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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower CTO

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things.

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Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve played around with using AI tools like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot to write code for you. Or even if you haven’t yet, then you’ve at least heard about these tools in your newsfeed over the past year. So far I’ve read a gazillion blog posts about people’s experiences with these AI coding assistance tools. These posts often recount someone trying ChatGPT or Copilot for the first time with a few simple prompts, seeing how it does for some small self-containe

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Is Data Quality Broken?

Dataiku

In a survey of 400 global data leaders , nearly a quarter of respondents (24%) cited a “lack of quality data or ability to easily access the right data” as their most present barrier to delivering more value from analytics and AI.

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Ethan Mollick: "How to Use AI to Do Stuff"

Crafty CTO

I’ve loved a lot of New Microsoft (GitHub, VS Code) and since I’m on macOS + Linux, and have avoided installing Microsoft apps, hadn’t been exposed to that side of the company for years. Recently, though, I’ve installed Office (client driven need), Teams (hoping the native Mac app would be better than running Teams in a browser), and Edge (to work with Bing Chat).

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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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55 Fascinating DevOps Statistics You NEED To Know In 2023

CloudZero

Today's development and operations teams are intertwined like the strands of a rope. The two heavily depend on each other to form a stronger, more solid unit. Unlike traditional teams that worked in silos, today's developers and operations’ workflows should work like a well-oiled machine.

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Offshoring to Poland: An Excellent Ecosystem for Tech Businesses

TurnKey Labs

Devoted readers of our blog will recognize that we’ve embarked on a vast exploration, scrutinizing software development ecosystems across the globe. As a global provider of offshoring software development services, we’ve come to understand that working with different countries can be likened to tasting various flavors of ice cream.

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5 steps to drive and foster innovation in IT

CIO

Tight budgets and labor shortages have remained an ongoing challenge for IT leaders in 2023. As a result, CIOs are looking at ways of doing more with less, while continuing to digitally transform their organizations. How can we free up funds in one area to invest or innovate in another area of the business? This is especially critical within physical operations – the industries that drive more than 40% of the global GDP – as organizations like ABF Freight and Liberty Energy look for ways to oper

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Exploring Gen AI - Three versions of a median

Martin Fowler

Birgitta Böckeler continues her explorations in using LLMs, this time by asking GitHub Copilot to write a median function. It gave her three suggestions to choose from. The experience shows you still have to know what you're doing when asking LLMs to write code, since the LLM's programming skills are often rather flawed.

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What Makes a Tech Interview Great? Hear an Engineer’s Perspective

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The truth is, engineers no more look forward to job positions that offer only a great salary. They are growing increasingly biased towards roles that challenge their expertise and companies that enable positive candidate experience. The best way to gauge what a role can offer is during the technical interview process. When we asked Piyush Tripathi, the Lead Engineer at Square about the elements he looks for in tech interviews, he shared: When interviewing with tech companies such as Amazon, Twil

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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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How we created amazing music with video using Artificial Intelligence

Xebia

The journey of Pixelated Poets is a testament to the endless possibilities AI brings into our lives. It’s an expedition into the unknown, a chronicle of innovation, and most importantly, a celebration of how creativity and technology can together compose a beautiful symphony. So, let’s dive in and hit the high notes of this exciting musical saga.

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Embracing neurodiversity in IT for competitive advantage

CIO

The term neurodiversity covers a range of conditions, as well as the various spectrums within each. So each neurodiverse professional’s experience is unique, but speaking for myself, being neurodiverse has been a huge competitive advantage in my technology career. The ability to pivot fast and hyperfocus are strengths, not weaknesses, and a leader that can do both effectively is an asset, not a liability.

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Exploring Gen AI - The toolchain

Martin Fowler

My colleague Birgitta Böckeler has long been one of our senior technology leaders in Germany. She's now moved into a new role coordinating our work with Generative AI and its effect of software delivery practices. She's decided to publish her exploration in a series of memos. The first memo looks at the current toolchain for LLMs , categorizing them by what tasks they help with, how we interact with the LLM, and where they come from.

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Your Leadership Brand Authority with Deb Gabor

Let's Grow Leaders

What does your Leadership Brand Authority say? Brands are the new voice of authority. We look to brands for what to do, what to think, and how to feel. We want to know what to support and what to stand against. Now is the perfect time to reveal the humanity behind the brand. Consumers want to connect with the brands they support. Business leaders want to create purposeful, passionate companies.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

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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Guarantee unique keys in Terraform

Xebia

When using Terraform to dynamically create resources based on lists of maps you probaby have run into this issue. Consider the following list of maps that represents IAM access on a generic cloud resource: locals = { members = [ { member = "contact@christerbeke.com" resource = "projects/12345" role = "roles/owner" }, { member = "test@christerbeke.com" resource = "projects/12345" role = "roles/reader" } ] } If we want to iterate over this list to cr

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ServiceNow adds new features to its Now Assist generative AI assistant

CIO

ServiceNow is adding new features to its Now Assist generative AI assistant that comes bundled with the company’s Now platform, designed to help organizations automate workflows. The new capabilities of Now Assist, which include case summarization and text-to-code, are compatible with all workflows and are designed to drive productivity and efficiency for organizations, the company said.

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How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader Without Burning Out

Harvard Business Review

Servant leadership was a crucial stepping-stone to a more humane world of work, but “noble-purpose leadership” is better suited for today’s chaotic environment.

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Automation in DevOps: Advancements, Platforms and Examples

DevOps.com

Automation is the backbone of DevOps. By facilitating seamless integration and continuous delivery, it revolutionizes the ways organizations deliver software, products and services. When applied correctly, automation can significantly enhance productivity, reduce time-to-market, improve software quality and minimize the risk of human error.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

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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The Art of a Skilful Facilitator: Cultivating Psychological Safety, Trust, Transparency, and Clarity

Xebia

In today’s dynamic and interconnected world, collaboration and teamwork have become essential components for success in various domains. To harness the full potential of a group, a skilled facilitator plays a pivotal role in fostering an environment of psychological safety, trust, transparency, and clarity. How to achieve that? Let us discover some ways of establishing and maintaining those critical elements throughout the engagement with the group.

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IT leaders grapple with shadow AI

CIO

Max Chan knew he had to do something. Soon after ChatGPT burst on the scene in November 2022, Chan realized generative AI would amount to far more than the just the latest technology flash-in-the-pan. With the ability to instantaneously ingest reams of data using large language models (LLMs), generative AI technologies such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard can produce reports, contracts, and application code far surpassing earlier technologies in speed, accuracy, and thoroughness.

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3 Ways to Keep Your Audience Focused During a Presentation

Harvard Business Review

Grabbing and keeping your audience’s focus is critical to communication success. What you have to say is important, so give yourself the best chance to convey your message to your audience by first gaining attention, but then, more importantly, sustaining it. In this piece, the author outlines three techniques — physical, mental, and linguistic — to engage your audience.

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The Ultimate Cloud Storage Pricing Comparison (2023 CHART)

CloudZero

Syncing files and folders across multiple devices, updating them between remote team members, and sharing them across individuals and teams are all essential aspects of running a modern business.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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?

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Breaking Boundaries: Integrating Generative AI for Developers

DevOps.com

Many organizations are experiencing deficits in technical skills and gaps in productivity that ultimately harm their bottom line. To overcome those obstacles and drive growth, businesses can use generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard to handle large volumes of data and increase the speed and output of basic tasks without draining valuable human capital.

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Dr. Pankaj Setia on the challenges that will redefine CIOs’ careers

CIO

Dr Setia, also the chairperson of the centre for digital transformation at the business school, teaches graduate-level courses on the leadership of digital organizations, strategic management of digital innovations, and digital transformation. He has previously taught for many years at Michigan State University and the University of Arkansas in the US.

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Discover How Louise Kraus Paves the Way For Success

Perficient

At Perficient, we are proud to work with incredible people who give their time and talent to support our clients and communities. Through our People Promise , we strive to challenge, champion, and celebrate the difference that our colleagues are making. For Louise Kraus, a business coordinator based in New Jersey, each day offers the chance to discover new concepts and continue growing as a leader.

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Overcoming Your Fear of Giving Tough Feedback

Harvard Business Review

A lack of constructive feedback is detrimental to your team, depriving them of mentorship and growth opportunities. And workplaces marked by poor communication and unclear expectations are breeding grounds for low trust and disengagement. Giving feedback is essential to being an effective leader. In this article, the author offers five ways to overcome your fear of giving feedback.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Universal Infrastructure – Aaron Kao, Pulumi

DevOps.com

From the second annual PulumiUP conference, Pulumi announced they are providing universal infrastructure as code to all cloud builders, developers and infrastructure experts. Pulumi CrossCode is a language and cloud agnostic infrastructure as code engine that enables development and operations teams to build infrastructure in the industry’s most popular and powerful programming languages.

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Huawei Unleashes the Power of Technology for a Sustainable, Digital Europe

CIO

Digital transformation is key in building Europe’s resilience and sustainability Huawei As a committed partner of digital Europe, Huawei builds innovative ICT infrastructure and works with customers and partners to accelerate the digital transformation of enterprises, aiming to drive economic prosperity and build a sustainable, digital Europe. — Ernest Zhang, President, Huawei Enterprise Business Group in Europe In Europe, Huawei dives deep into scenarios and works with partners to support the r

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Optimizely Blocks As Properties: How To Hide Irrelevant Fields

Perficient

We recently ran into an issue when using shared blocks as properties on pages; some of the block’s properties don’t make any sense in this context and can lead to some confusion with editors. Instead of creating another version of the block to use specifically as a local block, I created a simple feature to control hiding properties when a block is used as a property.

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