CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

By modern, I refer to an engineering-driven methodology that fully capitalizes on automation and software engineering best practices. The proposed model illustrates the data management practice through five functional pillars: Data platform; data engineering; analytics and reporting; data science and AI; and data governance.

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Xebia

APRIL 1, 2025

TL;DR: Chancing the narrative on GitHub Copilot from focus on engineers to focus on a sturdy (DevOps) foundation to be able to go faster. Next frontier: the rest of our organization Premise: current narrative is not helping In my opinion we need to shift the narrative on enabling engineers to use GitHub Copilot.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 7, 2025

Through advanced data analytics, software, scientific research, and deep industry knowledge, Verisk helps build global resilience across individuals, communities, and businesses. Verisk has a governance council that reviews generative AI solutions to make sure that they meet Verisks standards of security, compliance, and data use.

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This can involve assessing a companys IT infrastructure, including its computer systems, cybersecurity profile, software performance, and data and analytics operations, to help determine ways a business might better benefit from the technology it uses. IT consultants who are independent contractors might complete some work from home.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 15, 2024

I was happy enough with the result that I immediately submitted the abstract instead of reviewing it closely. So I doubled down and built a system to help me generate better session abstracts. Prompty is a VS Code extension allows you to write prompts for LLM combined with the settings and examples needed for that prompt.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 1, 2025

Were excited to announce the open source release of AWS MCP Servers for code assistants a suite of specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that bring Amazon Web Services (AWS) best practices directly to your development workflow. Developers need code assistants that understand the nuances of AWS services and best practices.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

In 2025, AI will continue driving productivity improvements in coding, content generation, and workflow orchestration, impacting the staffing and skill levels required on agile innovation teams. For AI to deliver safe and reliable results, data teams must classify data properly before feeding it to those hungry LLMs.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Split systems along arbitrary boundaries: maximize the number of systems involved in any feature. Leverage any production issue as a reason to “pull the brakes” Introduce very complex processes for code change and common workflows.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 5, 2025

Ground truth data in AI refers to data that is known to be factual, representing the expected use case outcome for the system being modeled. By providing an expected outcome to measure against, ground truth data unlocks the ability to deterministically evaluate system quality.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

AI is everywhere, surfacing in everything from search engines and virtual assistants to our breakfast conversations. With IT systems growing more complex and user demands rising, AI is emerging as a transformative tool for tackling these challenges. The irony is hard to ignore.

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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.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This post presents a solution where you can upload a recording of your meeting (a feature available in most modern digital communication services such as Amazon Chime ) to a centralized video insights and summarization engine. This post provides guidance on how you can create a video insights and summarization engine using AWS AI/ML services.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Joby Aviation , a California-based company developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOL) for commercial passenger service , announced the acquisition of Avionyx , an aerospace software engineering firm, on the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility stage on Wednesday.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2025

Observer-optimiser: Continuous monitoring, review and refinement is essential. enterprise architects ensure systems are performing at their best, with mechanisms (e.g. They ensure that all systems and components, wherever they are and who owns them, work together harmoniously.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The time when Hardvard Business Review posted the Data Scientist to be the “Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” is more than a decade ago [1]. Operations ML teams are focused on stability and reliability Ops ML teams have roles like Platform Engineers, SRE’s, DevOps Engineers, Software Engineers, IT Managers.

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2025

For example, AI agents should be able to take actions on behalf of users, act autonomously, or interact with other agents and systems. As the models powering the individual agents get smarter, the use cases for agentic AI systems get more ambitious and the risks posed by these systems increase exponentially.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In this post, we explore how to integrate Amazon Bedrock FMs into your code base, enabling you to build powerful AI-driven applications with ease. For this post, we run the code in a Jupyter notebook within VS Code and use Python. This client will serve as the entry point for interacting with Amazon Bedrock FMs.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Agentic AI systems require more sophisticated monitoring, security, and governance mechanisms due to their autonomous nature and complex decision-making processes. Durvasula also notes that the real-time workloads of agentic AI might also suffer from delays due to cloud network latency. IT employees? Not so much.

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

A human firewall is a collective effort of individuals within an organization that fights and wards off cybersecurity threats (such as phishing and ransomware), especially ones that use social engineering. It also boasts a massive advantage over hardware and software firewalls: common sense.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Despite mixed early returns , the outcome appears evident: Generative AI coding assistants will remake how software development teams are assembled, with QA and junior developer jobs at risk. AI will handle the rest of the software development roles, including security and compliance reviews, he predicts. “At

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It is great to be among so many talented people who know all the nuts and bolts of GitHub and work closely with GitHub engineers on new and existing features. The option to see how the same prompt would result in results si de by si de using different mo de ls is very helpful when you are trying to integrate AI into your own software.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Magic, a startup developing a code-generating platform similar to GitHub’s Copilot , today announced that it raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG with participation from Elad Gil, Nat Friedman and Amplify Partners. So what’s its story? But absent a demo, we have only his word to go on.

Software Review 245

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Customer relationship management ( CRM ) software provider Salesforce has updated its agentic AI platform, Agentforce , to make it easier for enterprises to build more efficient agents faster and deploy them across a variety of systems or workflows. Christened Agentforce 2.0, Christened Agentforce 2.0, Agentforce 2.0

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Parallel Systems, a company founded by three former SpaceX engineers to build autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles, came out of stealth mode on Wednesday with a $49.55 is privately owned by owner-operators, which makes it difficult for Parallel to test its vehicles and the autonomous systems running the vehicles on a large scale.

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Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For every request that enters your system, you write logs, increment counters, and maybe trace spans; then you store telemetry in many places. Under the hood, these are stored in various metrics formats: unstructured logs (strings), structured logs, time-series databases, columnar databases , and other proprietary storage systems.

Software Review 133

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Allegis had been using a legacy on-premises ERP system called Eclipse for about 15 years, which Shannon says met the business needs well but had limitations. Allegis had been using Eclipse for 10 years, when the system was acquired by Epicor, and Allegis began exploring migrating to a cloud-based ERP system.

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

Understanding and tracking the right software delivery metrics is essential to inform strategic decisions that drive continuous improvement. This means creating environments that enable innovation while ensuring system integrity and sustainability.

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Henrik Warne

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

For the first time ever, I was laid off, and had to find a new software developer job. It’s quite good, but I didn’t use it much, because I wanted to make sure I did all coding by myself at interviews. In it I wrote down things to think about before an interview, in a format that is easy to review quickly.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

It is based on the idea that cutting corners for the sake of speed when writing code or setting up infrastructure will create more work to upkeep, secure, or manage in the future. Every minute spent on code that is not quite right for the programming task of the moment counts as interest on that debt. Why is technical debt important?

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2025

Many still rely on legacy platforms , such as on-premises warehouses or siloed data systems. These environments often consist of multiple disconnected systems, each managing distinct functions policy administration, claims processing, billing and customer relationship management all generating exponentially growing data as businesses scale.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Data architecture goals The goal of data architecture is to translate business needs into data and system requirements, and to manage data and its flow through the enterprise. AI and ML are used to automate systems for tasks such as data collection and labeling. An organizations data architecture is the purview of data architects.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence. Image Credits: AppMap.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Development pace: Is code typically shipped in days/weeks, or does it take months/quarters? The following are a few suggestions to get Startup Speed right: Speed audit It’s not always necessary to formally analyze a company’s speed, but it can be valuable to an investor during diligence or to a founder if they think they’re moving too slowly.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2024

For instance, a skilled developer might not just debug code but also optimize it to improve system performance. HackerEarths technical assessments , coding challenges, and project-based evaluations help evaluate candidates on their problem-solving, critical thinking, and technical capabilities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Data engineers have a big problem. Redbird was created to help everyone in an organization create and run analytics without using code, therefore reducing the amount of bottlenecks that data engineers need to deal with. The new funding will be used to add more no-code capabilities.

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Mobilunity

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Currently, 27% of global companies utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning for activities like coding and code reviewing, and it is projected that 76% of companies will incorporate these technologies in the next several years. What are the roles of AI engineers in project development? Healthcare.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Capital One built Cloud Custodian initially to address the issue of dev/test systems left running with little utilization. Architects must combine functional requirements with multiple other long-term requirements to build sustainable systems. The rapid adoption of AI is making the challenge an order of magnitude worse.

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