O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Highlights and use cases from companies that are building the technologies needed to sustain their use of analytics and machine learning. Profiles of IT executives suggest that many are planning to spend significantly in cloud computing and AI over the next year. This concurs with survey results we plan to release over the next few months. In a forthcoming survey, “Evolving Data Infrastructure,” we found strong interest in machine learning (ML) among respondents across geographic regions.

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

When the topic turns to testing and Agile software development, I usually hear variations of the following two questions: We usually take six weeks to do systems testing after development is over. How could we possibly develop AND test something within two weeks? If developers are doing the testing, what do testers do? This post … Continued.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

OKR, a goal-setting methodology that was first used by Intel and Google, has become widely popular in the world of business. Many companies have followed the path taken by these companies and integrated the concept of OKRs in their daily operations, with the hope of achieving their company goals and growing their business. In fact, a lot have seen the benefits of OKRs , from startups to Fortune 500 companies like the Duxter.

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Coding Horror

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM. modern, fast dual core CPU. speedy solid state drive with 20G+. I'm not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications. We were OK with that, because we were building in Ruby for the next decade of the Internet.

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Erik Bernhardsson

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Since I started building up a tech team for Better , I made a very conscious decision to pay at the high end to get people. I thought this made more sense: they cost a bit more money to hire, but output usually more than compensates for it. Many fellow CTOs, some went for the other side of the spectrum: bootcamps and campus recruiting are great recruiting grounds for them.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Whenever I check in with people several weeks after they’ve taken my Fundamentals of Influencing Change at Work course, I ask which elements of the class have been most helpful now that they’ve had time to start implementing them. Invariably, they start to list the tools and templates they’ve used to gain clarity and make […].

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Learn how project managers accustomed to a more traditional software development environment can adapt to a more Agile approach in this post from the Agile Alliance blog.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Objective and Key Results Implementation – to be able to effectively implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), it is important to understand how this whole process starts. The following diagram demonstrates how your organisational vision is connected to every team and individual contributors in your team, from the annual down to the quarterly OKRs.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

TL/DR: Highly controlled change is sometimes the best answer. For much of my career, I’ve worked in mainframe shops. I have never worked on a mainframe team, but I have worked closely with them. I’m in Northeast Wisconsin, and at one point we had the highest per-capita number of mainframes in the world, so pretty […]. The post How Mainframes Live On appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Toptal

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Intuition and experience without UX data lead to a dangerous assumption: Designer knows best. We’re drawing a line in the sand: If it’s not based on user research, it’s not UX design.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

You’re convinced you’ve got a great idea that you know will yield breakthrough results. So you call the team together to announce the new direction. But instead of being met with a spirited “game on,” your top performers are staring at you with a […]. The post Why Your Best Performers Hate Your Great Idea appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Over the last ten years, I’ve worked with a lot of change agents with varying types of authority, expertise, roles, and projects. And even though every situation is different, those who are most effective at getting things done tend to exhibit common traits. When coaching individual change agents, I find we work on building these […].

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Algolia

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Last year was a big year for us here at Algolia. We hired scores of incredible people and released some incredible new features. One of the earliest was query suggestions, released in February. It harnesses our analytics API to create dynamic suggestions ranked by popularity. Its ease of implementation allows our users to, in a matter of hours, create a UX that consumers, “spoiled” by Google, have come to expect.

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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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CircleCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Every engineer deserves a clear growth path so they can understand, plan, and execute on meaningful career growth. Providing a framework for this growth (we call ours a competency matrix; it’s also known as a career ladder, or professional development ladder) is important work, and the responsibility of any organization that wants to nurture and grow its employees.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

DevOps is poised for healthy growth over the next several years, with analysts large and small weighing in with forecasts. For instance, IDC predicts the worldwide DevOps software market will reach $8 billion by 2022, up from $3.9 billion in 2017. Similarly, Grand View Research estimates the global DevOps market will hit $12.85 billion by […].

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Toptal

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Compared to traditional financial services businesses, fintech startups require different valuation approaches. This article explores these differences and the best practices to apply when appraising a fintech investment.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We hear all the time that learning from past failure is the key to success. But what about TALKING about failure, particularly with people who already see you as a success? Do failure stories damage your brand or make it stronger? After […]. The post How Your Failure Inspires Connection and Success appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

How companies in Europe are preparing for and adopting AI and ML technologies. In a recent survey , we explored how companies were adjusting to the growing importance of machine learning and analytics, while also preparing for the explosion in the number of data sources. In practice this means developing a coherent strategy for integrating artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and cloud components, and specifically investing in foundational technologies needed to sustain the sensible use of da

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Symantec

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

ISTR Volume 24 is here, providing insights into global threat activity, cyber criminal trends, attacker motivations, and other happenings in the threat landscape in 2018.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

01 Feb 2019. James Shore/Blog. If you're using test-driven development, don't measure unit test code coverage. It's worse than a useless statistic; it will actively lead you astray. What should you do instead? That depends on what you want to accomplish. To improve code and test practices. If you're trying to improve your team's coding and testing practices, perform root-cause analysis 1 of escaped defects, then improve your design and process to prevent that sort of defect from happening again.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It is difficult to dispute the importance that the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) approach has had on the world of ITSM (IT service management). After all, the best practices established by ITIL V3 have come to be the accepted way ITSM providers conduct business—so much so that many other IT processes have come to […]. The post Will ITIL V4 Bring Order to a DevOps World?

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

Software Review

Toptal

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Scannability is often an overlooked usability factor, but it is one of the most impactful. These UI design tips make it easy for designers to convert a brief visitor to a long-lasting user.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

You’ve got a great idea you just know will improve the business. How do you get your boss excited? Okay, let’s be real, not just excited, but as excited as you are? 7 Ways to Get Your Boss Excited About Your Great Idea […]. The post How to Get Your Boss Excited About Your Idea appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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David Walsh

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I’ve always loved the flexibility of Objects and prototypes in JavaScript, but for a long time, I felt that a level of dynamism was lacking. JavaScript eventually added get and set methods for object properties, which was an awesome step, but there was still room for improvement. The JavaScript Proxy API was an awesome improvement: a virtualizing interface to control the modification behavior of an object!

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Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Don’t blink – yes, you read the headline correctly. But just to clarify, we’re not announcing our intention to compete with industry telecom giants like Ericsson, Samsung and Nokia. Connected everything revolution Of course, it is an exciting, brand new foundational architecture for the telecom world, but for Dell Technologies, 5G is far more than just a telecom play.

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Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar, and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.

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TechBeacon

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The day we all feared would come has come. Docker and Kubernetes containers are revealed to be badly vulnerable—along with LXC, Mesos, and several other container flavors.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

DevOps and Python have developed a mutually beneficial relationship. In a recent survey released by the Python Software Foundation and software development company JetBrains, researchers found that more and more developers are using the program language for an array of versatile projects, including DevOps and machine learning. In fact, Python developers told the researchers that […].

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A List Apart

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

As a child of the ’90s, one of my favorite movie quotes is from Harriet the Spy : “there are as many ways to live as there are people in this world, and each one deserves a closer look.” Likewise, there as many ways to browse the web as there are people online. We each bring unique context to our web experience based on our values, technologies, environments, minds, and bodies.

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