Category: Announcements

Coding agents powered by large language models have shown impressive capabilities in software engineering tasks, but evaluating their performance across diverse programming languages and real-world scenarios remains challenging. This led to a recent explosion in benchmark creation to assess the coding effectiveness of said systems in controlled environments. In particular, SWE-Bench which measures the performance […]

Software runs the world – not just the new software applications built in modern languages and deployed on the most optimized cloud infrastructure, but also legacy software built over years and barely understood by the teams that inherit them. These legacy applications may have snowballed into monolithic blocks or may be fragmented across siloed on-premises […]

As I sat down to write this post, my daughter called from the top of the Eiffel Tower on a trip with her high school class. While she excitedly pointed her camera toward the Parisian skyline, I was struck by how technology has transformed our concept of distance. Her world, at eighteen, is infinitely more […]

Earlier today Amazon Q Developer launched inline chat in the Eclipse IDE (in preview). In this post, I’ll walk you through how I’ve been using this powerful new capability to streamline my Java development workflow, from refactoring existing code to optimizing performance-critical methods. Whether you’re a seasoned Eclipse veteran or just getting started, you’ll see […]

As the world of software development becomes increasingly global, the need for tools that support multiple languages has become paramount. Earlier today, Amazon Q Developer announced expanded language support. In this post, I explore the recent expansion of language support in Amazon Q Developer, a powerful platform used by developers worldwide to discuss architecture, create documentation, […]

Today we’re announcing the general availability (GA) of the Amazon EventBridge Scheduler and Targets Level 2 (L2) constructs in the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) construct library. EventBridge Scheduler is a serverless scheduler that enables users to schedule tasks and events at scale. Prior to the launch of these L2 constructs, developers had to […]

On February 14, Amazon Q Developer announced support for upgrades to Java 21. As a Java developer, I’m excited about this new capability, which will make it easier for me to keep my applications up-to-date and take advantage of the latest language features and performance improvements. In addition, the latest version of Amazon Q Developer […]

In this blog post, I dive into the powerful new features of Amazon Q Developer that empower developers to take full control of their development workflow. These features, currently available in Visual Studio Code, allow you to leverage workspace context, explicit context, prompt libraries, and project rules to streamline your software projects, maintain coding standards, […]

Earlier today, Amazon Q Developer announced an enhanced CLI agent within the Amazon Q command line interface (CLI). With this announcement, Q Developer brings the latest agentic experience to the CLI that provide a more dynamic, interactive coding experience that works with you, and iteratively makes changes based on your feedback. Amazon Q Developer can […]

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is an open source framework that enables developers to define cloud infrastructure using a familiar programming language. Additionally, CDK provides higher level abstractions (Constructs), which reduce the complexity required to define and integrate AWS services together when building on AWS. CDK also provides core functionality like CDK Assets, which […]