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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

In addition to AI and machine learning, data science, cybersecurity, and other hard-to-find skills , IT leaders are also looking for outside help to accelerate the adoption of DevOps or product-/program-based operating models. Double down on vendor management.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

Principal software engineer As a senior-level technical role, a principal software engineer is responsible for leading a team of engineers and ensuring that the team builds and implements high-quality, scalable software, while following best practices. Average salary: US$145,416 Increase from 2021: 3.4%

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

The biggest value of cloud tends to result from cloud-native solutions, which exploit the scalability and variability benefits of cloud, says SAS’s Upchurch. Instead, his team employed DevOps practices to rearchitect applications to take advantage of native cloud capabilities. How will we measure and communicate the value of cloud?

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5 ways to measure and improve your QA Effectiveness; is your vendor up to the mark?

Trigent

Is your Vendor up to the mark? Outsourcing QA has become the norm on account of its ability to address the scalability of testing initiatives and bring in a sharper focus on outcome-based engagements. Periodic evaluation of your QA vendor is one of the first steps to ensuring a rewarding long-term outsourcing engagement.

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Kentik’s Journey to Deliver the First Cloud Network Observability Product

Kentik

And the cloud vendors’ management interfaces don’t make it easy to do simple things like figuring out traffic paths or visualizing traffic going over a VPN. This is happening at the same time that SRE and DevOps teams are actually speeding up and enjoying the agility of the cloud. Cloud is Dissolving the Network Edge.

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