Sat.Sep 28, 2019 - Fri.Oct 04, 2019

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. As a company scales, it’s inevitable that individuals will grow farther removed from other people, projects, and initiatives in the organization. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.

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DevOps Skill: Become a Yes-Man Who Frequently Uses No

Dzone - DevOps

Sometimes you just have to. “Sometimes ‘No’ is the kindest word,” says Vironika Tugaleva, author of The Love Mindset. The art of saying no is a skill you must have in DevOps.

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When TDD Is Not a Good Fit

Henrik Warne

I like to use Test-Driven Development (TDD) when coding. However, in some circumstances, TDD is more of a hinderance than a help. This happens when how to solve the problem is not clear. Then it is better to first write a solution and evaluate if it solves the problem. Writing tests only makes sense after the solution is viable. Last week, I came across examples of where I developed new functionality without using TDD.

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DevOps Needs Collaboration and a Safe Place for Success

DevOps.com

When it comes to DevOps adoption, “[many organizations] tell a similar story,” said Scott Van Kalken, systems engineer at F5 Networks. It takes more time and effort to develop the right culture than you probably expect. Van Kalken has a long history in tech, including development and operations roles, and has spent several years practicing […].

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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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Toxic Team Members

Agile Alliance

Imagine this was your Agile team: Your Product Owner has expert domain knowledge but is more focused on career progression than on developing a great product. The Business Analyst is thorough but is a poor time manager and often misses deadlines. And your lead Developer is a highly talented and creative coder but is also … Continued.

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DevOps 100: Top leaders, practitioners, experts to follow

TechBeacon

As the DevOps movement continues to make significant headway into Corporate America, TechBeacon has updated our "DevOps 100" list to keep pace. This year we partnered with IT Revolution and the DevOps Enterprise Summit programming committee, to identify the 100 practitioners you should get to know and follow on Twitter. We've added many new names, as well as many new accomplishments for DevOps experts you've seen listed here in last year's listing.

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How to Lead When Your Team Resists Change

Let's Grow Leaders

When Your Team Resists Change, It’s an Opportunity for Ownership You’ve noticed a problem, spent the last four days meeting with finance, strategizing, and building an action plan. You’re energized about what your team will achieve, your boss and peers are on […]. The post How to Lead When Your Team Resists Change appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Turning Cynicism Into Hope

Dzone - DevOps

Convert your skeptics to believers with the gospel of DevOps culture. If you’ve ever led a DevOps initiative, this may sound familiar. When you walk down the hall, people avoid making eye contact with you, fearing they might become your next target. Colleagues you approach to discuss improvement ideas accuse you of trying to eliminate their jobs. Project managers refer to you as “the person everyone loves to hate” — to your face.

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Hardest tech roles to fill (+ solutions!)

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Technology has evolved drastically over the last decade and is only expected to continue transforming. With the changing landscape, the skill sets that organizations look for in tech professionals is also changing. A survey of 42,300 employers across 43 countries and territories found that the demand for IT skills has skyrocketed. However, it is a known fact that there are more jobs than candidates in the IT industry. .

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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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Impact of Robotic Process Automation on the Existing Workforce and Workplace

OTS Solutions

Impacts of Robotic Process Automation on the Existing Workforce and Workplace. In what seems like an obvious upward trend, technology is steadily improving the ways it impacts the business industry. It’s fascinating to see how impactful it will be in the future. Sticking to today, technology is at a point where there are constant updates and new versions of itself almost every year.

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9 Creative Ways to Develop Your Managers

Let's Grow Leaders

You’ve done your talent assessment work, completed the nine-box grid, and now it’s time to create specific plans to develop your managers. You’ll want to ensure everyone has a solid foundation of leadership training, and consider cross-functional moves, but what other developmental […]. The post 9 Creative Ways to Develop Your Managers appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Machines and Trust: How to Mitigate AI Bias

Toptal

Unwanted AI bias is already a widespread problem. Machine learning models can replicate or exacerbate existing biases, often in ways that are not detected until release. So what can be done about it?

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How to Implement an Effective CI/CD Pipeline

DevOps.com

DevOps bridges the gap between development, operations and IT services teams efficiently. To foster a DevOps culture, implementing the right DevOps tools with the right DevOps process is essential. Continuous integration/continuous delivery/continuous deployment (CI/CD/CD) help developers and testers ship the software faster and safer in a structured environment.

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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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3 Tips To Get Discovered By Executive Search Firms

N2Growth Blog

I liken the executive search process to a grown-up version of the game “hide and seek” Brands across every sector are the seekers. Executives tend to hide. If you want to learn how to get discovered by an executive search firm— keep reading. The “playground” is big and complex. It spans geographies, industries, and functions.

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The Direction of DevOps: The Future of DevOps Is Truly Bright, and Getting Brighter

Dzone - DevOps

Blinded by the science of DevOps. DevOps is about direction, moving organizations and, in some cases, innovation forward. How? Some of the essential ways DevOps is moving forward include security, automation, and breaking down silos, among other factors. The future of DevOps is bright, even burning with activity like a space shuttle breaking through the atmosphere.

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3 ways QA pros can lead quality-driven development in a DevSecOps world

TechBeacon

As companies strengthen their DevSecOps practices, there's a pressing need for quality-driven leaders to drive "shift left" testing. Your entire organization benefits from having testers involved earlier in the development process.

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Why Legacy Application Development is a Challenge

DevOps.com

Enterprises seeking to modernize their legacy mainframe applications often cite the key reason as not being able to evolve quickly enough to support the changing needs of the business. This is also a driving force behind the increasing trend toward moving these legacy applications onto other platforms, either by attempting to rewrite or re-platform them. […].

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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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Five Critical Ingredients For Enterprise Blockchain Success

CTOvision

Read Alison McCauley list five critical ingredients for enterprise blockchain adoption on Forbes : Blockchain benefits are driven by network effects: the more participants on a shared platform, the greater its potential value. Yet executives have found it’s a struggle to align the support of their ecosystems. At stake is the potential to unlock trillions […].

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The Five Ideals and The Unicorn Project

Dzone - DevOps

The Unicorn Project, the latest book from author Gene Kim. I’m so pleased to announce that The Unicorn Project will be released in all forms (hardcover, ebook, and audio) on November 26, 2019. I’m so excited that over the next couple of months I’ll be posting at least weekly on topics covered in the book or topics that have intrigued and captivated me over the last 2+ years.

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Master your code's open source or it will bite you in the app sec

TechBeacon

When we scanned 1,250 applications, it quickly becomes clear how ubiquitous open-source components are in application development. None of the scanned applications—that's zero percent—consisted of only bespoke code. Every application had at least one open-source component, and 84% of applications consisted of more than half open-source code, as we reported in the 2019 Application Security Risk Report.

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Common Pitfalls of Software Development and Tips to Avoid Them

DevOps.com

In business, no one wants to plan on failure. However, when it comes to software development, failure is more common than most managers want to admit. In particular, many managers and executives fear large software-based projects are especially likely to fail due to the complex nature of these projects and the nuanced reality of the […]. The post Common Pitfalls of Software Development and Tips to Avoid Them appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Talent Identification and Management

Career Advancement

“Talent management deserves as much focus as financial capital management in corporations.” ~ Jack Welch One of the best ways to strengthen your company as a whole is to devote attention to developing your employee talent. If your staff isn’t given the proper encouragement or assistance needed to help them move forward within your company, it can be more challenging for the company itself to continue growing in its capabilities.

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5 DevOps Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Dzone - DevOps

There is a DevOps solution for every DevOps problem. DevOps.the trend-du-jour in the tech world. The integration of development and operations (DevOps) benefits businesses by eliminating silos, improving efficiency, and focusing on continuous improvement. Everybody’s talking about DevOps. Of course, talking about it is one thing. Implementing it (and implementing it successfully) can be quite challenging.

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How to get started with RPA: 5 projects to consider

TechBeacon

As organizations increasingly ramp up their plans to pilot and phase in rollouts of new robotic process automation (RPA) projects, many enterprise leaders are on the hunt for the best use cases to get started with RPA.

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Chaos Engineering for ITOps

DevOps.com

Chaos engineering (CE) is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production. This approach is becoming commonplace in software development and operations (DevOps) practices. But how would its application extend to ITOps? CE for ITOps offers a similar framework for stress-testing […].

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Preparation Is the New Leadership Differentiator

Next Level Blog

In watching and working with top executives and their teams over the past few years, I’ve come to a fresh conclusion. Preparation is the new leadership differentiator. You might argue that preparation has always been important. I would agree with you on that but would contend that preparation is in shorter supply than it used to be. As pretty much every organization continues on its quest to do more with less, it’s become common for executives and managers to show up for meetings and conversatio

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5 Best Practices for DevOps Transformation

Dzone - DevOps

(Best) practice, practice, practice. The constant changes happening in the industry can be challenging to keep up with. To address it using DevOps could mean a colossal shift to the cloud, a cultural transformation, changes in roles and responsibilities of the individuals and teams , automation of processes, and so on. All these changes coming together can be overwhelming for any organization.

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31 cybersecurity stats that matter

TechBeacon

Enterprise organizations have a lot to deal with these days on the cybersecurity front.