CompTIA has released its State of the Tech Workforce 2025, which shows tech employment metrics at the nation, state, and metropolitan level. It found that despite economic uncertainty, the tech workforce in the US grew 1.2% in 2024, reaching 5.9 million. This sector of the workforce is projected to grow to 6.1 million in 2025. … continue reading
AI coding assistants like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot have become a staple in the developer’s toolkit. They help dev teams move faster, automate boilerplates, and troubleshoot issues on the fly. But there’s a catch. These tools don’t always know what they’re talking about. Like other LLM applications, coding assistants sometimes hallucinate – confidently recommending software … continue reading
Gartner recently revealed a new report where it predicted that by the end of 2027, over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled. Factors contributing to this decline include escalating costs, unclear business value, and inadequate risk controls. According to the analyst firm, one trend it is seeing is that vendors are hyping up … continue reading
Platform engineering can be a valuable asset to an organization, but there are a number of strategies teams need to implement in order to drive success. In a talk at PlatformCon 2025 in NYC last week, Preeti Somal, senior VP of engineering at Temporal, gave a talk about the human side of platform engineering. She … continue reading
Google’s Agent2Agent protocol finds new home at the Linux Foundation At the Open Source Summit North America, it was announced that Google donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation. The A2A protocol offers a standard way for connecting agents to each other. In this way, it complements Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), which … continue reading
At Broadcom’s Spark VSM Summit—“VSM evolution meets AI revolution”—SD Times sits with VSM head Jean-Louis Vignaud to explore AI’s impact on value stream management. Companies must tidy data and use VSM systems to capture proprietary knowledge. Vignaud predicts VSM will manage business knowledge as an asset with human–AI teams that adapt and optimize. Read the full … continue reading
Google’s Agent2Agent protocol finds new home at the Linux Foundation At the Open Source Summit North America, it was announced that Google donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation. The A2A protocol offers a standard way for connecting agents to each other. In this way, it complements Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), which … continue reading
AI technology is disrupting industries at unprecedented speed, yet Gartner research reveals 47% of AI initiatives fail to reach production. This session examines how enterprise-grade AI capabilities, now accessible to businesses of all sizes, are fundamentally transforming operations, while organizational readiness lags critically behind. Through case studies from financial services, manufacturing, and healthcare, attendees will discover … continue reading
APIs underpin most modern software systems. Whether you’re building a SaaS dashboard, a mobile app, or coordinating microservices, how you expose your data shapes your velocity, flexibility, and technical debt. Through several years of building production systems with React and TypeScript, I’ve shipped REST, GraphQL, and tRPC APIs. Each option presents distinct strengths, with real-world … continue reading
The Eclipse Foundation today announced the release of Jakarta EE 11 Platform, which builds on the releases of the Core Profile in December 2024 and Web Profile in March. This update adds significant enhancements, including a modernized Test Compatibility Kit (TCK) framework, updates to several specifications, and a new data specification. According to Tanja Obradovic, … 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
Warp is undergoing a significant transformation with its 2.0 launch, shifting from its origins as a terminal emulator with AI integrations into an Agentic Development Environment (ADE). “The products on the market today, from AI IDEs to CLI coding agents, all miss the mark supporting this workflow. They bolt agents onto code editors through chat … continue reading
The Overture Maps Foundation today announced the launch of its Global Entity Reference System (GERS), which assigns a unique ID to geospatial entities, including 2.6 billion buildings, 61 million places, 321 million road segments, and almost 447 million addresses. The system will allow developers to more easily join datasets, share information, and onboard new data, … 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
