October, 2019

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Why you should hire DevOps enablers, not experts

TechBeacon

We are regularly asked if we know any DevOps or site reliability engineering (SRE) experts available for hire. Our answer is, invariably, "Not really." It's a tough market out there.

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How Do You Know Something Is A Bug? – Using Mental Models and Oracles in Testing

Xebia

Did you ever find a problem of which you weren’t sure it was a bug? You probably thought it over, looked up the requirements or discussed with a team member. Perhaps you figured it out by yourself, the requirements made things clear or your team member could help you out. Either way, you needed some […]. The post How Do You Know Something Is A Bug?

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How to Lead Multiple Agile Teams Without Sacrificing Sanity

Gorilla Logic

I have been leading Agile teams for some time now and working at Gorilla Logic for almost a year. One of the most impressive things I have seen thus far is the capacity this company has to lead multiple projects at multiple levels in an Agile way. In theory, this may sound easy-peasy, even common sense, but in practice, it can be a huge challenge. Of those challenges, the most common ones are: . • Delivery is not what the client was expecting. • There was a problem and it was not mentioned in ti

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Applying Secrets Management to DevOps

DevOps.com

DevOps has changed the way enterprises operate, allowing for quick and efficient product development. In order for companies to keep up with market competition, many companies that are not structurally prepared to implement DevOps will still put together a team just to meet demand, which in turn creates vulnerabilities and gaps within their security posture. […].

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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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DevOps Skill: Become a Yes-Man Who Frequently Uses No

Dzone - DevOps

Sometimes you just have to. “Sometimes ‘No’ is the kindest word,” says Vironika Tugaleva, author of The Love Mindset. The art of saying no is a skill you must have in DevOps.

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Toxic Team Members

Agile Alliance

Imagine this was your Agile team: Your Product Owner has expert domain knowledge but is more focused on career progression than on developing a great product. The Business Analyst is thorough but is a poor time manager and often misses deadlines. And your lead Developer is a highly talented and creative coder but is also … Continued.

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An Easy Way to Check on Your Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

Check your culture by looking at shared resources Is there anything more gross than a neglected break-room microwave oven? If Marvel needs another super-villain, I’d recommend someone spawned from the splatter of last night’s warmed up spaghetti and powered by the fumes […]. The post An Easy Way to Check on Your Culture appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How Google and Facebook do code analysis

TechBeacon

Over the past five years the internal developer productivity teams at Google and Facebook have been exploring a new approach to incorporating static code analysis into their development workflows. In contrast to traditional uses of static analysis, they are building code analysis into existing developer feedback mechanisms, such as code review or continuous integration (CI) checks, resulting in a highly effective, yet almost transparent, approach to ensuring code quality.

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Going Back to the Basics: Agile Values

UruIT

Key takeaways from Ágiles Colombia 2019. Last month I had the opportunity of attending “Ágiles Colombia”, the Colombian Conference on Agile frameworks that draws in attendees from all over Latin America. Typical of the Agile world, the conference had an open space format, one in which anyone can propose a talk and the schedule is self-organized. After hearing all the proposals and elevator-pitches, I was more drawn to the talks that were related to soft skills and Agile values rather than the te

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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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Preparation Is the New Leadership Differentiator

Next Level Blog

In watching and working with top executives and their teams over the past few years, I’ve come to a fresh conclusion. Preparation is the new leadership differentiator. You might argue that preparation has always been important. I would agree with you on that but would contend that preparation is in shorter supply than it used to be. As pretty much every organization continues on its quest to do more with less, it’s become common for executives and managers to show up for meetings and conversatio

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Common Cloud Security Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

DevOps.com

Over the last few years, it’s become apparent that traditional on-premise security policies are not a good fit for newer cloud-native environments. Even though the writing has been on the wall for a long time, the brewing security crisis still hasn’t been resolved. Far too many organizations continue to use security measures that are ineffective […].

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DevOps 100: Top leaders, practitioners, experts to follow

TechBeacon

As the DevOps movement continues to make significant headway into Corporate America, TechBeacon has updated our "DevOps 100" list to keep pace. This year we partnered with IT Revolution and the DevOps Enterprise Summit programming committee, to identify the 100 practitioners you should get to know and follow on Twitter. We've added many new names, as well as many new accomplishments for DevOps experts you've seen listed here in last year's listing.

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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO

Business intelligence definition. Business intelligence (BI) leverages software and services to transform data into actionable insights that inform an organization’s strategic and tactical business decisions. BI tools access and analyze data sets and present analytical findings in reports, summaries, dashboards, graphs, charts and maps to provide users with detailed intelligence about the state of the business.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Highlights from TensorFlow World in Santa Clara, California 2019

O'Reilly Media - Data

People from across the TensorFlow community came together in Santa Clara, California for TensorFlow World. Below you’ll find links to highlights from the event. Opening keynote. Jeff Dean explains why Google open-sourced TensorFlow and discusses its progress. Watch “ Opening keynote “ Accelerating ML at Twitter. Theodore Summe offers a glimpse into how Twitter employs machine learning throughout its product.

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How to Stop the Destructive Power of Sarcasm at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

An audience member asked us recently, “Can you talk about the danger of sarcasm? Our VP uses it all the time it ruins presentations, derails meetings, and shuts people down.” We thought, “We know that guy.” We bet you do too. Sure, […]. The post How to Stop the Destructive Power of Sarcasm at Work appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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SRE vs. DevOps:? SRE Is to DevOps What Scrum Is to Agile

Dzone - DevOps

DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) both seem to rule the world of software development, and at the same time, both appear to overlap or confuse people to some extent. Today, we will try to analyze both terms and see if we can see some differentiating factors between the two. DevOps Engineer. The term "DevOps Engineer" strives to dim this divide between Dev and Ops conjointly and suggests that the best approach is to hire engineers who can be excellent coders as well as handl

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Interview: How Open Organizations Facilitate Change

Change Starts Here

In this episode, Jen Kelchner, Founder of LDR21 Change Agency, shares the concept of Open Organizations — those characterized by transparency, adaptability, community, collaboration, and inclusivity — and how they are more conducive to change than traditional organizations.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Machines and Trust: How to Mitigate AI Bias

Toptal

Unwanted AI bias is already a widespread problem. Machine learning models can replicate or exacerbate existing biases, often in ways that are not detected until release. So what can be done about it?

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How the World Measures DevOps Quality

DevOps.com

With continuous everything, knowing whether each new release will ultimately enhance or undermine the overall user experience is essential. Yet, most of today’s go/no-go decision still hinge upon quality metrics designed for a different era. Every other aspect of application delivery has been scrutinized and optimized for DevOps. Why not re-examine quality metrics as well?

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Highlights from the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference in London 2019

O'Reilly Media - Data

People from across the AI world came together in London for the Artificial Intelligence Conference. Below you’ll find links to highlights from the event. When flying is cheaper than standing still. Raffaello D’Andrea presents his vision of how autonomous indoor drones will drive the next wave of robotics development. Watch “ When flying is cheaper than standing still “ When to trust AI.

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A Case-For-Change Story That Works

Let's Grow Leaders

Today, we’re excited to bring you a guest post by Paul Smith, one of the leading experts in business storytelling. As an experienced leader, no doubt you already tell a few stories. But how do you know you’re telling the right stories? […]. The post A Case-For-Change Story That Works appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Top 6 Complete Automation Testing Solutions

Dzone - DevOps

Here are the top six automation testing tools. Finding an automation testing tool that suits the needs of your project might be a difficult task. There are many tools, each with its strengths and weaknesses. Here is a list of testing tools that might help you in the decision making process. You may also enjoy: 14 of the Best Automation Testing Tools Available.

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How to Properly Leverage Authority to Lead Change

Change Starts Here

I recently caught up with a Sustainability Manager who had attended my Fundamentals of Influencing Change at Work course last year. When I asked how things were going, she said, “What a difference a leader’s attention makes!

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3 GUI test automation mistakes that will kill your project

TechBeacon

Have you ever had some idea catch fire, then spread at your workplace until the whole atmosphere changed? Maybe it was some new initiative or an improvement to a nonworking process that sparked change in your organization forever.

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Why Legacy Application Development is a Challenge

DevOps.com

Enterprises seeking to modernize their legacy mainframe applications often cite the key reason as not being able to evolve quickly enough to support the changing needs of the business. This is also a driving force behind the increasing trend toward moving these legacy applications onto other platforms, either by attempting to rewrite or re-platform them. […].

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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When to trust AI

O'Reilly Media - Data

This is a keynote highlight from the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference in London 2019. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O’Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event.

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How to Lead for Results and Stop the Zombie Apocalypse

Let's Grow Leaders

Lead for results and keep the zombies at bay… They’re the phrases that should send a shiver up your spine if you want to lead for results. I’ve heard them from team members in every industry imaginable. You might recognize them: “I’ve […]. The post How to Lead for Results and Stop the Zombie Apocalypse appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019

CTOvision

Read Horace He’s analysis of AI research papers which shows TensorFlow is the platform of choice in the industry, but most researchers are now using PyTorch on The Gradient : Since deep learning regained prominence in 2012, many machine learning frameworks have clamored to become the new favorite among researchers and industry practitioners. From the […].