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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
Twilio today announced new features to help companies create and maintain customer experiences that are based on trusted data. According to Twilio, having access to accurate and reliable data is crucial for customer engagement, but data teams often face delay and missed opportunities as a result of an inability to trace, diagnose and resolve data …
During its API Summit today, Kong announced several new features to help improve the way developers manage their APIs. It announced that Kong Event Gateway will be added to Kong Konnect later this quarter. Kong Event Gateway was first introduced earlier this year, and it provides a unified workspace for building, governing, securing, exposing, and …
When tests scale to thousands, who’s in charge? In this session, we’ll explore six breakthrough areas where artificial intelligence now leads in QA—where AI doesn’t just assist, it performs. These advances represent not incremental improvement but a paradigm shift. QA has entered the generative era, where AI models can reason about user flows, infer data relationships, and produce …
Not sure how QA survives the AI wave? This session gives you a practical playbook. AI platforms that generate, execute, and heal tests are already running thousands of tests in hours – and that means the old tester-as-scripter playbook is obsolete. This webinar shows QA leaders and senior testers how to move from being automated-out …
Join Kevin Surace in this SD Times Live! Microwebinar series with Appvance. Learn how plain-language requirements can be turned into test cases, automatically converted into executable scripts, and more. …
Empowering legal teams with instant data clarity? Easy. Corporate legal departments rely on workflow automation to enhance efficiency, but integrating and accessing critical legal data for enterprise reporting remains a challenge. Progress DataDirect Hybrid Data Pipeline provides simple and secure access to a broad range of data sources. In this webinar, you’ll see …
Not sure where to go with AI? Here’s your roadmap: 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. Our four-phase …
Accusoft’s PrizmDoc is transforming document management with a unified, AI-driven approach. In this microwebinar series, Product Director Dan Lee shows how PrizmDoc’s auto-summarization, auto-tagging & classification, document Q&A, and PII detection & redaction tools eliminate manual effort, surface key insights instantly, and safeguard sensitive data – all while fitting seamlessly into your existing workflows. Discover …
When tests scale to thousands, who’s in charge? In this session, we’ll explore six breakthrough areas where artificial intelligence now leads in QA—where AI doesn’t just assist, it performs. These advances represent not incremental improvement but a paradigm shift. QA has entered the generative era, where AI models can reason about user flows, infer data relationships, and produce …
Not sure how QA survives the AI wave? This session gives you a practical playbook. AI platforms that generate, execute, and heal tests are already running thousands of tests in hours – and that means the old tester-as-scripter playbook is obsolete. This webinar shows QA leaders and senior testers how to move from being automated-out …
Join Kevin Surace in this SD Times Live! Microwebinar series with Appvance. Learn how plain-language requirements can be turned into test cases, automatically converted into executable scripts, and more. …
Empowering legal teams with instant data clarity? Easy. Corporate legal departments rely on workflow automation to enhance efficiency, but integrating and accessing critical legal data for enterprise reporting remains a challenge. Progress DataDirect Hybrid Data Pipeline provides simple and secure access to a broad range of data sources. In this webinar, you’ll see …
Not sure where to go with AI? Here’s your roadmap: 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. Our four-phase …
Accusoft’s PrizmDoc is transforming document management with a unified, AI-driven approach. In this microwebinar series, Product Director Dan Lee shows how PrizmDoc’s auto-summarization, auto-tagging & classification, document Q&A, and PII detection & redaction tools eliminate manual effort, surface key insights instantly, and safeguard sensitive data – all while fitting seamlessly into your existing workflows. Discover …
