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Survey: Java Developers Wrestling With Massive Amounts of Technical Debt
Mike Vizard | | AI coding tools, AI functionality, artificial intelligence, cloud computing costs, Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE), cost-driven migration, dead code, developer productivity, Java applications, Java developers, Java versions, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), language model integration., large data access, long-term support, migration to OpenJDK, observability, OpenJDK, Oracle pricing concerns, security features, technical debt, vulnerabilitiesA global survey of 2,039 Java developers published today finds 63% reporting that dead and unused code adversely affects their team’s productivity, with 22% describing the impact of that technical debt as ...
Salesforce Freezes Heroku Feature Development, Signals Long-Term Shift
Salesforce has confirmed it is stepping back from active development of Heroku, creating a turning point for one of the cloud industry’s most influential platform-as-a-service offerings. While the company insists the service ...
Will AI Kill the OSS Star?
Alan Shimel | | AI and OSS relationship, AI impact on open source, AI slop, AI-generated pull requests, apprenticeship model, coding ecosystem, collective understanding, community health, community interaction, custom code generation, documentation decline, economic shift, engagement drop, fragmentation risk, generative AI, licensing issues, long-term sustainability, open source challenges, open source maintenance, OSS market, software development trends, software security, standardization, technology evolution., vibe codingAs AI-driven development accelerates, open source software faces an uncomfortable paradox: Usage is rising while engagement, sustainability and community economics quietly erode. AI isn’t eliminating OSS, but it is reshaping how code ...
Google Launches Developer Knowledge API to Give AI Tools Access to Official Documentation
Tom Smith | | AI coding assistants, AI-assisted development, API Integration, API reference entities, automation, content source of truth., current best practices, Developer Knowledge API, development workflows, devops teams, Firebase, Google Cloud, implementation guidance, knowledge transfer, language models, Markdown retrieval, MCP Server, Model Context Protocol, official documentation, outdated documentation, programmatic access, real-time information, reliable AI assistance, security and trust, structured content support, troubleshootingGoogle's new Developer Knowledge API and MCP server provide AI assistants with direct access to up-to-date Google developer documentation ...
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Mike Vizard | | application development, careers, devops, DevOps Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, job market, job market trends., jobs, principal software engineer, salary insights, site reliability engineering, software engineeringThis week's report features top employers including Capital One, Google, CLS US Services, Thrive Market, and Cisco Systems, providing insights into the job market and salaries for crucial roles in DevOps ...
Veracode Extends Package Firewall Reach to Microsoft Artifacts
Veracode has extended the reach of a Package Firewall that applies policies that limit what types of code can be downloaded from a repository to Azure Artifacts from Microsoft. Additionally, DevSecOps teams ...
Qodo Adds Multiple AI Agents to Code Review Platform
Mike Vizard | | AI code review, ai copilot, AI-assisted testing, AI-generated code, automated code review, Bitbucket, code review, code review benchmark, defect detection, devops, F1 score, github, gitlab, LLM, memory-enabled agents, multi-agent AI, pull requests, Qodo, software qualityQodo 2.0 adds memory-enabled, task-specific AI agents to its LLM-based code-review platform, improving defect recall and F1 performance to help DevOps scale code quality as AI-generated code rises ...
Is Claude Opus 4.6 the Best Security Researcher Ever?
Mike Vizard | | 600 vulnerabilities, AI augmentation, AI-driven vulnerability discovery, Anthropic, attackers/opportunists, Axios, Claude Opus 4.6, continuous discovery, coordinated disclosure, defensive adaptation, Gadi Evron, Heather Adkins, maintainers burnout, open source projects, Red Team report, remediation, scale vs capacity, security triage, The Futurum Group, vulnerability management, zero daysAnthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 uncovered more than 600 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used open source software, raising new questions about AI-driven security research, vulnerability management, and defensive readiness ...
Survey Surfaces More Focus on Software Security Testing and API Security
A global survey of 828 enterprise IT professionals conducted by the Futurum Group finds well over a third of respondents expect their organization to increase spending on software security testing (39%) and ...
Perforce Adds MCP Support Across Entire DevOps Portfolio
Perforce Software is making the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that artificial intelligence (AI) tools and agents invoke to access data available across its entire portfolio of DevOps platforms. Jake Hookom, executive vice ...
Anthropic Research Shows Trade-Off Between AI Productivity and Developer Mastery
Artificial intelligence tools are now a routine part of today’s software development, promising faster output and reduced workloads. But new research from Anthropic suggests that when developers rely on AI while learning ...
OpenAI Shifts Toward Autonomous Team Model with Codex Desktop Launch
Jon Swartz | | AI agents, AI IDE, Anthropic Claude, autonomous coding agents, Codex, macOS, OpenAI, Sam Altman, sandboxing, The Futurum Goup, vibe codingOpenAI has launched a macOS desktop application for Codex, signaling a strategic pivot from simple artificial intelligence (AI) pair-programming to a complex command center for autonomous coding agents. The news, announced Monday, ...
