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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory

Erik Bernhardsson

I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering changing in ways that have made us orders of magnitude more productive. Much like the classic No Silver Bullet paper on software productivity, none of these things in themselves were a dramatic improvement.

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Generative AI is a make-or-break moment for CIOs

CIO

And, in fact, McKinsey research argues the future could indeed be dazzling, with gen AI improving productivity in customer support by up to 40%, in software engineering by 20% to 30%, and in marketing by 10%. It does not allow for integration of proprietary data and offers the fewest privacy and IP protections.

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Predibase exits stealth with a low-code platform for building AI models

TechCrunch

-based companies, 44% said that they’ve not hired enough, were too siloed off to be effective and haven’t been given clear roles. As a result, most machine learning tasks in an organization are bottlenecked on an oversubscribed centralized data science team,” Molino told TechCrunch via email.

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Why Reinvent the Wheel? The Challenges of DIY Open Source Analytics Platforms

Cloudera

In their effort to reduce their technology spend, some organizations that leverage open source projects for advanced analytics often consider either building and maintaining their own runtime with the required data processing engines or retaining older, now obsolete, versions of legacy Cloudera runtimes (CDH or HDP).

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

Netflix Tech

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. Wednesday?—?December

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

Netflix Tech

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. Wednesday?—?December

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). We won’t go into the mathematics or engineering of modern machine learning here. A lot to learn, but worthwhile to access the unique and special value AI can create in the product space.