February, 2019

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Core technologies and tools for AI, big data, and cloud computing

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Highlights and use cases from companies that are building the technologies needed to sustain their use of analytics and machine learning. Profiles of IT executives suggest that many are planning to spend significantly in cloud computing and AI over the next year. This concurs with survey results we plan to release over the next few months. In a forthcoming survey, “Evolving Data Infrastructure,” we found strong interest in machine learning (ML) among respondents across geographic regions.

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Agile Q&A: How is Testing Incorporated into Agile Software Development?

Agile Alliance

When the topic turns to testing and Agile software development, I usually hear variations of the following two questions: We usually take six weeks to do systems testing after development is over. How could we possibly develop AND test something within two weeks? If developers are doing the testing, what do testers do? This post … Continued.

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Five OKR Disadvantages that May Affect the Way You Set Your OKR

Luis Goncalves

OKR, a goal-setting methodology that was first used by Intel and Google, has become widely popular in the world of business. Many companies have followed the path taken by these companies and integrated the concept of OKRs in their daily operations, with the hope of achieving their company goals and growing their business. In fact, a lot have seen the benefits of OKRs , from startups to Fortune 500 companies like the Duxter.

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The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer

Coding Horror

When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM. modern, fast dual core CPU. speedy solid state drive with 20G+. I'm not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications. We were OK with that, because we were building in Ruby for the next decade of the Internet.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

Erik Bernhardsson

Since I started building up a tech team for Better , I made a very conscious decision to pay at the high end to get people. I thought this made more sense: they cost a bit more money to hire, but output usually more than compensates for it. Many fellow CTOs, some went for the other side of the spectrum: bootcamps and campus recruiting are great recruiting grounds for them.

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Django Blog Tutorial – Make A Simple Blog

The Crazy Programmer

In this tutorial, we’ll discuss about how to make a simple Blog in Django 2. Our blog will have TITLE, PICTURE, DESCRIPTION (Body), DATE. There will be two pages, one for showing all the blogs at one place with less information and the second one to show each blog in detail. Prerequisite. Django 2.0 or above should be installed. Create a project. Django Blog Tutorial.

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Agile Q&A: How Can Project Managers Adjust for Agile?

Agile Alliance

Learn how project managers accustomed to a more traditional software development environment can adapt to a more Agile approach in this post from the Agile Alliance blog.

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The Basic Tenets of Objective and Key Results Implementation

Luis Goncalves

Objective and Key Results Implementation – to be able to effectively implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), it is important to understand how this whole process starts. The following diagram demonstrates how your organisational vision is connected to every team and individual contributors in your team, from the annual down to the quarterly OKRs.

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Fixing attribute completion in Emacs nxml-mode

Martin Fowler

I write most pages on this website in an XML format source file, and use emacs to edit those sources. I’m very happy with how nxml-mode works with prose-style XML, making it much more usable than other environments seem to be. But recent changes (with emacs 26.1, IIRC) put a bit of grit into the environment.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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How to Hire for Values and Retain 87% of Your Employees

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Picture this. You have shortlisted 2 stellar candidates running for a position in your company. On paper, both have a great deal of relevant experience, solid education, and some praiseful references to back things up. One of them will soon become an A+ player introducing all sorts of initiatives making a tangible impact on the company’s bottom line.

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Why Your Best Performers Hate Your Great Idea

Let's Grow Leaders

You’re convinced you’ve got a great idea that you know will yield breakthrough results. So you call the team together to announce the new direction. But instead of being met with a spirited “game on,” your top performers are staring at you with a […]. The post Why Your Best Performers Hate Your Great Idea appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Bridge Between Dev and Ops Needs Automated Structural Visibility

OverOps

Guest post by Jason English, Principal Analyst, Intellyx. November 7, 1940. When the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge was completed in summer and opened for traffic, it was considered an engineering marvel of span and flexibility. Unfortunately, the engineers never anticipated that mere wind could harm such a grand structure. And so, on this day, repeated wind gusts caused the innovative bridge to flex and buck in a harmonic pattern, ultimately tearing ‘Gallopin’ Gertie’ down.

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Safeguarding Your Way to Improving Your Code, Your Processes, and Your Life!

Agile Alliance

Hi, my name is Brian Button. I’m one of the people who helped put together deliver:Agile 2019. I wanted to share with you one of the sessions I’m really looking forward to seeing. Arlo Belshee, the presenter for this workshop, is well known in the Agile world for his challenging and deep takes on … Continued.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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.

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Unlocking How Google Sets OKRs

Luis Goncalves

For years, Google has made headlines for being a key leader in so many things – innovation, revenues, growth and expansion, people management, and leadership. There’s no wonder why so many people love to seek work opportunities at Google, thinking that by the time they leave the company and start a tech business on their own, they would be able to manage their own companies like Google does.

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The Modern Leadership Challenge: An Exquisite Merger of Life and Business

Terry Starbucker

In my now 37 years in the business world, I’ve witnessed and participated in quite an evolution of what constitutes modern leadership. Yesterday’s business leaders put themselves on pedestals, separating themselves from those they lead, and from the humanity that existed beyond the office doors. They were “bosses” in every sense of the word.

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Should I learn React.js or Vue.js?

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

React.js and Vue.js are two of the most popular JavaScript frameworks. The duo are on the list of 10 best JavaScript frameworks to use in 2019 , which says a lot about them. As such, both frameworks are great options to learn while aiming for learning or advancing in JavaScript. Nonetheless, learning either of the two leading JS frameworks demands time and effort.

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How Your Failure Inspires Connection and Success

Let's Grow Leaders

We hear all the time that learning from past failure is the key to success. But what about TALKING about failure, particularly with people who already see you as a success? Do failure stories damage your brand or make it stronger? After […]. The post How Your Failure Inspires Connection and Success appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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How to Stop Bad Releases From Being Deployed to Production with OverOps

OverOps

Following on our latest launch of OverOps Reliability Dashboards, it’s time to take a closer look at the dashboards themselves and see what added value they can bring to DevOps/SRE, QA and dev teams. OverOps’ new Reliability Dashboards give visibility across pre-production and production environments. These capabilities help developers, DevOps and QA teams identify and prioritize anomalies before a release, which can stop you from promoting bad code.

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Questions about Agile: Agile Beyond Software

Agile Alliance

This is part of a series of posts where I take a look at some commonly asked questions and provide my spin on them. The answers are all my own. So while my answers do not necessarily reflect the policy or positions of Agile Alliance, I’ll point to some relevant resources on AgileAlliance.org that either … Continued.

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OKR History for the Leadership and Management Nerds

Luis Goncalves

If you landed on this page, you have my respect for researching a topic that only gets researched by management nerds Kidding aside, it’s also great to know about OKR history and the framework has evolved to what it is today so you will have full understanding of the rationale behind its final form. The idea of restructuring and streamlining corporate processes and organisational structures began with Taylor and Ford , known as the “Fathers of Scientific Management”.

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Seven OKR Best Practices to Guide Your Team

Evolution4all

OKR (Objective and Key Result) is a promising framework for keeping your team aligned with the long term vision and mission of your company. If you’ve been planning to implement this for company but uncertain of the ways to fully maximise its implementation, below are some of the guidelines and best practices for adopting OKR. Before writing anything for your company, you have to understand the nature of OKR.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Should I learn React.js or Vue.js?

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

React.js and Vue.js are two of the most popular JavaScript frameworks. The duo are on the list of 10 best JavaScript frameworks to use in 2019 , which says a lot about them. As such, both frameworks are great options to learn while aiming for learning or advancing in JavaScript. Nonetheless, learning either of the two leading JS frameworks demands time and effort.

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How to Get Your Boss Excited About Your Idea

Let's Grow Leaders

You’ve got a great idea you just know will improve the business. How do you get your boss excited? Okay, let’s be real, not just excited, but as excited as you are? 7 Ways to Get Your Boss Excited About Your Great Idea […]. The post How to Get Your Boss Excited About Your Idea appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How DevOps and SRE Teams Can Triage Issues with OverOps’ Reliability Dashboards

OverOps

New OverOps Reliability Dashboards score deployments, applications and infrastructure configurations so teams can drill down into operational issues and immediately see the root cause. In previous posts, we’ve discussed the challenges we need to overcome when figuring out the root cause of issues ( 1 ), prioritizing events and anomalies ( 2 ), and blocking critical issues from reaching production ( 3 ).

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Agile Q&A: Is There a Place for Managers in an Agile Organization?

Agile Alliance

Learn how project managers accustomed to a more traditional software development environment can adapt to a more Agile approach in this post from the Agile Alliance blog.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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OKR Framework, A Summary Of What You Need To Know

Luis Goncalves

OKR Framework. Objectives and Key Results (OKR) is a popular goal setting framework that helps organisations implement a solid strategy. The goal of OKRs is for every member of the organisation – from the key stakeholders and leaders down to the team members – understand the objectives of the company through a set of defined, specific and measurable actions.

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Difference between Von Neumann and Harvard Architecture

The Crazy Programmer

Architecture of a micro computer or a micro controller refers to the arrangement of the CPU with respect of the RAM and ROM. Hence, the Von-Neuman and Harvard architecture are the two ways through which the micro controller can have its arrangement of the CPU with RAM and ROM. Difference between Von Neumann and Harvard Architecture. Point of Comparison.

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5 Important AI Predictions (For 2019) Everyone Need to Know

OTS Solutions

Five Important AI Predictions (For 2019) Everyone Needs to Know. The News about AI for 2019 Just one year ago, the words “artificial intelligence” or “AI” was rarely understood by average computer users. One year later, these are words on everyone’s lips. Now that AI has found a comfortable and useful niche in business and society, it is important to know the five AI predictions for 2019 everyone needs to know.