Cursor, the artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant valued at $29 billion, has acquired code review startup Graphite to address what Cursor CEO Michael Truell describes as a growing bottleneck in software development. The companies declined to disclose financial terms but confirmed the transaction involves a mix of cash and equity. While AI has dramatically accelerated […]
Anthropic Acquires Bun to Accelerate AI Coding Tools
Anthropic says it has acquired Bun, a high-performance JavaScript toolkit, to turbocharge its artificial intelligence (AI) coding capabilities — further underscoring a significant push into developer tooling as it scales Claude Code, its code-generation platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Anthropic emphasized that Bun will remain open source and MIT-licensed. The […]
Agile and Innovation: Striking the Right Balance in Software Development
The tech industry is abuzz with a contentious debate: Is Agile stifling innovation? Security expert Moxie Marlinspike brought this question to the forefront, challenging the very foundation of modern software development practices. However, a closer examination reveals that the issue is more nuanced than it first appears. Marlinspike argues that Agile’s focus on incremental development […]
Spotify to Provide Opinionated Instance of Backstage IDP
Backstage helps large teams document their infrastructure and services. This extends the open source version.
Spotify Adds More Plugins for Backstage Developer Portal
Spotify this week added additional plugins for its open source Backstage platform that is used to build developer portals. The new plugins make it simpler to address role-based access and access Insights, a tool from Spotify that tracks Backstage usage trends. In addition, Spotify is also enhancing a Soundcheck plugin for Backstage that is used […]
Critical Vulnerability Discovered in Open Source Backstage Platform
Oxeye today disclosed that it has discovered a critical vulnerability in the open source Backstage software used to build developer portals. Backstage was originally created by Spotify. A 1.5.1 update to the Backstage platform remediated a sandbox escape vulnerability that can occur via a third-party Scaffolder plug-in that could be used to conduct unauthenticated remote […]
How App Stores Are Addressing Fragmentation in the Linux Ecosystem
According to DistroWatch, 273 Linux distributions are currently active, with another 56 dormant and 521 discontinued. While some of these have shared underpinnings, it still makes for an extremely varied landscape for companies and developers. It means developers must create multiple versions of their applications to be able to provide their software to all Linux […]
DEVOPS AND CONTINUIOUS DELIVERY; THE NEED FOR SPEED
Some good stuff around the DevOps scene this week on DevOps and Continuous Delivery, which the pundits are saying will be a major spend area in 2014. First up is the Devopsguys who with a little commentary reposted this infographic from Zend Technologies. It demonstrates the real value in DevOps and continuous delivery. One thing that jumped […]