Month February 2026

This article was brought to you by Kumar Harsh, draft.dev. Where there is a CI/CD pipeline, there will be build logs. And while they’re important, anyone who’s stared at one knows the pain: thousands of lines of plain text, buried…

Will AI Kill Open Source? Will AI kill Open Source? Is it already happening? Or is this just another clickbait title? Well, let’s see. First of all, I am writing this by hand without the help of any artificial intelligence.…

I’ve spent over two decades in the trenches of user experience design. I remember the transition from table-based layouts to CSS, the pivot to responsive design when the iPhone launched, and the rise of the “attention economy.” But as we…

Quality Assurance (QA) software tester courses in 2026 teach practical skills required to test modern applications, identify defects early, automate repetitive testing tasks, and ensure software reliability. These courses focus on manual testing, automation testing, API testing, AI-assisted testing, real-world…

Since the advent of Spring Boot, it has been the De-Facto Backend Framework for Java Web Developers, thanks to its Developer friendly ecosystem, Autoconfiguration Magic and ready to code setup (Spring starters). But, This is the age of cloud. Several…

The era of conversational AI chatbots is officially giving way to the era of agentic AI—systems that don’t just talk to you, but actually do the work for you. If you have been following the rapid developments in early 2026,…

I watched a teammate spend 20 minutes complaining that Copilot “doesn’t understand our codebase.” Then I looked at the repo. No README. No architecture docs. No module descriptions. Just code. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: most AI code quality problems aren’t…

Rovo I’m ________ and ________ happened. Search the whole company, restricted to _____ Jira project, _____ confluence space, and ______ github repo. Answer my question: ________ Reply very concisely and abruptly, with no background information or definitions <— this doesn’t…

Overview: What are extension members? Extension members allow you to define additional members for existing types without modifying their definitions. With them, you can add functionality to existing types you don’t have access to or don’t control, for example, built-in…

As of February 2026, Databao Agent ranks #1 in the Spider 2.0–DBT benchmark. This ranking measures how well agents can operate in a real dbt project, including reading the repository, understanding what’s broken, implementing the missing models, and validating everything…

Has your team’s sprint velocity actually improved since you approved all those AI coding tools? If not, recent research by JetBrains and UC Irvine shows your developers may be facing a new dimension of context switching that resists the usual…

Hashtag Jakarta EE #321 Welcome to issue number three hundred and twenty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As this post comes out, I have just arrived home from DeveloperWeek 2026 in San Jose, California. I will now spend a couple of days…

As application systems grow more complex, it becomes ever more important to understand how services interact across distributed systems. Observability sheds light on the behavior of instrumented applications and the infrastructure they run on. This enables engineering teams to gain…

> Apparently, you can teach an old dog new tricks. Last year I wrote a blog post about building a data processing pipeline using DuckDB to ingest weather sensor data from the UK’s Environment Agency. The pipeline was based around…

I created a GitHub reusable workflows repository for my personal use. masutaka / actions GitHub Actions reusable workflows What Are GitHub Reusable Workflows? GitHub Actions’ reusable workflows is a mechanism that allows workflow files to be called from other repositories.…