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10 ways to improve IT performance (without killing morale)

CIO

To establish a high-performing IT culture, IT leaders must be able to push their teams to the limit without crippling morale. Improving IT team performance is a constant, ongoing effort, says Dena Campbell, CIO at Vaco Holdings, a global professional services firm.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower CTO

Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” ” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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Product Science, which develops mobile app performance monitoring tools, lands $18M

TechCrunch

The performance of a mobile app can impact how customers perceive a brand. According to a survey from Dimensional Research sponsored by HP, 53% of app users who responded said they’ve uninstalled a mobile app with issues like lag, while 37% said that they hold an app responsible for performance problems.

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Developers don’t need performance reviews

InfoWorld

I’ve never been a big fan of annual performance reviews. Any competent manager should be meeting regularly with all of her direct reports, and should make sure that each employee knows clearly where they stand and how they are performing. Frankly, I think they ought to be utterly unnecessary. No one enjoys the process.

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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. The topics covered include: Using Cassandra as if it were a Relational Database.

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How engineering leaders can use AI to optimize performance

TechCrunch

Alex Circei Contributor Share on X Alex Circei is the CEO and co-founder of Waydev, a development analytics tool that measures engineering teams' performance.

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Can developer productivity be measured? Better than you think

CIO

Measuring developer productivity has long been a Holy Grail of business. In 2020, McKinsey surveyed 440 large companies about their “ developer velocity” — meaning the practices that best tap the full potential of development talent. The high performers also saw 60% higher shareholder returns and 20% higher operating margins.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Join Travis Addair, CTO of Predibase, in this exclusive webinar to learn: How guardrails can be used to mitigate risks and enhance the safety and efficiency of LLMs, delving into specific techniques and advanced control mechanisms that enable developers to optimize model performance effectively Why implementing safeguards can significantly improve (..)

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Transform Product Developers Into High Performing Collaborators with These 5 Factors

Speaker: Kim Burgaard, Head of Engineering at Fernish

Developer productivity is an output of many factors, including the people on the team, company culture, processes, and tools. Join Kim Burgaard, Head of Engineering at Fernish, for this enlightening talk on how to maximize your developers' productivity. Don't focus on points and velocity, but on value and outcomes.

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Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes

Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

And in the era of agile, which recognizes that software development is a team sport, performance reviews need to use data for programmer growth and to give focus to business results. Data-driven performance reviews help to align employee goals and team goals with company goals. How data-driven performance reviews do that.

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Together these have enabled individual service teams to become more independent and, as a result, have boosted developer velocity. However, this increased velocity often comes at the cost of overall application performance or reliability. Hold teams accountable using service level objectives (SLOs).

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How King Crushes New Product Development using Data-Driven Insights

Speaker: Ian Thompson, Head of Business Intelligence at King, and Zara Wells, Strategic Customer Success Manager at Looker

He’ll also cover the various other ways that King uses analytics across their entire company, from finance to performance marketing. Taking a "human approach" to creating an organization wide data culture. Come learn to crush analytics with King. September 11, 2018 11:00 AM PDT, 2:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM GMT

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The Forrester Wave™: AI/ML Platforms: Vendor Strategy, Market Presence, and Capabilities Overview

As enterprises evolve their AI from pilot programs to an integral part of their tech strategy, the scope of AI expands from core data science teams to business, software development, enterprise architecture, and IT ops teams. The Forrester Wave™ evaluates Leaders, Strong Performers, Contenders, and Challengers.

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Amazon's journey to its current modern architecture and processes provides insights for all software development leaders. The result was enabling developers to rapidly release and iterate software while maintaining industry-leading standards on security, reliability, and performance. The "two pizza" team culture.

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Digital Workplace Experience Conference: Resilience & Agility in Disruptive Times

Speaker: Conference Speakers

Performance Management Best Practices That Bring Coaching & Appreciation Plus Tools for Continuous Improvement. Learning Tech for Developing Employee Skills and Capabilities. The Role of IT, Intranets & the Digital Workplace in Employee Experience. Voice of the Employee and New Approaches for Mental Health, Balance, and Wellness.