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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

We currently have cloud vendors that offer end-to-end solutions from the developer experience down to the hardware: What if cloud vendors focus on the lowest layer, and other (pure software) vendors on the layer above? Margins aren't so bad and vendor lock-in is still pretty high. Maybe owning the lowest layer isn't so bad?

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AoAD2 Chapter: Teamwork (Introduction)

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020 by James Shore and Shane Warden. 1 [Beck et al.

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Programmers.

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AoAD2 Practice: Task Planning

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Whole Team.

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AoAD2 Practice: Fast, Reliable Tests

James Shore

This is an excerpt from The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. The full text of this section is available below, courtesy of the Art of Agile Development book club ! Test-Driven Development. Flaky tests are the result of poor design.

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5 Benefits of Outsourcing That Make Sense for Saas

UruIT

Since we started in 2007, we’ve seen SaaS booming especially in the talent management, financial, commercial real estate and construction industries , and a new breed that’s exploring the advantages of AI and blockchain. Therefore, working with a nearshore team is an efficient way to expend their time and budget.

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What Is ITIL? Uses, Versions, Certifications and More

Kaseya

CCTA was commissioned to combat the problem of poor-quality IT services being procured by the British Government. As such, the CCTA developed a set of recommendations to ensure effective and efficient provisioning of IT services for a fraction of the cost. The third version of ITIL, called ITIL v3, was published in 2007.