New Applitools, Harness.io products make implementing DevOps easier

It's no surprise implementing DevOps is tricky. What is surprising is the growing number of companies turning to artificial intelligence to help make things go more smoothly. Just in the last few weeks, startup Harness.io began offering a continuous delivery as a service platform for developers that uses machine learning to monitor an application and roll it back as necessary. And another new company, Applitools, is also offering an AI-powered, cloud-based approach for test automation. Torsten Volk, managing research director for hybrid cloud, software-designed data center, machine learning and cognitive computing at Enterprise Management Associates, based in Boulder, Colo., said when implementing DevOps, the hurdles to an average developer pushing out code are quite challenging, and using AI and machine learning could simplify things dramatically.