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Developer On Call

Henrik Warne

For the system at work, I am on call one week every seven weeks. For most of the past ten years, I have been on organized on call rotations for the systems I have been developing. I think being on call is a logical way of taking responsibility for your work. You also learn a lot from it. However, it is stressful and an inconvenience, so you should get payed for it.

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Top CTO Challenges for 2019

SoCal CTO

The LA CTO Forum recently conducted a survey to find out what our Chief Technology Officer (CTO) members saw as their biggest challenges heading into 2019. We received over 250 responses that provides a pretty good insight into the top CTO challenges. The rating scale was 1-5 with: Not a challenge A small challenge Somewhat a challenge Definitely a challenge Keeps me up at night We provide both an Average and a Scaled Rating that gives much higher weight to 4s and 5s and discounts 1s and 2s.

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The One Thing You Need to do Before Promoting Code to Production

OverOps

Writing, building, compiling and deploying code might seem easier in an automated workflow, but we still need to make sure our code is, indeed, ready for a ‘promotion’. Moving towards a CI/CD workflow means that we’re adding automation to our process, which is great, but we need to make sure we keep the quality of the code intact. In other words, we need to know where we should add some breakpoints to check the automated process, and make sure everything is working as it should.

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Top 12 BI tools of 2019

CIO

With more and more data at our fingertips, it’s getting harder to focus on the information relevant to our problems and present it in an actionable way. That’s what business intelligence is all about.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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What you need to know about the Marriott breach

The Parallax

Obama was president of the United States, Apple introduced its first watch, Russia invaded Crimea, and the San Francisco Giants won the World Series. The year was 2014, and from then until November 2018, hackers have been stealing data from computers controlled by Starwood Hotels and Resorts ( now owned by Marriott Hotels). All told, records belonging to as many as 500 million guests were stolen, the company said in a statement November 30.

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How to Develop People When You Don’t Have Time

Let's Grow Leaders

You can’t afford not to develop people – but it doesn’t require hours. Katrina paced back and forth as she described her problems with customer service and employee retention. “I can’t improve either one, but I don’t have time to develop people.” […]. The post How to Develop People When You Don’t Have Time appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of DBMS

The Crazy Programmer

In this article you will know about advantages and disadvantages of DBMS. Database management system is an efficient way to create, manage and update databases and also is a prolific replacement of the old file systems which were earlier used to store and retrieve records. The DBMS facilitates the users to work with large amount of databases with much ease and efficiency but it is very important to know the advantages and disadvantages of the same before we start working with it.

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OKRs: The Ultimate Guide That Explains Everything You Need To Know

Luis Goncalves

OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) is a recent leadership foundation that helps organisations set, communicate, and measure their goals. Primary function of OKRs is to connect an individual´s personal objectives with the team and the company in a hierarchical way. The main goal of OKRs is for every member of the organisation – from the key stakeholders and leaders down to the team members – understand the objectives of the company through a set of defined, specific and measurable actions.

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The One Thing You Need to do Before Promoting Code to Production

OverOps

Writing, building, compiling and deploying code might seem easier in an automated workflow, but we still need to make sure our code is, indeed, ready for a ‘promotion’. Moving towards a CI/CD workflow means that we’re adding automation to our process, which is great, but we need to make sure we keep the quality of the code intact. In other words, we need to know where we should add some breakpoints to check the automated process, and make sure everything is working as it should.

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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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Power Corrupts – How to Avoid Losing Your Leadership Soul

Let's Grow Leaders

Power Corrupts, But Does It Have to Corrupt You? It was a heartfelt question. A young manager approached us after a Winning Well workshop and asked, “I’m not sure I want to be a leader. I keep seeing people get promoted – they […]. The post Power Corrupts – How to Avoid Losing Your Leadership Soul appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Agile Alliance Announces Agile2019 Call for Speaker Submissions

Agile Alliance

Premier industry event now accepting session proposals for those who want to present ideas, experiences, and best practices in Agile software development PORTLAND, Ore., December 4, 2018 — Agile Alliance invites leaders in Agile development to answer the Call for Submissions for Agile2019, Agile Alliance's annual global conference that attracts Agile practitioners, academia, business, and … Continued.

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The Biggest Digital Transformation Must-Haves for 2019

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Digital technologies development has been on a constant rise in the past several years. Technologies such as AR and VR were mere whispers at the beginning of the 21 st century. Today, we see these and other technologies all around us thanks to increased computing power and visionary inventors. These bots are smart and are getting smarter by the day.

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2Captcha – Human-Powered Image and CAPTCHA Recognition Service

The Crazy Programmer

With due technical advancement and increasing demand of software for various tasks (of our individual, personal as well as commercial needs), the authenticity of using these software has become as crucial as they themselves are. Captchas are one of the most commonly used methods for maintaining the authenticity of these software platforms. Often, we face problems while solving these captchas because of the time they take specially if we need to work on them on a large scale, they can take away

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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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Indicators To Watch: 7 warning signs of an insider threat

CTOvision

Read Dan Swinhoe list seven signs which should warn you about an insider threat to your organization on CSO Online : Employees conducting attacks on their own employees – known as insider threats – are becoming increasingly common and costly. According to a CA report, over 50 percent of organizations suffered an insider threat-based attack […].

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Increase Your Agile Knowledge with Customized, Hand-Picked Information from Our Resident Content Curator

Agile Alliance

At Agile Alliance, we pride ourselves on the wealth of high-quality, in-depth Agile-related resources we offer you. But we also realize that sometimes too much of a good thing can be overwhelming. In order to help combat that issue, we’re proud to begin offering curated monthly emails on subjects of interest to you. We’ve identified … Continued.

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4 Steps to LinkedIn Success

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

We have all seen them. LinkedIn profiles with no profile picture, a one-line summary and an activity stream that is so dormant the last post happened during the Obama administration. LinkedIn is the perfect jobseeker platform, but if you don’t put in some effort your personal brand will hurt more than help your job prospects. Did you know that the vast majority of employers are actively searching for candidates on LinkedIn as a standard part of the hiring process?

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Four Benefits of Automation with MuleSoft

Flexagon

The benefits of bringing DevOps tools into your IT Organization are many and well documented. Regardless of the technologies in play, continuous delivery and release automation help teams deliver higher quality software faster, and with less cost and risk by reducing or eliminating manual and scripted processes, and adding repeatability and consistency.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Highlights From Amazon’s AWS re:Invent 2018

CTOvision

It is hard to digest all the innovations coming out of Amazon’s cloud computing business. There are 1000’s of capabilities already available and each continue to evolve, and major new capabilities are being announced at a rapid pace. The annual re:Invent is a great time to take stock of things, but even this is just […].

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Google Cloud Platform: The Basics for Absolute Beginners

DevOps.com

Google Cloud Platform provides powerful tools and services. Why should you pay attention to one of the leading cloud service providers? More and more companies are moving to the cloud to help create software applications and manage data, and Google Cloud Platform is one of the many platforms available for cloud computing, an industry that […].

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The Best UX Designer Portfolios – Inspiring Case Studies and Examples

Toptal

What makes a winning UX portfolio? More than a showcase of skills, a UX designer’s portfolio is an opportunity for them to create an enjoyable user experience as well as demonstrate their UX mastery.

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Database DevOps: Why you need it—and how to do it

TechBeacon

DevOps attempts to bridge the gap between an enterprise's development and operations teams. But DevOps is not just about breaking down the silos between these two. For DevOps to be successful, each manual operation in the delivery pipeline should be evaluated for potential automation. This includes how you work with databases.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Join (in person or online) The People Centered Internet 10 December 2018 To Help Shape The Future of Humanity

CTOvision

Thanks to Constellation Research and the People-Centered Internet coalition, a historic meeting is being convened 10 December 2018 to help ensure humanity is in charge of our own destiny. This event includes key Internet pioneers and next generation change agents coming together to share lessons learned and chart a course for the future. CTOvision will […].

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Reducing Poverty in the Age of Automation

DevOps.com

In 1966, more than half of the people in the world lived in extreme poverty. I don’t mean public housing, food stamps, subsidized school lunch, free health clinic poverty. I mean the type of poverty in which there’s no electricity, no running water, no toilets and open sewers, and most children never see a doctor […]. The post Reducing Poverty in the Age of Automation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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RxSwift and Animations in iOS

Toptal

iOS developers love the power of UIKit, and animating a UIView is usually fairly easy. However, if you want to chain animations together and set up dependencies between them, your code can quickly become difficult to read with many nested closures and indentation levels. In this article, I’ll explore how to apply the power of a reactive framework such as RxSwift to make that code look much cleaner as well as easier to read and follow.

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How QA and application security are one in the DevOps age

TechBeacon

Every year, Micro Focus surveys hundreds of executives from a variety of industries and dozens of countries to determine the greatest challenges in maintaining software quality for the World Quality Report. In 2018, the survey took the pulse of 1,700 executives across 10 industries in 32 countries.

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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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The Human Spirit Has No Disability

Symantec

In celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Sudhanshu P., VP of Human Resources in Pune, India, shares his story of living with a disability, and how he was inspired by speakers at the India Inclusion Summit.

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The Third Way of DevOps: Stacking the Cards in Your Favor

DevOps.com

In the Third Way of DevOps, change is as much attitude as it is behavior In our first post, “The Third Way of DevOps – From Knowing to Being,” we shared our thoughts on effectively applying knowledge to put the Three Ways of DevOps into practice. This blog explores a complementary dimension: How to build […]. The post The Third Way of DevOps: Stacking the Cards in Your Favor appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Better Android Apps Using MVVM with Clean Architecture

Toptal

Keeping your Android codebase maintainable as your codebase grows can be a challenge. In this article, Toptal Freelance Android Developer Abhishek Tyagi shows how to combine MVVM with Clean Architecture—the latter as described by Robert C. Martin—to write decoupled, testable, and maintainable code.