Java developers absolutely must learn Maven. Maven is the most popular and pervasive build tool in the Java world. Even if you don't use Maven directly, alternatives such as Gradle, Jenkins or Ivy ...

The most significant addition to the Java language since Sun Microsystems rewrote the collections API for Java 5 is the introduction of Java records. Java records address two significant pain points ...

In early February, SaaS stocks lost almost $300 billion in market cap in a single day. For some firms, such as Thomson Reuters, the drop reached 16%, the largest decline in their long history. This ...

Salesforce (CRM) CEO and founder Marc Benioff has watched his company's stock fall 30% year-to-date as the noise about artificial intelligence disrupting SaaS has dragged down the entire sector. The ...

In a recent presentation, Thoma Bravo noted that SaaS stock fundamentals have moved in the opposite direction from their valuations. It noted that fundamentals are improving with about 20% annual SaaS ...

Silicon Valley is rallying around a new extinction narrative. Agentic AI, autonomous systems capable of executing workflows on their own, could make traditional software-as-a-service (SaaS) ...

A specter is haunting Wall Street—the specter of the “SaaSpocalypse.” Since the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) peaked on September 19, 2025, it has fallen roughly 30%. Like most ...

One day not long ago, a founder texted his investor with an update: he was replacing his entire customer service team with Claude Code, an AI tool that can write and deploy software on its own. To Lex ...

For the past decade, the SaaS story has been built on a simple promise: infinite leverage. Software companies could build a product once and sell it millions of times with near-zero marginal cost.