The world of software development is undergoing a transformation, and GitKraken’s free, two-day virtual event, GitKon 2025, is set to redefine what it means to “ship responsibly in the age of AI.” The theme of the conference is “The Builder’s Era,” and according to Jeremy Castile, VP of developer research at host company GitKraken, the … continue reading
The drive for innovation behind Lightning Chart – and its upcoming data analytics and dashboard solution, Dashtera – is rooted in the history of the company’s founder, Pasi Tuomainen. Though his family had an established electrical company in Finland — Pasi’s passion was always software. He found himself drawn to creating code rather than installing … continue reading
The value of tools integration and model-based integration was the subject of a recent SD Times Live! webinar with Jeff McCollum, vice president of product management at portfolio management platform provider Planview, and Giorgio Leon-Guerrero, a senior solution consultant. This transcript was edited for length and clarity. SDT: What are the key drivers for interest … continue reading
Spatial data – a record of physical or virtual data – is important to a variety of industries, yet a gap remains between collecting the raw data and gaining AI insights from it. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Damian Wylie, the head of products at spatial ETL, analytics and GeoAI company Wherobots, … continue reading
Organizations are spending huge dollars on AI agents, but are finding that integrating the agents into all the systems the business needs to function is a very high hurdle. To help make SaaS platforms agent-ready, integration orchestration company Workato released Workato Enterprise MCP, which the company said in its announcement can “turn existing workflows, integrations, … continue reading
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
