Luis Goncalves
APRIL 16, 2018
In a 2014 assessment handled by the Design Management Institute , the performance of design-led corporations like Apple, Nike, and Procter & Gamble exceeded that of the S&P 500 for the past decade by as much as 219%. Now many organizations want to learn design-based thinking – a distinct way that designers come up with solutions to problems.
Martin Fowler
APRIL 24, 2018
As monolithic systems become too large to deal with, many enterprises are drawn to breaking them down into the microservices architectural style. It is a worthwhile journey, but not an easy one. My colleague Zhamak Dehghani has trod this road several times and has distilled her experiences, together with those of our other colleagues, into a brief guide to help fellow travelers on the path.
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The Parallax
APRIL 24, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO—Security patches don’t often come wearing gold-sequined tuxedo jackets, but maybe they should. If they did, everybody from consumers to security experts might pay more attention to them, and perhaps have a better understanding of why, when a vulnerability is discovered, “just patch it” isn’t exactly the answer. That was the message of a game show-style panel here last week at the security conference BSides led by Allan Friedman, director of cybersecurity for the U.S.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 5, 2018
Project management isn’t for the faint of heart. You’re pressured from above to produce results and from below to cultivate relationships with your project teams. And in between, you’ve got scope creep, stakeholder politics, and vaguely supported contingency plans. You can become […]. The post Project Management: How to Hold the Best Accountability Conversations appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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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.
O'Reilly Media - Data
APRIL 3, 2018
Strata Data London will introduce technologies and techniques; showcase use cases; and highlight the importance of ethics, privacy, and security. The growing role of data and machine learning cuts across domains and industries. Companies continue to use data to improve decision-making (business intelligence and analytics) and for automation (machine learning and AI).
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Luis Goncalves
APRIL 12, 2018
How Communities of Practice Help Companies Have Learning and Growth-Driven Employees. If your building a company that has a ‘culture of sharing’ where people regardless of their roles and tenure are willing to help one another; value learning as an inevitable tool to growth and success; and have the attitude of ‘making each other better’; you are undoubtedly building the right culture of your company.
Martin Fowler
APRIL 6, 2018
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim have just published their book Accelerate. I think this will be the most important software book this year (yes more than this ). Not just does it give solid advice on the practices you need to create a top class software delivery capability, it backs that advice with a depth of scientific analysis unusual in our field.
The Parallax
APRIL 9, 2018
The Panera Bread cafe and bakery chain, known for its sandwiches, coffee, and year-round broccoli cheddar soup , is suffering from a severe bout of self-induced digital indigestion. Security researcher Dylan Houlihan says he notified Panera Bread, a chain of more than 2,000 stores in the United States, of a website vulnerability in August 2017. He said the site was leaking customers’ personally identifiable information, including usernames, first and last names, email addresses, phone numbers, b
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 24, 2018
“Karin, TRUST me. I would LOVE to delegate more of these decisions and loosen up the reigns, but then I go out into the field and find all this crap. I just don’t think we have the critical thinking skills we need […]. The post Critical Thinking: 5 Ways to Build Your Team’s Capacity to Think appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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O'Reilly Media - Data
APRIL 19, 2018
Learn how Spark 2.3.0+ integrates with K8s clusters on Google Cloud and Azure. Do you want to try out a new version of Apache Spark without waiting around for the entire release process? Does running alpha-quality software sound like fun? Does setting up a test cluster sound like work? This is the blog post for you, my friend! We will help you deploy code that hasn't even been reviewed yet (if that is the adventure you seek).
NeverFriday
APRIL 26, 2018
Reactive programming is a concept that is finally gaining some popularity among programmers. It makes it easier to think in data flows and to manage and work with them. Instead of imperative programming, you’re thinking about code as a series of processes that take place on streams. This is similar to the conceptual shift to map/reduce thinking.
Change Starts Here
APRIL 25, 2018
At last month’s Organization Change Alliance meeting in Atlanta, five panelists shared their experience with building change capability within their organizations. When answering a question about methodology, every panelist said that they customized their approach to suit the organization and the change initiatives they were implementing. In fact, following any one methodology exactly was a […].
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 17, 2018
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the ability to identify, use, understand and manage emotions in an effective and positive way. And, in many organisations around the world, it is on the rise! Contrary to popular belief, The Millennials, Generation Y and Gen Next (those engrossed by tablets and screens) hold, on average, higher EQ levels than generations before them.
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.
The Parallax
APRIL 4, 2018
Ransomware is hardly a cutting-edge form of malicious software. It infects a victim’s computer or phone, then encodes the data with a key that the attacker shares only after a ransom has been extorted from the victim. It has been around for nearly 30 years. Yet it manages to plague major organizations across the globe, from Boeing to Baltimore. Ransomware remains a lucrative business for hacker extortionists , who typically target organizations such as hospitals or utilities they believe would h
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 3, 2018
It’s easy to talk about collaboration. It’s much harder to do it. After visiting one of our clients in Guatemala City, Karin, Sebastian, and I traveled to Antigua, Guatemala where my daughter owns a clothing design business. She took us to Hobbitengango, […]. The post Collaboration – Can We Really Trust You? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
O'Reilly Media - Data
APRIL 3, 2018
In an era where fake news travels faster than the truth, our communities are at a critical juncture. With 2.5 quintillion records of data created every day, people are being defined by how they travel, surf the internet, eat, and live their lives. We are in the midst of a “data revolution,” where individuals and organizations can store and analyze massive amounts of information.
NeverFriday
APRIL 6, 2018
There comes a time in the life of every Ruby on Rails project where you and your team will end up with long running tests. Rails tests can contain factories, fixtures and lots of setup procedures before tests are executed, and all of these can contribute to major slowness in the test runs. I’ve seen four ways of dealing with slow running tests in Rails: start deleting tests (or mark them as skip-able): the drawback is your test coverage drops and you may end up with more bugs. use more int
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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.
Xebia
APRIL 6, 2018
This post is originally published as article within SDN Magazine on February 28th, 2017. One of the hot topics within the Microsoft development community right now is undoubtedly the “container” topic. Following the success of both Docker and containers on Linux, Microsoft developed a Windows container implementation on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10.
Terry Starbucker
APRIL 8, 2018
Back in 1987, when I was hired by Jack Kent Cooke at the ripe young age of 27 to be the COO of a cable TV company, he wasted very little time to initiate me into the world of executive management. During our very first meeting, before I could even take a sip of my first cup of coffee, Cooke looked me straight in the eye, and said. “My boy, there are two kinds of people in the business world, doers and thinkers.
The Parallax
APRIL 20, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO—Growing pains are attacking bug bounty programs much like horse flies attack East Coast beach visitors in late summer. They pester and bite, and they aren’t easily swatted away. Bug bounty programs, which are built on vulnerability disclosure agreements coordinated between sponsor companies and hackers attracted to the possibility of fame and cash payouts for their research, have yet to implement adequate legal protections for hacker participants, says Amit Elazari, a University of
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 12, 2018
Be the Leader You Want Your Boss to Be You’ve got this. You care, you want results, and as a leader you’re committed to Winning Well. But life gets busy and complicated. Sometimes you just need a quick reminder to get you […]. The post 52 Tips to Be the Leader You Want Your Boss to Be appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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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.
O'Reilly Media - Data
APRIL 26, 2018
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Jerry Overton on organizing data teams, agile experimentation, and the importance of ethics in data science. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Jerry Overton , senior principal and distinguished technologist at DXC Technology. I wanted the perspective of someone who works across industries and with a variety of companies.
CTOvision
APRIL 22, 2018
Westworld season one was a great mix of science fiction and drama and action and it was done in a way that should help people think through many tech ethics questions, like how do we want to treat our robots? Does treating robots with violence change our nature? Can robots become sentient? HBO has a […].
Change Starts Here
APRIL 11, 2018
Last month, Organization Change Alliance, a community of change practitioners in metro Atlanta, hosted a panel event on the topic of “Developing Change Capability Across Organizations.” Senior-level change practitioners from Cox Automotive, Home Depot, IHG, Newell Brands, and UPS shared their experiences. One of the questions was about the different roles involved in change and […].
Toptal
APRIL 2, 2018
Online users are becoming increasingly resistant to traditional email/password registration processes. One-click social logins via Facebook, Google, or GitHub are better, but they come with data privacy trade-offs. This article introduces a one-click, cryptographically-secure login flow using MetaMask, with all data stored on the app's own back-end.
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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.
Joel on Software
APRIL 6, 2018
Hi, everyone! A lot of stuff has happened since I was writing all those blog posts about Aeron chairs 18 years ago. Some of those blog posts are old enough to go to college. And, also: Stack Overflow will be ten years old soon! Wow! So I thought it would be cool to get the old band back together for a little reunion tour over the next few weeks. I want to catch you all up on some stuff but mostly I want to tell the story of Stack Overflow in a not-completely-disorganized way.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 1, 2018
You’re on the fast track. You don’t need sustained results, you need quick wins. Results matter. You’ve got a review coming up. With a few simple tactics, you can get your organization performing in no time. You’ll be promoted and someone else […]. The post 5 Ways to Drive Results Through Fear and Intimidation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
O'Reilly Media - Data
APRIL 12, 2018
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Guillaume Chaslot on bias and extremism in content recommendations. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Guillaume Chaslot , an ex-YouTube engineer and founder of AlgoTransparency , an organization dedicated to helping the public understand the profound impact algorithms have on our lives. We live in an age when many of our interactions with companies and services are governed by algorithms.
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