Martin Fowler

JANUARY 7, 2025

As a library developer, you may create a popular utility that hundreds of thousands of developers rely on daily, such as lodash or React. Over time, usage patterns might emerge that go beyond your initial design. When this happens, you may need to extend an API by adding parameters or modifying function signatures to fix edge cases. The challenge lies in rolling out these breaking changes without disrupting your users’ workflows.

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2025

As 2025 dawns, CIOs face an IT landscape that differs significantly from just a year ago. AI, once viewed as a novel innovation, is now mainstream, impacting just about facet of the enterprise. Over the next 12 months, IT leaders can look forward to even more innovations, as well as some serious challenges. To keep ahead of the curve, CIOs should continuously evaluate their business and technology strategies, adjusting them as necessary to address rapidly evolving technology, business, and econo

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Xebia

MARCH 4, 2025

Have you ever been in a situation where you want to provision or configure things cross-stack? Splitting these into logical stacks is always good when dealing with more complex environments. I already shared this in one of my previous blogs. But this also introduces a different problem! Granting access to your database When you use DynamoDB, you have to use IAM to grant access.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Global venture funding in 2024 edged above 2023s totals, with AI showing the biggest leap in amounts year to year. Overall startup funding in 2024 reached close to $314 billion compared to $304 billion in 2023 up around 3%, based on an analysis of Crunchbase data. Global venture investment in 2024 was above the pre-pandemic year of 2019, but below 2018 and 2020 amounts at $346 billion and $350 billion, respectively.

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Luis Goncalves

APRIL 11, 2025

In today’s fast-paced digital environment, scaling represents both the greatest opportunity and challenge for startup founders. While launching a startup is difficult, successfully scaling requires an entirely different skillset, strategy framework, and operational systems. This guide explores essential frameworks, common pitfalls, and proven strategies to transform your promising venture into a market leader.

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Henrik Warne

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

This week I attended the Jfokus software development conference in Stockholm, Sweden. I first went in 2011, and I have been back many times through the years. The conference has a Java focus (duh!), but many talks cover general topics as well. The whole development team at NGM got tickets. It is really nice to be able to discuss and compare notes with your colleagues.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 9, 2025

Organizations are increasingly using multiple large language models (LLMs) when building generative AI applications. Although an individual LLM can be highly capable, it might not optimally address a wide range of use cases or meet diverse performance requirements. The multi-LLM approach enables organizations to effectively choose the right model for each task, adapt to different domains, and optimize for specific cost, latency, or quality needs.

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 3, 2025

Were excited to share some exciting news with our valued members and the Agile community. The Agile Alliance has signed an agreement to enter a strategic partnership with Project Management Institute (PMI), and today marks the beginning of this new and exciting journey. The post Agile Alliance Joins Project Management Institute (PMI) first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 2, 2025

On April 22, 2022, I received an out-of-the-blue text from Sam Altman inquiring about the possibility of training GPT-4 on OReilly books. We had a call a few days later to discuss the possibility. As I recall our conversation, I told Sam I was intrigued, but with reservations. I explained to him that we could only license our data if they had some mechanism for tracking usage and compensating authors.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 9, 2025

Generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) are becoming ubiquitous in businesses across sectors, increasing productivity, driving competitiveness and positively impacting companies bottom lines. However, as LLMs and GenAI become deeply integrated into your critical operations and decision-making processes, adversaries can exploit subtle vulnerabilities to manipulate your model outputs to coerce unauthorized behaviors or compromise sensitive information.

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Martin Fowler

APRIL 17, 2025

AI editors like Cursor can generate code with remarkable speed using LLMs, handling boilerplate and providing functional snippets for various tasks. However, when building robust systems, functional correctness is only the starting point. Code must also be safe, predictable, maintainable, and free from subtle side effects. Unmesh Joshi demonstrates, through a dialogue between a developer and an LLM , how expert guidance is crucial to transform an initial, potentially unsafe code snippet into a r

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

The world plunged headfirst into the AI revolution. Now many are admitting they werent quite ready. The 2024 Board of Directors Survey from Gartner , for example, found that 80% of non-executive directors believe their current board practices and structures are inadequate to effectively oversee AI. The 2024 Enterprise AI Readiness Radar report from Infosys , a digital services and consulting firm, found that only 2% of companies were fully prepared to implement AI at scale and that, despite the

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Xebia

APRIL 17, 2025

Google Cloud Next 2025 was a showcase of groundbreaking AI advancements. In this post, I’m excited to share some of my personal highlights and key takeaways from the conference. Gemini 2.5 and the Live API Google continues to push the boundaries of AI with their latest “thinking model” Gemini 2.5. Thinking refers to an internal reasoning process using the first output tokens, allowing it to solve more complex tasks.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 2, 2025

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. You can also check out the top AI rounds of 2023 here. Artificial intelligence dominated the venture landscape last year. Thats especially clear when you consider how many startups in the industry raised nine- or even 10-figure funding rounds in 2024.

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IDC

APRIL 4, 2025

The wave of new tariffs introduced by the US administration will drive up technology prices, disrupt supply chains, and weaken global IT spending in 2025. Not only will these tariffs have a direct inflationary effect on technology prices in the US, but growing concerns about a broader economic slowdown will lead to weaker investment by [.

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Ooda Loop

JANUARY 1, 2025

IBM is planning to build the largest quantum computer so far, by linking together smaller machines to create one with a recording-breaking number of quantum bits, or qubits. The firms first steps on this path in 2025 should see it hit a new qubit record, and it eventually plans to more than triple the size […] The post IBM will release the largest ever quantum computer in 2025 appeared first on OODAloop.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Assessments have emerged as an indispensable instrument in leadership development, serving as both a mirror that reveals areas of growth and a lens that illuminates hidden potential. At N2Growth , we view these evaluative processes as far more than simple scorecards. When strategically designed, assessments can lead executives to sharpen their strategic thinking, refine their interpersonal skills, and ultimately guide teams toward sustainable success.

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Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 14, 2025

Computer use is a breakthrough capability from Anthropic that allows foundation models (FMs) to visually perceive and interpret digital interfaces. This capability enables Anthropics Claude models to identify whats on a screen, understand the context of UI elements, and recognize actions that should be performed such as clicking buttons, typing text, scrolling, and navigating between applications.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 14, 2025

Our conference program team met on-site recently in Denver to put together the agenda for Agile2025. The team worked to ensure the selected sessions for each of our conference tracks flowed together to create an incredible three-day learning event. We asked the team to share one thing about the event that they are most excited about. The post Meet the People Behind the Agile2025 Conference Program first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Tenable

MARCH 11, 2025

6 Critical 50 Important 0 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 56 CVEs, including seven zero-day flaws, with six of those being exploited in the wild. Microsoft patched 56 CVEs in its March 2025 Patch Tuesday release, with six rated critical, and 50 rated as important. This months update includes patches for: NET ASP.NET Core & Visual Studio Azure Agent Installer Azure Arc Azure CLI Azure PromptFlow Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver Microsoft Local Security Authority Server (lsasrv) Mi

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 22, 2025

For the past decade and a half, I’ve been exploring the intersection of technology, education, and design as a professor of cognitive science and design at UC San Diego. Some of you might have read my recent piece for O’Reilly Radar where I detailed my journey adding AI chat capabilities to Python Tutor , the free visualization tool that’s helped millions of programming students understand how code executes.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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Enterprise

Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Gen AI systems are gullible, and can easily be tricked into responding in ways that are contrary to an enterprise's policies or leak confidential information. Bharani Subramaniam and I describe how we can counter this by adding guardrails at the boundaries of the request/response flow. We also conclude our discussion of RAG with an overview of how all the RAG component patterns fit together.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Perhaps we got digital transformation wrong this whole time. Instead of focusing on the transformation part, we did a lot less transforming and a lot more digitalization. Instead of seeing digital as a new paradigm for our business, we over-indexed on digitizing legacy models and processes and modernizing our existing organization. As a result, most businesses remain saddled with complexity, department silos, and old ways of doing things.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Introduction MLOps has survived the hype cycle and is gaining in maturity. But are we looking at MLOps for answers for the right things? No matter how valuable MLOps can be for you, without proper building blocks in place MLOps cannot live up to its full potential. What are the prerequisites for MLOps? What parts of MLOps should you focus on? When should you even start thinking about MLOps, or when is plain DevOps wiser to focus on first?

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 13, 2025

Before Jensen Huang co-founded Nvidia , he was a dishwasher at Denny’s, but most unicorn founders get their start in far more predictable places. The Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative team and I analyzed 2,791 founders behind 1,110 U.S.-based VC-backed unicorns to understand their professional backgrounds. The data shows that they developed their skills at tech giants, elite universities and even military organizations.

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Successful Software

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

I released version 1 of my table seating planning software , PerfectTablePlan, in February 2005. 20 years ago this month. It was a different world. A world of Windows, shareware and CDs. A lot has changed since then, but PerfectTablePlan is now at version 7 and still going strong. PerfectTablePlan v1 PerfectTablePlan v7 I have released several other products since then, and done some training and consulting, but PerfectTablePlan remains my most successful product.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 27, 2025

Difficult Conversations: It’s not just WHAT you say, BUT WHERE you say it If youve ever been blindsided by feedback via Slack, had your stomach drop at a cryptic text from your boss, oryes, it happensbeen let go over Zoom, youre not alone. One of the most common complaints I hear about difficult conversations is where they are held. We talk a lot about what to say in a difficult conversation, and how to say itbut we dont talk enough about where that conversation should happen.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 16, 2025

Part 1: Is your observability a cost or an investment? In 2018, I dashed off a punchy little blog post in which I observed that teams with good observability seemed to spend around ~20-30% of their infra bill to get it. I also noted this was based on absolutely no data, only my own experiences and a bunch of anecdotes, heavily weighted towards startups and the mid-market tech sector.

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