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Recruiting Technical Developer Talent: Speed vs. Quality

CodeSignal

Coding assessments are not the first thing that hiring managers or HR managers think of when it comes to technical screenings. The conversation usually sounds more like this… “We have an urgent need to fill several important software development roles – as quickly as possible.”. Sound familiar? Hiring managers often want the best of both worlds, especially when it comes to technical developer talent.

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How Is Artificial Intelligence Changing The Business Landscape?

OTS Solutions

How Is Artificial Intelligence Changing The Business Landscape? While artificial intelligence has long been fodder for sci-fi novelists, but the reality is not nearly as dramatic as 2001 or The Terminator. In reality, artificial reality is an iterative tool that has helped automate the process of mundane activities and create an environment where employees can focus on the work that they’re exclusively equipped to do while eliminating much of the more banal busywork.

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The Top 100 Java Libraries in 2018 – Based on 277,975 Source Files

OverOps

What are the most popular libraries Java developers use? 2018 edition. Time flies when you’re having fun, and the past year was pretty crazy. It included SpaceX successfully launching Falcon Heavy, their partially reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle (Yup, this happened in 2018), continued with Apple becoming the world’s first public company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion, and we even created embryo-like structures from stem cells alone, without using egg or sperm cells.

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7 Icebreaker Questions to Melt Frustration and Build Trust

Let's Grow Leaders

Done well, an icebreaker can be valuable & strategic If the word icebreaker conjures up images of toothpicks and marshmallows and other fluffy activities that feel like a waste of time, you’re not alone. We’re not huge fans of icebreaking without meaning. But […]. The post 7 Icebreaker Questions to Melt Frustration and Build Trust appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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The Top 100 Java Libraries in 2018 – Based on 277,975 Source Files

OverOps

What are the most popular libraries Java developers use? 2018 edition. Time flies when you’re having fun, and the past year was pretty crazy. It included SpaceX successfully launching Falcon Heavy, their partially reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle (Yup, this happened in 2018), continued with Apple becoming the world’s first public company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion, and we even created embryo-like structures from stem cells alone, without using egg or sperm cells.

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First Impressions – A Guide to Onboarding UX

Toptal

Nearly one in four users will abandon a mobile app after using it just once. Good onboarding makes a great first impression, gives users a guided introduction, and can significantly improve user retention.

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Sharing Insights On Reducing Cyber Risks to Aerospace and Defense Sector at CyberSat18 Conference

CTOvision

Almost by definition security of the aerospace and defense sector of the economy is a national security issue. This includes cybersecurity of course. Our parent firm Crucial Point has worked in securing the aerospace and defense industry since our foundation and continues to serve the community with architecture reviews, secure communications design and testing services. […].

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AI Investment Primer: A Practical Guide to Appraising Artificial Intelligence Dealflow (Part II)

Toptal

In part I of this two-part series, Toptal Finance Expert Carolyn Deng provided an overview of the world of AI aimed at investors, with a focus on understanding what factors make for a great AI company. In this follow-up post, she outlines five practical steps investors should follow when diligencing a potential AI investment.

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Agile Amped DOES Authors

Accenture

The DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) conference in Las Vegas provided us insight into this growing industry. We wanted to highlight three exciting conversations that we captured in our Agile Amped podcasts, each with authors whose works have contributed greatly to the DevOps industry, and more generally to Agile and business agility. They are: IT Revolution founder Gene Kim – author of The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook.

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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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Is It Time to Use Node 8?

Toptal

Node 8 has brought significant performance and feature upgrades. Should you use it on new projects? Is it worth upgrading existing codebases? In this article, Toptal Freelance JavaScript Developer Youssef Sherif gives a tour of Node 8's biggest changes and what they mean for your project.

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A new vision for the global brain: Deep learning with people instead of machines

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Omoju Miller outlines a vision where we harness human action for a better future. Continue reading A new vision for the global brain: Deep learning with people instead of machines.

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The Practical Guide to Building Online Communities

Toptal

Online communities shape the relationship between a company and its distributed workforce. They also foster connections between workers, enriching both their professional and personal lives. In this article, David Abramovich, the Online Community Leader at Toptal, shares fundamental steps to successfully cultivate this critical ingredient that increasingly impacts the future of work.

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Baker’s Half Dozen – Episode 2: Will Autonomous Vehicles Take Our Jobs? Or Strengthen the Human-Machine Partnership?

Dell EMC

Episode 2 of Baker’s Half Dozen is upon us. This month Matt answers: Is it the hardware driving AI acceleration, or do we need to write better code? Will autonomous vehicles take our jobs or strengthen human-machine partnerships? Are mid-course dividends worth the cost of failed innovation? If you’ve got questions about this episode, or a question you’d like Matt to answer in the next episode, comment below or tweet @mattwbaker using #BakersHalfDozen.

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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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Is Power BI Right For Your Business?

Mentormate

Power BI has gained significant popularity over the last few years. More and more people are interested in what the product has to offer and whether it’s a good fit for their business needs. In this blog, we’ll examine what Power BI is as well as how to tell if it’s right for your business. What is Power BI? Power BI is a business intelligence and analysis software that enables the user to easily produce and share beautiful interactive reports to offer business insights.

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How to Spot if You’ve Been Hacked

Arcserve

It’s been one of those bad tech days. Your phone that was on its last legs just went dead. You lost the charger for your tablet, and your laptop seems to be running slower than usual. Is that about to break, too? Well, since you bought it a year ago, the chances of it being. Read more » The post How to Spot if You’ve Been Hacked appeared first on StorageCraft Technology Corporation.

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Highlights from the O'Reilly Velocity Conference in London 2018

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Watch highlights from expert talks covering Kubernetes, chaos engineering, deep learning, and more. People from across the distributed systems world came together in London for the O'Reilly Velocity Conference. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event. Kubernetes: Good or evil? The ethics of data centers. Anne Currie says excessive and dirty energy use in data centers is one of the biggest ethical issues facing the tech industry.

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Brace yourselves: changing the clock can be your IT nightmare

Loom Systems

When Benjamin Franklin came up with the idea to change the clocks back in 1784, suggesting that waking up earlier would save on candles, he never imagined the repercussions of his idea. On November 4 th , we are all going to brace ourselves and change the clock, getting one extra sleeping hour, translated into dark early evenings. Oh yes, winter IS coming.

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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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Kubernetes: Good or evil? The ethics of data centers

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Anne Currie says excessive and dirty energy use in data centers is one of the biggest ethical issues facing the tech industry. Continue reading Kubernetes: Good or evil? The ethics of data centers.

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CodeSOD: For a Long While

The Daily WTF

Here’s a philosophical question. Let’s say you’re searching an array. Is it clearer to use a for loop and break when you find the element, or is it better to use a while loop and break if you hit the end of the array? Most of us would likely use the for loop, but it wouldn’t be wrong to use the while - maybe just unexpected. But what if you had forgotten that while loops even exist?

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Four short links: 1 November 2018

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Data Science, AI Ethics, Coded for Curiosity, and Worm Parking. How to Decide Which Data Science Projects to Pursue (Hilary Mason) -- data science projects are not independent from one another. With each completed project, successful or not, you create a foundation to build later projects more easily and at lower cost. Some good advice on how to build a non-sucky data strategy.

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Blue Sentry Achieves Premier Consulting Partner Status in Amazon Web Services Partner Network

Blue Sentry

The post Blue Sentry Achieves Premier Consulting Partner Status in Amazon Web Services Partner Network appeared first on Blue Sentry.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Deriving meaning in a time of chaos: The intersection between chaos engineering and observability

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Crystal Hirschorn discusses how organizations can benefit from combining established tech practices with incident planning, post-mortem-driven development, chaos engineering, and observability. Continue reading Deriving meaning in a time of chaos: The intersection between chaos engineering and observability.

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4 Companies That are Killing It with Crowdsourcing

Planbox

When it comes to crowdsourcing, many options are available. What is crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is basically putting questions or tasks out in the open to a large group to receive their input for the sake of innovation. . The crowd can be made up of consumers, citizens, entrepreneurs, start-ups, specialists, or enthusiasts. The objectives crowds may face can be anything from citizen or customer engagement, demand validation, user-centered product development, brand awareness or tackling unsolv

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Five Ways Serverless Changes DevOps

Stacks on Stacks

I spent last week at DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas where I had the opportunity to talk with many people from the world’s largest companies about DevOps, serverless, and the ways they are delivering software faster with better stability. We were encouraged to hear of teams using serverless from cron jobs to core bets on accelerating digital transformation initiatives.

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4 Traits Commonly Found in Innovative Experts

Planbox

When on the prowl for an innovative expert, keep watch for these productive traits. Innovation is a constant for businesses today, especially as technology continually and rapidly evolves. Innovation offers an opportunity to set one’s company apart and enables it to be even more competitive in its industry. Having only one revolutionary idea at a time is not enough, though, which is why having at least one innovation expert sourced or on staff is vital. .

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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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Scaling to the Challenges

Stacks on Stacks

Can you create something by creating the appearance of something? Can a team increase its output by looking busy? Does “fake it til you make it” work with team culture? It sounds ridiculous to suggest pretending can make it real, but smiling can make a person feel happier, and Botox can make a person less able to feel emotions they are unable to express.

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3 Ways You Can Grow Your Innovation Strategy

Planbox

Your business’s innovation strategy is a major player in the game when it comes to transforming your organization from that of a newcomer to an established organization. Constant innovation ensures your company remains proactive rather than reactive, unleashing your company’s potential as a whole. Your company’s innovation strategy should grow with your organization.

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Simplifying SAFe w/MBIs

Net Objectives

SAFe has many concepts across its levels-strategic themes, epics, solutions, value stream, MVPs, MMFs, capabilities, stories & several backlogs. While SAFe nobly attempts to present all needed concepts it does not explicitly call out the most important one–the smallest chunk of work that will provide the most value for the time it takes to build … Continue reading "Simplifying SAFe w/MBIs".

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