Sat.Jun 09, 2018 - Fri.Jun 15, 2018

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Cover design for the Refactoring 2nd Ed

Martin Fowler

We've got a cover design for the second edition of Refactoring. As with any book in my signature series, I needed to decide which bridge would feature in the photo.

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OKRs: A Simple But Awesome Strategy to Get Stuff Done

Evolution4all

The goal of OKRs is for every member of the organisation – from the key stakeholders and leaders down to the team members – understand the objectives of the company through a set of defined, specific and measurable actions. With today’s complex nature of organisations, team members often find themselves feeling lost amidst the rapid changes that they deal with every day.

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Primer: What DDoS attacks could mean for IoT

The Parallax

When a headline screams something like “worst DDoS ever,” it’s often accurate. Distributed denial-of-service attacks, which deluge targeted sites or services with traffic to force them offline, have been growing in strength and scope for decades. And although organizations can do certain things to mitigate the impact of an attack, our seemingly ever-increasing usage of Internet-connected devices is likely only inviting more DDoS trouble.

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How Continuous Delivery Broke Your Application Reliability – and What You Need to Do to Fix It

OverOps

More frequent deployments are great, but maintaining high-quality code while implementing them is a whole different story. Everyone is talking about moving towards an automated workflow, and there’s no wonder. We all want to deploy more features and capabilities to our products and applications, and we want to do it as quickly as we can. However, automation is not something that we should take lightly as it comes with some risks that shouldn’t be ignored.

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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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The blockchain beyond bitcoin

O'Reilly Media - Data

Taking blockchain technology private for the enterprise. Blockchain technologies have been made popular by the creation of bitcoin, but how exactly can a blockchain benefit an enterprise? A blockchain provides an immutable store of facts. This model delivers significant value in the face of regulatory oversight by providing irrevocable proof that transactions occurred.

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At S(h)ecurity, a focus on infosec industry imbalance (Q&A)

The Parallax

If the current state of cybersecurity—from APT hackers to rogue botnets to hacked gas stations—feels overwhelming, it might be because companies have been devaluing their women and minority employees. And it’s past time to knock that off, says Vijaya Kaza, Lookout Mobile Security’s chief development officer. “The time has come when we need to take it up a notch here,” she said during a phone call with The Parallax prior to Lookout’s Day of S(h)ecurity, the fourth gender and diversity development

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Speech Recognition and Synthesis in the?Browser

Xebia

With the recent upsurge of Siri, Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa, speech recognition and synthesis have become an increasingly important tool in the developer’s toolbox. Working with speech data can not only improve the accessibility of your application. It can also increase conversion in your webshop, especially when customers shop on their mobile phones.

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Women in Agile New Voices Program – Still Opening Doors

Agile Alliance

Last year’s Women in Agile 2017 event was a whirlwind of eye opening experiences. Through the New Voices Program, I was given the opportunity to speak for the first time with the support of an amazing mentor – Lynn Winterboer. I was also introduced to a remarkable community of women that created one of the … Continued.

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How blockchain is a great opportunity for developers?

OTS Solutions

Why is Blockchain a Great Opportunity for Developers? The price spike in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin in the past year has revitalized public interest in blockchain technologies. Despite the common conception that the technology is only really used for the creation of cryptocurrencies, there exist a myriad of potential applications for blockchain technology.

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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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Is 200-125 CCNA Exam Worth Taking?

The Crazy Programmer

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) 200-125 exam is designed to test candidate’s understanding and skills in networking basics , LAN and WAN technologies, IPv4 and IPv6 technologies, services, security and management of infrastructure. This exam is taken by those who wish to be certified in CCNA routing and switching. Cisco certifications include entry, associate, professional and expert levels.

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Thermometer sessions ? Gaining insight in your team

Xebia

Looking for inspiration on how to gain a shared insight in the current state of your team? And curious how to find actions for your team to improve? Read below about the ‘thermometer session’, a workshop that we designed to improve our own business unit. The goal of these sessions is to get an insight […]. The post Thermometer sessions – Gaining insight in your team appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Getting Started with Agility: Essential Reading

Allen Holub

As is the case with many of the people who actually know what they’re talking about, I’ve come to shudder when I hear the word “Agile,” at least until I can figure whether the person who uttered the word actually knows what they’ve just said. More often than not, they don’t.

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Data Visualization ? Best Practices and Foundations

Toptal

Data visualization is a coherent way to visually communicate quantitative content. Depending on its attributes, data may be represented in different ways, such as line graphs and scatter plots.

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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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The Problem with Patterns

A List Apart

It started off as an honest problem with a brilliant solution. As the ways we use the web continue to grow and evolve, we, as its well-intentioned makers and stewards, needed something better than making simple collections of pages over and over again. Design patterns, component libraries, or even style guides have become the norm for organizations big and small.

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Improving a Team?s Collective Intelligence. Feedback Please!

Xebia

It seems all over nowadays. Teams do it, peers do it, managers do it. Feedback here, feedback there, feedback everywhere. Feedback seems here to stay. Why? Because it makes people stronger. They learn how they behave and how their behaviour affects others. This transparency enables individuals to change and start experimenting with more effective behaviour. […].

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The commercial impact of IoT insecurity

CTOvision

Introduction A hacker recently shut down Bycyklen, Copenhagen’s public city bikes system, forcing employees to hunt down and manually reboot the Android tablet attached to every bike. The company said that restoring all bikes to working order would "take some time". Naturally, the costs of restoration will be significant. This is just one example of [.].

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Forecaster’s Toolbox: How to Perform Monte Carlo Simulations

Toptal

One of the most important and challenging aspects of forecasting is handling the uncertainty inherent in examining the future. Every CEO, CFO, board member, investor, or investment committee member brings their own experience and approach to financial projections and uncertainty, influenced by different incentives. Oftentimes, comparing actual outcomes against projections underscores the need to explicitly recognize uncertainty.

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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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What You Need to Know Before Starting Your Business

Women on Business

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If We Know HOW To Be Happy, How Come We Still Can?t BE Happy?

Terry Starbucker

Picture this… You are a researcher, looking over one of the most comprehensive long-term studies of human behavior. You spend 42 years with nearly 270 men, studying their lives. While the human mystery generates 270 different stories that, on the surface, defy any explanation, one fundamental truth comes out – relationships are absolutely critical to happiness.

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AI & Blockchain: Double the Value or Double the Hype?

CTOvision

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not the only technology that’s getting a lot of media and investor attention these days. Blockchain is emerging as a technology in its own right separate from the much-hyped rise in value of cryptocurrencies. Proponents of blockchain claim that it will have fundamental, ground-breaking impact on all industries, changing the way [.].

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The Missing Article About Qt Multithreading in C++

Toptal

C++ developers strive to build robust multithreaded applications, but multithreading was never an easy thing to do. In this article, Toptal Freelance Qt Developer Andrei Smirnov talks about several scenarios exploring concurrent programming with the Qt framework.

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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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Shift from Managing Your Business to Growing It

Women on Business

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How I Found CVE-2018-8819: Out-of-Band (OOB) XXE in WebCTRL

Coalfire

I like to do bug bounties from time to time, mostly when I am sacrificing sleep once the kids are finally out cold. This seemed like a worthy experience to document. Let me just start by saying I don't plan on going into the whole recon bits too deeply here. Maybe I will someday if I ever have enough time to give the topic the justice it deserves.

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8 Things Businesses Get Wrong About Innovation

Accenture

With our recent webinar on Agile product management as an enabler of product innovation, we wanted to dispel some common misconceptions about innovation. Resident innovator-consultant Jeff Steinberg outlined for us his ideas and shared his experiences with product innovation in a past Agile Amped podcast called “Creating Disruptive Innovation Inside the Enterprise.

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Do Economic Moats Still Matter?

Toptal

Companies, like castles, need a line of defense to repel the invaders' advances. Economic moats, taking a cue from their watery namesakes, are long-term and sustainable competitive advantages that protect others from seizing market share. But on the flipside, are they actually just lazy, passive strategies that shun innovation?

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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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Educating Your Audience: The New Way to Build an Audience

Women on Business

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Tech as a Career Gains Ground, Microsoft’s Sinks Data, SAP Does Blockchain

CTOvision

Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain Apple and Samsung have been accusing each other of copying or stealing patented tech but Google has seldom been involved in such accusations. But Jarek Duda, inventor of ANS video compression concept thinks that Google is copying his tech. Duda says that the search [.].

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Serverless Architecture

Coding Dojo

As a developer, there is perhaps nothing greater than seeing a project that you developed fully functioning. You fought through … Read more >>. The post Serverless Architecture appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.