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The True Cost of Neglecting Quality Assurance: Lessons from Recent Tech Failures

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The Importance of Quality Assurance in Software Development The pressure to deliver software quickly and cost-effectively is among the highest priorities of business leaders. However, recent high-profile tech failures serve as stark reminders of the critical importance of robust Quality Assurance (QA) practices.

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Containerization: Better Quality Assurance Through Automation

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Quality assurance” (QA) refers to the procedures for verifying that a software application meets the defined standards, auditing, and evaluation of a product at each stage of development—from requirements gathering all the way through testing and maintenance. Learn More. The Benefits of Containers for QA. Portability. Reliability.

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How BQA streamlines education quality reporting using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

BQA oversees a comprehensive quality assurance process, which includes setting performance standards and conducting objective reviews of education and training institutions. The architecture seamlessly integrates multiple AWS services with Amazon Bedrock, allowing for efficient data extraction and comparison.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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By comparison, the previous record-holder for most expensive downtime was the 2017 AWS outage, which cost customers an estimated $150 million. The overall cost was estimated at $5.4 Delta alone had more than $500 million in losses as a result of crippled operations and thousands of flight cancellations and delays.

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Wefunder’s equity crowdfunding platform has officially expanded to the EU

TechCrunch

Though it has raised more than $9 million in known funding from investors including Y Combinator and Visary Capital, the capital pales in comparison to one of WeFunder’s closest competitors, Republic, which has secured over $200 million in known funding since launching in 2016.

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Evaluating RAG applications with Amazon Bedrock knowledge base evaluation

AWS Machine Learning - AI

By the end of this post, you will understand how the latest Amazon Bedrock evaluation features can streamline your approach to AI quality assurance, enabling more efficient and confident development of RAG applications. Selecting specific score ranges in the histogram reveals detailed conversation analyses.

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SkyMul’s drones secure rebar on the fly to speed up construction

TechCrunch

The system offers value-add services as well, for instance the precise map of the rebar generated at the beginning, which can be archived and used later for maintenance, quality assurance, comparison with plans, and other purposes.