August 2026

August is here, bringing new innovations, best practices, and updates from across the DevOps community. In this month's edition, we'll share the latest industry news, helpful tips, and key trends to help you build, automate, and deliver with confidence.

DevOps Tool Sprawl: Hidden Costs and How to Reduce Them

Reduce DevOps tool sprawl by streamlining workflows, improving visibility, cutting costs, and building a connected software delivery ecosystem.

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DevOps Industry News

Will GenAI accelerate your mainframe migration or derail it?

Five AI services every solution provider should be building today

Partner News and Announcements

Connect Trello to your favorite AI assistants with Trello MCP

Every agent. Every state. Full visibility in Jira

Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Getting started

Claude Opus 5 on GitLab: Reasoning built for the hard tasks

Modernize Java with Cursor and GitLab

Why model routing backfires and how to build agents that don’t burn your budget

How to use JFrog CLI without editing your CI scripts

How to identify the best use cases for agentic AI

How to use an innovation framework to turn ideas into action

Protecting sensitive data in non-production environments: No trade-offs necessary!

Introducing a smarter path to intelligent testing with Perforce Autonomous Testing

AI changes the software supply chain and how we secure it

The Hugging Face incident changes the vulnerability equation

Build a contract compliance search system with Amazon OpenSearch

How Fanatics Commerce built a scalable email platform on Amazon SES

What is OpenFeature, and why does it matter for feature flag portability?

How CloudBees Unify works alongside GitLab as a governance layer above your existing stack—no migration required

Automation at scale: Lessons learned from multi-tool enterprises

The hidden cost of uncontrolled automation execution

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 10 is coming to Red Hat OpenShift

Mastering the AI era: Integrating frontier operations into your technology operating model

Fix SLA visibility between Salesforce and Jira

5 takeaways from the State of Software Delivery Q2 Pulse report:

Runtime enforcement, not Runtime advice

GitLens 18.2: AI-powered merge conflict resolution for VS Code

IBM Bob Gets Multi-Agent Muscle and a Cost Dashboard for Enterprise Coding

6 common Azure DevOps migration scenarios and how to handle them

Confluence space recovery: What happens when a space or page is deleted?

What is vulnerability mitigation? Why patching alone is not enough

A practical guide to sharing Jira dashboards outside Jira

Upcoming Conferences

DevOpsDays

Portland, OR

September 8-10 • In-person

Dallas, TX

September 28-29 • In-person

Denver, CO

September 22-23 • In-person

Halifax, NS, CA

September 29 • In-person

Philadelphia, PA

October 1-2 • In-person

Boston, MA

October 19-20 • In-person

Other Conferences

Black Hat USA

August 1-6 • Las Vegas, NV

DoDIIS

August 9-12 • Tampa, FL

Tricentis Transform 2026

August 19-20 • Dallas, TX

Rise8 Prodacity 2026

August 25-27 • Nashville, TN

Colorado Digital Government Summit

September 1 • Denver, CO

KCD San Francisco

September 1 • San Francisco, CA

CloudX

September 1-3 • Santa Clara, CA

API:World

September 1-3 • Santa Clara, CA

JFrog swampUP

September 1-3 • New York, NY

gRPConf 2026

September 3 • Mountain View, CA

Splunk .conf26

September 14-17 • Denver, CO

DevOps Midwest

September 17 • St. Louis, MO

STARWEST

September 20-25 • Anaheim, CA

NASCIO Annual Conference

September 27-30 • San Diego, CA

DevOpsCon

Sept 28-Oct 2 • New York, NY

Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo

October 19-22• Orlando, FL

GitHub Universe

October 28-29 • San Francisco, CA

IBM TechXchange 2026

October 26-29• Atlanta, GA

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