February, 2025

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Panel at goto Copenhagen: "Where is SW development Going

Martin Fowler

was on a panel at goto Copenhagen last September with Holly Cummings, Trisha Gee, Dave Farley, and Daniel Terhorst-North. We discussed the current state of software development and where it was heading. Given the timing, there was much discussion about the role AI would play in our profession's future.

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Goodbye digital transformation, hello AI-first business transformation

CIO

Perhaps we got digital transformation wrong this whole time. Instead of focusing on the transformation part, we did a lot less transforming and a lot more digitalization. Instead of seeing digital as a new paradigm for our business, we over-indexed on digitizing legacy models and processes and modernizing our existing organization. As a result, most businesses remain saddled with complexity, department silos, and old ways of doing things.

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The End of Programming as We Know It

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Theres a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I dont buy it. It is not the end of programming. It is the end of programming as we know it today. That is not new. The first programmers connected physical circuits to perform each calculation. 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.

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Turning bugs into business insights with Agile

Agile Alliance

In this Agile success story, a Siemens QA team transformed bug management by leveraging data, collaboration, and machine learning to improve software quality and efficiency. The post Turning bugs into business insights with Agile first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Programming Conference – Jfokus Stockholm 2025

Henrik Warne

This week I attended the Jfokus software development conference in Stockholm, Sweden. I first went in 2011, and I have been back many times through the years. The conference has a Java focus (duh!), but many talks cover general topics as well. The whole development team at NGM got tickets. It is really nice to be able to discuss and compare notes with your colleagues.

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Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

Martin Fowler

A pre-trained GenAI model lacks recent and specific information about a domain. Bharani Subramaniam and I explain how Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) can fill that gap.

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Is VMware really becoming the new mainframe?

CIO

In the wake of Broadcoms acquisition of VMware, many CIOs have considered whether to drop VMware from their IT portfolios. But because the popular virtualization platform can be too expensive and pervasive to replace even if they may want to, they may find themselves with a mainframe-type of dilemma. The comparison of VMware to mainframes started as a bit of a joke for Gartner vice president analyst Michael Warrilow but the analogy holds up, to a point, he says.

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Why rebooting your phone daily is your best defense against zero-click hackers

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Mobile spyware attacks are on the rise globally. That's why you should treat your phone like a computer, according to this cybersecurity expert.

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Volunteers wanted: Help shape the future of Agile Alliance!

Agile Alliance

Join the Agile Alliance Board in shaping the organization's futurecollaborate, contribute to a 30-60-90-day roadmap, and make a lasting impact. The post Volunteers wanted: Help shape the future of Agile Alliance! first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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Bridging the Data Divide: How Confluent and Databricks Are Unlocking Real-Time AI

Confluent

An expanded partnership between Confluent and Databricks dramatically simplifies the integration between analytical and operational systems.

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ECS Fargate Persistent Storage: EFS Access Points vs. Lambda Workarounds

Xebia

When running a Docker container on ECS Fargate, persistent storage is often a necessity. I initially attempted to solve this by manually creating the required directory on EFS using a Lambda-backed custom resource. While this worked, it introduced unnecessary complexity. Through experimentation, I discovered a more elegant solutionusing EFS access points.

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GenAI Patterns: Reranker

Martin Fowler

LLMs struggle with large amounts of context. Bharani Subramaniam and I explain how to mitigate this common RAG problem with a Reranker which takes the document fragments from the retriever, and ranks them according to their usefulness.

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SAP throws a lifeline to large organizations with new ECC offering

CIO

SAP on Tuesday said it plans to announce a new offering in the next quarter that is based around SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) and is designed to help the firms largest customers plan, execute and succeed in their cloud transformation. To be called SAP ERP, private edition, transition option , the company said in a release that it will be available for purchase starting in 2028 and will be active for usage from 2031-2033.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Are we losing our critical thinking skills to AI? New Microsoft study raises red flags

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

As more workplaces embrace emerging technology, research warns that prolonged use of AI can erode our cognitive abilities.

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DevOps Evolution: From Movement to Platform Engineering in the AI Era

DevOps.com

Dynatrace's Andi Grabner discusses how DevOps is transforming through platform engineering and AI-driven automation to scale best practices and reduce friction.

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When AI Plays Both Sides of The Field

Symantec

Only those prepared for the game can have a shot at winning

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From Unfocused To Unstoppable: 5 Lessons I Learned Scaling My Startup With ADHD

Crunchbase News

By Bogdan Nesvit Founding a startup is one of the toughest career paths you can take evidenced by the 90% that are unsuccessful, 21% of which fail within the first year. In an environment where the odds are stacked against you, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, compounds the challenges founders face. Research shows that 80% of those with ADHD experience work-related struggles, while 69% of neurodivergent people suffer from impostor syndrome, which puts many off pursuing entrepr

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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GenAI Patterns: Query Rewriting

Martin Fowler

Users often have difficulty writing the most effective queries. Bharani Subramaniam and I explain Query Rewriting : getting an LLM to formulate alternative queries to send to a RAG's retriever.

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Can serverless fix fintech’s scaling problem?

CIO

Technology leaders in the financial services sector constantly struggle with the daily challenges of balancing cost, performance, and security the constant demand for high availability means that even a minor system outage could lead to significant financial and reputational losses. Add to this the escalating costs of maintaining legacy systems, which often act as bottlenecks for scalability.

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Cerebras CEO on DeepSeek: Every time computing gets cheaper, the market gets bigger

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The economic breakthrough of DeepSeek's techniques will lead not only to an expansion of AI use but a continued arms race to achieve breakthroughs, says CEO Andrew Feldman.

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Survey: Increased Tool Sprawl Saps Developer Productivity

DevOps.com

A survey of 300 IT professionals working in software engineering departments in the U.S. and Western Europe that have more than 150 developers, finds 75% are losing anywhere from six to 15 hours a week because of tool sprawl as respondents on average navigate 7.4 tools to build applications.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Preparing for AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Submit a proposal for a talk at our new virtual conference, Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It.Proposals must be submitted by March 5; the conference will take place April 24, 2025, from 11AM to 3PM EDT. When tools like GitHub Copilot first appeared, it was received wisdom that AI would make programming easier. It would be a boon to new programmers at the start of their careers, just learning a few new programming languages.

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Don’t Let Bad Time Management Undermine Your Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Five common mistakes to avoid.

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GenAI Patterns: RAG Limitations and Hybrid Retriever

Martin Fowler

Today Bharani Subramaniam and I outline four limitations to the simple RAG from yesterday, and the pattern that addresses the first of these: Hybrid Retriever. This tackles the inefficiencies of embeddings-based search by combining it with other search techniques.

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The lazy CIO’s guide to better IT investment

CIO

If youre like most CIOs, youre under pressure to introduce exciting new technological capabilities to the enterprise at large, promoting visions of digital transformation, generative AI, AGI, AI transformation, agentic AI, or some other version of being an FBC CIO thats Fully Buzzword Compliant for those who havent joined the AFC (Acronymic Fan Club).

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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OTC hearing aid eyeglasses available soon in US following FDA approval

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Nuance Audio showcased its glasses with built-in hearing aids at CES 2025. Now that the product is FDA-approved, it will be available in the US in the coming months.

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Spanish police arrest dangerous hacker behind attacks on NATO and US army

Ooda Loop

Spanish police have arrested an individual wanted in connection with several cyber attacks against NATO. Spanish police have arrested an individual wanted in connection with several cyber attacks against NATO and US military infrastructure. The police were able to identify him after he launched a cyber attack against the Spanish civil guard. Police also seized […] The post Spanish police arrest dangerous hacker behind attacks on NATO and US army appeared first on OODAloop.

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Amazon Q Business simplifies integration of enterprise knowledge bases at scale

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In this new era of emerging AI technologies, we have the opportunity to build AI-powered assistants tailored to specific business requirements. Amazon Q Business , a new generative AI-powered assistant, can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in an enterprises systems. Large-scale data ingestion is crucial for applications such as document analysis, summarization, research, and knowledge management.