Browse DevOps Blogs (23)
John Edward explains how to use GitHub as a “living” architecture repository—capturing Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), diagrams, standards, and roadmaps—and how pull requests and versioning can turn architecture work into a collaborative, auditable part of delivery.
DevClass.com reports on GitHub’s private preview of Stacked PRs, a workflow for breaking large changes into smaller, independently reviewable pull requests that can still depend on each other, with an optional gh stack CLI that’s also intended to work well with AI agents.
Jesse Houwing summarizes GitHub’s update that GitHub Copilot can now keep inference processing and associated data within US or EU data residency regions, and shows the enterprise/org policy you must enable to restrict Copilot to data-resident models.
Emanuele Bartolesi explains why Remote Desktop is a poor fit for day-to-day development on customer VMs, and shows how VS Code Remote Tunnels restores a normal local-editor workflow while keeping code and execution on the remote machine.
Andrew Lock explains how to build and publish custom Docker Sandbox templates so AI-agent sandboxes start with the tooling you need, including an example that installs the .NET SDK and a more advanced approach that swaps the base image while reapplying the sandbox layering.
Hidde de Smet explains how Spec-Kit’s extension system works, highlights useful community extensions, and walks through the Ralph Loop extension, which runs a GitHub Copilot agent in iterations to implement tasks from `tasks.md`, commit changes, and track context in `progress.md`.
Andrew Lock explains how to run AI coding agents in Docker Sandboxes using the sbx tool, so you can use “dangerous”/YOLO-style agent modes while keeping your host machine isolated, with practical setup steps, network policy notes, and git workflow tips.
Jesse Houwing explains why he rebuilt the Azure DevOps Marketplace publishing tasks from v5 to v6, focusing on faster builds, stronger testing, GitHub Actions support, and more secure authentication (OIDC/workload identity) while using GitHub Copilot’s Coding Agent to accelerate the rewrite.
Emanuele Bartolesi explains how to keep repositories in sync during a Git migration (for example, GitLab to GitHub), and why `git push --all` + `--tags` is not the same as `git push --mirror`, especially when it comes to non-branch refs and deletions.
John Edward provides a comprehensive look at agentic AI in IT, showing how Microsoft Azure and related services create self-healing and intelligent operations through automation, monitoring, and AI-driven incident response.
DevClass.com covers the alpha launch of npmx, an open source alternative browser for the npm registry led by Daniel Roe. The article discusses developer pain points with npmjs and how npmx addresses them.
John Edward outlines the core pitfalls of microservice architecture and offers actionable architectural patterns like API Gateway, Saga, and Circuit Breaker to help architects navigate complexity, deployment, and security concerns in distributed systems.
Jesse Houwing introduces the Actions Example Checker, a GitHub Action that validates documentation examples against action.yaml schemas to help developers keep their documentation in sync with actual implementations.
DevClass.com summarizes Filippo Valsorda’s critique of GitHub Dependabot, highlighting the alert fatigue and security concerns faced by developers using automated dependency management tools.
Andrew Lock explores how to collect and process application metrics in .NET using MeterListener from System.Diagnostics.Metrics. He explains the MetricManager pattern, in-process aggregation, and visualizing metrics with Spectre.Console.
In this workshop summary, DevClass.com reviews Martin Fowler’s event marking 25 years since the Agile Manifesto, highlighting the growing impact of AI on coding, the renewed importance of TDD, and security risks in software development.
DevClass reports on Godot maintainers dealing with a surge of low-quality, LLM-generated pull requests, and summarizes community reactions plus GitHub’s planned and existing controls (like PR restrictions and upcoming PR deletion) to reduce review burden.
DevClass.com explores GitHub’s preview release of agentic workflows, detailing how AI agents automate repository tasks. The article, authored by DevClass.com, breaks down security, configuration, and use case scenarios for this new automation concept.
Emanuele Bartolesi shows how to use GitHub Copilot as a guardrail for generating strict Conventional Commit messages in VS Code and JetBrains Rider, with concrete instruction snippets you can paste into each IDE to make the output consistent and automation-friendly.
Thomas Maurer guides readers through deploying VMs on Azure Local using the Azure Portal, CLI, and Bicep, showing practical workflows for hybrid and sovereign cloud environments.