Sat.Jan 18, 2020 - Fri.Jan 24, 2020

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Shifting Left with Feature Flags and Bug Bounty Programs

LaunchDarkly

In this blog post, we’re going to cover a method to reduce your risk exposure by leveraging feature flags and your existing bug bounty program. Our goal is to catch and patch more bugs before attackers have a chance to find them. * * *. The internet has become a very hostile place. It seems like every day there’s a headline featuring another data breach or compromise.

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Use continuous testing to supercharge your development process

TechBeacon

As the world has moved toward more automation, so has software testing. But if you run automated tests only at the end of your development cycle, you won't reveal all the possible issues your customers may face. Continuous testing is a great way to incorporate a wide range of testing methods early into the software development cycle.

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The Art of Leadership with Michael Lopp

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Episode 36. How can you build trust as a leader? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Michael Lopp discuss the small practices that make a good leader. Listen to learn about building trust, respect, and relationships in a leadership role. Show Notes. Leadership practices are small things done repetitively over time. @2:29.

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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The benefits of honing technical skills go far beyond the Information Technology industry. Strong tech skills are essential in today’s changing world, and if your employees consistently and proactively enhance their IT skills, you will help them improve both personally and professionally. This, in turn, will help your business grow. Yes, it may feel overwhelming.

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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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4 Words to Help You Build a Powerful Team

Let's Grow Leaders

One question leads to a powerful team “David, I just don’t have time. There’s so much to do that some days I just want to give up!” Lynn was a midlevel manager in a mid-sized healthcare company. She’d sought out coaching because […]. The post 4 Words to Help You Build a Powerful Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Four Invisible Dynamics You Must See to Change Your Organization

Change Starts Here

Ever wonder why your organization doesn’t change as much as you expect, despite your best efforts? Your organization is perfectly designed to achieve the results it’s currently getting. If you want to change the results, then you have to change the way the organization achieves those results.

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Top 10 cities to hire developers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

According to StackOverflow , the demand for software developers still outpaces the supply. Research reveals that in the US alone, tech talent shortage is predicted to cost the country USD 435.7 billion. . Unfortunately, businesses in major tech countries such as the US and the UK have long been suffering because of the rapid growth of tech industries and the shortage of talented developers.

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How to Get Better Results in 2020: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their thoughts about how to achieve better results in 2020. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors. Are you […]. The post How to Get Better Results in 2020: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Visual artifacts and defined roles in running a program

Martin Fowler

Luiza and James finish their article on running programs in product mode organizations by discussing two useful practices. Investing in visual artifacts to help convey information to those involved, and the necessity of having defined roles for managing the overall program.

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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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DevOps must-reads: 7 titles every practitioner should read

TechBeacon

Upskilling continues to be the biggest challenge—and opportunity—as DevOps and digital transformation initiatives continue to advance, so as 2020 rolls out it's only fitting to recommend the best books for learning.

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Top 10 cities to hire developers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

According to StackOverflow , the demand for software developers still outpaces the supply. Research reveals that in the US alone, tech talent shortage is predicted to cost the country USD 435.7 billion. . Unfortunately, businesses in major tech countries such as the US and the UK have long been suffering because of the rapid growth of tech industries and the shortage of talented developers.

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Five Technology Trends to Shape Future Investments

DevOps.com

Humans invented technology to introduce innovative products in the market. Technology’s relentless cycle of innovation has now touched humanity, redefining what it means to be a human, a meaningful change that is impacting business priorities and is expected to do so in the future. The most important tech investment for C-level executives relates to digital […].

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Stale-while-revalidate Data Fetching with React Hooks: A Guide

Toptal

Inspired by stale-while-revalidate cache control logic, modern sites implement stale-while-refresh logic on the UI side. Thankfully, React Hooks make this logic painlessly reusable across components.

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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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Robotic process automation: 5 key trends to watch

TechBeacon

Robotic process automation (RPA) technology is on fire, and RPA adoption by enterprises shows no signs of slowing down. Analysts say that in the next 12 months, RPA growth will outpace the overall tech market. But most companies that have adopted RPA are already experiencing the kinds of pains that you'd expect from a technology still sitting at the peak of its hype cycle.

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What is an Agile Environment?

Accenture

This article was co-authored by Skip Angel and Janel Lanza. As constant change and markets push companies to adapt and deliver at an ever-increasing pace, agile remains at the heart of strategic conversations. It’s a testament to the customer-centric, engaging and ever-innovating agile environment so many companies have created in their tech areas. What’s changing (for the better!

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Trends and Benefits of Serverless Computing

DevOps.com

Gartner estimated that by 2020, 20% of the world’s organizations will have gone serverless. Serverless computing initiates a mind shift in the way businesses are run and improves the accuracy and impact of technology services. Leading to higher functionality, reduced AWS bills, increased delivery speed and multi-cloud support, serverless computing paves the way into the […].

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Internet of Things presents the next frontier of cyberattacks

CTOvision

Read why Asaf Ashkenazi says that the risk of cyberattacks on the Internet of Things has increased on ITProPortal : Today’s rapidly growing global network of internet of things (IoT) devices brings with it new levels of convenience to the lives of everyday consumers. In late 2019, one survey conducted by Parks Associates found that […].

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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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5 ways to incorporate design thinking in your dev process

TechBeacon

Software developers are becoming increasingly mindful of the need to provide an exceptional user experience for customers. Ultimately the user determines the customer experience, so understanding how to deliver a seamless experience is key to delivering products that meet your customers' needs.

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NRF 2020: Putting the “AI” in Retail

DataRobot

As always too common, retail is often written about as an industry that is in decline and needs triple bypass heart surgery to bring it back to the good old days where stores were packed with excited customers ready to spend their hard-earned cash. It is hard to argue that retail is not in a tough period when so many retailers continue to close unprofitable stores and we see some legendary brands going out of business altogether.

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Standards for Writing Accessibly

A List Apart

Writing to meet WCAG2 standards can be a challenge, but it’s worthwhile. Albert Einstein, the archetypical genius and physicist, once said, “Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.”. Hopefully, this entire book will help you better write for accessibility.

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Infinite Storage in Confluent Platform

Confluent

A preview of Confluent Tiered Storage is now available in Confluent Platform 5.4, enabling operators to add an additional storage tier for data in Confluent Platform. If you’re curious about […].

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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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Application security and your career: 5 key areas to focus on

TechBeacon

With the number of software vulnerabilities soaring to new heights—topping 17,000 last year—and breaches constantly in the news, demand for technical experts that can help companies secure their applications has risen dramatically.

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Free pass to Interaction 20

Scott Berkun

[UPDATE – WINNER HAS BEEN CHOSEN : will reveal who won once they confirm.]. I have a free conference pass for IXDA’s Interaction 20 , in Milan, Italy this year. I was granted a free pass to the conference in return for speaker coaching for their speakers, but turns out I can’t use it. I’d hate to see it go to waste, so if you’re able to go (Feb 5-7, 2020) and arrange your own travel, leave a comment. .

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Looking Back on 20 Years of Enterprise Java

DevOps.com

It is hard to believe, but enterprise Java has existed as we know it for more than 20 years. In December of 1999, the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (formerly J2EE, now called Java EE or Jakarta EE) was introduced. J2EE built on the “write once, run anywhere” mentality of the Java programming language, but […]. The post Looking Back on 20 Years of Enterprise Java appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Introducing Confluent Platform 5.4

Confluent

I am pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 5.4. Like any new release of Confluent Platform, it’s packed with features. To make them easier to digest, I want […].

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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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Don’t Make These 14 Common Big-Data Mistakes At Your Business

CTOvision

Thanks to modern technology, businesses of all sizes have access to rich, granular data about their customers and operations. However, understanding what to do with these massive amounts of data can be difficult and costly, and even with the right tools, it can be overwhelming. With so much complexity around big data, businesses can easily make […].

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FBI calls, Apple obeys demand over iCloud data

TechBeacon

Apple killed its plan to protect iCloud with end-to-end encryption. Over two years ago, the FBI told Tim Cook to knock it off.

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What You Should Know About the New California Consumer Privacy Act

TechSoup

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) went into effect on January 1, 2020. It is the first law insuring personal online privacy being implemented in the U.S. Any "business" with an online presence around the world will have to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act if it receives personal data from any California residents or has gross revenues over $25 million.

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