Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Hiring programmers is hard, expensive, and takes forever. You spend countless hours on job descriptions, hiring rubrics, and checking references. You put candidates through the gauntlet: coding tests, whiteboard problems, panel interviews, culture interviews, and so on. If they make it through, then you roll the dice and make them an offer. Despite all your best efforts, sometimes you lose the gamble and make a bad hire.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The book Thinking Remote - inspiration for leaders and distributed teams by Pilar Orti and Maya Middlemiss provides lots of ideas for managers and leaders who are working with remote or distributed teams. It can be used as a handbook for leaders of virtual teams, helping them to deal with the leadership challenges and making the transition to remote working.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Take a seat and take a listen. Once a year, Sacha Labourey and I sit down to discuss the past year and what the coming year looks like for DevOps and Jenkins. As CEO of CloudBees, Sacha has broad visibility into the progress of the DevOps/DevSecOps communities. We started our talk this year, commenting on the growth of the Jenkins World conference, with over 2000 attendees.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Containers hold new promise for business and digital transformation. Yet many differences exist between monitoring containers and monitoring other elements of infrastructure, such as VMs, storage, memory and compute. Understanding those differences is vital for ITOps managers as they navigate their businesses’ digital transformation. Interestingly, the differences are as much technical as they are organizational. […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 28, 2019

An audience member asked us recently, “Can you talk about the danger of sarcasm? Our VP uses it all the time it ruins presentations, derails meetings, and shuts people down.” We thought, “We know that guy.” We bet you do too. Sure, […]. The post How to Stop the Destructive Power of Sarcasm at Work appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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MagmaLabs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes In recent years, shopping habits have migrated to online and mobile platforms, resulting in a wide variety of opportunities for the e-commerce world. By buying goods or services through these platforms, customers expect websites to be fast, engaging and responsive; they would not tolerate bugged or unavailable sites, therefore they would quickly take their business to another place.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Is observability the new monitoring? Or is observability, and tracing, fundamentally different? Like any IT industry trend, it can be difficult to discern as many jump on the trend bandwagon, appropriately or not. The Splunk.conf 2019 event presented Splunk with the opportunity to bring clarity to the terms and the reasoning behind the acquisitions […].

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TechBeacon

OCTOBER 28, 2019

At Descartes Labs we have built a data refinery to collect, process, and analyze sensor data to quantify changes in the Earth. Our platform runs on Kubernetes in Google Cloud, powering global-scale machine learning across more than 10 petabytes of geospatial data.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Nvidia has a new family of Android TV-based streaming devices, as tipped early via a couple of leaks from online stores. The new NVIDIA Shield TV ($149) and Shield TV Pro ($199) replace the existing Shield TV generation of hardware, which debuted in 2017. Both new Shields offer new Tegra X1+ processors, which outperform the […].

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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.com

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Software Engineer Rainie Li played an essential role in implementing Spinnaker as part of Pinterest’s CI/CD pipeline. The results moved Pinterest from two scheduled deployments per day to continuous deployments, greater than 15 during business hours. This episode of DevOps Chats features a preview of Rainie’s talk, “How we introduced CI/CD […].

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Read W. Curtis Preston explain why block storage in the cloud that is not properly backed up can result in lost data, and while object storage in the cloud is more resilient on Network World : The failure to back up data that is stored in a cloud block-storage service can be lost forever if […].

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Investors will be faced with more disappointing economic data in the coming months, though it will force governments to increase fiscal spending, much to the joy of investors and the financial markets. The monthly economic report from the German central bank was released last Monday, 21st October, with a particular focus on the financial data […].

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Back to the past with regression testing. Studies have indicated that after installing a new app, only a quarter of the users return to the app on the second day. The retention rate is eminently low and the majority of the users uninstall the app after the first use. You might have guessed the reason for this. If you think the reason is scanty testing then you are correct.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

To be successful requires shedding the negative thoughts that get carried over from childhood and replacing them with a positive self-image. Today’s post is by Raymond Houser, author of The Winning Advantage (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Why don’t people live up to their full potential? I believe it is because they had no […]. This is only the beginning of the thought.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Start your project where you would usually end: with a CI/CD pipeline. Automating the Automation Behind DevOps. I am a big advocate for software reuse, and an even bigger advocate if that reuse comes in the form of software automation. My team and I rely on reusable software processes that accept simple inputs to produce predictable results. We have tight deadlines with requirements that often seem impossible.

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DXC

OCTOBER 28, 2019

One of the major challenges with connected devices is having a reliable network. Cell phone and standard Wi-Fi networks do not guarantee communication everywhere. Even dense urban areas have numerous “dead” cellular zones in building basements, elevators, tunnels and underpasses. Remote areas like crop fields, mines, oceans and space also pose problems.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Join Bob Gourley of OODA and Bob Baxter of Bastille Networks on Nov 15, 2019 at 11:30 AM for a webinar on finding things via Cellular, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi device detection. No doubt about it, there are devices violating your policy inside your facility as we speak. At least, there are if […].

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DXC

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Tech companies and the auto industry are working hard in tandem to make autonomous driving a reality by the early 2020s. Driverless cars with various levels of human participation will roll out in stages over the next few years, with fully-autonomous SAE Level 5 driving on the scene by 2030. Today, most automotive manufacturers have […].

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Read Mark De Simone explain how the Industrial Internet of Things can be used for access management on IT Pro Portal : As tech savvy manufacturers increasingly integrate hyper-connected production facilities through the Internet of Things (IoT) we are witnessing a veritable ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ or, Industry 4.0. However, have the implications on cybersecurity vulnerability […].

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Arcserve

OCTOBER 28, 2019

You may have seen buzzwords like DPaaS (data protection as a service) and DRaaS (disaster recovery as a service) thrown around. We’ve discussed the importance of data protection and disaster recovery in previous posts, but now we’ll delve into what these services are and why they’re essential to the long-term success of your business. Data. Read more » The post Data Protection as a Service: Different from DRaaS?

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Microsoft today announced a series of new Internet of Things tools and features to make it easier for customers to build connected devices and run them on the tech giant’s cloud platform. The uniting theme behind the new features is to make IoT, a futuristic but challenging technology, more accessible. IoT has reached a tipping point, […].

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Last week, we discussed the rapidly approaching digital economy and outlined the nine new agenda items for CEOs. We also drilled down into the 3 CEO agenda items related to new customer requirements. In this blog, we’ll explore the three new capabilities needed to compete in the digital economy, the new critical infrastructure, and new ecosystems.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Absent of the tumult that Libra faces from regulators and the departure of its four major backers, China is silently overtaking Facebook and will launch its state-backed crypto soon. In August, Forbes cited several sources confirming China’s plan of launching a cryptocurrency as early as November this year. It’s also rumored that China will issue the […].

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DataRobot

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Americans love Halloween and will spend around $9 billion for the holiday season -- $2.7 billion on candy alone, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF). This is a huge opportunity for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies that produce candy and for many retailers to drive direct business and residual shopping traffic.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Read Ronald Schmelzer’s article in Forbes on the expanding role of AI in Government and business: It’s clear that artificial intelligence is making its presence widely felt across a broad range of industries, organizations, and government sectors. The momentum continues since last year’s AI World event in Boston with many of the organizations represented deepening […].

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The Daily WTF

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Blake had recently been hired as a software tester, tasked with testing the company's product on the latest operating system, Windows 2000. After running through his battery of tests, he informed management that he hadn't encountered any issues, and the product was dubbed Windows 2000-ready. During the next several weeks, the product was smoothly deployed by customers—until an installer bug report came in. "Did you test the desktop shortcut after installing on Windows 2000?

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In a move that portends well for future cloud interoperability initiatives, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that the open source CloudEvents specification for describing event data had achieved a version 1.0 milestone. Doug Davis, senior technical staff member of IBM and co-chair of CNCF’s Serverless WG and the CloudEvents project, said CloudEvents […].

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Cory Foy

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Learn the doctrine and gameplay you need to make a move in the Voice First movement with this #mappingmondays video! The post Wardley Mapping Mondays – Making A Play appeared first on Cory Foy.

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