Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

phenomenon We’ve all heard the slogan, “metrics, logs, and traces are the three pillars of observability.” For every request that enters your system, you write logs, increment counters, and maybe trace spans; then you store telemetry in many places. is about how you develop your code Observability 1.0 generation.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

DECEMBER 4, 2024

To address these challenges, we introduce Amazon Bedrock IDE , an integrated environment for developing and customizing generative AI applications. This approach enables sales, marketing, product, and supply chain teams to make data-driven decisions efficiently, regardless of their technical expertise.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Cloud transformation is not new, but as more assets move to the cloud, CIOs are needed who have experience with multi-cloud strategies for cost effectiveness and optimized systems. Cloud security and third-party risk is also a must, with bad actors becoming more sophisticated, Hackley says. Stories and metrics matter.

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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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CIO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a system of integrated software applications that manages day-to-day business processes and operations across finance, human resources, procurement, distribution, supply chain, and other functions. ERP systems improve enterprise operations in a number of ways. Key features of ERP systems.

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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. Or they have a very simple architecture, a system that does not change very often, and/or customer experience is not a priority or a differentiator for them. (If

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Demonstrating that there’s a robust market for contract management solutions, LinkSquares , a company developing intelligent software that helps brands maintain and ink new contracts, today announced that it raised $100 million in Series C financing led by G Squared. million at an $800 million valuation. Image Credits: LinkSquares.

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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. Get your free copy of Charity’s Cost Crisis in Metrics Tooling whitepaper. So far, so good.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CIOs need to align operations with these new use cases while ensuring their teams can support enterprise-wide digital transformations. Stapleton shares that ProcessUnity is conducting annual business impact reviews with executive and senior leadership teams, providing insight into critical business processes, HR, and technologies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and huge economies of scale in high-demand cities, farmers still suffer from poor logistics networks. When the pair started the company in 2017, the idea behind Releaf was not concrete yet as the team, based in the U.S.,

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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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Xebia

APRIL 4, 2024

In today’s business world, the synergy between stakeholders, product management and development teams are paramount. Customer’s problem At one of our major clients at Xebia customers complained, that the project velocity was inconsistent, while the development team seemed perpetually busy.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

” So , how is the team at Pariti setting out to solve these problems? Pariti then assesses each company across more than 70 information points ranging from the team and market to product and economics. In a nutshell, Pariti helps founders connect with affordable talent, access capital and develop their businesses.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Many software engineers are encountering LLMs for the very first time, while many ML engineers are being exposed directly to production systems for the very first time. Some of these things are related to cost/benefit tradeoffs, but most are about weak telemetry, instrumentation, and tooling. Latency is often unpredictable.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

So to get in front of the demand and further develop Ghost Financial’s first two core products, the company took in a $2.5 million pre-seed round to build engineering and marketing teams. Image Credits: Ghost Financial. Meyer cited research showing that by 2030, ghost kitchens will be a $1 trillion industry.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Is it inefficient processes that hamper communication within security teams? It becomes easier, however, when security leaders have a consistent framework in place for assessing the effectiveness of their people, processes, and technology – which is why I recently developed such a framework for IDC.

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Henrik Warne

MAY 26, 2019

DevOps in this context means things like continuous delivery, automated tests, trunk-based development, and proactive monitoring of system health. Many aspects of software development are hard to measure. I really liked that the authors have thought hard about what to measure in order to get objective yet useful metrics.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Lack of vision A common reason digital transformation fails is due to a lack of vision, which along with planning is the foundation for digital success. Poor execution Even the best plans can fail if execution is poor. This may require hiring outside experts and/or investing in training and development for existing staff.

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

A 1958 Harvard Business Review article coined the term information technology, focusing their definition on rapidly processing large amounts of information, using statistical and mathematical methods in decision-making, and simulating higher order thinking through applications.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

If you're using test-driven development, don't measure unit test code coverage. If you're trying to improve your team's coding and testing practices, perform root-cause analysis 1 of escaped defects, then improve your design and process to prevent that sort of defect from happening again. Here's the thing about TDD.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2023

Citizen developers have emerged as an approach to bridge the gap between technical expertise and domain knowledge. Citizen developers are a vital resource for organizations looking to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs, whilst supporting business innovation and agile change. Who is a citizen developer?

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Altexsoft

JULY 26, 2021

But no team is perfect, as there are always some weaknesses we want to spot and fix. That’s why we need metrics. When it comes to DevOps, the metrics should suit specific practices and processes, so the progress becomes measurable. In a nutshell, DevOps stands for development and operations.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

While organizations continue to discover the powerful applications of generative AI , adoption is often slowed down by team silos and bespoke workflows. As a result, building such a solution is often a significant undertaking for IT teams. Responsible AI components promote the safe and responsible development of AI across tenants.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

The lens system proposed by Glass isn’t quite the same, but it uses similar principles and unusually shaped lenses. The evaluation of these metrics is a non-trivial process I’m not equipped to do, but truthfully either one would be a game-changing upgrade for a phone. Bigger, brighter and a bit weirder.

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The Crazy Programmer

OCTOBER 17, 2021

What’s interesting is that most of these startups often fail due to hiring the wrong people, disharmony among team members, poor quality product or service, interrupted internal communication, not being customer-focused, and inability to deliver products on time. Enhanced Communication Among Teams.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In what follows, we flesh out the three assertions above with the bulk of the content explaining why it may be difficult to improve the poor success rate for business ideas. It’s not uncommon for 70-90% of ideas to either have no impact at all or actually move the metrics in the opposite direction of what was intended.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. There are other risks, too.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2022

IT complexity, seen in spiraling IT infrastructure costs, multi-cloud frameworks that require larger teams of software engineers, the proliferation of data capture and analytics, and overlapping cybersecurity applications, is the hallmark—and also the bane—of the modern enterprise. 81% believe that reducing it creates a competitive advantage.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 20, 2025

Asure anticipated that generative AI could aid contact center leaders to understand their teams support performance, identify gaps and pain points in their products, and recognize the most effective strategies for training customer support representatives using call transcripts.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Get a basic understanding of distributed systems and then go deeper with recommended resources. These always-on and always-available expectations are handled by distributed systems, which manage the inevitable fluctuations and failures of complex computing behind the scenes. “The Benefits of distributed systems.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 21, 2022

After trying all options existing on the market — from messaging systems to ETL tools — in-house data engineers decided to design a totally new solution for metrics monitoring and user activity tracking which would handle billions of messages a day. How Apache Kafka streams relate to Franz Kafka’s books. Practically, nothing.

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OverOps

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad? Venkat Subramaniam , President, Agile Developer, Inc. No matter how quickly or slowly code moves through development or how diligent your testing is, some issues will only surface in production when real data is involved. Venkat Subramaniam , President, Agile Developer, Inc.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Better yet, for those of you bold enough to place yourself under what might be the harsh scrutiny of others, you can get the benefits of a mini leadeship 360 review by asking your co-workers to rate you as a leader. If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. Section IX: Team Building.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Tech recruiters need a well-defined, structured hiring process that ensures they attract, evaluate, and select the best talent for their teams. Heres an example of how you can structure your screening process: Stage 1: Resume and Application Review Start by reviewing resumes to ensure candidates meet the basic qualifications for the role.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 15, 2023

Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? They write: “AI systems are becoming a part of everyday life. If we want prosocial outcomes, we need to design and report on the metrics that explicitly aim for those outcomes and measure the extent to which they have been achieved.

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