Xebia

JUNE 6, 2023

Sometimes, the coding task in front of you can be overwhelmingly complex. Armed with a few assumptions about how things should work, I embarked on developing an application with a graphical UI and a backend. To tackle each operation, I started with a small test, following the principles of Test-Driven Development (TDD).

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

CIOs and other executives identified familiar IT roles that will need to evolve to stay relevant, including traditional software development, network and database management, and application testing. And while AI is already developing code, it serves mostly as a productivity enhancer today, Hafez says.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Implementing a version control system for AWS QuickSight can significantly enhance collaboration, streamline development processes, and improve the overall governance of BI projects. The Azure CLI (az command line tool) then creates the pull request and provides a link to the user for review.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Disentangling Programming Concerns At first glance, all the activities I mentioned seem inseparable, like a big blob of spaghetti code. What do we want to achieve with the code we’re creating? In most cases, we need the ability to evolve the code. We introduce design to our software. The post TDD or Test-Last?

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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. Early use cases include code generation and documentation, test case generation and test automation, as well as code optimization and refactoring, among others.

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Honeycomb

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Space.com sums up the Big Bang as our universe starting with an infinitely hot and dense single point that inflated and stretchedfirst at unimaginable speeds, and then at a more measurable rate […] to the still-expanding cosmos that we know today, and thats kind of how I like to think about November 2022 for junior developers.

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

And yet, three to six months or more of deliberation to finalize a software purchasing decision. No wonder 90% of IT Executives in North America see software sourcing and vendor selection as a pain point. Ready to Transform the Way You Make Software Decisions? See also: How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI. )

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The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the fast-paced world of software development, writing clean and maintainable code is not just a good practice; it’s a crucial factor in determining the success of a project. Code Organization Modularization: Breaking down your code into small, manageable modules is akin to organizing a cluttered room.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Specifically, organizations are contemplating Generative AI’s impact on software development. While the potential of Generative AI in software development is exciting, there are still risks and guardrails that need to be considered. Even with safeguards in place, AI might be capable of breaking security.

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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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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

AI governance is already a complex issue due to rapid innovation and the absence of universal templates, standards, or certifications. They predicted more mature firms will seek help from AI service providers and systems integrators. Forrester’s 2024 developer survey showed that developers spend about 24% of their time coding.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With IT systems growing more complex and user demands rising, AI is emerging as a transformative tool for tackling these challenges. While it might not seem a lot, a 3% improvement in an organization with 6,000 software developments is a whole other product you can put up. The irony is hard to ignore.

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Xebia

APRIL 1, 2025

Currently there is a lot of focus on the engineers that can produce code easier and faster using GitHub Copilot. Eventually this path leads to disappointment: either the code does not work as hoped, or there was crucial information missing and the AI took a wrong turn somewhere. Use what works for your application.

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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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OverOps

JULY 9, 2019

Software reliability is a big deal, especially at the enterprise level, but too often companies are flying blind when it comes to the overall quality and reliability of their applications. It seems like every week, there’s a new report in the news calling out another massive software failure. What is Continuous Reliability?

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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Digital transformation is expected to be the top strategic priority for businesses of all sizes and industries, yet organisations find the transformation journey challenging due to digital skill gap, tight budget, or technology resource shortages. Amidst these challenges, organisations turn to low-code to remain competitive and agile.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Theres a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. They were succeeded by programmers writing machine instructions as binary code to be input one bit at a time by flipping switches on the front of a computer. Consumer operating systems were also a big part of the story.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Want to boost your software updates’ safety? And get the latest on the top “no-nos” for software security; the EU’s new cyber law; and CISOs’ communications with boards. The guide outlines key steps for a secure software development process, including planning; development and testing; internal rollout; and controlled rollout.

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 21, 2025

GitHub is a widely used platform for version control and collaboration, enabling developers to store, manage, and share code repositories. It supports Git, a distributed version control system that allows multiple contributors to work on projects simultaneously. Introduction Howdy!

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Henrik Warne

JANUARY 10, 2024

“Software design is preparation for change; change of behavior” Tidy First? It is a short little book, only about 100 pages (and lots of white space on them), but it contains some deep insights about software development. I have noticed that many developers are reluctant to introduce explaining variables/constants.

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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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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

For many organizations, preparing their data for AI is the first time they’ve looked at data in a cross-cutting way that shows the discrepancies between systems, says Eren Yahav, co-founder and CTO of AI coding assistant Tabnine. If you were using area codes to validate locality, you lost a lot of records,” Kashalikar adds.

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 28, 2021

Tooling supports and encourages code review of the contribution before accepting the request. Pull requests have become widely used in software development, but critics are concerned by the addition of integration friction which can prevent continuous integration.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

However, a deluge of data means legacy search systems can struggle to help business users quickly find what they need. In response, modern search systems have made great leaps in the accuracy, relevancy, and usefulness of results by leveraging AI-based capabilities. The combination of keyword and vector search (a.k.a.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Socratic , an early-stage startup that wants to bring data to bear on a developer-focused task management system, announced a $3 million seed investment today from Unusual Ventures, Overtime.vc The company is also opening up public beta of the software starting today. and a couple of industry angels.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

QA Wolf , a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs in software, today exited stealth and announced a $20 million funding round led by Inspired Capital with participation from Notation Capital, Operator Partners and Thiel Capital and several angel investors (among them Peter Thiel). Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A few years ago, when working as a software developer building and maintaining internal platform components for a cloud company, I deleted an application from production as part of a deprecation. I had double and triple-checked references and done my due diligence communicating with the company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Outsourcing engineering has become more common in recent years, so we’re starting a new initiative to profile the software consultants who startups love to work with the most. ” The software development agency has worked on more than 350 digital products since its founding in 2009, for startups of all sizes.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

AI-generated code promises to reshape cloud-native application development practices, offering unparalleled efficiency gains and fostering innovation at unprecedented levels. This dichotomy underscores the need for a nuanced understanding between AI-developed code and security within the cloud-native ecosystem.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

With less time lost due to confusion or misunderstandings, DevSecOps teams can devote more of their attention to strategic tasks such as vulnerability remediation. The technology can review code more thoroughly than humans can, identifying patterns that might not seem obvious. Incorporate genAI into existing workflows.

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Xebia

JANUARY 27, 2024

One such initiative involves developing a toolset for assessing a customer’s situation. This toolset (working title: Truffleswine) allows us to retrieve relevant data from systems quickly, which in turn helps us ask the right questions sooner and clarify business cases for improvement using actual data.

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