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Software Development Times®, the premier publication of BZ Media, was established in February 2000. It serves as the bi-monthly news source for the software development sector.

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Progess AI code assistants, Vertesia's Semantic Doc Prep -- SD Times Daily Digest

3 weeks ago | sdtimes.com | David Rubinstein

Progress Software today announced new AI code assistants and other capabilities built into the Q2 2025 release of Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI, .NET and JavaScript UI libraries for modern application development. This release introduces AI Coding Assistants for Blazor and React, AI-driven theme generation and GenAI-powered reporting insights, the company announced.
Snowflake introduces agentic AI innovations,

3 weeks ago | sdtimes.com | David Rubinstein

Snowflake today announced at its Summit new agentic AI innovations that eliminate the barriers often found between enterprise data and business activity, creating AI and ML workflows that are connected and trusted. Among the new features is Snowflake Intelligence (public preview soon), powered by intelligent data agents, which provides a natural language experience for asking questions that can result in the delivery of actionable insights from structured and unstructured data.
The past, present and future of chatbots

1 month ago | sdtimes.com | Adam Lieberman

As businesses continue to experiment with AI-powered technologies, it’s likely that the most common use case across industries is one that essentially pre-dates the explosion of interest in generative AI, which is that of the humble chatbot. Anyone who has visited a business website over the last decade will have encountered a chatbot, particularly when the nature of engagement relates to customer services.
Red Hat announces Advanced Developer Suite

1 month ago | sdtimes.com | David Rubinstein

Red Hat today at its Summit event announced Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite, which the company said was designed to make developers more productive and their applications more secure. The Advanced Developer Suite includes Red Hat Developer Hub, an internal developer portal (IDP) built on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation project Backstage. The Developer Hub has software templates for AI scenarios ready for deployment on OpenShift AI, the company wrote in its announcement.
InstallAware releases flexible installer source code under BSL

1 month ago | sdtimes.com | David Rubinstein

Following in the steps of other software providers looking to protect their intellectual property, flexible installer company InstallAware today announced it has published the source code for InstallAware 2025 under a Business Source License. In recent months, there has been a lot of discussion within the industry as to what constitutes open source, and if companies that use licenses outside of what has been certified by the Open Source Initiative can be considered open source.
CodeRabbit brings AI-powered code review into Visual Studio Code

1 month ago | sdtimes.com | David Rubinstein

As AI can write so many more lines of code more quickly than humans, the need for code review that keeps pace with development is now an urgent necessity. A recent survey by SmartBear – whose early founder, Jason Cohen, literally wrote the book on peer code review – found that the average developer can review 400 lines of code in a day, checking to see if the code is meeting requirements and functions as it’s supposed to.
Open source wins again! Redis adds GNU AGPL license to its offering

1 month ago | sdtimes.com | David Rubinstein

Over the past year or so, the industry has seen several open-source projects forked because the founders of those projects changed their licenses in moves they say were to protect their intellectual property. Redis switched from the open BSD license to the more restrictive Redis Source Available License v2 and the Server Side Public License after seeing Microsoft adopt and benefit from Redis’ work without what Redis said was enough support for the community and to Redis itself.
Google goes all in on agent development, Gemini at Google Cloud Next 25 - SD Times

2 months ago | sdtimes.com | Jenna Sargent Barron

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Analyst View: Why platform engineering matters more than ever

2 months ago | sdtimes.com | Charles Betz

In Greek mythology, Odysseus had to navigate between Scylla and Charybdis — two perils threatening from both sides. Today’s IT leaders face a similar dilemma: technical debt and sprawl on one side; excessive bureaucracy and stifling controls on the other. Enter platform engineering, the emerging discipline that offers a way to steer between these hazards and deliver software faster, safer, and at scale.
Spark your digital transformation with AI and VSM

Mar 26, 2025 | sdtimes.com | David Rubinstein

Spark. It’s what many organizations are finding that AI can do for their digital transformation efforts. It’s also the theme of the 2025 Broadcom Value Stream Summit, at which the company will present its strategies and tooling for delivery customer value and service. The last major push for digital transformation was fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, when organizations had to adopt remote for employees and students working from home.