DevContentOps Weekly News Roundup May 12 2025

News

Welcome to the latest edition of the DevContentOps Weekly News Roundup. We update you on the latest news and hot stories related to DevOps, Content Management, Content Marketing and Web Development.

DevOps News

Simplilearn Partners With Purdue University Online, Offers Cloud Computing and DevOps Certification Program in Collaboration With AWS and Microsoft Azure

Digital upskilling company Simplilearn has partnered with Purdue University Online, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud to offer a Cloud Computing and DevOps certification program. The course offers intensive training in Cloud Computing and DevOps fundamentals, including AWS, Azure services and Linux.

Causely’s New Integration with Grafana Labs Goes Beyond Observability to Understandability

Causal reasoning platform Causely has launched a new integration with the observability platform Grafana Labs. The new integration automatically surfaces root causes directly within Grafana dashboards so that engineers can instantly see the “why” behind performance issues in the context of their services. 

Content Management News

Optimizely Upgrades Opal to Deliver Agentic AI for Marketing Teams

Digital experience platform Optimizely has redesigned its Opal platform to support specialized AI agents and advanced workflows that automate content creation and experimentation tasks.

Figma Releases New AI-Powered Tools for Creating Sites, App Prototypes, and Marketing Assets

Design company Figma has added a CMS that lets users edit posts within the design of a blog and also manage other assets such as thumbnails and slugs. This comes following an announcement of multiple features, including AI-powered site and web app creation, a way for marketers to create assets in bulk, and a new drawing tool.

Content Marketing News

10 Insights for Marketing and MOps Leaders from the State of Martech 2025 Report

The latest State of Martech report includes 15,384 tools, and a lot of changes are being driven by AI. 

ChatGPT Leads AI Search Race While Google & Others Slip, Data Shows

Data from SimilarWeb shows that ChatGPT now controls 80.1% of AI search traffic, while traditional search engines are declining by 1% to 2% per year. 

Web Development News

OpenAI Agrees to Buy Windsurf for About $3 Billion

OpenAI has agreed to buy Windsurf, formerly known as Codeium, an artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool, for about $3 billion. 

AI-Generated Code Needs Refactoring, Say 76% of Developers

Data from “The 2025 State of Web Dev AI” shows that while nearly seven out of 10 developers surveyed use AI tools to write or tweak code each week, many still report hallucinations and other challenges.

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