Sat.Jan 19, 2019 - Fri.Jan 25, 2019

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Why Alert Fatigue Remains a Database Performance Threat

The Crazy Programmer

Unlike a decade ago, databases have become more complex than before, but so have the means to spot performance issues evolved. For their businesses to remain at par with the ever-changing IT landscapes, most IT professionals have been forced to invest in monitoring tools to help them comb through the system and identify threats. However, a slight problem lies in how these professionals handle database threat alerts.

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Repair to “Using OAuth for a simple command line script to access Google's data”

Martin Fowler

In 2015, I wrote a command line script to get some data from YouTube. Since I had difficulty puzzling out the limited documentation, particularly on the authentication and authorization aspects, I wrote a short article to capture what I'd learned. Google updated its libraries in 2016, breaking my scripts. I was busy with other things at the time, so didn't update them (or the article).

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How to Fully Maximise the OKR Benefits for Your Company

Luis Goncalves

Maybe you’ve heard about OKR in an executives-only grapevine. You heard other guys saying they’re having lesser headaches with their teams. Maybe you heard that everyone in Company A is breaking their performance score after many years of stalling the company’s growth. The culprit behind, OKRs. Of course, as the leader of your company, you want the same results.

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Agile Q&A: Team Qualities

Agile Alliance

I recently received a question about the basic qualities Agile teams should have via the website. I replied with a reader’s digest version to the requester and promised a more complete answer in a blog post. Here’s that more complete answer. Basic qualities for an Agile team What are basic qualities should Agile teams have? … Continued.

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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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5 Poor Leadership Practices You Need to Stop

Let's Grow Leaders

These poor leadership practices are common but limit your influence. You’re working hard to be a great leader. You focus on results and relationships. You try to show up with confidence and humility. But despite your effort, you’re still struggling. Could one […]. The post 5 Poor Leadership Practices You Need to Stop appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How OKR Works: A Beginner’s Guide

Luis Goncalves

How OKR works? OKR is a phenomenal goal setting framework that many companies swear by. It’s easy and simple. Very straightforward and is results-driven. Google, Intel, Amazon, Spotify and many other leading brands have been using it for many years. They deem it an effective tool that drives productivity, accountability, and engagement among employees from top to bottom.

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The reason India does not have enough awesome developers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

A never-ending debate is that about the quality of Indian software developers. It is said that most developers around the world begin coding at a ridiculously young age. However, it will surprise many to know that in India, only one in ten start coding before the age of 15. The number is three out of ten elsewhere! See the difference? Hence, we have always heard time and again that Indian software developers are ok-to-mediocre coders, are not technically competent, and most times, clueless.

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How to Hold a Remarkably Effective Team Huddle

Let's Grow Leaders

When Karin was in her sales exec role at Verizon, she would often walk into the back door of a store to find her highest performing team huddled just before the store opened, talking about their plans for the day. When she […]. The post How to Hold a Remarkably Effective Team Huddle appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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It Depends on Context: You CAN get there from here, if you know where here is

Agile Alliance

Every Agile project must respond to organizational conditions and climate. Gaining awareness of context helps the core team and project community know how they fit into the larger organization. As a systems thinking approach, Agile Chartering and its focus on context enables better decision making, taking the whole system into account. Diana Larsen and Ainsley … Continued.

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Revolutionize QA: GAP's 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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Data Encryption Standard (DES) Algorithm

The Crazy Programmer

Data Encryption Standard is a symmetric-key algorithm for the encrypting the data. It comes under block cipher algorithm which follows Feistel structure. Here is the block diagram of Data Encryption Standard. Fig1: DES Algorithm Block Diagram [Image Source: Cryptography and Network Security Principles and Practices 4 th Ed by William Stallings]. Explanation for above diagram: Each character of plain text converted into binary format.

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Report of HackerEarth’s 400 global hackathons 2018 [Infographic]

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Compared to 2017, there was a 140% increase in the number of hackathons hosted on the HackerEarth Innovation Management Platform in 2018. We hosted more than 400 hackathons last year in 4 continents. Our community strengthened to 2.5 million by seeing the participation of over 100,000 innovators from over 100 countries across the globe. High schools, universities, enterprises, nonprofits, and even governments hosted their own hackathons in 2018 to crowdsource over 14,000 ideas and 7,000 prototyp

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The 4 Quality Gates Every SRE Team Must Check Before Promoting Code

OverOps

One of the main challenges QA, DevOps and SREs face is knowing when a release is good to go. More often than not, we release not because we think it’s ready, but because it’s time and we have to. We face a dual problem; one part is Coverage : our testing is only as good as our coverage, which is never 100%. In complex systems it’s very hard to foresee all the different code and infra combinations, especially with the release of a new feature.

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Things You Should Know Before Buying CRM Software

OTS Solutions

Things You Should Know Before Buying CRM Software. Customer relationship management (CRM) software, is one of the most powerful tools that a business can use to succeed. By utilizing the right CRM, you can get to know your customers better, predict what they want, and keep track of all of the various pieces of your business more effectively. While a good CRM can be powerful, choosing the wrong one could set you back significantly.

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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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Difference between Class and Structure

The Crazy Programmer

Here you will learn about difference between class and structure. A class and a structure, both are user defined data types and understanding the difference between both of them might be confusing at times. In order to understand this, the following table shows clear differences between the two. Class. Structure. It is a reference data type and uses the keyword “class”.

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The reason India does not have enough awesome developers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

A never-ending debate is that about the quality of developers in India. It is said that most developers around the world begin coding at a ridiculously young age. However, it will surprise many to know that in India, only one in ten start coding before the age of 15. The number is three out of ten elsewhere! See the difference? Hence, we have always heard time and again that Indian developers are ok-to-mediocre coders, are not technically competent, and most times, clueless.

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Encountering Resistance to Change? Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing

Change Starts Here

The dictionary definition of Resistance is: Any force that slows down or prevents motion. Resistance is a scientific term that stems from Newton’s laws of motion. An object in motion stays in motion until subjected to an outside force. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Resistance plays a crucial part in […].

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Beyond Requirements Dictator: How Agile Helped a Business Analyst Discover Her Real Value 

Agile Alliance

Discover how to provide value as a business analyst on an agile team and see how BAs can broaden their roles and step outside of their role boundaries.

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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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Build and secure containers to support your CI/CD pipeline

Xebia

There are 2 systems in any company that are critical: the payroll system, and the CI/CD system. Why? You may ask… If the payroll system doesn’t work, people will leave the company and the company (may) face legal problems; the CI/CD system is the gateway to production. If it is down and there is a […]. The post Build and secure containers to support your CI/CD pipeline appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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10 things to keep in mind while conducting a hackathon

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

A hackathon can be the wind to the sails of your business. Regardless of the niche or industry, your business belongs to, conducting a hackathon can be an excellent choice for generating new ideas, and potential fusion of existing ideas that could lead to a fresh perspective altogether. At HackerEarth, we have conducted over 2,000 hackathons to date, for enterprises, companies, startups, non-profits, universities, and others.

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CTOvision Publisher Bob Gourley on Risks of Unsecure Artificial Intelligence Technology

CTOvision

The risks of non-secure AI are growing. Security for AI needs to include concepts from traditional IT security but the nature of new machine learning methods and architectures brings new risks and therefore a need for new solutions. Francis Rose of Govmatters.TV interviewed Bob Gourley of OODA LLC on what is similar and different about […].

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The State of the Octoverse: machine learning

Github

In our 2018 Octoverse report, we noticed machine learning and data science were popular topics on GitHub. tensorflow/tensorflow was one of the most contributed to projects, pytorch/pytorch was one of the fastest growing projects, and Python was the third most popular language on GitHub. We decided to dig a little deeper into the state of machine learning and data science on GitHub.

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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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How to Make a Discord Bot: an Overview and Tutorial

Toptal

Discord is a popular real-time messaging platform with robust support for programmable bots. Bots are ubiquitous on Discord and provide a wide range of services, including moderation assistance, games, music, internet searches, payment processing, and more. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer and Chatbot Developer Randall Schmidt will start by discussing the Discord UI and APIs for bots before moving on to a Discord bot tutorial.

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Report to HackerEarth’s 400 global hackathons 2018 [Infographic]

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Compared to 2017, there was a 140% increase in the number of hackathons hosted on the HackerEarth Innovation Management Platform in 2018. We hosted more than 400 hackathons last year in 4 continents. Our community strengthened to 2.5 million by seeing the participation of over 100,000 innovators from over 100 countries across the globe. High schools, universities, enterprises, nonprofits, and even governments hosted their own hackathons in 2018 to crowdsource over 14,000 ideas and 7,000 prototyp

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Identifying Cloud Migraines Before Cloud Migration: 6 Tips

DevOps.com

Migrating to the cloud isn’t as simple as signing up for a SaaS application or deploying applications on a cloud infrastructure or platform; there are other factors at play. And the move to cloud shows no signs of slowing, with Gartner predicting the worldwide public cloud services market to grow 17.3 percent in 2019. Getting […]. The post Identifying Cloud Migraines Before Cloud Migration: 6 Tips appeared first on DevOps.com.

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What to Look for in Application Release Automation Software for Oracle EBS

Flexagon

Automation is a major theme in IT, especially when it comes to DevOps culture and CI/CD methodologies. Automation can greatly reduce the stress and manual tasks involved in enhancing software or developing new functionality. With application release automation tools, processes that previously required long hours, and resulted in ongoing frustrations with manual steps and scripts, Read more.

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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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Simplicity is Key – Exploring Minimal Web Design

Toptal

Designers who approach minimalist design as being easy are often surprised at the amount of effort, time, and skill required to create a product that can achieve its aims while remaining truly minimalist.

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10 things to keep in mind while conducting a hackathon

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

A hackathon can be the wind to the sails of your business. Regardless of the niche or industry, your business belongs to, conducting a hackathon can be an excellent choice for generating new ideas, and potential fusion of existing ideas that could lead to a fresh perspective altogether. At HackerEarth, we have conducted over 2,000 hackathons to date, for enterprises, companies, startups, non-profits, universities, and others.

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Google Rolls Out Additional Cloud Certifications

DevOps.com

Google is moving to address a chronic shortage of cloud skills necessary to advance DevOps. Specifically, Google plans to add Professional Cloud Developer (GA), Professional Cloud Network Engineer (Beta), Professional Cloud Security Engineer (Beta) and G Suite certifications (GA) alongside Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Data Engineer and Associate Cloud Engineer certifications that already exist.

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