JetBrains discontinues Fleet IDE

JetBrains is discontinuing its Fleet IDE, stating that it could not justify maintaining two general-purpose IDEs. The JetBrains flagship IDE is IntelliJ, and Fleet did not succeed as a standalone product, the company said. JetBrains revealed on December 8 that...

Document databases – understanding your options

At Open Source Summit Europe in August, the Linux Foundation announced that DocumentDB—a MongoDB-compatible document database built on PostgreSQL—had joined the foundation as a new open source project. This new project, first announced by Microsoft in early 2025, is...

Microsoft’s Dev Proxy puts APIs to the test

Much of modern application development depends on APIs. In the past we may have built massive monolithic applications, but modern cloud-native development depends on collections of microservices, linked by APIs that offer everything from remote procedure calls to...