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It’s finally here—our sixteenth Annual Developer Survey is now open! 🚀 From your favorite programming languages and tools, to the AI coding assistants you rely on, to the ways you’re building community and learning about new tech, we want to hear your thoughts on all things software. Take the 2026 #DeveloperSurvey here: https://lnkd.in/e4WVVCvU

🎙️ We welcome Cricket Liu, DNS expert and Chief Evangelist at Infoblox, to the show to talk the evolution of one of the oldest DNS server implementations BIND, the realities of security threats like DDoS and DNS spoofing, and why outages often trace back to a lack of understanding of DNS’s fundamental role. https://lnkd.in/et2eR27D

We're doing a happy dance because it's nearly here—the 2026 #DeveloperSurvey is dropping this week! 👾 Here's a pre-survey question for devs: what are you most excited to learn from the survey this year? Explore the results of last year's Developer Survey: https://lnkd.in/eNrA4GV9

Dear Charity...how do I get my leaders to stop running teams into the ground? In this first issue of Charity Majors' advice column, Charity helps a senior staff engineer navigate one of the hardest problems in software engineering: right-sizing work when leadership is asking you to push past your capacity. https://lnkd.in/eyDTjrEm

🎙️ From the floor of the AI Agent Conference, we're joined by Apollo GraphQL CEO Matt DeBergalis to chat about clean data for your AI agents, how to safeguard your internal microservices from "east-west" data exfiltration, and why explicit querying with exact context can reign in your skyrocketing token spend. https://lnkd.in/euq76Pgd

Engineering teams are upgrading their tools with faster and smarter AI. But have they upgraded how they work? Eira May explores how old processes are the new bottleneck for AI-assisted workflows and the actionable steps engineering leaders can take to transform and evolve those tired processes. https://lnkd.in/e5YwUzkN

Documentation remains an important part of development, even as AI changes how devs interact with code. Last year, GitHub was the most desired collaboration tool, with 59.3% of developers wanting to use it for documentation. Meanwhile, Markdown (75.8%) remained the most admired documentation tool for the third year in a row. How do you think agentic workflows will change these numbers in 2026? Explore more findings from our 2025 #DeveloperSurvey: https://lnkd.in/eNwUqsjV

AI agents are confused deputies, and they pose a real security threat when we give them the keys to our kingdoms. That's what happened with the recent Instagram breach, when hackers got control of more than 20,000 accounts using the Meta AI support agent. In this piece from The Heap, Fabio Marcello Salvadori explores what happened during that breach and why human judgement in our code is more important than ever. https://lnkd.in/eF2gm6Sv

🎙️ We welcome Trisha Gee, a Java champion and developer productivity advocate, to explore how AI is transforming the role of IDEs and the broader developer experience; the relevance of traditional tools, muscle memory, the risks of hype; and how to adapt workflows for AI-driven development. https://lnkd.in/eW8xUT2P

When AI gets things wrong, it’s usually down to three distinct flaws: hallucinations, sycophancy, and intentional deception. But luckily for AI developers, journalism solved these issues centuries ago. Ritoban Mukherjee explores how devs can translate 500 years of media frameworks into clear engineering solutions that can help prevent specific operational failures and make AI tools more accurate. https://lnkd.in/e2_NHqFi