CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

CIOs and other digital leaders play a critical role in shaping the future of their organizations. Now more than ever, future-proofing the business requires developing a robust pipeline of IT leaders prepared to step up as the next generation of strategic partners and innovation anticipators. A number of nonprofits are working to help prepare these emerging leaders for the next phases in their career journeys, providing the connections, education, mentorship, and professional support they need to

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Xebia

MARCH 13, 2025

As a consultant you get to deal with a wide variety of tooling and implementations, not all done right. Once, I spent 6 months refactoring a feature store implementation. This was necessary because both the design choice and implementation were wrong. The implementation was a over-engineered custom Feast implementation using unsupported backend data stores.

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CIO

MARCH 3, 2025

The CIO role continues to evolve, changing as dramatically as the technology it manages and maintains. Moreover, the pace of the chief IT positions transformation seems to be accelerating likewise mirroring the speed of change in the tech stack. As a result, tech executives must lead, manage, and work differently than they did in the past. Here, veteran CIOs, researchers, and advisers share the changes theyre seeing, offering a look at the new rules of IT leadership along with the old ones they

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Xebia

MARCH 4, 2025

Have you ever been in a situation where you want to provision or configure things cross-stack? Splitting these into logical stacks is always good when dealing with more complex environments. I already shared this in one of my previous blogs. But this also introduces a different problem! Granting access to your database When you use DynamoDB, you have to use IAM to grant access.

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Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.

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Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Gen AI systems are gullible, and can easily be tricked into responding in ways that are contrary to an enterprise's policies or leak confidential information. Bharani Subramaniam and I describe how we can counter this by adding guardrails at the boundaries of the request/response flow. We also conclude our discussion of RAG with an overview of how all the RAG component patterns fit together.

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Henrik Warne

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

This week I attended the Jfokus software development conference in Stockholm, Sweden. I first went in 2011, and I have been back many times through the years. The conference has a Java focus (duh!), but many talks cover general topics as well. The whole development team at NGM got tickets. It is really nice to be able to discuss and compare notes with your colleagues.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

If 2023 was the year of experimentation with gen AI, 2024 was when companies zeroed in on use cases and started putting pilot projects into production. In a survey of 2,300 IT decision makers that IBM released in December, 47% say theyre already seeing ROI from their AI investments, and 33% say theyre breaking even on AI. Only 14% say theyre losing money, and 66% of companies plan to increase their AI investments compared to 5% that plan to decrease it.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Introduction MLOps has survived the hype cycle and is gaining in maturity. But are we looking at MLOps for answers for the right things? No matter how valuable MLOps can be for you, without proper building blocks in place MLOps cannot live up to its full potential. What are the prerequisites for MLOps? What parts of MLOps should you focus on? When should you even start thinking about MLOps, or when is plain DevOps wiser to focus on first?

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Is building a unicorn an overnight success, or is it a long-term endeavor? And how much does venture capital influence the timeline? To uncover the answers, the Stanford Graduate School of Business Venture Capital Initiative team and I analyzed the journeys of thousands of U.S. venture-backed companies. More than 1,500 of them became unicorns. Here’s what the data reveals.

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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

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The work of the Reemerging Agile launch group is done, and the ball is rolling. But that doesnt mean that we are done. Agile will always be evolving, perhaps in ways that none of us can predict or see today. The post Reimagining Agile (an update): Back to the Basics, Forward to the Future first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

While RAG is the most common way to focus a foundation model on material outside its training set, Bharani Subramaniam and I now finish our current batch of patterns by examining our experience with Fine Tuning where we learned to prioritize curating high-quality data.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Over the course of 2024, researchers from security firm CrowdStrike observed a 150% average increase in intrusions by Chinese threat actors worldwide, with some sectors experiencing two- to three-fold surges. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and tools

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 11, 2025

The number of new unicorn companies ticked up in 2024, driven largely by U.S.-based AI companies, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows. The Crunchbase Unicorn Board added 110 companies globally last year, up from 100 in 2023, with the U.S. seeing a jump from 42 to 65 new unicorns. This increase is attributed to U.S. leadership in AI, with notable companies including xAI , Infinite Reality and Perplexity joining the unicorn ranks.

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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 6, 2025

By treating customer feedback as an active backlog and applying Agile discovery principles, a SaaS startup transformed an 18-month stalled request into a delivered solution in just two weeksboosting product velocity, customer retention, and internal collaboration. The post How Agile fixed an 18-month bottleneck in just two weeks first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

LLMs struggle with large amounts of context. Bharani Subramaniam and I explain how to mitigate this common RAG problem with a Reranker which takes the document fragments from the retriever, and ranks them according to their usefulness.

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

This could be the year agentic AI hits the big time, with many enterprises looking to find value-added use cases. A key question: Which business processes are actually suitable for agentic AI? Business consulting firm Deloitte predicts that in 2025, 25% of companies that use generative AI will launch agentic AI pilots or proofs of concept, growing to 50% in 2027.The firm says some agentic AI applications, in some industries and for some use cases, could see actual adoption into existing workflow

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Xebia

MARCH 2, 2025

In the previous blog post , we introduced Databricks Asset Bundles as a unifying solution for managing and deploying data workflows on Databricks. We explained how bundles enable users to consolidate components such as notebooks, libraries, and configuration files into a single and simplified command-line interface to validate, deploy, and destroy resources seamlessly through the bundle lifecycle.

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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.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The clock is ticking for Kindle users. After February 2025, a long-standing feature disappears. Will this change how you buy and store digital books? Read on to find out.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 3, 2025

Agile2025 Conference Chair Chris Murman shares how this years event is shaking up traditional formats to deliver fresh, relevant content and a more impactful experience. The post Behind the scenes of building an Agile conference first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Recent LLM models have provided reasoning capabilities. Birgitta Böckeler asks what role these play with coding tasks. She doesn't have an answer, but does have questions and thoughts - and has not found such capabilities worthwhile so far.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

CEOs, CIOs and CFOs are finding that deep tech is actively driving business innovation and profitability. From AI models that boost sales to robots that slash production costs, advanced technologies are transforming both top-line growth and bottom-line efficiency. Business leaders dont need to be technology experts to grasp this shift; they need vision and urgency.

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

Today, there is hardly any way around AI. But how do companies decide which large language model (LLM) is right for them? The choice is currently wider than ever, the possibilities seemingly endless. But beneath the glossy surface of advertising promises lurks the crucial question: Which of these technologies really delivers what it promises and which ones are more likely to cause AI projects to falter?

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

ServiceNow has announced plans to acquire AI firm Moveworks in a $2.85 billion deal, highlighting the growing enterprise shift toward AI-driven automation to enhance IT operations and service management efficiency. The acquisition will combine ServiceNows agentic AI and automation strengths with Moveworks frontend AI assistant and enterprise search technology to unlock new experiences for every employee for every corner of the business, ServiceNow said in a statement.

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

Usability in application design has historically meant delivering an intuitive interface design that makes it easy for targeted users to navigate and work effectively with a system. Presentation and interactivity remain the baseline for strong usability, but as critical-thinking skills decline, IT may need to go deeper when considering usability of the tools it designs by also including simplified system and business processes as core elements of usability in order to reduce the chance of human

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Over the course of 2024, researchers from security firm CrowdStrike observed a 150% average increase in intrusions by Chinese threat actors worldwide, with some sectors experiencing two- to three-fold surges. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and tools

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In the wake of Broadcoms acquisition of VMware, many CIOs have considered whether to drop VMware from their IT portfolios. But because the popular virtualization platform can be too expensive and pervasive to replace even if they may want to, they may find themselves with a mainframe-type of dilemma. The comparison of VMware to mainframes started as a bit of a joke for Gartner vice president analyst Michael Warrilow but the analogy holds up, to a point, he says.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

With AI agents poised to take over significant portions of enterprise workflows, IT leaders will be faced with an increasingly complex challenge: managing them. There is a pending concern about how to manage AI agents in the cloud, says Dave McCarthy, research vice president at IDC, noting that the expanding availability of AI agents from startups and established vendors will give CIOs asset management, security, and versioning challenges.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

If youre like most CIOs, youre under pressure to introduce exciting new technological capabilities to the enterprise at large, promoting visions of digital transformation, generative AI, AGI, AI transformation, agentic AI, or some other version of being an FBC CIO thats Fully Buzzword Compliant for those who havent joined the AFC (Acronymic Fan Club).

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