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Evaluating Developer Tools this quarter? This page brings together what changed, which companies are most active, what practitioners are asking and how to build a shortlist.
Tools developers use every day: AI coding assistants, code search, backend platforms, testing, and the security built into them.
What changed recently
Start with the news. These are the Developer Tools stories getting the most attention right now, so you know what has shifted before you talk to anyone.
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GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases
Describe the interface you need in plain English, then let the agent build a live surface you can both use and update—so you spend less time adapting to tools and more time getting work done. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
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Announcing Kong Operator 2.3
We have full Kubernetes CRD support for Kong AI Gateway. You can now declare an entire AI Gateway deployment; control plane, providers, models, policies, authentication, and consumers as Kubernetes resources, and manage it with the same GitOps workflows…
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From API Keys to Access Control: Rethinking Secrets Management
For as long as software has called APIs, we’ve solved the same problem the same way. The code needs a secret (a... The post From API Keys to Access Control: Rethinking Secrets Management appeared first on Postman Blog .
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Putting business analysis in everyone’s hands
Today, we’re announcing that Replit has acquired Atta, bringing its approach to business analysis and high-quality, purpose-built charting into Replit. Our mission is to make useful intelligence accessible to everyone. For businesses, that means giving the people closest to a problem the ability to investigate it, explain what they find, and act on their expertise. Product leaders understand…
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Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS. The post Improving site performance by shipping more CSS appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
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Push images to Vercel Container Registry from GitHub Actions
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State of agent skills
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How to handle real-time interruptions in your AI voice agent
Callers interrupt agents and call from noisy rooms. That's real life. Here's how to tune barge-in, turn detection, and context so your AI voice agent keeps up.
Companies to know in Developer Tools
Those stories keep returning to the same names. These are the companies we track in this category; each profile has its news, solutions and published reviews.
GitHub
San Francisco, California, USA
GitHub is a software development platform for hosting Git repositories and collaborating on code, used by developers, open source projects and enterprises. Its products include GitHub Actions for CI/CD, GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted coding, GitHub Advanced Security and Codespaces. Founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, GitHub has been owned by Microsoft since 2018.
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, USA
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications, security products and developer tools such as GitHub. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is one of the largest providers of cloud and AI services to businesses.
JetBrains
Prague, Czech Republic
JetBrains is a software company that makes integrated development environments and developer tools, including IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, GoLand and CLion, the TeamCity CI/CD server and the YouTrack issue tracker. It created the Kotlin programming language and offers AI Assistant and the Junie coding agent. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Prague, JetBrains is privately held.
GitLab
San Francisco, California, USA
GitLab is a DevSecOps platform company whose single application covers source code management, CI/CD, security testing and software delivery, with AI features under GitLab Duo. Available as SaaS or self-managed and built on an open core model, it serves development and platform teams. GitLab Inc. was founded in 2014, operates all-remote and is listed on Nasdaq.
Atlassian
Atlassian is a software company founded in Sydney, Australia, in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. It sells team collaboration and software development tools including Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Bitbucket, Loom and the Rovo AI platform, delivered mainly through Atlassian Cloud. Atlassian is listed on Nasdaq and redomiciled to the United States in 2022.
Postman
San Francisco, California, USA
Postman is an API platform company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its flagship Postman application lets developers design, test, document, mock and monitor APIs, and its API Network is a catalogue of public APIs. Postman began as a side project by Abhinav Asthana in 2012, was incorporated in 2014, and has significant engineering operations in Bengaluru, India.
Vercel
San Francisco, California, USA
Vercel is a US cloud platform company founded in 2015 by Guillermo Rauch, originally as ZEIT, and based in San Francisco. It provides a frontend cloud for building, deploying and scaling web applications, with global edge delivery and serverless functions. Vercel created and maintains the Next.js React framework, the AI SDK and Turborepo, and offers v0, an AI app-building tool.
Netlify
San Francisco, California, USA
Netlify is a cloud platform for building, deploying and hosting web applications and websites. It provides Git-based continuous deployment, a global edge network, serverless and edge functions, and deploy previews for frontend teams using frameworks such as Next.js, Astro and Remix. Netlify was founded in 2014 by Mathias Biilmann and Christian Bach and is headquartered in San Francisco.
Cursor
San Francisco, California, USA
Cursor is an AI-powered code editor developed by Anysphere, a San Francisco company founded in 2022 by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger. Built as a fork of Visual Studio Code, Cursor integrates AI code completion, chat, codebase-aware editing and autonomous coding agents. SpaceX completed its acquisition of Anysphere in August 2026, and Cursor continues under its own brand.
Replit
Replit is a US software company that provides a browser-based development environment and AI app-building platform. Founded in 2016 by Amjad Masad, Faris Masad and Haya Odeh, Replit lets users create, run, collaborate on and deploy software without local setup, and its Replit Agent builds applications from natural-language prompts. It serves individual developers, students, non-developers and businesses.
Sourcegraph
San Francisco, California, USA
Sourcegraph is a US developer tools company founded in 2013 by Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu and based in San Francisco. It builds a code search and code intelligence platform that lets engineering teams search, navigate and understand large codebases across many repositories, along with AI coding tools including the Cody assistant. Its customers are mainly enterprises with large, complex code estates.
Snyk
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Snyk is a developer security company founded in 2015 in London and Tel Aviv and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Its AI Trust platform helps developers and security teams find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies, proprietary code, containers and infrastructure as code, and secure AI-generated code and AI applications. Snyk is privately held and venture-backed.
Sentry
San Francisco, California, USA
Sentry is an application monitoring company headquartered in San Francisco, California, operated by Functional Software, Inc. Its developer-first platform provides error tracking, performance tracing, session replay, profiling, cron and uptime monitoring, and the Seer AI debugging agent. Sentry began as an open-source project in 2008, was founded as a company in 2012, and also owns code coverage tool Codecov.
Docker
Palo Alto, California, USA
Docker, Inc. is the company behind Docker, the software that popularised Linux containers for packaging and running applications. Founded as dotCloud by Solomon Hykes and launched Docker as open source in 2013, it is based in Palo Alto, California. Its products include Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, Docker Scout, Docker Build Cloud and Testcontainers, sold on subscription to developers and enterprises. Docker is privately held.
Supabase
Supabase is an open source backend development platform founded in 2020 by Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson. Built around a dedicated PostgreSQL database per project, it adds authentication, instant REST and GraphQL APIs, realtime subscriptions, file storage, edge functions and vector search. Supabase is offered as a hosted cloud service and can be self-hosted; it is widely used by startups and AI application builders.
Twilio
San Francisco, California, USA
Twilio is a US customer engagement platform and communications API company founded in 2008 in San Francisco. Developers use its APIs to add SMS, voice, WhatsApp and other messaging, email (via SendGrid), and user verification to applications, and its Segment customer data platform to unify customer data. Twilio is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Kong
San Francisco, California, USA
Kong is an API management and connectivity company known for Kong Gateway, an open-source API gateway, and Kong Konnect, its cloud-hosted API platform. It also develops Kong Mesh and the Insomnia API client, serving developers and platform teams. Founded in 2009 as Mashape and renamed Kong in 2017, the privately held company is headquartered in San Francisco.
SmartBear
Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
SmartBear is a US software quality and API tooling company headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. Its portfolio includes Swagger and SwaggerHub for API design, ReadyAPI and SoapUI for API testing, TestComplete and BugSnag, Zephyr and QMetry test management, Cucumber and PactFlow. SmartBear serves development and QA teams and is owned by private-equity firms Francisco Partners and Vista Equity Partners.
Tricentis
Austin, Texas, USA
Tricentis is a software testing and quality engineering company founded in 2007 in Vienna, Austria, and headquartered in Austin, Texas. Its AI-powered platform covers test automation with Tosca and Testim, test management with qTest, performance testing with NeoLoad, SAP change impact analysis with LiveCompare and quality intelligence with SeaLights. Tricentis is privately held and acquired AI coding company Tabnine in July 2026.
Cloudflare
San Francisco, California, USA
Cloudflare is a US connectivity cloud company founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco. It operates a global network providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, web application firewall, Zero Trust access and SASE services, and a developer platform including Workers serverless compute, R2 storage and Workers AI. Cloudflare has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2019.
What practitioners are asking
Vendor news only tells you half of it. This is what people working in Developer Tools are discussing and asking each other.
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Have AI coding assistants changed how you review code?
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Build a shortlist
With the news, the companies and the open questions in view, pick three to five companies whose products match your problem, read their recent stories and put your remaining questions to the community before you speak to sales.
More Developer Tools stories
If you want more background, here is more of the recent coverage.
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Vercel Sandbox now supports memory observability
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The #1 AI behavior hurting your customers’ experiences
40% of businesses say that lost context between channels is the AI behavior hurting their brand the most. Here's why it breaks (and how to fix it).
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How to Build an RCS Business Messaging Campaign with Twilio in C#
How to Build an RCS Business Messaging Campaign with Twilio in C#
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What is AI agent orchestration? How it works in 2026
AI agent orchestration coordinates multiple AI agents across a workflow. Learn how routing, shared memory, and human handoff work in 2026.
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Pixel Canary is now available in stealth for free on AI Gateway
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When chat is the wrong UI
What is a developer to do when they need something more tangible than a chat box? Enter canvases. The post When chat is the wrong UI appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
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AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent
In this blog post, I explain how to use the new fuzzing taskflow based on the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent AI framework. The post AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
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AI Token Cost Management: Why AI Spend Gets Out of Control (and How To Fix It)
This post is based on Kong's webinar on token cost management. Watch it below, or keep reading for the breakdown. Token cost management is how a business tracks, controls, and governs what it spends on AI model usage, the same way it already tracks…
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What Passport Found in 3 Weeks of AI Agent Traffic
I ran Postman Passport over an AI harness build for three weeks. It caught 33 credential-bearing requests to 18 hosts. Here's what static scanning missed. The post What Passport Found in 3 Weeks of AI Agent Traffic appeared first on Postman Blog .
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Best test management tools for Jira
Test libraries that once felt instant can become harder to manage as they grow: test cases take longer to open, reports take longer to build, and every sprint adds more data to an already bloated Jira environment. That’s usually the moment when a testing leader starts evaluating whether the test management tool installed years ago
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Kong Introduces the Portal MCP Server for Developer Portal
Your developer portal was built for a developer scanning docs in a browser: reading a page, copying a curl command, moving on. Increasingly, the thing reading those docs isn't a person. It's an agent, working through an API integration on someone's…
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I gave Jev a paddle. Can you beat it?
Play JevPong and beat TypeSafe's decision-making AI at Pong while watching every choice it makes. See how Postman Fabric Gateway routes the calls. Play now. The post I gave Jev a paddle. Can you beat it? appeared first on Postman Blog .
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Continuing to Move PHP Open Source Forward
A year ago, we introduced the first wave of PhpStorm’s open-source sponsorships. We truly believe in the power of open source and the importance of it to the PHP community, and so we want to do our bit, too. Each year, we pick five open-source projects to sponsor for a whole year. Our goal is […]
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Designing the Kotlin Multiplatform and TeamCity Integration
In this post, I’ll share how we designed and built the new TeamCity integration for Kotlin Multiplatform. Our guided onboarding helps KMP developers building for iOS go from their first Git push to a tested build, a TestFlight release, and a fully automated pipeline, all within their IDE. Making iOS publishing approachable Publishing an iOS […]
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The Vercel Bug Bounty Program is now publicly available
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Your Vulnerability Backlog Is No Longer Technical Debt, It’s an Attack Surface
A growing vulnerability backlog is more than technical debt: it is an attack surface. Learn why outdated risk assumptions, automated attackers, and chained findings demand a new approach.