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How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: 7 Principles

QAspire

I recently re-read the book “How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci” by Michael Gelb and realized how profoundly the book impacted my thinking about creativity, learning and well being back in time. The book offers really valuable ideas into the mind and works of one of the history’s greatest thinkers and my inspiration, Leonardo Da Vinci – a true Neo-Generalist.

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Design for DevOps: Using AI in App Design and Enhanced CI/CD Pipelines

DevOps.com

In my recent article Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps with AI-Engineered Tools, I explained that design-for-DevOps practices, a DevOps pillar, involves designing software in a way that supports the DevOps model and CI/CD pipelines. This can include aspects like microservices architecture, modular design and considering operability and deployability from the earliest stages of design.

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The Impact of Microservices: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Dzone - DevOps

Reliance on technology has come full circle since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The increased utilization of digital applications for needs such as banking, shopping, and especially healthcare services during the past three years has ushered in a need for consumers to trust technology to assist them in all aspects of daily living. Not coincidentally, the demands placed on app engineers, developers, and designers today require them to offer a level of versatility within their software that

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Unravelling the Attack Surface of AI Systems

SecureWorks

Type: Blogs Unravelling the Attack Surface of AI Systems Learn about the attack surfaces of artificial intelligence (AI) systems using the STRIDE framework

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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4 Tips Developers Can Use In Their Next Job Hunt + Example Interview Questions

Gitprime

As a developer, thriving means you’re truly supported, motivated, and able to do your best work–and it significantly predicts how productive you can be at work.

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How do you feel about your team members or colleagues having “side gigs”?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How do you feel about your team members or colleagues having “side gigs”? I’m totally fine with it as long as it doesn’t impact their day to day work performance 72.19% I don’t like it but I’ll tolerate it as long as it doesn’t impact performance 21.80% I’m strongly against it — all their focus should be on their primary job 6.01% Focus on core job performance.

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Equip Your Library's Computer Lab

TechSoup

One of the core community services offered by many libraries is public-access computer labs. As you'll know if your library has one, setting up and maintaining a computer lab can be expensive, with an overwhelming range of hardware and software options to choose from.

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There Are No Repeat Incidents

Honeycomb

People seem to struggle with the idea that there are no repeat incidents. It is very easy and natural to see two distinct outages, with nearly identical failure modes, impacting the same components, and with no significant action items as repeat incidents. However, when we look at the responses and their variations, we can find key distinctions that shows the incidents as related, but not identical.

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Top 5 Organization Policy Services for Google Cloud

Xebia

Top 5 Organization Policy Services for Google Cloud The Google Cloud is a cloud service that enables users to create and manage virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters, store data, and run applications. When using Google Cloud, it’s important to implement technical boundaries that enforce your company’s security and privacy policies. Just as office buildings are secured with locks and by limiting access to certain areas, your cloud environment needs to have safeguards in place to maintain secur

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Building Boba AI: Some lessons and patterns learnt in building an LLM-powered generative application

Martin Fowler

While it's fascinating to work directly with a Large Language Model, such as ChatGPT, it takes some skill and practice to learn how to prompt it effectively. My colleague Farooq Ali has been working on a co-pilot tool, Boba AI, for using an LLM to help generate ideas for product strategy. From this experience he as proposed eight patterns which he judges will be generally useful for building these kinds of AI co-pilot applications.

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AWS launches no-code service AppFabric with generative AI assistance

CIO

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday unveiled a new no-code offering, dubbed AppFabric, designed to simplify SaaS integration for enterprises by increasing application observability and reducing operational costs associated with building point-to-point solutions. The fully managed AppFabric offering, which has been made generally available, is designed to help enterprises maintain SaaS application interoperability without having to develop connectors or workflows in-house while offering added se

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Compassionate Accountability with Nate Regier

Let's Grow Leaders

Compassion and accountability are too often in tension – leaders feel they have to pick one or the other when in fact, practicing compassionate accountability can lead to a thriving organizational culture. Solely prioritizing accountability can create toxic work environments that drive away good talent. On the other end of the spectrum, being too nice can compromise performance and productivity.

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Introducing KBOM – Kubernetes Bill of Materials

Aqua Security

SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) is an accepted best practice to map the components and dependencies of your applications in order to better understand your applications’ risks. SBOMs are used as a basis for vulnerability assessment, licensing compliance, and more. There are plenty of available tools, such as Aqua Trivy , that help you easily generate SBOM for your applications.

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The 2025 Recruitment Playbook

The 2025 Recruitment Playbook by Procom is a strategic guide tailored for hiring managers to navigate the evolving talent landscape. Highlighting innovations like AI-driven tools and data analytics, the playbook empowers leaders to streamline processes, enhance candidate experiences , and foster diversity and inclusion. It provides actionable insights for every recruitment stage—from sourcing and screening to onboarding and retention.

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IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up

DevOps.com

In this week’s #TheLongView: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) goes closed source.

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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

CIO

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Meyercord parlayed an engineering degree into a two-decade consulting track at Accenture, where a focus on large-scale transformation projects opened the door to the global CIO role at Salesforce during its critical revenue growth period.

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Risk Management for AI Chatbots

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Does your company plan to release an AI chatbot, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Bard? Doing so means giving the general public a freeform text box for interacting with your AI model. That doesn’t sound so bad, right? Here’s the catch: for every one of your users who has read a “Here’s how ChatGPT and Midjourney can do half of my job” article, there may be at least one who has read one offering “Here’s how to get AI chatbots to do som

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A Practical Guide To Hire A Technical Writer For Your Tech Team

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

This is a guest post by Harshala Chavan , founder of Merrative. A stronghold of technical concepts is necessary to write about any specific technology. But writing and coding are distinct skill sets, and hence, few experienced developers indulge in professional writing. At Merrative, it took us multiple paid trials, hours of recruitment work, and a loss of USD 1000+ with unsatisfactory work to find our first 15 technical writers.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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How AI Addresses DevOps Monitoring and Observability Challenges

DevOps.com

AI can support monitoring and observability by analyzing logs and metrics to predict potential system failures or performance degradation.

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3 things that make a CIO-CFO dream team

CIO

“There are plenty of good CIOs and plenty of good CFOs,” says Jim McGittigan, Research VP in the CIO Research group of Gartner. “Part of what makes them good is they understand one another. When they work well together, it has a huge impact on the effectiveness of the organization.” CIOs and CFOs who have this chemistry know that the relative success of the relationship runs along three dimensions: The reporting structure : “Where the CIO reports should fit the nature of the business,” says McGi

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Automate your workload insights

Xebia

Managing more than one AWS accounts can become challenging. AWS Organizations provides a way to manage many accounts. You can automate account creation and management. If you use a naming schema you can leverage landingzone-organization ! Naming schema? Using a naming schema improves your ability to find the correct account faster. For example, let say your company Xebia has some workloads.

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No Turning Back: AI Everywhere Causes a Seminal Shift in the Tech Market

IDC

The tech industry is at a seminal moment. The combination of executive and board level interest, clearly defined outcomes, and the sheer speed of adoption makes Generative AI unlike anything we have seen before.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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Bionic Extends Application Security Posture Management Platform

DevOps.com

Bionic this week added a pair of tools to its application security posture management (ASPM) platform that make it simpler to triage threats based on severity and attach a risk score.

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Hate being more productive? Ignore AI agents

CIO

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Bill Gates has seen (or, for that matter, caused) some profound advances in technology, so I don’t take a contrarian position lightly, but I think the way he describes his epiphany about the importance of AI is only half right. After being “awed” by OpenAI’s GPT model acing the AP Bio exam, the model was asked a non-technical question: “What do you say to a father with a sick child?

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Notes on Writing a Scala 3 Compiler Plugin

Xebia

Earlier this year, I worked on the compiler plugin for scourt , a project to implement coroutines in Scala alongside Unwrapped , which was proposed in PRE-SIP: Suspended functions and continuations. As a first time working with the compiler, I took notes of things I thought were useful. And I’d like to share them with you to help make your life easier as well.

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What Is an Event in the Apache Kafka Ecosystem?

Confluent

Get an introduction into the world of events and event-driven architecture in Apache Kafka. Learn what events are and the role they play in event design, event streaming, and event-driven design.

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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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Why Your Data Lake Strategy is Broken for Observability

DevOps.com

Someone once said, “Life is better at the lake.” That may be true in the physical world, but when it comes to using data lakes for observability, that’s not typically the case. Just about every organization in every industry has a digital presence, whether it’s a website, an app or another digital service.

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What is a project manager? The lead role for project success

CIO

What is a project manager? Project managers play the lead role in planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing out projects. They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project. To succeed in their role, project managers must be adept at coordinating resources, managing budgets, measuring and tracking project progress, and communicating with team members and stakeholders.

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The Loneliness Epidemic: Is Your Network Your Net Worth?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Discover the role of community in tackling loneliness, underlining the need for leaders to foster relationships, enabling team members to find their people. Today’s guest post is by Dan Pontefract, award-winning author of Work-Life Bloom. One of the first events I participated in when I joined TELUS in late 2008 was the annual Retirees Holiday Lunch.

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