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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Business Intelligence

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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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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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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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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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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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.

Trends

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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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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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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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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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 9, 2020

The same mentor who jokingly told Karin that if you want people to think you’re a rock star “always follow an idiot” also smiled and said, “and always leave an idiot as your successor.” Not the best advice – but leadership transitions […]. The post How to Prepare Your Successor For Success appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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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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DevOps.com

JANUARY 5, 2020

2019 was a big year for internet infrastructure, programming languages and platform development. In the last 12 months, we saw things like new connectivity in the sky and the sea and greater security of those connections with the growth of TLS 1.3 and certificate transparency. But three trends in particular stood out as having some […]. The post How the Nuts and Bolts of the Internet Are Evolving to Change the Way You Code appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve got an employee who does great work, but their role is changing. It will ask for new and different skills from them. You’re not sure they’ll be able to succeed. You’re a caring, compassionate leader who’s also committed to achieving […]. The post When the Job Outgrows Your Employee appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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TechBeacon

JANUARY 8, 2020

Information technology departments are evolving beyond just managing hardware and software and "keeping the lights on." IT decisions can have a significant impact across the business, affecting customers, employees, and even company culture. That's why IT pros need to keep pace with developing trends.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 10, 2020

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers. In this interview, we spoke to CircleCI Software Engineer, Jacque Garcia.

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Synopsys

JANUARY 9, 2020

Synopsys welcomes Tinfoil Security, whose DAST and API testing solutions broaden our market-leading security portfolio and strengthen the Polaris platform. The post Synopsys acquires Tinfoil Security, DAST and API testing solutions provider appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 10, 2020

A project is a set of interdependent tasks that a group of people must complete in a certain amount of time to achieve its main goal – develop a product or implement a program. . Multiple teams involved in a project do their part of the work. Each team member has a set of tasks, often consisting of subtasks, that they must complete within deadlines while updating other employees and team leads on their progress and reporting once they have finished that task.

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TechBeacon

JANUARY 7, 2020

How do you find the right open-source API testing tool for your needs? Since my last roundup of the best candidates, a few more tools have appeared that warrant consideration—and there's a new technique that's all the buzz in AI automation circles that you need to know about.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 10, 2020

With increased demands and challenges around compliance and regulations, plus growing expectations for IT to provide more value-added services, companies are looking for more flexible and collaborative options. Interestingly though, while some IT departments have updated legacy systems, COBOL code has continued to be a mainstay. In fact, COBOL just turned 60 and many are […].

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The Daily WTF

JANUARY 6, 2020

Twenty years out, people have a hard time remembering that Y2K was an actual thing, an actual problem, and it was only solved because people recognized the danger well ahead of time, and invested time and effort into mitigating the worst of it. Disaster didn’t come to pass because people worked their butts off to avoid it. Gerald E was one of those people.

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Leadership

Change Starts Here

JANUARY 9, 2020

When change is introduced into an organization, by definition, it will have an impact. Hopefully, that impact will be the one that’s intended. However, if you don’t predict and direct that impact before the change is introduced, it will create unnecessary disruption and cause unintended consequences.

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TechBeacon

JANUARY 6, 2020

Gartner first coined the term "AIOps" few years ago to describe "artificial intelligence for IT operations," and over the last few years, IT operations monitoring tool vendors have begun incorporating AIOps features into their products.

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Tenable

JANUARY 10, 2020

Attackers are actively probing for vulnerable Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway hosts, while multiple proof-of-concept scripts are released, emphasizing the importance of mitigating this flaw immediately. Background. On December 17, Citrix published a support article for CVE-2019-19781 , a path traversal flaw in Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway, both of which were formerly known as NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway.

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