CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. 61% of respondents rated the performance of OSS as being superior compared to proprietary software.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Electrical engineers have been designing custom circuit boards on computers for years, but this approach simply moved the paper and pencil method to digital. It didn’t advance the craft or make it easier for engineers to reuse design elements across designs. The systems are too complex to design them without errors.

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Split systems along arbitrary boundaries: maximize the number of systems involved in any feature. Leverage any production issue as a reason to “pull the brakes” Introduce very complex processes for code change and common workflows.

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CIO

JULY 31, 2023

With all the articles about all the amazing AI developments, there’s plenty of hand-wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. Coding can be a challenge, but I’ve never spent more than two weeks trying to figure out what is wrong with the code.

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Netlify

MARCH 4, 2020

The code review is a critical part of life as a professional developer: in most engineering organizations, no code gets checked in without at least a second look from another engineer. To solve this, Netlify’s UX team developed shared terminology for code reviews that we call the Feedback Ladder!

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The Crazy Programmer

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Here, in this article, we’ll review the DocRaptor tool, an HTML to PDF API converter. The DocRaptor review will briefly discuss how it works with Python, some code examples, features, benefits, and perhaps pros and cons. The tool uses a set of coding language for HTTP POST requests for the generation of PDF and XLS files.

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In this incident review, we’ll cover the outage from September 8th, 2022, where our ingest system went down repeatedly and caused interruptions for over eight hours. Click here to get a detailed version of this review. This seemed to work, but sampling aggressively was impacting our ability to observe the system.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Chatbots may assign service tickets incorrectly, describe a problem inaccurately, or disrupt workflows and lead to significant systemic issues—causing data breaches or misallocation of vital resources—that then require human intervention. Software copilots are fantastic, but you want to read and understand what they give you,” Smith says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Apply systems thinking into all facets of development. Base milestones on objective estimation and evaluation of working systems to ensure there is an economic benefit. Lean portfolio management: By applying Lean and systems thinking, SAFe organizations ensure their entire portfolio is aligned and funded to deliver strategic value.

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Modern CTO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Today we’re talking to Matt van Itallie, Founder & CEO at Sema Software. We discuss the risks surrounding AI generated code, how to circumvent those risks with smarter software decisions, and we also get to catch up on life with Matt and Joel. To try Sema’s code monitor, click here. His motivation?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you sell cars, candy, consulting, or construction, software is moving to the center of your business. Your products and services rely on software and data for nearly everything from product development to aftermarket support. You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO. So congratulations!

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of organizations reviewing their password management strategies. Caesars noted in a filing that an “unauthorized actor” had stolen data in a social engineering attack targeting an outsourced IT support vendor, according to an InfoSecurity report. Déjà vu can suck sometimes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Magic, a startup developing a code-generating platform similar to GitHub’s Copilot , today announced that it raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG with participation from Elad Gil, Nat Friedman and Amplify Partners. So what’s its story? But absent a demo, we have only his word to go on.

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The Crazy Programmer

APRIL 6, 2021

The architecture of pdflayer is built using the combination of various powerful PDF rendering engines. Robust PDF Engine. pdflayer combines several powerful PDF engines based on browsers running stalwart operating systems. API Error Codes. Here’s a catch! What makes pdflayer discernible from other APIs?

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Generative AI can help businesses achieve faster development in two main areas: low/no-code application development and mainframe modernisation. Streamlined coding process : Generative AI provides real-time information on available functions, parameters, and usage examples as the coder types.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 18, 2020

But every once in a while, teams or systems hit an inflection point where enough things change at once and the pattern of incidents shifts. Our on-call engineer became aware of the issue when he was paged by an SLO burn alert. This is the portion of our query engine that runs queries against S3-based storage — typically older data.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In this review, we will cover the incident itself, and then we’ll zoom back out for an analysis of multiple contributing elements, our response, and the aftermath. The incident Late on July 24th, we switched between two clusters of Retriever (our storage and query engine) to avoid a subtle bug. UTC to 2:48 p.m.

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 18, 2024

Achieving agility, scalability, efficiency, and security is paramount in modern software development. While several cultural methodologies, tools, and approaches are sought after to achieve the above-mentioned, GitOps, Kubernetes, and Platform Engineering are keystones of this transformation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence. Image Credits: AppMap.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Prior to Valence, Mitchell was a consultant at McKinsey and co-founded the nonprofit Engineers without Borders and Significance Labs, the latter of which was folded into the Robin Hood Foundation. But, as with rival performance management systems (e.g., Venture capital investments in HR software and services soared past $17.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Data engineers have a big problem. Redbird was created to help everyone in an organization create and run analytics without using code, therefore reducing the amount of bottlenecks that data engineers need to deal with. The new funding will be used to add more no-code capabilities.

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OTS Solutions

JULY 18, 2023

In today’s digital age, the success of any enterprise is increasingly dependent on its ability to deliver high-quality software products and services quickly and efficiently. To meet this demand, enterprises have turned to DevOps and digital engineering practices to streamline their software development and delivery processes.

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OTS Solutions

JULY 18, 2023

In today’s digital age, the success of any enterprise is increasingly dependent on its ability to deliver high-quality software products and services quickly and efficiently. To meet this demand, enterprises have turned to DevOps and digital engineering practices to streamline their software development and delivery processes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Diao’s first project at the company after starting in 2014 was building a rules engine called Mastermind to fight fraud. That engine, he says, allowed risk analysts to build and rollout rules without the help of engineers. However, that startup didn’t have resources like Uber to build such an engine in house.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Socratic , an early-stage startup that wants to bring data to bear on a developer-focused task management system, announced a $3 million seed investment today from Unusual Ventures, Overtime.vc The company is also opening up public beta of the software starting today. and a couple of industry angels.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2024

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate. And he doesn’t see the issue going away anytime soon.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

CEO Ross Rich says that the new funds, which bring Accord’s total raised to $17 million, will be put toward the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams. Compounded with that fact, there is no system to reinforce a consistent, repeatable sales process, even if you have the ideal sales journey all figured out.”

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Tandem

JULY 21, 2020

We love working with clients who have big dreams for their current systems. Before we start working with an existing application, we like to have the opportunity to audit its current state and do a code review. Benefits of robust code review. Does it run? Language/framework audit. Environment audit.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The Log4Shell exploit that gave bad actors the ability to execute malicious code on infiltrated servers made global headlines and ruined many cybersecurity professionals’ holidays. Is algorithmic VC investment compatible with due diligence?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Meet Athenian , a new startup that analyzes your software delivery workflow and gives you insights. Athenian isn’t the first company trying to provide analytics for software development. But founder and CEO Eiso Kant told me that tools like Jellyfish and Code Climate focus too much on individual performance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Move over, software. Writing the text strings that instruct AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 to generate essays, articles, images and more has become a veritable profession, commanding salaries well into the six-figure range. But not every company or developer has the budget to hire a so-called prompt engineer.

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InnovationM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the realm of software development, Requirement Engineering (RE) stands as a critical and foundational process that lays the groundwork for successful project outcomes. In this blog, we’ll dive into the world of Requirement Engineering, exploring its significance, key processes, challenges, and best practices.

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Xebia

JANUARY 19, 2023

The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. This book is as good for a project manager or any other non-technical role as it is for a computer science student or a data engineer.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI. In theory , all software is debuggable. There is a much longer list of things that make software less than 100% debuggable in practice.

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Apiumhub

MARCH 30, 2023

Custom software development plays an important role in taking your project to the next level. Custom software development gives your business the flexibility and compatibility to scale up or down and tailor it to your needs. The alternative, off-the-shelf software could be inefficient or inadequate.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Lilt , a provider of AI-powered business translation software, today announced that it raised $55 million in a Series C round led by Four Rivers, joined by new investors Sorenson Capital, CLEAR Ventures and Wipro Ventures. “This new funding will … [reduce our] unit economics [to make] translation more affordable for all businesses.

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