TechEmpower CTO

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. What does a business leader do in this situation?

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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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OverOps

AUGUST 19, 2019

What’s the difference between static and dynamic code analysis, and how do you know which to use? Static code analysis is analogous to practicing your baseball swing with a practice net and a pitching machine. Static Code Analysis. This is usually done by analyzing the code against a given set of rules or coding standards.

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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.

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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. AI-driven software development hits snags Gen AI is becoming a pervasive force in all phases of software delivery. 40% of highly regulated enterprises will combine data and AI governance.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Alex Circei is CEO and co-founder of Waydev , a Git analytics tool that measures engineers' performance automatically. Summarizing the performance of 10, 20 or 50 developers over the past 12 months, offering personalized advice and having the facts to back it up — is no small task. Alex Circei. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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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

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

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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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

No-code and low-code development suites have so far been used mostly by marketers and analysts. Initially, no-code/low-code was primarily a way for non-technical builders to create (sometimes gimmicky) applications,” said Navin Chaddha, managing director at VC firm Mayfield. How much has adoption increased since?

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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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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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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. With features like pull requests, issue tracking, and code reviews, GitHub has become a vital tool for open-source and professional software development.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Especially with companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Salesforce and others in the news recently with announcements of agentic AI and agent creation tools and capabilities. Let’s review a case study and see how we can start to realize benefits now. It also meant that we could create files of any size with no additional code or cost.

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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

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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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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Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes. It draws on the valuable lessons learned from open-source projects and adapts them to the context of how companies create software internally.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Infrastructure as code (IaC) has been gaining wider adoption among DevOps teams in recent years, but the complexities of data center configuration and management continue to create problems — and opportunities. Why are companies hesitant to adopt infrastructure as code? We surveyed top investors in IaC startups to find out more.

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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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CIO

JULY 12, 2024

Good coding practices for performance and efficiency have been part of software engineering since the earliest days. These emissions include both the energy that physical hardware consumes to run software programs and those associated with manufacturing the hardware itself. How do we even know it’s green?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Filevine , a startup offering a software-as-a-service product for legal case management, today announced that it closed a $108 million series D round led by StepStone Group with participation from Golub Capital and existing investors Signal Peak Ventures and Meritech Capital. software-as-a-service market.” Roughly $1.4

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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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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. This includes monitoring the usage of unapproved AI tools by employees — an issue known as “shadow AI.” Looking for help with shadow AI?

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Xebia

MAY 13, 2024

But what about a software developer? This was in no small part due to the culture at Oracle. This seems to be a natural career path: Software developers become team leads, and team leads become managers or architects. So, I decided to go back to software development. Easy to see.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

They bonded over frustrations at their respective jobs in what seemed like a hardware industry left behind to rely on PDFs and email to get things done versus software development. “It AllSpice’s design review function. Flux , which raised $12 million last October, is developing a browser-based hardware design tool.

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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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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? Here, we have to be creative and knowledgeable about the tools we use. In most cases, we need the ability to evolve the code.

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Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

has three pillars and many sources of truth , scattered across disparate tools and formats. You probably use some subset (or superset) of tools including APM, RUM, unstructured logs, structured logs, infra metrics, tracing tools, profiling tools, product analytics, marketing analytics, dashboards, SLO tools, and more.

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InnovationM

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Linting is a static code analysis tool that automatically scans your code for potential errors, stylistic issues, and inconsistencies. It helps you maintain code quality, consistency, and readability by identifying and flagging potential problems early in the development process. What is Linting? Why Use Linting?

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Consulting firm McKinsey Digital notes that many organizations fall short of their digital and AI transformation goals due to process complexity rather than technical complexity. Beyond breaking down silos, modern data architectures need to provide interfaces that make it easy for users to consume data using tools fit for their jobs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Frank Roe Contributor Share on Twitter Frank Roe is CEO of SmartBear , a provider of software development and visibility tools. It is essential to approach the decision and process with diligence and forethought. The company has completed eight acquisitions in less than five years.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

Below is a list of 10 intellectual property and commercial areas that investors look at during due diligence, and steps that startups can take to better prepare for these issues. The fact that a person is employed by a company is typically insufficient for it to secure any IP developed by the employee.

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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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xmatters

JANUARY 7, 2025

In software, workflows can exist within or between multiple tools, known as a DevOps toolchain. These toolchains enable teams to automate and integrate workflows, reducing manual effort throughout the development cycle. Tasks are completed manually, often using paper forms or basic digital tools like email.

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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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