DevOps won’t scale without platform engineering and here’s why your teams are still stuck

Despite a decade of DevOps fervor, most engineering organizations remain hindered by manual processes, silos, and dependency bottlenecks. Teams cannot truly own their delivery stack and still depend on centralized support for deployment, provisioning, and security. The missing piece in achieving real, sustainable DevOps autonomy is platform engineering. Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) serve as the …

This week in AI dev tools: Slack’s enterprise search, Claude Code’s analytics dashboard, and more (July 18, 2025)

Slack’s AI search now works across an organization’s entire knowledge base Slack is introducing a number of new AI-powered tools to make team collaboration easier and more intuitive. “Today, 60% of organizations are using generative AI. But most still fall short of its productivity promise. We’re changing that by putting AI where work already happens — …

Report: 71% of tech leaders won’t hire devs without AI skills

As AI becomes more ingrained within the software development life cycle, tech leaders making hiring decisions are saying AI and machine learning are becoming non-negotiable skills. 71% of respondents to a new study from Infragistics say that they won’t hire developers without those skills. The 2025 App Development Trends Report, conducted in partnership with Dynata, …

Slack’s AI search now works across an organization’s entire knowledge base

Slack is introducing a number of new AI-powered tools to make team collaboration easier and more intuitive. “Today, 60% of organizations are using generative AI. But most still fall short of its productivity promise. We’re changing that by putting AI where work already happens — in your messages, your docs, your search — all designed …

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Anthropic’s Claude Code gets new analytics dashboard to provide insights into how teams are using AI tooling

Anthropic has announced the launch of a new analytics dashboard in Claude Code to give development teams insights into how they are using the tool.  It tracks metrics such as lines of code accepted, suggestion acceptance rate, total user activity over time, total spend over time, average daily spend for each user, and average daily …

JetBrains updates Junie, Gemini API adds embedding model, and more – Daily News Digest

JetBrains announces updates to its coding agent Junie Junie is now fully integrated into GitHub, enabling asynchronous development with features such as the ability to delegate multiple tasks simultaneously, the ability to make quick fixes without opening the IDE, team collaboration directly in GitHub, and seamless switching between the IDE and GitHub. Junie on GitHub …

Native vs hybrid vs cross-platform: Resolving the trilemma

Any company planning to build a mobile app encounters a fundamental choice – what development method to choose? But unless you have extensive mobile development experience, choosing between native, hybrid, and cross-platform approaches, the most common ones nowadays, is a challenging task. This is because the approaches differ significantly in complexity and app development timelines …

Kong AI Gateway 3.11 introduces new method for reducing token costs

Kong has introduced the latest update to Kong AI Gateway, a solution for securing, governing, and controlling LLM consumption from popular third-party providers.  Kong AI Gateway 3.11 introduces a new plugin that reduces token costs, several new generative AI capabilities, and support for AWS Bedrock Guardrails.  The new prompt compression plugin that removes padding and …

Twilio’s Event Triggered Journeys, OutSystem’s Agent Workbench, and more – Daily News Digest

Twilio launches Event Triggered Journeys in Twilio Engage This new capability allows developers to incorporate personalized, scalable messaging into their applications by utilizing event data, user profile information, and context from the data warehouse, such as loyalty status or account details. According to Twilio, it can help with use cases like cart abandonment, ad suppression, …

Harness Infrastructure as Code Management expands with features that facilitate better reusability

Harness is expanding its Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM) platform with two new features that should enable greater reusability. “During customer meetings one theme came up over and over again – the need to define infrastructure once and reuse it across the platform in a secure and consistent manner, at scale. Our latest expansion of …

Amazon launches spec-driven AI IDE, Kiro

Amazon is releasing a new AI IDE to rival platforms like Cursor or Windsurf. Kiro is an agentic editor that utilizes spec-driven development to combine “the flow of vibe coding” with “the clarity of specs.” According to Amazon, developers use specs for planning and clarity, and they can benefit agents in the same way.   Specs …

Akka introduces platform for distributed agentic AI

Akka, a company that provides solutions for building distributed applications, is introducing a new platform for scaling AI agents across distributed systems.  “Agentic systems are forcing IT leaders to rethink their technology stack,” said Tyler Jewell, CEO of Akka. “IT systems must adapt from controlling predefined workflows to managing intelligent, adaptive systems operating in open-ended …

JFrog finds MCP-related vulnerability, highlighting need for stronger focus on security in MCP ecosystem

Earlier this week, JFrog disclosed CVE-2025-6514, a critical vulnerability in the mcp-remote project that could allow an attacker to “trigger arbitrary OS command execution on the machine running mcp-remote when it initiates a connection to an untrusted MCP server.”  Mcp-remote is a project that allows LLM hosts to communicate with remote MCP servers, even if …

This week in AI dev tools: Gemini API Batch Mode, Amazon SageMaker AI updates, and more (July 11, 2025)

Gemini API gets Batch Mode Batch Mode allows large jobs to be submitted through the Gemini API. Results are returned within 24 hours, and the delayed processing offers benefits like a 50% reduction in cost and higher rate limits.  “Batch Mode is the perfect tool for any task where you have your data ready upfront …

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