September 2026

September is here, and with it comes a fresh opportunity to take a closer look at how your DevOps practices support how your teams build, deploy, and manage software.

In this issue, we’re covering the latest trends, tools, and best practices to help you streamline workflows, improve collaboration, and get more value from your DevOps investments. Let’s dive in

5 Ways Red Hat OpenShift Helps Development Teams Deliver Better Software

See how Red Hat OpenShift — Red Hat's enterprise Kubernetes platform — helps development teams automate operations, standardize delivery across the data center, OpenStack, and public cloud, and build a more consistent foundation for modern software delivery.

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DevOps Industry News

The AI agent race is on. But are we watching the right race?

AI has exposed the biggest knowledge gap in business. Hint: it isn't technical

AI coding is creating a new software bottleneck

Partner News and Announcements

Jira goes where spreadsheets can’t

When is AI useful, or just a habit? A Play/Pause break helps teams decide.

GitHub Copilot app for beginners

How to evaluate LLMs before production

Making room for what's next in the GitLab UI

When code is abundant

Why self-healing is the only way to secure at frontier AI speed

Agent immunization: A new model for building trusted AI agents

11 Lucidchart features to increase productivity

Create diagrams faster using automation features in Lucidchart

How Perforce built an AI agent orchestrator for code review, QA, and bug fixes

AI-Driven cross-platform testing: A smarter path for Enterprise QA

Why financial services is the canary in the code mine

The AI productivity paradox: More code, not more delivery

Extend Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to tool interactions using the Strands Agents SDK

Reduce MTTR with AI-driven RCA using AWS DevOps Agent and Splunk

Migration is never free, and you're still missing a control plane

When red doesn’t mean broken, your pipeline stops meaning anything

Webinar: Benefits of Chef 360 and why migrate now

The end of an era: Chef Infra Server transitions to Chef 360 Platform

We built an enterprise data agent—and you can too

Policy as code: What happens when you layer policy enforcement onto the automation you already have

68% spend 4+ hours a week correcting AI’s output — and most aren't measuring it

MCP vs API: How they work together and when to use each

17,600 Actions: Agent Security Is a Systems Problem

GitLens 19 shows you the whole stack, not just the next pull request

How to integrate Salesforce and Jira in 2026(A step-by-step guide)

Jira and Confluence recovery after ransomware or an account takeover

What are the best cloud-to-cloud backup solutions to consider in 2026?

Following water system cyberattacks, what should “secure” actually mean?

How to measure developer productivity beyond story points and velocity

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

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

We Are Developers World Conference

September 23-25 • San Jose, CA

NASCIO Annual Conference

September 27-30 • San Diego, CA

DevOpsCon

Sept 28-Oct 2 • NewYork, NY

techbash

October 13-16 • Poconos, PA

Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo

October 19-22 • Orlando, FL

GitHub Universe

October 28-29 • San Francisco, CA

IBM TechXchange 2026

October 28-29 • Atlanta, GA

Build IT Together

October 27-28 • Dallas, TX

KubeCon | CloudNativeCon 2026

November 9-12 • Salt Lake City, UT

Qcon San Francisco

November 16-20 • San Francisco, CA

SC26

November 15-20 • Chicago, IL

Microsoft Ignite

November 17-20 • San Francisco, CA

AWS re:Invent

Nov 30-Dec 4 • Las Vegas, NV

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