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
AI agents have been all the rage over the last several months, which has led to a need to come up with a standard for how they communicate with tools and data, leading to the creation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) by Anthropic. MCP is “an open standard that enables developers to build secure, … continue reading
At its IBM THINK conference today, IBM introduced new updates that will help alleviate some of the challenges associated with scaling AI agents. “The era of AI experimentation is over. Today’s competitive advantage comes from purpose-built AI integration that drives measurable business outcomes,” said Arvind Krishna, chairman and CEO of IBM. “IBM is equipping enterprises … continue reading
Amazon has announced a new agentic coding experience for Amazon Q Developer in Visual Studio Code. “This experience brings interactive coding capabilities, building upon existing prompt-based features. You now have a natural, real-time collaborative partner working alongside you while writing code, creating documentation, running tests, and reviewing changes,” Amazon wrote in a blog post announcing … 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. Here are all the major AI updates we covered in the month of April. Anthropic announces Integrations for Claude Integrations allows users to connect apps and tools to Claude using … continue reading
JetBrains has announced that its code completion LLM, Mellum, is now available on Hugging Face as an open source model. According to the company, Mellum is a “focal model,” meaning that it was built purposely for a specific task, rather than trying to be good at everything. “It’s designed to do one thing really well: … continue reading
The shift towards decentralized architectural landscapes, driven by the popularity of microservices, cloud-native technologies, and agile development, presents significant challenges for traditional, centralized API governance models. In modern enterprises, applications are powered by APIs that are developed by distributed and independent teams. This necessitates a paradigm shift in how API governance is approached in such … continue reading
When the Agile Manifesto was signed in 2001, its authors couldn’t have imagined how artificial intelligence would eventually reinforce and radically extend their principles. Two decades later, AI isn’t just changing how we write code—it’s transforming the fundamental nature of software development itself. Agile methodologies emerged as a response to the rigid, documentation-heavy “waterfall” approach … 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. Docker MCP … continue reading
Cloud native application networking company Solo.io today announced Agent Gateway, an open source data plane optimized for agentic AI connectivity in any environment. Agent Gateway provides drop-in security, observability, and governance for agent-to-agent and agent-to-tool communication and supports leading interoperable protocols, including Agent2Agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP). When developing and deploying AI agents, organizations face the … continue reading
Zencoder, a company that provides an AI coding agent, has announced that it acquired another company in the AI coding agent business: Machinet. According to Zencoder, this acquisition will solidify the company’s position in the AI coding assistant market and enable it to expand its multi-integration ecosystem into more development environments. Machinet is a plugin … continue reading
