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
Software development teams have been on a journey over the last several years to improve productivity. Whether that’s by cutting down on the time spent coding by introducing AI-powered coding assistants or implementing collaboration tools, it’s clear that teams are on a mission to be more productive. However, that drive for productivity may actually be … 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
Despite having just celebrated its 30 year anniversary, Java is still going strong. Scroll through the list of other programming languages created in the 90s and you won’t find many names you’d still recognize today, yet Java is still prevalent across the industry. TIOBE’s Programming Community index for June 2025 ranks Java as the fourth … 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 May. Mistral launches Agents API The Agents API includes built-in connectors for code execution, web search, image … continue reading
Infragistics has released an update to its UX/UI platform, adding new features to App Builder and new components across the Ignite UI Toolbox. The no-code design tool App Builder was updated with an AI-powered view generation that can be used to create UI layouts and components from text prompts. It also has new Card, Row, … continue reading
At KotlinConf 2025, JetBrains teased some of the new features that are coming to Kotlin in the next update to the language. “From exciting language and ecosystem updates and robust AI tools that empower Kotlin development to major Kotlin Multiplatform milestones and a strategic partnership for the backend, KotlinConf 2025 brought a wave of news … continue reading
Grafana Labs released the latest version of its flagship platform during GrafanaCON in Seattle, along with some other company announcements. According to the company, Grafana 12 adds new observability as code features that will allow developers to version, validate, and deploy dashboards using code, reducing manual processes. Another new feature is Dynamic Dashboards, which provides … continue reading
Pulumi, a provider of infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions, announced a new internal developer platform (IDP) for delivering cloud infrastructure for developers. Pulumi IDP allows platform teams to publish building blocks in the form of Components, Templates, and Policies. These building blocks incorporate best practices with standard configurations and enforcement of security, compliance, cost, and … 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
Microsoft has announced that over the next several months it will be making a few changes to its Microsoft 365 Developer Program. The program provides tools, documentation, training, access to experts, and community events for developers building apps for Microsoft 365 products. “The Microsoft 365 Developer Program has long been a great resource for developers … continue reading
Postman is announcing new features designed to enable developers to build APIs at scale in a secure fashion. First, the company announced the release of Spec Hub, an API design platform that provides tools for authoring, governing, and publishing API specifications across multiple formats, such as OpenAPI 3.0 and AsyncAPI 2.0. It offers one-click workflows … continue reading