Jenna Barron

Percona announced it is open sourcing Everest, its platform for automated database provisioning and management, and donating it to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Now called OpenEverest, the platform was redesigned to be modular, enabling us... See more

Microsoft has announced that it has open sourced XAML Studio, a developer tool that can be used to quickly prototype UWP XAML before adding code to Visual Studio. It provides a number of tools and resources for XAML development, including live editing and... See more

Microsoft has announced it is acquiring the agentic AI data engineering platform, Osmos . It plans to incorporate the new technology into its data platform Microsoft Fabric. According to Microsoft, Osmos’ AI agents turn raw data into analytics and AI-read... See more

Anthropic makes Skills an open standard Skills—a capability that allows users to teach Claude repeatable workflows—was first introduced in October, and now the company is making it an open standard. “Like MCP, we believe skills should be portable across t... See more

As 2025 comes to a close, SD Times is looking back at the top software development news stories of the year across the industry. Here are 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year: Linux Foundation forms Agentic AI Fou... See more