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BBC's journey to personalized user experience
Covers the technical aspects, including the architecture and integration of personalization systems, performance improvements, tooling
Tech execs reveal generative AI usage
Freshworks survey of 2000 IT professionals revealed that over 90% of IT leaders use AI to support their workloads.
Enterprise investment in generative AI shockingly low
A Menlo Ventures report reveals generative AI accounts for less than 1% of enterprise cloud spending
Terraform data hints at cloud market share
Analysis of Terraform provider downloads suggests AWS dominates the cloud market with a 65% share, surpassing Azure and GCP's combined 35%.
Assessing tech's 2024 landscape through key questions: O’Reilly
Regulatory discourse may intensify, with the EU's tech regulation leading and potentially spurring other regions to follow, especially concerning AI
McKinsey's productivity metrics miss the mark
McKinsey proposed a framework to measure developer productivity, sparking backlash from engineers who argued it focuses too much on individual developer output
Generative AI offers new tools for software architects
AI models can validate architectures against corporate specifications and even assist in building prototypes, says Richard Seroter
LinkedIn enhances job matching with embedding based retrieval technology
How LinkedIn leverages Embedding Based Retrieval (EBR) to improve its search and recommendation systems for job seekers.
Majority of US workers use generative AI, but company policies lag
Survey by the Conference Board reveals that 56% of U.S. employees are using generative AI tools for work-related tasks, but only 26% say their organizations have established AI policies
Enterprise tech spending shows resilience in 2023
Findings from the Q3 2023 Cloud Software Spending Survey indicate stable tech budgets, with only slight increases in companies experiencing declines.
Generative AI market surge: growth, uses, challenges
75% of US executives believe generative AI will be a top-three emerging tech in the coming year.
Amazon Prime Video redefines architecture: Not monolith
Amazon Prime Video transitioned one of its monitoring services, resulting in misconceptions that they shifted from "microservices" to a "monolith."
Addressing tech debt requires quantification
Research by Stripe in 2018 showed developers spend substantial time on tech debt and "bad code", affecting overall productivity and feature delivery
Application architecture: from infrastructure to application focus
Gregor Hohpe says cloud automation, traditionally focused on resource provisioning, is evolving with the rise of serverless applications, shifting its attention towards application-level functions
IEEE whitepaper: Defining, measuring, and managing technical debt
When attempting to measure technical debt, Google used three of these categories but found no single metric accurately predicted engineers' reports of it.