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The world of IT is changing and altering the face of the workforce. New technologies, like AI, cloud and IoT, have morphed IT infrastructure into an extremely complex beast and, in doing so, have impacted the work of those who manage it. Meanwhile the European Commission estimates there will be a shortage of 756,000 skilled IT workers by next year.

As Chief Data Scientist here at StackState I’ve got a big interest in less likely to happen occurrences in data. These events are called anomalies. Every company with a considerable IT environment should be able to detect, solve and also prevent anomalies. Because anomalies can have a big effect on your day to day business.

Horizontal innovation refers to the inculcation of technological advancements in different industries and domains of human life. When we imagine how these life-changing technologies are poised to change our lives, at the beginning of their adoption curve, the future is somewhat filled with hopes and fears. Statisticians and logicians have shown their support for the induction of these technologies into our lifestyle – and rightly so.

How critical are open source applications for modern application and infrastructure modernization? Red Hat’s The State of Enterprise Open Source report found that more than two-thirds of IT leaders believe that open source software has a very important role to play in the enterprise and 59% of respondents expect to increase their use of open source in the next 12 months.

Are you writing a social media marketing paper? Maybe you are a marketer wondering how to leverage hashtags to grow your brand? Is so, social media is now integral in digital marketing. If you want to grow your brand online, you have to build a presence where your target market is. There are about 3.4 billion people on social media, making this a top catchment area for your customers.

Serverless can bring opportunities by making DevOps more accessible to folks new to the industry. It can also bring opportunities to folks already in the industry that want to spend more time focusing on adding business value. But many technologists, seasoned or otherwise, hear a lot about serverless but don’t always know how to get started.

In the first article in our new series, Yan Cui highlights the key insights from the Amazon Builders’ Library article, Timeouts, retries and backoff with jitter, by AWS Senior Principal Engineer Marc Brooker.

In a world where the applications we run are constantly changing, the number of monitored metrics and events is skyrocketing, and responsibility for system components is fragmented across teams, it becomes increasingly difficult to pinpoint possible root causes of an issue in a timely manner. To address this challenge, we’re introducing Metric Correlations, which automatically finds candidates for the causes of an issue by searching your system for correlated metrics.