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06/12/2025

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.

We spoke with Simon Ritter from Azul, Brian Fox from Sonatype, and Tanja Obradovic from the Eclipse Foundation about the evolution of the language over the last three decades and why it's still relevant today.

Java recently celebrated its 30 year anniversary. Despite its age, the language is still going strong and maintains its relevance.

06/10/2025

A recent study by Broadcom about the state of strategic portfolio management revealed the influence of digital transformations and AI on the role of the project management office (PMO). Further, it revealed common challenges in software development, such as budget constraints, skill shortages, and team coordination issues.

Broadcom’s Brian Nathanson, head of product management for Clarity, sat down with SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein to discuss all this.

A study by Broadcom on the state of strategic portfolio management revealed the influence of digital transformations and AI.

05/30/2025

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 more than 20 major AI updates we covered in the month of May ⬇️

Here are all the major AI updates we covered in the month of May, including Mistral's Agents API and Anthropic's Claude 4 releases.

05/05/2025

Amazon announced an agentic coding experience for Amazon Q Developer in the IDE. "You now have a natural, real-time collaborative partner working alongside you while writing code, creating documentation, running tests, and reviewing changes,” Amazon said.

Amazon has announced a new agentic coding experience for Amazon Q Developer in Visual Studio Code.

04/30/2025

Agile has long advocated for self-sufficient cross-functional teams—groups with all the skills needed to deliver features without external dependencies. But AI is taking this principle to its logical extreme: the cross-functional individual.

Agile has long advocated for self-sufficient cross-functional teams—groups with all the skills needed to deliver features without external dependencies.

04/17/2025

Postman is announcing two new offerings designed to enable developers to build APIs at scale in a secure fashion:

▪️ Spec Hub, an API design platform that provides tools for authoring, governing, and publishing API specifications
▪️ Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) Encryption, which provides customers with complete control over their data protection by allowing them to manage and safeguard their own encryption keys for the data stored in Postman Cloud, such as API environments, globals, and history.

Spec Hub is an API design platform that provides tools for authoring, governing, and publishing API specifications.

04/16/2025

The funding for the Program was set to expire today, and as late as yesterday, its fate was still uncertain as the contract hadn't been renewed yet.

Fortunately, CISA did renew the funding this morning, ensuring that the program can still operate.

In addition, the CVE Foundation has been established to further ensure the long-term stability of the program.

The CVE program almost lost its government funding, which would have been disastrous for the security of all applications.

04/14/2025

CData Software is introducing CData Embedded Cloud, which enables customers to provide their users with self-service access to third-party data sources through over 160 pre-built connectors from CData.

CData Embedded Cloud enables customers to provide their users with self-service access to data via over 160 pre-built connectors from CData.

04/09/2025

Google Cloud Next 25 is happening today and Google announced a ton of stuff around capabilities and new tools and features for building and adopting .

Catch up on the highlights in our write-up here.

https://sdtimes.com/ai/google-goes-all-in-on-agent-development-gemini-advancements-at-google-cloud-next-25/

Google Cloud Next 25 is taking place today, and Google has announced a number of new announcements, particularly for its Gemini offerings.

04/04/2025

Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and AI companies are also always releasing new models and features.

It can be hard to keep up with it all, so we’ve written this roundup to share several notable updates around AI that software developers should know about, including:

✨ Anthropic announces Claude for Education
✨ Amazon creates new website for exploring Amazon Nova foundation models
✨ Solo.io launches MCP Gateway to tackle AI agent sprawl

https://sdtimes.com/ai/april-4-2025-ai-updates-from-the-past-week-claude-for-education-new-website-for-exploring-amazon-nova-models-and-solo-ios-mcp-gateway/

04/01/2025

Many infrastructure technology teams believe they have mastered infrastructure automation, but the data tells a different story.

A recent survey commissioned by Spacelift found that 45% of organizations believe they have achieved a high level of infrastructure automation, but only 14% exhibit the behavior and technology patterns of infrastructure automation excellence.

Read on to learn more findings from the research from the company's CEO Paweł Hytry ⬇️

45% of organizations believe they have achieved a high level of infrastructure automation, but only 14% exhibit the behavior and technology patterns of infrastructure automation excellence.

03/31/2025

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 March.

Here are all the major AI updates we covered in the month of March that software developers should know about.