Fri.Jul 28, 2023

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What Makes a Tech Interview Great? Hear an Engineer’s Perspective

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The truth is, engineers no more look forward to job positions that offer only a great salary. They are growing increasingly biased towards roles that challenge their expertise and companies that enable positive candidate experience. The best way to gauge what a role can offer is during the technical interview process. When we asked Piyush Tripathi, the Lead Engineer at Square about the elements he looks for in tech interviews, he shared: When interviewing with tech companies such as Amazon, Twil

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5 steps to drive and foster innovation in IT

CIO

Tight budgets and labor shortages have remained an ongoing challenge for IT leaders in 2023. As a result, CIOs are looking at ways of doing more with less, while continuing to digitally transform their organizations. How can we free up funds in one area to invest or innovate in another area of the business? This is especially critical within physical operations – the industries that drive more than 40% of the global GDP – as organizations like ABF Freight and Liberty Energy look for ways to oper

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Your Leadership Brand Authority with Deb Gabor

Let's Grow Leaders

What does your Leadership Brand Authority say? Brands are the new voice of authority. We look to brands for what to do, what to think, and how to feel. We want to know what to support and what to stand against. Now is the perfect time to reveal the humanity behind the brand. Consumers want to connect with the brands they support. Business leaders want to create purposeful, passionate companies.

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Embracing neurodiversity in IT for competitive advantage

CIO

The term neurodiversity covers a range of conditions, as well as the various spectrums within each. So each neurodiverse professional’s experience is unique, but speaking for myself, being neurodiverse has been a huge competitive advantage in my technology career. The ability to pivot fast and hyperfocus are strengths, not weaknesses, and a leader that can do both effectively is an asset, not a liability.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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3 Ways to Keep Your Audience Focused During a Presentation

Harvard Business Review

Grabbing and keeping your audience’s focus is critical to communication success. What you have to say is important, so give yourself the best chance to convey your message to your audience by first gaining attention, but then, more importantly, sustaining it. In this piece, the author outlines three techniques — physical, mental, and linguistic — to engage your audience.

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Automation in DevOps: Advancements, Platforms and Examples

DevOps.com

Automation is the backbone of DevOps. By facilitating seamless integration and continuous delivery, it revolutionizes the ways organizations deliver software, products and services. When applied correctly, automation can significantly enhance productivity, reduce time-to-market, improve software quality and minimize the risk of human error.

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JLL reinvents itself for the AI era

CIO

City skyscrapers and office parks may remain scarcely occupied in the post-pandemic work era, but commercial real estate player JLL’s business is not slowing down, thanks to the company’s embrace of technology and high-growth opportunities to adapt and prosper. The Chicago-based commercial real estate company, one of the largest in the world, has invested heavily in developing its own homegrown facilities management and sustainability software and service offerings aimed at high-growth commercia

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The Ultimate Cloud Storage Pricing Comparison (2023 CHART)

CloudZero

Syncing files and folders across multiple devices, updating them between remote team members, and sharing them across individuals and teams are all essential aspects of running a modern business.

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You can’t grow trust on a rocky infrastructure

CIO

There is an explosion of personal data about what we buy, where we go, and what we watch. We trust the custodians of our data to ensure it is not breached or used irresponsibly. But not all organizations that store and process sensitive customer data are fully aware that a chink in infrastructure can break our digital trust. Mitigating risk that threatens digital trust is a challenge.

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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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Optimizely Blocks As Properties: How To Hide Irrelevant Fields

Perficient

We recently ran into an issue when using shared blocks as properties on pages; some of the block’s properties don’t make any sense in this context and can lead to some confusion with editors. Instead of creating another version of the block to use specifically as a local block, I created a simple feature to control hiding properties when a block is used as a property.

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You cannot develop a high-quality customer engagement strategy without trust

CIO

Engaged customers are vital to the success of any business. Analytics is central to understanding what works for your customers. But how do you get them to share actionable data? Of course, customers are willing to share data in return for better services and products. But, they want to be safe in knowing that their data is being properly managed and adheres to regulatory compliance practices.

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Microsoft Viva Insights: How to Get Started Leveraging Data for Enterprise Success

Perficient

In today’s business landscape, enterprises are constantly seeking ways to improve employee productivity, engagement, and well-being. Microsoft’s Viva Insights, an innovative workplace analytics solution, has emerged as a powerful tool to help organizations achieve these goals. By providing valuable data-driven insights, Viva Insights enables enterprises to make informed decisions that foster a more productive and thriving work environment.

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Atea – Enabling organizations to tame complexity, manage growth

CIO

Atea is focused on helping organizations maximize the value of their IT investments—from initial deployment, throughout their lifecycle, and into the next generation of technology solutions. With almost 8,000 employees located in 85 offices across seven countries in the Nordic and Baltic regions of Europe, the company offers a complete range of hardware, software and services to help organizations solve problems and gain more from IT to meet their business objectives.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Why Hybrid Work Can Become Toxic

Harvard Business Review

Toxicity can be an unfortunate reality of some work environments. Toxic cultures share five attributes: they’re disrespectful, noninclusive, unethical, cutthroat, and abusive. Undeniably negative as these attributes are, there is no absolute, uniformly accepted scale against which we can measure any of them. Making matters more complicated, a hybrid environment by definition means that employees are experiencing their work in very different contexts — some face-to-face, others remote — and those

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Kubernetes Evolution: Transitioning from etcd to Distributed SQL

Dzone - DevOps

I recently stumbled upon an article explaining how to replace etcd with PostgreSQL. This transition was seamless with the Kine project, which serves as an external etcd endpoint, translating Kubernetes etcd requests into SQL queries for an underlying relational database. Inspired by this approach, I decided to explore Kine's potential further by switching from etcd to YugabyteDB, a distributed SQL database built on PostgreSQL.

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Why Your Nonprofit Needs to Develop Its Own Brand

TechSoup

Unlike some companies that rely on flashy products, big advertising budgets, and innovative services, your organization's most valuable asset is its story. Your story is what captivates your most passionate supporters; it’s what compels them to join your mission and embrace your vision. Your story is what holds the power to raise awareness, establish credibility, and ultimately attract the vital financial and in-kind support you need to accomplish your mission and make the world a better place.

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It’s OK to Fail, but You Have to Do It Right

Harvard Business Review

Failing once at something new is an experiment, and experiments are crucial to success. Failing twice at the same thing might be more accurately called a mistake.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Best Practices for Angular Unit Testing

Gorilla Logic

Software development and testing go hand in hand. Making sure that our code and apps behave the way they should is key, and it’s important to know that testing isn’t just a QA’s job. As developers, we can start that process from the very beginning by using unit testing, and doing so on frameworks like Angular is extremely easy. From the very start of an Angular project’s creation, we are given the foundation to start building unit tests.

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Snyk Survey: AI Generating More Vulnerabilities in Code

DevOps.com

A Snyk survey finds the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to write code is creating a software security paradox.

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How To Build a Cross-Platform Interactive Poll Application With.NET and AWS

Dzone - DevOps

This story started back in December 2021 at the first post-COVID AWS re: Invent conference. We were staffed at the Welcome Desk of the AWS Developer Community Lounge. The first few minutes were awkward when people started to flow in. People were walking in front of the Welcome desk, and as soon as we made eye contact, they walked away in the opposite direction.

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Extending the GitOps Pipeline: DevSecOps and Trusted Application Delivery

DevOps.com

The fusion of DevSecOps and trusted application delivery can extend the GitOps pipeline and add business value.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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2.3 Paris

Tenable

July 28 · 25m As John Doe pushes Alice to her limits, she begins to question the true nature of their mission. The Hacker Chronicles Presented by Tenable. Learn more at Tenable.

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Twitter and Its Successor States

Crafty CTO

I love the tone of this article, a true pleasure to read—highly recommended. A couple of great lines: I mean it’s really funny how a bunch of very rich dudes are breaking stuff online and making worse versions of existing products in response to said breakage. Obviously it is quite amusing to be shown how stupid rich people are, and I very much enjoy it.

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Understanding Auditory Disabilities: Categories, Characteristics, and Associated Barriers – Part 2

Perficient

Welcome to the second session of our blog series on disabilities, where we aim to shed light on various impairments and the challenges individuals face in their everyday lives. In this installment, we focus on Auditory disabilities, exploring the categories, characteristics, and barriers encountered by those living with auditory impairments. Understanding Auditory Disabilities Auditory disabilities refer to a range of conditions that affect an individual’s ability to perceive and process s

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Gruber Translates Linda Yaccarino's Company-wide Memo on the X Rebrand

Crafty CTO

A few prime translations: It’s OK to day-drink. I am. I used to run all advertising for NBCUniversal. Now I’m running an $8/month multi-level marketing scheme where the only users who’ve signed up are men who own a collection of MAGA hats. As if this rebranding disaster isn’t enough, our infrastructure is crumbling. Facebook took Threads from 0 to 100 million users in under a week, without a hitch, at the same time we imposed comical rate limits on usage.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Leading Regional Home Building Company Benefits from Automated Patch Compliance

Blue Sentry

The Challenge A leading custom home building company based in the southeast has recently been acquired by a national company. Part of integrating into the larger company came with new security compliance requirements. As such, the homebuilder requires a solution to ensure their security posture by maintaining operating systems patching remains up to date.

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How to use Argo CD to Configure Kubernetes Monitoring in Grafana Cloud

DevOps.com

Since Kubernetes Monitoring launched in Grafana Cloud last year, we have introduced highly customizable dashboards and powerful analytics features. We’ve also focused on how to make monitoring and managing resource utilization within your fleet easier and more efficient. But what’s an easy way to add resources to your cluster while using Kubernetes Monitoring?

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Leading Crypto Accounting SaaS Company Benefits from GP3 Storage Volume Upgrade

Blue Sentry

The Challenge A leading crypto accounting SaaS (Software as a Service) company based in the New York area providing cryptocurrency accounting for institutions and crypto investors is looking to optimize their cloud environments in alignment with AWS best practices. The crypto company maintains proprietary software that leverages real-time data from millions of crypto transactions every day, so optimization for performance is key.

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