Tag: automation
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Citi to cut 5K jobs citing tech initiatives – Not good for the pro-AI crowd. // ‘Citi’s technology transformation plans, which Mason said are in the execution stage, are driving efforts to reduce headcount…. Over time, “we will no longer need the same level of people that we have at this particular phase,” Mason said.…
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The Care and Feeding of Internal Developer Platforms – Five benefits of monitoring and managing internal developer platforms are noted: improved system performance, cost reduction, scalability, enhanced security, and improved feedback loops. Achieving these benefits entails securing deployment environments, establishing system baselines, setting up alerting rules, monitoring application performance, and automating processes.
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IBM looks to turn nearly 8,000 jobs over to artificial intelligence, CEO says – ’“I could easily see 30% of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period,” Krishna told Bloomberg News, referring to “back-office” positions such as in human resources.’”
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🗂 Link: Why Fast Food Is the Ticking Time Bomb of Job Automation
Source: Why Fast Food Is the Ticking Time Bomb of Job Automation
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🗂 Link: One Toolchain to Manage All the Development: A CI/CD-Vendor Obsession
A 2019 Forrester study sponsored by GitLab quantified found that more than three-quarters of organizations use at least two software delivery toolchains, with the average organization having six or more tools per toolchain. Based on a survey of 252 IT professionals with responsibility over toolchain management, the study also reported that ensuring security (45%) and…
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🗂 Link: Financial services and cloud: Delivering digital transformation in a highly regulated industry
“The most difficult part of what was a 10-month programme of work was that we were working to transform the current application, which was manually built, on-premise, and converting that into infrastructure as code,” says Niculescu. “So we essentially took what would be manually-built environments that would usually take us weeks and months and numerous…
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🗂 Link: Scale and velocity are driving the next generation of DevOps
This massive growth in scale has required an evolution in practices and organization to achieve success. Most of what technologists are aware of in this regard is labeled “DevOps,” but there is more nuance to it than that. The way infrastructure capacity is allocated becomes decoupled from specific hardware, so the infrastructure team has to…
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Link: Women more at risk of job automation
In 2017, ONS found 1.5 million roles in England were at risk of having elements of their tasks automated, including roles such as retail cashiers, manufacturing plant employees and waiting staff, many of which are more likely to be filled by women. Source: Women more at risk of job automation
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What do developers need/want to hear?
How to use containers, even managing them. Being more autonomous – developers love freedom. Keeping up to date on skills (see containers). Dealing with or hiding from stupid business culture in their org. Getting permission to try new things. Testing code, automation to avoid legacy traps. More scalable architecture for distributed apps, new types of…
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Link: ‘The gulf between apps and infrastructure is blurring’ says boss of DevOps darling Puppet
Their portfolio: Puppet Bolt, the company’s simplified open source automation framework, hit version 1.0; Puppet Insights, a tool for measuring how fast and how well teams commit code, showed up as a private beta; Puppet Discovery, for corralling IT resources, moved on to version 1.6; Pipelines for Containers 3.3 got Helm support; and Puppet Enterprise…
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Link: Barely a third of outsourcing deals are now safe: Window-dressing legacy engagements is over – Enterprise Irregulars
People want to change the nature of outsourcing: As this year’s State of Operations and Outsourcing study of 381 enterprise operations leaders across the Global 2000 reveals, only 30% of these relationships will continue to operate in the old model, while a similar number will stick with their service provider if they can have a…
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Link: Farmers Insurance’s New CIO Sees AI Improving Claims Process
‘Fast, easy interactions are key for customers who have become accustomed to the ease of use and personalization of e-commerce. For example, Mr. Wilson says he won’t buy from a website that doesn’t make it easy to see as many reviews as he can on a product, and to quickly order and check the status…
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Link: The tech project survival guide
“you must ask yourself whether your funky way of reconciling payments to the bank or your six-step invoice validation process is really the way to operate in an age where standard processes are well understood & can be automated.” Garbage in, garbage out. Original source: The tech project survival guide
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Chris Donaldson on Automation – Software Defined Interviews #72
How do you implement IT Automation best practices at a large company? What’s the best approach to convince stakeholders that IT Automation is worth the effort? In this interview with Acxiom’s Chris Donaldson we talk all about the good, the bad and ugly of IT Automation. Also see full show notes.





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