CIOs Lead the Return to IT and Delivery Basics by Mark Hewitt

Looking toward H22023, organizations need to ensure the core IT operations and foundational investments are sound - there is less room for failure and the proper balancing of priorities includes a focus on IT priorities to both reliably and soundly keep the lights on, while prudently spending your one to two innovation tokens wisely in order to properly and responsibily support business needs.

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Total Enterprise Reinvention - Is Your Company's Strategy Succeeding? by Mark Hewitt

Organizations that will weather the current 2023/24 recessionary period will be characterized by a new type of leadership and team DNA. All business strategy now requires a digital focus and a holistic view of the effects across the enterprise. Early wins are evidenced in finance, sales, marketing and legal departments, but the balance of the enterprise must follow. Resilience and an acute focus on revenue-generating, digital-friendly products and services is the name of the game.

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Comparison of Angular & React Codebases (part 1 of 2) by Julian Flaks

When the choice of Angular or React arises, development teams often bring up comparative criteria such as what libraries are available, the design ethos of the frameworks, how many people like each one and so on.

I thought it worthwhile to attempt to do something a little different; I'm going to compare them by sharing some real world stereotypes of the situations that might come up while maintaining applications which have been written in each.

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CX Corner: Customer Experience in the Enterprise by Mark Hewitt

Customer experience is a critical component of any successful digital enterprise, and as a Chief Experience Officer (CXO), it is your responsibility to ensure that your organization is delivering exceptional experiences to its customers at every touchpoint. Here are some key strategies for creating a positive customer experience for your digital enterprise:

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CIO Corner: Modernizing the Enterprise Monolith by Mark Hewitt

Enterprise monolith applications have been the backbone of many businesses for decades. These applications, often written in older programming languages and architectures, have served their purpose well but are now facing challenges in terms of scalability, maintainability, and adaptability to modern technologies. As a CIO, modernizing your enterprise monolith application is crucial for staying competitive in today's rapidly changing business landscape.

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ROI for a Software Engineering Application by Mark Hewitt

Return on Investment (ROI) is a measure that helps software engineering teams to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of a software application in terms of its ability to generate revenue or save costs. It's calculated by dividing the revenue or savings generated by the application by the total costs associated with its development and maintenance. ROI can be a powerful tool for software engineering teams to make data-driven decisions, justify the costs of a software engineering project to stakeholders, and track the performance of a software application over time.

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Microservices Communication Frameworks—Part 2 by Ranjan Bhattacharya

The multiple, independent services which comprise a microservices application need to collaborate with each other using some form of inter-process communication mechanisms, of which there is a wide variety to choose from. Services can use synchronous request/response-based technologies like REST or gRPC, or asynchronous, message-based ones like AMQP. Services can use human-readable text-based message formats like JSON, or XML, or more efficient binary formats like Protocol Buffers. They can also use high-level network protocols like HTTP or low-level but more efficient TCP.

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