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Software Engineering Intelligence: Measuring Engineering the Way Engineering Deserves to Be Measured: SD Times 100
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (390+ words) Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. This category deserves direct attention from development leaders because it's the category most directly aimed at leaders' own job performance. Every other category…...
Snap Logic Launches MCP Builder, Simplifying MCP Creation
1+ day, 6+ min ago (61+ words) SD Times Snap Logic Launches MCP Builder, Simplifying MCP Creation - MCP Server to expose enterprise systems, data, APIs, and business processes as MCP tools for AI agents - Trusted Agent Identity to propagate user identity and permissions across downstream systems, with…...
Security, Trust & Governance: Securing Software That Increasingly Writes Itself: SD Times 100
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (881+ words) Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. For development leaders, this category is no longer something to hand off entirely to a security team and check in on quarterly. Security,…...
Platform Engineering & Developer Experience: Making Engineers Faster Without Making Them Reckless: SD Times 100
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (557+ words) Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. This category has taken on new urgency in 2026 for a reason that's specific to this moment: AI coding tools and agents are dramatically…...
Autonomous Ops & Observability: Watching Systems That Increasingly Watch Themselves: SD Times 100
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (565+ words) Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. This category sits at the intersection of two things every development leader cares about deeply: how fast can we ship safely, and how…...
Modern Data & Knowledge Platforms: The Foundation Every AI Strategy Actually Runs On: SD Times 100
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (465+ words) Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. Streaming and event infrastructure. Confluent anchors this segment, providing the data streaming backbone that lets organizations move data continuously between systems in real…...
Intelligence-Augmented Development: How AI Became Infrastructure, Not a Feature SD Times 100
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (427+ words) Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. For engineering and development leaders, this category is no longer optional reading. Decisions made here " which models, which tools, which guardrails " now shape…...
groundcover Expands Agent Mode, Allowing AI Agents to Act Across the Developer Toolchain
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (576+ words) SD Times groundcover Expands Agent Mode, Allowing AI Agents to Act Across the Developer Toolchain SAN FRANCISCO " Observability platform provider groundcover today released a major expansion to Agent Mode that lets AI agents act on a team's observability data across…...
Integration, APIs & Connectivity: Why It's the Backbone of the SD Times 100 in 2026
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (356+ words) Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. Three forces are converging on integration and API teams simultaneously, and any one of them would be disruptive on its own. "Integration, APIs…...
Linux Foundation and Industry Leaders Launch Akrites to Defend Critical Open Source Software Against AI-Enabled Cyber Threats
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (402+ words) Confidentiality is central to the effort. Bug fixes flow back into each project's original home, on maintainers' terms. Where a critical package has no active maintainer, Akrites will serve as maintainer of last resort so fixes to the latest version…...