EDITOR ’ S NOTE
Welcome to the latest edition of Intelligent CIO magazine for the North America region . This month ’ s cover tells of how United Airlines took off on harnessing itself to Harness . The link up landed United with a 75 % faster deployment time and increased compliance using templates and automation .
In 2022 , United launched its largest ever transatlantic expansion and boosted its fleet by adding up to 200 widebody planes – the biggest order by a US carrier in commercial airline history . But United needed a tech infrastructure to match , moving 80 % of its workload to the cloud on Amazon Web Services ( AWS ). United was working with legacy tools requiring manual configuration . What automation there was couldn ’ t keep up with process , security and compliance changes .
Cloud migration meant moving monolithic applications to microservices , turning a single monolith deployment process into hundreds of independently deployable microservices . This required a massive increase in scalability and legacy tools couldn ’ t cope . But Harness could . Read how on p56 .
If that ’ s not ‘ watercooler ’ enough for you , tap into the findings of a major survey outlining the impact of AI tools on developer experience .
Inbal Shani , Chief Product Officer , GitHub , makes the case for coding tools requiring the evolution of performance metrics on p53 .
With the increasing use of AI tools in software development – which often contributes to code volume – it seems engineering leaders will need to ask whether measuring code volume is still the best way to measure productivity and output .
Don Kaye is back at Ground Labs – this time as COO and CCO . The industry veteran introduces himself in Get to Know on p79 and offers his thoughts on where he thinks the industry is headed .
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Enjoy the edition .
Jamf CIO Linh Lam says the sector needs a shift in mindset so IT and security teams can see themselves as partners . With CISOs catching up to CIOs as influential business leaders , Linh says the time has come for the ‘ frenemies ’ to complement each other ’ s capabilities – pooling talents to deepen understanding of digital opportunities without inviting cyber-risk . Want to wade in ? Turn to p44 .
Have an innovative month .
Make stuff happen – and let us know when you do .
Bill Tanner Editor
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