Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Make sure production environment differs from developer environments in as many ways as possible. Leverage any production issue as a reason to “pull the brakes” Introduce very complex processes for code change and common workflows.

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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. So, is technical debt bad? Why is technical debt important?

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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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Luis Goncalves

APRIL 11, 2025

While launching a startup is difficult, successfully scaling requires an entirely different skillset, strategy framework, and operational systems. This guide explores essential frameworks, common pitfalls, and proven strategies to transform your promising venture into a market leader. What Does Scaling a Startup Really Mean?

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Apiumhub

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In Agile environments, maintaining focus is crucial to achieving optimal performance, especially in complex tasks like software development. The challenge in professional environments, especially for Agile teams , is maintaining this balance so the team can perform at its best without experiencing burnout or exhaustion.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Software consultant Andrew Drach’s two companies Callentis and Solwey demonstrate his entrepreneurial skills, but his clients also value his educational background, as we learned through TechCrunch’s survey to identify the best software consultants for startups. How is your team structured?

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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. IT employees?

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OverOps

JUNE 4, 2019

The following is a guest post from Herb Krasner, an Advisory Board Member for the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) and industry consultant for 5 decades. 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.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Want to boost your software updates’ safety? Plus, learn why GenAI and data security have become top drivers of cyber strategies. And get the latest on the top “no-nos” for software security; the EU’s new cyber law; and CISOs’ communications with boards. Looking for help with shadow AI? New publications offer valuable tips.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Why its important: A shorter Time to Hire generally reflects an efficient recruitment process, allowing your team to remain productive and ensuring that candidates dont lose interest due to a lengthy hiring process. Why its important: Quality of Hire directly impacts team performance, innovation, and culture.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Whether summarizing notes or helping with coding, people in disparate organizations use gen AI to reduce the bind associated with repetitive tasks, and increase the time for value-acting activities. Selecting the right strategy now will dictate if you’re successful in four years.” But it’s not all good news.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This year saw emerging risks posed by AI , disastrous outages like the CrowdStrike incident , and surmounting software supply chain frailties , as well as the risk of cyberattacks and quantum computing breaking todays most advanced encryption algorithms. Furthermore, the software supply chain is also under increasing threat.

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CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. Unfortunately, the road to data strategy success is fraught with challenges, so CIOs and other technology leaders need to plan and execute carefully. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2024

Also known as code debt, it’s the accumulation of legacy systems and applications that are difficult to maintain and support, as well as poorly written or hastily implemented code that increases risk over time. Sutton recommends three strategies to help keep technical debt in check.

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 28, 2021

When people think of code reviews, they usually think in terms of an explicit step in a development team's workflow. One of the most pervasive perspectives in software is the notion that it's something we build and complete - hence the endless metaphor of building construction and architecture.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software The information technology that enables scientific and commercial breakthroughs, from precision medicine to digital transformation, demonstrates tech’s boundless potential to improve our world. At long last, the tide may be turning.

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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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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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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Take Descope , for example, which today announced that it raised a whopping $53 million in seed funding for its “developer-first” authentication and user management platform. In tight economies, organizations feel the pressure to shift software development efforts to initiatives that’ll move the needle for business.

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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. Product Management and Software Development: The Big Clash. Software development is not an easy feat.

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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. Organizations looking to quantify financial benefits can develop their own ROI calculators tailored to their specific needs.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2024

While these interviews aim to test a candidates problem-solving and coding abilities, they often fail to reflect real-world scenarios and can create unnecessary barriers for talented professionals. Whiteboard interviews also fail to consider the collaborative nature of modern software development.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Maintaining source code is one of the toughest challenges that software developers face. In a 2020 survey from Sourcegraph, 51% of developers said that they have more than 100 times the volume of code they had ten years ago while 92% say the pressure to release software faster has increased.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind. And if you’ve added “AI” to your pitch deck only to make it more appealing, here’s some more bad news: FOMO is passé, and due diligence is the new black.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Defective leadership Leadership is a key component in the successful timing of any major transformation project, ahead of strategy and technology, says Suneet Dua, chief revenue and growth officer for products and technology at business advisory firm PwC. Mistimed initiatives ultimately result in poor adoption, Lively warns. “If

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The promise of lower hardware costs has spurred startups to migrate services to the cloud, but many teams were unsure how to do this efficiently or cost-effectively. Developers at startups thought they could maintain multiple application code bases that work independently with each cloud provider. They had no choice.

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Perficient

MARCH 31, 2025

The modern Android development landscape increasingly relies on two powerful tools: Figma for collaborative UI/UX design and Jetpack Compose for building native UIs declaratively. A crucial step in the development workflow is translating the polished designs from Figma into functional Compose code.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

As of 2020, the clothing sector lost about $27 billion in annual sales due to counterfeits, an illicit trade that results in huge losses to both brands and buyers. Unlike our competitors, which are forced to review manually in time-consuming processes, MarqVision’s process end-to-end is mostly automated.”.

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 21, 2023

We will also discuss the negative impact of security and compliance breaches, the benefits of investing in secure and compliant enterprise applications, and how to integrate security and compliance into the development process. The success of this method depends on how weak or strong the password of the victim’s account is.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

But the partnership seeks to go beyond Cognizant’s internal use, with Microsoft and Cognizant teaming up to promote generative AI use across Cognizant’s global client base through the advisory and digital transformation services arm of Cognizant’s business.

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CIO

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cloud strategies are undergoing a sea change of late, with CIOs becoming more intentional about making the most of multiple clouds. A lot of ‘multicloud’ strategies were not actually multicloud. Today’s strategies are increasingly multicloud by intention,” she adds.

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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. How can software instrumentation turn into an investment capable of generating returns? Part 1: Is your observability a cost or an investment? All of which drove up costs.

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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. Some observability platforms are approaching AWS levels of pricing complexity these days. So far, so good.

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Experience to Lead

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

We utilized whole-team simulations, classroom lectures and single-component training to increase system familiarity. Knowing the door type (a result of system familiarity) allowed us to optimize our decision-making time by spending more time and diligence on the one-way doors.” What is cognitive reflection?

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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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