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Developer On Call

Henrik Warne

For the system at work, I am on call one week every seven weeks. For most of the past ten years, I have been on organized on call rotations for the systems I have been developing. I think being on call is a logical way of taking responsibility for your work. You also learn a lot from it. However, it is stressful and an inconvenience, so you should get payed for it.

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4 Steps to LinkedIn Success

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

We have all seen them. LinkedIn profiles with no profile picture, a one-line summary and an activity stream that is so dormant the last post happened during the Obama administration. LinkedIn is the perfect jobseeker platform, but if you don’t put in some effort your personal brand will hurt more than help your job prospects. Did you know that the vast majority of employers are actively searching for candidates on LinkedIn as a standard part of the hiring process?

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CIA Honors Former Director George H.W. Bush

The Cipher Brief

Former President George H.W. Bush, who died last Friday, held among his most cherished roles in U.S. Government, the role of Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Bush served as Director for just one year, from January 1976 to January 1977. He came into the Agency during a time of internal crisis, when the CIA stood accused of spying on U.S. anti-war groups, a violation of its charter.

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The challenges of Essential SAFe

Net Objectives

This is an excerpt from Adopting SAFe at Small- or Medium- Scale a chapter from my upcoming book “Achieving Business Agility at Small- to Mid-Scale. Essential SAFe, the smallest option of SAFe, was designed for programs within a large organization. It was not designed for an entire organization that is the size of a program. … Continue reading "The challenges of Essential SAFe".

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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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How To Get Your First Clients As A Freelancer

Strategy Driven

If you’re just getting started as a new freelancer, even if you’ve run other freelance businesses, one of the first things you’re probably focusing on is how to get your first paying clients. Although it’s going to take some work and effort on your part to get yourself out there and find those initial clients and certainly isn’t easy or something you can expect to happen overnight, if you’re staying focused on the right strategies and not trying everything all at once, then you can definitely ma

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Alignment Efficiency: When to Sacrifice Speed for Greater Alignment

Strategic Tech

In the perfect world, each team in our organisation would spend 100% of their time on improving products and delivering value to customers. Every second of every day would be spent producing value which increases customer satisfaction and the business’s bottom line. This perfect world does not exist due to the limited capacity of human cognition. No single person can have all the skills and knowledge needed of the business and of the technical solution.

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The contradictions in many Scrum-based Framework Training (Scrum, SAFe, …)

Net Objectives

Many proponents of Scrum based frameworks say: knowledge workers are people who know more than their managers we must trust & respect people people must self-organize But then their courses go on to tell people what to do. They say – stick with these rules & then later you can modify them to fit you. … Continue reading "The contradictions in many Scrum-based Framework Training (Scrum, SAFe, …)".

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AWS re:Invent re:Actions — Controlling risk is important, but confusing

Datica

Last week the Datica team visited Las Vegas for the annual AWS re:Invent conference. As always, the event did not disappoint. AWS knows how to put on a show, getting grander every year. Here are a few observations from Datica’s point of view. The MBAs got a hold of the cloud. In last year’s review I made a comment that has since been a story I tell when discussing the state of the cloud.

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Russia’s Strategy of Escalation Against Ukraine

The Cipher Brief

Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko says he is ready for four-country talks with Russia over the crisis in the Black Sea. Poroshenko declared martial law last month after Russian ships seized Ukrainian vessels and took Ukrainian sailors into custody, claiming they had illegally entered Russian waters. . The United Nations held an emergency security council meeting after the incident, with world leaders calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release the sailors and return the ships.

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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.