GitHub Advanced Security now offers security campaigns
GitHub has made security campaigns available for GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Code Security users. Security campaigns help control security debt and manage risk by enabling collaboration between developers and security teams, GitHub said. Annou...
Google adds natural language query capabilities to AlloyDB
Google is enhancing AlloyDB, its fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), to help developers build applications underpinned by generative AI. Announced at Google’s annual Cloud Next conference, the updates could give the PostreSQL-compatible All...
Google Cloud introduces cloud app design center
Google Cloud has introduced Application Design Center, a service that helps platform administrators and developers design, deploy, and manage applications on the Google Cloud Platform. Application Design Center is in public preview. Application Design...
What is Kubernetes? Scalable cloud-native applications
Kubernetes is a popular open source platform for container orchestration—that is, for managing applications built from multiple, largely self-contained runtimes called containers. Containers have become increasingly popular since Docker launched in ...
Four paradoxes of software development
Civil engineers can rightfully claim that no two bridges are exactly alike. However, bridges share many known characteristics, and the materials they are built with have known characteristics. Building bridges involves many known knowns and not as m...
Five things to consider before you deploy an LLM
If the screwdriver were invented by the tech industry today, then it would be widely deployed for a variety of tasks, including hammering nails. Since the debut of ChatGPT, there has been growing fervor and backlash against large language models (LLMs...
GitHub Copilot rolls out agent mode in Visual Studio Code
GitHub has rolled out agent mode and MCP (Model Context Protocol) support in GitHub Copilot for all Visual Studio Code users. The company is also releasing an open source GitHub MCP server, allowing developers to add GitHub functionality to any LLM th...
April Patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server
Today we are releasing patches that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server, as well as Team Foundation Server 2018.3.2. We strongly encourage and recommend that all customers use the latest, most secure release of Azure DevOps Server. You ...
Beware these 10 malicious VSCode extensions
Developers using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VSCode) editor are being warned to delete, or at least stay away from, 10 newly published extensions which will trigger the installation of a cryptominer. The warning comes from researchers at Exte...
Beware these 10 malicious VS Code extensions
Developers using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VSCode) editor are being warned to delete, or at least stay away from, 10 newly published extensions which will trigger the installation of a cryptominer. The warning comes from researchers at Exte...
Why is cloud-based AI so hard?
The public cloud market continues its explosive growth trajectory, with enterprises rushing to their cloud consoles to allocate more resources, particularly for AI initiatives. Cloud providers are falling over themselves to promote their latest AI cap...
Visual Studio Code stabilizes agent mode
Visual Studio Code 1.99, the latest release of Microsoft’s popular code editor, is now available. Highlights of the update center on GitHub Copilot agent mode, Next Edit Suggestions, and Copilot chat. Developers can access Visual Studio Code 1.99, a...
Cloudflare unveils agentic AI development tools
Following on its February release of the Agents SDK JavaScript framework for building AI agents, Cloudflare began its Developer Week today by announcing a series of tools and features designed to accelerate agentic AI development. And to pull all of t...
Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity – Tiobe index
The Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby languages have slipped from their top 20 positions in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity. All three seem to have lost traction and to be in decline, according to Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen. Published April 7, the...
AI will require more software developers, not fewer
It’s time we officially bury the idea that AI means we won’t need software developers. For years, we’ve heard that generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are coming for our jobs. In software development, that supposedly means fewer human...
