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The Must Have Metrics Any DevOps and SRE Manager Should Measure

OverOps

DevOps and SREs have dashboards to monitor services and product performance, and now it’s time for us to understand how to measure these teams’ performance as well. One significant challenge every company faces these days is measurement. There’s a need to understand what’s happening at every level inside the company and product, from how customers are using the application, through to the quality and efficiency of the code, and down to the team’s performance.

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NSA leader to hackers: Cybersecurity’s a team sport

The Parallax

LAS VEGAS—It wasn’t so long ago that DefCon attendees enthusiastically engaged in the conference pastime “ Spot the Fed ”—clearly separating themselves from employees of federal organizations like the National Security Agency, if not demonizing them. Today, however—five years after the period following Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing leaks of classified NSA documents, a clear low point in the relationship between hackers and the agency—a romance appears to be in bloom.

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How to extract a data-rich service from a monolith

Martin Fowler

As people get more interested in microservices, there is a growing interest in how to split up an existing monolith into microservices. A few months ago Zhamak Dehghani explored the basic strategy of breaking a monolith into microservices. Now Praful Todkar, another of my colleagues, delves into the details of how you do a service extraction - specifically when that service includes part of the monolith's database.

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Algocracy

Pandora's Brain

Powerful new technologies can produce great benefits, but they can often produce great harm. Artificial intelligence is no exception. People have numerous concerns about AI, including privacy, transparency, security, bias, inequality, isolation, oligopoly, and killer robots. One which perhaps gets less attention than it deserves is algocracy. Decisions about the allocation of resources are being made all the time in societies, on scales both large and small.

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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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“I Dig the Great Minds Idea”

Agile Alliance

That's something that David Hussman said to me a few years ago. He loved jamming with people on new ideas, and I had the honor of being in a number of those conversations with him over the years. It was then that I would observe him being in his element. He would be jamming on … Continued.

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How to Attract More Clients to Your Design Business

The Crazy Programmer

Learning design principles and programs are easy enough for anyone dedicated. The Web has given us unlimited resources from detail tutorials to communities helping us improve as designers. This love for design sparks a business idea — a way to monetize our design skills. The problem: Getting clients. This low-barrier to entry is also one of the freelance design challenges.

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How to Motivate Your Team – Stop Treating Them Like Family

Let's Grow Leaders

Thinking they’re a family doesn’t motivate your team. You’ve probably heard leaders say it and you might have even said it yourself when you were hoping to motivate your team. “I treat my team like family” or “We’re one big family here […]. The post How to Motivate Your Team – Stop Treating Them Like Family appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Step 2 of extracting a data-rich service

Martin Fowler

Praful now moves onto the second step: creating a logical separation for the new service inside the existing monolith. more….

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How to read gas and electricity measurements from your smart meter?

Xebia

In this blogpost I would like to share my results in reading a dutch smart meter. In case you would like to start reading measurements from your own smart meter (the only prerequisite is that you have one), here is how I did it. The first thing you need is a P1 smart meter USB […]. The post How to read gas and electricity measurements from your smart meter?

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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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Understanding the Core Principles of Lean Development

The Crazy Programmer

The quest for perfection in the business world is a never-ending journey. While it might be impossible to achieve perfection in your workflow, it is possible to get closer to it every day with a well-structured system in place. This is what lean development has to offer companies that would love to perfect their craft. An efficient business process not only means reduced losses but also increased customer satisfaction rates.

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How to Lead a Meeting and Make Effective Decisions

Let's Grow Leaders

Lead a Meeting that Gets Results by Clarifying Who Owns the Decision “This is so stupid—you asked for my opinion and then ignored it. I don’t know why I even bother! From now on, I’m just going to shut my mouth and […]. The post How to Lead a Meeting and Make Effective Decisions appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Step 3 of extracting a data-rich service

Martin Fowler

For step 3, Praful separates the future service's data into a separate table within the monolith. more….

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Machine learning and AI technologies and platforms at AWS

O'Reilly Media - Data

Dan Romuald Mbanga walks through the ecosystem around the machine learning platform and API services at AWS. Continue reading Machine learning and AI technologies and platforms at AWS.

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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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SkySilk – A Managed Cloud Services Provider

The Crazy Programmer

Managing data in a cloud is an important aspect to any developers journey through building their projects. With an advent in storage and managing solutions, it is becoming even more difficult for us to select the perfect provider for our cloud services; Including many aspects like security and integrity-which are also among the most crucial ones-need to be taken care of.

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Former CIA Officer Richards J. Heuer

CTOvision

Today we learned of the passing of Richards J. (Dick) Heuer. So many of us were influenced by Dick Heuer and his writings. His first public writing on the discipline of intelligence analysis began in 1979 upon his retirement from the CIA. Later he would pull together his many articles to form the basis of […].

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Benefits of Using the Kanban Methodology for Software Development

OTS Solutions

Benefits of Using the Kanban Methodology for Software Development. The Kanban method is one of the best time and resource management strategies that you can use as the owner of a software company. Software development is a complex, multi-step process, and this technique will effectively break it into steps for you. Here are some of the most important advantages of the kanban method: Kanban Uses Visual Cues To Keep Your Employees On Task.

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Sustaining wonder: Jupyter and the knowledge commons

O'Reilly Media - Data

Carol Willing shows how Jupyter's challenges can be addressed by embracing complexity and trusting others. Continue reading Sustaining wonder: Jupyter and the knowledge commons.

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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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C Program to Read File Line by Line

The Crazy Programmer

Here you will get C program to read file line by line. In below program we first open a demo file hello.txt with some text in read mode. Make sure the file is already present. Then we read the file character by character and display on screen. Program. #include<stdio.h> #include<conio.h> #include<stdlib.h> int main() { FILE *fp; char ch; fp = fopen("hello.txt","r"); if(fp == NULL) { printf("File not found. n"); } else { printf("File is opening. nn"); while((ch = fgetc(fp)

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Schooling Flappy Bird: A Reinforcement Learning Tutorial

Toptal

Leveraging DeepMind's breakthrough AI approaches takes some work, but the results are astounding. In this article, Toptal Freelance Deep Learning Engineer Neven Pi?uljan guides us through the building blocks of reinforcement learning, training a neural network to play Flappy Bird using the PyTorch framework.

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Let’s Stop Talking About the Lack of Technical Talent, Corporate America: It’s Time to Close the Large Tech Skills Gap with Veterans

General Leadership

Originally published by Guest Author, Karen Ross, at sharpdecisions.com. No Longer Desperate for Work, Veterans Seek More Meaningful Careers. For veterans, underemployment is the new unemployment. With the U.S. Labor Department announcing earlier this month that veteran unemployment has hit a historic low, veterans groups, advocates and veterans themselves are sounding a new alarm: underemployment.

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All the cool kids are doing it, maybe we should too? Jupyter, gravitational waves, and the LIGO and Virgo Scientific Collaborations

O'Reilly Media - Data

Will Farr offers lessons about the many advantages and few disadvantages of using Jupyter for global scientific collaborations. Continue reading All the cool kids are doing it, maybe we should too? Jupyter, gravitational waves, and the LIGO and Virgo Scientific Collaborations.

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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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A Better Way to Recruit Volunteers for Your Change Initiative

Change Starts Here

I’ve been on the board of Organization Change Alliance, a networking group for change practitioners in Atlanta, for eight of the last ten years. Every year, we have an election to fill a 3-year volunteer position: Chair-Elect, then Chair, then Past Chair. And every year, the current Chair asks for volunteers who would like to […].

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Framing Impediments – Empowering Teams and Helping Leadership Listen

scruminc

Framing Impediments: Empowering Teams and Getting Leadership to Listen. by Kim Antelo | August 22, 2018 | Blog. I have been in a few organizations where leaders say, “we aren’t getting any impediments.” That may be due to a few factors like teams being afraid to raise issues (Fear to Speak) or, prior situations when leaders have pushed back and said, “This isn’t an impediment.

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A Spectrum of Possibilities: The Go-To UI Color Guide

Toptal

Color is the master key to compelling design communication, but UI designers must learn to wield its power. This guide simplifies color theory concepts and shows designers how to use color with precision.

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Why contribute to open source?

O'Reilly Media - Data

Julia Meinwald outlines effective ways to support the unseen labor maintaining a healthy open source ecosystem. Continue reading Why contribute to open source?

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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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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago? Centralized wins. Decentralized loses.

High Scalability

Decentralized systems will continue to lose to centralized systems until there's a driver requiring decentralization to deliver a clearly superior consumer experience. Unfortunately, that may not happen for quite some time. I say unfortunately because ten years ago, even five years ago, I still believed decentralization would win. Why? For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud.

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What is the Role of Stakeholders in SCRUM?

SCRUMstudy

The term stakeholder creates a lot of confusion in Scrum. Usually the term is confused with the responsibilities of a Product Owner. Let us now clear all the confusion around it. Best definition of stakeholders is that they have legitimate interest in the project and another important point to be noted is that stakeholders are not always product owners but product owners are always stakeholders.

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Demystifying Redux

Apiumhub

Redux is a library that helps you manage the status of your app. In this article, demystifying redux, we will not discuss why to use it and how to use it correctly, we will only focus on how to create our own implementation by approaching the final result without having to cover all its aspects, details and tools. The goal is to understand how it works in broad strokes to eliminate most of the mystery behind this simple library.