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Sharing Agile Experiences Event #1

Agile Alliance

Agile Alliance Experience Reports help us understand how Agile really works, the challenges that arise, and how Agile approaches evolve. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Agile2020 was cancelled. Yet most of our reporters still finished writing their reports. There’s nothing like hearing them tell their stories, which they would have been able to do … Continued.

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HackerEarth introduces Full-stack Assessments at Hire10(1) Conference

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The new HackerEarth Assessments feature of full-stack assessments will facilitate both backend and frontend developer assessment for recruiters. HackerEarth has just announced the addition of full-stack assessments to help recruiters efficiently evaluate the coding skills of full-stack developers. HackerEarth’s CEO, Sachin Gupta, made the announcement today at Hire10(1) , HackerEarth’s flagship virtual conference to help recruiters and engineering leaders hire top developers and build great tech

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MLOp: More Than Automation

DevOps.com

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about MLOps from the DevOps and software engineering perspective. The message often comes across as, “Hurry, DevOps community, let’s set some standards before MLOps reinvents the wheel,” or “The purpose of MLOps is to allow anyone who knows how to code to get ML into production.” Let […]. The post MLOp: More Than Automation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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State of the OpenCloud, Part 2: Best Practices for Entrepreneurs in a Covid-Focused World

Battery Ventures

Last year, my team and I introduced our first “ State of the OpenCloud Report”. The research pinpointed some of the mega-trends—including cloud computing and the rise of open-source technology—that are upending today’s huge enterprise-IT market as organizations across industries push to digitize their operations by modernizing their technology stacks.

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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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Better Scrum with Essence

scruminc

When over 50% of Scrum implementations fail to deliver on time, on budget, with happy customers according to Standish Group data, we need to find tools and techniques to help us improve the odds against this. Essence is the key to driving success! The Challenge. Scrum is by far the most widely used agile framework in the world, but we’ve also found that 58% of Scrum implementations fail.

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Kovair DevOps Achieves Red Hat Linux 8 Certification

Kovair - DevOps

SAN RAMON, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES. OCTOBER 07, 2020 Kovair Software, one of the leaders in software development tools and integrations, has now achieved the Red.

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Equinix Adds Automated Bare-Metal Server Service

DevOps.com

Equinix, a provider of hosted IT services, added an Equinix Metal offering that allows IT teams to automate the deployment of bare-metal servers. Interest in deploying bare-metal servers is increasing due to the rise of both artificial intelligence (AI) applications that are compute-intensive and Kubernetes clusters that, in many cases, don’t require the overhead created […].

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Do You Really Need A Chief AI Officer (CAIO)?

CTOvision

Every time a new technology comes to the fore, there’s temptation to shift the management team. Read Ronald Schmelzer’s article in Forbes discussing whether or not the “Chief AI Officer” […].

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Sonatype Advances Open Source Code Quality, Security

DevOps.com

Sonatype today launched an Advanced Development Pack service that surfaces dependencies between open source components in a way that makes it easier for developers to know which ones to employ to build the most secure application possible and what components offer the simplest upgrade path. Company CTO Brian Fox said the Advanced Development Pack service […].

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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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How to reduce cognitive load and increase flow: 5 real-world examples

TechBeacon

Since our book, Team Topologies , was published, organizations around the world have begun adopting its principles and patterns. For many of those organizations, our book has provided a previously missing common language for team-based software delivery. That language can help your organization improve the effectiveness of software delivery and accelerate time-to-value.

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Kong Previews Application Connectivity Service

DevOps.com

Kong Inc., at its online Kong Summit 2020 conference, unfurled Kong Konnect, a cloud service through which developers can leverage application programming interfaces (APIs) and microservices to integrate distributed applications. Available as a private beta, Kong Konnect promises to make it easier for developers to create complex workflows spanning API gateways, Kubernetes Ingress controllers and […].

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Project Metamorphosis Month 6: Secure Apache Kafka in Confluent Cloud

Confluent

The cloud opens up exciting new opportunities for information gathering, analysis, and sharing that can make every organization’s products and services better. Thanks to the cloud and its decentralized nature, […].

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Diversity and Inclusion in Data Science

Dataiku

Reports of AI gone wrong abound, and Responsible AI has started to take a foothold in business — Gartner has even added Responsible AI as a new category on its Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Yet when talking about solutions, increasing diversity and making data science a more inclusive field unfortunately don’t often top the list. Noelle Silver, Head of Instruction, Data Science, Analytics, and Full Stack Web Development at HackerU , is looking to change that.

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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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Sumo Logic Extends Observability Reach

DevOps.com

Sumo Logic, at its online Illuminate conference today, announced the availability of a bevy of extensions to its observability and security information event management (SIEM) cloud services that span everything from hybrid cloud computing to cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes. The company also announced the general availability of a free Software Development Optimization (SDO) service, […].

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Article: Q&A on the Book Infinite Gamification

InfoQ Culture Methods

The book Infinite Gamification by Toby Beresford explains how to create sustainable gamification programs that motivate teams and individuals for continuous improvement, using prime directives, scores, measurements, and badges. Using gamification you can design staff scorecards that drive behavior. By Ben Linders, Toby Beresford.

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Continuous deployment for Next.js applications

CircleCI

React.js is a very powerful front-end framework, as its popularity and adoption over the years have shown. However, building a full, production-level application involves a feature set that the React framework, on its own, doesn’t include. Features like routing, code-splitting, bundling, CSS modules, and more are needed for production-level application development.

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Lean Product Development: How to build apps without burning money

Daffodil Software

One in ten startups fail. Any guesses why? Let’s set aside issues such as a lack of funding or poor marketing, and focus on the key reason–building a product that no one wants to use. 42% of startup failures happen because of an inferior product, not aligned with customers’ needs.

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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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Company Culture Must Remain Front and Center During These Uncertain Times

CEO Insider

With Covid-19 continuing to wreak havoc across corporate America today, many major companies are choosing to remain remote for the foreseeable future, If that’s you, don’t make the mistake of inadvertently putting company culture on the back burner. It is essential to stay diligent in maintaining and enhancing your culture so that staffers feel connected […].

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5 Amazing Benefits of Pharmacy Automation System

Daffodil Software

Fervently focused on delivery - the pharmacy industry on its constant hunt for a breakthrough has hit the spot with automation. An arrow in the quiver, pharmacy automation has made juggling the rising demand for cutting-edge products, and exceeding competition easy for pharmacists, clinicians, and even pharmaceutical companies.

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What Hiring Mistakes Do CIOs Make?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Are we focusing on the wrong things when we’re hiring? Image Credit: Roadsidepictures. So what is the most important asset in the IT department? If you are like most CIOs, you’re instinctive answer to that question is “our people” That’s a good answer; however, if we were to take a look at how the IT department goes about hiring people , I think that we’d discover a different story.

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Make Freelance Programming Great Again

Codegiant

From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1: Thanks for deciding to take a look at this article. I genuinely hope you enjoy it. [link] In summary, here’s what you’re going to learn in this article about freelance programming: The only question that keeps freelancers awake at night. The best way for getting freelance clients within a month (it doesn’t work if you don’t have balls though).

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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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How Tackle.io Monitors Performance In Serverless

Dzone - DevOps

Serverless technology is increasingly being adopted by organizations. According to The New Stack’s analysis of a community survey on GitHub, 75% of users plan to build a greenfield serverless application over the next year. Tackle.io , which has built a platform that helps independent software vendors (ISVs) get their software listed in the cloud marketplaces quickly, is one company that has adopted a serverless architecture.

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Tech Partners Create Custom Build Plugins to Reach Developers in Their Workflow

Netlify

This week, as part of Jamstack Conf, we’re revisiting Build Plugins and highlighting how three technology partners — Algolia, Nimbella, and Snyk — have integrated their service offerings directly into the developer workflow with Netlify. Earlier this year, Netlify announced the release of Build Plugins , a new way to customize and automate tasks within the build process.

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BetterCloud Report Reveals Operational Complexity and Risk Concerns as Organizations Reach Tipping Point in SaaS Adoption

DevOps.com

Responses from nearly 700 IT leaders and practitioners confirm organizations are embracing SaaSOps as a proven framework for their SaaS challenges NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — BetterCloud, the leading SaaSOps platform for managing and securing the digital workplace, today released its first SaaSOps report: “2020 State of SaaSOps.” Among its many significant findings, the report found […].

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Guide For Implementing SRE In NOCs

Dzone - DevOps

Network Operation Center s, or NOCs, serve as hubs for monitoring and incident response. A NOC is usually a physical location in an organization. NOC operators sit at a central desk with screens showing current service data. But, the functionality of a NOC can be distributed. Some organizations build virtual NOCs. These can be staffed fully remotely.

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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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8 Must-Have Features in Telehealth Apps You Should Know About

Daffodil Software

The world saw a rise in telehealth in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 outbreak not only shaped how we approach health amidst social distancing and lockdowns but pushed health service providers to realign their set-ups for the growing virtual care solutions.

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4 Signs That Software Reliability Should Be Your Top Priority

Dzone - DevOps

You know the companies who break away from the pack. You buy their products with prime shipping, you ride in their cars. You’ve seen them disrupt entire industries. It might seem like giants such as Amazon and Uber have always existed as towering pillars of profit, but that’s not so. What sets companies like these apart is a crucial piece of knowledge.

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Common Wireless Network Security Threats

Gitprime

Unlike a wired network which requires physical access to a device, a wireless network can be targeted and exploited from a distance. Learn about the basic wireless LAN security threats and how to prevent them.