FinOps practitioners are finding themselves feeling pressure to embed financial context earlier in the engineering life cycle, rather than after the bill comes in. This is according to the FinOps Foundation’s 2026 State of FinOps report, which includes responses from over 1,100 practitioners. They found that teams are wanting FinOps context earlier in the life … continue reading
The first beta of Android 17 is now available, and it features a change in how the Android development team shares new releases of Android to developers. A new continuous Canary channel now replaces the traditional Developer Preview model, providing developers access to features and APIs as soon as they pass testing instead of waiting … continue reading
Microsoft has announced a beta for TypeScript 6.0, which will be the last release of the language using the JavaScript codebase. The company announced last year that it was working on a native implementation of TypeScript written in Go, in an attempt to improve editor startup time, reduce build time, and cut down on memory … continue reading
Software teams have spent years treating accessibility like technical debt—something to address in the backlog when there’s time, budget and organizational will. That approach has failed. Despite growing regulatory pressure from legislation like the European Accessibility Act and a steady drumbeat of ADA lawsuits, only 54 percent of organizations self-report meeting WCAG 2.2 standards; however, … continue reading
As 2025 comes to a close, SD Times is looking back at the top software development news stories of the year across the industry. Here are 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year: Linux Foundation forms Agentic AI Foundation to be new home for MCP, goose, and … continue reading
Articles about AI dominated media coverage in 2025, as the ability to perform more than just rudimentary tasks grew into making software development life cycle processes autonomous. The widespread piloting and implementation of generative AI, agents and MCP servers were among the topics that produced the top trending articles on sdtimes.com this year. But AI … continue reading
As this year comes to a close, many experts have begun to look ahead to next year. Here are several predictions for trends in software development in 2026. Bennie Grant, COO of Percona The open source community continues the fight against restrictive relicensing It’s unclear if or when another open source company will change its … continue reading
Stack Overflow is following up its recent Developer Survey with a follow-up survey of 800+ developers to find out which development tasks are causing them the most frustration. The original survey found that 84% of developers use or planned to use AI in their development workflows, but that they often were frustrated when AI gives … continue reading
As another year draws to a close, experts have begun looking ahead to how the technology landscape will evolve over the course of the next one. Forrester today released its 2026 predictions, with many of them relating to how software development will continue to be impacted by AI. Vibe coding took off in 2025, but … continue reading
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
