As AI can write so many more lines of code more quickly than humans, the need for code review that keeps pace with development is now an urgent necessity. A recent survey by SmartBear – whose early founder, Jason Cohen, literally wrote the book on peer code review – found that the average developer can … continue reading
Anaconda AI Platform is a platform that brings together all of the tools needed to source, secure, build, and deploy AI in open source ecosystems. It offers Quick Start Environments that are pre-configured, vetted for security, and tailored for Python, finance, and AI/ML development. According to Anaconda, its platform can reduce or eliminate the need … continue reading
Kong is attempting to make Kafka more approachable to developers by reducing the complexity of managing it via its newly released Kong Event Gateway. The new platform allows developers to “expose, manage, and secure real-time event streams from Apache Kafka as Konnect-managed APIs and services.” According to Kong, this will enable developers to build data-based … continue reading
The growing complexity of modern software development and operations—which includes Kubernetes —is fueling the rise in popularity of platform engineering. As DevOps reaches its limits for managing fragmented toolchains, complex workflows, and sprawling cloud environments, platform engineering helps bring order to the chaos through scalable, self-service infrastructure and standardized developer experiences, with Kubernetes often at … 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. IBM introduces … continue reading
I had the opportunity to attend Pepcom’s Spring Spectacular in NYC yesterday, an event for media where tech companies demo off their latest gadgets. While there were a lot of cool innovations on display, here are a few that stood out to me. Robot lawnmowers If there’s one chore I hate doing the most, it’s … continue reading
HCL Universal Orchestrator (UnO) Agentic is an orchestration platform for coordinating workflows among AI agents, robots, systems, and humans. It builds upon HCL’s Universal Orchestrator, and adds agentic AI capabilities to provide intelligent orchestration and insert AI agents into business-critical processes and workflows. “By integrating deterministic and probabilistic execution, HCL UnO transforms how humans and … continue reading
Grafana Labs released the latest version of its flagship platform during GrafanaCON in Seattle, along with some other company announcements. According to the company, Grafana 12 adds new observability as code features that will allow developers to version, validate, and deploy dashboards using code, reducing manual processes. Another new feature is Dynamic Dashboards, which provides … continue reading
AI agents have been all the rage over the last several months, which has led to a need to come up with a standard for how they communicate with tools and data, leading to the creation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) by Anthropic. MCP is “an open standard that enables developers to build secure, … continue reading
The Android team has announced that the Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop is now stable. This release adds developer productivity enhancements, such as the ability to analyze crash reports using Gemini, generate unit tests with Gemini, and a Gemini prompt library to eliminate having to rewrite commonly used prompts every time. Compose UI also got … continue reading
Pulumi, a provider of infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions, announced a new internal developer platform (IDP) for delivering cloud infrastructure for developers. Pulumi IDP allows platform teams to publish building blocks in the form of Components, Templates, and Policies. These building blocks incorporate best practices with standard configurations and enforcement of security, compliance, cost, and … continue reading
At its IBM THINK conference today, IBM introduced new updates that will help alleviate some of the challenges associated with scaling AI agents. “The era of AI experimentation is over. Today’s competitive advantage comes from purpose-built AI integration that drives measurable business outcomes,” said Arvind Krishna, chairman and CEO of IBM. “IBM is equipping enterprises … continue reading
