Mon.Oct 29, 2018

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How to Diversify Your Engineering Team

CodeSignal

Diversity and inclusion (or “D&I” for short) is an increasingly hot topic in the tech industry. And, rightfully so. After all, only 18.7% of software developers are women, according to the most recent Labor Force Survey published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The same report found that only 4.5% of employed web developers are Black or African American, despite representing 13.4% of the US population.

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OKR Guide: Understanding OKRs and How It Benefits Your Business

Evolution4all

OKR Guide – Objectives and Key Results (OKR) is a popular framework in goal setting and management that helps organisations implement a solid strategy. From improved focus to better team alignment, transparency, and accountability, OKR helps a company achieve its goals by helping team members create their own goals and take actions. The main components of an OKR are: objectives and key results.

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Team choreography

Dan Pupius

The power of good process and why it’s important to nail your operational cadence. This post was originally published on Range. In their book An Everyone Culture , Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey lay out three pillars for high-performing, deliberately developmental organizations: the edge, the home, and the groove. The Edge represents the aspirations and goals for the team and individuals.

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A Perfect Team: How Blockchain Can Drive the Internet of Things

CTOvision

Read why Anoop Nannra says that blockchain technology and Internet of Things can be a perfect mix for businesses on IOT Evolution World: It’s not surprising that emerging technologies like blockchain and the Internet of Things draw a great amount of interest among enterprises. These technologies separately come with the significant potential to improve challenges that organizations […].

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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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Transforming to an Agile Mindset, Part 1

Accenture

“Martin’s Problem”. Once, over beers late into the evening in an old European pub not far from his office, an executive shared with me his personal Agile mindset transformation journey. It is an account that I have found representative of many when they begin to lead Business Agility transformation. But first, some background. A few years ago, I had the privilege of helping convene a Learning Consortium for a cohort of companies that were each on their own Agile transformation journeys.

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How Drift Gets Engineers Up to Speed by Day 3

Gitprime

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Every employee has that dreaded Day 1. But, if your hiring process is thorough, new hires will already have a sense of the organization’s culture and what’s expected of them in their new role. Even still, the difference between an employee on Day 1 and on Day 90 can seem heroic.

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Unlock Resistance to Change | New On-Demand Video Course

Change Starts Here

Confession: I broke the #1 rule of the internet. That’s right, I read the comments. A few years ago, I spoke at the Georgia State University TEDx event on the topic of “How to Deal With Resistance to Change.” As of today, the video has more than 93,000 views, and I still hear from people […].

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Interesting Take: Forget Watson, the Red Hat acquisition may be the thing that saves IBM

CTOvision

There were certainly lots of quick takes from analysts on what the IBM and Red Hat news meant. This is one from TechCrunch: With the acquisition of Red Hat, IBM looks to refocus on its core strengths, rather than Watson, an AI push that was always more hype than reality. With its latest $34 billion acquisition […].

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Mercurial: Mass Add and Remove All Files

David Walsh

While I much prefer git and the GitHub workflow, Firefox’s codebase ( mozilla-central ) is store in a mercurial repository. There are tools that wrap mercurial so you can use a git-like interface, like git-cinnabar, but my philosophy is to learn the root tool so that I know what’s going on every step of the way. Imagine losing work to an abstraction problem — that would be terrible!

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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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While AR plays catch-up in other sectors, it’s taking over the enterprise

CTOvision

Way back in 2017, it was predicted that AR and VR will drive the future digital business. Now slowly but surely, AR or augmented reality is making its mark in an enterprise. AR has found popularity in the enterprise with industrial deployments in automotive assembly lines, quality control, training centers, and more. We are only now […].

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The challenges of migrating 150+ microservices to Kubernetes

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Sarah Wells explains how the Financial Times migrated microservices between container stacks without affecting production users. Continue reading The challenges of migrating 150+ microservices to Kubernetes.

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Google rolls out ‘.new’ links for instantly creating new Docs, Slides, Sheets and Forms

CTOvision

Google Docs just rolled out a time-saving trick that’s sure to be welcomed by heavy users of Docs, or any of Google’s other productivity tools like Sheets, Slides, Sites or Forms. The company this week introduced its “.new” domain, which can be used to instantly create a new file across any of these services, it […].

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The Role of Agile Managers: Why Job Titles Are Dangerous

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Managers transitioning from waterfall to Agile will need to renegotiate their relationship with their teams if they are to succeed. A manager cannot simply become an Agile Manager – a big part of a transition requires a rethinking of how job titles are assigned and the leadership responsibility that comes with them. I was recently approached by a client who asked about effective Agile Organizational Structure.

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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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Potholes in the road from monolithic hell: Microservices adoption anti-patterns

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Chris Richardson describes microservices anti-patterns he’s observed while working with clients around the world. Continue reading Potholes in the road from monolithic hell: Microservices adoption anti-patterns.

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CodeSOD: A Tern at the Build Process

The Daily WTF

Justin Self inherited an internal build tool. Rome may not have been built in a day, but this tool was. It “simplifies” provisioning development environments, claiming machines in the environment for certain tasks, and so on. (e.BuildStatus == null ? (e.Branch == null ? "" : ($"nBranch: ")) : ($"n{(e.BuildStatus == "Building" ?

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History of Accelerated Learning

Rapid BI

Accelerated or Brain Friendly Learning is considered unique in the history of innovative learning due to its user friendly methods of imparting skills to the learner. The post History of Accelerated Learning appeared first on RapidBI.

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5 Tips To Re-Engage and Retain Valuable Employees

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Brett Farmiloe The two-year itch. You know what I’m talking about. It’s the feeling you get after being at a job for a couple of years.

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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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Dell UltraSharp Monitor Family Expands with Workforce Transformation in Mind

Dell EMC

A new era of office technology has arrived to meet the demands of the evolving attitudes toward work-culture, workforce and workspace design. Introducing the latest innovation from the world’s favorite monitor brand1 – all-new Dell UltraSharp Monitors. Enabling your customers’ workforce with better technology, including the right displays, is a way to heighten their experiences, which in turn impacts their customers’ experiences 2.

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Increasing Deployment Safety with Metric Based Canaries

LaunchDarkly

In September, Brandon Leach, Sr Engineering Manager at Lookout, gave a talk at our Test in Production Meetup on Increasing Deployment Safety with Metric Based Canaries. “You can configure a canary to watch any metric you want, like here we’re watching system metrics and application-based metrics. You can see we’re watching for response codes, other application metrics, and other system-level metrics like memory utilization and CPU.”.

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Are microservices a security threat?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Liz Rice outlines the security implications of microservices, containers, and serverless. Continue reading Are microservices a security threat?

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Everything You Need to Know About Voting this November

Symantec

Faced with a welter of sometimes confusing regulations, here’s what you need to know about voting in the mid-term elections

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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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Highlights from the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London 2018

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Watch highlights from expert talks covering microservices, Kubernetes, serverless, and more. People from across the software architecture world came together in London for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event. The challenges of migrating 150+ microservices to Kubernetes. Sarah Wells explains how the Financial Times migrated microservices between container stacks without affecting production users.

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How to raise your LinkedIn profile (Get Seen on LinkedIn) – stand above other users #HRBlog

Rapid BI

How to get seen on LinkedIn. Having a LinkedIn profile is one thing. Leveraging it and have it work for you is quite another. Over the years I have used LinkedIn a lot, and would like to share with you some simple things you can do to to make LinkedIn work for you in a […]. The post How to raise your LinkedIn profile (Get Seen on LinkedIn) – stand above other users #HRBlog appeared first on RapidBI.

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2020 is Coming and the Time to Secure the Next Election is Now

Symantec

Experts say a polyglot state voting system that’s evolved will need a thorough inspection to make sure it can handle its next big challenge

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Four short links: 29 October 2018

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Quantum Internet, Live Coding, Ethics Checklists, and Robot Compendium. Quantum Internet: A Vision for the Road Ahead (Science) -- interesting paper laying out a roadmap for development of "the quantum internet." Stages: trusted repeater networks, prepare and measure networks, entanglement distribution networks, quantum memory networks, fault-tolerant few-qubit networks, and quantum computing networks.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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How to Ensure Your Data Stays Secure on the Cloud

Arcserve

Though there are myths about a lack of security in cloud computing, the cloud is oftentimes the safest place you can store your data. The only people who have access to data you store on the cloud are the ones you decide to give access to through password distribution. Plus, it’s a simple way to. Read more » The post How to Ensure Your Data Stays Secure on the Cloud appeared first on StorageCraft Technology Corporation.

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MadoMiner Part 2 - Mask

AlienVault

This is a guest post by independent security researcher James Quinn. If you have not yet read the first part of the MadoMiner analysis , please do so now. This analysis will pick up where Part 1 left off, while also including a brief correction. The x64 version of the Install module was listed as identical to the x86 Install module. However, this is not correct.

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Scrumtisch December 2018

Agile42

Dear friends, here's the schedule for the next Scrumtisch in Berlin: Date: 13th of December, 2018 Time: 18:30 Place: agile42, Gruenberger Str. 54, 10245 Berlin If you would like to attend, please send a message to scrumtisch@agile42.com, or register at the Scrum User Group on Xing. We are looking forward to meeting you and seeing you again!

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