Month December 2025

Database Optimization: When and Why Your App Needs It

For any app, the database is the backbone of performance and reliability. As your user base grows and data accumulates, your database can become slow and inefficient. This is where database optimization comes in. Knowing when and why your app…

I Got Tired of JavaScript’s Date API So I Fixed It

Look, I’ll be real with you. JavaScript’s Date object is a disaster. Every time I needed to format a date, I’d find myself Googling “javascript format date” for the hundredth time. Every time I needed to do date math, I…

Is Your CI/CD Tool Helping or Hindering Performance?

Every engineering leader would love to work with a team of elite performers who deploy 182x more frequently, recover from failures 2,293x faster, and achieve 127x faster lead times than low performers. (Yes, that’s the actual difference in performance of…

Hyperskill Gets Its Own Plugin Inside JetBrains IDEs

Hyperskill is introducing its own free dedicated plugin inside JetBrains IDEs. This new plugin is built specifically for the Hyperskill learning experience and replaces the previous integration inside the JetBrains Academy plugin. Starting December 11, Hyperskill courses will be available…

Join the RubyMine Team on Reddit AMA Session

The RubyMine team will be stopping by r/jetbrains on December 11 from 1–5 pm CET and doing an Ask Me Anything (AMA) thread. You’re invited to join us! This isn’t a product launch or a marketing campaign – it’s a…

The Future of Fleet

TL;DR Fleet started as our attempt to explore a new generation of JetBrains IDEs, developed in parallel with those based on the IntelliJ Platform. Over time, we learned that having two general-purpose IDE families created confusion and diluted our focus.…

PhpStorm 2025.3 Is Now Out

Welcome to PhpStorm 2025.3! This release brings native Claude Agent integration, out-of-the-box Laravel support, support for PHP 8.5, improvements in generics, a new Islands theme, and more. Download PhpStorm 2025.3 PHP PHP 8.5 support PhpStorm 2025.3 supports all of the changes introduced…