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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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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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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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Avoiding pitfalls when integrating AppSec for DevOps

Synopsys

Avoiding common integration pitfalls that set your organization back is critical in today’s fast-paced software development landscape.

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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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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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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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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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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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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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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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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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Why Hybrid Work Can Become Toxic

Harvard Business Review

Toxicity can be an unfortunate reality of some work environments. Toxic cultures share five attributes: they’re disrespectful, noninclusive, unethical, cutthroat, and abusive. Undeniably negative as these attributes are, there is no absolute, uniformly accepted scale against which we can measure any of them. Making matters more complicated, a hybrid environment by definition means that employees are experiencing their work in very different contexts — some face-to-face, others remote — and those

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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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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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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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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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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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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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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Bliki: TwoPizzaTeam

Martin Fowler

A two-pizza team is a small team that fully supports software for a particular business capability. The term became popular as it used to describe how Amazon organized their software staff. The name suggests the most obvious aspect of such teams, their size. The name comes from the principle that the team should no larger than can be fed with two pizzas.

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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’s OK to Fail, but You Have to Do It Right

Harvard Business Review

Failing once at something new is an experiment, and experiments are crucial to success. Failing twice at the same thing might be more accurately called a mistake.

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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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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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Extending the GitOps Pipeline: DevSecOps and Trusted Application Delivery

DevOps.com

The fusion of DevSecOps and trusted application delivery can extend the GitOps pipeline and add business value.

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A forensic look into cloud success with Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan

CIO

Companies moving to the cloud often find themselves at a crossroads near the midpoint of their migrations, spending more than they intended and getting less than they hoped. Often that’s because their IT organization isn’t equipped with the culture, mindset, and skills necessary to capitalize on the cloud. Andy Nallappan has had a long career in IT, including CIO roles, but his current job at Broadcom is managing the company’s external cloud platform, DevOps, and SaaS operations across multiple

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Research: Why Employees Accept Lower Pay at Mission-Oriented Companies

Harvard Business Review

Today’s companies are likely to tout how their work benefits human welfare or “makes the world a better place.” Recent research suggests that this may come with a potential financial drawback for workers, as it can inhibit them from negotiating for higher pay. Over five studies, job candidates consistently reported that they worried asking for higher pay from these companies would be seen as greedy or inappropriate.