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04/09/2026

With Jira and Confluence Data Center approaching their end of life, more teams are considering YouTrack as a self-hosted alternative.

The YouTrack team has created a practical guide featuring expert tips, real customer experiences, and advice from specialized consulting partners who can support your move with a free demo, proof of concept, and more.

Read the guide today:

Atlassian recently announced that they are suspending sales for Data Center Products, followed by the end of life for those products in 2029. Additionally, this August, Atlassian began using certain customer data to improve its AI experiences. In light of these changes, switching to an alternative s...

03/09/2026

What does it mean to learn programming well when generating code is becoming the easy part?

We put that question to ArditSulce, a Python educator who has taught more than 650,000 students. The conversation touched on what AI should and shouldn’t replace in the learning process, which skills junior developers will need more of, and why getting hands-on experience with real development tools is still an important part of learning.

Read the full interview → https://jb.gg/academy/interview/ardit-sulce

02/09/2026

What do decades of working with databases, Spring, and the Java ecosystem teach you about choosing technology?

In this episode of The Marco Show, Michael Simons (Neo4j) talks about why developers can fall into “death by tooling,” why data models often outlive the applications built around them, and why pragmatic engineering matters more than chasing every new framework. He also shares where AI fits into his workflow, why static analysis can still outperform LLMs in some cases, and what happens when AI-generated contributions create more work for maintainers.

📺 Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/Leo8A1FjY1o

Also available on your favorite podcast platforms.

01/09/2026

What changes when Rust gets big? 🦀

As Rust adoption expands across larger teams, codebases, and production environments, scaling isn't just about writing more Rust. It brings new challenges around mixed-language development, build complexity, testing, AI-assisted workflows, and developer productivity.

Join Orhun Parmaksız, Rust Developer Advocate at JetBrains, together with Nir Stern, VP Product at Incredibuild, and Dori Exterman, Chief Evangelist at Incredibuild, for our upcoming webinar: Scaling Rust in the Enterprise: What Changes When Rust Gets Big

We'll discuss how development workflows need to evolve as Rust reaches enterprise scale – and what teams can do to keep developers productive as complexity grows.

📅 September 8, at 15:00 UTC
🔗 Register here: https://events.jetbrains.net/register/Scaling-Rust-in-the-Enterprise/

31/08/2026

We’re here at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia! 🇸🇦

Stop by the JetBrains booth (H3.188) to meet the team, join our discussions and panels, test your knowledge in our daily quiz, and explore how we’re helping developers build trusted, production-ready AI.

Don’t forget to grab some exclusive JetBrains swag while you’re there. See you soon!

28/08/2026

If you ask where the name “Python” came from, the obvious answer is the snake.

It would also be wrong.

When Guido van Rossum was creating the language, he wanted a name that was short, distinctive, and a little mysterious. His inspiration came from somewhere completely different – British comedy.

Check out the video above for the true story behind Python – and how “spam” and “eggs” found their way into programming culture.

28/08/2026

Looking for a Jira and Confluence alternative? MSP AG chose YouTrack for its long-term server commitment, flexibility, and stable pricing. The team migrated marketing automation projects for major retail customers, including REWE and Hagebau.

Get insights from migration experts on importing Jira and Confluence data, handling manual post-migration configuration, and building custom apps: https://jb.gg/cuMSPf

28/08/2026

When seatbelts became standard in cars, they weren't introduced to slow drivers down – they were introduced so drivers could actually handle higher speeds safely. As engines scaled, safety wasn't added to slow drivers down – it was the prerequisite for going faster.

AI coding agents are hitting that exact inflection point today.

As developers grant agents deeper autonomy, such as write access to local filesystems, terminal ex*****on, and remote server access, the blast radius of an unguided action grows.

At TrustCon 2026, our Head of Junie, Nick Frolov, joined leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and GitHub to address the challenge of how we can build structural safety without ruining developer flow.

The consensus is that guardrails aren't brakes. Just like a seatbelt in a modern car, built-in security gives developers the confidence to delegate complex tasks and let agents run at full speed.

That philosophy is foundational to how we build Junie at JetBrains – integrating native safety boundaries directly where your code lives.

How is your engineering team managing permissions as AI agents become more autonomous? Share your thoughts below.

27/08/2026

What happens to the traditional path from junior to senior developer when AI can help people learn, build, and ship much faster?

In our latest conversation, Clara from JetBrains Academy asks two experienced developers about the changing entry point into software development: junior hiring, CS education, coding agents, fundamentals, and the skills that may become more important as AI takes over more of the implementation work.

AI may be making the job market more competitive, but it’s also giving new developers ways to gain experience much faster than before.

Watch the full conversation: https://jb.gg/academy/genz-asks-video

26/08/2026

With 15M developers and 300,000 organizations relying on our tools, we see the real friction in AI adoption every day: bridging the gap between quickly generated code and trusted, production-ready systems.

That’s the space JetBrains is built for.

We’re bringing that exact conversation to LEAP 2026 in Riyadh, focusing on the engineering trade-offs that actually matter: cost visibility and token savings, developer freedom and tool choice, AI adoption with guardrails, balancing quality and response speed, and more.

Swipe through to see what we’ve got planned on the floor and join us for the conversation!

📍 Main booth: .I88
📍 JetBrains X eSense: .N10
🗓️ August 31 – September 3