Tue.Oct 03, 2023

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How Do You Get Senior Engineers to Take Coding Assessments

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

I recently came across this post on Reddit, and though it was posted about 3 years ago, it wonderfully encapsulates every senior engineer’s aversion towards technical assessments. This well-known aversion always comes up in conversations with engineering leads and tech recruiters, and someone invariably asks — how do senior hires react to the coding tests on your platform?

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Why all IT talent should be irreplaceable

CIO

“The graveyards,” General De Gaulle once ironically observed, “are full of indispensable men.” Maybe so, but the same may not be so easily said about organizations whose success did depend on irreplaceable managers and staff. Take, for example, Apple. Under Steve Jobs it created the iPod, iPhone, App Store, and iPad — products and services that ranged from radical departures to entirely new concepts.

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10 Pitfalls That Destroy Organizational Trust

Harvard Business Review

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their second strategy is to build — or rebuild — trust with your stakeholders. This means they need to believe three things: that you care about them (empathy), that you’re capable of meeting their needs (logic), and that you can be expected to do what you say you’ll do (authenticity).

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Future-Proofing Your Business with Hyperautomation

CIO

Robotic process automation (RPA) is a well-established means of automating repetitive business processes implemented in software. It’s been around since the early 2000s. However since then great strides have been made in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Combined with RPA tools they enable much greater levels of automation of many business processes.

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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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How Digital Technologies Could Boost Tiny Retailers in Developing Countries

Harvard Business Review

Micro-retailers are vitally important to the economies of developing countries and to consumer packaged goods companies. But their full potential is not being realized. The adoption of digital technologies could help change that. But for that to happen, obstacles must be overcome. Three strategies can address them.

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The Employer-Educator Partnership That Can Fill U.S. Jobs

Harvard Business Review

Middle-skills workers — those with less than a four-year college education but more than a high school diploma — make up more than 60% of U.S. workers over the age of 25. These workers are the life force that keeps America’s economic engine humming, but, increasingly, as they enter the workforce they find that they are unemployable, even though companies have a growing number of jobs to fill.

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Digital Transformation is Not a Destination

Mentormate

According to new data from the Harvard Business Review , 89% of large companies around the globe have a digital and AI transformation underway. But those companies have only captured 31% of the expected revenue lift they hoped to see, along with a mere 25% of anticipated cost savings. This is part of the reason why digital transformation can be so daunting.

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How Data-Driven Decisions Help Restaurants Stay Competitive

Harvard Business Review

Today data is an increasingly important part of how restaurants create value, both on the demand side (how consumers choose a place to eat, make a reservation, give their order, and pay their bill) and the supply side (detailed preparation and food resource-management records that enable restaurants to optimize inventory and reduce waste). To remain competitive, restaurants need to change the way they approach business decisions; they need to shift focus from food cost to revenue management and

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Avoiding Cloud Lock-In Amidst Potential Regulatory Change

DevOps.com

Organizations shouldn’t just wait (and hope) for regulators to solve the problem of cloud lock-in. Here's what to do.

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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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Apiumhub interviews Nathaniel Schutta at GSAS 2022

Apiumhub

On October 3rd and 4th, 2022, Apiumhub organized the second edition of the Global Software Architecture Summit, an event that brought together hundreds of software architects from all over the world. Besides having talks from experts, the event also featured hands-on parallel workshops on the first day. One of the workshop facilitators was Nathaniel Schutta, a software architect and author of the book Thinking Architecturally.

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Case Study: How to Approach an Innovative Culture

Agile42

Abstract: Flexibility and the ability to make decentralized decisions, as well as a high degree of customer orientation, are core elements of an innovative culture. In addition to specific leadership behaviors, to be able to sustain an innovative culture you need to develop a dedicated toolbox. A project team at Siemens Digital Industries – Factory Automation – was able to lay the foundation for a customer-centric development of new products through a holistic leadership approach.

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Radar Trends to Watch: October 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AI continues to spread. This month, the AI category is limited to developments about AI itself; tools for AI programming are covered in the Programming section. One of the biggest issues for AI these days is legal. Getty Images is protecting customers who use their generative AI from copyright lawsuits; Microsoft is doing the same for users of their Copilot products.

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Best Practices for DevOps in the Hybrid Cloud

DevOps.com

To leverage cloud-bursting and safeguard applications and data, DevOps can embrace a hybrid cloud strategy.

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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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Dell Technologies is a First-Generation EPEAT Climate+ Champion™

Dell EMC

Dell Technologies has the industry’s widest portfolio of EPEAT Climate+ designated product types under EPEAT.

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Upgrading Oracle 18c to 19c: Seamless Path to Stability

Datavail

If you’re currently running Oracle 18c databases, upgrading to the long-term support release Oracle 19c is recommended to ensure continued stability and support. Oracle 18c, as an Innovation Release, had a relatively short lifecycle and has been end of life since June 30, 2021. Here’s what you should know about the Oracle 18c to 19c upgrade process.

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How DISH Wireless Built a 5G Network with Cloud-Native Data Streaming

Confluent

Discover how DISH Wireless unlocks telco use cases by implementing a streaming data mesh using Confluent Cloud, a fully managed, cloud-native Apache Kafka® service.

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How Can We Manage the Risks of AI?

Dataiku

In the first article of this series , we learned some of the many ways AI already influences us at different stages of life and how important our own data is in the development of AI. Now, we’ll learn about how the risks of AI can be identified, balanced, or even avoided, as individuals, teams, and societies.

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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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Introducing Hack’d: A new live series deconstructing historic cyber breaches

Lacework

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a time dedicated to increased security awareness and better habits for every one of us. It’s also a stark reminder for industry professionals that preventing bad security outcomes is a full-time, year-round job that requires constant diligence and training. With this in mind, Lacework is launching Hack’d, a new series of open cybersecurity discussion and training sessions to bring new educational resources to the industry and utilize them for teaching — not just

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PowerFlex 4.5: Where Agility Meets Innovation

Dell EMC

Unlock breakthrough efficiency and multicloud versatility for your workloads with PowerFlex and APEX Block Storage for public clouds.

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Beyond The Buzzword: The Competitive Advantage of True Convergence

Saviynt

Converged identity solutions can be transformative, but to maximize their potential, leaders must understand the concept of ‘convergence’ beyond the name. The post Beyond The Buzzword: The Competitive Advantage of True Convergence appeared first on Intelligent Identity and Smarter Security - Saviynt.

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How to Solve Tough Problems Better and Faster

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with author Anne Morriss on two keys to organizational success.

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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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Transforming Health Payer Interoperability with Real-Time Data Streaming

Confluent

Discover how real-time interoperability with Confluent enables healthcare payers to deliver better services to patients and providers.

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Modular Dependencies

The Daily WTF

Many years ago, Valts and his spouse both worked for the same company. The company had an ERP system that started its life as a product back when ERP systems were novel and new. It was written in Delphi, and it was huge - so huge that the company needed to hack the Delphi linker to handle its size. Well, their company got swallowed up by Initech, and after the buyout, things changed.

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Yes, Software Development is an Assembly Line, but not Like That

Allstacks

I grew up in a manufacturing town. Nearly everyone worked for (or previously worked for) the local textile factory. My father was no exception. He had a few jobs but eventually landed a management job at the factory and started working closely with the engineers and other plant operators. At the time, I was in high school and about to start my education in software development.

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Welcome to the Open World: A Shift in User Experience

Tandem

From Side-Scrolling to Open World In the early days of video games, many followed variations of side-scrolling. The original Super Mario Bros. is an example of a side-scrolling video game, where the player is pitted against the environment in a journey that is linear, moving left to right. In this two dimensional world, the player starts on the leftmost edge of a map and runs to the right until they reach the end of the level.

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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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TechOps vs. DevOps: Bridging the Gap in Modern IT Operations

TurnKey Labs

Efficient IT operations stand at the core of organizational success. As businesses increasingly rely on cloud infrastructure, the seamless functioning of IT processes becomes paramount.

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Why AIOps is Critical for Networks

DevOps.com

Vitria Technology's Andrew Colby discusses why AIOps, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) are key capabilities for organizations to continue providing the level of performance and reliability customers expect.

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Apple vs Meta: The Illusion of Privacy

Perficient

Apple vs Meta: The Illusion of Privacy I recently saw the buzz around the new Threads app, Its an, Meta’s new text, video, image sharing app which gained millions of subscribers within a few hours of launch. The onboarding was so simple that… I started to mindlessly tap “Next” until… I noticed a weird step They say “How Threads works”, but… How Thread Works: It’s almost as if they did not really want me to read “how it works” In fact the

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