The Ultimate Guide to DevOps
A curated Irish edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for DevOps.
What to know about DevOps
DevOps represents a transformative approach in IT that combines software development and operations to deliver applications and services at high velocity. This methodology enables organisations to evolve and improve products faster than traditional software development processes, fostering greater agility, collaboration, and automation.
Exploring our recent stories will provide readers insight into the evolving landscape of DevOps, including cutting-edge automation, security integration (DevSecOps), AI-powered enhancements, container adoption, and challenges faced by enterprises globally. Readers will also discover how trusted companies are integrating DevOps practices to enhance digital transformation efforts, manage cloud and hybrid environments, and tackle cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
Whether you are an IT professional seeking to stay current with DevOps trends, a manager aiming to implement DevOps in your organisation, or simply curious about modern software development practices, these stories offer valuable lessons on the cultural, technical, and strategic aspects that define successful DevOps adoption today.
Irish DevOps News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Irish IT teams under stress amid staff shortages & AI
Staff shortages, legacy systems and AI demands are leaving most IT decision-makers in Irish companies reporting stress and mental health issues.
Storm Technology names Conor Flanagan as Practise Director
The internal promotion comes as demand grows for ERP projects that join finance reporting, operations and AI-enabled automation on one platform.
AI shifts client expectations as fees face pressure
Fees are under pressure as two-thirds of service providers say clients want more for less and expect AI to cut costs.
Ireland data & AI workers resist job moves, survey finds
Most Irish data and AI professionals are staying put as employers prepare to expand teams and compete for scarce talent.
Why health IT projects fail at the data layer
Fragmented records and weak governance are making health IT roll-outs slower, costlier and less effective than budgets suggest.
Auxilion names Eleanor Dempsey Advisory Services Chief
Auxilion has promoted Eleanor Dempsey to lead its advisory services, expanding her remit as it targets growth in Ireland and the UK.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to DevOps
Gartner warns AI coding costs may top developer pay by 2028
Cycloid launches managed environments for developer portals
Tech Mahindra launches agentic app modernisation services
XM Cyber boosts identity access tools for hybrid firms
Software Improvement Group named Gartner leader on debt
Featured News
Exclusive: Grafana Lab's Jen Villa on targeting the AI observability gap
The new tools aim to help firms spot faulty AI outputs and data risks sooner as production deployments outpace monitoring methods.
Exclusive: How Adobe showcases its innovation engine
Ideas from across Adobe are vetted live at Summit, and some have gone on to become products after further testing and hardening.
Expert Columns
As agentic development accelerates, workflow auditability becomes a bottleneck
Why trust is the bottleneck for AI-driven operations
Why health IT projects fail at the data layer
Construction claims are shaped before disputes begin
Atlassian scales AI search with OpenSearch on Kubernetes
How to navigate a career change into tech. As a woman. In your 40s
AI won't reduce construction disputes unless documentation improves
Women own the most underrated skill in tech: Translation
Building inclusively at scale: Empowering women in the data center boom
International Women's Day: Expanding access, accelerating progress
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the network
Recent DevOps News
Equinix to invest USD $700 million in Dundalk plant
Equinix will invest up to USD $700 million in a new Dundalk plant with Hanley Energy, promising hundreds of skilled jobs and faster kit supply.
New Relic launches startup AI observability programme
The offer gives early-stage AI startups free monitoring and engineering support as software failures can quickly damage customer trust and funding prospects.
Commvault signs strategic Azure partnership with Microsoft
Azure customers will soon be able to buy and run Commvault's recovery tools inside Microsoft's cloud, simplifying cyber resilience and procurement.
Healthcare AI adoption outpaces infrastructure readiness
Unsanctioned AI tools and siloed IT systems are widening risk for hospitals, as 88% say on-site infrastructure is not ready.
NTT DATA partners Cursor to speed AI software modernisation
Legacy-system modernisation could accelerate as NTT DATA rolls out Cursor's AI coding tools internally before offering them to clients.
Tsuga raises USD $35 million to expand AI observability
Rising AI data volumes are forcing observability vendors to rethink pricing and storage as Tsuga wins fresh backing to keep telemetry in-house.
Anthropic launches Claude Tag for Slack workplace workflows
Businesses can now assign tasks in Slack threads to a shared Claude instance, with administrator controls designed to limit access and spending.
Explainer: How loop engineering is changing coding
By focusing on evidence and small reversible changes, loop engineering could curb costly AI coding mistakes before they reach production.
GitLab warns of AI code governance gap in new report
Most organisations now use multiple AI coding tools, but many still cannot reliably trace, review or govern the code once it reaches production.
Envoy AI Gateway reaches 1.0 for production AI use
Enterprises can now route AI traffic with open-source governance and observability as Envoy AI Gateway reaches version 1.0.
New Relic launches Autopilot & Ground Truth for AI
Businesses running AI agents may now route incident response and observability data through New Relic's new tools, aimed at cutting operational toil.
VDURA adds multi-tenant control plane for AI storage
Shared storage teams will gain tighter oversight and automation as the new software arrives for V5000 systems in late 2026.
ANYbotics opens Barcelona AI hub to boost robotics
Demand for industrial inspection robots is forcing ANYbotics to expand engineering capacity as it shifts from pilots to wider deployments.
Imply launches Lumi Loglake to expand object storage search
Teams under pressure from AI-driven telemetry growth can now query logs in object storage without indexing, cutting storage and search costs.
Virtana launches agentic SLA management for AI ops
Enterprises wrestling with AI workload failures and infrastructure bottlenecks may use the new tool to automate incident response and service assurance.
Vercel unveils agent tools as deployments turn AI-led
More than half of Vercel deployments are now triggered by coding agents, as monthly AI token traffic has jumped tenfold.
Grafana wins AI customers as observability shifts cloud
Rising AI workloads are pushing more firms towards managed monitoring as operational complexity and telemetry costs make self-hosted tools harder to justify.
Wipro completes METRO cloud migration on Google Cloud
The wholesaler can now scale core systems faster after leaving its ageing data centres, with automation set to cut manual work across operations.
Cast AI adds MiniMax M3 to Kimchi Coding as default model
Businesses can now route coding jobs to a lower-cost open-weight model as Cast AI makes Kimchi Coding the first autonomous agent to offer MiniMax M3.
Databricks launches open-source Omnigent for AI agents
The open-source release gives enterprises a single control layer for fragmented AI agent tools, with governance and cost controls built in.