GitKraken, a software engineering intelligence company that specializes in improving the developer experience, announced the launch of GitKraken Insights to provide companies with better insights into AI’s impact on developer productivity. According to the company, while many engineering teams have adopted AI at this point, it is still a challenge to prove AI’s ROI. GitKraken … continue reading
Back in the mid-1990s, if you wanted to build useful software, you didn’t necessarily need to be a coding prodigy. You had tools like Visual Basic, an ecosystem of components, and the ability to simply wire them together. You were, in essence, standing on the shoulders of giants – the coders who built those foundational … continue reading
Following its acquisition of retrieval-augmented generation AI solution innovator Nuclia in June, Progress today is announcing the launch of Progress Agentic RAG, a RAG-as-a-Service platform designed to empower companies to transform unstructured data into actionable intelligence. The retrieval-augmented generation platform can help organizations struggling to get value from Large Language Models by providing results based … continue reading
While the industry is racing to develop and implement artificial intelligence into its systems, cultural resistance, a skills gap, and the speed with which AI is changing are just a few of the factors why many AI projects fail. Because of that, most attempts at adopting AI into organizations never make it past the pilot … continue reading
With cloud native technologies becoming foundational for software development and deployment, and finding developers skilled in those areas a challenge, talent marketplace provider Andela and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation have partnered to create the Kubernetes African Developer Training Program that more than 5,600 Africans have completed. Andela and the CNCF are looking to train … continue reading
While AI is becoming better at generating that functional code, it is also enabling attackers to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in that code more quickly and effectively. This is making it easier for less-skilled programmers to attack the code, increasing the speed and sophistication of those attacks — creating a situation in which code vulnerabilities … continue reading
The role of software developer has historically morphed to keep up with advancements in technology. From basic writing and testing code, to use of open source code, to Agile and DevOps tools and methodologies, to security and cloud, and now to AI and vibe coding, developers have been asked to take on more tasks that … continue reading
Qodo, maker of an AI coding platform, today announced the release of Qodo Gen CLI, an agent framework that enables developers to create, customize, and deploy their own AI coding agents. With the framework, creating agents can be done by writing configuration files that add autonomous AI agents throughout the software development life cycle, according … continue reading
At Broadcom’s recent Spark VSM Summit, the theme was “VSM evolution meets AI revolution.” After the event, SD Times sat down with Broadcom’s Jean Louis Vignaud, the head of ValueOps at the company, to discuss the AI revolution and its connection to value stream management. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. DR: … continue reading
Many companies today find themselves having to rethink how they build their workforce in the face of urgency to digitally transform and adopt AI, while politics and the global economy are impacting from where talent with those skills can be sourced, according to a new report on talent acquisition. The evolution of what is being … continue reading
A recent study by Broadcom about the state of strategic portfolio management revealed the influence of digital transformations and AI on the role of the project management office (PMO). Further, it revealed common challenges in software development, such as budget constraints, skill shortages, and team coordination issues. Broadcom’s Brian Nathanson, head of product management for … continue reading
Progress Software today announced new AI code assistants and other capabilities built into the Q2 2025 release of Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI, .NET and JavaScript UI libraries for modern application development. This release introduces AI Coding Assistants for Blazor and React, AI-driven theme generation and GenAI-powered reporting insights, the company announced. The AI … continue reading
