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Building a dev platform like a product: Inside The New York Times with Sneha Rao and Ahmed Bebars

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Sneha Rao, VP of Product, and Ahmed Bebars, Principal Engineer, both from The New York Times Developer Platforms team, to discuss what it means to build and operate a developer platform at scale across a complex media organization.

How to Improve Your Documentation with AI (CircleCI Chunk Tutorial)

AI coding assistants help you ship features fast, but documentation almost never keeps up. In this Ship Smarter session, we'll show you how CircleCI's Chunk autonomous CI/CD agent automatically analyzes your codebase, identifies documentation gaps, and opens a pull request with improvements. No manual writing required. In this video.

Vendor Relationship Management

Purchasing new software, hardware, or other tools can be one of the most challenging parts of being an IT leader. It involves a lot of moving parts, including: But, vendor relationships don't always have to be stressful! There are ways to turn those painful procurement and maintenance processes and make them beneficial for both parties. We'll be going over some of the ways that you can evaluate vendors before purchasing, what to look out for during onboarding, and how to maintain vendor relationships so that you get what you need.

Data Sovereignty: How to Keep All of Your Services in Europe (AppSignal + Hatchbox)

Over the last decade, a great deal of data privacy regulations have been passed in the European Union. Like it or not, measures like GDPR, the Digital Services Act, and the upcoming Artificial Intelligence Act are exerting increasing influence across industries over how and especially where the data of European customers is stored. In this article, we will explore the ways to keep the simplicity of a Platform as a Service (PaaS) while utilizing only European providers.

Creating Successful Migration Workflows with Puppet

I’ve been doing this for over thirty years. Sysadmin, ops lead, global teams, and more data centre migrations than I’d like to admit. Site to site, P2V, V2V, cloud, hybrid, all of it. Every migration gets sold as a clean, well-planned transition. None of them are. They go wrong in very predictable ways. Not because moving infrastructure is especially difficult, but because nobody ever has a clear, current view of what’s actually running, what’s changed, and what still matters.

AI matched or beat physicians on real-world clinical reasoning

A major new study from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has found that a large language model (LLM) outperformed physicians across a wide range of clinical reasoning tasks, including making emergency-room triage decisions from messy, real-world patient data. The findings, published April 30 in Science, represent one of the largest comparisons yet between AI and physicians on clinical tasks.