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It’s Not Over Yet: Stories of an Aging Software Developer

Xebia

As we grow older, our outlook on life changes. We go through physical and mental changes. Both types of changes impact the kind of work we can and like to do. This is most obvious in professions that require physical work. A 30-year-old tennis player is old. A construction worker’s body cannot take as much abuse at the age of 50 as it could at 20.

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Mastering software quality with Agile collaboration

Agile Alliance

How the Swiss Post team successfully overcame quality assurance challenges in software development by adopting Agile practices, emphasizing teamwork, and maintaining clear roles and responsibilities. The post Mastering software quality with Agile collaboration first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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CEOs’ top priorities for IT leaders today

CIO

Lawrence Bilker can easily articulate the business values that his IT initiatives should deliver: better experiences for both employees and customers, more insights from data to enable smarter decision-making, and more intelligence for improved operations. Overall, IT projects are meant to create a leaner, more profitable company, says Bilker, CIO of manufacturer Lift Solutions Holding.

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The SF Bay Area Has Become The Undisputed Leader In AI Tech And Funding Dollars

Crunchbase News

There’s been much talk of a resurgent San Francisco with the new technology wave of artificial intelligence washing over the software world. Indeed, Crunchbase funding data as well as interviews with startup investors and real estate industry professionals show the San Francisco Bay Area has become the undisputed epicenter of artificial intelligence.

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Build the Case: Quantify the Real Costs of In-House Testing and QA Gaps

Underinvesting in software testing costs more than you think, and now you can prove it. This guide helps you quantify hidden costs like developer time, support overhead, tech debt, and lost revenue. Use the companion calculator to model your own data, and present your findings with a ready-to-edit presentation template. Whether you're making the case to leadership or validating outsourcing, this toolkit gives you the numbers and tools you need.

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IBM’s watsonx.governance takes aim at AI auditing

CIO

IBM is betting big on its toolkit for monitoring generative AI and machine learning models, dubbed watsonx.governance , to take on rivals and position the offering as a top AI governance product, according to a senior executive at IBM. The toolkit, released as part of IBM’s watsonx generative AI platform last May, is uniquely differentiated by its audit trail capability, said Heather Gentile, director of product management at IBM’s data and AI software division.

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Inteligencia artificial aplicada a la agricultura para combatir la crisis hídrica

CIO

En un escenario en el que la reserva hídrica española se encuentra críticamente baja, con tan solo un 54,7% de su capacidad total a inicios de marzo, el proyecto AgrarIA emerge como un rayo de esperanza para el sector agroalimentario. La iniciativa, financiada a través del programa Misiones de I+D en Inteligencia Artificial (IA) impulsado por la Secretaría de Estado de Digitalización e IA (SEDIA), tiene como objetivo la aplicación de tecnologías avanzadas para desarrollar métodos de producción a

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Criminal IP and Quad9 Collaborate to Exchange Domain and IP Threat Intelligence

DevOps.com

Torrance, California, May 13th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Criminal IP, a renowned Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine developed by AI SPERA, has recently signed a technology partnership to exchange threat intelligence data based on domains and potentially on the IP address to protect users by blocking threats to end users.

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“La transformación digital ha sido un renacimiento para la industria de la moda”

CIO

Porte y personalidad, estilo propio y conocimiento de causa. Resulta prácticamente imposible no recalar en su figura; y es que Coro Saldaña , senior fasion & retail business executive, es de esas personas que, sin un gran esfuerzo aparente, producen un impacto significativo en los demás. Quizás sea su carisma, la forma en la que narra los conocimientos adquiridos tras más de dos décadas dedicadas en cuerpo y alma al sector de la moda o el expertise atesorado a lo largo de catorce años en el

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vFunction Adds Real-Time Observability and GenAI Tool to Migration Platform

DevOps.com

vFunction, the AI-driven architectural observability platform today added real-time observability and GenAI assistant. vFunction today added an ability to observe IT architectures in real-time to a platform that automatically converts monolithic application code into a set of microservices.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Endesa conjuga IA y 5G para robustecer la seguridad de los trabajadores

CIO

Endesa ha probado el uso de la tecnología 5G combinada con la inteligencia artificial (IA) para mejorar la seguridad de los trabajadores durante las tareas de mantenimiento de las infraestructuras de la red de distribución. La filial de redes de Endesa, E-distribución, ha desplegado una red privada 5G en la subestación Ecogarraf en Barcelona en el marco del proyecto europeo Smart5Grid ( Demonstration of 5G solutions for SMART energy GRIDs of the future ).

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Untangling IT-OT Security Knots with a Zero Trust Platform Approach

Palo Alto Networks

Organizations today are grappling with the complexities of digital transformation, a shifting threat landscape with the emergence of new technologies. Security teams are feeling this strain, struggling to ensure effective and resilient cybersecurity for an increasingly integrated IT-OT infrastructure. This dilemma is underscored by findings from a recent study we published with ABI research involving nearly 2,000 critical infrastructure enterprises globally.

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Seresco se apoya en la IA para mejorar los servicios de producción cartográfica

CIO

Seresco ha puesto punto y final a su proyecto de investigación y desarrollo para la mejora de los servicios de producción cartográfica con éxito. Para ello ha aplicado técnicas de inteligencia artificial (IA) sobre imágenes de territorio, áreas y satelitales de alta resolución, lo que le ha permitido interpretar de forma rápida y precisa la evolución y características de una determinada zona geográfica.

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Presenting the ‘Anti-budget’: Personal Finance for the C-Suite

CEO Insider

A 2023 survey states that 76% of C-Suite and HR leaders are stressed about their finances, with survey respondents — C-Suite, HR leaders, and employees alike — now taking action to improve their financial habits (81%) and cut expenses (80%). Also, as a financial planner, I personally find that many busy, successful people will avoid […] The post Presenting the ‘Anti-budget’: Personal Finance for the C-Suite appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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A Strategic Roadmap for AI Integration in Software Testing

Implementing AI in software testing can accelerate release cycles, boost efficiency, and enhance software quality—but only with a clear strategy. This guide offers a step-by-step roadmap to help you evaluate readiness, strengthen infrastructure, upskill teams, and meet compliance needs. Discover how to automate up to 70% of testing tasks, enhance defect detection, and integrate AI into your CI/CD workflows without disrupting your SDLC.

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Carpe WOO!

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Breakthrough leadership is about seizing the WOO – Window of Opportunity. Leaders can only seize the WOO to build their team by being fully present. Today’s guest post is b y Brian Biro, author of Lessons from the Legends: New Applications from the Timeless Wisdom of John Wooden and Pat Summitt. Is it possible that your life, relationships, health, and business can flourish as never before, despite even the most difficult circumstances?

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Building Industrial Metaverse Infrastructure in Your Organization

Ooda Loop

We continue our analysis of the categories and subsectors of the expanded metaverse, as Siemens, along with industry and media partners the MIT Technology Review, NVIDIA, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bentley Systems, and Youl Systems Inc., explores how businesses can assemble the industrial metaverse. Already a subscriber? Sign In.

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GenAI Showdown: SAP Edition

Dell EMC

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the SAP Arena! Today’s battle is Any-Premises vs. Hyperscaler for RISE with SAP S/4HANA.

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FBCS Collection Agency Data Breach Impacts 2.7 Million

Ooda Loop

Debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) says the personal information of 2.7 million was impacted in the recent data breach. FBCS revealed that it has identified 724,000 affected individuals. The compromised personal information includes names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and account information.

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Balancing Innovation and Governance: The CDO’s Dilemma

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Role of a Chief Data Officer The role of a Chief Data Officer or CDO is fundamental in modern data-centric companies and is multifaceted, requiring a unique combination of skills. With the increasing importance of data and analytics that spans across several business areas, the need for a CDO who can adapt, innovate, and lead in this complex environment has grown significantly.

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Six Clouderans Earn CRN Women of the Channel Distinction

Cloudera

Businesses today face unique challenges, whether it’s with hybrid cloud, AI, data analytics, or all of the above. Delivering solutions that can address those challenges effectively requires a robust ecosystem of partnerships. At the center of this critical ecosystem is the partner marketing team at Cloudera, who work tirelessly in pursuit of excellence for customers—and as a result, we’re proud to share that six of our very own Clouderans have been recognized by CRN as part of this year’s Women

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Accelerate Business Growth: The Chief Revenue Officer

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Role of a Chief Revenue Officer The Chief Revenue Officer role has become increasingly important in the constantly evolving world of business management. CROs are valued for their significant contributions to an organization’s revenue generation practices. By strategically focusing on all revenue-related aspects, they bring cohesion to sales, customer relationship management, revenue management, marketing, and customer service.

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Understanding the generative AI development process

InfoWorld

Back in the ancient days of machine learning , before you could use large language models (LLMs) as foundations for tuned models, you essentially had to train every possible machine learning model on all of your data to find the best (or least bad) fit. By ancient, I mean prior to the seminal paper on the transformer neural network architecture, “ Attention is all you need ,” in 2017.

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Is Your Test Automation Keeping Up With Your Codebase?

Codebases evolve rapidly, and your test automation should keep pace. However, many teams struggle with brittle scripts and growing test debt, which hinder delivery and increase risk. This guide illustrates how engineering leaders leverage AI to enhance the resilience and scalability of testing. You will discover how AI can automatically generate and maintain test cases, adapt to changing applications, and identify high-risk areas before problems reach production.

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Unveiling Potential: How Effective Leadership Training Propels Companies Forward

N2Growth Blog

The Role of Leadership Training in Enhancing Business Growth Leadership training programs equip individuals with the essential competencies necessary to succeed in today’s business landscape. These competencies include strategic foresight, decision-making capabilities, and the ability to manage, inspire, and empower teams. By providing leaders with the necessary tools and techniques, they can navigate the complexities of the business environment, align their vision and strategies with the

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Red Hat Plans to Add Policy-as-Code Tools to Ansible Platform

DevOps.com

Red Hat is previewing a policy-as-code capability for the Ansible Automation Platform that promises to make it simpler to apply and enforce governance and compliance policies.

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Grafana: Shining a light into Kubernetes clusters

InfoWorld

Back in 2014, when the wave of containers, Kubernetes, and distributed computing was breaking over the technology industry, Torkel Ödegaard was working as a platform engineer at eBay Sweden. Like other devops pioneers, Ödegaard was grappling with the new form factor of microservices and containers and struggling to climb the steep Kubernetes operations and troubleshooting learning curve.

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Donne e IT: perché nella tecnologia esiste un gender gap e come superarlo

CIO

“Una donna sarà adatta?”. Questa la domanda che si è sentita rivolgere, alcuni anni fa, Barbara Marmello, quando l’IT Director di gruppo (un’azienda con sede negli Stati Uniti) l’aveva selezionata per il ruolo di IT Manager della filiale italiana. Questa filiale era frutto di un’acquisizione di una società italiana e la precedente proprietà aveva espresso il suo scetticismo di fronte alla scelta dei proprietari americani.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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AI coding tools are your interns, not your replacement

InfoWorld

“AI models currently shine at helping so-so coders get more stuff done that works in the time they have,” argues engineer David Showalter. But is that right? Showalter was responding to Santiago Valdarrama’s contention that large language models (LLMs) are untrustworthy coding assistants. Valdarrama says, “Until LLMs give us the same guarantees [as programming languages, which consistently get computers to respond to commands], they’ll be condemned to be eternal ‘cool demos,’ useless for most se

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Shifting the Paradigm: Why the Cyber Insurance Industry Should Focus on Preventive Security

Tenable

Does your organization currently have a cyber insurance policy? Without it, you are missing a critical piece of a holistic security strategy. With increased cyberattacks and expansion in cloud and digital operational technology (OT) assets, organizations face significant costs during and after breaches. This has led to expensive claim payouts by cyber insurance providers, and, ultimately, higher premiums for customers.

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How to Retrieve WiFi Password on Windows

David Walsh

Remembering the WiFi password when on a guest network is never easy. Even worse is when it’s no longer posted and someone else is asking you for it. Luckily there’s a built in Windows command to recover the password of a given WiFi network. The Shell Code Open cmd and execute the following command: netsh wlan show profile name="David Walsh's Network" key=clear The result of the command, assuming the network is found, is a long text output with a variety of information about the netwo

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