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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. To gain that insight he monitors ongoing usage and meets weekly or biweekly with internal business leaders — and with Microsoft, the city’s primary cloud service provider, to review current and future needs.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Many organizations are due to revisit their cloud strategies, as their businesses have changed and vendor offerings have matured,” says Brian Alletto, technology director at digital services consultancy West Monroe. How will we balance security, agility, and usability? But that doesn’t answer the question.

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Why Ruby Life CISO George Al Koura puts people first

CIO

We’re effectively a software company, but we have to humanize one another,” he says. While I enjoyed my time in software, I knew I was capable of more. So I spent a bunch of my overnight shifts reviewing all the SLAs for the company’s entire 80 plus clients to understand the business of cyber and what the organization actually did.

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Automating compliance in software delivery

CircleCI

Software development teams face a large and growing number of obstacles: shifting design requirements, organizational blockers, tight deadlines, complicated tech stacks and software supply chains. Examples of software compliance requirements. Software compliance best practices. Comprehensive testing.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Using common software, functionalities can be purchased and integrated with the click of a button and the availability of a credit card. Great for our agility, but it also has consequences. Value-stream teams have been given more autonomy and possibilities to select, purchase and integrate hardware and software. Code test. <?php

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Defensive Instrumentation Benefits Everyone

Honeycomb

A lot of reasoning in content is predicated on the audience being in a modern, psychologically safe, agile sort of environment. If you write software and your employer hasn’t caught up to all the newest, best ways to work, I hope this pragmatic post helps you sleep better at night. These things aren’t maliciously done. Problem solved.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Using common software, functionalities can be purchased and integrated with the click of a button and the availability of a credit card. Great for our agility, but it also has consequences. Value-stream teams have been given more autonomy and possibilities to select, purchase and integrate hardware and software.