Everybody wants to talk about AI. But while the consumer/user world is busy working out whether its job is going to be made redundant (spoiler alert: mostly it won’t, you’ll just get AI tools to accelerate & automate existing workflows and tasks), the technology industry itself is busy work... Read more
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LinkedIn is good and, sometimes, not so good. The plethora of contact invites that come in daily is bewildering at times. With many people using the network to ‘push’ sales lines at other members, it can feel invasive. Others ask to be endorsed and recommended by contacts that they don’t real... Read more
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APIs are everywhere. In the modern age of web, cloud, AI and interconnected containerised componentry, enterprise software is typified by its use of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Written to a defined syntax, structure and shape, APIs are often referred to as the ‘glue’ that bonds o... Read more
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Software containers stalwart Docker, Inc. has acquired AtomicJar, a company known for its status and stewardship of the open source project Testcontainers. If it were not immediately obvious from the name, Testcontainers is focused on testing containers, container testing and testing with container... Read more
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Software has artifacts. Spelled in correct English we would talk about artefacts, but because most of the planet's software artefacts exist (or were created in Silicon Valley), we tend to embrace the Americanization and say artifacts. But what are software artifacts, why do they exist in the first ... Read more
5 months ago
The C-suite is expanding. It’s a term that doesn’t immediately resonate with everyone, but the C-label is of course intended to signify ‘chief’ and serve as the prefix to chief executive officer (CEO), chief operating officer (COO), chief finance officer (CFO), chief technology officer (CTO... Read more
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Data is mushrooming. Because data sets are getting bigger (every day) and because we’re seeking to extend the realm and purview of data analytics and data models across increasingly vast and typically ever more distributed data topographies, our ability to evidence reach and scope in data has nev... Read more
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AI is complex. Not just because it is hard to do, difficult to comprehend in scale and tough to follow the next-big-thing with new generative functions and Large Language Models (LLMs) seeming to come forward every week. Those factors make AI engineering complex, but the IT industry is working ferv... Read more
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Generative Artificial Intelligence (gen-AI) has had a busy year, obviously. The technology wires have been liberally peppered with analysis detailing the spiralling popularisation of gen-AI engines and the Large Language Models (LLMs) that feed and serve them. There has been equal interest and disc... Read more
5 months ago
As software application developers make increasing use of componetised, containerised and compartmentalised elements to build composite applications, many of the services brought into the new software code stacks being created come in through the use of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Of... Read more
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