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Rethinking informed consent

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Consent is the first step toward the ethical use of data, but it's not the last. Informed consent is part of the bedrock of data ethics. DJ Patil, Hilary Mason, and I have written about it , as have many others. It's rightfully part of every code of data ethics I've seen. But I have to admit misgivings—not so much about the need for consent, but about what it means.

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Going from a Value Stream Map to Value Stream Optimisation

Xebia

Read this blog if you already have a Value Stream Map (VSM) and you are wondering how to reap its benefits using a structured process. If you need to know why and how you should make a VSM, please read the article ‘How to create a Value Stream Map’ written by my colleague Michiel Sens. Don’t […]. The post Going from a Value Stream Map to Value Stream Optimisation appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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The Changing Role of APM in a Microservices World

DevOps.com

Microservices usage has skyrocketed. Fully 91 percent of organizations are using or have plans to use microservices and 92 percent expect to grow their use of microservices in the coming year. It is no longer if but when: 86 percent of organizations expect microservices to be the default within five years. With the growing use […]. The post The Changing Role of APM in a Microservices World appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Agile Q&A: What Do Business Analysts Do on an Agile Team?

Agile Alliance

I have the opportunity to talk to business analysts quite a bit, and the conversation usually turns to the topic of Agile. More often than not, the question that comes up is “there isn’t a business analyst role mentioned in Scrum. Does that mean that there is no place for business analysts?” The short answer … Continued.

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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 to Lead Different and Diverse People

Let's Grow Leaders

Achieve More When you Lead Different and Diverse People You know that the ability to lead different and diverse people to come together and blend their talents is key to achieving breakthrough results. But if you’re like most leaders we work with, we […]. The post How to Lead Different and Diverse People appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Why Root Cause Analysis is Important for IT Ops (And How to Do It)

OverOps

Common practice used to be throwing issues over the fence and expecting someone else to figure it out. But root cause analysis (RCA) should be standard across all tech teams. In this post, we’ll take a look at RCA from an operational perspective. Over the last twenty years, the way companies do business and the way they build applications has changed dramatically.

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Top ways AI can help your business beat the competition

OTS Solutions

Top Ways AI Can Help Your Business Beat The Competition. Artificial Intelligence is advancing at neck-breaking speed and taking over every industry. Innovative thinkers are taking advantage of AI and leaning more on technology to transform their businesses. Whatever business you are in, AI can help you to beat the competition. Here are some ways in which AI will aid your business.

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How to Help Your Team Recover After a Downsizing

Let's Grow Leaders

Being a manager in the midst of downsizing is hard enough. There’s the initial shock, the communication, the “I wonder if I’m impacted too” angst, and of course, the really painful decisions involved in selecting who will go. What’s equally difficult is […]. The post How to Help Your Team Recover After a Downsizing appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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My Internship at HackerEarth

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Work Environment: I have always dreamt of working for an organization where loads of responsibilities are placed on their employees. And HackerEarth does just that! Obviously, you get hired because of your skills, but founders and managers expect much more. Opportunities for learning and growth are plenty, as often, you work outside your job description.

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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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Kubernetes and Microservices

Linux Academy

Microservices are a great way to architect your applications. In the old days, most applications consisted of a single, large executable containing all of the components of the application. Today, however, more and more people are designing their applications using a series of many relatively independent and decoupled services, known as microservices.

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Why You Should Adopt the Internet of Things

CTOvision

Read why Charles Darling says that we should embrace the Internet of Thing connected devices with open arms on IOT Evolution World : You approach your front door, you tap the screen of your smartphone and hear the door unlock. When you walk into your house, your home is illuminated by your favorite shade of blue. […].

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Empty States – The Most Overlooked Aspect of UX

Toptal

Empty states are often overlooked in UX design, but they can be drivers of substantial business benefits, and if done right, contribute to a more compelling user experience.

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Don't Measure Unit Test Code Coverage

James Shore

01 Feb 2019. James Shore/Blog. If you're using test-driven development, don't measure unit test code coverage. It's worse than a useless statistic; it will actively lead you astray. What should you do instead? That depends on what you want to accomplish. To improve code and test practices. If you're trying to improve your team's coding and testing practices, perform root-cause analysis 1 of escaped defects, then improve your design and process to prevent that sort of defect from happening again.

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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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Is Your Organization ‘Fit for the Future’?

DevOps.com

Takeaways from a recent conference suggest more work is needed in DevOps adoption among organizations This was a question explored by CIO Platform Nederland and the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) in a recent event I attended, hosted by Transavia. Many organizations have already embarked or are about to embark upon Agile transformation initiatives, driven […].

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Why DevOps is not enough

TechBeacon

Accelerating time-to-market is more than a goal; it's a necessary survival skill in today's digital age. An enterprise's success depends on its ability to quickly create innovative digital applications, products, and services that can adapt to new and evolving business models.

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Advanced Concurrency in Swift with HoneyBee

Toptal

Handling concurrency in Swift can cause headaches and pyramids of doom. HoneyBee is a futures/promises library that makes concurrent programming easy, expressive, and safe. Join Toptal Swift Developer Alex Lynch in exploring the performance and readability advantage of using this library.

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Enterprise digital transformation leaves data security behind

CTOvision

Read why Charlie Osborne says that implementing modern systems could have a sinister cybersecurity side-effect for enterprises on ZDNet : The rush to embrace new technologies in the name of business modernization, supply chain efficiency, visibility, and cost savings is leading to an increased risk of data compromise, researchers claim. The 2019 Thales Data Threat Report, […].

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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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Minor Crimes and Misdemeanors in the Age of Automation

DevOps.com

Giving automation the power to detect crime and enforce punishment has ramifications, even for minor infractions In November, I broke the law. I crossed over a solid white line to make a right turn at a traffic intersection. At the time I was unaware of my violation. I was on my way to a shopping […]. The post Minor Crimes and Misdemeanors in the Age of Automation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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The best agile and lean development conferences of 2019

TechBeacon

You can't achieve great management and agility by reading a tutorial. You need to hear stories of how others did it and network with experienced practitioners. Conferences are one of the best opportunities to hear those stories, find those people, and turn their advice into real-world practices.

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UX Trends 2018: A Retrospective

Toptal

Every year, hot new UX design trends emerge that provide better user experiences. This retrospective explores some of the most interesting and effective ones from 2018.

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Artificial Intelligence Has A Problem With Bias, Here’s How To Tackle It

CTOvision

Read Bernard Marr explain how we can tackle the inherent bias that artificial intelligence has on Forbes : One of the problems in society that AI decision-making was meant to solve, was bias. After all, aren’t computers less likely to have inherent views on, for example, race, gender, and sexuality? Well, that was true back in the […].

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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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Challenges and Tips for Taking Legacy Systems to the Cloud

DevOps.com

Normalization of infrastructure through open source technologies is one way to make the move to the cloud an easier process for organizations. For many modern companies, growth often means growing through acquisition. As organizations become larger, it often makes sense to acquire existing companies who are already creating the solutions they need than try to […].

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GDPR execution will be a major task this year—and reap benefits

TechBeacon

For IT and security professionals and other senior corporate officers, it may seem a paradox that the full inception date for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came and went last May, and yet 2019 is shaping up as the year of its practical execution in the enterprise.

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The Role and Responsibilities of the Modern CFO – A Function in Transition

Toptal

Over the last few decades, the role of the CFO has undergone a profound shift. The historical tasks of the finance function such as books and records, financial reporting, and statutory compliance continue to be important but are now taken for granted by CEOs. The CFO of today and tomorrow must be able to take financial data and use it to influence operational decision making and strategy.

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The state of AI in 2019

CTOvision

Read the state of artificial intelligence in 2019 according to James Vincent of Verge : It’s a common psychological phenomenon: repeat any word enough times, and it eventually loses all meaning, disintegrating like soggy tissue into phonetic nothingness. For many of us, the phrase “artificial intelligence” fell apart in this way a long time ago. […].

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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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Edge Computing: Saving the Cloud from Ephemeral Data

DevOps.com

Edge computing is rapidly gaining momentum. Last week’s Linux Foundation news on the launch of LF Edge is one more sign of accelerating growth at the edge. What’s driving this sudden intense interest? It’s more than just the sheer number of edge devices or mounting concerns around interoperability and security. Pushing compute resources closer to […].

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The importance of PHP long-term support for IBM i users

Zend

The importance of understanding long-term support (LTS) for PHP and the implications and benefits of upgrading Zend Server (and therefore PHP) cannot be overstated! Let’s first talk about LTS It’s important to understand that there are two ways of getting updates for PHP, one being the community and the other being Rogue Wave Software Zend. […].

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Evolution of 5G and the Impact on Data Center Infrastructure

Digital Realty

As the future of 5G gets closer and closer to becoming a reality, we’re standing at the precipice of entering the next technological revolution just over a decade after the last one.