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How to Combine DevOps and Agile

DevOps.com

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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AIOps 2020 Predictions - What the Data Tells Us (Part 1)

Loom Systems

2019 was the year that AIOps graduated from skunk works shops to mainstream enterprises. At least that is what a recent, independent survey indicates. Late last year, we paid a respected and independent third-party to survey over 270 senior IT executives and get the market's feedback on the state of AIOps. We produced a webinar in December that summarized the results and we are using data from that survey to inform this blog article.

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How to Prepare Your Successor For Success

Let's Grow Leaders

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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Software Developers Need Soft Skills Too – and Meetups Are Here to Help

UruIT

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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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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Ancient Android bug returns to bite you in the apps

TechBeacon

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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Five Kinds of Impacts to Assess Before Implementing Change

Change Starts Here

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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The Role of Developers in Digital Transformation

DevOps.com

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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Radar trends to watch: January 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

3 thoughts for 2020. I’m kicking things off with three quick thoughts for the start of the new year. These aren’t predictions. Rather, these are thoughts that can’t help but be right, and that take a bigger perspective on what’s happening. Whether or not Congress passes legislation on tech companies, discussion of regulation will certainly continue, and it will have an effect on the development of technology.

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Use a “Carrot and a Stick” Approach to Leverage Business Across Multiple Markets

CEO Insider

Today’s competitive business environment is no longer about simply being successful in an isolated part of the market. Successful businesses will no longer be able to focus solely on their primary industries. The new game is one of competition across different markets. What good companies do today is find and access points of strategic control […].

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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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Error'd: Are You Old Enough to Know Better?

The Daily WTF

"I guess my kid cousins won't be putting these together for a while," Travis writes. . Noah writes, "Who doesn't want a little error in their coffee first thing in the morning?" . "It would appear that Walmart and I have very different ideas about what constitutes 'Hard Candy'," wrote Todd P. . "Looks like the push to build roads in Poland paid off!

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How challenging do you find it to lead across generations?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How challenging do you find it to lead across generations? Somewhat challenging. It takes effort to cut across generations. 45.4% Not hard at all. People are people. 41.5% Very. There are so many different issues and dynamics to deal with. 10.4% I don’t lead across different generations. 1.8% Extremely. I don’t know where to begin. 1.0% People are people.

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Value Stream

DevOps.com

The post Value Stream appeared first on DevOps.com.

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The emerging risks of 5G

Ivanti

The emerging risks of 5G. sraikow. Thu, 01/09/2020 - 09:03. The stage is being set for a 5G planet. Blazing fast wireless 5G networks are already beginning to pop up in a few major metropolitan areas in the U.S. and across Asia and Europe. Although the promise of 10 Gbps and 20 Gbps speeds is enticing, we shouldn’t get too excited just yet. It could take many years for 5G to become ubiquitous, since the technology requires a very high density of antennas or “small cells.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Software Developers Need Soft Skills Too – and Meetups Are Here to Help

UruIT

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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6 Ways to Foster Innovation in IT Outsourcing Projects

Perficient

Innovation is no longer just a buzzword, it's a necessary part of doing business. Organizations around the world are finding that innovation can occur in every corner of the company, from sales and human resources to products and customer services. T.

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Article: Q&A on The Host Leadership Field Book

InfoQ Culture Methods

The Host Leadership Field Book: Building Engagement for Performance and Results provides 30 cases and experiences from people who are applying host leadership in different settings. The book emerged from the 2019 Host Leadership Gathering, and was edited by Mark McKergow and Pierluigi Pugliese. By Mark McKergow, Pierluigi Pugliese, Ben Linders.

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Four short links: 10 January 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Ten Challenges for Making Automation a “Team Player” in Joint Human-Agent Activity — it’s really interesting to read this and think how they might manifest in, eg., a chatbot. I remember Jesse Robbins talking about Orion for emergency workers and how they were having to invent this stuff. It’s remarkable how we’ve gone through a chatbot boom and bust cycle without much forward progress in standardizing these things.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Software Developers Need Soft Skills Too – and Meetups Are Here to Help

UruIT

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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A thought on Relational Onboarding

Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

Okay, so you know I started a new job. Can I use that as an excuse not to have worked on the book much? Hmmm… as I write this, the word ‘excuse’ stands out. I think I have my answer. Thankfully, I get another try next week. And you do too. Instead, I’ll send over a quick realization that occurred to me this week. Being onboarded is naturally hard. It’s confusing, both for the onboarder and the onboarded.

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Strengthening Testing through Mutation: A DevOps Engineer’s Experience

Dzone - DevOps

I work as a DevOps engineer for a large public-facing application, which has around 90+ microservices (Java-based). Consistently, we are hit by scenarios that we’d discover in the field, which were not caught in any of our testing. Despite improving our test strategies and code coverage assessments, we were unable to assess the "strength" of our test cases.

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Planning for the Outages You’re Going to Cause

LaunchDarkly

Ways to shrink the blast radius of failures in your software. At the November Test in Production Meetup in San Francisco, Ramin Khatibi, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and infrastructure consultant, laid out strategies software teams can employ to minimize the impact of failure. “…when you break something through action, you pretty much know what caused it…When you have these outages of inaction, and you’re like, we didn’t do something for six months, and now the site broke.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le

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2020 Exit Planning Checklist

Strategy Driven

All business owners will stop being business owners at some point. So, there is no better time to begin planning for the inevitable than the present. The earlier you begin planning, the more options you will have for a successful exit. However, like any strategic plan, it can be difficult to know how and where to begin. With the start of the new year it’s also an ideal time for us to publish a basic “To-Do List” that will serve you in considering that most significant event

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How Can You Know Whether Your Scrum Masters are Effective?

Agile Alliance

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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When Small Things Get Big and Big Things Get Small

Strategy Driven

There are things in our lives that seem big, but they are really temporary or minor problems. The small things get big when we focus too much attention on them. When we make small things big, we can overlook the big things that become the elephant in the room that we are not seeing. If we take care of the small things as they come up, we are better able to cope with the big stuff.

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3 Reasons to Use a Substitute Management Mobile App

PowerSchool

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Lessons Learned in PostgreSQL®

In today's digital landscape, the threat of ransomware demands proactive defense. This paper, inspired by a real PostgreSQL® database incident, offers vital strategies for effective mitigation. Instaclustr expert Perry Clark outlines immediate actions to minimize risks, ensuring a swift response to ransomware threats and protecting critical data assets.

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Crypto Trading Bots – Next Step to an Epic Future

Strategy Driven

By traveling at an untraceable speed, the face of technology has witnessed several transformations over time. As everything around us has flipped over into the screens, there is no more turning back into the age of physicality. Gone is the era of tangibility and undeniably that phase did have a fair share of advantages, many of which cannot be easily replaced by technology.

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Language Server Protocol Tutorial: From VSCode to Vim

Toptal

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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What Services Does Your Business Need To Soar?

Strategy Driven

As a business, there are certain services that you are going to need to ensure that the day-to-day operations of your company are running smoothly. As well as this, you are going to need help bringing in more customers and keeping everything going, which is why we have written this article. Down below, you are going to find some of the services that your business is going to need to soar !