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Book review: Accelerate

Henrik Warne

The book Accelerate details the findings of four years of research on how DevOps affects various outcomes, such as software delivery tempo and stability, as well as the organizations’ profitability and market share. The findings of the research are presented in the first part of the book (a bit more than half of it).

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Agile Book Club: Retrospectives

James Shore

Although you might start with an off-the-shelf Agile method, every team is expected to customize its method for itself. Aino is the author of the book Retrospective Antipatterns. About the Book Club. The Art of Agile Development Book Club takes place Fridays from 8:00 – 8:45am Pacific. Reading: ??

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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory

Erik Bernhardsson

It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I used to write custom mapreduce jobs to pull basic stats, then wait for hours for those jobs to finish. I once ran a web shop and spent a week implementing credit card payments.

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Udacity raises $75M in debt, says its tech education business is profitable after enterprise pivot

TechCrunch

Udacity said that part of the business is growing fast, with Q3 bookings up by 120% year-over-year and average run rates up 260% in H1 2020. Udacity said that part of the business is growing fast, with Q3 bookings up by 120% year-over-year and average run rates up 260% in H1 2020.

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SentinelOne, an AI-based endpoint security firm, confirms $267M raise on a $3.1B valuation

TechCrunch

And it should be noted that the round was rumored for almost a month ahead of this , although the sums raised were off by quite a bit: the reports had said $150-200 million. The rapid fundraising, from a top-shelf list of firms, is a notable aspect of this story. Its valuation is now over $3 billion. billion valuation.

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5 ways to improve mental health for software developers

TechCrunch

In Daniel Pink’s book “Drive,” he covers how autonomy, mastery and purpose are the main drivers of motivation. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. Give the gift of autonomy.

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Interpreting predictive models with Skater: Unboxing model opacity

O'Reilly Media - Data

Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil has recently written an entire book filled with examples of poor interpretability as a dire warning of the potential social carnage from misunderstood models—e.g., There is also a trade off in balancing a model’s interpretability and its performance.