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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower CTO

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things.

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Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve played around with using AI tools like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot to write code for you. Or even if you haven’t yet, then you’ve at least heard about these tools in your newsfeed over the past year. So far I’ve read a gazillion blog posts about people’s experiences with these AI coding assistance tools. These posts often recount someone trying ChatGPT or Copilot for the first time with a few simple prompts, seeing how it does for some small self-containe

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Is Data Quality Broken?

Dataiku

In a survey of 400 global data leaders , nearly a quarter of respondents (24%) cited a “lack of quality data or ability to easily access the right data” as their most present barrier to delivering more value from analytics and AI.

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Ethan Mollick: "How to Use AI to Do Stuff"

Crafty CTO

I’ve loved a lot of New Microsoft (GitHub, VS Code) and since I’m on macOS + Linux, and have avoided installing Microsoft apps, hadn’t been exposed to that side of the company for years. Recently, though, I’ve installed Office (client driven need), Teams (hoping the native Mac app would be better than running Teams in a browser), and Edge (to work with Bing Chat).

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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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55 Fascinating DevOps Statistics You NEED To Know In 2023

CloudZero

Today's development and operations teams are intertwined like the strands of a rope. The two heavily depend on each other to form a stronger, more solid unit. Unlike traditional teams that worked in silos, today's developers and operations’ workflows should work like a well-oiled machine.

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What Makes Search “Search”? The Anatomy of Modern Search Solutions

Perficient

Search is something we all use nearly every day, and it modifies our lives for the better. In less than 20 years since the public launch of Google, how we find information has changed dramatically. Thanks to modern search, we don’t have to remember facts as much because we know we can “Google it,” and we spend significantly less time researching questions because someone somewhere has answered it online.

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3 Characteristics That Could Be Preventing Your Good Team from Becoming Great

Let's Grow Leaders

You’ve Got a Good Team, Don’t Let That Stop You From Making it Great You’ve got a good team. The results are solid. You genuinely like one another. Trust is good too. And yet. You have a feeling you’re capable of more. What’s missing? If you’re fortunate to be working on a good team, it can be tempting to keep doing what you’ve always done.

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Offshoring to Poland: An Excellent Ecosystem for Tech Businesses

TurnKey Labs

Devoted readers of our blog will recognize that we’ve embarked on a vast exploration, scrutinizing software development ecosystems across the globe. As a global provider of offshoring software development services, we’ve come to understand that working with different countries can be likened to tasting various flavors of ice cream.

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5 steps to drive and foster innovation in IT

CIO

Tight budgets and labor shortages have remained an ongoing challenge for IT leaders in 2023. As a result, CIOs are looking at ways of doing more with less, while continuing to digitally transform their organizations. How can we free up funds in one area to invest or innovate in another area of the business? This is especially critical within physical operations – the industries that drive more than 40% of the global GDP – as organizations like ABF Freight and Liberty Energy look for ways to oper

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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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Exploring Gen AI - Three versions of a median

Martin Fowler

Birgitta Böckeler continues her explorations in using LLMs, this time by asking GitHub Copilot to write a median function. It gave her three suggestions to choose from. The experience shows you still have to know what you're doing when asking LLMs to write code, since the LLM's programming skills are often rather flawed.

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What Makes a Tech Interview Great? Hear an Engineer’s Perspective

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The truth is, engineers no more look forward to job positions that offer only a great salary. They are growing increasingly biased towards roles that challenge their expertise and companies that enable positive candidate experience. The best way to gauge what a role can offer is during the technical interview process. When we asked Piyush Tripathi, the Lead Engineer at Square about the elements he looks for in tech interviews, he shared: When interviewing with tech companies such as Amazon, Twil

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How to use Multiple Databricks Workspaces with one dbt Cloud Project

Xebia

Introduction In a previous Blog post, I discussed how to manage multiple BigQuery projects with one dbt Cloud project. Even though the instructions were focused on BigQuery, the same concept can also be applied for other Cloud providers. For each, however, there are specific details that may make it harder or easier to set up. In this article, we’ll walk through the steps for setting it up for Databricks, using Multiple Databricks Workspaces with one single dbt Cloud project.

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ServiceNow adds new features to its Now Assist generative AI assistant

CIO

ServiceNow is adding new features to its Now Assist generative AI assistant that comes bundled with the company’s Now platform, designed to help organizations automate workflows. The new capabilities of Now Assist, which include case summarization and text-to-code, are compatible with all workflows and are designed to drive productivity and efficiency for organizations, the company said.

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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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Exploring Gen AI - The toolchain

Martin Fowler

My colleague Birgitta Böckeler has long been one of our senior technology leaders in Germany. She's now moved into a new role coordinating our work with Generative AI and its effect of software delivery practices. She's decided to publish her exploration in a series of memos. The first memo looks at the current toolchain for LLMs , categorizing them by what tasks they help with, how we interact with the LLM, and where they come from.

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Your Leadership Brand Authority with Deb Gabor

Let's Grow Leaders

What does your Leadership Brand Authority say? Brands are the new voice of authority. We look to brands for what to do, what to think, and how to feel. We want to know what to support and what to stand against. Now is the perfect time to reveal the humanity behind the brand. Consumers want to connect with the brands they support. Business leaders want to create purposeful, passionate companies.

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Mastering Hardware: My Nand2Tetris Journey Begins

Xebia

In 2010 a man named Maurice Wilkes died. His death was a loss to the computer industry as he was considered one of the last people who truly understood hardware and software at a fundamental level. I have worked exclusively with software for my entire career, but I have always tried to expand my knowledge circle wider than my specific area of expertise.

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From vision to reality: Your guide to using generative AI to improve operational resilience

CIO

Generative AI (GAI) is at the forefront of nearly everyone’s minds. Consumers want to use it to improve their digital experiences, organizations want to use it to cut costs and be more efficient, and employees are learning how to harness its power to make their jobs easier. As GAI rapidly matures, it’s essential to dream big about its possibilities and be realistic about implementing it strategically and impactfully in ways that can improve your operations.

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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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Bliki: TeamTopologies

Martin Fowler

Any large software effort, such as the software estate for a large company, requires a lot of people - and whenever you have a lot of people you have to figure out how to divide them into effective teams. Forming Business Capability Centric teams helps software efforts to be responsive to customers’ needs, but the range of skills required often overwhelms such teams.

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How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader Without Burning Out

Harvard Business Review

Servant leadership was a crucial stepping-stone to a more humane world of work, but “noble-purpose leadership” is better suited for today’s chaotic environment.

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How we created amazing music with video using Artificial Intelligence

Xebia

The journey of Pixelated Poets is a testament to the endless possibilities AI brings into our lives. It’s an expedition into the unknown, a chronicle of innovation, and most importantly, a celebration of how creativity and technology can together compose a beautiful symphony. So, let’s dive in and hit the high notes of this exciting musical saga.

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Embracing neurodiversity in IT for competitive advantage

CIO

The term neurodiversity covers a range of conditions, as well as the various spectrums within each. So each neurodiverse professional’s experience is unique, but speaking for myself, being neurodiverse has been a huge competitive advantage in my technology career. The ability to pivot fast and hyperfocus are strengths, not weaknesses, and a leader that can do both effectively is an asset, not a liability.

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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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Automation in DevOps: Advancements, Platforms and Examples

DevOps.com

Automation is the backbone of DevOps. By facilitating seamless integration and continuous delivery, it revolutionizes the ways organizations deliver software, products and services. When applied correctly, automation can significantly enhance productivity, reduce time-to-market, improve software quality and minimize the risk of human error.

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3 Ways to Keep Your Audience Focused During a Presentation

Harvard Business Review

Grabbing and keeping your audience’s focus is critical to communication success. What you have to say is important, so give yourself the best chance to convey your message to your audience by first gaining attention, but then, more importantly, sustaining it. In this piece, the author outlines three techniques — physical, mental, and linguistic — to engage your audience.

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Guarantee unique keys in Terraform

Xebia

When using Terraform to dynamically create resources based on lists of maps you probaby have run into this issue. Consider the following list of maps that represents IAM access on a generic cloud resource: locals = { members = [ { member = "contact@christerbeke.com" resource = "projects/12345" role = "roles/owner" }, { member = "test@christerbeke.com" resource = "projects/12345" role = "roles/reader" } ] } If we want to iterate over this list to cr

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Dr. Pankaj Setia on the challenges that will redefine CIOs’ careers

CIO

Dr Setia, also the chairperson of the centre for digital transformation at the business school, teaches graduate-level courses on the leadership of digital organizations, strategic management of digital innovations, and digital transformation. He has previously taught for many years at Michigan State University and the University of Arkansas in the US.

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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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Breaking Boundaries: Integrating Generative AI for Developers

DevOps.com

Many organizations are experiencing deficits in technical skills and gaps in productivity that ultimately harm their bottom line. To overcome those obstacles and drive growth, businesses can use generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard to handle large volumes of data and increase the speed and output of basic tasks without draining valuable human capital.

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The Ultimate Cloud Storage Pricing Comparison (2023 CHART)

CloudZero

Syncing files and folders across multiple devices, updating them between remote team members, and sharing them across individuals and teams are all essential aspects of running a modern business.

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The Art of a Skilful Facilitator: Cultivating Psychological Safety, Trust, Transparency, and Clarity

Xebia

In today’s dynamic and interconnected world, collaboration and teamwork have become essential components for success in various domains. To harness the full potential of a group, a skilled facilitator plays a pivotal role in fostering an environment of psychological safety, trust, transparency, and clarity. How to achieve that? Let us discover some ways of establishing and maintaining those critical elements throughout the engagement with the group.

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