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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. We recently held a live Q&A-style discussion with three tech leaders on the critical lessons they’ve learned and their best practices for keeping teams aligned and productive at scale.

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10 steps guide on how to manage remote teams

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Technology has been an enabler at workplaces. With the advent of solutions such as the Cloud, employers are now empowered to hire and manage a workforce that is no longer confined to brick-and-mortar offices. Gone are the days when organizations had to follow an office-based work culture and suffered losses when the employees couldn’t make it to the office.

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Changing contexts and intents

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The internet itself is a changing context—we’re right to worry about data flows, but we also have to worry about the context changing even when data doesn’t flow. Every day, someone comes up with a new use for old data. Recently, IBM scraped a million photos from Flickr and turned them into a training data set for an AI project intending to reduce bias in facial recognition.

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Designing Better Processes to Get Things Done

NeverFriday

The Rudolf Podcast is a podcast by Rudolf Olah covering technology, leadership, project management, web development and more. Transcript. Hey there listeners! Welcome to the latest episode of the Rudolf Podcast! Today we’re going to be talking about how to design better processes to get things done. When you work on a project, you can break it down into steps.

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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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Spot Your Specialist: Data Scientist, Data Manager or Data Analyst?

Perficient

Lately, it's all about data, and it makes sense. With around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day and an estimated 163 zettabytes of digital data to be generated by 2025 , it's no wonder companies are rushing to make the most out of the information their users generate daily. But, leveraging this massive amount of data calls for very spe.

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Objective and Key Results Implementation from Top to Bottom Overview

Evolution4all

Objective and Key Results Implementation from Top to Bottom Overview. To properly implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), it is important to understand how this whole process works. The diagram below depicts how your organisational vision is connected to every team and individual contributors in your team from the annual down to the quarterly OKRs.

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Attracting quality talent through hackathons

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

This post was originally published on The HR Agenda Magazine’s blog on March 1st, 2019. Hackathons are a logical solution to addressing the unique challenges of hiring the ever-elusive top tech talent. Talent acquisition has been the biggest concerns for the C-suite year after year. According to the latest PWC survey, 63 percent of the CEOs are increasingly concerned about finding talent with the right skills.

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Programming Languages for Students

The Crazy Programmer

You do not have to enroll for a Computer Science degree to start doing some programming or coding. As a student, you can learn some programming languages that can help you achieve your dreams while still in school. Students can also make pocket money from coding. In this post, we will talk about the different programming languages that are fit for students.

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The Most Important Question to Ask About a Leader

Let's Grow Leaders

“If I’m ever in doubt about whether a leader is making a positive impact on my organization, I ask myself this most important question, Would I want my child working for this person? If the answer is no, I know I need […]. The post The Most Important Question to Ask About a Leader appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Objective and Key Results Examples to Help Your Company Set Effective Goals

Evolution4all

Objective and Key Results Examples to Help Your Company Set Effective Goals. It’s not enough that you have goals for your company. If your company is not experiencing growth, it’s either you are targeting the wrong goals or you are not utilising the right goal-setting methodology. As the leader of your organisation, you have to fix this. This is where OKRs come in.

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Influence: Never Underestimate Your Impact

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”. Leo Buscaglia.

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Top 7 Tips for Scaling Your Artificial Intelligence Strategy

OTS Solutions

There Are Top Seven Tips for Scaling Your Artificial Intelligence Strategy. In just the last few years, a large number of enterprises have started to work on incorporating an artificial intelligence strategy into their business. They have started pilot projects that are associated with machine learning algorithms and their role in improving certain aspects of their business such as customer relationships and cyber security.

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How Do I Help When My Peer’s Team is Struggling?

Let's Grow Leaders

Resist the Urge to Intervene When a Peer’s Team is Struggling Have you ever watched another team struggle? It’s a challenge most leaders face at some point in their career. You’re not perfect, but you lead well and people come together to produce […]. The post How Do I Help When My Peer’s Team is Struggling? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Why Use OKRs? Here’s Why…

Evolution4all

WHY USE OKRs? HERE’S WHY. There are many goal-setting methodologies. However, very few are as effective as Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). This framework is presently the most popular people-management and goal-setting framework because of two main reasons. The first reason is that OKRs are built on two strong principles: Management by Objectives (MBO) and S.M.A.R.T.

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How to hire a developer for a startup

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

With the world accepting the fact that every company now is a tech company, no matter what its size or what product or service it offers, hiring the best developers is crucial to survival. “Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost any business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference,” says Peter Berg, founder of the consulting firm October Three.

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Helpful Tips to Make Your New App More Secure

The Crazy Programmer

Up to 92 percent of all apps available today have security weaknesses or flaws that can be easily exploited by nefarious cyber-criminals. If you are creating an app or planning to launch one in the near future, then making sure it is secure is a must. After all, there’s no one who wants to use an insecure app. While using the services of third party service providers, like [link] , is a great start, there are other steps you need to take to achieve a level of true security.

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Is Innovation manageable?

N2Growth Blog

In the years leading up to 2018, I have spent my time bringing innovation to the financial services space. Fintech, as this sector is colloquially referred, focuses for the most part on disrupting the state of affairs induced by the use of technology. As such it is all about innovation. And now, from a distance, my optimism regarding the sector’s ability to innovate and capture opportunities has not changed.

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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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Five OKR Disadvantages that May Affect the Way You Set Your OKR

Evolution4all

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) have become widely popular in the business world. Many companies have adopted the framework in order to ensure growth and attainment of goals. The success of the framework can be seen in companies like Google. The concept involves the setting of goals and key results. Normally, the CEO and the key leadership team of the company will set OKRs, then the departments or management teams will follow suit by setting their OKRs in line with that of the company.

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How Far? The Line Between Compassionate Care and Ruthless Efficiency

CTOvision

I recently read with horror and empathy several articles about a man who was told by a video linked “robot” doctor that he was going to die. We lived through a similar experience just one week ago. My son-in-law, dying from stage IV cancer, was subjected to a similar robotic doctor in Inova Loudoun […].

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A Complete Overview of the Best Data Visualization Tools

Toptal

When dealing with data sets that include hundreds of thousands or millions of data points, automating the process of data visualization makes a designer’s job significantly easier.

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Deep dive: How do React hooks really work?

Netlify

Hooks are a fundamentally simpler way to encapsulate stateful behavior and side effects in user interfaces. They were first introduced in React and have been broadly embraced by other frameworks like Vue , Svelte , and even adapted for general functional JS. However, their functional design requires a good understanding of closures in JavaScript. In this article, we reintroduce closures by building a tiny clone of React Hooks.

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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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How Google Sets OKRs: Everything You Need to Know to Grow Like Google

Evolution4all

Unlocking How Google Sets OKRs. Google owes its success to various factors. One of such is the goal-setting methodology that has played a key role in the company’s rapid success. This framework is known as Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). OKRs state the “what” goal of the company is or where it is headed. Objectives are with key results under them in order to basically determine whether the organisation has attained its objectives or not.

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How SMBs can bolster cybersecurity efforts

CTOvision

Keeping current with cyber threats is an imposing logistics problem facing small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs)—cybercriminals are constantly changing their tactics. If something stops working or fails to provide sufficient return for their effort, the bad guys move on. That may work well for the criminal element, but how are those in charge of cybersecurity […].

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Why You Need DevOps and the Cloud

DevOps.com

DevOps and the cloud are not only two of today’s biggest tech trends, but are inextricably linked. Research from DORA’s 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report and Redgate’s 2019 State of Database DevOps Report outline a clear correlation between cloud and DevOps adoption, with the two working together to contribute to greater business success. For […].

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Spring for Apache Kafka Deep Dive – Part 2: Apache Kafka and Spring Cloud Stream

Confluent

On the heels of part one in this blog series, Spring for Apache Kafka – Part 1: Error Handling, Message Conversion and Transaction Support , here in part two we’ll focus on another project that enhances the developer experience when building streaming applications on Kafka: Spring Cloud Stream. We will cover the following in this post: Overview of Spring Cloud Stream and its programming model.

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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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OKR Cheat Sheet: Guidelines, Tools, and Vital Frameworks

Evolution4all

OKR Cheat Sheet: Guidelines, Tools, and Vital Frameworks. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is one of the most widely acclaimed goal-setting methodologies used today. You may have heard much about it and how it has helped companies like Google and Amazon to attain tremendous growth. If you wish to adopt the methodology, this OKR cheat sheet will help you.

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Mark Your Calendar Now For 24-26 June 2019 AI World Government Conference

CTOvision

If you are in government or are in a position to help the government make the most of Artificial Intelligence please mark your calendar now for the 24-26 June 2019 AI World Government conference, which will be held at the Reagan Center in DC. This event is being sponsored by OODA, with both CTOvision and […].

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DevSecOps Days Virtual Summit on April 2nd

DevOps.com

Thank you to everyone who attended our 5th Annual DevSecOps Days @ RSA Conference. We had an exceptional lineup of speakers and a variety of informative sessions, providing an unparalleled experience for all. If you couldn’t make it to San Francisco for RSAC or missed any sessions, we are happy to announce that we’ll be […]. The post DevSecOps Days Virtual Summit on April 2nd appeared first on DevOps.com.