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You absolutely can have too much data. 

Like when you’re sorting through messages trying to figure out where exactly an API call went wrong. Or when you’re paying for more and more cloud data storage with less and less performance. 

DevOps needs data to be successful. It drives the logic telling our automations when and how to fire, and the KPIs telling us if what we’re doing is really working. And there’s never been more of it. As good as we are at collecting data, however, we’re not always as successful at storing, accessing and analyzing it. 

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This article was written by Kate Smith with support from Table XI.

Medical software design has grown up, moved out, and left the clinic behind. With the application of new technology, innovative software products are shifting our healthcare experience from the traditional episodic doctor-in-clinic context to one where healthcare is an omnipresent part of our everyday lives. Our healthcare interactions now include a breadth of new experiences like smartphone apps, connected devices, retail interactions, home health delivery kits and telehealth video conferencing. Patients have come to expect that healthcare will meet them in their homes and on their phones. Now, more than ever,  software design for medical devices must focus on the patient experience in the context of everyday life. 

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Unfortunately, most business leaders find out why DevOps is important the hard way.

Like when you get a huge amount of publicity and surge of new visitors to your site, only to have things collapse under the sudden load. Instead of impressing a slew of new visitors — and potentially converting them to longtime users — you disappoint them with a blank server-error page. Not only do you lose the opportunity, you make anyone who remembers the experience less likely to click the next time.

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