A survey of 300 mobile engineers in the U.S and the United Kingdom (UK) working for organizations with 500 to 10,000 employees finds, on average, respondents are spending five hours per release on low-value tasks involving manual steps, coordination issues and approval bottlenecks, translating into 130 wasted engineering hours annually per developer.Published by Runway, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing mobile application releases, the survey finds more than three-quarters (77%) said their teams experience incidents requiring delays or hotfixes every three to five releases. Most teams (86%) spend a significant amount of time firefighting instead of building…
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Building AI agents can be a complex task. But it also can be a fairly simple combination of answers to the following questions: What is the AI backend that powers my intelligent fuzzy computation? What tools do you need to give to the AI to access external systems or execute predefined software commands? What is the application that wraps these together and provides the business logic for the agent (like when you’re building a marketing agent, what makes it know more about marketing or your particular use-cases than a generic chat-GPT model)? A very popular way to build agents currently…
We’re in the middle of a developer renaissance powered by AI — yet a large portion of the community remains cautious, especially when it comes to the next frontier: Agentic AI. The just‑released 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey paints this nuanced portrait vividly: 84% of respondents use or plan to use AI tools in their workflows, yet less than a third trust their accuracy — just 29% this year, down from much higher levels in prior surveys.A Tale of Two AI Worlds: Generative vs. AgenticOn one hand, generative AI tools — ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot and others — have become near-ubiquitous.…
Minimus has extended its managed service for providing application developers with hardened images to include support for the Vulnerability Exploittability eXchange (VEX) format used to share data across multiple application security tools and platforms along with hardened Helm charts for securely deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters.Additionally, Minimus has added compliance dashboards and views, and integration with Microsoft for Single Sign-On (SSO) service.Minimus CTO John Morello said the overall goal is not just to provide access to a set of hardened images but also make it simpler for DevSecOps teams to operationalize them.For example, Minimus now provides hardened Helm charts aligned…
Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Microsoft Corp.-owned GitHub, said on Monday he’s stepping down and will leave the company at the end of 2025 to become “a founder again,” signaling a major shakeup in how the artificial intelligence (AI) coding unit is run.Since Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018 for $7.5 billion, it has operated as an independent unit. But the exit of Dohmke, who was CEO for nearly four years, marks a major turning point in the way GitHub operates. Microsoft isn’t naming a new CEO position, and the rest of GitHub’s leadership team will report directly to Microsoft’s new CoreAI…
In a tech landscape dominated by distributed systems, serverless architectures, and real-time analytics, one might assume that SQL, a language born in the 1970s, would be fading into obscurity. Yet, SQL continues to thrive, evolving alongside cloud-native databases and remaining the backbone of modern data operations.The Enduring Appeal of SQLIn a world where data pulses beneath every digital surface, one language continues to thread its way through the veins of enterprise logic and analytical precision: SQL. Not because it’s trendy, but because it’s timeless. SQL isn’t just a tool; it’s the grammar of structure, the syntax of understanding, the quiet…
There’s a weird contradiction in modern AI development. We have better tools than ever. We’re building smarter systems with cleaner abstractions. And yet, every time you try to swap out a component in your stack, things fall apart. Again. This isn’t just an inconvenience. It’s become the norm. You’d think with all the frameworks and libraries out there (LangChain, Hugging Face, MLflow, Airflow) we’d be past this by now. These tools were supposed to make our workflows modular and composable. Swap an embedding model? No problem. Try a new vector store? Easy. Switch from OpenAI to an open-source LLM? Go…
As part of a demo recently I was adding a default value to a new column with a simple DEFAULT and a value. Under the covers this creates a constraint, however, I want to ensure this is named explicitly and not auto generated. This post shows how to do this.Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers.SetupLet’s create a simple table like this one:CREATE TABLE dbo.OrderHeader ( OrderHeaderID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT OrderHeaderPK PRIMARY KEY, OrderDate DATETIME, CustomerID INT ) GONow I want to add a Created…
London, United Kingdom, August 11th, 2025, CyberNewsWireNew Heimdal study reveals how tool sprawl creates blind spots, with over half of providers experiencing daily or weekly burnout Survey of 80 North American MSPs shows fragmented security stacks drive fatigue, missed threats, and business inefficiency Security tools meant to protect managed service providers are instead overwhelming them. A new study from Heimdal and FutureSafe reveals that 89% of MSPs struggle with tool integration while 56% experience alert fatigue daily or weekly. The research exposes a dangerous paradox. MSPs experiencing high alert fatigue are significantly more likely to miss real threats.The very tools deployed to…
Cycode has added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to its application security posture management (ASPM) platform that has been specifically trained to determine how exploitable a specific vulnerability found in an application actually is.In addition, Cycode has made available an AI Security Return on Investment (ROI) Calculator that analyzes the impact that using AI can have on specific DevSecOps use cases.Devin Maguire, senior product marketing manager for Cycode, said that AI Exploitability Agent developed by Cycode will make it simpler for DevSecOps teams to prioritize remediation efforts based on the level of risk a vulnerability represents to the organization.That’s critical…