Cover design for the Refactoring 2nd Ed
Martin Fowler
JUNE 13, 2018
We've got a cover design for the second edition of Refactoring. As with any book in my signature series, I needed to decide which bridge would feature in the photo.
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OKRs: A Simple But Awesome Strategy to Get Stuff Done
Evolution4all
JUNE 14, 2018
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. With today’s complex nature of organisations, team members often find themselves feeling lost amidst the rapid changes that they deal with every day.
6 Log Management Tools You NEED to Know (And How to Use Them)
OverOps
JUNE 21, 2018
Without the right tools to aggregate and parse your log data, finding and understanding the information you’re looking for is nearly impossible. There are endless uses for logs because the logs themselves are endless. Application logs, security logs, BI logs, Lincoln logs (Ok, maybe not)… Setting aside security, BI and childhood fun for a moment, even looking specifically at uses for application logs alone, there are countless uses.
Primer: What DDoS attacks could mean for IoT
The Parallax
JUNE 13, 2018
When a headline screams something like “worst DDoS ever,” it’s often accurate. Distributed denial-of-service attacks, which deluge targeted sites or services with traffic to force them offline, have been growing in strength and scope for decades. And although organizations can do certain things to mitigate the impact of an attack, our seemingly ever-increasing usage of Internet-connected devices is likely only inviting more DDoS trouble.
15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence
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Managing risk in machine learning models
O'Reilly Media - Data
JUNE 21, 2018
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Andrew Burt and Steven Touw on how companies can manage models they cannot fully explain. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Andrew Burt , chief privacy officer at Immuta , and Steven Touw , co-founder and CTO of Immuta. Burt recently co-authored a white paper on managing risk in machine learning models , and I wanted to sit down with them to discuss some of the proposals they put forward to organizations that are deploying machine learning.
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Missing the point about microservices – it's about testing and deploying independently
Erik Bernhardsson
JUNE 3, 2018
Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things: I really struggle with the term microservices. I can’t put my finger on exactly why. Maybe because the term is hopelessly ill-defined, maybe because it’s gotten picked up by the hype train. Whatever. But I have to stick to some type of terminology so let’s just roll with it. This blog post might be mildly controversial, but I’m throwing it out there because I’ve had this itchy feeling for so long and I can’t get rid of it.
How Continuous Delivery Broke Your Application Reliability – and What You Need to Do to Fix It
OverOps
JUNE 13, 2018
More frequent deployments are great, but maintaining high-quality code while implementing them is a whole different story. Everyone is talking about moving towards an automated workflow, and there’s no wonder. We all want to deploy more features and capabilities to our products and applications, and we want to do it as quickly as we can. However, automation is not something that we should take lightly as it comes with some risks that shouldn’t be ignored.
On doctors’ orders, Israel plans a health care CERT
The Parallax
JUNE 26, 2018
TEL AVIV—If you listen to doctors who faced the WannaCry ransomware attack on the front lines of emergency rooms across England last year, it’s a minor miracle that the inadequate care it caused didn’t result in any patient deaths. Israel has chosen to heed their warning by creating a health care cyber emergency response yeam, or CERT, to lay out how administrators and doctors should respond to the next destructive cyberattack.
Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders
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.
Lessons learned turning machine learning models into real products and services
O'Reilly Media - Data
JUNE 5, 2018
Why model development does not equal software development. Artificial intelligence is still in its infancy. Today, just 15% of enterprises are using machine learning, but double that number already have it on their roadmaps for the upcoming year. With public figures like Intel’s CEO stating that every company needs a machine learning strategy or risks being left behind, it’s just a matter of time before machine learning enters your organization, too—if it hasn’t already.
Agile Portfolio Management Definition: How To Run Your Company at Its Fullest Potential
Luis Goncalves
JUNE 6, 2018
It’s interesting that a lot of IT projects are considered as failures even though the development teams were able to submit the output on time and within budget. As it turns out, these projects were not considered as successes since they didn’t meet the demands or standards of the stakeholders. There was also minimal coordination between the project team and the investors.
Employee Engagement – Avoid This Tremendous Leadership Mistake
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 5, 2018
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Organisational Mastery Blueprint
Evolution4all
JUNE 17, 2018
During the past few years of my career, we have been developing an approach to help executive leaders enable organisational mastery in their companies. Today, we are announcing that Evolution4all ´s Organisational Mastery Blueprint has arrived. We are very proud of what we have created and we believe in its results, as we use the exact same approach to run our own company.
2024 Salary Guide
Advertiser: Procom Services
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How to Measure the Reliability of Your Software Throughout the CI/CD Workflow
OverOps
JUNE 5, 2018
Overcome the challenge of maintaining code quality in a CI/CD workflow with Continuous Reliability. CI/CD practices encourage frequent code integration in development, speed up preparations for new releases and automate deployments. And with this new tooling, these parts of the software development lifecycle have all improved and accelerated. At the same time, the data that we use to evaluate the overall quality of a new release and of our application as a whole hasn’t changed much at all.
FBI?s router reboot call reminds us why to check for updates
The Parallax
JUNE 18, 2018
On May 25, the FBI issued a clarion call to a broad swath of Wi-Fi router owners: To clear out a potential botnet malware infection, reboot your router. The malware, VPNFilter, allowed hackers to snoop on all traffic passing through the router, including stealing website log-ins, as well as disable the device. But the reboot was only a temporary fix: Router owners must update their router firmware to fully eliminate the potential infection, a much harder task than simply turning the router off a
Testing machine learning interpretability techniques
O'Reilly Media - Data
JUNE 26, 2018
The importance of testing your tools, using multiple tools, and seeking consistency across various interpretability techniques. Interpreting machine learning models is a pretty hot topic in data science circles right now. Machine learning models need to be interpretable to enable wider adoption of advanced predictive modeling techniques, to prevent socially discriminatory predictions, to protect against malicious hacking of decisioning systems, and simply because machine learning models affect o
Communities of Practice Measurement: Focusing on the Right Metrics to Grow Your Company?s Knowledge Capital
Luis Goncalves
JUNE 25, 2018
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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days
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Remote Leaders: How to Use the Right Tool at the Right Time
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Crossing the bounded context, events-first, the REST is not needed
Xebia
JUNE 27, 2018
Technical design decision can have a severe impact on companies their communication structure. Conway’s law explains; “Any organization that designs a system (defined more broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.” Such is the story also with a microservices architecture.
Supercharge Your Splunk Analytics with OverOps
OverOps
JUNE 27, 2018
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WannaCry vs. the ER doc: On the front lines of a ransomware outbreak
The Parallax
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TEL AVIV—Dr. Tony Bleetman wears several hats, splitting his time as an emergency physician in London and Tel Aviv. He’ll tell you right off the bat that he’s no expert in cybersecurity. But he’s had an experience that few hackers can claim: He was on the front lines of the WannaCry outbreak , where the ransomware directly affected the treatment of hospital patients.
An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies
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O'Reilly Media - Data
JUNE 12, 2018
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6 Git Aha Moments
Henrik Warne
JUNE 24, 2018
When I switched jobs four years ago, I went from using subversion (svn) to using git as the version control system. Even though I am a pretty quick learner, it took me a quite a while to really understand git. I read a lot on how git works, but even so, I didn’t always realize what the implications were for how to use git. Here are six big “aha moments” I had on how to use git.
Forced Ratings – Awful Problems and What Leaders Do Instead
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JUNE 28, 2018
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Sprint Planning
Agile Alliance
JUNE 8, 2018
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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?
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On-Demand Webinar: Quality Gates and Feedback Loops in Continuous Delivery
OverOps
JUNE 28, 2018
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At S(h)ecurity, a focus on infosec industry imbalance (Q&A)
The Parallax
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The real value of data requires a holistic view of the end-to-end data pipeline
O'Reilly Media - Data
JUNE 7, 2018
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