OverOps

JULY 17, 2018

Application performance is on the forefront of our minds, and Garbage Collection optimization is a good place to make small, but meaningful advancements. Automated garbage collection (along with the JIT HotSpot Compiler) is one of the most advanced and most valued components of the JVM, but many developers and engineers are far less familiar with Garbage Collection (GC), how it works and how it impacts application performance.

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Ron Jeffries

JULY 18, 2018

People have been telling me for years that Scrum is not an Agile Software Development Framework. I should have paid more attention. It's still good stuff, though.

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OTS Solutions

JULY 19, 2018

Devops has been the subject of many IT debates since its launch. Some people have considered it to be just another marketing fad while others believe it is the next big thing in IT operations. Consequently, over the years, analysts have predicted that devops shall experience rapid growth. Nonetheless, the tool has grown steadily but hasn’t caught momentum among mainstream businesses.

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O'Reilly Media - Data

JULY 18, 2018

While models and algorithms garner most of the media coverage, this is a great time to be thinking about building tools in data. In this post I share slides and notes from a keynote I gave at the Strata Data Conference in London at the end of May. My goal was to remind the data community about the many interesting opportunities and challenges in data itself.

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Business Intelligence

O'Reilly Media - Data

JULY 19, 2018

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Andrew Feldman on why deep learning is ushering a golden age for compute architecture. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Andrew Feldman, founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems , a startup in the blossoming area of specialized hardware for machine learning. Since the release of AlexNet in 2012 , we have seen an explosion in activity in machine learning , particularly in deep learning.

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The Crazy Programmer

JULY 17, 2018

Working on videos isn’t always as easy as making them. Editing, converting, recreating and enhancing the videos might be a very essential task of our day to day activities but it is not always the easier one. It sounds good to have a video edited within the spur of a moment, but in reality it takes a lot of hard work, focus, dedication and concentration.

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CTOvision

JULY 17, 2018

Smart Cities will become a full-scale cyber war battleground unless Congress mandates cybersecurity. The biggest danger in Smart Cities is the assumption that IoT sensors communicating over a 5G fabric to Machine Learning and Blockchain systems will be safe from cyberattacks. To the contrary Smart Cities suffer from all the cyber vulnerabilities we have today [.].

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O'Reilly Media - Data

JULY 17, 2018

An overview of the challenges MLflow tackles and a primer on how to get started. Although machine learning (ML) can produce fantastic results, using it in practice is complex. Beyond the usual challenges in software development, machine learning developers face new challenges, including experiment management (tracking which parameters, code, and data went into a result); reproducibility (running the same code and environment later); model deployment into production; and governance (auditing mode

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2018

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on the art of the tough conversation. We asked thought leaders from around the world to share their very best post on this topic. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic […]. The post The Art of the Tough Conversation: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Toptal

JULY 19, 2018

Even exciting product ideas can flop without an understanding of the user problem to solve. A design problem statement is an essential step in the design process for creating products that truly matter.

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Ron Jeffries

JULY 19, 2018

There's a lot of whinging going on about imposing 'Agile' methods and practices. These whiners just don't know how to do imposition correctly. Me either, but here's what I'd try.

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O'Reilly Media - Data

JULY 17, 2018

Oaths have their value, but checklists will help put principles into practice. "Oaths? We don't need no stinkin' oaths" (with apologies to Humphrey Bogart in “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”). Over the past year, there has been a great discussion of data ethics, motivated in part by discomfort over “fake news,” targeted advertising, algorithmic bias, and the effect that data products have on individuals and on society.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 17, 2018

Have you ever wanted to take a stand, but kept quiet? Have you had a moment of bravery you found hard to explain? Where does courage come from? A Courageous Guest Post from Selvia of Glowstone Peak Karin and David asked me to share […]. The post Courage: 5 Ways to Show Up Stronger (Even When You’re Scared) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Engineering

Toptal

JULY 17, 2018

A consistent UI leads to a better UX. But with so many moving parts in modern user interfaces, how can UI designers be sure they’re staying true to a digital product’s look and feel?

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CTOvision

JULY 19, 2018

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Stakeholder Engagement and Cyber Infrastructure Resilience (SECIR) division and the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) are joining forces to conduct a series of unclassified, virtual awareness briefings on Russian government cyber activity against critical infrastructure. We believe this webinar will be of interest to technical teams operating [.].

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O'Reilly Media - Data

JULY 16, 2018

Get a basic overview of data engineering and then go deeper with recommended resources. As the the data space has matured, data engineering has emerged as a separate and related role that works in concert with data scientists. Ian Buss, principal solutions architect at Cloudera, notes that data scientists focus on finding new insights from a data set, while data engineers are concerned with the production readiness of that data and all that comes with it: formats, scaling, resilience, security,

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scruminc

JULY 17, 2018

Scrum Hardware: eXtreme Manufacturing Explained. by Joe Justice | July 13, 2018 | Blog. A continuously improving blast of new, high-quality products which get the marketplace excited, tests assumptions and makes money; That is the goal of Scrum Hardware. To Scrum hardware, we need fast design. The rules of Scrum give us a powerful and tested framework for new product development.

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

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Toptal

JULY 16, 2018

How do you approach machine learning problems? Are neural networks the answer to nearly every challenge you may encounter? In this article, Toptal Freelance Python Developer Peter Hussami explains the basic approach to machine learning problems and points out where neural may fall short.

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CTOvision

JULY 18, 2018

If you have been following the breathless hype of AI and ML over these past few years, you might have noticed the increasing pace at which vendors are scrambling to roll out “platforms” that service the data science and ML communities. The “Data Science Platform” and “Machine Learning Platform” are at the front lines of [.].

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Women on Business

JULY 14, 2018

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scruminc

JULY 17, 2018

Impediments of Performance Appraisals. The research on performance appraisal shows that they: Demotivate employees. 70% of content is about the manager, not the employee, and the remainder often does not accurately reflect employee performance because the manager does not really know day to day what happens (the team does). They increase damage awards in the event of lawsuits.

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Scalability

Toptal

JULY 17, 2018

Finding out your return on investment from a project can become a subjective process with the myriad of returns measures and formulas that exist. This overview provides a breakdown and explanation of what type of return you need to measure and how to calculate it. With further guidance on how to use returns data to guide objective decision making.

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CTOvision

JULY 17, 2018

When I was the Director of Intelligence for DoD's first joint cyber defense organization (JTF-CND) our Commander (At the time, Army Major General Dave Bryan) and our J5 (Marine LTC Mike Davis) organized a visit for the senior staff to the Manassas Battlefield Park of Virginia. The purpose was not just team building, but to [.].

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 16, 2018

Guest article by Glain Roberts-McCabe “She was completely whole and yet never fully complete” ?Maquita Donyel Irvin One day, I was having lunch with John, a successful CEO of a national retailer.

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The Daily WTF

JULY 17, 2018

Our summer break continues. I once worked on a team which made "shingles"- software modules that were layered on top of a packaged product. There were a lot of WTFs in those shingles, but nothing that can compare to this once. Original -- Remy. The year was 1999 and the dot-com boom was going full-throttle. Companies everywhere were focused on building revolutionary applications using nothing but top-shelf hardware and state-of-the-art software tools.

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Toptal

JULY 16, 2018

Hot module replacement is one of the most useful features offered by Webpack. It allows all kinds of modules, including JSON, CSS, and JS files, to be updated at runtime without needing a full refresh. In this article, Toptal Freelance JavaScript Developer Shaojiang Cai demonstrates how to use Hot Module Replacement in Redux.

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CTOvision

JULY 18, 2018

The following are some of the cyber security and cyber war related stories we are tracking: Apple’s iCloud user data in China is now handled by a state-owned mobile operator If you are an Apple iPhone or Mac user and are communicating with someone in China, you should be extra careful because as per the [.].

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Women on Business

JULY 16, 2018

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