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Programming and Software Development

Model-Oriented Programming: A Vision for Languages That Make Model Structure Part of the Language

The author presents a vision for model-oriented programming languages that use the model’s structure and data as part of the language rules and execution context, with capabilities for generating and managing systems. The article reviews forms of this approach, from informal modeling to code-independent modeling, as well as features such as dynamic rules and model properties.

2026-10-09

Programming and Software Development

Harness Acquires Augment’s Coding Agents and Bets on Linking Them to Deployment Failure History

Harness acquired Cosmos, Auggie CLI, and Code Context Engine from Augment Code, along with the team, to integrate coding agents into its software testing and deployment platform. But the most important capability—using previous deployment failures to guide agent fixes—has not yet launched, and details about permissions and the integration timeline remain undisclosed.

2026-10-08

Programming and Software Development

Why Do Game Development Teams Need to Combine Static Analysis and Artificial Intelligence?

JetBrains explains that artificial intelligence tools accelerate code writing, but they may increase the volume of problems and produce defects different from those caused by developers. The article proposes adopting static analysis as a deterministic and recurring foundation, while using artificial intelligence to address logical and more complex problems.

2026-10-08

Programming and Software Development

Margaret Hamilton, the Software Engineer Whose Code Helped Apollo 11 Land, Dies

Margaret Hamilton has died at the age of 90 after a career that helped establish the concept of software engineering and develop guidance software aboard Apollo spacecraft. The priority-processing system she led was a major reason Apollo 11 continued its descent despite overloading its computer.

2026-10-08

Programming and Software Development

Percona Develops Valkey-proxy to Simplify Migrating Redis Applications to Valkey Cluster

Percona is preparing to make Valkey-proxy available as an open-source project within Valkey, aiming to enable applications built to work with a single Redis instance to connect to Valkey clusters without rewriting the application. The company plans to publish the source code before the end of October 2026, release a candidate version in December, and make it generally available in early 2027.

2026-10-08

Programming and Software Development

How to Maintain the Reliability of Coding Agents Across Long-Running Projects

The Stack Overflow Blog presents a practical framework for reducing the degradation of coding-agent quality through operating rules, updatable memory and context, and multi-lens review. The guide emphasizes that an agent’s reliability depends on the architecture surrounding the model as much as it depends on the model itself.

2026-10-07

Programming and Software Development

Google’s Docsy Project Moves to the Linux Foundation to Prepare Documentation for AI Agents

The open-source Docsy project, used in the documentation for projects such as Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry, is moving to the Linux Foundation while developing features that make documentation easier for AI agents to read. The project is working on a way to measure how suitable documentation is for automated discovery, navigation, and consumption.

2026-10-07

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Kotlin Toolchain 0.13 Unifies Kotlin Multiplatform Project Initialization and Improves iOS and SwiftPM Support

JetBrains announced the release of Kotlin Toolchain 0.13, recommending it for most new Kotlin Multiplatform projects. The release adds an interactive project creation command, improvements for iOS and Android setup, Swift Package Manager support, and faster rebuilding of Kotlin/Native applications.

2026-10-07

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JetBrains Launches Warm Agents Plugin to Reduce Build Agent Wait Times in TeamCity

JetBrains has launched the Warm Agents plugin for TeamCity, which automatically maintains a specified number of pre-warmed cloud build agents to reduce the waiting time for CI/CD tasks. However, reducing wait times comes at the cost of consuming build licenses and incurring operating costs for idle cloud resources.

2026-10-07

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How to Build a Kafka Processing Pipeline That Preserves Session Ordering Using Go

Joshua Oluikpe explains a practical design for processing Kafka messages in strict order within each session while allowing independent sessions to run in parallel. The design relies on consistent hashing, one Go worker per session, retries within the same path, and contiguous commit-point management to prevent message loss after a crash.

2026-10-07

Programming and Software Development

Microsoft Guide to Testing UWP and WinUI 3 Applications Using MSTest

Microsoft explains how to test UWP and WinUI 3 application interfaces using MSTest and Microsoft.Testing.Platform through packaged and unpackaged execution models and AppContainer. The guide focuses on host setup, passing execution arguments, UI thread support, and validating the actual CI environment.

2026-10-05

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Coding Agents Have Made CI a Bottleneck; Speeding Up Build Pipelines Is Not the Complete Solution

The article argues that the rising productivity of coding agents is putting pressure on continuous integration, but the problem is not limited to slow CI pipelines. Testing the repository alone does not reveal failures in interactions between distributed services, making it necessary to move system-level validation into the agent’s work loop.

2026-10-04

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Managing Asynchronous APIs at Scale: From Documentation to Governance

Ian Cooper’s session examines the challenges organizations face as event-driven architectures expand and proposes a practical framework combining AsyncAPI, CloudEvents, schema registries, and automated infrastructure pipelines. The conclusion is that documenting endpoints alone is insufficient; teams also need centralized discovery, schema compatibility controls, and a mechanism capable of recreating infrastructure when failures occur.

2026-10-02

Programming and Software Development

Kotlin Paves the Way to Replacing Some Uses of Companion Objects with a New Mechanism

The experimental Kotlin 2.5.0 adds Companion Blocks and Companion Extensions to expand the definition of type-associated members and improve compatibility between platforms. JetBrains explains that Companion Objects will remain supported, with warnings concerning recompilation and compatibility with libraries and tools.

2026-09-30

Programming and Software Development

Cloudflare Launches Built-In Error Monitoring in Workers to Send Production Issues to Coding Agents

Cloudflare announced Issues, currently available in open beta, to aggregate Cloudflare Workers errors and send their diagnostic context directly to coding agents or incident tools. The feature keeps the deployment decision in the developer’s hands through review of the resulting pull requests.

2026-09-30

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Why Software Quality Assurance Should Become a Continuous Process Within the Development Cycle

JetBrains calls for moving software quality assurance from a final pre-release test to a continuous process integrated into development stages and CI/CD. The article reviews the roles of static analysis, unit, integration, interface, performance, and security testing, while emphasizing that artificial intelligence tools require human verification.

2026-09-29

Programming and Software Development

OpenAI Expands Codex with Reusable Cloud Development Environments and Code Review and Security Tools

OpenAI has added persistent cloud development environments to Codex that can be accessed from different devices, along with a voice-enabled CLI interface and tools for reviewing code, scanning GitHub repositories, and automatically preparing security fixes.

2026-09-29

Programming and Software Development

JetBrains Launches Air Teams to Run Coding Agent Workflows Across Development Teams

JetBrains announced Air Teams, a collaborative layer for agentic software development that brings context, environments, tools, and instructions together within shared workspaces. The service is currently available to JetBrains business customers, with plans to expand it to individual users later.

2026-09-28