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Cover design for the Refactoring 2nd Ed

Martin Fowler

We've got a cover design for the second edition of Refactoring. As with any book in my signature series, I needed to decide which bridge would feature in the photo.

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Primer: What DDoS attacks could mean for IoT

The Parallax

When a headline screams something like “worst DDoS ever,” it’s often accurate. Distributed denial-of-service attacks, which deluge targeted sites or services with traffic to force them offline, have been growing in strength and scope for decades. And although organizations can do certain things to mitigate the impact of an attack, our seemingly ever-increasing usage of Internet-connected devices is likely only inviting more DDoS trouble.

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Executive Visits: 4 Strategic Approaches for Influence and Impact

Let's Grow Leaders

You know executive visits are important. And let’s face it, they come more naturally to some of us than others. Executive visits can backfire, or they can be brilliant. They can be casual or deliberate. Sometimes just wandering around is exactly what […]. The post Executive Visits: 4 Strategic Approaches for Influence and Impact appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Speech Recognition and Synthesis in the?Browser

Xebia

With the recent upsurge of Siri, Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa, speech recognition and synthesis have become an increasingly important tool in the developer’s toolbox. Working with speech data can not only improve the accessibility of your application. It can also increase conversion in your webshop, especially when customers shop on their mobile phones.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Women in Agile New Voices Program – Still Opening Doors

Agile Alliance

Last year’s Women in Agile 2017 event was a whirlwind of eye opening experiences. Through the New Voices Program, I was given the opportunity to speak for the first time with the support of an amazing mentor – Lynn Winterboer. I was also introduced to a remarkable community of women that created one of the … Continued.

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How blockchain is a great opportunity for developers?

OTS Solutions

Why is Blockchain a Great Opportunity for Developers? The price spike in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin in the past year has revitalized public interest in blockchain technologies. Despite the common conception that the technology is only really used for the creation of cryptocurrencies, there exist a myriad of potential applications for blockchain technology.

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Thermometer sessions ? Gaining insight in your team

Xebia

Looking for inspiration on how to gain a shared insight in the current state of your team? And curious how to find actions for your team to improve? Read below about the ‘thermometer session’, a workshop that we designed to improve our own business unit. The goal of these sessions is to get an insight […]. The post Thermometer sessions – Gaining insight in your team appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Is 200-125 CCNA Exam Worth Taking?

The Crazy Programmer

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) 200-125 exam is designed to test candidate’s understanding and skills in networking basics , LAN and WAN technologies, IPv4 and IPv6 technologies, services, security and management of infrastructure. This exam is taken by those who wish to be certified in CCNA routing and switching. Cisco certifications include entry, associate, professional and expert levels.

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Getting Started with Agility: Essential Reading

Allen Holub

As is the case with many of the people who actually know what they’re talking about, I’ve come to shudder when I hear the word “Agile,” at least until I can figure whether the person who uttered the word actually knows what they’ve just said. More often than not, they don’t.

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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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Data Visualization ? Best Practices and Foundations

Toptal

Data visualization is a coherent way to visually communicate quantitative content. Depending on its attributes, data may be represented in different ways, such as line graphs and scatter plots.

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Improving a Team?s Collective Intelligence. Feedback Please!

Xebia

It seems all over nowadays. Teams do it, peers do it, managers do it. Feedback here, feedback there, feedback everywhere. Feedback seems here to stay. Why? Because it makes people stronger. They learn how they behave and how their behaviour affects others. This transparency enables individuals to change and start experimenting with more effective behaviour. […].

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The Problem with Patterns

A List Apart

It started off as an honest problem with a brilliant solution. As the ways we use the web continue to grow and evolve, we, as its well-intentioned makers and stewards, needed something better than making simple collections of pages over and over again. Design patterns, component libraries, or even style guides have become the norm for organizations big and small.

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The commercial impact of IoT insecurity

CTOvision

Introduction A hacker recently shut down Bycyklen, Copenhagen’s public city bikes system, forcing employees to hunt down and manually reboot the Android tablet attached to every bike. The company said that restoring all bikes to working order would "take some time". Naturally, the costs of restoration will be significant. This is just one example of [.].

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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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Forecaster’s Toolbox: How to Perform Monte Carlo Simulations

Toptal

One of the most important and challenging aspects of forecasting is handling the uncertainty inherent in examining the future. Every CEO, CFO, board member, investor, or investment committee member brings their own experience and approach to financial projections and uncertainty, influenced by different incentives. Oftentimes, comparing actual outcomes against projections underscores the need to explicitly recognize uncertainty.

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What You Need to Know Before Starting Your Business

Women on Business

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If We Know HOW To Be Happy, How Come We Still Can?t BE Happy?

Terry Starbucker

Picture this… You are a researcher, looking over one of the most comprehensive long-term studies of human behavior. You spend 42 years with nearly 270 men, studying their lives. While the human mystery generates 270 different stories that, on the surface, defy any explanation, one fundamental truth comes out – relationships are absolutely critical to happiness.

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AI & Blockchain: Double the Value or Double the Hype?

CTOvision

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not the only technology that’s getting a lot of media and investor attention these days. Blockchain is emerging as a technology in its own right separate from the much-hyped rise in value of cryptocurrencies. Proponents of blockchain claim that it will have fundamental, ground-breaking impact on all industries, changing the way [.].

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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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The Missing Article About Qt Multithreading in C++

Toptal

C++ developers strive to build robust multithreaded applications, but multithreading was never an easy thing to do. In this article, Toptal Freelance Qt Developer Andrei Smirnov talks about several scenarios exploring concurrent programming with the Qt framework.

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Shift from Managing Your Business to Growing It

Women on Business

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How I Found CVE-2018-8819: Out-of-Band (OOB) XXE in WebCTRL

Coalfire

I like to do bug bounties from time to time, mostly when I am sacrificing sleep once the kids are finally out cold. This seemed like a worthy experience to document. Let me just start by saying I don't plan on going into the whole recon bits too deeply here. Maybe I will someday if I ever have enough time to give the topic the justice it deserves.

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Tech as a Career Gains Ground, Microsoft’s Sinks Data, SAP Does Blockchain

CTOvision

Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain Apple and Samsung have been accusing each other of copying or stealing patented tech but Google has seldom been involved in such accusations. But Jarek Duda, inventor of ANS video compression concept thinks that Google is copying his tech. Duda says that the search [.].

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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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Do Economic Moats Still Matter?

Toptal

Companies, like castles, need a line of defense to repel the invaders' advances. Economic moats, taking a cue from their watery namesakes, are long-term and sustainable competitive advantages that protect others from seizing market share. But on the flipside, are they actually just lazy, passive strategies that shun innovation?

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Educating Your Audience: The New Way to Build an Audience

Women on Business

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Serverless Architecture

Coding Dojo

As a developer, there is perhaps nothing greater than seeing a project that you developed fully functioning. You fought through … Read more >>. The post Serverless Architecture appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Yes there are dark sides to AI, but what if it keeps us safer? Does that make Google the bad guy? (again?)

CTOvision

We Built A Powerful Amazon Facial Recognition Tool For Under $10 Ever since it was announced, the Amazon's powerful facial recognition tool has been in news for all the wrong reasons. Forbes took a behind the scenes look at how Amazon Rekognition can be used to build facial recognition tools at incredibly low cost by [.].

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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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Shopify Design Tips and UX Best Practices

Toptal

Shopify merchants have achieved over $40 billion in sales, but with poorly executed UX design being one of the biggest contributors to abandoned checkouts, it’s clear that superior UX can boost this statistic even further.

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The Status of JavaScript Frameworks in 2018

InfoBest

Summary. 0. Time needed to finish reading: 2-4 minutes. 1. Introduction. 2. JavaScript frameworks at the mid of 2018. 3. Frameworks & Libraries you could check out. 4. Conclusion. #1. Introduction. As you probably noticed, we recently touched more topics with the focus on web ( WordPress tutorials , discussions about data extraction tools , PHP frameworks etc).

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You Can Offer Equal Pay in the Workplace

Women on Business

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