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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

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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.

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Enterprise investment in generative AI shockingly low

A Menlo Ventures report reveals generative AI accounts for less than 1% of enterprise cloud spending

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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%.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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

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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

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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.