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A core plank of the SaaS economic model is under extreme pressure

TechCrunch

— Alex Under pressure Modern software companies grow in two key ways. It’s simple enough to understand: As SaaS companies sell their code on a subscription basis, they collect revenues over time. This is called net retention, net revenue retention (NRR) or net dollar retention (NDR).

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OpenTelemetry Best Practices #2 Agents, Sidecars, Collectors, Coded Instrumentation

Honeycomb

NET for instance), whereas in some languages, instrumenting in code may feel like an anti-pattern (Java for instance) and other techniques like annotations or monkey patching would be more idiomatic. style approach of tailing logs and relying purely on infrastructure metrics. However, it is just that: a great start.

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6 Must-Track Candidate Experience Metrics To Hire Better

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The best way to do so is to collect and use candidate experience metrics and insights. Let’s start with the basics and discuss how hiring metrics and insights can help create an awesome candidate experience. Candidate experience metrics: Which are the most relevant? #1

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TDD and Code Coverage Tools

Net Objectives

In TDD and Code Coverage, we established that code coverage tools do not provide useful project metrics, in and of themselves. In TDD, we don’t use code coverage tools for this purpose because we don’t need to. Continue reading "TDD and Code Coverage Tools". .

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How Agile Metrics can Boost your Product Development Process

RapidValue

A report by the Harvard Business Review states that companies that adopt Agile processes, experience 60% in revenue and profit growth. That said, businesses need to be acquainted with an aspect of Agile called the agile metrics to effectively reap the benefits. What exactly is Agile Metrics? . Agile Quality Metrics.

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Book review: Accelerate

Henrik Warne

The book Accelerate details the findings of four years of research on how DevOps affects various outcomes, such as software delivery tempo and stability, as well as the organizations’ profitability and market share. Software Delivery Performance. Many aspects of software development are hard to measure.

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI. In theory , all software is debuggable. There is a much longer list of things that make software less than 100% debuggable in practice.