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Building a complex new product can be scary. What if no-one gets value from it? What if it doesn't work? What if it's hard to change? One way to mitigate these risks is to break down the product into smaller shippable increments, allowing you to capture feedback early and confirming the most important assumptions before fully committing to a solution.

Accenture’s vision for value-led, business-aligned operations applies Machine Learning, Automation and Observability to help cloud-hosted and on-premise systems diagnose and heal themselves. The company’s ubiquitous myWizard® platform, used by 100,000+ practitioners at more than 3000 companies, applies StackState’s advanced 4T Observability data model to improve service to Accenture’s customers.

Let’s get to the point about data management: Businesses need data, but accumulating too much can be detrimental. Data overcrowding can corrupt IT professionals, turning them into greedy hoarders. Being indigestible with excessive repeated, outdated or banal information, the so-called ROT data, is bad. Companies of the world! The Devil tempts you with Big Data! Something that, if too much, could be harmful! We tell you all about it in this article.

We’re excited to announce that private incidents are now available on FireHydrant. For the first time, incidents can have visibility limited to only permissioned users are able to see. This is a great solution for security and compliance teams who need to collaborate with their engineering counterparts to resolve incidents. The nature of these incidents that these teams work on dramatically differs from operational incidents.

Another amazing year in the books! And even though we’ve done the ‘By the Numbers’ series for a few years now, this year’s numbers are the best (and biggest) yet. But even better than that? The people behind the numbers. Carrying on the growth we saw in 2020, the most important number to highlight this year is the massive increase in awesome Cloudsmithers we added to the team!

With rising unit shipments and hardware spending, 2021 will go into the record books as a critical year in the ever-increasing adoption of connected devices. Ubuntu – the modern, open-source Linux operating system for the enterprise server, desktop, and cloud – is rapidly becoming the de-facto standard for Internet of Things ( IoT) devices.

If you’re in the software development space, or just started a career in software development you’ve probably heard people talking about DevOps. Studies show that 74% of companies have implemented DevOps in some fashion, but what is it exactly?

Heroku is a cloud-based platform that helps companies build, deliver, monitor, and scale applications with high velocity. Heroku's popularity is due to its simplicity, usability, elegance, and focus on the developer experience. Developers find Heroku helpful as they can get their application ready and running with only minimal focus on configuring infrastructure. Heroku scores on easiness in architecting apps, deploying them to flexible cloud infrastructure, and scaling them as required.