Martin Fowler
MAY 28, 2025
Here's one of the best tips I know for writers, which was told to me by Bruce Eckel. One you've got a reasonable draft, read it out loud. By doing this you'll find bits that don't sound right, and need to fix. Interestingly, you don't actually have to vocalize (thus making a noise) but your lips have to move. 1 This advice is for those who, like me, strive to get a conversational tone to their writings.
CIO
MAY 28, 2025
Modern CIOs are expected to contribute to areas that stretch far beyond the confines of the traditional IT organization. The board might have previously looked to other executives for the lead on strategy, value, and commercial growth, but modern CIOs must step up and take responsibility for areas once assumed by other business leaders. In fact, Gartners 2024 CIO Agenda survey highlights how 80% of CIOs have expanded their role , with 18% leading non-IT functions.
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CIO
MAY 22, 2025
Open protocols aimed at standardizing how AI systems connect, communicate, and absorb context are providing much needed maturity to an AI market that sees IT leaders anxious to pivot from experimentation to practical solutions. Three protocols in particular Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent Communication Protocol (ACP), and Agent2Agent show promise for helping IT leaders put two-plus years of failed proof-of-concept projects behind them, opening a new era of measurable AI progress , experts
Xebia
MAY 29, 2025
I built a workload using AWS CDK, and the CodePipeline stopped working at the worst moment. It was right at the end of the sprint; we had done multiple deployments before. But at this moment, the moment you might recognize. When this last PR is released, we will have met our deadline! Kaboom, the pipeline stops working, and the reason for the failure is not related to the changes you made.
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When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.
Crunchbase News
MAY 28, 2025
By Aashish Mehta In todays startup landscape, raising venture capital is often treated as a milestone proof that a company is gaining traction. But after building and exiting multiple ventures, Ive come to see things differently. While, depending on the industry, VC funding can unlock important resources and mentorship, its not the only path to success, and often not the most sustainable one.
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AWS Machine Learning - AI
MAY 22, 2025
Improving response quality for user queries is essential for AI-driven applications, especially those focusing on user satisfaction. For example, an HR chat-based assistant should strictly follow company policies and respond using a certain tone. A deviation from that can be corrected by feedback from users. This post demonstrates how Amazon Bedrock , combined with a user feedback dataset and few-shot prompting, can refine responses for higher user satisfaction.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
MAY 28, 2025
While I prefer AI native to describe the product development approach centered on AI that were trying to encourage at OReilly, Ive sometimes used the term AI first in my communications with OReilly staff. And so I was alarmed and dismayed to learn that in the press, that term has now come to mean using AI to replace people. Many Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs even seem to view putting people out of work as a massive opportunity.
Crunchbase News
MAY 28, 2025
This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting startup funding deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out our April entry here. We thought we might be able to write this column and include some startups not related to AI, but that turned out to be too difficult. Every under-the-radar funded company that caught our eye in May relied heavily on artificial intelligence, whether that was to help farms reduce water usage, trucking companies deploy fleets more efficient
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
MAY 22, 2025
With the right battery settings, your Pixel can last longer than ever, during the day and across years of regular use.
CIO
MAY 22, 2025
Digital twins, a sophisticated concept within the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), simulate real-world entities within a digital framework. This digital representation allows for real-time monitoring, analysis and optimization of systems. Developing a robust technical architecture for digital twins necessitates a comprehensive understanding of several foundational components and integration of advanced technologies.
Ooda Loop
MAY 22, 2025
The global AI boom has triggered an unprecedented investment wavenearly $7 trillion by 2030to scale data centers that fuel artificial intelligence, sparking intense competition, uncertainty, and strategic risk across industries. An April 2025 report from McKinsey quantifies the monumental stakes and capital requirements to meet surging AI compute demands.
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 29, 2025
Employee Appreciation on a Budget? Bring the Balloons So you’re bringing your team together and want to include a bit of employee appreciation. Maybe its been a while. You want to start stronggood energy, some connection, perhaps even a little fun. And you definitely want to recognize the great stuff your team has been doing. But your budget? Its the kind of budget that says, What if we just clap enthusiastically?
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MAY 27, 2025
Organizations across a wide range of industries are struggling to process massive amounts of unstructured video and audio content to support their core business applications and organizational priorities. Amazon Bedrock Data Automation helps them meet this challenge by streamlining application development and automating workflows that use content from documents, images, audio, and video.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
MAY 28, 2025
MIT research finds that philosophy is what truly determines AI success.
CIO
MAY 28, 2025
SAP has a big new customer in China that, it hopes, will also help it do business there. Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce giant and cloud computing infrastructure provider, is adopting SAPs Cloud ERP Private for its own enterprise infrastructure, and the companies plan to jointly sell their services. Together, SAP and Alibaba will help enterprises implement SAP Integrated Business Planning and deploy SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Cloud ERP Private suites on Alibabas cloud infrastructure, according
DevOps.com
MAY 22, 2025
Datadog is expanding the scope of its DevOps portfolio following a pair of acquisitions that add feature flagging and data observability capabilities to its portfolio of services.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
MAY 22, 2025
Last week, I found myself hunched over my laptop at 10 p.m. (hey, that’s late for me!), wrestling with a coding problem. After hours of frustration, I stepped away and made a cup of tea. When I returned, I did what any self-respecting technologist in 2025 would do: I backtracked, reformulated my question, and asked ChatGPT for help. Im constantly asked questions like “Should my kids learn to code?
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AWS Machine Learning - AI
MAY 28, 2025
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the way we interact with technology, but their widespread adoption has been blocked by high inference latency, limited throughput, and high costs associated with text generation. These inefficiencies are particularly pronounced during high-demand events like Amazon Prime Day, where systems like Rufusthe Amazon AI-powered shopping assistantmust handle massive scale while adhering to strict latency and throughput requirements.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
MAY 22, 2025
BOGO deals for TVs are rare, which makes this Memorial Day deal from Sony even better: If you buy the latest flagship panel, you'll get an X77L 4K Google TV totally free.
CIO
MAY 22, 2025
Even though they bowed out of this season in the first round of the playoffs, the Orlando Magic has reached the NBA Finals twice since the team was founded in 1989. Despite hoisting the Larry OBrien Championship Trophy eluding the team so far, however, the franchise is at the forefront of digital innovation to revolutionize the fan experience. Sellout games have historically served as motivation for the team to exceed expectations for home crowds.
DevOps.com
MAY 22, 2025
In the world of regulated industries, continuous compliance is the missing bridge between DevOps speed and audit-grade accountability.
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
Tenable
MAY 28, 2025
Meet the elite squad thats hunting the next major cyberattack. With more than 150 years of combined research experience and expert analysis, the Tenable Research Special Operations team arms organizations with the critical and actionable intelligence necessary to proactively defend the modern attack surface. The digital battlefield is constantly shifting.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MAY 28, 2025
We are excited to announce the availability of Gemma 3 27B Instruct models through Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. With this launch, developers and data scientists can now deploy Gemma 3, a 27-billion-parameter language model, along with its specialized instruction-following versions, to help accelerate building, experimentation, and scalable deployment of generative AI solutions on AWS.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
MAY 27, 2025
Your smartphone camera is very capable, but the Nikon Z50 II makes spending more for a true imaging sensor worth it.
CIO
MAY 29, 2025
Nearly three years after the release of ChatGPT kicked off a new revolution, consistent AI ROI remains elusive. Just 25% of AI initiatives in recent years have lived up to ROI expectations, according to CEOs surveyed by the IBM Institute for Business Value. Meanwhile, organizations have achieved enterprise-wide rollouts with only 16% of AI projects.
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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.
Crunchbase News
MAY 29, 2025
U.S. artificial intelligence startups are gobbling up a large share of funding at all stages. However, the biggest slice of investment is coming at late stage. That was the broad finding from a Crunchbase analysis of funding by stage to companies in AI-related industry categories. Over the past year, nearly half of venture funding went to AI-related enterprises, data indicates.
Ooda Loop
MAY 22, 2025
Sri Lankas long-standing policy of non-alignment is facing renewed scrutiny, as deepening ties with India strain its neutrality amid rising tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad. Analysts say Colombos recent tilt towards India in the security realm most notably through a formal defence pact risks unsettling its delicate balancing act, particularly as it […] The post Sri Lankas neutrality strained as India-Pakistan tensions rise after Kashmir attacks appeared first on OODAloop.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MAY 28, 2025
Organizations today deal with vast amounts of unstructured data in various formats including documents, images, audio files, and video files. Often these documents are quite large, creating significant challenges such as slower processing times and increased storage costs. Extracting meaningful insights from these diverse formats in the past required complex processing pipelines and significant development effort.
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