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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO

What happened In CrowdStrikes own root cause analysis, the cybersecurity companys Falcon system deploys a sensor to user machines to monitor potential dangers. By comparison, the previous record-holder for most expensive downtime was the 2017 AWS outage, which cost customers an estimated $150 million. Clancy asks. Trust, but verify.

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TDD saved the day

Xebia

To tackle each operation, I started with a small test, following the principles of Test-Driven Development (TDD). As an aside, TDD is an iterative workflow that involves describing a specific aspect you want to solve in terms of the programming language you’re using. Truly, TDD saved the day!

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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

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Increasingly, however, CIOs are reviewing and rationalizing those investments. While up to 80% of the enterprise-scale systems Endava works on use the public cloud partially or fully, about 60% of those companies are migrating back at least one system. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs?

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AI market evolution: Data and infrastructure transformation through AI

CIO

However, many face challenges finding the right IT environment and AI applications for their business due to a lack of established frameworks. Many believe that responsible AI use will help achieve these goals, though they also recognize that the systems powering AI algorithms are resource-intensive themselves.

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From cloud spend to cloud value: The power of Cloud Unit Economics

CIO

As cloud spending rises due to AI and other emerging technologies, Cloud FinOps has become essential for managing, forecasting, and optimising costs. Cloud can unlock new capabilities to strategically drive the business.

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Binning MapType, Keeping Yield. How Variant Delivered 10x Speed for Semiconductor Test Logs in Databricks

Xebia

“The fine art of data engineering lies in maintaining the balance between data availability and system performance.” – Total Key Comparisons : 1 billion rows 1000 keys = 1 trillion comparisons. Linear search is more CPU-intensive, requiring far more comparisons. The reason? Smaller clusters (e.g.,

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Performance Review: How to respond to frustrating or lazy performance feedback

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Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review. A few years ago, I wrote “Avoid These Infuriating Phrases in End-of-Year Feedback” to encourage managers to stop making stupid comments when giving a performance review. One of the easiest ways to tank employee engagement is to screw up an end-of-year review.