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The invoice arrived on a Tuesday morning. $340. For a side project I’d built in a weekend. A small LLM-powered summarization tool — users paste text, model returns a summary. I’d done the math before launching: roughly $0.002 per request,…

A finance bot kept issuing refunds in a loop because nobody built a way to stop it. Clean code. Sound logic. No off switch. A small bug became a long night. Here is the opinion most teams do not want…

As developers, we’ve all been there: you’re building a hobby project, a side hustle, or a microservice, and you need object storage. You look at AWS S3 or dedicated cloud providers, and the costs start adding up. Meanwhile, most of…

Hey dev.to community! 👋 Over the last few months, juggling my roles as a Project Manager, Scrum Master, and lead for QA, Support, and Documentation has been a wild ride. The sheer speed of “vibe coding”—a paradigm shift where the…

Durante mucho tiempo asocié el desarrollo de software con programar funcionalidades: crear entidades, armar controladores, conectar una base de datos, validar formularios y hacer que una aplicación responda correctamente. Sin embargo, durante el Trabajo Final de la asignatura Desarrollo de…

We’re sharing this update to inform YouTrack administrators about several security vulnerabilities that were recently identified and fixed in YouTrack. For YouTrack Cloud users, this post is purely informational – YouTrack Cloud has already been patched and no action is…

What if one part of your plugin should load only when a specific IDE functionality is available? Plugin Model v2 is now available as an experimental way to structure, package, and build plugins, and to support such scenarios in a…

If your team is using Bamboo, you’ve probably seen the news: Bamboo Data Center is being retired as part of Atlassian’s broader Data Center transition strategy. Support will continue for several years, but many teams have already started thinking about…

AI agents are getting very good at writing final reports. The problem is not only that they make mistakes. The problem is that sometimes they make mistakes with excellent presentation. Proofline is a 5-skill Markdown pack that catches fake-ready output…

When a Spring Boot service needs to talk to another service without waiting on a synchronous HTTP call, message queues are the usual answer. Apache Kafka has become the default choice for this in most backend teams, but a lot…

This is Part 13 of my series on the Microsoft Agent Framework. You can read the original post over on lukaswalter.dev. In the previous article, we looked at workflows. Workflows make sense when the process itself needs structure: state, checkpoints,…

Quick update to anyone interested in upcoming changes to the PAGI project (spiritual successor to Plack/PSGI). 1) Distribution split up: when we released PAGI, we initially released everything as one distribution. PAGI () currently has a) the PAGI specification; b)…

Qodana For DevOps: Automated Code Quality and Security, at Scale Modern DevOps teams move fast – but speed without consistency, security, and visibility creates risk. JetBrains Qodana helps DevOps teams build and ship higher-quality, more secure software by making code…

Gas optimization is satisfying. You shave a few thousand gas off a function and feel clever. But some optimizations trade away safety in ways that are not obvious, and I have seen “optimized” contracts that introduced vulnerabilities. Here are the…

On June 16, 2026, JetBrains received reports about 15 third-party plugins on JetBrains Marketplace that were built to steal AI provider API keys configured by users. We removed the plugins from Marketplace, blocked the related publisher accounts, and disabled the…

In 2024, an Air Canada customer asked a chatbot about bereavement fares. The bot confidently gave him a refund policy that didn’t exist. The airline refused to honor it. A tribunal ruled in the customer’s favor. The bot hadn’t decided…

Since its creation in 2017, GitGuardian has automatically detected secret leaks in all public commits on GitHub, and sent warning emails to the developers concerned through its Good Samaritan Program. Although this method is efficient and enables secrets to be…

When I first started learning cloud computing, I kept hearing terms like Azure, AWS, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. It felt like everyone already understood the language except me. The good news is that cloud computing is much simpler than it…

Deploy Your Own AI Agent in 5 Minutes — No Kubernetes, No YAML, No Tears I’ve been there. You find an amazing open-source AI agent framework on GitHub. You get excited. You clone the repo. You open the README. And…

Five articles built the runtime. The sixth made it observable. This one introduces the agent primitive: runAgent plus AgentScope, with budgets, replayable events, and structured cancellation in the box. The whole loop: import { runAgent, AgentToolCalls, OpenAITokens } from “@workit/core/ai”;…

I’ve been running Linux and Ubuntu for nearly 20 years. I can date it almost exactly, because I still have the email from my Dad back in early 2007 telling me he’d just installed Ubuntu. That’s where this started. The…