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The Essential Toolbox for DevOps Analytics

DevOps.com

With DevOps teams under constant pressure to improve software delivery cycles while maintaining—and improving—quality, many have turned to continuous testing (CT), implementing it as part of their overall development strategy. CT offers a number of benefits to DevOps teams, but it also introduces new challenges, specifically infinite amounts of data that require analysis.

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Bliki: TechnicalDebt

Martin Fowler

Software systems are prone to the build up of cruft - deficiencies in internal quality that make it harder than it would ideally be to modify and extend the system further. Technical Debt is a metaphor, coined by Ward Cunningham, that frames how to think about dealing with this cruft, thinking of it like a financial debt. The extra effort that it takes to add new features is the interest paid on the debt.

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Native Java Debugging on Alpine Linux: GDB, OpenJDK and the Mysterious Unknown Signal

OverOps

Porting a software project to a new operating system is always interesting and fun, and Alpine Linux with its musl libc brings a unique set of challenges. A while ago, I was tasked with porting OverOps’ native agent to Alpine Linux. In this previous blog post , I got started with Alpine Linux by setting up a fresh Alpine disk install and desktop environment on my laptop, stacked up with C++ and Java development tools.

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Agile Q&A: How Far Ahead Should a Team Estimate Product Backlog Items?

Agile Alliance

Explore the main reasons organizations adopt Agile and why your organization's rationale for adopting Agile may impact the implementation's success.

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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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One Surprising Secret to Being Respected as an Expert

Let's Grow Leaders

I was having dinner with a group of senior leaders after a strategic executive offsite. So naturally, the conversation turned to… octopus hunting. Apparently, Carlos, the senior leader sitting across from me was an expert. He described his technique in intricate detail. […]. The post One Surprising Secret to Being Respected as an Expert appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Sage Advice For The First-Time Leader

Terry Starbucker

Dear First-Time Leader: Congratulations! You’ve just been given a fantastic opportunity. But before you dive in, I’d like to pass along a little sage advice. I remember my first day as a leader, 35 years ago. I was not long out of college and I thought what I had learned in the classroom and my first few years in the working world would be enough.

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The Journey of Servant Leadership: Iron Sharpens Iron

N2Growth Blog

Each day I reflecting upon the journey of servant leadership , what I now define as “relational leadership”. Although I certainly do not intend to make this a post with any religious overtones, I’ve found the bible has an amazing quote that shapes my thinking on this topic. Proverbs 27:17 proclaims: “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another”.

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How to Prevent Training From Wasting Time and Money

Let's Grow Leaders

A Manager’s Guide to Reinforcing Training When People Get Back to Work Your employees go to training. Hopefully, they come back fired up and excited about what they’ve learned and what they can do with it. Two weeks later though, they’re back […]. The post How to Prevent Training From Wasting Time and Money appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Windows 10 Is Now On 825 Million Active Devices: What It Means For Programmers

The Crazy Programmer

In November 2017, Windows announced that their Windows 10 operating system had been downloaded onto 600 million active devices. This was a big deal at the time, representing an extra 100 million users in less than six months. However, in May 2019, that record was smashed as it emerged that there are now 825 million devices running Windows 10. This makes it the world’s most popular operating system for desktops and laptops, finally surpassing Windows 7.

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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.

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Five Simple Things You Can Do to Make Change Easier for People

Change Starts Here

Last week, my local grocery store started rearranging the layout of the shelves. They’re adding higher shelves and moving many groups of items to different parts of the store. There was no warning. I found out when I pushed the cart to an aisle expecting to find something, and it wasn’t there. They had added […].

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FlexDeploy vs Jenkins for Git Sparse Checkouts

Flexagon

While working with many FlexDeploy customers on DevOps for middleware and enterprise applications, I have noticed that organizations setup a multitude of Git repositories and each repository is used to store source code for many artifacts. For example, one Git repository may contain a few integration composites, service bus projects, application server configurations etc., and.

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Vital Leadership Choice – Do You Want to Be Effective or Right?

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s easy for leaders to get in their own way. Have you ever insisted that you’re right and then experienced frustration as nothing worked the way it was supposed to? You’re not alone – the leadership choice between “right” or effective […]. The post Vital Leadership Choice – Do You Want to Be Effective or Right?

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Story Points Revisited

Ron Jeffries

I like to say that I may have invented story points, and if I did, I'm sorry now. Let's explore my current thinking on story points. At least one of us is interested in what I think.

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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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Security: Are You Doing DevOps Right?

DevOps.com

Phil Kernick, co-founder and CTO of cybersecurity specialist CQR Consulting, has no fundamental problem with DevOps, but asks, from a security perspective, “How many people do it right?” If DevOps is going to work and produce secure systems, then developers must take responsibility for security. It’s not something that can be treated as an additional […].

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5 Crucial Elements of Application Release Automation

Flexagon

Today’s IT departments are under increasing pressure to release new solutions and enhancements to existing capabilities. Many are expected to deliver updates and new applications in tight timeframes. In a recent survey, 90 percent of DevOps professionals report increasing pressure to accelerate application release, and 93 percent link challenges to manual processes.

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Schemas, Contracts, and Compatibility

Confluent

When you build microservices architectures, one of the concerns you need to address is that of communication between the microservices. At first, you may think to use REST APIs—most programming languages have frameworks that make it very easy to implement REST APIs, so this is a common first choice. REST APIs define the HTTP methods that are used and the request and response payloads that are expected.

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A Better Wi-Fi Experience with Dual Channel Wi-Fi™

CableLabs

At least 15 percent of customer service calls are Wi-Fi related, ranging from poor connections to video playback issues, translating to more than $600 million in annual support costs for the cable industry (in North America alone). As the Wi-Fi industry looks for ways to increase speed, coverage and support for more devices in the Wi-Fi ecosystem, one critical element has been overlooked: the need to have the necessary airtime to send data to all end devices in a timely manner.

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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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Open Innovation Labs: How Lockheed Brought Better Security to Fighter Jets

DevOps.com

How Red Hat’s Open Innovation Labs have helped accelerate Lockheed’s software development for the F-22 Raptor As the key government contractor charged with helping the U.S. Air Force keep its F-22 Raptor jets in fighting trim, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics increasingly values software delivery speed as much as engine speed. So much of the continued evolution […].

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Design Strategy – A Guide to Tactical Thinking in Design

Toptal

A strategic mindset helps designers develop a design strategy framework which contributes to improved client relationships and better user experiences, and aligns projects with business results.

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Kafka Summit London 2019 Session Videos

Confluent

Let us cut to the chase: Kafka Summit London session videos are available! If you were there, you know what a great time it was, and you know that you had to make sometimes-agonizing decisions about which sessions to attend and which to miss. Well, now you can make all those tradeoffs right by watching the whole catalog. And if you weren’t there? Well, dig in and start learning!

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Kubernetes and CircleCI orbs: develop your project, not your deployment pipeline

CircleCI

While the rise of microservices architectures and containers has sped up development cycles for many, managing them in production has created a new level of complexity as teams are required to think about managing the load balancing and distribution of these services. Kubernetes is a powerful tool for managing distributed containerized applications, but managing Kubernetes itself is a complex process with a steep learning curve.

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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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Survey Finds CI/CD Adoption Has Long Way to Go

DevOps.com

At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 conference, Codefresh published the results of a survey of 130 developers that finds not only are nearly a third (32%) not using any type of continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform at all, but 60% said their organization has yet to take full advantage of automation to accelerate application […].

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How to Approach Design for Developers

Toptal

Developers often think of design as less important than functionality. But time developers spend learning design principles is saved in the future when working with designers or on their own products.

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The 5 Elements Your AI Strategy’s Code of Ethics Needs

IDC

As artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) potential grows, so does the need for a cohesive AI strategy to leverage AI to prioritize and execute the enterprise’s goals. Aside from articulating business goals and mapping out the ways organizations can use AI to achieve those goals, there is another extremely important element that every AI strategy needs: a code of ethics.

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Operating with Focus: Putting the 5-Day Design Sprint into Practice

Gitprime

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, engineering leaders talk about building healthy and high-performing teams. One of the problems with traditional product development and testing is the pure investment in time. It can take weeks, months, and sometimes even years to get an idea to a place where it’s ready for meaningful user feedback.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Successful DevOps Initiatives Start With Company Culture

DevOps.com

What initially drove the need for embarking on the DevOps journey in your team or at your company in the first place? Was it: Market shift? New leadership or an acquisition? New product or service idea? Cost savings or consolidation? All of the above? Whatever drove the need, my guess is there were pre-sales demos, […]. The post Successful DevOps Initiatives Start With Company Culture appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Working with TypeScript, Dependency Injection, and Discord Bots

Toptal

Types and testable code are two of the most effective ways of avoiding bugs. In this tutorial, discover TypeScript best practices while you create a Discord bot from scratch.

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How to move a large monolithic app to continuous delivery with zero downtime

TechBeacon

The first line of code of my company's internal communications platform was compiled more than 12 years ago. I remember it well, because it was my first job as a junior developer. And back then, our team of five engineers released changes to customers only two or three times per year.