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Amazon downsizes AWS in a fresh cost-cutting round

CIO

The layoffs will affect AWS’ sales, marketing, and brick-and-mortar technology development teams. Rethinking physical retail strategy On Tuesday, AWS also downsized its team responsible for developing technology for Amazon’s physical retail stores. In 2018, Amazon introduced cashier-less tech “Just Walk Out” at a Seattle store.

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2018: A Year in Review for Storage Systems.

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

2018 was a very busy year for Hitachi Vantara. For lack of similar capabilities, some of our competitors began implying that we would no longer be focused on the innovative data infrastructure, storage and compute solutions that were the hallmark of Hitachi Data Systems. A REST API is built directly into our VSP storage controllers.

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Bobidi launches to reward developers for testing companies’ AI models

TechCrunch

In the rush to build, test and deploy AI systems, businesses often lack the resources and time to fully validate their systems and ensure they’re bug-free. In a 2018 report , Gartner predicted that 85% of AI projects will deliver erroneous outcomes due to bias in data, algorithms or the teams responsible for managing them.

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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. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development.

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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

TechCrunch

William Cowell de Gruchy, Infogrid’s CEO, says that the cash will be put toward product development, strategic hires and customer acquisition efforts. Second, he argues that Infogrid is differentiated from other IoT-based building management systems in that it offers more context, specifically occupancy and air quality data.

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Contentstack raises $80M to grow its headless CMS platform for the enterprise

TechCrunch

The market for enterprise content management systems (CMS) is steeply growing as the need to organize and manage documents, images and other forms of digital content increases. Headless CMS systems act primarily as content repositories, managing back-end infrastructure while affording plenty of customization on the front end.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO

Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO. Helping software developers write and test code Similarly in tech, companies are currently open about some of their use cases, but protective of others.