Tag: developers
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Why aren’t all images super-secure, or hardned?
Here’s what I learned: container base images grew up as a developer convenience tool, not a security artifact. Installing extra packages from the command line is one of the first things any Docker tutorial teaches–Docker’s own Dockerfile guide includes apt-get install–and many of the most popular official images ship a full toolchain by default, with…
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If speeding up coding was never the problem…then why are we spending money on speeding it up?
When it comes to measuring developer productivity driven by AI, we’ll probably land on the same conclusion as always: counting lines of code isn’t as useful as measuring the full cycle time from idea to code to delivery to a person actually using the app – lead time, concept to cash, whatever you want to…
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Stack Overflow said 84% of respondents are using or planning to use AI tools in their development process, up from 76% a year earlier. In the AI section, 47.1% of respondents said they use AI tools daily, and another 17.7% use them weekly. Yet developers’ trust has not kept pace. Stack Overflow’s analysis said trust…
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Vibes, Code, Consequences
A selection from my weblog and elsewhere since last time… Original content Whitney goes to KubeCon – a cross-over episode from SDT: “This week, Whitney Lee joins us to discuss KubeCon news, Coding Assistants, and conference tips. Plus, vegan food and note-taking recommendations.” What is a platform? – Tony and I start a new weekly,…
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🤖 Open Source Maintainers Are Burning Out and Walking Away
Summarized by AI. Open source software is sustained by overworked, often unpaid volunteers, many of whom face crushing workloads and relentless community pressure. A recent study by Miranda Heath, supported by Sentry’s Open Source Pledge, reveals that burnout among maintainers is not an isolated issue but a systemic failure threatening the stability of the global…
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“If the people building the tech are terrified of it, maybe we should listen to their fears rather than their sales pitch.” Ten Blue Links, “Pop goes the bubble” edition
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There’s probably around 50 million developers world-wide, and 20.5m professional developers. That’s what I’d start saying after seeing a chart from IDC’s September 2025 developer study update. They forecast it to be ~59 million in 2029. If you want to be very precise, a breakdown of the survey puts “professional developers” at around 20.8m in…
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🤖 AI Security Loops: When Coding Assistants Become Their Own Risk
Developers are embracing AI coding tools to accelerate software creation, but the resulting security landscape is increasingly complex. While AI can detect threats and debug code, relying on it exclusively creates a recursive loop where the same AI that writes code may also incorrectly validate or approve it. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: Shifting Security…
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I’m creating a State of Spring [Framework] talk, just 20 minutes. The focus isn’t so much on the framework, but the community around it. This, of course, means Java too. Here’s some numbers. What do you think about the Spring and Java community and developers who use Spring and Java?
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A meeting is not work, it’s talking about work.
As always, if you want your people to get more work done, interrupt them less and invite them to less meetings. This applies to all people, not just programmers. A meeting is not work, it’s talking about work. 🔗 Meetings and interruptions are still the biggest obstacles for developers, even with AI
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Everybody talks about digital transformation, but nobody does anything about it.
Recording of my AI platform engineering talk This is a new talk of mine going over how platform engineers can support AI. Well, it’s more about how we don’t exactly know, but we can speculate based on a handful of early use cases. Here’s the slides if you’re into that kind of thing. Here’s the…
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Recording of my AI platform engineering talk
This is a new talk of mine going over how platform engineers can support AI. Well, it’s more about how we don’t exactly know, but we can speculate based on a handful of early use cases. Here’s the slides if you’re into that kind of thing. Here’s the 🤖 on my key points: Platform engineering…
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Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B – That’s a good match, and a quick exit.
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How Pair Programming Enhanced Development Speed, Focus, and Flow –
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The Prompt Engineering Playbook for Programmers –
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