GitHub’s CEO Thomas Dohmke steps down, triggering tighter integration of company within Microsoft

GitHub’s CEO Thomas Dohmke has announced his plans to leave the company at the end of the year.  Dohmke says he will be staying with the company through the end of the year to help with the transition. When he leaves GitHub, he plans to build a new startup. “After all this time, my startup … continue reading

How developer advocacy fuels product growth

Developer advocacy is a specialized role within developer relations focused on helping customers understand how the latest trends and products translate into value, Wade Wegner, chief ecosystem and growth officer at DigitalOcean, explained during a recent episode of our What the Dev? podcast.  Advocates work to drive adoption of products, but how they do it … continue reading

This week in AI dev tools: GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.1, and more (August 8, 2025)

OpenAI launches GPT-5 OpenAI announced the availability of GPT-5, which it says is “smarter across the board” compared to previous models. Specifically for coding, GPT-5 achieved significant improvement in complex front-end generation and debugging larger repositories. Early testers said that it made better design choices in terms of spacing, typography, and white space, according to … continue reading

Melissa brings its data quality solutions to Azure with new SSIS integration

Melissa, a provider of data quality solutions, is making it possible for customers to run its SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) components in Azure Data Factory through the Azure-SSIS Integration Runtime. This brings the power of Melissa’s data quality features to the cloud, providing customers greater flexibility in where their data is stored. SSIS is … continue reading

OpenAI launches GPT-5

During a livestream today, OpenAI announced the availability of GPT-5, which it says is “smarter across the board” compared to previous models. Specifically for coding, GPT-5 achieved significant improvement in complex front-end generation and debugging larger repositories. Early testers said that it made better design choices in terms of spacing, typography, and white space, according … continue reading

Elastic simplifies log analytics for SREs and developers with launch of Log Essentials

Elastic has announced the release of Log Essentials, providing SREs and developers with capabilities for ingesting, searching, visualizing, and alerting on logs. It is designed to enable developers to access observability capabilities without needing to manage the operations, upgrades, or tuning.  “SREs need a hassle-free, scale-as-you-go, high-availability logging solution that empowers them to focus entirely … continue reading

OpenAI releases two open weight reasoning models

OpenAI is joining the open weight model game with the launch of gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b.  Gpt-oss-120b is optimized for production, high reasoning use cases, and gpt-oss-20b is designed for lower latency or local use cases.  According to the company, these open models are comparable to its closed models in terms of performance and capability, but … continue reading

.NET Aspire’s CLI reaches general availability in 9.4 release

Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Aspire 9.4, which the company says is the largest update yet.  .NET Aspire is a set of tools, templates, and packages that Microsoft provides to enable developers to build distributed apps with observability built in.  With this release, Aspire’s CLI is now generally available and includes four core … continue reading

July 2025: All AI updates from the past month

Google’s new Opal tool allows users to create mini AI apps with no coding required Google has launched a new experimental AI tool designed for users who want to build apps entirely using AI prompts, with no coding needed at all. Opal allows users to create mini AI apps by chaining together AI prompts, models, and … continue reading

Stack Overflow: Developers’ trust in AI outputs is worsening year over year

More and more developers are adopting AI, but the trust they have in its outputs is getting worse and worse over the years. This is according to Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey, which gathered responses from 49,000 developers across 177 countries. This year, 84% of respondents say they are using or plan to use AI … continue reading

Google’s new Opal tool allows users to create mini AI apps with no coding required

Google has launched a new experimental AI tool designed for users who want to build apps entirely using AI prompts, with no coding needed at all. Opal allows users to create mini AI apps by chaining together AI prompts, models, and tools, using natural language and visual editing.  “Opal is a great tool to accelerate … continue reading

This week in AI dev tools: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, GitLab Duo Agent Platform beta, and more (July 25, 2025)

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now generally available The model is Google’s fastest and cheapest model, costing $0.10/1M tokens for input and $0.40/1M tokens for output (compared to $1.25/1M tokens for input and $10/1M tokens for output in Gemini 2.5 Pro). “We built 2.5 Flash-Lite to push the frontier of intelligence per dollar, with native reasoning … continue reading

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