Martin Fowler
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Last year, my colleague Zhamak Dehghani introduced the notion of the Data Mesh , shifting from the notion of a centralized data lake to a distributed vision of data. Based on more thinking, and the lessons of a year's worth working with clients, she's now written an article outlining four foundational principles of a data mesh, and how they drive a logical architecture.
Henrik Warne
DECEMBER 27, 2020
Choosing test values when writing unit tests is mostly guided by the need to cover all cases of the program logic. However, some values are better than others. Here are a few tips on how to pick values that make mistakes easy to spot and the tests easy to read. Plus a bonus tip on a quick way to double check your tests. . 1. Make mistakes obvious. Suppose you have a function that subtracts one number from another, then using 20 – 10 = 10 is not so great.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Global investors are running from Chinese tech stocks in the wake of the government’s crackdown on Ant Group and Alibaba, two high-flying businesses founded by Ma Yun (Jack Ma) that were once hailed as paragons of China’s new tech elite. Shares of major technology companies in the country have fallen sharply in recent days, with Bloomberg calculating that Alibaba, Tencent, JD.com and Meituan have lost around $200 billion in value during a handful of trading sessions.
Erik Bernhardsson
DECEMBER 15, 2020
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 had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering changing in ways that have made us orders of magnitude more productive.
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Agile Alliance
DECEMBER 29, 2020
Look back at last year and imagine you did not run any Retrospective. What would have been different? If the answer is little or nothing, read on. I might prompt some useful questions to make your new year retrospectives even more effective. Agile Retrospectives are a well known “ceremony” that stems from the 12th Agile … Continued. The post How Did Your 2020 Agile Retrospectives Go?
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Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 23, 2020
In this month’s Frontline Festival, top leadership experts share their Best of 2020 thoughts and posts. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors. Best of 2020 Insights: Practical Help Rachel Blakely-Gray of […]. The post Leaders Share Their Best of 2020 Insights: Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 23, 2020
A Matt Devost post on Putin’s OODA Loop has stood the test of time. I was reminded of that when I noticed many friends were emailing and tweeting each other […].
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Even in a non-hell year, running a successful startup is a tremendous lift. After the events of 2020, however, no doubt many already lean businesses are hanging on by the skin of their teeth. For every company that saw increased interest in their offerings during the pandemic, there were several that simply couldn’t make it through the finish line. We’ve put this list together for several years now.
Confluent
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Before you say it: Yes, we are right now three days past Christmas, but technically the 12 days of Christmas refer to the days between Christmas and Epiphany, which is—I […].
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
Agile Alliance
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Wondering how Agile Alliance conference gets the most innovative, thought-provoking, and noteworthy sessions? Our reviewers find them among the hundreds of submissions we receive. Now is the time to join the review team — we are looking for you! As a reviewer, you will be guided by the track chairs about what the program is … Continued. The post Agile2021 Call for Reviewers first appeared on Agile Alliance.
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 21, 2020
In today’s fast-paced business environment, the division of DevOps and SecOps must be bridged to create DevSecOps Now that the “X-as-a-service” model has taken hold, enterprise infrastructure, integration and solution delivery has accelerated rapidly. Waterfall methodology has given way to the Agile framework of rapid, continuous development and delivery.
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Has this ever happened to you? You sit down for an earnest performance improvement conversation. Your employee listens intently. She thanks you for the feedback, and promises to try harder. Things improve for a minute. But a week later, they’re back to […]. The post How to Hold a Better Performance Improvement Conversation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechBeacon
DECEMBER 14, 2020
As IT environments become more dynamic, hybrid, and complex, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for security operations center (SOC) teams to quickly detect and address critical threats with traditional tools.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow. “We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says.
Toptal
DECEMBER 17, 2020
WebAssembly gives near-native performance to web apps and allows languages other than JavaScript—plus their libraries—to be used on the web. This tutorial leverages Rust and the Web Audio API to make a basic guitar tuner app that runs at 60 FPS, even on mobile.
Agile Alliance
DECEMBER 28, 2020
The Agile Alliance blog is a popular destination for our community of practitioners. It contains the latest and greatest articles in the Agile space. A wide array of topics were popular in 2020. Thanks for reading our blog this year — join us next year for even more great how-to guides, best practices, and more! … Continued. The post Top 10 Agile Alliance Blog Posts of 2020 first appeared on Agile Alliance.
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 23, 2020
AI and DevOps together make a powerful combination of efficiency and intelligence Supervising and managing a DevOps environment can be complex. The proliferation of data has made it challenging for DevOps teams to effectively absorb and implement information to evaluate and tackle customer issues. Imagine a team navigating through data in exabytes to search for […].
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
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Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Wow-what a year this has been. For many leaders, adversity doesn’t begin to describe the challenges you’ve faced. And – we’ve been so inspired by the ways you have responded and risen to the occasion to overcome adversity. If 2020 has left […]. The post 5 Steps to Overcome Adversity and Thrive in the New Year appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechBeacon
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Now that DevOps has entered its second decade, the focus has expanded beyond product delivery. It's no longer just about dev and ops, but about removing the constraints between the business and its customers, with a focus on delivering not just new features and products, but also value.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce, who helped build the Einstein artificial intelligence platform, is taking on a new challenge — and it’s a doozy. Socher wants to fix consumer search and today he announced you.com , a new search engine to take on the mighty Google. “We are building you.com. You can already go to it today.
Datavail
DECEMBER 8, 2020
This year offers corporate leaders all kinds of ‘teachable moments,’ but perhaps the lesson with the highest value is: ‘ always alert to evolving data and database management considerations.’ Datavail has extensive experience assisting its customers in managing database challenges over the years and now posed by 2020. An emergency project reflects how its expertise helped one customer avoid a digital catastrophe by facing downing a potentially fatal peril triggered by an
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Confluent
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Consuming messages in parallel is what Apache Kafka® is all about, so you may well wonder, why would we want anything else? It turns out that, in practice, there are […].
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 21, 2020
NoOps, is here and it’s more than just a buzzword or an ideal. The next generation of plaform-as-a-service (PaaS) platforms are evolving to minimize the developers’ operational burden and reduce dependency on DevOps for deployment. Dev teams that don’t want to deal with operations or don’t have in-house operations resources should consider deploying applications on […].
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 17, 2020
If you’re like many leaders we talk with, you’ve been on such a fast pivot this year, you may not have had all the strategic planning time you’d hoped for. Or, your business has changed so much, it’s the perfect time to […]. The post Strategic Planning Tool: How to Engage Your Team in Better Conversation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechBeacon
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Last year, a cloud-savvy hacker found a way to bypass the web application firewall protecting Capital One's credit card applications. The result: The attacker collected more than 100 million individuals' records, and the firm eventually paid an $80 million fine.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Tecton.ai , the startup founded by three former Uber engineers who wanted to bring the machine learning feature store idea to the masses, announced a $35 million Series B today, just seven months after announcing their $20 million Series A. When we spoke to the company in April, it was working with early customers in a beta version of the product, but today, in addition to the funding they are also announcing the general availability of the platform.
David Walsh
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Knowing what input type you’ve received is hugely important in JavaScript, which is a big reason for Flow and TypeScript’s rise. One such case where it’s useful to know what an object represents is if the input is a string or a React element. To detect if an object is a React element, you can use React.isValidElement(obj) : // Add a wrapping DIV if the content isn't a React element // PropTypes.oneOfType([PropTypes.string, PropTypes.element]) render() { const { content } = this
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
DECEMBER 8, 2020
It has long seemed to me that functional programming is, essentially, programming viewed as mathematics. Many ideas in functional programming came from Alonzo Church’s Lambda Calculus, which significantly predates anything that looks remotely like a modern computer. Though the actual history of computing runs differently: in the early days of computing, Von Neumann’s ideas were more important than Church’s, and had a tremendous influence on the design of early computers—an influence that c
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