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Remember when developers reigned supreme? The market for software coding goes soft

CIO Business Intelligence

It seems like only yesterday when software developers were on top of the world, and anyone with basic coding experience could get multiple job offers. This yesterday, however, was five to six years ago, and developers are no longer the kings and queens of the IT employment hill.

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VMware Welcomes Estranged Sibling Pivotal Back Home

Forrester IT

On August 22, 2019, VMware announced that it will acquire sister company Pivotal Software, vendor of a widely used cloud development platform, Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

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Beware the rise of ‘ghost jobs’ — fake job openings with no intent to hire

CIO Business Intelligence

The term “ghost work,” popularized by researchers Mary Gray and Siddartha Suri in 2019 , refers to work performed remotely in the digital space, such as content marketing or proofreading, without formal employment status. Specialized positions in IT, such as AI engineers, data scientists, or software developers, require unique skills.

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Amazon expanding ‘upskill’ training for software developer roles to workers outside of company

GeekWire

Amazon announced Tuesday that it is expanding one of its so-called “upskilling” programs to people outside of the company who are interested in acquiring training for roles in software engineering. workforce in July 2019, committing at the time to a five-year initiative called “Upskilling 2025.”

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How search accelerates your path to “AI first”

CIO Business Intelligence

In aggregate across 2013, 2015, 2019, and 2023, the data from these questions shows that legacy search engines that have not significantly advanced in the last five years have struggled to keep up with the increasing volume and variety of organizational data. The combination of keyword and vector search (a.k.a.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO Business Intelligence

billion in stock buybacks between 2017 and 2019. Does your organization have the culture to support software development? Developing and maintaining proprietary software and customizations entails an ongoing commitment to talent development, product management disciplines, and DevOps practices.

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

CIO Business Intelligence

Just a few short years ago, models like GPT-1 (2018) and GPT-2 (2019) barely registered a blip on anyone’s tech radar. From obscurity to ubiquity, the rise of large language models (LLMs) is a testament to rapid technological advancement.