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3 Important Lessons When Supervising DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

The cultural philosophy of DevOps requires a paradigm shift in thinking, not just technological processes. The main goal of all the practices that we will look at is to break down the barriers between the development department, managers, and engineers since they usually exist in isolation. This approach previously helped to clearly distribute tasks between groups of performers but excluded interaction as a key factor in high productivity and flexibility.

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Culture, purpose and pay will stem The Great Resignation

CEO Insider

Leaders might feel superhuman powers are needed to retain their employees in 2022, as The Great Resignation rages on. However, my view is that stemming the tide of talent defections is within relatively easy reach for we mere mortal CEOs, so long as our organisations’ values, HR policies and management styles are calibrated in the […]. The post Culture, purpose and pay will stem The Great Resignation appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Working on a product nobody seems to want

Agile Alliance

This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people in becoming more Agile. We have seen Agile transformations being disrupted by the false belief that lacking a specified customer hinders your ability to use an Agile approach. With its explicit mention … Continued.

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Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans

TechCrunch

The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This figure is larger than the 4% average for other careers. One would be out of touch with reality to say they haven’t noticed this phenomenon in Lagos, Africa’s startup capital city, where mid to senior-level engineers are leaving in droves to seek better pay and opportunities in companies outside Africa.

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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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Find out what infrastructure platform customers need

Martin Fowler

Poppy Rowse and Chris Shepherd. continue their advice on building infrastructure platforms by discussing techniques to discover what platform users need and stress the importance of finding the Shortest Path to Value by onboarding them quickly. more….

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Appreciation for the Agile Manifesto and the 17 co-authors

Agile Alliance

A look back in appreciation at the Agile Manifesto's creation 20 years ago in Snowbird, Utah and people who created it. The post Appreciation for the Agile Manifesto and the 17 co-authors first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Fintech Roundup: Better.com workers leaving in ‘droves’ in wake of CEO Vishal Garg’s return

TechCrunch

Welcome to my new weekly fintech-focused column. It’s an incredible time to be a financial technology journalist. Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the many ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. While this pandemic has sucked on 100 different levels, one good thing to have come out of it is that consumers and businesses have forced more fintech to exist, and that’s a good

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Leading Through Rapidly Changing Priorities

Let's Grow Leaders

Help your team master rapidly changing priorities with skillful preparation. Rapidly changing priorities can demoralize and frustrate your team if you’re not prepared to help them navigate the shifting landscape. Effective leaders prepare their teams for changing priorities, create structures to help the team shift, and advocate for their team to ensure their work is meaningful.

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Building Infrastructure Platforms

Martin Fowler

A lot of organizations are looking to improve the way their teams build on top of clouds by assembling their own preferred set of cloud components into an infrastructure platform. This allows product teams work with a consistent and curated set of services, rather than having to figure it out on their own. Poppy Rowse and Chris Shepherd have worked with several of these teams and put together some guidelines on how to do this successfully.

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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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How IoT Impacts The Finance Sector

Daffodil Software

The various applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) have helped companies across the board to automate processes and improve their bottom line. This technology is doing wonders for the finance sector in improving service delivery, making customer transactions more transparent, and making the overall process of money exchange more efficient.

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Fintech outperformed the market in 2021, and it’s set to do even better

TechCrunch

Dana Stalder. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners. The former commercial chief (Product, Sales and Marketing) at PayPal, he now leads fintech investing at Matrix Partners, where he also invests in consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. More posts by this contributor. The next generation of global payments: Afterpay + Square.

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What Do Highly Successful Virtual Teams Do Differently? (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

The Best Hybrid and Virtual Teams Work on. Connection, Communication, and Stay Curious About New Ways of Working. The best hybrid and virtual teams don’t leave connection and communication to chance. They’re consistently asking “how can we do this better?” They spend time communicating about how they communicate AND make an extra effort to build psychological safety , trust and connection.

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Call for speakers for Citus Con: An Event for Postgres

The Citus Data

When you find yourself answering the same questions again and again, it’s a good idea to blog about it. Which is why this post about Citus Con: An Event for Postgres exists: to answer your questions, and share the news about this first-ever, inaugural event. Citus Con: An Event for Postgres is a free and virtual developer event happening in April 2022, organized by the Postgres and Citus team here at Microsoft.

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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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JavaScript Class Privates

David Walsh

One of my aspects of JavaScript that drew me to it as a young developers was that its syntax was loose and I could code quickly. As you gain experience as an engineer, you start to realize that some traditional coding structure is a good thing, even if it slows you down. Using Jest or TypeScript to add typing to your JavaScript can save you from maintenance headaches and unexpected errors, for example.

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The truth about management in Silicon Valley: It doesn’t exist

TechCrunch

George Arison. Contributor. Share on Twitter. George Arison is the co-founder and CEO of online used car marketplace Shift. More posts by this contributor. Shift’s George Arison shares 6 tips for taking your company public via a SPAC. If you’re waiting for a self-driving car revolution, keep waiting. The tech industry is home to some of the world’s greatest innovators, most profitable and valuable companies, and incredible startup success stories.

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How Do I Help My Team Make the Most of Failure? (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Be More Wrong: How to Grow From Failure. As a leader, how should you encourage your team to take risks and make the most of mistakes and failure? In this Asking For a Friend episode, Karin welcomes Colin Hunter, author of B e More Wrong , to discuss the journey of failure and growth. How to Grow From Failure (Highlights). Source of Strength. 1:19 Colin shares about his father’s passing and how celebrating his life was actually a source of strength for him, and refers to the experience of f

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A Deeper Meaning: Topic Modeling in Python

Toptal

Colloquial language doesn’t lend itself to computation. That’s where natural language processing steps in. Learn how topic modeling helps computers understand human speech.

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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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Article: Managing Technical Debt in a Microservice Architecture

InfoQ Culture Methods

At QCon Plus, Glenn Engstrand described how Optum Digital engineering devised a method for reliably and predictably paying down tech debt for hundreds of microservices, forming relevant communities and identifying high-risk areas. The communities' collective decisions can be compiled into an actionable roadmap and presented to product managers in a systemic and non-confrontational way.

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Lessons from a fintech founder: Solving for C by going B2B

TechCrunch

Jason Wenk. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jason Wenk is CEO and founder of Altruist. Fintech founders that set out to solve big problems for consumers almost always begin with the best intentions — they want to help people. But they often miss that mark by a country mile, which spurs questions about how effective other fintech founders can be at helping consumers.

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Leading a More Resourceful Team

Let's Grow Leaders

During times of stress and change, when you most need a resourceful team, it’s easy to clampdown, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow your team down. In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” It’s tough for teams to be quick and clever in those circumstances.

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Solve TypeError: ‘int’ object is not iterable in Python

The Crazy Programmer

Whenever we are writing any programs and then we encounter any error. The amount of frustration we got at that time is so much higher. So I have got a solution for you. Today in this article we are going to discuss the error typeerror: ‘int’ object is not iterable. We will discuss why we get this error and what are some possible solutions for this error.

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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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Taking a DevSecOps Approach to API Security

DevOps.com

An application programming interface (API) is a data transfer approach that enables services within an application to talk to other applications (or other services within a system). Essentially, it enables Service A to talk to Service B in a uniform way. Companies benefit from APIs on a daily basis without even thinking about them. APIs […]. The post Taking a DevSecOps Approach to API Security appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Amira Yahyaoui wants Mos to be a ‘radical’ fintech startup

TechCrunch

Human rights activist and Mos founder Amira Yahyaoui couldn’t afford to go to college, so when she first launched a platform to connect students to scholarships, the innovation felt full circle. Since its 2017 inception, Mos has opened access to a pool of over $160 billion in financial aid to the more than 400,000 students within its community. Now, hoping to tear down yet another financial barrier that she herself faced, Yahyaoui is expanding Mos into a challenger bank.

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Your cloud migration is complete. Now what?

TechBeacon

Over the past two years, as they tried to survive the pandemic, enterprises were hyper-focused on cost reduction and finding new revenue streams. With a "lift and shift" approach, they cut costs by transitioning applications and technologies to the cloud, and to generate and sustain new revenue streams, they built APIs. These were fast-paced projects, executed out of necessity.

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Podman, the free container engine alternative to Docker

Xebia

Containerization is powering the next wave to the cloud, with Docker as the software for interacting with the container ecosystem. Per the 31st of January 2022 Docker Desktop will, however, no longer be free for large enterprises. Podman is one of the tools that seeks to replace Docker and has gained a lot of traction in the past months. In this blog I will dive deeper into Podman and what I like about it, but let us start first with Docker!

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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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The Low-Code Tide is Rising

DevOps.com

Click to read The Low-Code Tide is Rising. The post The Low-Code Tide is Rising appeared first on DevOps.com.

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With a plan to decarbonize home heating with hydrogen, Modern Electron raises $30M

TechCrunch

A huge amount of energy use on our planet goes toward creating heat, and not only that, but a large amount of that energy is wasted and byproducts like CO2 blasted into the atmosphere. Modern Electron could change that with a new system that captures the emissions and produces clean hydrogen, right inside a home or building. $30 million in Series B funding will power its upcoming push to become a household name.

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Remote Hiring And Onboarding Tips For Technical Roles

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced an unprecedented number of individuals to work from home and the business landscape has shifted to adapt to their needs. The relationship between employers and employees is transforming rapidly with the advent of 4-day work weeks and remote-only businesses. This scenario presents both problems and opportunities for all businesses.