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June 26, 2023

Unleashing the Power of Site Reliability Engineers

As IT operations and software development strategies change and coalesce, site reliability engineers (SREs) emerge as a pivotal piece of the DevOps puzzle. SREs are incredibly valuable because they bring crucial knowledge to their organization: a keen understanding of coding and a dedication to keeping systems running smoothly.

The SRE role was born out of a desire to enhance software deployment and maintenance by empowering developers to contribute their expertise in a new way. Gone are the days when software development teams would pass the baton to the IT department — SREs are here to revolutionize the game.

February 28, 2023

There’s a Better Way To Deploy Code: Let’s Share It

Gatekeeping best practices within the developer community benefits no one. If there's a better way to deploy code, we should share it. Why? Because a developer community is just that: a community. What benefits one team will help another, creating more efficient processes, reducing hassle, and elevating software quality and performance across the board. We are witnessing increased collaboration in the DevOps space, a trend we should encourage.

What Is Gatekeeping?

Senior developers have learned many lessons over the course of their careers, and many developed innovative solutions to development cycle challenges. In the past, they may not have openly shared their experience and knowledge; whether it was intentional or not, they were essentially gatekeeping their practices.

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In my [previous article](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/computer-science/tutorials/542132/comparing-gpt-4o-vs-claude-3-5-sonnet-for-zero-shot-text-classification) I presented results comparing Anthropic [Claude 3.5 Sonnet](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet) and [OpenAI GPT-4o](https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/) models for zero-shot text classification. The results showed that the Claude 3.5 Sonnet significantly outperformed GPT-4o. These results motivated me to develop a simple retrieval augmented generation system with [LangChain](https://www.langchain.com/) that enables the Claude 3.5 ... […]
The Scale, Speed, and Spend of Low Code: Benefits and Challenges of Low-Code Platforms
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Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Low-Code Development: Elevating the Engineering Experience With Low and No Code. The relevance of low-code development is growing as businesses see... […]
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Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Low-Code Development: Elevating the Engineering Experience With Low and No Code. The rise of low-code and no-code (LCNC) platforms has sparked a de... […]