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August 1, 2025 - 0 Comments

Since the 2001 Agile Manifesto, software development has thrived on principles like “individuals and interactions over processes,” continuous delivery, and embracing change. Over the following decades, we watched Agile disrupt heavyweight, documentation-driven SDLCs by enabling...

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July 31, 2025 - 0 Comments

Companies rushed into AI adoption without building the data foundations necessary to make it work reliably. Now they’re discovering that even the most sophisticated algorithms can’t overcome fundamentally flawed information, and the consequences extend far...

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July 31, 2025 - 0 Comments

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,...

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July 30, 2025 - 0 Comments

Like many large enterprises, we must navigate the beauty and chaos of legacy code. In our case, decades of SQL procedures and business logic that underpin a platform capable of handling over 3 million concurrent...

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July 30, 2025 - 0 Comments

While AI is becoming better at generating that functional code, it is also enabling attackers to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in that code more quickly and effectively. This is making it easier for less-skilled programmers...

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July 29, 2025 - 0 Comments

More and more developers are adopting AI, but the trust they have in its outputs is getting worse and worse over the years. This is according to Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey, which gathered responses...

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July 28, 2025 - 0 Comments

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...

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July 25, 2025 - 0 Comments

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now generally available The model is Google’s fastest and cheapest model, costing $0.10/1M tokens for input and $0.40/1M tokens for output (compared to $1.25/1M tokens for input and $10/1M tokens for...

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July 24, 2025 - 0 Comments

Google is adding several new features to its cloud-based AI workspace Firebase Studio, following its update a few weeks ago when it added new Agent modes, support for MCP, and integration with the Gemini CLI. ...

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July 24, 2025 - 0 Comments

Tenable is updating its Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) method of scoring vulnerabilities to enable organizations to focus their efforts on the most critical and impactful vulnerabilities. According to the company, Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS),...

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July 23, 2025 - 0 Comments

As artificial intelligence becomes an integral part of software development, a fundamental question arises: does AI erode essential engineering skills, or does it pave the way for new capabilities? This tension is especially pronounced with...

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July 23, 2025 - 0 Comments

Google is hoping to improve public trust in open source projects with the launch of a new open source project called OSS Rebuild that reproduces upstream artifacts and compares the new package with the original...

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July 22, 2025 - 0 Comments

Parasoft is helping customers address the unique requirements for testing AI with several new capabilities across its various testing solutions. The company added an agentic AI assistant to its virtual testing simulation solution Virtualize, allowing...

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July 21, 2025 - 0 Comments

The Scrum Alliance and Kanban University are teaming up to produce a new course that combines the best of both the Scrum and Kanban methodologies. The Scrum Better with Kanban course teaches technology professionals how...

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July 18, 2025 - 0 Comments

Despite a decade of DevOps fervor, most engineering organizations remain hindered by manual processes, silos, and dependency bottlenecks. Teams cannot truly own their delivery stack and still depend on centralized support for deployment, provisioning, and...

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July 18, 2025 - 0 Comments

Slack’s AI search now works across an organization’s entire knowledge base Slack is introducing a number of new AI-powered tools to make team collaboration easier and more intuitive. “Today, 60% of organizations are using generative AI....

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July 17, 2025 - 0 Comments

As AI becomes more ingrained within the software development life cycle, tech leaders making hiring decisions are saying AI and machine learning are becoming non-negotiable skills. 71% of respondents to a new study from Infragistics...

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July 17, 2025 - 0 Comments

Slack is introducing a number of new AI-powered tools to make team collaboration easier and more intuitive. “Today, 60% of organizations are using generative AI. But most still fall short of its productivity promise. We’re...

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July 16, 2025 - 0 Comments

Anthropic has announced the launch of a new analytics dashboard in Claude Code to give development teams insights into how they are using the tool.  It tracks metrics such as lines of code accepted, suggestion...

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July 15, 2025 - 0 Comments

Twilio launches Event Triggered Journeys in Twilio Engage This new capability allows developers to incorporate personalized, scalable messaging into their applications by utilizing event data, user profile information, and context from the data warehouse, such...

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July 14, 2025 - 0 Comments

Amazon is releasing a new AI IDE to rival platforms like Cursor or Windsurf. Kiro is an agentic editor that utilizes spec-driven development to combine “the flow of vibe coding” with “the clarity of specs.”...

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July 11, 2025 - 0 Comments

Earlier this week, JFrog disclosed CVE-2025-6514, a critical vulnerability in the mcp-remote project that could allow an attacker to “trigger arbitrary OS command execution on the machine running mcp-remote when it initiates a connection to...

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July 11, 2025 - 0 Comments

Gemini API gets Batch Mode Batch Mode allows large jobs to be submitted through the Gemini API. Results are returned within 24 hours, and the delayed processing offers benefits like a 50% reduction in cost...

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July 10, 2025 - 0 Comments

I’ve been on-call during outages that ruined weekends, sat through postmortems that felt like therapy, and seen cases where a single log line would have saved six hours of debugging. These experiences are not edge...

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