Citizen development is a thorny subject; allowing business “laypersons” to impact the way software application code is structured, aligned and executed is an unpopular concept with command line purists who would prefer to keep the suits at arm’s length, if not further.But, equally, you can’t fight progress and AI obviously has an impact on the way programming practices will be carried out in the immediate future. Microsoft’s preexisting approach to coalescing business domain specialists into the fold of the development team’s mission was to adopt the notion of what it has called fusion development teams. What is Fusion Software Development?Somewhat like…
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A customer was asking about how to track all the stored procedures that execute on their system. We have a section in Redgate Monitor that’s set to look at stored procedures, and you can easily find information about them.This is part of a series of posts on Redgate Monitor. Click to see the other posts.Finding Stored ProceduresIf I go to the SQLServerCentral_Test system on monitor.red-gate.com, I can scroll down and see the top queries for the time period selected. Here’s an example of a query. The main query window shows SQL, but these are parts of procs.If I expand to…
Everywhere you turn these days, AI is reshaping how we build and deliver software. From GitHub Copilot writing code to autonomous testing frameworks finding bugs before developers even blink, the promise of faster, smarter, more efficient pipelines is undeniable. And now we’re entering the next frontier: Agentic AI — self-directed agents capable of not only generating code but also testing, deploying and monitoring it.In other words, the machines aren’t just helping us anymore. They’re starting to run the show.It’s a thrilling vision — software development at machine speed. But here’s the problem: Taking humans completely out of the loop in…
An analysis of the code created by large language models (LLMs) finds that in addition to having a tendency toward creating messy code that introduces security weaknesses and vulnerabilities into the output generated.Sonar today published a report based on its proprietary analysis framework for assessing LLM-generated code spanning more than 4,400 Java programming assignments. The LLMs evaluated included Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and 3.7, OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Meta’s Llama-3.2-vision:90b and OpenCoder-8B. Each model has its own “coding personality” and possesses a strong ability to generate syntactically correct code and boilerplate for common frameworks and functions. For example, Claude Sonnet 4’s success rate…
The DevOps landscape is experiencing a seismic shift as artificial intelligence begins to automate traditionally manual coding tasks. Enter Shadow, an innovative open-source background coding agent that’s redefining how development teams interact with codebases, manage repositories and accelerate their delivery pipelines.What Makes Shadow DifferentShadow isn’t just another AI coding assistant; it’s a comprehensive agent environment designed to understand, reason about and actively contribute to existing codebases. Built with MIT licensing for open-source adoption, Shadow creates what its developers call “The Shadow Realm,” isolated execution environments where AI agents can work autonomously on GitHub repositories.The platform’s architecture addresses a critical pain…
The Eclipse Foundation today launched an Open Source Compliance: Comprehensive Techniques and Essential Tools (OCCTET) project specifically designed to help smaller organizations comply with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) enacted by the European Union (EU).Scheduled to take effect by September 2026, the CRA defines a mandatory set of cybersecurity requirements for all digital products, including software, sold in the EU, that apply to manufacturers, software vendors and maintainers of open-source software projects.The OCCTET project is creating a toolkit that includes a CRA compliance checklist, conformity assessment specifications, automated evaluation methods and tools, a federated database for publishing assessments of open…
Docker @ Black Hat 2025: CVEs have everyone’s attention, here’s the path forward At Black Hat 2025, CVEs dominated the conversation. See how Docker Hardened Images, proven security patterns, and AI-ready foundations help teams eliminate security debt, enforce compliance, and build trust from code to production.
AppSignal has extended its application performance monitoring platform to provide native support for OpenTelemetry, an open source framework for instrumenting applications that is being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).Wes Oudshoorn, chief product officer for AppSignal, said the implementation of OpenTelemetry is designed to enable DevOps teams with a simple line of code to begin collecting telemetry data from Go, Java, PHP, Ruby, Elixir, and Node.js applications that begin to yield actionable insights in less than five minutes.That zero-configuration approach will make it possible for a much wider range of organizations to instrument applications, he…
Docker Desktop 4.44: Smarter AI Modeling, Platform Stability, and Streamlined Kubernetes Workflows In Docker Desktop 4.44, we’re delivering enhanced reliability, tighter AI modeling controls, and simplified tool integrations so you can build with confidence.
I’m back. My last day of work was Jun 27 and I came back a few days ago, on Aug 13. Just over six weeks away and I am very grateful to Redgate for allowing me the break from work. This was my third sabbatical, and it was mostly unwired, which was new.Or as my wife said last week, I was practicing for retirement.I think I was, as I didn’t have firm plans when I started and tried not to feel pressured to get things done, but I did have a nice mix of being productive and relaxing. Here’s a…