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Software Developer vs. Software Engineer: Top 10 Differences

IT Toolbox

Software developers differ from software engineers in 10 key ways, including their tools, salaries, and educational background. The post Software Developer vs. Software Engineer: Top 10 Differences appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Will Prompt Engineering Change What It Means to Code?

IT Toolbox

Prompt engineering, the no-code method of instructing GenAI systems to produce outputs, is the new buzzword in technology. Spiceworks News & Insights explores prompt engineering, whether it will change the future of work and the role of programmers, and whether you should go all in on it.

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Announcing The Detection And Response Development Lifecycle (DR-DLC) For Detection Engineering

Forrester IT

The security operations center (SOC) has reached the same tipping point that software development faced many years ago: It’s dealing with too much data (big data and log management), struggling to innovate and update monolithic software (detection and incident response processes), and lacking ownership beyond initial deployment (content management). (..)

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Meta is seeking chip engineers to develop new AI and ML specialized accelerators

TechSpot

According to recent job listings posted online, Meta wants to hire highly skilled hardware engineers to develop a new generation of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs. Read Entire Article

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are less understood.

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Ex-Amazon and Airbnb engineers raise $1.25M for enterprise AI agent developer Cimba.ai

GeekWire

million pre-seed investment to accelerate development of its software that lets companies develop customizable AI agents to generate insights and actions based on internal data. Biswas was most recently an engineering manager at Airbnb, where he helped lead a team that built internal apps to improve internal processes.

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Platform Engineer: Job Description, Key Skills, and Salary in 2023

IT Toolbox

A platform engineer builds and supports a platform that acts as a shared framework for application development. The post Platform Engineer: Job Description, Key Skills, and Salary in 2023 appeared first on Spiceworks.

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The Engineering Leader's Guide to Empowering Excellence With Data

Create the Optimal Environment for Developer Success. A software engineering team is most commonly measured by its outputs — the quality of the code delivered and the speed at which it was shipped. Yet the first step to achieving success is the inputs; leaders need to create an environment that enables developers to excel.

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Transform Product Developers Into High Performing Collaborators with These 5 Factors

Speaker: Kim Burgaard, Head of Engineering at Fernish

Developer productivity is an output of many factors, including the people on the team, company culture, processes, and tools. Join Kim Burgaard, Head of Engineering at Fernish, for this enlightening talk on how to maximize your developers' productivity. Don't focus on points and velocity, but on value and outcomes.

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9 Developer Enablement Practices to Achieve DevOps at Enterprise Scale

In this eBook, Christian Oestreich, a senior software engineering leader with experience at multiple Fortune 500 companies, shares how a metrics-driven mindset can dramatically improve software quality and enable DevOps at enterprise scale.

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The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?

Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries

Any PM or technical leader who’s led the charge of building a digital product knows that product engineering is one of the most expensive elements of business. How do you help your engineers get on board with buying instead of building? What happens to the business if the product provider switches off the service that was bought?

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Many engineering organizations have now adopted microservices or other loosely coupled architectures, often alongside DevOps practices. Together these have enabled individual service teams to become more independent and, as a result, have boosted developer velocity. Understand a distributed system and improve communication among teams.

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The Next-Generation Cloud Data Lake: An Open, No-Copy Data Architecture

However, they often struggle with increasingly larger data volumes, reverting back to bottlenecking data access to manage large numbers of data engineering requests and rising data warehousing costs. Why agile development concepts, when applied to the data tier, can dramatically increase data engineering agility.

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A PM's Guide to Building a Culture of Product Innovation

Speaker: Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

Despite the importance of new product development, more than half of all product launches and innovations fail. This webinar is for engineering and product leaders who are struggling to find an innovation strategy that works. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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Data & Analytics Maturity Model Workshop Series

Speaker: Dave Mariani, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer, AtScale; Bob Kelly, Director of Education and Enablement, AtScale

Developing a data-sharing culture. Translating DevOps principles into your data engineering process. This workshop helps assess where your organization sits on the analytics maturity scale and where you might aspire to be. Workshop video modules include: Breaking down data silos. Integrating data from third-party sources.