portfolio, empowering customers to achieve end-to-end DevOps automation, real-time database visibility, and unmatched agility, security, and innovation.

    “DBmaestro’s platform will support and enhance IBM DevOps, including IBM DevOps Loop, IBM DevOps Deploy and IBM DevOps Velocity. Future integrations are planned with IBM Z, HashiCorp Vault, Terraform & Waypoint, Instana, and IBM ELM to fill a critical gap in database automation and observability for enterprise DevOps toolchains.” 

    “The expansion from reseller to a full OEM partnership marks a pivotal moment for enterprise DevOps,” said Gil Nizri, CEO of DBmaestro. “By integrating our leading enterprise-grade multi-database DevOps platform and observability suite into IBM’s powerful suite, we are enabling organizations to orchestrate flawless software delivery from application code to database deployments. Our joint solution empowers customers to accelerate innovation, reduce risk, and maintain the highest standards of security and compliance, all while gaining real-time visibility into their database processes.”

    DBmaestro automates database deployments and schema changes, eliminates the bottleneck of manual database processes, and delivers full observability into every aspect of the database DevOps lifecycle. Its integration with IBM’s DevOps tools ensures that database changes are managed alongside application code, enabling standardized deployment pipelines, robust version control, error-free automation, and actionable insights through advanced monitoring and analytics. This unified approach delivers:

    – Complete DevOps Harmony: Automates the entire software delivery lifecycle, including database releases and observability for full modernization and digital transformation.

    – Faster Time to Market: Enables rapid, frequent, and reliable deployments.

    – Fortified Security and Compliance: Implements robust controls and visibility to meet strict regulatory requirements.

    – Enhanced Software Quality: Minimizes errors and inconsistencies through automation and real-time monitoring.

    – End-to-End Observability: Provides comprehensive insights into database changes, performance, and compliance across environments.

    – AI Powered Insights: Automatically identifies errors and proposes ad-hoc best practices for resolution

    “IBM’s mission is to help enterprises deliver innovation at scale, securely and efficiently,” said James Hunter, Program Director at IBM DevOps Automation. “By embedding DBmaestro’s industry-leading database DevOps and observability suite into our ecosystem, we are removing one of the last barriers to true end-to-end DevOps. This partnership expansion empowers our customers to achieve faster, safer, and more reliable software delivery, with unprecedented transparency into their database operations.”

    The OEM agreement allows IBM customers to leverage DBmaestro’s automation and observability as a native part of their DevOps toolchain, supporting hybrid and multi-cloud environments and streamlining complex database operations.

    About DBmaestro:

    DBmaestro is a leading provider of database release automation solutions, empowering organizations to deliver better software faster, while minimizing risks and errors. DBmaestro’s platform enables CI/CD for databases, regulatory compliance and DevOps observability, ensuring safe database deployments with zero downtime. www.dbmaestro.com. 

    Media Contact
    Ben Gross
    +972-50-8452086
    beng@dbmaestro.com

  • Techstrong Group Announces 2024 DevOps Dozen Awards Honorees

    Techstrong Group Announces 2024 DevOps Dozen Awards Honorees

    Boca Raton, FL, January 14, 2025 — Techstrong Group, the power source for people and technology, is proud to announce the winners of the 2024 DevOps Dozen Awards, which recognize exceptional contributions to the DevOps community and the evolution of software development practices. From community leaders to tools and services advancing DevOps, the 2024 honorees represent the diverse and innovative efforts shaping technology’s future.

    This year’s winners have been selected for their remarkable achievements in pushing the boundaries of DevOps. These individuals and organizations have demonstrated leadership, creativity, and a commitment to advancing the industry, creating lasting impacts across communities, and driving the development of groundbreaking tools and platforms. The 2024 DevOps Dozen Awards honor those who have not only embraced the DevOps culture but have also paved the way for others to follow.

    Community Awards

    Best DevOps-Related Video or Audio Podcast: The Modern Mainframe

    “BMC’s mainframe podcast, The Modern Mainframe, is one of the leading podcasts helping to keep the mainframe relevant. With news and analysis of DevOps topics across the mainframe, it has something for everyone. Keep it up!”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best DevOps Book of the Year: “Continuous Testing, Quality, Security and Feedback: Essential Strategies and Secure Practices for DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE Transformations” by Marc Hornbeek

    “Marc Hornbeek’s book shows readers the strategies for transformation success into DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE methodologies.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Top DevOps Community Evangelist: Giorgi Keratishvili

    “Giorgi Keratishvili has played major roles in Development and Operations, actively growing DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering awareness in the Georgian community and beyond.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best DevOps Event of the Year: GrafanaCON 2024

    “Grafana Labs’ annual conference in Amsterdam focused on the open-source world of Observability. Of particular note were the live demos, latest OSS developments, and the community winners of the annual Golden Grot Awards.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project: Jenkins

    “The Jenkins open-source project, now boasting over 11 million developers globally, continues to set the industry standard and is a key contributor to DevOps practices.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best devopsy.kinsta.cloud Article of the Year: “Can AI Replace DevOps Engineers?” by Alexander Simonov

    “In this article, Alexander Simonov addresses how DevOps professionals can adapt to AI advancements and stay in demand in the evolving tech landscape.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    DevOps Enterprise Leader of the Year: Sheree Britt, AVP, Software Engineering Mainframe Modernization, TD Bank Group

    “Sheree Britt’s leadership in leveraging DevOps practices to transform TD Bank’s culture and processes makes her a standout in enterprise DevOps leadership.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Tools & Services Awards

    Best DevOps Industry Implementation: Operation Joined Arrows program for FIS

    “FIS’s Operation Joined Arrows (OJA) revolutionized their processes with a cohesive and secure software development lifecycle across their enterprise.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research: The Software Supply Chain State of the Union 2024

    “JFrog’s 2024 Software Supply Chain report is essential reading for anyone at the forefront of today’s technological innovations, especially in the realm of AI adoption.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best End-to-End DevOps Platform: JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform

    “JFrog continues to innovate with its DevOps platform, improving speed and efficiency across development teams.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best Application of AI in DevOps Tool/Platform: GitLab Duo

    “GitLab Duo helps organizations adopt AI while ensuring the security of sensitive data, making it a standout in the evolving AI-driven DevOps space.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Top DevOps Vendor Evangelist: Tony Anter

    “Tony’s unwavering passion for DevOps and his advocacy for adopting its principles have earned him this well-deserved recognition.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best Value Stream Management: ValueOps by Broadcom

    “Broadcom’s deep understanding of value stream management and its commitment to transforming this space make ValueOps a leader in the field.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best Observability Solution: Splunk Observability Cloud

    “Splunk’s Observability Cloud allows IT and DevOps teams to detect, investigate, and resolve business-critical incidents quickly and efficiently.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best DevSecOps Solution: Checkmarx One

    “Checkmarx One is an essential tool for DevSecOps teams, enabling secure application development from the first line of code through deployment in the cloud.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best Platform Engineering Solution: Harness Internal Developer Portal

    “Harness’s Internal Developer Portal is revolutionizing platform engineering efficiency, focusing on enhancing both developer and platform engineering effectiveness.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best Testing Service/Tool: Tricentis SeaLights

    “Tricentis SeaLights helps organizations balance code quality with speed to market, improving cycle times and minimizing production risks.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution: BMC AMI DevX

    “BMC’s AMI DevX platform addresses the mainframe’s pivotal role in scaling workloads, providing an improved developer experience for mainframe teams.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution: EDB Postgres AI

    “EDB Postgres AI empowers DevOps teams with a unified, scalable, and secure data platform to streamline the management of transactional, analytical, and AI data.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    Best New DevOps Tool: StackGen

    “StackGen accelerates cloud provisioning with infrastructure as code (IaC), enabling platform engineering teams to deploy resilient, reliable, and secure applications quickly.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    DevOps Industry Leader of the Year: Anuj Kapur, CEO, CloudBees

    “Under Anuj Kapur’s leadership, CloudBees has made remarkable strides, driving transformation in DevSecOps, acquiring Launchable, and positioning itself as a leader in scaling AI innovation within the DevOps ecosystem.”
    — Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group

    The DevOps Dozen Awards winners will receive digital and physical trophies and badges to celebrate their achievements.

    For more information regarding the entry process, awards, timing, or any technical issues regarding the website, please contact us at DD@devops.com.

    About Techstrong Group

    Techstrong Group is the power source for people and technology. Techstrong Group accelerates understanding of technologies that drive business. With a broad set of IT-related communities and offerings, Techstrong Group is the only media company serving the needs of IT leaders and practitioners with news, research, analysis, events, education, and professional development. Our focus is DevOps, cybersecurity, AI, digital transformation, cloud native, ITSM, and platform engineering. Techstrong Group business units include Techstrong Media, Techstrong Associations, Techstrong Research, and Techstrong Learning. Techstrong Group helps tech vendors stay ahead of the game by sharing their stories in the most powerful way and engaging with their target audience to build a strong online presence and generate valuable leads.

    Techstrong Group is based in Boca Raton, Florida. For more information, visit us on the web and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

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  • Upcoming DevOps Events to Attend in 2024

    Upcoming DevOps Events to Attend in 2024

    As the DevOps community continues to expand and evolve, staying connected to the latest trends and practices is essential. Whether you’re in DevOps, ITOps or IT, attending key events can help sharpen your skills, build connections with like-minded professionals and keep you ahead of the curve.

    Below is a list of upcoming DevOps conferences you won’t want to miss this year, including DevOps Experience, our own immersive virtual event happening on October 16.

    DevOps Experience 2024 (October 16)

    DevOps Experience is an essential event for DevOps and IT professionals looking to accelerate their DevOps journey. This year, the focus is on actionable strategies for enhancing operational velocity, streamlining security integration and leveraging AI to boost innovation and efficiency in development processes. With expert speakers and engaging sessions, this free virtual event will provide insights into how platforms and culture can drive your DevOps experience forward.

    Learn more and register for DevOps Experience

    All Day DevOps (October 10)

    All Day DevOps event offers over 200 sessions on topics ranging from DevSecOps to cloud-native computing and automation. This free virtual conference is known for its global participation and accessibility, providing learning opportunities for DevOps practitioners of all levels.

    More about All Day DevOps

    DevOpsDays (October 9 – December 14)

    The DevOpsDays series hosts events across multiple cities worldwide, featuring a combination of curated talks and open spaces for discussions. This series provides a platform for DevOps professionals to collaborate, share their experiences and solve common challenges.

    Explore DevOpsDays

    Developer Experience Summit (October 22-23)

    Focused on improving the developer experience, the Developer Experience Summit brings together leaders in DevOps, ITOps and engineering to discuss the future of developer workflows and tools. If you’re looking to enhance the efficiency and satisfaction of your dev teams, this event offers valuable sessions on automation, collaboration and the latest innovations.

    More on Developer Experience Summit

    The DevOps Conference Copenhagen (November 5) & Stockholm (November 7)

    Bringing together DevOps leaders from across Europe, The DevOps Conference takes place in Copenhagen and Stockholm. These one-day events dive into cloud-native DevOps, continuous delivery and IT security, focusing on real-world case studies and practical advice for modern organizations.

    Details on The DevOps Conference

    DevOps World Tour (November 12-26)

    DevOps World is going global with stops in New York City, London and Singapore. These events provide a deep dive into key DevOps practices and emerging trends, with a focus on automation, AI and cloud-native strategies.

    Discover more about the DevOps World Tour

    DevOps Barcelona 2024 (November 14-15)

    Held in the heart of Spain, DevOps Barcelona is an annual gathering of DevOps enthusiasts and professionals focusing on cloud computing, automation and agile development. This event is perfect for those looking to gain insights from the European DevOps community.

    More on DevOps Barcelona

    DevOpsCon Singapore 2024 (November 25-28)

    DevOpsCon is known for its deep dive into cloud-native technologies, continuous delivery and containerization. The Singapore edition will bring together industry leaders from across Asia-Pacific for four days of in-depth sessions and hands-on workshops.

    Details on DevOpsCon Singapore

    DevOps Vision (December 2-4)

    A premier event for executives and senior DevOps leaders, DevOps Vision offers strategic insights into the future of IT operations. This event is ideal for those looking to lead transformation initiatives in their organizations.

    More on DevOps Vision

    DevOpsCon Munich 2024 (December 2-6)

    DevOpsCon Munich is another must-attend event that offers sessions on cloud-native ecosystems, Kubernetes and security automation. Known for its hands-on sessions and expert speakers, this event provides in-depth learning opportunities for all levels.

    Details on DevOpsCon Munich

    These events provide a wealth of opportunities for DevOps professionals to learn, collaborate and stay at the forefront of technological advancements.

    Make sure to mark your calendars, and don’t forget to include DevOps Experience 2024 in your schedule! This free virtual conference promises to be an insightful exploration of the latest innovations in cloud, DevOps and AI. We hope to see you there!

  • Techstrong Group Opens Nominations for the DevOps Dozen 2024 Awards to Celebrate the Most Exceptional Leaders and Innovators in DevOps

    Techstrong Group Opens Nominations for the DevOps Dozen 2024 Awards to Celebrate the Most Exceptional Leaders and Innovators in DevOps

    The DevOps Dozen Awards mark their tenth year, recognizing outstanding achievements and contributions in the DevOps community.

    Boca Raton, FL, September 9, 2024 — Techstrong Group, the power source for people and technology, has officially opened nominations for the tenth annual DevOps Dozen Awards. Nominations will be accepted now through October 18, 2024. This year, we have updated and refined our categories to better reflect the evolving landscape of DevOps, introducing new recognitions that highlight both commercial and community-driven innovations

    DevOps Dozen Community Awards: Celebrating individuals, organizations, and projects that have significantly contributed to the DevOps community, these awards recognize the people, content, and events that are driving DevOps forward. There are no nomination fees in this category, but it is not open to commercial vendors.

    DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards: These awards recognize the most innovative companies and tools that are shaping the DevOps industry. With categories focused on end-to-end platforms, AI in DevOps, observability, DevSecOps, and more, these awards spotlight the solutions that empower developers, IT operations, and DevOps teams to excel. A nominal fee is required for entries in this category to reduce spam and cover administrative costs, with refunds available for non-finalist entries in highly competitive categories. Vendors may nominate themselves. 

    “The DevOps Dozen² Awards celebrate the outstanding contributions and innovations within the DevOps community,” said Alan Shimel, founder and CEO at Techstrong Group. “This year, we’re excited to honor the trailblazers who are advancing the field and setting new benchmarks for excellence in DevOps.”

    Important Dates and Deadlines

    • Nominations for all categories via public vote or vendor registration starts on September 9, 2024.
    • Nominations and voting for the nominations phase will close on October 18, 2024 at 5pm ET.
    • Finalists will be announced and public voting starts on November 11, 2024.
    • Public voting ends on December 31, 2024.
    • DevOps Dozen winners will be announced at the Predict 2025 Virtual Summit in January (exact date to be announced).

    DevOps Dozen 2024 Awards Categories

    DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards

    • Best DevOps Industry Implementation
      Many organizations have transformed their business by successfully adopting and implementing DevOps principles, practices and solutions. This award recognizes those enterprises that have successfully achieved DevOps success and have worked with their solution partner to do so.
    • Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/ Research
      This award recognizes industry research and analysis that has significantly and positively impacted the DevOps community.
    • Best End-to-End DevOps Platform
      Consolidation in the DevOps space has led to a greater selection of platforms offering end-to-end solutions with increasing feature sets. This award honors the platform with the most diverse and robust solution for DevOps teams.
    • Best application of AI in DevOps Tool/Platform
      AI is changing and improving DevOps Tools and Platforms at a rapid pace.. This award recognizes the DevOps Tool or Platform that has applied AI in the most interesting and productive way to improve or accelerate the application of DevOps principles.
    • Top DevOps Vendor Evangelist
      DevOps solution providers typically are on the leading edge of new DevOps strategies, tools and practices. This award recognizes the individual that does the best job of informing the DevOps community about new and exciting tools and practices to deliver DevOps success and business value.
    • Best Value Stream Management
      Value stream management is an important tool for measuring the business value of DevOps and application development. This award recognizes the value stream management tool that most effectively helps visualize the value stream, track metrics and measure improvement.
    • Best Observability Solution
      This award recognizes the best observability solution for observing and monitoring to understand the performance of individual components, systems and entire applications.
    • Best DevSecOps Solution
      This award honors the best DevSecOps solution, which enables security to be included earlier and continuously throughout the SDLC.
    • Best Platform Engineering Solution
      This award recognizes the best Platform Engineering solution enabling self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era covering the operational necessities of the entire lifecycle of an application.
    • Best Testing Service/Tool
      Testing is a mainstay in the DevOps toolchain, and this award recognizes the best testing tool for ensuring the quality of code.
    • Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution
      Mainframes are far from being the dinosaur of the IT world. This award recognizes the best solution for implementing DevOps practices in mainframe environments and hybrid environments.
    • Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution
      Databases often have been left out of the DevOps conversation, but that is changing. This award recognizes the best database related solution for DevOps and DataOps.
    • Best New DevOps Tool
      This award recognizes the best tool that has brought innovation to the DevOps space in the past year. (less than 24 months old)
    • Best New DevOps Service Provider
      This award recognizes the best new service provider that has brought innovation to the DevOps space in the past year. (less than 24 months old)

    DevOps Dozen Community Awards

    • Best DevOps-Related Video or Audio Podcast
      Podcasts are popular ways for DevOps Leaders and Practitioners to keep current. This award recognizes the most educational, informative and inspirational DevOps video or audio podcast series – those with the most engaging and highest-quality content that keeps listeners coming back for more.
    • Best DevOps Book of the Year
      Each year sees a number of well-crafted DevOps-related books. This category recognizes the most popular and best read of the year.
    • Top DevOps Evangelist
      Every community has those who standout as leaders in their field who spread the DevOps gospel everyday. This award recognizes the individual whose peers in the DevOps community recognize for outstanding leadership, knowledge and communication
    • Best DevOps Event of the Year
      Events and conferences are an important part of IT life. This category includes both in-person and virtual events. Which DevOps event stands out from the others and delivers the best content, speakers and attendee experience?
    • Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project
      Open source software is an important part of every organization’s set of development assets promoting innovation, velocity, quality and efficiency. This award recognizes the open source project that delivers the greatest value through a community of people who work on and with the open source technology and support each other.
    • Best Application of AI in DevOps Practices
      AI is changing the world in which we live and work at an incredible pace. This award recognizes the organization that has applied AI in the most interesting and productive way to improve or accelerate the use of DevOps.
    • DevOps Enterprise Leader of the Year
      An organization’s leadership plays a critical role in shepherding its team through innovation and change.This award recognizes a strong DevOps leader who guides their team through the challenges of developing and implementing DevOps strategies, policies, culture and practices to improve software development and delivery.
    • Best devopsy.kinsta.cloud Article of the Year
      devopsy.kinsta.cloud publishes multiple new articles every day. This award recognizes the best article from this year. Let us know so we can recognize the author.

    Additional Resources

    For more information regarding entry process, awards, timing or any technical issues regarding the website, please contact us at DD@devops.com.

    About Techstrong Group

    Techstrong Group is the power source for people and technology. Techstrong Group accelerates understanding of technologies that drive business. With a broad set of IT-related communities and offerings, Techstrong Group is the only media company serving the needs of IT leaders and practitioners with news, research, analysis, events, education, certifications and professional development. Our focus is DevOps, cybersecurity, AI, digital transformation, cloud and cloud native. Techstrong Group business units include: Techstrong Media (devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Techstrong.ai, DigitalCxO, Techstrong ITSM, Techstrong TV and Techstrong Group Podcasts), Techstrong Research and Techstrong Learning. For technology providers, Techstrong business units offer many ways to share their stories, expand their audience and grow their business.

    Techstrong Group is based in Boca Raton, Florida. For more information, visit us on the web and follow us on LinkedIn.

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