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15 Best DevOps Tools for Software Teams [Free Evaluation Template]

DevOps is a practice, not a tool, but tools are needed to implement it. Breaking down walls of communication and creating visibility and trust across all the teams involved in delivering software and technology is challenging. The right tools make the automation and integrations needed across functional teams seamless, open, and scalable. This article looks at the top CI/CD, automation, orchestration, and other DevOps pipeline tools to give you a detailed list of our Top 15 DevOps tools in 2025.

Performance Testing and Artificial Intelligence (2/2)

If you recall part one of this blog post, we were going to use ChatGPT in parallel with how we would work to cover these aspects of performance testing. We left the first part of this blog post at the point at which we had compared Requirements Gathering and Risk Assessment, we will pick this post up by looking at Script Creation before concluding with Results Analysis. Our performance testing tool of choice will be JMeter.

Performance Testing and Artificial Intelligence (1/2)

If you believe many articles online you would believe that automation in testing will soon be defined, managed and executed by Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is embedded in many organisations technology landscape and to think that this model will change is shortsighted. AI is here to stay undoubtedly in one form or another, but should it be responsible for the automated testing of your applications under test?

InsightSoftware: Meet Simba Intelligence: The End of Hallucinations in Enterprise AI

You have an AI strategy, you've seen the demos, and you're ready to deploy. The only problem? Your AI can see your data, but it can't access it with the structure, security, or reliability your business demands. Out of the box, AI models can write poetry and explain quantum physics but ask it about your Q3 sales data and it will confidently hallucinate an answer. That's because your business data lives in complex enterprise systems that AI can't access or interpret. This is why 88% of AI pilots never reach production.

Part 2: Building a Production-Grade Traffic Capture, Transform and Replay System

When developers try to build realistic mocks and automated tests from production network traffic, the real challenge isn’t just in the capturing—it’s in the data manipulation. Raw traffic is a chaotic sea of patterns, dynamic tokens, environment-specific secrets, and tangled dependencies that seem impossible to untangle by hand. Over my two decades of building these sytems, I learned that solving this problem requires more than brute-force parsing or ad hoc scripts.

Node.js 24 Becomes LTS: What You Need to Know

With the release of Node.js 24.11.0 “Krypton”, the Node.js 24 line has officially entered Long-Term Support (LTS) and will continue receiving maintenance and security updates through April 2028. This marks the beginning of a new stable era for production workloads, bringing developers enhanced security, stricter runtime behavior, and improved Web API support.