Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
To combat AI-driven disinformation, tech giants must collaborate to adopt these open standards. The absence of Apple and X raises concerns.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
When researchers at the University of Cambridge pitted human competitors against a leading LLM, the chatbot beat the top participants on almost every metric. It also was fired more quickly.
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Erik Bernhardsson
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow. Computers are very good at following logical statements. Now, let's crank it up a notch. Let's try to write code for humans !
CIO
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Coding assistants have been an obvious early use case in the generative AI gold rush, but promised productivity improvements are falling short of the mark — if they exist at all. Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. Use of GitHub Copilot also introduced 41% more bugs, according to the study from Uplevel, a company providing insights from coding and collaboration data.
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Perficient
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The energy was electric last week as thousands of attendees invaded MGM Grand along the Las Vegas Strip for the 3rd Annual Power Platform Community Conference (PPCC24). From groundbreaking announcements to new features unveiled during keynotes from Microsoft’s Charles Lamanna, Corporate Vice President of Business Industry and Copilot, and Jeff Teper, President of Apps and Platforms, PPCC24 offered an electrifying three days of innovation and collaboration.
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DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
OpenTelemetry promised to be a unified standard that would make it easier for everyone to collect and correlate traces, logs and metrics from distributed systems. Sounds like a dream, right? Well, here is the hard truth: OpenTelemetry is only satisfactory.
Crunchbase News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
We are all getting older. But never before have we been getting this much older. In the U.S., at least one in six people is now over the age of 65. At the same time, in most developed countries older adults are accounting for an unprecedented share of the population. It’s a global phenomenon as well, particularly for the very old. Over the next 30 years, the number of people who are 80 or older will roughly triple worldwide.
Honeycomb
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Real user monitoring (RUM) tools are great if you want to give your developers a very high level view of the health of your frontend. But when it comes to actually debugging issues in your web app, you’re often left piecing together outputs from browser devtools, with details (if you’re lucky) from customer support tickets to replicate issues locally in hopes of identifying the source of the issue.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
As abruptly as generative AI burst on the scene, so too is the new language that’s come with it. A complete list of AI-related vocabulary would be thousands of entries long, but for the sake of urgent relevance, these are the terms heard most among CIOs, analysts, consultants, and other business executives. Agentic systems An agent is an AI model or software program capable of autonomous decisions or actions.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Martin Fowler
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Alessio Ferri , Tom Coggrave , and Shodhan Sheth complete their article on what they have learned from using GenAI with legacy systems. They describe how GenAI's ability to process unstructured information makes it much easier to build a capability map of a legacy system, tying the capabilities of a system to the relevant parts of the source code. GenAI is also useful for identifying areas of dead code, and has promise for better translations of a system between platforms and languages.
Agile Alliance
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
An Agile team working on a high-stakes government project abandons traditional story point estimates and successfully switches to a NoEstimates approach. The post How a high-stakes US Government project dropped estimates and delivered first appeared on Agile Alliance.
Ruby on Rails
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Deploying modern web apps – with all the provisions needed to be fast and secure while easily updateable – has become so hard that many developers don’t dare do it without a PaaS (platform-as-a-service). But that’s ridiculous. Nobody should have to pay orders of magnitude more for basic computing just to make deployment friendly and usable. That’s a job for open source, and Rails is ready to solve it.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Perhaps the most exciting aspect of cultivating an AI strategy is choosing use cases to bring to life. This is proving true for generative AI, whose ability to create image, text, and video content from natural language prompts has organizations scrambling to capitalize on the nascent technology. To that end, you IT leaders are grappling with some critical questions as they pursue GenAI application development.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
Tenable
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Frequently asked questions about multiple vulnerabilities in the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) that were disclosed as zero-days on September 26. Background The Tenable Security Response Team (SRT) has compiled this blog to answer Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding a series of vulnerabilities in the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). We will update this blog as more information becomes available.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Continuous learning is the key to having lasting influence in your career, yet a heavy workload makes it hard to find the time. To ensure you’re creating opportunities even when you’re feeling depleted or overwhelmed, try these five strategies: 1) Challenge your beliefs about your capacity; 2) Start with topics that solve urgent problems; 3) Don’t limit yourself to formal programs; 4) Make an emotional connection to learning; and 5) Work with your brain, not against it.
Ruby on Rails
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Hi, it’s zzak. Let’s jump into This Week in Rails! Rails 8.0 beta 1 has been released! The first beta of Rails 8 is out! While the release notes are getting ready, have a look at the changes and give it a go. DHH keynote from Rails World The first talk recording from Rails World is up, and David goes over everything that went into Rails 8 and beyond.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Cybersecurity and systemic risk are two sides of the same coin. As we saw recently with the CrowdStrike outage, the interconnected nature of enterprises today brings with it great risk that can have a significant negative effect on any company’s finances. Although it was not a security event, the symptoms and responses all fall into the various categories of the cybersecurity program for any company.
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DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
A survey of 400 maintainers of open-source software projects suggests IT organizations should be paying a lot more attention to the degree to which the stewards of these projects are compensated before downloading software components.
Crunchbase News
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Startup investors were looking to M&A in 2024 as the fast track to getting liquidity. But while Crunchbase data shows deal volume for venture-backed companies is likely up year over year, it remains sluggish compared to earlier years. That’s despite the fact that the public markets have been historically slow and private company valuations have come down, which should make acquisitions more compelling for buyers.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
We all have scores of decisions to make every day, and we often want to move quickly, telling ourselves that speed equals efficiency. But true efficiency sometimes requires slowing down, being mindful, and especially looking back at the decisions we’ve made that didn’t go as we’d hoped. Too often we don’t want to spend time and mental energy revisiting the past, especially if it contains uncomfortable missteps.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Microsoft will end product support and updates for Dynamics GP, its legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) product for small and medium businesses, on September 30, 2029, the company announced on Tuesday. Security patches will continue to be provided for another 18 months, until April 30, 2031. Customers have had plenty of warnings about the product’s retirement.
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
System Initiative today made generally available an automation platform that creates a programmable model of an IT environment to provide an abstraction layer that enables software engineering to employ reactive code to manage IT infrastructure.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Today, we are excited to announce the availability of Llama 3.2 models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Llama 3.2 offers multi-modal vision and lightweight models representing Meta’s latest advancement in large language models (LLMs), providing enhanced capabilities and broader applicability across various use cases. With a focus on responsible innovation and system-level safety, these new models demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of industry benchmarks and introduce features
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Closing a sale is the result of earlier actions such as customer discovery, lead qualification, and performance management. Framework IT improved its sales process by better qualifying prospects, understanding key stakeholders, and promoting its differentiators, leading to increased deal sizes and customer satisfaction. In this way, proactive customer selection and lead qualification are crucial for driving profitable growth and maintaining a competitive edge.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
By now, many business leaders understand how generative AI (GenAI) can dramatically reshape markets and industries and are moving quickly to harness its transformative power. But even as adoption surges, few companies have successfully leveraged the tool to take the lead. That’s because significant challenges persist in leveraging GenAI’s large language models (LLMs).
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DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers.
Ooda Loop
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Recently, the non-profit bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC) provided the incoming presidential administration and Congress with ten new cyber policy recommendations.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Working for a leader who always changes their mind is a maddening yet common experience. When the strategy is perpetually changing, it’s challenging to be enthusiastic about the strategy du jour. When rework is viewed as inevitable, high effort is difficult to justify. A leader who constantly changes their mind will often leave behind an emotional wake of resentment.
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