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Why flow metrics should be your Rosetta Stone of software delivery 

TechBeacon

Just as the discovery of the Rosetta Stone gave us a translation tool to unlock the mysteries of ancient Egypt, the emergence of flow metrics provides business and IT executives with a window into the enigmatic world of software delivery.

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Predictions 2020: The Year of DevOps Empowerment

DevOps.com

Every year since mid-decade, it seems, one publication or another has declared it to be “the year of DevOps.” Allow me to make the case that it really will happen in 2020. The reason? IT leaders are finally empowering their engineers with full-service ownership. In a world in which speed, quality and precision will continue […]. The post Predictions 2020: The Year of DevOps Empowerment appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Article: Product Goals, not Sprint Goals

InfoQ Culture Methods

There is a myth that Sprint Goals are a way to focus Scrum teams towards a common purpose, and without Sprint Goals, teams would end up building a disparate list of Product Backlog Items, every Sprint. This is in fact not only untrue, the reality is the exact opposite, that Sprint Goals are in fact a distraction and would only deliver parts of Product Goals.

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Software Testing in 2020: 7 Biggest Trends

Dzone - DevOps

The huge demand for high-quality products created in the shortest time possible made testing a critical success factor of the software development process. Because of the continually evolving technology and competitive market QA specialists are in constant search of new relevant testing techniques, so they can stay relevant and meet the rising customer demands.

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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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Domo vs. Tableau: Self-service analytics tools compared

CIO

Business intelligence (BI) and analytics platforms have long been a staple for business, but thanks to the rise of self-service BI tools, responsibility for analytics has shifted from IT to business analysts, with support from data scientists and database administrators.

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Predictions 2020: 7 DevOps Predictions Shaping 2020

DevOps.com

2019 was an exciting year for DevOps practitioners, with DevOps adoption continuing to grow at a fast pace. Most organizations were either executing or evaluating their DevOps strategies. So, what is 2020 going to bring in DevOps, infrastructure and application automation? Here are seven DevOps predictions for emerging trends in the new year. Customer Experience […].

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DevOps Ten Years Later: We Still Have Work to Do

Dzone - DevOps

It's been ten years since a group of like-minded IT professionals met in Belgium for the first DevOpsDay. The idea was to get teams who historically didn't interact much to work together — Development and Operations — to improve the quality of software before it went into production. In the intervening years, DevOps has gained wider — but not universal — acceptance as a means to produce higher quality software at a more rapid pace.

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AI year in review: Opportunities grow, but ethics loom large

CTOvision

Artificial intelligence garnered a lot of attention from the usual players — governments, tech giants, and academics — throughout 2019. But it was also a big year for business AI, with even more growth expected ahead. In a March KPMG survey, more than half of business executives said their company would implement enterprise-scale AI within […].

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Top 13 Software Development Trends that Would Gain More Recognition in 2020

Radixweb

Come 2020 and the trends for the year are already here! Amidst rising IoT, AI, ML and Blockchain trends- what will the new decade bring in terms of digital transformation for your business.

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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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Predictions 2020: Infrastructure and Ops Trends to Watch in 2020

DevOps.com

Today, modernizing systems is more than simply moving technology to a new location. It requires an IT stack of a new generation of technologies and tools to work. As we head into the new year, let’s take a look at the top eight trends that will shape how we will develop and deliver software. Kubernetes […]. The post Predictions 2020: Infrastructure and Ops Trends to Watch in 2020 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Are You a Fool with a Tool?

Dzone - DevOps

Don't be a fool with DevOps tools. I learned about Buckminster Fuller when I was frantically drawing my way through an architecture degree in college. Fuller was quite an inspirational architect and the inventor of the Geodesic dome.

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How AI is Revolutionizing the Banking Sector

CTOvision

Read Oliver Smith explain how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the banking sector on Infosec Magazine : Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous in recent years and its uses are seen in every industry from health, to travel, to banking, to hospitality and finance. According to the IHS Markit’s “Artificial Intelligence in Banking” report, the global […].

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Looking back at 2019

QAspire

On Transitions – Outside and Within. Life is all about transitions, big and small. Everything within and around us is in a constant state of flux, but we only see the changes that are explicit. Internal transitions precede external transitions in life and careers. Our thinking, emotions, needs, wants and deep internal motivations shift all the time as a result of our life stage, our journey so far and changing circumstances.

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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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Predictions 2020: Key Trends that Will Shape the Autonomous Digital Enterprise

DevOps.com

As 2019 comes to an end, and we look toward trends driving innovation in 2020 and beyond, technology advancements in hyper automation, AIOps, edge computing and the convergence of IT service management and IT operations management will be at the forefront. Autonomous Digital Enterprise In order to thrive in the 2025 futurescape, organizations will need […].

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The Specifics of GIS Testing

Dzone - DevOps

Learn more about the testing GISs. What is BDD? BDD is a language that enables you to define the behavior of a system without including details about how it was developed. All requirements under the BDD are treated as a customer behavior. It was developed by Dan North and his team during their research of the concept of how to perform test-driven development with less cost.

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What was the reason why you most recently fired someone?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: What was the reason why you most recently fired someone? Poor performance: 54.8% I’ve never fired anyone: 15% Layoff (not their fault): 10.1% Breaking company rules: 9% Illegal activity: 5.3% Some other reason: 5.7% Behave and perform. While illegal or rule-breaking behaviors will get you fired, clearly poor performance is the biggest risk to continued employment.

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Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Trends: Expert and Customer Insights, Visionary Products

Palo Alto Networks

The cybersecurity industry changes constantly and rapidly, and those working to defend organizations from breaches must adapt and stay abreast of the latest cybersecurity trends. Palo Alto Networks is always focused on staying ahead of the curve. As we begin a new year, we look back on what our industry experts have said and done about cybersecurity trends, both through thought leadership and by building advanced cybersecurity products.

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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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Don’t Expect Miracles

DevOps.com

Let’s run some fun scenarios to start this one off, shall we? “We’ll decide what language to use at a meeting next month. Until then, get to writing code!” “We might deploy internally, though Azure is a strong option, and we’ve discussed GCP. Now get operations up and running, we’ll tell you when we’ve decided.” […]. The post Don’t Expect Miracles appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Risks, Issues, Benefits Of Tactically Automating Twitter Case Study

Dzone - DevOps

Exploring Twitter automation. Every approach to automating has risks, issues, and benefits. Often we don't think these through. When we do we will see that automating has a different set of answers than automating strategically. This helps reinforce the difference, without having to stick to definitions.

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Living Your Life On Purpose

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Find your internal purpose doesn’t just help you navigate life and your decisions, but also helps make you more productive and successful. Today’s post is by David Nielson, author of The 9 Dimensions of Conscious Success (CLICK HERE to get your copy). “Purpose at Work” is the title of a 2016 Global Report by LinkedIn Business* about the role of purpose in the workplace.

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When Your Boss is On the Naughty List

Let's Grow Leaders

One of our most popular holiday posts is this look at Santa’s poor leadership in the classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV Special. Fortunately, Santa learns how to recognize and encourage talent. But what do you do your boss is the one […]. The post When Your Boss is On the Naughty List appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Untapping the Potential of DevOps, Part 4: Tips for Launching a DevOps Team

DevOps.com

DevOps has become a hot strategy for IT teams across just about every industry—and for good reason. DevOps is built around increasing the velocity of the development pipeline, and in businesses where time to market is a key to success, it’s easy to imagine why DevOps has gained traction. While the tools and processes put […]. The post Untapping the Potential of DevOps, Part 4: Tips for Launching a DevOps Team appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How to Setup a CI/CD Pipeline with Kubernetes

Dzone - DevOps

Learn to construct a CI/CD pipeline. When it comes to DevOps, the phrase that comes to mind is CI/CD pipeline.

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Why Data Science Needs More Data Scientists: Diversity In The Data Supply Chain

Coding Dojo

As a student in the Executive MBA program at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, we are always reminded by our … Read more >>. The post Why Data Science Needs More Data Scientists: Diversity In The Data Supply Chain appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Article: A Transformation Journey for a Distributed Development Organization

InfoQ Culture Methods

Agile transformations are never easy, but are even more challenging than usual when it comes to geographically distributed teams. This article highlights experiences from Konica Minolta’s Workplace Hub program and shares the methods that helped them on their journey. It's about the organization, processes, but most importantly, about the people and the mindset.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Mobile-First Design: Why It’s The Only Way to Develop Your App

The Crazy Programmer

Strong apps can do a lot for businesses of all kinds. If a business has a rock-solid app accessible to its customers, then it may achieve a lot. If it has an app that’s difficult to navigate and utilize, then it may flounder and fade. It doesn’t matter if you’re an app developer or if you’re simply an entrepreneur who is in charge of a driven business.

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OTS Solutions Gets in to The List of Top 21 IoT App Development Companies of 2019

OTS Solutions

If you believe in the process and stick to it, the great results will automatically follow and make you go places. We at OTS solutions apply this philosophy and due to our focus and dedication, TopDevelopers.co, in a press release of the top IoT app development companies have listed us as a leading service provider. TopDevelopers.co is one of the renowned and reputed online review and research mediums for B2B IT Firms.

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To Outsource IT Services or Not? 8 Reasons a Business Should Outsource IT

Strategy Driven

Outsourcing has become a standard part of business today. If you’re looking for a function to start with, there’s no better option than IT. It’s the most commonly outsourced position in the business world. Do you want to learn more about what benefits you will get when you outsource IT? Keep reading to learn eight reasons why working with a managed services provider is worth trying. 1.

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