O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 7, 2020

Automated pet herding for fun and profit. Okay. It’s 2020. Cloud is king. Everything’s web-scale. You want to architect and build a massive platform to provide services for hundreds if not millions of users. Maybe you already have one, and want to understand or manage it better. Where do you start? There are a lot of ways of thinking about systems. This article is not concerned with how REST-ful your APIs are, or which consensus algorithm you choose, or whose database paradigm best fits your nee

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 9, 2020

Developers are an integral part of digital transformation. They architect the modular systems that overcome legacy and build the applications and solutions that allow firms to deliver products and services in new and innovative ways. Yet, when it comes to business decisions, many organizations overlook their developer talent. Developers come from a variety of different […].

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Accenture

JANUARY 6, 2020

In 2014 Frederick Kniburg posted an article describing how a small music player company in Sweden organized some of their development teams. It’s a nice article describing how Spotify was organizing at the time. The names Spotify came up with for the various dimensions of the organizational structure are cute – “Tribes,” “Guilds,” “Chapters.” Somehow, however, this interesting anecdote became a rigid prescription that many large corporate IT organizations thoughtlessly copy, often (mis)guided by

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Xebia

JANUARY 7, 2020

What is happening to product quality? Throughout my career as a quality engineer, I have developed a deep passion for quality. This passion goes way beyond the quality of software products. It is also about the quality of all interactions, quality of processes, and quality of work and life experience. I strive to bring excellence […]. The post How product quality is affected by the test automator role appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 6, 2020

Several years ago I interviewed with a large leadership development consulting firm. Things were going as expected until the office president threw me a curve ball by asking for my point-of-view on leadership. I was stumped. I had many ideas on what good leadership looked like but I didn’t have my own original model. Fortunately, I shared someone else’s POV I appreciated and was able to satisfy the president with my answer.

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General Leadership

JANUARY 6, 2020

“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is saved.” Benjamin Franklin. So you’ve been leading your organization for a year or two, maybe more, and now it’s time to turn over your pride and joy to another leader. You’ve given it everything you’ve got, as you poured your heart and soul into this organization striving to lead your team to new heights.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2020

Leading people who don’t have to follow starts with your mindset How do you lead when people don’t have to follow? In a recent long-term leadership development program Karin and I conducted for leaders from around the globe, this was one of […]. The post How to Lead When Your Employees Don’t Have to Follow appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 9, 2020

I had the opportunity to speak with Sarah Baca at Agile2019 where she reported on her experiences assessing team performance and Scrum Masters’ competency. Sarah is a people manager of Scrum Masters at Express Scripts. After having had minimal success with other assessment tools, they created their own assessment called TAP based on the … Continued.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 6, 2020

Ever since DevOps came on the scene a decade ago, ITIL has been under siege. ITIL lays out a number of IT service management (ITSM) best practices, including release management, change management, incident management, problem management and many other aspects of running an IT shop so that its priorities align with the business’s. For many […].

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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?

Business Intelligence

Toptal

JANUARY 9, 2020

The main artifact of all your work is most likely plain text files. So why don't you use Notepad to create them? Find out how the Language Server Protocol can transform text editors into code editors, without coupling.

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TechBeacon

JANUARY 10, 2020

Ever wonder how some people achieve so much in their lives while others accomplish only a fraction, even though we're all given the same amount of time in which to work?

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Aqua Security

JANUARY 10, 2020

When we first published this blog post in 2017, the technology landscape for containers was quite different than it is today. Over the past two years, we have seen significant changes take place that affected, and continue to affect how Containers are adopted. As we enter the new decade, we want to recap the changes and developments that we saw and offer our view of where we believe Containers are heading to in 2020.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 9, 2020

In recent years, application development and deployment have become an increasingly critical part of business operations. Because of this, various entities have sought to optimize their product development process. This has led to a rise in the popularity of DevOps, which is designed for that purpose. In simple words, the DevOps application during the software […].

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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.

Trends

Confluent

JANUARY 8, 2020

This article show how you can offload data from on-premises transactional (OLTP) databases to cloud-based datastores, including Snowflake and Amazon S3 with Athena. I’m also going to take the opportunity […].

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Toptal

JANUARY 8, 2020

Shopping online is more convenient than ever, so how do you create an online marketplace tailored to cater to your specific needs? In this article, Toptal JavaScript Developer Konrad Gadzinowski explores marketplace business models and payment methods for both regional and global services.

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DataRobot

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does your organization apply appropriate human resources governance when hiring staff? Large enterprises tend to follow the same basic processes for hiring human staff. First, hiring managers write a job description, including the tasks the position requires and the skills and attributes of a suitable candidate. Job vacancies are posted, sometimes recruiters are also used, and people submit their resumes for consideration.

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UruIT

JANUARY 9, 2020

Why software developers should get involved in communities like meetups in order to enhance their soft skills. Being part of a software company these days shouldn’t be seen as just a job. It’s rather an experience that adds value to what we do as professionals and to who we are as people. As a psychologist with eight years of experience, it’s the first time that I’ve found an industry in which sharing knowledge is not only a hobby.

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Engineering

Henrik Warne

JANUARY 4, 2020

In the book club at work, I just finished reading Grokking Deep Learning by Andrew Trask. It is an introduction to deep learning, but there are some problems. It spends a lot of pages on the basics, and in the end moves on to some fairly advanced topics. It is also contains many small and irritating mistakes. However, it does have some great insights into deep learning.

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The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 10, 2020

In this tutorial we are going to see a data structure known as threaded binary tree. Before starting with that we should know what does a binary tree means and after that we can start with the importance of the word threaded in it. Binary tree is a data structure in computer science where each node has two children represented as left and right children and each node is storing some data. struct node { int data; struct node* left; struct node* right; } The above is a basic structure of a binary

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Xebia

JANUARY 8, 2020

Let me start with a short recap of my previous post. The reason we got to this point. I talked about the difference between being a true expert and relying on expert intuition. Sharing the struggles of a millennial social scientist that often gets asked if we can train our brain to be better at […]. The post Unleashing Social Super Powers – Can I train my brain to be better at using System 2?

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OverOps

JANUARY 7, 2020

Happy New Year from OverOps! Resolve to eliminate new application errors in 2020 with the help of OverOps’ Continuous Reliability solution. It’s that time of year again when we all pause to reflect on past accomplishments, and establish future goals that we seek to accomplish in the next 365 days. In working to prepare my own New Year’s resolutions, I came across an interesting article on Business Insider about why most New Year’s resolutions fail.

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Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

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Artificial Inteligence

TechBeacon

JANUARY 9, 2020

A two-year-old Linux kernel vulnerability , which Android only patched in October, has been exploited for about 10 months. To make matters worse, the exploits were in Play Store apps.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2020

Show me a great leader and I’ll show you a talented storyteller. Leadership and storytelling go hand-in-hand. In fact, leaders who lack the ability to leverage the power and influence of storytelling are missing the very essence of what accounts for compelling leadership begins with the story. Give me a few minutes and allow me to share this message with you – it may just change your life.

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Xebia

JANUARY 5, 2020

Some time ago I forked a github project and published it on Bintray, so it could be used as a dependency by one of my other projects. Because publishing to Bintray was quite a hassle, I decided to take a look at GitHub Packages, which was released last year. My question was, would this be […]. The post Unpacking the possibilities of GitHub Packages appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Kaseya

JANUARY 7, 2020

A recent article in Inc. highlights the risks of swiping your credit card at the gas pump. Visa, the credit company, issued a security warning to alert customers of the threat posed by a hacking group called Fin8 — “The hackers are exploiting a weakness in gas station point-of-sale networks that allow the hackers to remotely obtain credit card information from gas pumps.” They use scraping software to steal unencrypted credit card information that is transmitted when the gas pump c

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TechBeacon

JANUARY 7, 2020

The most life-changing products to come out over the next few years will almost certainly center on mobile, the Internet of Things (IoT), and voice-control technology. Attending these conferences could help you find the inspiration to create those transformative products, and give you the knowledge you'll need to build the future's most exciting and useful inventions.

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 7, 2020

Learn more about using Docker for Azure DevOps Linux Build Agent with Docker Compose. In the past, I've dealt with using Docker for Azure DevOps Linux Build Agent in a post called Configure a VSTS Linux Agent With Docker in Minutes , and I've blogged on how you can use Docker inside a build definition to have some prerequisite for testing (like MongoDB and SQL Server).

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CTOvision

JANUARY 6, 2020

The Internet of Things is a network of smart machines and technologies that can collect and analyze data to improve decision-making and performance. Often, analytics take place through cloud computing, whereby data points are transmitted to remote servers. But this approach takes time and requires costly broadband resources. Enter edge computing. Through edge computing, data processing and […].

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