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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

According to secondary sources, this mandate included two strategic requirements that any IT leader should consider when seeking to maximize the value of their development teams’ efforts. Fast-forward to 2023 and IT leaders have distilled many more lessons about effective API development and use over the past twenty years.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 30, 2022

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billion operating loss in Q4 2021 if not for Amazon Web Services. Another blockbuster quarter for Amazon Web Services masked one of the worst operating losses in the recent history of the rest of the company. … Read More. Amazon would have posted $1.8 … Read More. … Read More. … Read More.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

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Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. Microsoft Photo). “Your code will be attacked.” Charlie Bell is known to love big engineering challenges.

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Safe? No. Awesome? YES! My review of Strange Loop 2010

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

Strange because I am not a software developer; it’s been a long time since I’ve done any serious coding. What caught my eye was how conference organizer Alex Miller ( @puredanger ) tied the ideas of one of my favorite books of recent years, Douglas Hofstadter’s I Am a Strange Loop , to The Loop here in St.

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7 tough IT security discussions every IT leader must have

CIO Business Intelligence

Venables observes that there have been many cases over the past decade in which enterprises have invested deeply in cybersecurity products yet haven’t upgraded their overall IT infrastructure or modernized their approach to software development. This is equivalent to building on sand,” he states. Have we fostered a culture of security?

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Read Jeff Bezos’ shareholders letter: Amazon founder focuses on employee welfare, comments on union vote

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What’s next: Bezos will step down as CEO in the third quarter of this year, replaced by Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy. Amazon Web Services serves millions of customers and ended 2020 with a $50 billion annualized run rate. Here is a passage from Richard Dawkins’ (extraordinary) book The Blind Watchmaker.

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Living Networks - Chapter 2: Emerging Technologies – Free Download and Commentary - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the Book Launch/ Preface to the Anniversary Edition. While XML is still not highly visible other than to software developers, and other data interchange formats have arisen, it still provides the core foundation of the networked world of today.

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