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Diversity and Inclusion policy

The importance of diversity and inclusion in any given organization cannot be overstated. It establishes a level playing field, brings together people with different backgrounds, perspectives, traditions, and ideas, and enriches company culture by ensuring fairness and tolerance. This helps build a more effective and collaborative workforce which enables the business to run in a more progressive fashion and attract a broad array of talent. The purpose of this Diversity and Inclusion policy from TechRepublic Premium is to establish a strategy for promoting diversity and inclusion in the business.

Microservices: The foundation of tomorrow's enterprise applications

Microservice architecture has the potential to pick up where service-oriented architecture (SOA) left off, making application development faster, more scalable, and more flexible. But as with SOA, some doubt microservices can live up to their promise. We help CIOs sort out the fact from fiction.