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The Coming Shift From Bigger AI Models to Smaller, Faster Ones

Smaller, specialized AI models are replacing giant LLMs. Learn why modular workflows deliver faster, cheaper, and more reliable results for enterprise AI.

December 29, 2025

by Chia-fu Kuo

· 1,506 Views

Manage Knowledge, Not Code

To ship faster and more reliably, teams must treat software development as a knowledge-optimization problem, not a coding problem.

December 29, 2025

by Chris Wardman

· 1,782 Views · 3 Likes

Rethinking QA: From DevOps to Platform Engineering and SRE

A wake‑up call for QA to upskill for platform engineering and SRE, including cloud‑native practices, automation mastery, and system reliability at scale.

December 19, 2025

by Nidhi Sharma

· 3,264 Views · 5 Likes

Agile Manifesto: The Reformation That Became the Church

Learn about how disruptive movements — from Luther to Agile — often harden into the orthodoxies they opposed, and how to follow principles, not rituals.

December 18, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 1,514 Views · 5 Likes

How We Predict Dataflow Job Duration Using ML and Observability Data

How Real-Time Observability Signals and Cloud-Native ML Models Improve Runtime Forecasting, Capacity Planning, and Operational Efficiency in Dataflow Pipelines

December 16, 2025

by Deepika Singh

· 1,185 Views

Building Your Tech Career Like Code: A Systematic AI Approach

Instead of chasing job postings, treat your career like engineering a system: analyze data, define requirements, build a roadmap, validate, and measure progress.

December 16, 2025

by Kevin Jeter

· 1,762 Views · 1 Like

[closed] DZone's 2025 Developer Community Survey

Calling all devs! Take our annual community survey and let your voice guide DZone in 2026.

December 15, 2025

by Carisse Dumaua

· 3,023 Views · 5 Likes

Breaking Into Architecture: What Engineers Need to Know

A short, thought-provoking take on moving from engineer to architect, and how to grow the skills that support that leap.

December 10, 2025

by Syamanthaka B

· 1,595 Views · 2 Likes

Agile Is Dead, Long Live Agility

Agile is dead, long live agility. The brand may have failed, but its core ideas succeeded. It’s time to move on; the name was just a vehicle.

December 9, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 2,054 Views · 4 Likes

From Mechanical Ceremonies to Agile Conversations

Learn why Agile ceremonies fail when rituals replace real conversations and how to transform mechanical meetings into meaningful, value-driven events.

December 2, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 2,048 Views · 2 Likes

When Leadership Blocks Your Pre-Mortem

Learn all about why leaders resist pre-mortems and how this reveals deeper cultural issues that shape project success or failure.

November 24, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 3,635 Views

Beyond the Vibe: Why AI Coding Workflows Need a Framework

"Vibe coding" with AI improvising without a plan is fast but costly, leading to high rework, wasted money on tokens, and low-quality code.

November 17, 2025

by Akash Lomas

· 6,070 Views · 2 Likes

AI SDLC Transformation, Part 1: Where to Start?

Learn how to successfully adopt AI in software delivery by measuring transformation, starting small, and creating AI-ready processes and teams.

November 13, 2025

by Orkhan Gasimov

· 3,592 Views · 3 Likes

Facilitate AI-Human Architectural Thinking

Three pillars of the thinking framework: landscape view, decisional view, and structural view — an effective architectural modeling approach.

November 12, 2025

by Sean Gu

· 4,003 Views · 2 Likes

Why Agility Matters

This article discusses why agility matters and explains how to break the cycle when it doesn’t within your sphere of influence.

November 11, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 2,919 Views · 2 Likes

How Does a Scrum Master Improve the Productivity of the Development Team?

A Scrum Master facilitates Scrum events, removes impediments, addresses inefficiencies, and facilitates collaboration to improve the development team’s productivity.

November 7, 2025

by Sandeep Kashyap

· 4,183 Views · 3 Likes

AI Code Generation: The Productivity Paradox in Software Development

AI boosts coding speed short-term, but long-term gains need human oversight, reuse, and focus on code quality beyond cycle time.

November 5, 2025

by Ammar Husain

CORE

· 2,946 Views · 4 Likes

AIOps to Agentic AIOps: Building Trustworthy Symbiotic Workflows With Human-in-the-Loop LLMs

Build secure, human-in-the-loop AIOps workflows using agentic AI for smart alert triage, context summarization, and automated, safe incident resolution.

November 4, 2025

by Pratik Prakash

CORE

· 3,042 Views

A Developer’s Experience of Onboarding to a Platform

From manual cloud setups to guided golden paths — my onboarding journey revealed how platforms transform friction into flow.

October 31, 2025

by Josephine Eskaline Joyce

CORE

· 2,524 Views · 5 Likes

Improving Developer Productivity With End-to-End GenAI Enablement

Build an end-to-end developer enablement hub locally with GenAI, automating everything from requirements to deployment to boost productivity and streamline workflows.

October 30, 2025

by Nabin Debnath

· 2,512 Views · 2 Likes

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