The Crazy Programmer

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

It is widely accepted that women play a key role in our lives. Women are mothers and the modern female entrepreneur is ubiquitous, however women have made vast contributions to the IT field and yet are still underrepresented. Women developed some of the most significant elements making IT into what it is today. The contribution of women to modern IT is outsized and begs the question as to why there are not many women in the IT workplace.

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Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Imagine a team writing software for a shopping website. If we look at the team's output, we might consider how many new features they produced in the last quarter, or a cross-functional measure such as a reduction in page load time. An outcome measure, however, would consider measure increased sales revenue, or reduced number of support calls for the product.

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people become more Agile. There are some questions in life that simply do not have good answers. “Why do we dream?”, “Are we alone in the universe?” and “Who killed Jimmy Hoffa?

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The Parallax

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The Ring doorbell spent much of 2019 getting buzzed by perceived security and privacy issues, from secret agreements with law enforcement agencies to cybersecurity practices that put its users at risk. Given that Ring, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, bills its devices as helping to build “safer neighborhoods,” its apparently lax approach to protecting customer data struck a number of people as more than ironic.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

To get more done, start with you In the past few months, we’ve heard from many leaders asking for help with time management. They feel the pressing need to get more done, but many of them feel like they’re already maxed out […]. The post Practical Help for Exhausted Leaders Who Need to Get More Done appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

If you’ve ever played a team sport like soccer or basketball, you quickly learn that while it is helpful to have an “all-star” player, the best teams leverage the talents of all their players on the field and elevate everyone’s game in order to consistently win. The following are 3 strategies to build inclusive teams: Align on values – focus on what we share ( common goals, work ethic, expectations, etc.).

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Read Tim Molino explain how we can achieve big data revolution if our policies and laws are in order on Information Week : We are just at the beginning of the big data revolution. What was merely a prediction a few years ago is happening today. Not only are we creating data at exponential rates, […].

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In software development, we talk a lot about the importance of Agile and DevOps. Agile aims for rapid releases, positively encourages involvement from customers and other stakeholders and splits work into smaller iterations, releasing as soon as possible. DevOps extends it by introducing cross-functional team collaboration and automation, enabling teams to always have a stable […].

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TechBeacon

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Developing software that incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) can be unpredictable, and you need a unique set of knowledge and skills to code, test, and make sense of the data. What's more, tuning the system can take time, and the decisions AI-based software makes can sometimes be difficult to explain.

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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.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

When it comes to results—no one can touch him. There’s just one problem. He’s a jerk. How do you manage a strong, arrogant, slightly obnoxious high-performer? A Profile of a Slighty Obnoxious High Performer They come in all shapes and forms. “Dan” […]. The post How to Manage a Strong, Arrogant, Slightly Obnoxious High-Performer appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Fraud detection, payment systems, and stock trading platforms are only a few of many Apache Kafka® use cases that require both fast and predictable delivery of data. For example, detecting […].

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Toptal

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Toptal's JavaScript Speed Coding Challenge invited creative solutions from the beginning. As the week played out, competitors got closer and closer to the maximum theoretical score. Then something unexpected happened.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Read why Steven Nunez says despite huge advances in machine learning models, AI challenges remain much the same today as 60 years ago on InfoWorld : In the early days of artificial intelligence, computer scientists attempted to recreate aspects of the human mind in the computer. This is the type of intelligence that is the […].

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Despite more than $5 trillion having been spent on digital transformation efforts, survey after survey shows that successful digital transformations are far and few in-between. By many estimates, more than 50% of digital transformation efforts failed in recent years. While a recent survey conducted by Hanover Research and commissioned by AHEAD, the State of Enterprise […].

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TechBeacon

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

When you're building a chatbot or virtual assistant, the quality of the conversation should be the most important consideration. A chatbot should adopt features and characteristics that deliver a high-caliber conversational experience.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their thoughts about career development. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors. Are you a leadership writer? We’d love […]. The post Leaders Share about Career Development: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Less than six months ago, we announced support for Microsoft Azure in Confluent Cloud, which allows developers using Azure as a public cloud to build event streaming applications with Apache […].

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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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Github

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In the past year, GitHub engineers shipped GitHub Packages, Actions, Sponsors, Mobile, security advisories and updates, notifications, code navigation, and more. Needless to say, the development pace at GitHub is accelerated. With MySQL serving our backends, updating code requires changes to the underlying database schema. New features may require new tables, columns, changes to existing columns or indexes, dropping unused tables, and so on.

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Scott Berkun

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

I posted on twitter recently asking for recommendations. Specifically for non-designers who need some design literacy, but without the goal of becoming a professional designer. Not UI design, not UX, but focusing on aesthetics. Often pro designers recommend books from their degree program, but that’s not quite what I’m after, as those books tend to assume you’re going to be a practicing designer.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As a novice developer, you may be thinking about learning a programming language and starting a fantastic career. In fact, this question on Reddit inspired the whole article: The thing is, programming languages represent certain philosophies of its authors and tailored to certain types of problems, i.e., there is no such thing as “the […].

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TechBeacon

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The world of test automation and quality assurance (QA) still undergoing a tremendous sea change wrought by the advancing maturity of DevOps in the enterprise. That's why as a QA professional you must remain on your toes if you are to stay on a solid career track.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

We were just wrapping up the first session of a six-month leadership program when “Sal” raised his hand. “How do you help a new manager be more confident?” He continued, “I mean it’s tricky to have a difficult conversation or run a […]. The post How to Help a New Manager Be More Confident appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Toptal

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Cloud architects with the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate qualification are in high demand, with good reason—the AWS exam sets the bar high. What's the best way to prepare for it?

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Today, I am pleased to announce the launch of Confluent Developer, the one and only portal for everything you need to get started with Apache Kafka®, Confluent Platform, and Confluent […].

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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

“ TypeScript is like JavaScript but with no surprises.” This is how developers often describe the open-source programming language introduced in 2012 by Microsoft. As for 2020, the close relative of JS is among the top ten most wanted programming languages, according to GitHub. In this article, we’ll explore what fuels the popularity of TypeScript and which factors make it less attractive in the eyes of engineers and businesses.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

DevOps teams are expected to do more work in less time. They need to plan, test, build, secure and release applications at a fast-paced rate. Of course, the DevOps team needs to achieve all of this while maintaining high software quality. This is why automation is a crucial part of the DevOps workflow. The goal […]. The post Automation Hacks for DevOps Teams appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechBeacon

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

There are few movie scenes I can recall from my childhood, but I vividly remember seeing the 1968 Stanley Kubrick sci-fi movie 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1970 with my older cousin. What stays with me to this day is the scene where astronaut Dave asks HAL, the homicidal computer based on artificial intelligence (AI), to open the pod bay doors. HAL's eerie reply: "I'm sorry, Dave.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

To promote the best first-time leaders, focus on more than results Your decisions about who you put in management and leadership roles are some of the most important leadership decisions you’ll ever make. It’s a decision about who you will trust with […]. The post How to Promote the Best Leaders appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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