February 2026

Short month, big impact. February is the perfect time to fine-tune your DevOps workflows, strengthen collaboration, and eliminate friction before the year gets too busy. In this edition, we’re highlighting trends, tips, and real-world lessons to help your teams ship better software—faster and with fewer headaches.

Developer Experience (DevEx): Why It’s Critical in DevOps

Learn how strong Developer Experience (DevEx) accelerates DevOps. Discover how DevEx improves onboarding, delivery speed, and developer retention.

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DevOps Industry News

Legit security AI tool uses threat feed to identify risks to software supply chain

AI agents and IT ops: Cowboy chaos rides again

AI just passed the Turing Test for piano music

Partner News and Announcements

7 ways to reinvest the time AI saves you at work

A cleaner, customizable Bitbucket navigation is here

A cheat sheet to slash commands in GitHub Copilot CLI

Power agentic workflows in your terminal with GitHub Copilot CLI

Announcing general availability for GitLab Duo Agent Platform

GitLab 18.8 released with GitLab Duo Agent Platform now generally available

The 282% ROI of Unified Security

Beyond the hype: Building a future-proof foundation for the AI-native enterprise

What makes Lucid the most intelligent visual collaboration solution—and why does it matter?

Retrospective templates to reflect and align with your team

Talk to your test data: Improve test data management with the Perforce Delphix MCP Server

What is Test Data Management? Definition, benefits, & use cases

Sonatype named DevOps Dozen Winner for Best DevSecOps Solution

Knowledge Management Goals: How to enhance your Confluence knowledge base in the new year (or anytime!)

AWS: Why agentic AI marks an inflection point for enterprise modernization

Why releasing software as an application beats deploying components

The Shadow Factory: Why your CI/CD sprawl is about to move faster than you can think

Getting started with Progress Chef Courier User Interface

Cloud-Powered job orchestration: Progress Chef 360 SaaS Beta is here!

AI quickstarts: An easy and practical way to get started with Red Hat AI

What Is Product Security?

11 SDLC tools to make your development flow easier

Deploy a serverless Python API to Scaleway Functions using CircleCI

Run Claude Code locally with Docker Model Runner

How GitKraken’s AI-Powered Commit Composer eliminates Git cleanup headaches

The complete guide to the 3-2-1 backup rule

What AI means for the future of work

How to restructure or consolidate multiple Azure DevOps instances safely

All our flagship apps are now available on Atlassian Government Cloud. We’re excited to support government customers as they transition from Jira Data Center to Atlassian Cloud (Commercial, Government, or Isolated) in the months and years ahead

From admin to architect: Your 2026 roadmap for indisputable data resilience

Collaboration in cyberspace: Why securing critical infrastructure is a shared mission

Tempo 2026: Our vision for adaptive portfolio management

Upcoming Conferences

DevOpsDays

Los Angeles, CA

March 6 • In-person

Other Conferences

Rocky MountainCyberspace Symposium 2026

February 2 • CO Springs, CO

DevNexus

February 4-6 • Atlanta, GA

Atlassian Team on Tour Government

February 11 • Washington, DC

DeveloperWeek

February 18-20 • San Jose, CA

AI Dev World

February 18-20 • San Jose, CA

SCaLE 23x

March 5-8 • Pasadena, CA

Game Developers Conference Festival of Gaming

March 9-13 • San Francisco, CA

Build IT Together, Anaheim

May 4-5 • Anaheim, CA

Build IT Together, Dallas

October 27-29 • Dallas, TX

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