Martin Fowler
JUNE 23, 2021
Next distributed system pattern from Unmesh is the Lamport Clock. Distributed systems can't assume that time is consistent between servers, and sometimes time goes backwards. Yet it's important to have some way to order events. more….
TechCrunch
JUNE 9, 2021
The startup investing market is crowded, expensive and rapid-fire today as venture capitalists work to preempt one another, hoping to deploy funds into hot companies before their competitors. The AI startup market may be even hotter than the average technology niche. This should not surprise. In the wake of the Microsoft-Nuance deal , The Exchange reported that it would be reasonable to anticipate an even more active and competitive market for AI-powered startups.
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The Crazy Programmer
JUNE 15, 2021
All parents know that the jobs of tomorrow will rely on STEM skills and programming knowledge and that it’s necessary to get ready for this today. But if you don’t have these skills yourself, how can someone recognize the best coding instructors from the rest? It’s crucial to find an online coding camp for kids today that imparts programming fundamentals.
Agile Alliance
JUNE 21, 2021
Simon Sinek is well-known as a writer and commentator on Inspirational Leadership. In this article we look at how Sinek’s ideas can be applied to Agile and Scrum and look at how we, as Agile leaders, can become more inspirational. Sinek is highly visible on social media and has written five books. An excellent overview … Continued. The post Be an Inspirational Agile Leader first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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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.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
JUNE 13, 2021
“Alignment begins with a constituency of one. These are the individuals whose substance is real, pure and nonnegotiable. They share their vulnerabilities and fears in complement to their strengths. They are comfortable weaving all parts of their lives together in an integrated way. Our level of effectiveness, contribution, and integrity of work and life are in direct correlation with our level of integration, self-actualization and total alignment of body, mind and spirit.”.
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Martin Fowler
JUNE 2, 2021
There are arguments about whether a testing portfolio should be a pyramid or more like honeycomb. My second biggest issue with this argument is that it's rendered opaque by the fact that it's not clear what people see as the difference between unit and integration tests.
TechCrunch
JUNE 24, 2021
Regularly testing waterways and reservoirs is a never-ending responsibility for utility companies and municipal safety authorities, and generally — as you might expect — involves either a boat or at least a pair of waders. Nixie does the job with a drone instead, making the process faster, cheaper, and a lot less wet. The most common methods of testing water quality haven’t changed in a long time, partly because they’re effective and straightforward, and partly because really, what e
CTOvision
JUNE 14, 2021
The Silicon Valley Defense Group (SVDG) seeks to align and connect the people, capital and ideas that will ensure allied democracies retain a durable techno-security advantage. From their website: The United States is lagging in the global techno-security competition and lacks effective policy, education, and coordination to compete with its rivals.
DevOps.com
JUNE 22, 2021
The cloud brings tremendous capabilities in terms of increased deployment fluidity and automation. Along with cloud adoption has come the use of cloud-native tools built specifically for developing applications for this domain. However, cloud-native tools carry some nuanced security concerns, such as misconfigurations, known vulnerabilities and leaked secrets.
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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
InfoQ Culture Methods
JUNE 15, 2021
One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). It’s not something that just happens by itself, and many of the “usual” ways of introducing change fail for TDD. This article outlines some of the things that actually do work and explains “Samman,” which is a coaching method used with developers.
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 18, 2021
It’s a challenge common to many leaders and managers: Last-minute customer requests, emergencies, interruptions, and distractions make it hard to stay focused on your M.I.T.s (the Most Important Thing ). If you’re not careful, reactivity can become a permanent way of life. In this episode, you’ll receive practical steps you can take to calm the chaos and help your team regain their focus.
TechBeacon
JUNE 11, 2021
While running apps on bare metal is more traditional, deploying programs using containers provides loads of benefits. And for keeping track of all those containers, Kubernetes (known as K8s in shorthand) is an extremely popular open-source management platform. It's scalable, extensible, and portable.
TechCrunch
JUNE 2, 2021
Faction Technology founder and CEO Ain McKendrick didn’t have the $1 billion or the time that a typical automotive program might need to design and manufacture an EV that could be used for driverless delivery. So, he turned to power sports to fulfill his vision of a micro-logistics service that can be used for driverless delivery or rented and operated by a human for jaunts around the city.
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.
CTOvision
JUNE 14, 2021
Read Rick Wartzman and Kelly Tang take a look at the companies that are best positioned to take advantage of the strained supply chains across the world on Wall Street Journal : Cargo ships stacked up at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Inventories of lumber, aluminum cans, tires, cardboard and plastic all […].
DevOps.com
JUNE 14, 2021
Companies of all sizes and across virtually every industry today have ready access to hyperscale compute, storage and myriad other technologies — without needing the significant budget or technical expertise of a hyperscale cloud provider like AWS. This is a boon for innovation. Cloud opened the door to cost optimizations, previously out-of-reach cloud-native tools, security […].
InfoQ Culture Methods
JUNE 16, 2021
Mind map-driven testing can enable testers to focus on test idea generation, it exposes you to your thinking and enables you to brainstorm and organize your ideas effectively. This article shares ideas and knowledge about mind maps and shows how they can be used as lean documents to plan, organize, record, present, and report on testing. By Prashant Hegde.
Joel on Software
JUNE 2, 2021
The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before he was born, everyone knew that COM was already so deeply obsolete that it was impossible to find anyone who knew enough to work on it. And yet they still have this old COM code base, and they still have one old programmer holding onto their job by being the only human left on the planet with a brain big enough to manually manage multithreaded objects.
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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.
TechBeacon
JUNE 16, 2021
As public concern over privacy grows, protecting data and complying with a changing regulatory environment can be challenging. Not only are privacy laws proliferating, but measures such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in the United States frame their requirements in language that might be well understood by lawmakers and lawyers, but less so by members of information security and development teams.
TechCrunch
JUNE 15, 2021
Sunlight is a great source of energy, but it rarely gets hot enough to fry an egg, let alone melt steel. Heliogen aims to change that with its high-tech concentrated solar technique, and has raised more than a hundred million dollars to test its 1,000-degree solar furnace at a few participating mines and refineries. We covered Heliogen when it made its debut in 2019 , and the details in that article still get at the core of the company’s tech.
CTOvision
JUNE 8, 2021
OODA members have access to a wide range of premium content and research designed to enable optimal decisions in competitive situations. For speed of access members can use the search function or can find relevant research based on the categorization below: Cybersecurity Sensemaking: Strategic intelligence to inform your decisionmaking The OODA leadership and analysts have […].
DevOps.com
JUNE 1, 2021
There are many available resources dedicated to delivering better business value faster. Based on this advice, many organizations and teams are adopting common software delivery practices — even outside the usual use case of providing software (take, for example, SpaceX teams using agile, or leadership teams that use scrum practices and have daily stand-up calls). […].
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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.
Toptal
JUNE 1, 2021
We make split-second decisions about whether to trust people; the same is true about trusting digital products. Companies can develop product trust and loyalty online by using design to signal that a website or app is safe and secure.
Dzone - DevOps
JUNE 2, 2021
Introduction. In this tutorial, I will explain different CI/CD concepts and tools provided by AWS for continuous integration and continuous delivery. I will be creating a Spring Boot microservice and deploy it to AWS EC2 instances running behind an application load balancer in an automated way using the AWS Code Pipeline. In this tutorial, you will have hands-on experience in developing a spring boot microservice and how it can be deployed in the cloud.
TechBeacon
JUNE 3, 2021
Are you trying to shift from a monolithic system to a widely distributed, scalable, and highly available microservices architecture? Maybe you've already moved to agile delivery models, but you're struggling to keep up with the rate of change in the technologies of these systems.
TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2021
Orum , which aims to speed up the amount of time it takes to transfer money between banks, announced today it has raised $56 million in a Series B round of funding. Accel and Canapi Ventures co-led the round, which also included participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures, Inspired Capital, Homebrew, Acrew, Primary, Clocktower and Box Group.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
CTOvision
JUNE 3, 2021
Palantir Technologies announced today it had been selected by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to continue its work as their enterprise data management and AI-enabled mission command platform as part of the Mission Command System/Common Operational Picture program. The contract is valued at a total of $111 million, inclusive of options, with $52.5 […].
DevOps.com
JUNE 22, 2021
DevOps enables organizations to capitalize on the flexibility of cloud resources in real-time, which is a huge game changer. Just as the adoption of Agile methodology can make a development team more responsive, DevOps revolutionizes implementation of IT objectives from end to end, from a waterfall-style process gating company productivity to a dynamic process that […].
InfoQ Culture Methods
JUNE 10, 2021
Corporate agile often represents an improvement over what went before but falls short on delivering the high performance management want and quality engineering environment developers dream of. The backlog becomes tyranny. Could OKRs - objectives and key results - reawaken the radical side of agile? Or do OKRs represent a return to command and control?
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