Sun.Sep 29, 2019

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When TDD Is Not a Good Fit

Henrik Warne

I like to use Test-Driven Development (TDD) when coding. However, in some circumstances, TDD is more of a hinderance than a help. This happens when how to solve the problem is not clear. Then it is better to first write a solution and evaluate if it solves the problem. Writing tests only makes sense after the solution is viable. Last week, I came across examples of where I developed new functionality without using TDD.

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Chaos Engineering for ITOps

DevOps.com

Chaos engineering (CE) is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production. This approach is becoming commonplace in software development and operations (DevOps) practices. But how would its application extend to ITOps? CE for ITOps offers a similar framework for stress-testing […].

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3 Tips To Get Discovered By Executive Search Firms

N2Growth Blog

I liken the executive search process to a grown-up version of the game “hide and seek” Brands across every sector are the seekers. Executives tend to hide. If you want to learn how to get discovered by an executive search firm— keep reading. The “playground” is big and complex. It spans geographies, industries, and functions.

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Teradata Certification Program Embraces Vantage

Teradata

The Teradata Certification program is celebrating its 20th anniversary! Find out how it can advance your career by making you a certified expert on Vantage.

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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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The Days of Getting Bogged Down by HR Paperwork are Officially Over

PowerSchool

Paperwork bogs down many K-12 schools and districts, but a better solution for managing HR and administrative processes exists. Switching to online, paperless HR systems eliminates redundancies, improves data accuracy, and saves money by significantly reducing the cost of supplies and cutting postage. Most K-12 schools and districts stand to gain a lot by adopting a digital solution to HR operations.

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Seven JAMstack Podcasts We Love

Netlify

In honor of International Podcast Day , we thought we’d share a few JAMstack Podcasts we love! P.S. Wondering what JAMstack is? Check out Jamstack.org and read Modern Web Development on the JAMstack ! JAMstack Radio ( link ). This Heavybit podcast is hosted by Brian Douglas of GitHub (and formerly of Netlify) and is the longest running podcast dedicated to the JAMstack!

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Get into the Analytics Cockpit

Beyond B2B

Move over data scientists, business users want to get into the “production cockpit” and pilot their own analytics projects.

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Raising the Quality of Your Software Project: When to Trim the Tail

WorkingMouse

It’s difficult to explain the concept of bugs in software without going through the development cycle first hand. One of the better ways to think about it is through the lense of testing. During the planning and design phase of a project there is an anticipated user flow.

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Rules for amazing team formation

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by James Scott People make companies successful. Without effective team formation, a business can’t succeed. Carefully choosing and assigning roles and tasks is a crucial element in business management.

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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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3 Tips To Get Discovered By Executive Search Firms

N2Growth Blog

I liken the executive search process to a grown-up version of the game “hide and seek” Brands across every sector are the seekers. Executives tend to hide. If you want to learn how to get discovered by an executive search firm— keep reading. The “playground” is big and complex. It spans geographies, industries, and functions.

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Dockerfile

DevOps.com

The post Dockerfile appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CodeSOD: Butting In

The Daily WTF

Initech is a large, international corporation. Any time you're doing business at a global scale, you're going to need to contend with a language barrier sooner or later. This makes employees who are multilingual valuable. Dana recently joined Initech, and in the first week, was warned about Jerry. Jerry was the "chief" "architect" and team "lead", and was one of those special, valuable employees who spoke three languages.