Don't settle for the best customer experience in your industry, deliver the best one—period

In an environment of rapidly changing customer expectations, if your team isn't testing and learning daily to improve the customer experience, then you're likely already behind.

In an environment of rapidly changing customer expectations, if your team isn't testing and learning daily to improve the customer experience, then you're likely already behind. Change is no longer happening over months or even years—it's happening now. Customers expect to be "wowed" from the moment they start shopping on their mobile device to when they step foot in your stores. The auto industry, like most other verticals, has seen a drastic change in shopper behavior.

You can also view this email as a webpage. Just Published Featured from Auto Don't settle for the best customer experience in your industry, deliver the best one—period In an environment of rapidly changing customer expectations, if your team isn't testing and learning daily to improve the customer experience, then you're likely already behind. Change is no longer happening over months or even years—it's happening now. Customers expect to be "wowed" from the moment they start shopping on their mobile device to when they step foot in your stores. The auto industry, like most other verticals, has seen a drastic change in shopper behavior. Learn More Follow Think with Google Join the conversation about insights from Think with Google. Received this e-mail from a friend? Subscribe here How are we doing? Give feedback This email was sent to rkremer111.djfunky1@blogger.com because you signed up for Auto content alerts, brought to you by Think with Google. If you don't want to receive an email for Auto content in the future, you may update your subscription preferences or unsubscribe from all content alerts. © 2017 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved. Google and the Google logo are trademarks of Google Inc. www.google.com 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

 

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NOV 2017 Hello, Cloud enthusiasts! Silly question of the week: Want to streamline your development of cloud-native applications and thereby give yourself a competitive advantage? Answer: Are you serious? Cloud-native development is becoming a competitive necessity that can enable you to continuously improve your apps and enhance your users' experience. When combined with DevOps, cloud-native app development enables teams to rapidly add new features and capabilities, scale economically as user demand changes, reduce administrative tasks, rein in operational costs, and increase security. What's not to love? The new IBM Cloud App Service makes it easy to build cloud-native apps in the language of your choice, and deploy them to the IBM Cloud quickly. How quickly? Read "Build Cloud Apps In 5 Minutes" to find out. (Whoops -- gave away the ending!) You'll find plenty of other options for streamlining your cloud development in the listings below. If you like what you see, spread the word using our "Forward to a friend" link in the lower right. Got a question or comment? Get in touch with us through our feedback form. And don't worry, there's no question too silly for us (see above). Thanks for joining us! John Swanson - Managing Editor, developerWorks Cloud Computing Latest developer resources Increase productivity with five Cloud Foundry plugins AbdulKarim Memon demonstrates plugins that enable you to: develop cloud apps locally, show live stats for your Cloud Foundry distribution, save time normally required to copy and paste cloud app URLs, display app user information, and more. Five facts you may not know about Cloud Foundry This article highlights five important facts (some well known and some not) that can help enterprise IT managers make the right decision when they need to choose between Cloud Foundry and other PaaS environments. Cloud journey: Unlock enterprise data using APIs Learn how to create and expose APIs for enterprise data using LoopBack. This journey follows a common use case in which a fictional logistics company, Acme Freight, leverages existing enterprise assets using APIs. Using LoopBack, an open source Node.js framework, the company exposes assets located in an ERP system. DevOps with controls: Faster releases with cloud infrastructure platforms You can have it all: quicker releases and security. In this article, you'll learn about a discovery-focused, event-driven automation approach for controls to keep your organization safe in the cloud. Refactor existing monolithic applications to microservices one bite at a time This tutorial series breaks down the complex problem of refactoring monoliths into microservices step-by-step. Learn how to implement a systematic approach to refactor your monolithic applications and how to use the tools and techniques to help you along that journey. See how to migrate the monolith to microservices and then run that monolith in the cloud. Popular videos developerWorks Mailbag: Invoking a microservice hosted on IBM Cloud Functions You can (cloud) jam in our Garage In the News IBM and Dream Payments Expand Payment Services on the Cloud to U.S. Financial Institutions IBM Introduces Industry Platform Designed Specifically for Insurers Akamai Content Delivery Network Now Available to Enterprises on the IBM Cloud IBM Announces New Capabilities to Help On-Premises Customers Effectively Manage Compliance Data with Object Storage IBM Unveils a New High-Powered Analytics System for Fast Access to Data Science Events Webcast: Optimize existing banking applications and build new ones faster with IBM Cloud Functions 1 November Workshop: Up and Running on Cloud Foundry in 45 minutes or Less 20 November, San Francisco, CA, USA CloudNativeCon + KubeCon 2017 6-8 December, Austin, TX, USA IBM Think 2018 19-22 March, Las Vegas, NV, USA Cloud resources developerWorks cloud computing Cloud content library developerWorks Cloud journeys Bluemix essentials course IBM Blockchain Developer Center developerWorks TV Follow developerWorks     Join a community IBM Cloud Architecture Center Cloud Data Services IBM Cloud for Financial Services Subscriptions developerWorks newsletters ›› Forward to a friend You provided IBM with your email address so that we could keep you informed of important events and new business solutions. Please visit IBM Online Privacy for more information on the usage of your personal information by IBM. This email was sent in response to your request to receive the developerWorks Cloud Newsletter. If you no longer want to receive the developerWorks Cloud Newsletter, please unsubscribe here.

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Dear Friends,
We're all about testing — and now it's time we test out something new at SmashingConf. New formats, new lightning talks, evening sessions and genuine, interesting conversations. Our next new adventure: SmashingConf London / #perfmatters.

Early-bird tickets are available now!
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SmashingConf London, UK / #perfmatters / February 7–8, 2018
1 track, 2 days, 16 speakers on everything web performance.

Performance matters. Next year, we're thrilled to venture to London for our brand new conference fully dedicated to all things web performance. Dealing with ads, third-party scripts, A/B testing, HTTP/2, debugging, JAM stack, PWA, web fonts loading, memory/CPU perf, service workers.

With:

- Estelle Weyl (Web Standardistas)
- Patrick Hamann (Fastly)
- Una Kravets (DigitalOcean)
- Rachel Andrew (Perch)
- Zach Leatherman (Filament Group)
- Jake Archibald (Google), and many more.

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SmashingConf San Francisco, USA / #breakingthebox / April 17–18, 2018
1 track, 2 days, 16 speakers on everything happening on the web.

What if you designed a website without rectangles or circles? In San Francisco, we're aiming to explore what we all need to know today to make better websites tomorrow. Breaking out of the box, literally, in sessions covering everything from front-end to UX. CSS Grid, HTTP/2, Psychology, Front-End Performance, CSS Variables, Web Fonts, Audio UIs, Design Workflow.

With:

- Aaron James Draplin (Draplin Design Co.)
- Addy Osmani (Google)
- Mike Riethmueller
- Yiying Lu
- Rachel Andrew (Perch)
- Jessica Hische, and many more.

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SmashingConf Toronto, Canada / #noslides / June 26–27, 2018
1 track, 2 days, 16 speakers showing how they design, build and play.

What if our speakers couldn't use slides? Welcome to the brand new #noslides format: a brand new conference in Toronto, full of live sessions with live coding, live designing, live sketching — showing how designers design and how developers build, including setup, workflow, tooling, naming conventions and everything in-between. CSS Grid, Performance Profiling, Sketching, Lettering, UX process, Debugging, Writing CSS/JavaScript.

With:

- Dan Mall (Superfriendly)
- Sarah Drasner (Microsoft)
- Tim Kadlec (Snyk)
- Gemma O'Brien
- Sara Soueidan
- Lea Verou (MIT)
- Seb Lee-Delisle, and many more.

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DevOps, what you need to know today

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NOV 2017 Hello! There are times when I have nothing scheduled for days on end. Then, all of a sudden I'll have 4 things to attend and they're all at the same time. It's those times when I'm getting pulled in two (or more) directions that I'm thankful for webinar replays. Knowing I can watch and learn on my own time helps me prioritize my day. There are a few Webinar replays listed below for you. Check them out, on your own time. Have you checked out any of the developerWorks sandbox? They're interactive tutorials where you can run code, make changes, then re-run the code without ever leaving the tutorial. There are many different sandboxes available. Some for Watson services, some to learn OpenWhisk, JavaScript or ECMAScript. See the current list of sandboxes and choose what you want to learn about today. Like what you see? Forward this newsletter to a friend Have a question or comment? Contact us, we'd love to hear from you. Robin Wood - Managing Editor, developerWorks DevOps Top tutorials DevOps with controls Use a discovery-focused, event-driven automation approach for controls to keep your organization safe in the cloud. Operations management puts the 'Ops' in DevOps It's time to start thinking about operations management. Awareness and anticipation of operational management best practices can improve your app at every stage of its life cycle. Traveling an efficient DevOps path with fewer detours See how DevOps for IBM Z can help you succeed with an end-to-end seamless solution, no matter your role: a business analyst, developer, and release manager. Are you sure your mobile apps are providing a great experience for your users? Front and backend testing of your mobile apps can mitigate the top three reasons users uninstall their apps. Learn how to automate your testing and use a single test platform so you can effectively and efficiently run and analyze tests of native, hybrid, or mobile web-based apps. DevOps Chat: Shift Ops left, shift Dev right Dr. Kristian Stewart of IBM talks to Alan Shimel about his theory of shift ops left, shift dev right as a way for dev and ops to work together. DevOps Chat: Measuring DevOps success In this chat with Alan Shimel Steve Boone tells you what DevOps success looks like and how you know when you've achieved it. DevOps Chat: IBM z14, Built for DevOps from the ground up Hayden Lindsey talks with Alan Shimel about how the z14 has been designed to work in hybrid environments. It also works well with modern CI/CD tools such as Urban Code and others. With APIs, z14 integrates with many different environments, tools, and apps. This is a mainframe for today and beyond. Digital transformation with IBM Application Discovery Using a sample scenario, learn how IBM Application Discovery complements IBM z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition and IBM Developer for z Systems in making older mainframe applications available to the digital world. Popular videos What is Hybrid Cloud? A Real World Use Case Adopting DevOps - Mapping your delivery pipeline Events IBM Digital Transformation Model 5 December, 11:00 AM EST The next generation of continuous delivery: Containers, AI, and speed Replay Using Excel and OSLC with IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation Replay APM & DevOps: An insurance industry perspective and the new agile insurance company Replay What's new and exciting with IBM Cloud Private: The foundation for Bringing Cloud Native to the Enterprise Replay How to make application teams more effective with Microservices and DevOps Replay Simplify AnthillPro to UrbanCode Migration Replay DevOps resources developerWorks DevOps DevOps technical library DevOps practice self assessment DevOps adoption framework IBM Cloud Garage method Try IBM Cloud for free Deployment wiki Follow developerWorks     Join a community DevOps services Urban{Code} Continuous Testing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) DevOps community IBM Cloud Developer Center IBM Middleware User Community Subscriptions developerWorks newsletters ›› Forward to a friend You provided IBM with your email address so that we could keep you informed of important events and new business solutions. Please visit IBM Online Privacy for more information on the usage of your personal information by IBM. This email was sent in response to your request to receive the developerWorks DevOps Newsletter. If you no longer want to receive the developerWorks DevOps Newsletter, please unsubscribe here.