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What is IT automation?

Dynatrace

IT automation is the practice of using coded instructions to carry out IT tasks without human intervention. At its most basic, automating IT processes works by executing scripts or procedures either on a schedule or in response to particular events, such as checking a file into a code repository. What is IT automation?

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. The results for data-related topics are both predictable and—there’s no other way to put it—confusing. This follows a 3% drop in 2018.

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The death of Agile?

O'Reilly

It’s not about getting software developers to write code faster. The most important is discovering how to work with data science and artificial intelligence projects. Perhaps the appropriate yardstick for AI projects is the experiment itself, not the code committed to git.). Can Agile work for large teams?