For three years, I’ve watched the AI coding revolution unfold with a mix of fascination and frustration. As someone who’s built and led AI engineering and product teams at Google, SwiftKey, Yahoo, and beyond, I’m calling it: we’re collectively falling for a productivity mirage. We’re celebrating typing speed while ignoring the actual bottlenecks that cripple … continue reading
Red Hat today at its Summit event announced Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite, which the company said was designed to make developers more productive and their applications more secure. The Advanced Developer Suite includes Red Hat Developer Hub, an internal developer portal (IDP) built on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation project Backstage. The Developer Hub … continue reading
Following in the steps of other software providers looking to protect their intellectual property, flexible installer company InstallAware today announced it has published the source code for InstallAware 2025 under a Business Source License. In recent months, there has been a lot of discussion within the industry as to what constitutes open source, and if … continue reading
Microsoft Build kicks off today, and Microsoft started off the event by introducing a number of AI-powered features designed to enhance the software development experience. A new coding agent has been added to GitHub Copilot that gets activated when a developer assigns it a GitHub issue or calls it via a prompt in VS Code. … continue reading
I was a guest of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) at its EU KubeCon conference in London the first week of April. Most of my conversations with the vendors at the event can be grouped under three main themes: multi-cluster management, AI workloads, and reducing Kubernetes costs on the cloud. Multi-cluster management Running Kubernetes … 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. OpenAI announces … continue reading
GitLab has announced the latest version of its platform, incorporating more AI capabilities from Duo, the company’s suite of AI solutions, into the flagship DevSecOps platform. GitLab 18 includes Duo’s AI-powered Code Suggestions for code completion and code generation, and AI-powered Chat for code explanations, code refactoring, test generation, and code fixes. Those capabilities are … continue reading
At its annual developer conference, LaunchDarkly announced a number of new features across its platform designed to “help teams release faster, mitigate failures instantly, and turn software releases into a competitive advantage.” Guarded Releases has gotten several new updates designed to help development teams monitor their rollouts so they can stop issues quickly. Smart Minimums … continue reading
At its annual conference Boomi World 2025, Boomi announced the general availability of Boomi Agentstudio (initially called Boomi AI Studio), an AI agent management solution. With Boomi Agentstudio, developers are given a no-code platform for designing, governing, and orchestrating AI agents. It supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI agents … continue reading
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
