CIO

APRIL 29, 2025

But t echnical debt can undercut an organizations ability to innovate long term, and the shortcuts taken during initial development likely resulted in a codebase thats convoluted, slow, or difficult for devs to understand. Add outdated components or frameworks to the mix, and the difficulty to maintain the code compounds.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AI is the next leap forward beyond traditional AI to systems that are capable of handling complex, multi-step activities utilizing components called agents. He believes these agentic systems will make that possible, and he thinks 2025 will be the year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. They have no goal.

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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.

Systems Review 190

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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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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

MAY 6, 2025

For example, by analyzing customer feedback, including unstructured data such as reviews and social media comments, AI helps organizations operationalize that feedback to improve training, policies, and hiring, Mazur says. Employees are already experimenting with LLMs and uncovering ways to adapt their work with agentic AI.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2024

By modern, I refer to an engineering-driven methodology that fully capitalizes on automation and software engineering best practices. This approach is repeatable, minimizes dependence on manual controls, harnesses technology and AI for data management and integrates seamlessly into the digital product development process.

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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

APRIL 17, 2025

Directors are often more accurate in their confidence assessments, because theyre swimming in the systems, not just reviewing summaries. Essentially, multiple pieces of smaller software owned by different vendors are all coming together to build the product, he adds.

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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

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. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with refactoring. The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid.

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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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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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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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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

In: Developing transformational leadership and AI-ready employees One of my three key digital transformation priorities for CIOs in 2024 was developing transformational leadership to help increase the amount of strategic initiatives, experimentation, and change management programs IT can support.

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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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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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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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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

MAY 7, 2025

This applies at every level, from small coding decisions all the way up to an organization's structure. Our default approach to improve a product, a system, or an organization is to add something more. Because complex systems are more likely to break. Everyone had assumed someone else was doing the due diligence.

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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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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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Tenable

MAY 6, 2025

Vibe coding has attracted much attention in recent weeks with the release of many AI-driven tools. This blog answers some of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) around vibe coding. This blog answers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding vibe coding. This blog answers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding vibe coding.

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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

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. But this definition misses the essence of modern enterprise architecture.

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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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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.

Systems Review 182

Systems Review System Software Review Development 182

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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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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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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