siliconindia | | DECEMBER 20218By Shiva Paranandi, Vice President Technology Operations, CBS InteractiveCBS Interactive, a division of ViacomCBS, is the world's largest publisher of premium digital content and a perennial top 10 Internet company. CBS Interactive's brands span popular categories like technology, entertainment, sports, news and gaming.Properties include the websites, apps and streaming services of the CBS Television Network such as the CBS All Access subscription service, CBS News Digital platforms including the 24/7 digital news network CBSN, and CBS Sports Digital brands including the 24-hour streaming sports news network CBS Sports HQ, as well as digital-first properties in key content verticals, including CNET, ZDNet, TVGuide.com, GameSpot, Last.fm, Metacritic and Chowhound.This decade is going to be dominated by innovation and who gets a product to the market and the end users first. Organizations that sabotage themselves when it comes to innovation will be left behind by the ones that are nimble and agile. For this reason, evolving and modernizing tech stacks to enable the much needed innovation that is critical for product teams will be a key to success. The last decade saw the advent of many key technologies like AI/ML, Bitcoin, self-driving cars, data analytics which is considered a very precious asset like oil for modern companies. All these innovations were made possible due to the massive scale of platforms such as the cloud, different SaaS vendors and managed services. For many newer companies, offloading the support functions onto these vendors is easier than having to build themselves. For example integrating with one of the SaaS payment systems takes a matter of weeks whereas having to build one from scratch can take a few months (or even quarters) depending on the velocity of the team.REJUVENATING AND MODERNIZING TECH STACKSIN MYOPINIONShiva Paranandi
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