Mon.Jan 06, 2020

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DevOps Versus ITIL: How to Win the Battle Over Change Management

DevOps.com

Ever since DevOps came on the scene a decade ago, ITIL has been under siege. ITIL lays out a number of IT service management (ITSM) best practices, including release management, change management, incident management, problem management and many other aspects of running an IT shop so that its priorities align with the business’s. For many […].

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Top 10 predictions for AI in IT operations

TechBeacon

Gartner first coined the term "AIOps" few years ago to describe "artificial intelligence for IT operations," and over the last few years, IT operations monitoring tool vendors have begun incorporating AIOps features into their products.

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The Engagement Secret of Great Leaders

N2Growth Blog

Show me a great leader and I’ll show you a talented storyteller. Leadership and storytelling go hand-in-hand. In fact, leaders who lack the ability to leverage the power and influence of storytelling are missing the very essence of what accounts for compelling leadership begins with the story. Give me a few minutes and allow me to share this message with you – it may just change your life.

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What I Believe About Leadership

Nathan Magnuson

Several years ago I interviewed with a large leadership development consulting firm. Things were going as expected until the office president threw me a curve ball by asking for my point-of-view on leadership. I was stumped. I had many ideas on what good leadership looked like but I didn’t have my own original model. Fortunately, I shared someone else’s POV I appreciated and was able to satisfy the president with my answer.

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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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Passing the Baton: Leadership in Transition

General Leadership

“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is saved.” Benjamin Franklin. So you’ve been leading your organization for a year or two, maybe more, and now it’s time to turn over your pride and joy to another leader. You’ve given it everything you’ve got, as you poured your heart and soul into this organization striving to lead your team to new heights.

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Y-Ok

The Daily WTF

Twenty years out, people have a hard time remembering that Y2K was an actual thing, an actual problem, and it was only solved because people recognized the danger well ahead of time, and invested time and effort into mitigating the worst of it. Disaster didn’t come to pass because people worked their butts off to avoid it. Gerald E was one of those people.

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5 Reason for Patients No-Show and How to Avoid It?

Daffodil Software

Patients who schedule clinical appointments and do not show-up have an adverse impact on the clinical workflow, patient care system, and cost-effective care delivery. Studies suggest that 1 out of 5 appointments are no-show.

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Docker: 3 things you need to know to get started

Gitprime

Make your applications more portable and reduce environmental issues with each deployment. Here’s what you need to know to get started with Docker.

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Service Meshes: Improving Security, Delivery and Availability

DevOps.com

Containerized microservices are taking over the software world. These services provide developers a way to quickly create and deploy cloud-native applications. However, containers aren’t perfect. Orchestrating and managing container deployments can be a serious challenge. To help ease this challenge, service meshes were developed. In this article, you’ll learn about service meshes components and architecture […].

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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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The Spotify “Model”: Don’t Simply Copy-Paste

Accenture

In 2014 Frederick Kniburg posted an article describing how a small music player company in Sweden organized some of their development teams. It’s a nice article describing how Spotify was organizing at the time. The names Spotify came up with for the various dimensions of the organizational structure are cute – “Tribes,” “Guilds,” “Chapters.” Somehow, however, this interesting anecdote became a rigid prescription that many large corporate IT organizations thoughtlessly copy, often (mis)guided by

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Benefits of feature toggles or feature flags

Apiumhub

Many developers say that they use feature flags or feature toggles, but this year we have realised that there is some confusion around the term that still persists. Therefore, we decided to write an article about Feature toggles and feature flags, taking into account it’s increased popularity. As software teams seek higher agility, the tools and techniques for software development and delivery continue to evolve every year.

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Hiring Experience Makes All the Difference

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

The quality of a candidate’s hiring experience significantly impacts an organization’s ability to attract top talent. Today’s post is by Lisette Howlett, author of The Right Hire (CLICK HERE to get your copy). I have had a number of bizarre hiring experiences which, supported by research and leadership experience, have led me to reach a number of conclusions about hiring, namely that it is an often undervalued and overlooked area which can have a profound impact on an organization.

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The Complete Guide to Software Development Outsourcing

Radixweb

The value of Software Development outsourcing is tremendously growing. Read in detail everything there is to know related to outsourcing and how it can turn tables around for your business.

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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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4 Steps of Data Driven Recruiting

CodeSignal

This blog post is based on the twenty-third episode of the data-driven recruiting podcast hosted by CodeSignal co-founders Sophia Baik and Tigran Sloyan. You can find and listen to this specific episode here or check out the video version embedded below. Data-driven recruiting is becoming one of the buzzwords of the recruiting world. But… what is it?

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IDC’s Worldwide Education 2020 Predictions

IDC

This blog lists the top 10 worldwide predictions for Worldwide Education. These technology predictions are meant to help the enterprise with strategic planning within a typical five-year business planning cycle. Just a couple of weeks ago, the education team learned a valuable lesson: data and opinions can manifest in multiple ways, especially in today’s massively exploding data landscape.

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Research in 2020: stuff I am thinking about

Honeycomb

James Governor, RedMonk’s Analyst & Co-Founder, ponders the upcoming year and is excited about the upswing of Observability, giving credit to Honeycomb’s Charity Majors for this. This write-up also touches on Charity’s argument “that we must improve our delivery processes so that we can be confident enough to ship code at any time, including Friday afternoons.” The post Research in 2020: stuff I am thinking about appeared first on Honeycomb.

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Benefits of Automation: Make the Most of Your People

Firemon

Gone are the days when IT leaders fretted that the benefits of automation would shove people out of jobs. If anything, it’s the opposite: 74% of cybersecurity professionals say that a skills shortage has affected their organizations, continuing a trend of concern over the past few years, according to the report “The Life and Times of Cybersecurity Professionals 2018.”.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Certificates a Fly in the DevOps Ointment

DevOps.com

The way cybersecurity teams have managed certificates is turning out to be a major impedance that could best be addressed by more organizations adopting best DevSecOps practices in 2020. A survey of 108 attendees at the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 conference conducted by Venafi, a provider of tools for assigning identities to machines, finds […].

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How To Create A Productive Office

Strategy Driven

Sometimes it’s hard to stay focused when you’re at work, especially if you’re inside a stifling office space on a warm day. Of course, you’d always rather be somewhere else than at work, but what you can do is make your working environment more appealing, more fun, and a productive place to be. If you’re an office manager and you’re considering making changes to the place in order to boost productivity, then your first port of call should be to ask your staff members.

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4 Steps of Data Driven Recruiting

CodeSignal

This blog post is based on the twenty-third episode of the data-driven recruiting podcast hosted by CodeSignal co-founders Sophia Baik and Tigran Sloyan. You can find and listen to this specific episode here or check out the video version embedded below. Data-driven recruiting is becoming one of the buzzwords of the recruiting world. But… what is it?

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How to Raise Revenue for an Entrepreneurial Start-Up

Strategy Driven

The first step in raising revenue for an entrepreneurial start-up is to outline a detailed marketing strategy. It is important for start-up entrepreneurs to test their assumptions as soon as they can. A big reason for the success of established companies is that they never invest large capital or significant time on any project unless they have determined that it has an overwhelming probability of success.

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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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Mocking Vuex in Storybook and Vue Test Utils

Xebia

tl;dr: Scroll down to Conclusion immediately In Storybook, each story is a new Vue app? register Vuex plugin on Vue prototype In Vue Test Utils, each test reuses the existing Vue constructor? register Vuex plugin on local Vue instance This blog post demonstrates how to set up a simple unit test and story for a […]. The post Mocking Vuex in Storybook and Vue Test Utils appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Do You Have What It Takes to Hack It as a Female Founder?

Strategy Driven

Women’s curiosity and interest in entrepreneurship is at an all-time high. Getty Images has seen a fourfold increase in searches for “woman entrepreneur” photos in the last year alone. With the popularity of television shows such as Shark Tank and The Profit , more and more women are wondering if they have what it takes to be a female founder. It takes more than having a good idea to be a successful entrepreneur.

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How Edge Computing Is Supercharging the Internet of Things

CTOvision

The Internet of Things is a network of smart machines and technologies that can collect and analyze data to improve decision-making and performance. Often, analytics take place through cloud computing, whereby data points are transmitted to remote servers. But this approach takes time and requires costly broadband resources. Enter edge computing. Through edge computing, data processing and […].

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A Deep Dive into eBPF: The Technology that Powers Tracee

Aqua Security

Tracee, by Aqua Security, is an open source, lightweight, and easy to use container and system tracing utility. Tracee allows you to trace events that were generated within containers only, without needing to filter out other system processes.

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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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5 Ways Blockchain will Shape Businesses in 2020

CTOvision

Read Ceecee Wong explain how blockchain will shape businesses in 2020 on CDO Trends : Early last year, critics of blockchain tolled the bells of doom for the technology. They argued that it was overhyped and did not merit the kind of attention and investment it lured. Fast forward to 2020, and what we have seen […].

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How to build confidence as an engineer: an interview with Glen Mailer, CircleCI Staff Software Engineer

CircleCI

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers. In this interview, we spoke to CircleCI Staff Software Engineer, Glen Mailer.

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Will Cloud Complexity Bankrupt Your Company?

CTOvision

Read David Linthicum explain the cloud complexities on Forbes : It’s 2024. You’re a global 2000 company that’s in a bit of a bind. Your IT costs have almost doubled over the last 10 years, with no aligned increase in revenue. At the same time, your IT infrastructure couldn’t adjust to the simplest of changes […].

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