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09/18/2025

We attended MongoDB.local NYC yesterday, and covered all the major news announced at the conference:

◾Search and Vector Search were added to Community Edition and Enterprise Server

◾Queryable Encryption now has partial match support

◾MongoDB MCP Server is now available

◾MongoDB AMP was announced, combining AI automation with real MongoDB experts to help with application modernization efforts

MongoDB announced that Search and Vector Search capabilities are now available in preview in the Community Edition and Enterprise Server.

08/29/2025

In the world of UI automation, the phrase, “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again,” isn't just a cliché; it's a fundamental principle.

08/29/2025

Catch up on all the AI updates we covered from the past month here ⬇️

Anthropic has started testing an extension for Chrome that will enable Claude to take action on websites on behalf of the user.

08/27/2025

Microsoft has released the August update for Visual Studio 2022, adding several AI features, including:

◾Support for GPT-5
◾General availability of MCP support
◾Better semantic code search and more model choices in Copilot Chat

The company announced that GPT-5 is now integrated into the IDE, and support for MCP is generally available as well.

08/27/2025

The product analytics company Amplitude is announcing new self-service capabilities that will enable marketing and growth teams to run user experiments without waiting on development teams.

The company is launching four new Web Experimentation features, including rearrange elements, control variant editing, group cohort targeting, and out-of-the-box widgets.

The company is launching four new Web Experimentation features, including rearrange elements, control variant editing, group cohort targeting, and out-of-the-box widgets.

08/05/2025

Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Aspire 9.4, which the company says is the largest update yet.

.NET Aspire is a set of tools, templates, and packages that enables developers to build distributed apps with observability built in.

07/29/2025

According to Stack Overflow's 2025 Developer Survey, 46% of respondents don't trust the outputs of AI tools, up from 31% last year.

84% of respondents say they are using or plan to use AI tools for development, but 46% say they don’t trust the output of those AI tools.

07/07/2025

Catch up on the latest news in our weekly roundup. This week, we're covering updates from Cloudflare, Perplexity, Microsoft, Gartner, BrowserStack, Mirantis, and Amazon.

Cloudflare explained that by switching to a permission-based model, it is eliminating the need for content owners to manually configure settings in order to opt out.

07/02/2025

The drive for developer productivity may actually be making developers less productive by introducing “gray work" aka time spent chasing down information from different tools or people.

Maya Palfreyman from Quickbase shares insights into how gray work impacts developers, how to factor gray work into planning, and key takeaways from Quickbase's Gray Work Index survey.

Gray work can be defined as anything that gets in the way of your day-to-day job, like chasing down information or people.

07/02/2025

This article synthesizes perspectives from cognitive science, software engineering, and organizational governance to examine how AI tools impact both the quality of software delivery and the evolution of human expertise.

The long-term value of AI requires responsible integration, cognitive skill preservation, and systemic thinking.

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.