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Women in Tech: Hiring Strategies to Attract and Retain Top Talent

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Studies have shown that companies are more productive when they have a gender-mixed workplace. In order to attain this gender balance, companies need to devise a flexible recruiting approach that takes into account women’s specific needs and aspirations. These benefits go beyond simple remuneration and reach areas of women’s lives that are particularly important to them.

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The Top 5 Ways DevOps Fails – and How to Prevent Them

DevOps.com

The working hypothesis for a Gartner report on how to avoid failure with your DevOps effort is that, unless the trajectory changes, “Through 2023, 90 [percent] of DevOps initiatives will fail to fully meet expectations.” The reason? You could boil it down to management not fully understanding DevOps tenets and nuances—things such as targeting business […].

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Deep automation in machine learning

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

We need to do more than automate model building with autoML; we need to automate tasks at every stage of the data pipeline. In a previous post , we talked about applications of machine learning (ML) to software development, which included a tour through sample tools in data science and for managing data infrastructure. Since that time, Andrej Karpathy has made some more predictions about the fate of software development: he envisions a Software 2.0 , in which the nature of software development h

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Kindle edition of Refactoring now available from Amazon

Martin Fowler

Amazon is now selling the Kindle edition of Refactoring. As I write this, it's touch more expensive than the hardback since they are currently discounting the hardback but not the electronic version. more….

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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5 Best Programming Languages for Kids

The Crazy Programmer

The rate at which children handle gadgets in this technology savvy era is quite interesting. The fact they are able to easily operate the gadgets, run programs on it easily shows that they are intrigued by it. We all at a point have come across children who not only enjoy the games or other softwares but have shown interest in asking questions on how the softwares are programmed.

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How to Manage Your Emotions When You Make Leadership Decisions

Let's Grow Leaders

Do you struggle to manage your emotions? You’re not alone. We were speaking to an international gathering of leaders from across Europe when a young man approached the microphone and asked: “How, as a leader, do you keep your personal feelings from […]. The post How to Manage Your Emotions When You Make Leadership Decisions appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Top 13 Sessions From 2018 Ops and Dev Conferences

OverOps

It’s our favorite tradition of the season; Sit back, grab some popcorn and catch up on the top talks you might have missed, or want to watch again. December is almost over, and it’s that time of the year when we look back at all the great things that happened. It’s not just a time to reminisce, it’s also a time to squeeze in some more learning before we start the new year.

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Common Problems New Computer Programmers May Experience

The Crazy Programmer

Choosing the right career path can be extremely challenging. For people who love figuring out the complexities of computer code, a career as a programmer is a great option. With over 300,000 existing computer programming positions. on the American job market, there is no denying this field is the wave of the future. Having success as a computer programmer will require you to work hard and practice coding on a daily basis.

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Here’s what Facebook shared about you in its latest scandal

The Parallax

Facebook doesn’t seem to be learning much from its growing list of data-oriented scandals. Instead of responding by revamping its business practices, the social network appears to keep telling its 2.27 billion active monthly users , “Hold my beer!”. It’s not exactly reassuring. The latest revelation: The company shared user data, including Facebook Messenger chat logs , with a select group of some of the world’s largest tech companies.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Frontline Festival: Best of 2018 Edition

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month we are celebrating each blogger’s favorite post of the year (as identified by them). It’s always so much fun to see what emerges as the very best, and which topics rise to […]. The post Frontline Festival: Best of 2018 Edition appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Agile for Humanity Tuscon Meetup Webinar Series

Agile Alliance

The Agile For Humanity Tucson launched its webinar series in September 2018 and continues to work toward building an Agile community in the Tucson, Arizona area. On the 2nd or 3rd Saturday of each month at 10:00 AM MST, we begin with networking followed by presentations from speakers in different areas. The goal is to … Continued.

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Android RSS Reader Tutorial

The Crazy Programmer

In this android rss reader tutorial we will see how to make demo app that can read rss of a website or blog. So without wasting much time lets begin. Typically the rss feed of a website or blog look something like shown below. <channel> <title></title> <link></link> <description></description> <item> <title></title> <link></link> <pubDate></pubDate> <description></description> </item> <item> <title></title> <link

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Five Important Practices For A CIO To Go Digital Transformation

OTS Solutions

5 Reasons Why a CIO Needs to Go Digital Transformation. Digital transformation offers your company new ventures and opportunities you never imagined. Your company can add revenue streams while keeping up with customer demands. While there are many benefits to go digital, so few leaders are hesitant from giving it a shot. Leaders have a problem coming up with a cohesive model that will lead to massive progress.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Objective and Key Results: A Tool To Engage Your Employees

Luis Goncalves

Objective and Key Results: How to engage your employees to commit to the company goals. It is a real challenge to keep everyone in your team concurrent, especially if you don´t keep your team members engaged with the vision of your company. It is common in corporate world that many feel lost about the direction of the company they are working for. This happens often to millennials.

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The Top 13 Sessions From 2018 Ops and Dev Conferences

OverOps

It’s our favorite tradition of the season; Sit back, grab some popcorn and catch up on the top talks you might have missed, or want to watch again. December is almost over, and it’s that time of the year when we look back at all the great things that happened. It’s not just a time to reminisce, it’s also a time to squeeze in some more learning before we start the new year.

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Top Change Articles of 2018 at Enclaria

Change Starts Here

Another year is coming to a close! The following are the most popular posts of 2018 at the Enclaria blog. Which were your favorites, and what did you miss? Thank you for reading and sharing! What topics would you like to see covered next year? Please reply in the comments. 1. How to Do Change […].

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How AI Powers Manufacturing Systems To Leapfrog Into The Future

CTOvision

With its potential to enhance and extend the capabilities of humans, and help businesses improve productivity, there’s no question that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are transforming the manufacturing industry. According to Seagate’s latest survey on AI adoption in the Asia Pacific region – Data Pulse: Maximising the Potential of Artificial Intelligence – more than […].

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Netflix OSS and Spring Boot?—?Coming Full Circle

Netflix Tech

Netflix OSS and Spring Boot?—?Coming Full Circle Taylor Wicksell, Tom Cellucci, Howard Yuan, Asi Bross, Noel Yap, and David Liu In 2007, Netflix started on a long road towards fully operating in the cloud. Much of Netflix’s backend and mid-tier applications are built using Java, and as part of this effort Netflix engineering built several cloud infrastructure libraries and systems?

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6 DevOps Trends to Watch in 2019

Flexagon

DevOps has evolved over the last few years, but it’s still in the early part of its journey. In the next five years, the global DevOps market is expected to reach US$12.85 billion. Accelerated growth will kick off in 2019, when the market will begin to experience an 18.6 percent CAGR through to 2025.¹ At. Read more. The post 6 DevOps Trends to Watch in 2019 appeared first on Flexagon.

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Yet another privacy fail boosts #DeleteFacebook momentum

TechBeacon

Yet more bad news for Facebook. This week brings revelations that Zuckerberg’s finest really have been selling your private data. Except they don’t call it “selling”; the company is “sharing with its partners,” which is obviously completely different.

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An Interview with Greg DeArment, Head of Infrastructure at Palantir

CTOvision

This post captures the results of an interview with Greg DeArment, Head of Infrastructure at Palantir. Topics we covered included how Palantir manages the production environment for their modern data platform Foundry, with a special focus on Kubernetes. Gourley: Greg before we get started can you tell me a bit about yourself? DeArment: I joined […].

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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DevOps: The Ultimate Way to Break Down Silos

DevOps.com

Let’s imagine Jim works on the development team for a food company and his colleague, Julie, works on the operations team. On a daily basis, Jim focuses on analyzing users’ needs, testing and developing software, while Judy manages IT infrastructure and policies. Although they share the responsibility of software deployments and application support, Judy and […].

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Successful Women Entrepreneurs You Should Learn From

Women on Business

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Design with Precision – An Adobe XD Review

Toptal

Great features and seamless integration with the Adobe ecosystem makes Adobe XD a powerful design tool that competes with industry favorites like Sketch and Figma.

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Collaboration does not have to be an uphill struggle

CTOvision

Regardless of industry, every organization is going through some form of digital transformation to maximize potential in the connected world. With this comes a culture of change, one where collaboration is central to innovation. This requires information that has to be open and easily accessible to promote teamwork and the flow of ideas. Innovation is […].

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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The Time for Time Series Data

DevOps.com

More than four years ago, we launched InfluxDB, an open source time series platform. In the years since, time series technology has become increasingly popular; according to DB-Engines, over the last 24 months time series has been the fastest growing database category. This popularity is fueled by the “sensorification” of the physical world (i.e., IoT) […].

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The 3 most in-demand skills for IT Ops pros

TechBeacon

Enterprises are on the hunt for a new breed of IT Ops specialists. They want professionals who can manage complex cloud infrastructure, who are comfortable coding script, who know how to use data science and AI to optimize systems management, and whose skills bring application performance and site reliability to the fore.

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Pricing Strategies for Success: A Practical Guide

Toptal

Pricing strategy is one of the most important functions that any business engages in. Prices are a foundational element of a company's revenues—If managed carefully, they can generate high profits and consequently cash. But setting prices appropriately is tricky, and when mistakes are made, companies suffer. In this article, Toptal Finance Expert Dalibor Pajic draws on his 15+ year career in corporate finance to outline seven practical examples of when pricing strategy plays a crucial role, with