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
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 … continue reading
Anthropic has announced the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5, which it claims is the “best coding model in the world” and the “strongest model for building complex agents.” It achieves a 77.2% on the SWE-bench for software engineering, compared to 74.5% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 72.7% for Claude Sonnet 4. For external comparison, GPT-5 … continue reading
A new study from Adaptavist revealed that 42% of knowledge workers are reporting a reduction in motivation at work, leading to a phenomenon dubbed “quiet cracking.” Specifically, 38% of the 4,000 respondents from the UK, US, Canada, and Germany said they felt hopeless about their career advancement prospects, 38% had concerns around job security, 37% … continue reading
Version 3.0 of the WebAssembly (Wasm) standard is now complete and considered the “live” standard for Wasm. This announcement comes three years after the completion of Wasm 2.0, which had added many features like vector instructions, bulk memory operations, multiple return values, and simple reference types. According to the Wasm W3C Community Group and Working … continue reading
Java 25 was released today as the latest Long Term Support (LTS) version of the language, meaning it will be supported by Oracle for at least eight more years. Oracle releases a new LTS version of Java every two years, and the previous LTS release was Java 21, back in 2023. “If you look back … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Aspire 9.4, which the company says is the largest update yet. .NET Aspire is a set of tools, templates, and packages that Microsoft provides to enable developers to build distributed apps with observability built in. With this release, Aspire’s CLI is now generally available and includes four core … continue reading
Google’s new Opal tool allows users to create mini AI apps with no coding required Google has launched a new experimental AI tool designed for users who want to build apps entirely using AI prompts, with no coding needed at all. Opal allows users to create mini AI apps by chaining together AI prompts, models, and … continue reading
The role of software developer has historically morphed to keep up with advancements in technology. From basic writing and testing code, to use of open source code, to Agile and DevOps tools and methodologies, to security and cloud, and now to AI and vibe coding, developers have been asked to take on more tasks that … continue reading
Any company planning to build a mobile app encounters a fundamental choice – what development method to choose? But unless you have extensive mobile development experience, choosing between native, hybrid, and cross-platform approaches, the most common ones nowadays, is a challenging task. This is because the approaches differ significantly in complexity and app development timelines … continue reading
Harness is expanding its Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM) platform with two new features that should enable greater reusability. “During customer meetings one theme came up over and over again – the need to define infrastructure once and reuse it across the platform in a secure and consistent manner, at scale. Our latest expansion of … continue reading
Coder is announcing the launch of its AI cloud development environments (CDEs), bringing together IDEs, dynamic policy governance, and agent orchestration into a single platform. According to Coder, current development infrastructure was built for humans, not agents, and agents have different requirements to be successful. “Agents need secure environments, granular permissions, fast boot times, and … continue reading
