Netflix Tech

AUGUST 22, 2019

Baking Windows with Packer By Justin Phelps and Manuel Correa Customizing Windows images at Netflix was a manual, error-prone, and time consuming process. In this blog post, we describe how we improved the methodology, which technologies we leveraged, and how this has improved service deployment and consistency. Artisan Crafted Images In the Netflix full cycle DevOps culture the team responsible for building a service is also responsible for deploying, testing, infrastructure, and operation of t

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 22, 2019

Episode 17. Emotional intelligence is essential to good leadership, but many CTO’s stress the importance of IQ instead. To move from contributor to manager, it’s a good idea to invest the time to explore EQ, as well as personality profiles to better understand how to manage people. Show Notes. Managing expectations. Emotional Intelligence 2.0. DISC profiles.

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 21, 2019

There is no news in DevOps concept. Many companies have integrated DevOps to improve and accelerate software development and help drive their digital transformation, and that number continues to grow exponentially. There are now entire tool ecosystems, methodologies and transformation models—as well as endless resources—available to guide companies along the DevOps journey.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 19, 2019

Last week we shared reasons employees might resist your coaching. There’s one other vital factor to ensure your feedback is heard. Ground Yourself Here Before Giving Feedback Steve had thrown every ounce of energy into launching his most important strategic initiative. Everyone […]. The post The Most Important Factor To Ensure Your Feedback is Heard appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 21, 2019

Increasingly, software development is seen as a creative, collaborative undertaking. If poor remote meetings are impeding collaboration, how much damage could that be doing? By Judy Rees.

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Luis Goncalves

AUGUST 21, 2019

Product development is a long and laborious process. Sometimes, you have to get new features out the door so you can launch your product right away and start raising money. And because of this more and more companies are using Outsourcing Software Development services to help them to reduce the time to market. TIME TO MARKET ACCELERATOR With Time To Market Accelerator, we help you to build a business case around the piece that you want to develop, we validate that business case with your real us

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2019

It’s the number one challenge we hear from managers – time. You need time to do the work only you can do, but how do you support your team and get your work done? It’s especially challenging when your team is […]. The post How to Help Your Team Solve Problems and Think Critically appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. It’s the number one challenge we hear from managers – time.

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Kovair - DevOps

AUGUST 18, 2019

The increasing demand for IT companies to deliver high-quality software at a rapid speed has made it compulsory to shift towards using Agile and DevOps. The post The Human Value in Driving Automated DevOps Testing appeared first on Kovair Blog.

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Dell EMC

AUGUST 22, 2019

A purpose-built cloud operating model needs to be an integral part of every organization’s technology strategy. Some organizations have implemented a cloud operating model and made substantial cloud investments. Many, however are still in the early phases of their cloud journey. Early cloud adopters sometimes moved with much exuberance towards the cloud and paid the price when the wrong workload was moved; either due to escalating costs, poor performance, or service levels.

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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.

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Hacker Earth

AUGUST 23, 2019

Recruitment is at the core of any organization. It is a well-known fact that today’s recruitment strategies are highly data-driven. Recruitment metrics such as the number of applications, screening calls, interviews, and more are often tracked in an Excel sheet. However, making sense of all the recruitment data your organization collects can be a daunting task, even for the most tech-savvy recruiters.

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 22, 2019

To create and release high-quality software, the software development lifecycle (SDLC) was established using different roles and processes designed to work seamlessly together. This approach is of critical importance because it spans the initial planning phase, all the way through production release and monitoring. Roles vary within projects but typically include designers, business analysts (BA), […].

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TechBeacon

AUGUST 20, 2019

Serverless applications (sometimes called "lambdas" or "functions") frequently need to authenticate to an upstream service or API. This authentication might include credentials that talk to a database or an API key to issue a third-party request.

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Flexagon

AUGUST 19, 2019

Oracle OpenWorld 2019 in San Francisco is coming up quickly. It’s the biggest Oracle event of the year with a lot of great presentations and amazing influencers. Flexagon’s President, Dan Goerdt, is a conference veteran, attending and speaking at over 10 events in 2019. I sat down to ask Dan about what he is most. The post Recommendations for Oracle OpenWorld 2019 appeared first on Flexagon.

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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.

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DXC

AUGUST 22, 2019

There has long been a mindset to treat documentation and code as separate functions. But this thinking is obsolete. Organizations should start treating documentation as code. Development projects are not complete without documentation that is in the same state or better as the code. That said, often documentation is considered a major pain point involving […].

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 18, 2019

If enterprises are going to succeed in their digital transformations, they need to be able to shake-up and challenge the status quo within their organizations. In fact, not being able to challenge the status quo is one of the biggest barriers to successful digital transformations. Yet, challenging the status quo is always a risky move […]. The post Successful Transformation: Challenge the Status Quo appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechBeacon

AUGUST 21, 2019

Once relegated as a niche IT operations tool with limited enterprise deployments, APM, or application performance management—also known as application performance monitoring—is on a tear.

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Luis Goncalves

AUGUST 23, 2019

Executives like you are worried about the major mistakes their companies make that stop them from becoming market leaders in digital era and attaining the growth level they want. LEAN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT GUIDE. We have developed a Product Management Guide to help you understand How to successfully apply Lean StartUp practices to deliver better products to market faster.

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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.

Accenture

AUGUST 21, 2019

The recently published 2019 Business Agility Report has revealed three predictive indicators for achieving better business outcomes with business agility: Adapting Funding Models – By funding business outcomes (rather than specific work outputs or projects), adaptive funding models and associated governance processes allow organizations to quickly and easily invest in new products or services as soon as market opportunities arise and, just as quickly, stop or change work that isn’t deliver

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 19, 2019

With the advent of DevOps, the development world has quickly moved to agile development practices and containerized applications. At Forum Systems, we have responded to this trend by putting our API security software, Forum Sentry, into virtual form factors such as Amazon Machine Image, Azure Image, VMware Image, Linux, Windows and Docker. Why do we […].

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TechBeacon

AUGUST 22, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become all the rage in cybersecurity circles, but a recently discovered universal bypass of a machine-learning (ML) algorithm in BlackBerry's Cylance cybersecurity suite offers some valuable lessons for organizations mulling AI security solutions.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Employees having internal wars on work distribution and work load shouldn’t be the problem you’re dealing with and your management style might be the cause. Today’s post is by Ed Muzio, author of Iterate (CLICK HERE to get your copy). It’s happening again. Employee A is in your office asking you to force Employee B […]. This is only the beginning of the thought.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 18, 2019

Why are so many leadership development and high potential talent programs continuing to fail, or at the very least, not producing what we hope for? The answer is simple, those at the top of the organization are in denial about their own leadership capability. This is not to point fingers at the top leadership, but rather this should be a call to arms for all of us to take a good look in the mirror and reflect upon our leadership abilities of truly identifying next-generation leadership and how t

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 21, 2019

Business spending on enterprise software has been on a constant rise over the past decade with 64% of businesses spending more on IT operations in 2018. It is estimated that in 2019, the number will reach $462 billion worldwide. This not only includes the procurement or development of new software and digital innovations, but also […]. The post Best Practices for Software Change Assessment appeared first on DevOps.com.

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iTexico

AUGUST 23, 2019

How to Handle the Crisis of the Software Developer Shortage in the U.S. It seems as if there’s some new, horrid crisis looming over the populace with every passing day. The media is afire with controversy, horror stories, and pessimism is rampant. We are simple human beings, and it’s getting harder and harder to distinguish which of these new crises are the real issues to confront.

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 20, 2019

Most of the businesses considered to be the most successful today, like Amazon, Apple, and Google steal the spotlight when it comes to innovation. In fact, some believe innovation is reserved for these technology giants. But many growth stage companies find themselves in a unique position to harness innovation as well. Growth companies aren’t bogged […].

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 18, 2019

Why are so many leadership development and high potential talent programs continuing to fail, or at the very least, not producing what we hope for? The answer is simple, those at the top of the organization are in denial about their own leadership capability. This is not to point fingers at the top leadership, but rather this should be a call to arms for all of us to take a good look in the mirror and reflect upon our leadership abilities of truly identifying next-generation leadership and how t

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CircleCI

AUGUST 20, 2019

Why DevSecOps? There’s a general idea that the faster our development and deployment methods get, the more prone they might be to security issues. And as we get to a point where development is agile, fast, and functional, we start questioning ourselves: Is this all secure? And more importantly, what will it take to improve the security of our projects?

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 20, 2019

It sounds alluring enough: Intelligent bots step up and do the menial tasks humans would rather (probably) not be doing–or employers would rather they not, in order to slash costs. But streamlining business processes with robotic process automation (RPA) isn’t as easy as setting and forgetting a software bot as if it was an automated […]. The post The Barriers to Robotic Process Automation, Part 1 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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