Sat.May 18, 2019 - Fri.May 24, 2019

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The Essential Toolbox for DevOps Analytics

DevOps.com

With DevOps teams under constant pressure to improve software delivery cycles while maintaining—and improving—quality, many have turned to continuous testing (CT), implementing it as part of their overall development strategy. CT offers a number of benefits to DevOps teams, but it also introduces new challenges, specifically infinite amounts of data that require analysis.

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Self-serve data platform

Martin Fowler

One of the main concerns of distributing the ownership of data to the domains is the duplicated effort and skills required to operate the data pipelines technology stack and infrastructure in each domain. Luckily, building common infrastructure as a platform is a well understood and solved problem; though admittedly the tooling and techniques are not as mature in the data ecosystem. more….

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Native Java Debugging on Alpine Linux: GDB, OpenJDK and the Mysterious Unknown Signal

OverOps

Porting a software project to a new operating system is always interesting and fun, and Alpine Linux with its musl libc brings a unique set of challenges. A while ago, I was tasked with porting OverOps’ native agent to Alpine Linux. In this previous blog post , I got started with Alpine Linux by setting up a fresh Alpine disk install and desktop environment on my laptop, stacked up with C++ and Java development tools.

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Agile Q&A: How Far Ahead Should a Team Estimate Product Backlog Items?

Agile Alliance

Explore the main reasons organizations adopt Agile and why your organization's rationale for adopting Agile may impact the implementation's success.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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One Surprising Secret to Being Respected as an Expert

Let's Grow Leaders

I was having dinner with a group of senior leaders after a strategic executive offsite. So naturally, the conversation turned to… octopus hunting. Apparently, Carlos, the senior leader sitting across from me was an expert. He described his technique in intricate detail. […]. The post One Surprising Secret to Being Respected as an Expert appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Journey of Servant Leadership: Iron Sharpens Iron

N2Growth Blog

Each day I reflecting upon the journey of servant leadership , what I now define as “relational leadership”. Although I certainly do not intend to make this a post with any religious overtones, I’ve found the bible has an amazing quote that shapes my thinking on this topic. Proverbs 27:17 proclaims: “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another”.

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Windows 10 Is Now On 825 Million Active Devices: What It Means For Programmers

The Crazy Programmer

In November 2017, Windows announced that their Windows 10 operating system had been downloaded onto 600 million active devices. This was a big deal at the time, representing an extra 100 million users in less than six months. However, in May 2019, that record was smashed as it emerged that there are now 825 million devices running Windows 10. This makes it the world’s most popular operating system for desktops and laptops, finally surpassing Windows 7.

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How to Prevent Training From Wasting Time and Money

Let's Grow Leaders

A Manager’s Guide to Reinforcing Training When People Get Back to Work Your employees go to training. Hopefully, they come back fired up and excited about what they’ve learned and what they can do with it. Two weeks later though, they’re back […]. The post How to Prevent Training From Wasting Time and Money appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Five Simple Things You Can Do to Make Change Easier for People

Change Starts Here

Last week, my local grocery store started rearranging the layout of the shelves. They’re adding higher shelves and moving many groups of items to different parts of the store. There was no warning. I found out when I pushed the cart to an aisle expecting to find something, and it wasn’t there. They had added […].

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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FlexDeploy vs Jenkins for Git Sparse Checkouts

Flexagon

While working with many FlexDeploy customers on DevOps for middleware and enterprise applications, I have noticed that organizations setup a multitude of Git repositories and each repository is used to store source code for many artifacts. For example, one Git repository may contain a few integration composites, service bus projects, application server configurations etc., and.

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Joins in SQL – Inner, Outer, Left and Right Join

The Crazy Programmer

Here you will get detailed information about joins in SQL. Join is a very basic concept in SQL which can be confusing at times. The joins are used when we need to find out the solution to a query involving the attributes of more than one table which have at least one attribute in common. Hence the need of join is pretty much clear in itself. There are different types of join which are used for different purposes.

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Vital Leadership Choice – Do You Want to Be Effective or Right?

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s easy for leaders to get in their own way. Have you ever insisted that you’re right and then experienced frustration as nothing worked the way it was supposed to? You’re not alone – the leadership choice between “right” or effective […]. The post Vital Leadership Choice – Do You Want to Be Effective or Right?

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Story Points Revisited

Ron Jeffries

I like to say that I may have invented story points, and if I did, I'm sorry now. Let's explore my current thinking on story points. At least one of us is interested in what I think.

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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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5 Crucial Elements of Application Release Automation

Flexagon

Today’s IT departments are under increasing pressure to release new solutions and enhancements to existing capabilities. Many are expected to deliver updates and new applications in tight timeframes. In a recent survey, 90 percent of DevOps professionals report increasing pressure to accelerate application release, and 93 percent link challenges to manual processes.

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Kafka Summit London 2019 Session Videos

Confluent

Let us cut to the chase: Kafka Summit London session videos are available! If you were there, you know what a great time it was, and you know that you had to make sometimes-agonizing decisions about which sessions to attend and which to miss. Well, now you can make all those tradeoffs right by watching the whole catalog. And if you weren’t there? Well, dig in and start learning!

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Security: Are You Doing DevOps Right?

DevOps.com

Phil Kernick, co-founder and CTO of cybersecurity specialist CQR Consulting, has no fundamental problem with DevOps, but asks, from a security perspective, “How many people do it right?” If DevOps is going to work and produce secure systems, then developers must take responsibility for security. It’s not something that can be treated as an additional […].

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A Better Wi-Fi Experience with Dual Channel Wi-Fi™

CableLabs

At least 15 percent of customer service calls are Wi-Fi related, ranging from poor connections to video playback issues, translating to more than $600 million in annual support costs for the cable industry (in North America alone). As the Wi-Fi industry looks for ways to increase speed, coverage and support for more devices in the Wi-Fi ecosystem, one critical element has been overlooked: the need to have the necessary airtime to send data to all end devices in a timely manner.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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.

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Design Strategy – A Guide to Tactical Thinking in Design

Toptal

A strategic mindset helps designers develop a design strategy framework which contributes to improved client relationships and better user experiences, and aligns projects with business results.

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The 5 Elements Your AI Strategy’s Code of Ethics Needs

IDC

As artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) potential grows, so does the need for a cohesive AI strategy to leverage AI to prioritize and execute the enterprise’s goals. Aside from articulating business goals and mapping out the ways organizations can use AI to achieve those goals, there is another extremely important element that every AI strategy needs: a code of ethics.

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What Makes Product Managers Effective?

DevOps.com

Product managers can specialize in all sorts of disciplines. Some are better at hardware development while others are better at staying on budget. However, there are a number of traits that are easily identifiable in great product managers regardless of specialty. Great product managers share great traits including confidence, compassion and curiosity.

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How to move a large monolithic app to continuous delivery with zero downtime

TechBeacon

The first line of code of my company's internal communications platform was compiled more than 12 years ago. I remember it well, because it was my first job as a junior developer. And back then, our team of five engineers released changes to customers only two or three times per year.

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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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How to Approach Design for Developers

Toptal

Developers often think of design as less important than functionality. But time developers spend learning design principles is saved in the future when working with designers or on their own products.

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How my distributed team communicates so no context is left behind

CircleCI

My team at CircleCI is made up of seven engineers, a product manager, a designer, and an engineering manager, and we are distributed all across the world: in the US from West Coast to East Coast, then to Serbia, Thailand, and finally Japan. Usually, we’re based in places like San Francisco, Chandler, Tempe, Boulder, Knoxville, Novi Sad, Bangkok, Fujisawa, and Akita.

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Open Innovation Labs: How Lockheed Brought Better Security to Fighter Jets

DevOps.com

How Red Hat’s Open Innovation Labs have helped accelerate Lockheed’s software development for the F-22 Raptor As the key government contractor charged with helping the U.S. Air Force keep its F-22 Raptor jets in fighting trim, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics increasingly values software delivery speed as much as engine speed. So much of the continued evolution […].

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Five warning signs you are at risk of a data breach

CTOvision

Data breaches are one of the biggest threat to organisations today. They can bring operations to a grinding halt, drastically damage your reputation and your relationship with customers, and cause severe financial losses from lost sales, remediation and repair costs, and regulatory fines. Since the introduction of the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) a year […].

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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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Working with TypeScript, Dependency Injection, and Discord Bots

Toptal

Types and testable code are two of the most effective ways of avoiding bugs. In this tutorial, discover TypeScript best practices while you create a Discord bot from scratch.

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Four Customer Success Metrics You’re Not Watching (But Should)

Battery Ventures

Imagine trying to run your business if you could only monitor topline revenue. You’d be totally lost—you need so much more information to truly understand what’s working and what isn’t. And yet I’ve seen many companies try to run customer success (CS) teams without gathering sufficient data to know how the CS team is actually doing. When it comes to customer success, most companies are measuring customer retention or expansion rates.

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Get Testing Bottlenecks Out of Your Pipelines

DevOps.com

I first learned the term “deployment pipeline” when I read “Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test and Deployment Automation,” by Jez Humble and David Farley back in 2009. End-to-end automation of the build, deploy, test and release processes kick in each time a team member commits a change to the source code repository. […].

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