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There's No Such Thing as a Freemium Lunch The freemium business model—in which some users use the product for free, and others use it for a fee—can be appealing. To succeed with the freemium model, you must first acknowledge that a revenue plan is not a business plan and then decide if it makes sense for your bottom line. |
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How DevOps Could Have Benefited the Facebook IPO As Facebook's IPO debacle shows, the lack of a robust software development process can result in outages and impact large-scale financial systems. Bob Aiello explains how DevOps—which provides the structure to rapidly build, package, and deploy applications—could have minimized Facebook's damages. |
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IT Management and Software Dominate Most Hated Professions—Why? Of the top ten most hated jobs in the US, more come from the computer and software fields than anywhere else. What's making workers so unhappy in these positions while QA engineers sit atop the list of having the happiest job in the US? |
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CIO: It's a Tough Job, but ... Will It Last? Where the CIO position is heading or even whether it will still be around in a few years is far from a sure thing. Look around, and you’ll see that opinions vary considerably about what the future holds for CIOs. Will it stay the same, split into multiple roles, or disappear completely? |
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DevOps and Dealing with Software Project Delays Bob Aiello explains why technology professionals who value their careers need to understand DevOps, which embodies excellent concepts and practices that have been taking the industry by storm, especially regarding software project delays. |
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What Is DevOps All About? DevOps is an umbrella concept that serves as a response to the "wall of confusion" that sometimes occurs when the communication between development and operations becomes unreliable. How does this confusion come about? What are some of the elements that fall under the DevOps umbrella? |
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DevOps: Where Does CM Fit In? With DevOps a relatively young concept, Joe Townsend explores how configuration management fits into the big picture. Some professionals, however, might contend that CM conflicts with DevOps and agile methodologies. |
