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In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, testing centers of excellence (TCoEs) are experiencing a revival. Once seen as artifacts of the waterfall era, modern TCoEs are emerging as indispensable hubs for driving quality, collaboration, and innovation in Agile and DevOps environments. This resurgence stems from their ability to centralize standards and unify distributed teams while supporting the rapid iteration that modern delivery demands.

On Black Friday 2024, Zipcar faced a severe technical issue that disrupted its app and website services, leaving countless customers stranded and frustrated. Users reported being unable to unlock cars, make reservations, or even retrieve belongings from rented vehicles. The fallout and backlash have been widespread, with many taking to social media to voice their frustrations with the platform.

Let’s explore software breakages through the lens of impact: If software is everywhere, what does that mean when software breaks?

We often hear from customers that they’re excited about what they could do with data and AI but are not sure how to do it. Or that the tech teams are “all in” but they can’t convince the powers that be to move forward. It’s not that they don’t know what to do — they could list a number of initiatives or use cases that would benefit from insights from their data or to which they could apply AI. But many organizations seem to suffer from institutional paralysis.

We are seeing businesses across industries engage with large-scale projects needing a talent pool experienced in AI, cloud, IoT, or other emerging technologies. However, the fluctuating nature of these projects requires a flexible workforce, which can only naturally comprise part-time hires. This is why we see a steady investment in the staff augmentation market. The 2023 evaluation for the IT staff augmentation market was approximately USD 300 billion in the recent market reports.

In part one of this series, we managed distributed state using GenServers. This provided a foundation for understanding some core concepts in distributed Phoenix applications. Now, we turn our focus to deployment and scaling strategies. As your application evolves to meet growing demands, knowing how to scale horizontally, maintain high availability, and monitor distributed components becomes crucial.

Logistics industry has to deal with data from multiple sources including bills of lading, customs declaration forms, proofs of delivery, and others. Then they have to ensure the data is prepped, extracted, parsed, converted to the right format and then analyzed. Given how important logistics is in today’s market, it is no wonder that McKinsey Global Supply Chain Leader Survey 2024 reported 74% of respondents were interested in advanced digital and AI-based tools for planning and scheduling.

The Resources.NotFoundException is Android's way of saying "Hey, you told me to grab something, but it's not where you said it would be!" This error typically shows up when you're trying to access strings, layouts, drawables, or other resources that Android can't locate in your app's resource files. Maybe they were renamed, deleted, or never existed in the first place. Or perhaps they're hiding in the wrong folder.

More than 80% of developers and business leaders say AI investments have already created the opportunity for new products or services, according to Kong’s 2024 API Impact Report. Clearly, AI has proven its value and place in the enterprise, but with new innovations come new potential vulnerabilities. But as organizations push forward into and navigate the rising risk of AI-enhanced threats and the adoption of AI tools and large language models (LLMs), what have tech leaders experienced?

To improve processes, businesses need both qualitative and quantitative data. Too many companies rely on qualitative data alone, using anecdotal evidence and intuition. But without seeing the numbers, how can you know if you’re meeting key performance indicators (KPIs)? How can you know for sure that your real-world operational processes are setting you up to meet your goals?