Application Architecture

IT skills shortage often a complexity problem in disguise

Could your IT skills shortage be a problem of your own making? Dave Linthicum argues that companies sometimes make their technology jobs harder to fill than they need to be.

By David Linthicum • Oct. 28, 2026

AI makes Rust rewrites easier, but there are caveats

AI can make it easier to update legacy apps to Rust for stronger security, but a language switch does not solve system design problems.

By Ben Lutkevich • Oct. 27, 2026

Welcome to TechTarget Infrastructure

TechTarget Infrastructure might look different, but we have the same news reporting and trusted advice you've come to expect. Continue to explore a variety of important topics, including data center issues and AI’s impact on infrastructure.

By Paul Crocetti , Beth Pariseau • Oct. 27, 2026

AI factories package Nvidia reference architecture, but who’s buying?

Nvidia partners bundle the OpenShell Reference Architecture's infrastructure-level AI safeguards in AI factories, but enterprise adoption numbers remain elusive.

By Ben Lutkevich • Oct. 22, 2026

Grafana Labs targets the rising price of AI observability

Compounding challenges with AI observability and its costs weigh on the minds of IT pros, who are turning to new automation tools for assistance -- within limits.

By Bruce Gain, founder and principal analyst, ReveCom • Oct. 21, 2026

Vendors build safeguards for autonomous software factories

Experts say baked-in workload isolation, network controls and continuous verification are important safeguards for autonomous software development.

By Ben Lutkevich • Oct. 15, 2026

AI security projects deliver first fixes for vulnerable Java libraries

Chainguard's Athena and IBM and Red Hat's Project Lightwell have reported early Java security fixes, offering DevSecOps teams a potential safety net in the era of AI vulnerability discovery.

By Ben Lutkevich • Oct. 12, 2026

AI coding tools run riot over SBOM controls as EU CRA looms

Shifting open source dependency liability under the EU CRA intensifies AI-related software supply chain security issues, per discussions at Open Source Summit Europe.

By Bruce Gain, founder and principal analyst, ReveCom • Oct. 9, 2026

Glasswing results put AI ‘vulnpocalypse’ to the test

Noisy AI-generated vulnerability discovery data creates a bottleneck at human triage. A fix? More AI to help. The risk? An expanding attack surface.

By Ben Lutkevich • Sept. 29, 2026

Groundcover acquisition automates Kubernetes provisioning

Groundcover brings the contextual data, and Wand brings autonomous Kubernetes infrastructure setup.

By Ben Lutkevich • Sept. 24, 2026

Lenovo extends virtualization support as AI complicates decisions

As many organizations look to replace their primary hypervisor, IT leaders must balance optimizing for their AI strategy while minimizing disruption to legacy VM-based environments.

By Scott Sinclair • Sept. 21, 2026

What repos are trending on GitHub?

GitHub Stars are a proxy for developer interest. Weekly GitHub star growth highlights fast-rising repos, giving early insight into adoption trends, risks and strategic opportunities.

By Ben Lutkevich • Sept. 21, 2026

Splunk .conf26: Context, control for Cisco’s AI agents at scale

With its Splunk integration, Cisco shows how organizations can prepare enterprise platforms for AI agents by adding context for informed decisions and control over agent actions.

By Torsten Volk • Sept. 17, 2026

Splunk’s path to autonomous AI starts with tightly constrained agents

Splunk's new security GM sees autonomous AI agents as 'inevitable' – but says that enterprises will need to introduce them slowly, with strong limits on what they can do.

By Beth Pariseau • Sept. 16, 2026

VMware wants to become the enterprise home for AI agents

Seven VMware Explore announcements show how Broadcom plans to control the infrastructure, models, data, security and governance behind enterprise agents.

By Torsten Volk • Sept. 2, 2026

Rival buyout aids customers after DevSecOps firm shutters

One DevSecOps company shut its doors. Just days later, the company was acquired, saving customers from a potentially difficult migration.

By Ben Lutkevich • Aug. 27, 2026

The case for hardened container images

Hardened container images strip unnecessary components to reduce CVEs and attack surfaces. Compare vendor approaches, tradeoffs and migration practices.

By Wisdom Ekpotu • Aug. 26, 2026

3 ways dev teams use AI to improve software governance

Nobl9, Anchore and Nirmata show how AI can support software governance using SLOs for reliability, SBOMs for security and policy as code for infrastructure.

By Twain Taylor • Aug. 26, 2026

Why you need a dedicated design system team

A dedicated design system team can create reusable components, improve collaboration and branding, and reduce development work, but adoption brings challenges.

By Eric Rocha • Aug. 25, 2026

A look at HTTP’s new QUERY method

HTTP QUERY gives complex read operations a safe, idempotent alternative to GET and POST. Learn its benefits, use cases and enterprise adoption options.

By Damon Garn • Aug. 20, 2026

Does Claude’s watermark solve the AI transparency problem?

Anthropic now watermarks text generated or processed by Claude. Here's how the hidden pattern works, its limitations and why the approach has drawn criticism.

By Ariella Brown • Aug. 18, 2026

Prompts vs. loops: Why prompt engineering won’t build your AI workforce

Execution loops move enterprise AI beyond prompt engineering, enabling agents to plan, act, verify results, recover from failures and deliver outcomes.

By Damon Garn • Aug. 14, 2026

5 reasons hardened images are seeing a resurgence

Hardened container images reduce software supply chain risk by minimizing vulnerabilities, improving compliance, reducing toil and boosting performance.

By Ben Lutkevich • Aug. 14, 2026

What is an API (application programming interface)?

An application programming interface (API) is code that enables two software programs to communicate.

By Ben Lutkevich, Tom Nolle, Alexander Gillis • July 31, 2026

Automated testing is not a magic bullet

Test automation rarely serves as a shortcut to faster testing. Its greatest value lies in improving software quality, expanding coverage and enabling testers to focus on high-value work.

By Gerie Owen • July 30, 2026