Luis Goncalves

APRIL 11, 2025

While launching a startup is difficult, successfully scaling requires an entirely different skillset, strategy framework, and operational systems. Sales: Building Your Growth Engine The foundation of scaling startups is a robust sales strategy driving consistent revenue growth. What Does Scaling a Startup Really Mean?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Once the province of the data warehouse team, data management has increasingly become a C-suite priority, with data quality seen as key for both customer experience and business performance. But along with siloed data and compliance concerns , poor data quality is holding back enterprise AI projects.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Gartner reported that on average only 54% of AI models move from pilot to production: Many AI models developed never even reach production. 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]. … that is not an awful lot.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with refactoring. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unfactored implementation, object-oriented or otherwise. So, is technical debt bad? The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. 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. Encourage communal ownership of systems.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

In the rush to build, test and deploy AI systems, businesses often lack the resources and time to fully validate their systems and ensure they’re bug-free. In a 2018 report , Gartner predicted that 85% of AI projects will deliver erroneous outcomes due to bias in data, algorithms or the teams responsible for managing them.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Development pace: Is code typically shipped in days/weeks, or does it take months/quarters? Talent operations: How quickly are new hires productive and how quickly are underperformers managed out? Communication flow: How fast do important developments/results travel throughout the entire organization?

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

What is needed is a single view of all of my AI agents I am building that will give me an alert when performance is poor or there is a security concern. Agentic AI systems require more sophisticated monitoring, security, and governance mechanisms due to their autonomous nature and complex decision-making processes.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 9, 2025

Its essential for admins to periodically review these metrics to understand how users are engaging with Amazon Q Business and identify potential areas of improvement. We begin with an overview of the available metrics and how they can be used for measuring user engagement and system effectiveness.

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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.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

For those organizations, the hiring themes are all about productivity, efficiency, and service; democratizing data; and building the engines to leverage it, Distinguished Searchs Hackley explains. Cloud security and third-party risk is also a must, with bad actors becoming more sophisticated, Hackley says.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But it is equally vital to identify those people who can develop into managers and create a path forward for them as well. The most innovative engineer does not always become the most successful engineering manager. Changing the equation IT has not traditionally tried very hard to develop strong managers from within.

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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.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 16, 2025

In 2018, I dashed off a punchy little blog post in which I observed that teams with good observability seemed to spend around ~20-30% of their infra bill to get it. People who claim that they pay less than 15%, in my experience, usually fail to include the cost of engineers and engineering time in their estimates. I dont know.

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OverOps

JUNE 4, 2019

In a previous post , we looked at the magnitude and impact of the soaring cost of poor software quality in the US and where those hidden costs are typically found. Knowing these values allows management and team members across the company to take action in ensuring high quality at a lower cost.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Developers can be a tough crowd. Coming up with relevant content that developers find interesting takes specific know-how, and this is where Draft.dev comes in. One of the survey respondents noted that developers are underrated as a target audience: It may be niche, but it is a large one. What inspired you to create Draft.dev?

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Xebia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Many teams are using Atlassian’s JIRA as an issue tracker, which then becomes a valuable source of information for their daily operations. As a team leader utilizing JIRA, you probably have employed JIRA dashboards to monitor the status of work, usually in context of a (release) planning. “won’t fix”).

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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. In my case, we were 17 people let go that day, including 8 developers. Next, I went through my list of companies I would like to work for, and looked to see if they had any open developer roles. Here is what I learnt from the process.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Telehealth company Lucid Lane raised $16 million in Series A funding to continue developing its platform that enables real-time intervention for people with medication dependence and substance-use disorders. Lucid Lane has developed a service to get patients off of pain meds and avoid dependence.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 23, 2025

In last weeks piece, we talked about some of the factors that are driving costs up , both good and bad, and about whether your observability bill is (or should be) more of a cost center or an investment. I have talked to so many engineers at large enterprises who are like, name literally any tool, we probably run it somewhere around here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

. “Coming from engineering and machine learning backgrounds, [Heartex’s founding team] knew what value machine learning and AI can bring to the organization,” Malyuk told TechCrunch via email. ” Software developers Malyuk, Maxim Tkachenko, and Nikolay Lyubimov co-founded Heartex in 2019.

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OverOps

MARCH 26, 2019

Many organizations have been struggling to understand not only the cost of downtime, but how to quantify the quality of their software and what the cost is of poor quality code. A new report from the Consortium for IT Software Quality ( 1 ) covers the cost of poor software quality, shedding light on those topics. ?? NEW POST ??

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The model aims to answer natural language questions about system status and performance based on telemetry data. Google is open-sourcing SynthID, a system for watermarking text so AI-generated documents can be traced to the LLM that generated them. These are small models, designed to work on resource-limited “edge” systems.

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Netlify

MARCH 4, 2020

The code review is a critical part of life as a professional developer: in most engineering organizations, no code gets checked in without at least a second look from another engineer. To solve this, Netlify’s UX team developed shared terminology for code reviews that we call the Feedback Ladder!

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI. Namely, that LLMs are black boxes that produce nondeterministic outputs and cannot be debugged or tested using traditional software engineering techniques.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Vetted , the startup formerly known as Lustre, today announced that it secured $15 million to fund development of its AI-powered platform for product reviews. Vetted ranks products based on more than 10,000 factors, including reviewer credibility, brand reliability, enthusiast consensus and how past generations performed.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

A never-ending debate is that about the quality of Indian software developers. It is said that most developers around the world begin coding at a ridiculously young age. Hence, we have always heard time and again that Indian software developers are ok-to-mediocre coders, are not technically competent, and most times, clueless.

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Altexsoft

MAY 30, 2020

NET is a software development framework and ecosystem designed and supported by Microsoft to allow for easy desktop and web application engineering. Since that time, the framework has undergone multiple iterations spanning runtime updates, new desktop graphical systems (WPF), APIs for service-oriented applications (WCF), and more.

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases.

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Erik Bernhardsson

JUNE 7, 2020

Good/bad compensation systems. I'll start by stating what I think are goals and anti-goals: A good system doesn't waste money hiring new people when you can pay to keep existing people. A bad system keeps people below the salary that you would give them to keep them. Phew, that was a lot!

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JANUARY 22, 2025

Security teams in highly regulated industries like financial services often employ Privileged Access Management (PAM) systems to secure, manage, and monitor the use of privileged access across their critical IT infrastructure. Using this capability, security teams can process all the video recordings into transcripts.

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of organizations reviewing their password management strategies. The firm had seen continuous patterns of activity that showed that bad actors tried to get passwords to privileged user accounts. According to reports, MGM and Caesars were both customers of identity management company Okta.

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The Crazy Programmer

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

A web developer is a person who’s responsible for a visual appeal of a website and performs tasks related to the website’s layout, development of web applications, and integration of graphics. Web Developers Aren’t Just There to Design Your Website. Web Developers Aren’t Just There to Design Your Website.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

We work with contributors to develop guest posts that will help TechCrunch+ readers solve actual problems, so it’s always a delight to present a comprehensive “how to” article. In this case, Barnabas Birmacher, CEO of Platform as a Service company Bitrise, shared the lessons he learned as his team attempted to enter Japan.

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Luis Goncalves

AUGUST 21, 2019

Product development is a long and laborious process. And because of this more and more companies are using Outsourcing Software Development services to help them to reduce the time to market. Your engineers who used to easily crank up new features are now missing deadlines. And it seems that your engineers cannot keep up.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

He earned a master’s degree from Villanova, but it was in human resources development. Cybersecurity is too important to risk having team members who can’t (no pun intended) hack it. Cybersecurity is too important to risk having team members who can’t (no pun intended) hack it. He graduated from a college I’d never heard of.

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