Earlier this month, the Certification Authority(CA)/Browser Forum voted to significantly shorten the lifetime of TLS certificates: from 398 days currently to 47 days by March 15, 2029. The CA/Browser Forum is a collective of certificate issuers, browsers, and other applications that use certificates, and they’ve long been discussing the potential for shorter certificate lifetimes. As … continue reading
When the Agile Manifesto was signed in 2001, its authors couldn’t have imagined how artificial intelligence would eventually reinforce and radically extend their principles. Two decades later, AI isn’t just changing how we write code—it’s transforming the fundamental nature of software development itself. Agile methodologies emerged as a response to the rigid, documentation-heavy “waterfall” approach … continue reading
Traditionally, developers have used test-driven development (TDD) to validate applications before implementing the actual functionality. In this approach, developers follow a cycle where they write a test designed to fail, then execute the minimum code necessary to make the test pass, refactor the code to improve quality, and repeat the process by adding more tests … continue reading
When most developers think about testing, they imagine writing unit tests, running test suites, or triaging bugs. But effective testing is far more than that. It’s a cornerstone of reliable software delivery. It ensures business continuity, keeps users happy, and helps avoid costly surprises in production. For modern development teams in fast-moving agile or DevOps … continue reading
Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and AI companies are constantly releasing new models and features. It can be hard to keep up with it all, so we’ve written this roundup to share several notable updates around AI that software developers should know about. Docker MCP … continue reading
Cloud native application networking company Solo.io today announced Agent Gateway, an open source data plane optimized for agentic AI connectivity in any environment. Agent Gateway provides drop-in security, observability, and governance for agent-to-agent and agent-to-tool communication and supports leading interoperable protocols, including Agent2Agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP). When developing and deploying AI agents, organizations face the … continue reading
Harness has announced a new offering to help developers secure their cloud-native applications and APIs, the first major update to feature Traceable’s technology since the companies merged earlier this year. Traceable Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) provides web application protection, API security, bot mitigation, and DDoS defense. According to Sudhir Patamsetti, senior. director … continue reading
Zencoder, a company that provides an AI coding agent, has announced that it acquired another company in the AI coding agent business: Machinet. According to Zencoder, this acquisition will solidify the company’s position in the AI coding assistant market and enable it to expand its multi-integration ecosystem into more development environments. Machinet is a plugin … continue reading
DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DOCN), the simplest scalable cloud for digital native enterprises, today announced the general availability of DigitalOcean Managed Caching for Valkey, a high-performance caching solution designed to help enhance application speed and scalability. This new offering will replace the current Managed Caching offering, and expand upon its capabilities with exciting new developer tools, … continue reading
Microsoft has announced that over the next several months it will be making a few changes to its Microsoft 365 Developer Program. The program provides tools, documentation, training, access to experts, and community events for developers building apps for Microsoft 365 products. “The Microsoft 365 Developer Program has long been a great resource for developers … continue reading
Snyk has announced a new dynamic application security testing (DAST) solution designed specifically for AI-powered software development. Snyk API & Web allows developers to test the security of all of their APIs and web apps, regardless of if the code was written by a developer or AI. It also provides detailed recommendations on how to … continue reading
Docker is introducing new MCP-related offerings to provide developers with tools for working with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Coming in May, Docker MCP Catalog will be a marketplace where developers can discover verified and curated MCP tools. The company partnered with several companies to build the catalog, including Stripe, Elastic, Heroku, Pulumi, Grafana Labs, … continue reading
