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Microsoft woos open source developers by joining the Linux Foundation
To be successful, Microsoft must entice developers to build apps that use its cloud services. Several key announcements aim to do just that. If you search Google or Bing for "Steve Ballmer developers," the first result is likely to be a video of the former Microsoft CEO manically chanting developers, over…
How to scale agile and DevOps together
Agile, DevOps, continuous delivery—and all of it at scale. How do these things come together? Businesses want to do more with the technical advances that DevOps and agile have conferred, but when it comes to next steps, those who advocate “scaled agility” seem to talk past those who discuss “the…
Creating a pipeline of data science skills
There is currently a disconnect between what academia is teaching students in analytics disciplines and what the companies that will recruit them after graduation require. The majority of tertiary education institutions teach the students to utilise open source analytics software. This works well in the classroom environment of a university…
The most popular programming languages in the world
ZDNet has published a ranking of the most popular programming languages by combining the metrics used in various other rankings. Columnist David Gewirtz explains that answering the question “Which programming language is the most popular?” is no simple task as there is no shortage of measures you can use to gauge popularity. In the end he combined the rankings…
Importance of quick, secure and flexible IT delivery
Delivery has always been a key differentiator in business. Whether it be goods or services, companies that are known to deliver quality offerings quickly, securely and flexibly, are already well on their way to success. In South Africa, for example, online store Takealot.com has become immensely popular over the past…
How tech is changing the nature of time tracking
Time tracking has been a part of the daily work day for as long as most of us remember. From the early days of coal miner’s having their attendance checked off when they arrived at work for the day and again at night onto grabbing a time card and having…
Are we really in the middle of an IT revolution?
The start of 2015 saw some attention-grabbing predictions suggesting major changes were afoot in the IT industry. We took some of these predictions and looked at them under the microscope to see whether the developments they suggested came true. Hybrid cloud is the future Few organisations have adopted full cloud…
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