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How to land a software development job in an AI-focused world

AI isn’t eliminating software developers, but it is changing what matters to hiring managers. Here’s our guide to landing a software development job in a rapidly shifting landscape.

By Bob Violino

Mar 23, 20269 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCareersGenerative AI

Solving authorization for software developers

We wouldn’t roll our own cloud orchestration or payment processing software. Why are we still building our own authorization infrastructure?

By Graham Neray

Aug 10, 2021 7 mins

Application Security Cloud Computing Software Development

12 ways to make really bad technology decisions

So little time, so many ways technology decisions can go wrong. If you want to make wise technology choices, don’t let these decision-making anti-patterns get in the way.

By Isaac Sacolick

Aug 9, 2021 9 mins

Analytics Careers Devops

How to choose a cloud database

Transactional cloud databases come in all shapes and sizes, from simple key-value stores to planet-scale distributed relational databases. Here’s how to choose the right cloud database for your application.

By Martin Heller

Aug 4, 2021 15 mins

Cloud Computing Databases

3 ways AI improves CRM

AI has the power to liberate organizations from CRM-related manual processes and improve customer engagement, sales insights, and social networking, for starters.

By Jody Glidden

Aug 3, 2021 4 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

How Grafana Tempo simplifies distributed tracing

Grafana Tempo is an open source, easy-to-use, high-volume distributed tracing system that takes advantage of 100% sampling, and only requires an object storage back end.

By Joe Elliott

Jul 29, 2021 6 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

SolidJS creator: JavaScript innovation isn’t slowing down

As Solid marks its 1.0 release, creator Ryan Carniato discusses the origins of the framework, the latest JavaScript innovations, and the need to keep pushing front-end JS performance.

By Matthew Tyson

Jul 26, 2021 15 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Web Development

What is SaaS? Software as a service defined

Consuming software as a service has become the dominant trend for enterprise applications over the past decade. Here’s how SaaS took over the world.

By Scott Carey

Jul 22, 2021 5 mins

Cloud Computing SaaS Software Development

An introduction to time series forecasting

Time series forecasts are used to predict a future value or a classification at a particular point in time. Here’s a brief overview of their common uses and how they are developed.

By Anais Dotis-Georgiou

Jul 22, 2021 9 mins

Data Science Databases Predictive Analytics

6 essential Python tools for data science—now improved

SciPy, Numba, Cython, Dask, Vaex, and Intel SDC all have new versions that aid big data analytics and machine learning projects.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 21, 2021 8 mins

Data Science Machine Learning Python

Unifying streaming and stored data

The next frontier for data processing is a new platform capable of delivering insights, actions, and value the instant data is born.

By Kelly Herrell

Jul 15, 2021 5 mins

Analytics Databases Software Development

In search of the devops ideal

There’s no one-size-fits-all solution for devops, but we can describe a development process and toolchain that flex to absorb all the complexity we require. Let’s see how these pieces fit together.

By Matthew Tyson

Jul 15, 2021 8 mins

Application Life Cycle Management Cloud Computing Devops

How to choose a low-code development platform

Low-code and no-code development platforms allow developers and in some cases non-technical users to produce apps faster and at lower cost than traditional programming. Here’s how to select the right low-code or no-code tool for the job.

By Martin Heller

Jul 14, 2021 13 mins

Cloud Computing No Code and Low Code Software Development

5 AI startups out to change the world

Deep learning is solving challenging problems in industries as diverse as retail, manufacturing, and agriculture. These companies are leading the way.

By Ian Pointer

Jul 12, 2021 6 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Getting started with time series analysis

Time series analysis involves identifying attributes of your time series data, such as trend and seasonality, by measuring statistical properties.

By Anais Dotis-Georgiou

Jul 8, 2021 6 mins

Data Science Databases

Hands-on with CodeSandbox

A brief tour of the easy-to-use, shareable, online integrated development environment catching on with JavaScript and Node.js developers.

By Matthew Tyson

Jul 8, 2021 7 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools JavaScript

How to use the Python for loop

The for loop construction in Python easily iterates over a collection of items. Here’s what you need to know to use it well.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 7, 2021 5 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

How 5 companies got their developers to care about cloud costs

Software developers don’t typically have to worry about the costs of running their services, but as cloud costs continue to rise, more and more will have to learn to embrace cloud cost optimization. That means adopting finops.

By Scott Carey

Jul 5, 2021 14 mins

Cloud Computing

Rethinking data architectures for a cloud world

An open, services-oriented approach has clear advantages for building modular and scalable applications. We should take the same approach to our data.

By Tomer Shiran

Jul 1, 2021 8 mins

Analytics Cloud Computing Data Architecture

How enterprises are bringing pandemic-driven cloud costs under control

Cloud cost optimization is rapidly moving up the agenda as the dust settles on the technology decisions driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are the key tools and principles to help developers stop cloud costs outpacing revenue.

By Scott Carey

Jun 28, 2021 12 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management

How to visualize time series data

Visualizing time series data is often the first step in observing trends that can guide time series modeling and analysis.

By Anais Dotis-Georgiou

Jun 24, 2021 6 mins

Data Science Databases Machine Learning

Speed up your Python with Numba

Want faster number-crunching in Python? You can speed up your existing Python code with the Numba JIT, often with only one instruction.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jun 23, 2021 7 mins

Data Science Python Software Development

5 AI startups leading MLops

From data preparation and training to model deployment and beyond, these companies offer state-of-the-art platforms for managing the entire machine learning lifecycle.

By Ian Pointer

Jun 21, 2021 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Devops Machine Learning

Why developers should use Apache Pulsar

Apache Pulsar is an open source streaming platform that addresses some important limitations in Kafka, particularly for cloud-native applications.

By Patrick McFadin

Jun 17, 2021 9 mins

Open Source Software Development

From legacy to the cloud: The 3 stages of enterprise modernization

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many organizations to confront their legacy technology burden sooner than expected. However, getting old systems to the cloud doesn’t happen overnight.

By Scott Carey

Jun 14, 2021 12 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

The great cloud computing surge

Driven in part by the pandemic, cloud computing adoption has reached new heights. These five articles take a close look at the implications.

By Eric Knorr

Jun 14, 2021 4 mins

Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure

The value of time series data and TSDBs

Time series data key insights in domains ranging from science and medicine to systems monitoring and industrial IoT. Understand time series data and the databases designed to ingest, store, and analyze time series data.

By Anais Dotis-Georgiou

Jun 10, 2021 6 mins

Data Science Databases Devops

3 AI startups revolutionizing NLP

Deep learning has yielded amazing advances in natural language processing. Tap into the latest innovations with Explosion, Huggingface, and John Snow Labs.

By Ian Pointer

Jun 7, 2021 6 mins

Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Technology Industry

Why developers use Confluent to manage Apache Kafka

How the fully managed Kafka service can bring peace and simplicity to the lives of those who depend on event streaming infrastructure.

By Tim Berglund

Jun 3, 2021 7 mins

Analytics Data Management Open Source

PostgreSQL benefits and challenges: A snapshot

PostgreSQL continues to improve in ways that meet the needs of even the most complex, mission-critical use cases. It also presents certain challenges.

By Ivan Panchenko

May 27, 2021 7 mins

Analytics Databases Software Development

How AI can enhance customer experience

G&J Pepsi and Zipline turn to data science and machine learning to get the right products to the right locations at the right time.

By Bob Violino

May 24, 2021 10 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

ProxyJump is safer than SSH agent forwarding

ProxyJump forwards the stdin and stdout of the local client to the destination host, allowing us to set up jump servers without giving them direct SSH access.

By Virag Mody

May 24, 2021 5 mins

Devops Security Software Development

Striking a balance with ‘open’ at Snowflake

At Snowflake, we fully embrace the value of open standards and open source. But we strive to avoid misguided applications of open that create costly complexity instead of low-cost ease of use.

By Benoit Dageville

May 20, 2021 13 mins

Analytics Databases Open Source

Understanding the process automation landscape

Processes and process automation take many forms. Here’s how to navigate the growing ecosystem of tools for automating everything from simple repetitive tasks to complex custom workflows.

By Bernd Ruecker

May 13, 2021 12 mins

Cloud Computing PaaS SaaS

What to look for (and look out for) in container registries

Pulling from container registries is key to ensuring the health and resilience of the CI/CD pipeline. Choose your registry with care.

By Scott McCarty

May 10, 2021 7 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

How companies are moving on from Cobol

The legacy programming language that refuses to die is still powering millions of daily transactions, but the difficulties of maintaining and integrating Cobol mainframes make the case for modernization more compelling every day.

By Scott Carey

May 10, 2021 10 mins

Cloud Computing Data Integration Software Development

How Kubernetes works

If you want to understand containers, microservices architecture, modern application development, and cloud native computing, you need to understand Kubernetes.

By Matthew Tyson

May 6, 2021 6 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

How a digital integration hub transforms the mainframe

An in-memory digital integration hub enables flexible, real-time information flow between mainframes and external systems, unlocking mainframe data for digital transformation.

By Nikita Ivanov

May 6, 2021 9 mins

Cloud Computing Data Integration Software Development

10 web accessibility improvements you can make right now

Even without a full-on WAVE accessibility overhaul, there are plenty of simple steps you can take to make your website more navigable by people with disabilities (and everyone else).

By Serdar Yegulalp

May 5, 2021 11 mins

HTML Software Development Web Development

Why Gitops isn’t ready for the mainstream (yet)

For many organizations with ambitions to run cloud-native, Gitops is a smart way to manage software deployments. But some issues still stand in the way of mainstream enterprise adoption.

By Scott Carey

May 4, 2021 10 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

Make life easy with ssh_config

You can avoid command line tedium and simplify access to a fleet of servers by creating a flexible configuration file for your SSH client. Here’s how.

By Virag Mody

Apr 29, 2021 5 mins

Devops Software Development

3 enterprise AI success stories

How Beacon Street Services, Company Nurse, and Devon Energy are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve sales and marketing, identify and protect sensitive information, and automate oil drilling operations.

By Bob Violino

Apr 26, 2021 9 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

What is a computational storage drive? Much-needed help for CPUs

As Moore’s Law loses steam, off-loading data compression, data encryption, low-level data data processing, and other heavy-duty computation tasks to storage nodes makes sense. Here’s how that would work.

By Tong Zhang

Apr 22, 2021 9 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Storage

What is an API gateway? API simplicity and stability

An API gateway decouples clients from services, simplifying life for service developers and consumers. It can also provide additional benefits such as monitoring, logging, security, and load balancing.

By Matthew Tyson

Apr 22, 2021 5 mins

APIs Software Development

6 reasons to switch to managed Kubernetes

Managed Kubernetes services have matured to the point where many enterprises are handing over the keys to their clusters. Here we identify some of the main drivers behind that trend.

By Scott Carey

Apr 19, 2021 8 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

The COVID pandemic’s lasting impact on cloud usage

9 out of 10 companies have accelerated their cloud adoption in response to the coronavirus pandemic, with corresponding increases in cloud spend—and waste.

By Kevin Miller

Apr 15, 2021 6 mins

Cloud Computing

No one wants to manage Kubernetes anymore

The availability of solid and varied managed Kubernetes options has seen more and more companies shy away from managing their own clusters. Here’s why.

By Scott Carey

Apr 13, 2021 10 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

How to excel with data analytics

Finding success with data analytics requires good tools, good data management, and good strategy. Turn to these best practices to turn your growing volumes of data into better business decision-making.

By Bob Violino

Apr 12, 2021 9 mins

Analytics Cloud Computing Machine Learning

IT career roadmap: AI engineer

Artificial intelligence is becoming ubiquitous across all the functional areas of business and is expected to break the $500 billion mark by 2024, according to IDC. So what does it take to become an AI engineer? We spoke with Mike Harasimowicz, princ

By Bob Violino

Apr 12, 2021 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Careers IT Skills and Training

What is unified policy as code, and why do you need it?

By decoupling policy from applications, policy as code allows you to change the coding for policy without changing the coding for apps. Translation: reliability, uptime, and efficiency.

By Tim Hinrichs

Apr 8, 2021 6 mins

Application Security Cloud Computing Devops

The decline of Heroku

Even Heroku’s founders recognize that the revolutionary web development platform has run out of steam. How did Heroku lose its magic, and could a new, modern Heroku revive the PaaS?

By Scott Carey

Apr 7, 2021 14 mins

Cloud Computing PaaS Software Development