Coding Dojo
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Whether you’re currently pursuing a degree in computer science, a veteran using the GI Bill to choose their next mission, … Read more >>. The post How to Code Faster: 7 Quick Tips to Increase Productivity appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This figure is larger than the 4% average for other careers. One would be out of touch with reality to say they haven’t noticed this phenomenon in Lagos, Africa’s startup capital city, where mid to senior-level engineers are leaving in droves to seek better pay and opportunities in companies outside Africa.
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Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Are hybrid workplaces compatible with the workflow teams are trying to achieve, or does it help or hinder them from living up to Agile values and principles? The post The Rise of Hybrid Work and What it Means For Agile first appeared on Agile Alliance.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
To get better executive leadership support, ask for what you need. You have lots of great reasons to want better leadership support for your team. An executive visit can really help provide strategic context and reinforce important priorities. A regular cadence of executive exposure opens doors for your high-potential employees. And of course, if your executive is closer to the day-to-day challenges you face, they’re better positioned to share, solicit and respond to ideas and remove roadb
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N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
By Sandra Burmeister and Kelli Vukelic. Early figures and forecasts show that the mining sector is in for one of the most robust years off the back of the soaring demand for commodities and the industry’s impressive rebound in the second half of 2021. Even so, the sector is still grappling with a plateful of hot-button issues, including social restructuring, environmental protection, and the global push for de-carbonization placing particular pressure on the coal and platinum industries.
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Allen Holub
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
You do not need a bug tracking system. In fact, a bug tracking system is a symptom of a deeper problem—insufficient focus on quality. In general, I fix bugs the moment they appear (not in a drop-everything sense, but as soon as I can get to it—usually within a few hours, but sometimes in a… The post Don’t track bugs, fix them appeared first on Allen Holub.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
There’s no denying the growth of healthtech globally over the past three years thanks to the pandemic. The event has accelerated the use of telemedicine, virtual care, and drug delivery, thus fuelling investor interest in the sector. Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. Lagos- and Texas-based digital healthcare provider Reliance Health is the latest beneficiary and is doing so in grand style, raising $40 million.
Tenable
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Government agencies publish warnings and guidance for organizations to defend themselves against advanced persistent threat groups. As governments around the world call for heightened cyber vigilance, the reality of our digital world comes into stark relief: there are no boundaries when it comes to the potential damage that can be inflicted as a result of nation-state conflicts.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
Save Days, Weeks, Even Months of Lost Time. with a Quick Check for Understanding. What is a Check for Understanding? All communication involves a send and a receive. A check for understanding is a simple confirmation that the message you intended to send is what the receiver heard. In other words, is your team picking up what you’re putting down?
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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.
N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
The process of sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding an executive continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Many corporations are overhauling their approach to hiring executives and are more open-minded to change than ever before. I recently had coffee with a newly retired HR executive for a Fortune 500 healthcare company and learned The Great Resignation had worked its way up to the executive shelf.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
In the last few months, the cybersecurity world has been taken by storm following the discovery of the Log4Shell vulnerability. The zero-day had the potential to put much of the connected world at risk and left security teams scrambling to quickly apply security patches to software just before Christmas 2021. As a result of the […]. The post How to Seamlessly Transition to DevSecOps appeared first on DevOps.com.
Toptal
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Page speed is an important ranking attribute for search engines, making performance optimization a prerequisite for successful sites. Here's how Google PageSpeed Insights can help identify and rectify performance issues.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Artificial intelligence has infiltrated a number of industries, and the restaurant industry was one of the latest to embrace this technology, driven in main part by the global pandemic and the need to shift to online orders. That need continues to grow. In 2021, some 60% of Americans ordered takeout or delivery at least once a week, and 31% used a third-party delivery service.
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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.
InfoQ Culture Methods
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
At QCon Plus, Glenn Engstrand described how Optum Digital engineering devised a method for reliably and predictably paying down tech debt for hundreds of microservices, forming relevant communities and identifying high-risk areas. The communities' collective decisions can be compiled into an actionable roadmap and presented to product managers in a systemic and non-confrontational way.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 27, 2022
Civility at Work is a Team Sport. What do you do if you’re dealing with a co-worker who is completely uncivil? I mean down-right mean, their momma should have taught them better kind of uncivil? How can you address civility at work at a team level? #Askingforafriend. I was talking with an HR leader the other day about some of the challenges they were facing after a very turbulent year, the stressful year.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
In this article, I'm going to show you how to deploy Concourse CI in the Alibaba Cloud-managed Kubernetes service with a Helm chart. After that, we will set up a simple pipeline in Concourse CI with Fly CLI. Concourse CI is a nice automation tool that brings YAML native CI/CD pipelines to your Kubernetes cluster.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
By now, most of us are familiar with the concept of site reliability engineering (SRE). The term was originally coined by Google and SRE has been gaining traction in recent years as a role dedicated to increasing the resilience of digital ecosystems. To accomplish this, a big part of the SRE doctrine is “automating your […]. The post Day in the Life of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) appeared first on DevOps.com.
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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.
Aqua Security
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
One of the advantages of automated CI/CD pipelines is that they’re a great place to implement regular security controls and checks. Using GitHub Actions, it’s easy to improve the security of your containers by automating vulnerability scanning and digital signing of container images on a regular basis. In this post, we’ll go over how to set up and secure a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, Cosign, and Trivy.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
RedRoute , a voice-based customer service experiences and conversational artificial intelligence startup, is going after an emerging $350 billion customer service automation sector. When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating.
Coding Dojo
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
If you read just one of the best programming books this year you’ll be a step ahead of nearly everyone … Read more >>. The post The 9 Best Programming Books to Read Right Now if You Want to Distinguish Yourself appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.
Daffodil Software
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
The various applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) have helped companies across the board to automate processes and improve their bottom line. This technology is doing wonders for the finance sector in improving service delivery, making customer transactions more transparent, and making the overall process of money exchange more efficient.
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CEO Insider
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
And how your security process may be driving customers away. It’s a common scenario these days: Your customer is returning to take advantage of your spring offers, so they go to log in, but they can’t get in right away. Your site or mobile app now requires them to verify themselves—even though they’ve been a […]. The post Three Ways to Improve your Customer Experience by Reducing Friction appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
OpenStack, described as the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud software, will mark its 10-year anniversary milestone later in 2022. In September 2012, the OpenStack Foundation launched as an independent organization to manage and promote the technology—a watershed moment for a project announced just two years earlier. Today, with contributions from more than 34,000 […].
David Walsh
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Seemingly every website, dapp, and app offers a dark mode preference, and thank goodness. Dark mode is especially useful when I’m doing late night coding, or even worse, trading into altcoins. I’m presently working on implementing a dark theme on MetaMask and it got me to thinking: is there a way we can default to dark mode if the user’s operating system also defaults to dark mode?
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
When one public company in a certain sector communicates a difficult quarter, the other companies in the sector tend to see a dip in share price. However, for private companies, it is hard to know exactly why there was an increase in costs last week — was it due to the company’s performance or happening to everyone else, too. Varos , based in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, is shedding some light on how companies compare to their peers in terms of key performance indicators, like customer acquisitio
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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.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
DevOps has come a long way, and Kubernetes is quickly taking over the technology world. Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestrator system: it automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It is a powerful tool to manage distributed clusters of containers economically and reliably. While it is considered a sophisticated tool, it can throw challenges at you if it’s not configured correctly.
Honeycomb
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
At the time of writing this post, I have officially been at Honeycomb for one year as a site reliability engineer (SRE). I had shared my initial experiences and impressions in this post and thought it would make sense to check back in now that I’ve had the opportunity to spend time learning about the team, the culture, and the code base more in depth. .
TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Over the past two years, as they tried to survive the pandemic, enterprises were hyper-focused on cost reduction and finding new revenue streams. With a "lift and shift" approach, they cut costs by transitioning applications and technologies to the cloud, and to generate and sustain new revenue streams, they built APIs. These were fast-paced projects, executed out of necessity.
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