I spent decades mastering software architecture, only to discover that 70% of my hard-won expertise could now be delivered by AI in seconds. This should have terrified me. Instead, it set me free. Let me back up. I started my career as a software engineer and quickly progressed through the ranks to architect. Around the … continue reading
Red Hat is helping development teams speed up their workflows with the launch of a new portfolio of generative AI solutions called Red Hat Developer Lightspeed. “As the business world moves toward more specialized, domain-specific AI assistants, the demand for raw generative power evolves to delivering trustworthy, reliable and contextually relevant assistance. Red Hat Developer … continue reading
MariaDB’s Enterprise Platform 2026 release was announced today, with the promise that it will act as “the definitive database platform for building next-generation intelligent applications.” According to MariaDB, this latest release combines transactional, analytical, and vector databases into a single database platform. To support agentic AI, the company added native RAG for grounding LLMs with … continue reading
Spotify today announced that Spotify Portal for Backstage is now generally available, providing developers with a ready-to-use version of Backstage, its open source solution for building internal developer portals (IDPs). “Built on a decade of experience improving developer experience at scale, Spotify Portal combines developer velocity, operational insight, and AI-powered assistance into a single pane … continue reading
The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) today announced a new open source orchestration platform for process automation. The project, Fluxnova, provides audit-ready workflows so that companies can visualize and automate their processes, which is a crucial foundation for being able to modernize operations and maintain strong governance. It comes with a toolkit that developers can … continue reading
Sonar, a company that specializes in code quality, today announced a new solution that will improve how LLMs are trained for coding purposes. According to the company, LLMs that are used to help with software development are often trained on publicly available, open source code containing security issues and bugs, which become amplified throughout the … continue reading
Companies today want to leverage their data to support business intelligence (BI) initiatives, but without the proper data connectivity processes and tools in place, that data could remain locked in silos. Enter the Progress DataDirect Hybrid Data Pipeline (HDP) connectivity solution, which allows companies to securely connect cloud and on-premises data to BI tools. The HDP … continue reading
InstallAware, a company that provides software installation and repackaging solutions, announced a new tool that allows developers to easily port Windows apps to GNU/Linux or macOS. The Application Porting Toolkit works by installing the open-source Windows compatibility layer, Wine, then translating the setup instructions from the original Windows installer into instructions that can be used … continue reading
AI is quickly becoming pervasive in software development and is changing the way developers build software. However, many enterprises have not invested in the key building blocks to sufficiently leverage this new technology. Software engineering leaders who fail to focus on the foundations of the AI-native era risk dooming their companies to irrelevance while faster, … continue reading
Moving into AI-first development is a journey, and we’re all learning together. I want to share some bittersweet lessons from my recent experience that might save you from hitting the same walls I did. The “Secret” Everyone Knows Let’s address the elephant in the room. By now, there are probably a million YouTube videos titled … continue reading
Microsoft announces general availability of Azure DevOps local MCP Server The MCP server acts as an intermediary between AI assistants and the Azure DevOps organization. It can help inject context from Azure DevOps, like work items, pull requests, and test plans. By adding this context to prompts, the LLM can provide more relevant answers that … continue reading
For many years, the DORA metrics were the gold standard when it came to measuring software development performance, but according to JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025 report, developers today want to be measured on more than just technical metrics. DORA tracks four metrics: frequency of deployments, amount of time between acceptance and deployment, frequency … continue reading
Oracle has announced the launch of a new marketplace to help customers find and deploy validated AI agents that can be used within Oracle Fusion Applications, its suite of cloud-based modular business applications. The AI Agent Marketplace includes agent templates built by Oracle partners to help with various business processes, including finance, HR, supply chain, … continue reading
Anthropic has announced the release of Claude Haiku 4.5, which provides similar coding performance to Claude Sonnet 4, but is twice as fast and one-third as expensive. This follows the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5 two weeks ago, which Anthropic claimed as “the best coding model in the world” when it was announced. Claude Haiku … continue reading
