September, 2022

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The Real Reasons for Doing Test-Driven Development ??

Xebia

Why do people apply TDD? Here’s a secret: it’s not for the tests. Learn about the actual goal and values hidden under the surface of Test-Driven Development. What Are the Real Reasons for Doing TDD? Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a controversial topic amongst developers.

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Agile Sustainability Initiative

Agile Alliance

The planet is facing many challenges, including war, hunger, the climate crisis, and the decline of democratic rights. All of these challenges are addressed by the United Nations’ seventeen sustainable development goals, and this is why they are important for the Agile community.

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Request Batch

Martin Fowler

When distributing data leads to lots of small messages around a cluster then network latency and the request processing time (including serialization, deserialization of the request on the server side) can add significant overhead.

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Domain-Specific Languages in Kotlin: the Type-Safe Builder pattern

Xebia

Domain-specific languages are one of Kotlin’s superpowers. If you build them right, you can offer users a fluent and elegant syntax that is readable and contains less boilerplate.

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Modern Tech and More: Empowering Your Supply Chain for Success

Speaker: Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR

Ready to dive into new tech to protect your supply chain, but not sure where or how to start? In this webinar, Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR, will break down the new, innovative technologies and strategies that you can implement to mitigate historic challenges, and even teach you what NOT to do along the way!

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Your Browser has become Your Office

Dots and Bridges

The pandemic exacerbated a trend towards remote work. Mobile device proliferation has created an unprecedented cybersecurity challenge for all private and public sector organizations. Until recently, these organizations relied upon current “state of the art” technologies – VPN, etc.

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How to Survive the Mad Dash to the End of the Year

Next Level Blog

This post is publishing on the first work day after Labor Day Weekend 2022 so you know what that means. It’s the official start of the mad dash to the end of the year.

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Grab Your Cape: How to Go From C-suite Executive to Cyber Defense Superhero

SecureWorks

Grab Your Cape: How to Go From C-suite Executive to Cyber Defense Superhero Here are 3 reasons why even chief executives need to be ready to transform into cyber defenders at a moment’s notice. Here are 3 reasons why even chief executives need to be ready to transform into cyber defenders at a moment’s notice. Business Imperatives

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Measuring the Business Value of Technology Investments

Mentormate

I’ve spent my entire technical management career searching for the answer to one of the great mysteries: “Am I getting good value for my technology spend?”

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How to Win More Business During Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Kaseya

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is here! This October, get in front of your audience and educate them on the evolving cybersecurity threats their businesses face.

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Zeroing in on Cloud Technical Risk for Targeted Customer Impact

Need to get business and technical stakeholders aligned on cloud investments? Get practical guidance from the AWS experts at CloudGeometry to stay ahead of risks to cloud security, cost, and reliability – and keep customers loyal and confident.

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How to Build a High-Performing Team: Ten Vital Conversations

Let's Grow Leaders

Invest One Hour a Month to Help Your Team Perform Even Better. Every truly high-performing team has one thing in common: They spend time in candid conversation talking about what’s working and consistently look for ways to improve.

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Difference between Software Engineering and Computer Science

The Crazy Programmer

Although these fields initially appear comparable, their variability quickly becomes apparent when several studies are performed. The most important critical question is: which career is better in the long run?

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Scrum master anti-patterns 

Agile Alliance

Scrum masters are continuously looking for anti-patterns to help guide their team back onto the path of agility. But what if the anti-pattern originates from themselves? The post Scrum master anti-patterns first appeared on Agile Alliance. The Alliance

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The Great DevOps Burnout

DevOps.com

DevOps needs a mindset shift to save the overworked engineering collective. There’s a considerable discussion right now about the Great Resignation. But if you work in software engineering, you’re probably even more familiar with the Great Burnout.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

Data-driven decisions are no longer reserved for the few. Everyone needs data insights from the applications they use every day. Learn how embedded analytics is boosting user adoption, creating apps people love, and changing the game for software and SaaS providers.

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How to Avoid Burning Out if You Are a Data Scientist

Dataiku

This is a guest article from Eric Kahuha. Kahuha is an ambitious data scientist and an experienced technical writer. His work has been published in many blogs. He writes highly technical yet easy-to-understand content for beginners and experts in the tech field. Data Basics Featured

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Optimizing TopK queries in DataFusion

Xebia

Are you interested in your most popular products, the top contributions to your KPI or answering similar questions about your data? Probably so, as it’s very common to want insights like this in analytics, reports and dashboards.

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How to Say No at Work: Powerful Phrases to Stand Your Ground

Let's Grow Leaders

To Gain More Confidence Saying No at Work, Start with Your “Yes” It’s never easy to say no at work. After all, you want to be helpful, responsive, and a team player.

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Donald Knuth Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Donald brought a transition in the field of computers. He was the first to create the WEB and CWEB computer programming systems. He is rightly known as the Father of Analysis of Algorithms. An American mathematician, Donald Ervin Knuth is a Computer Scientist and a Professor at Stanford University.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualization Will Never Be Enough

Five years ago, data visualizations were a powerful way to differentiate a software application. Today, free visualizations seem to be everywhere. Two trends are forcing application providers to rethink how they offer analytics in their products.

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Scrum in Practice

Agile Alliance

Framework

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The Future of FinTech and the Cloud

DevOps.com

The integration of FinTech continues to revolutionize the way businesses interact with their consumers. What started as a viable solution to eliminating the need to carry physical currency has now become a multi-billion-dollar industry.

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Why Your Diversity & Inclusion Strategy Is Not Working

CEO Insider

A comprehensive Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) strategy should be part of the blueprint for any leading organization, but successfully implementing it can be a challenge even for leaders with the best of intentions.

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Superhero Scrum Masters; helpful or bottleneck?

Xebia

Clark Kent is the legendary Superman. There. I’ve said it. The glasses didn’t stop me from finding out. Superman has unearthly powers, which makes sense as he’s not from Earth but planet Krypton.

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10 Rules to More Streamlined Data Modeling

Apache Kafka is a powerful piece of software that can solve a lot of problems. Like most libraries and frameworks, you get out of it what you put into it. Learn 10 rules that will help you perfect your Kafka system to get ahead.

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Don’t Get Lost or Hurt: The Vital Role of Leadership Strategy and Tactics

Let's Grow Leaders

Balancing leadership strategy and tactics is critical for leaders at every level of an organization. When you don’t pay enough attention to strategy, you and your team end up lost in a wilderness of meaningless, unproductive busyness.

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David Patterson Biography

The Crazy Programmer

American computer Pioneer, David Andrew Patterson, was a professor of computer science at the University of California. He is best known for his operating systems, central processing units, and programming languages. Personal Life and Education.

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When One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Agile Alliance

In the years since the Agile Manifesto was written, there have been numerous Frameworks and other tools that have been created to support companies who are attempting to leverage Agile mindset and methodologies to provide value to customers.

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DevOps and Hybrid Cloud: Life in the Fast Lane, Part Two

DevOps.com

In the early years of cloud computing, cost savings were the major driver of adoption. These days, however, organizations are increasingly faced with spiraling expenditures, waste and a lack of control.

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

In this webinar, Sneha Narahalli, Head of Product at Sephora (Digital, Data & MarTech), will give you an iterative method for identifying and developing Product Market Fit.

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Threat Alert: New Malware in the Cloud By TeamTNT

Aqua Security

Over the past week we observed three different attacks on our honeypots. The scripts and malware that were used bear a striking resemblance to none other than the threat actor TeamTNT. Eleven months ago they posted a farewell note on Twitter.

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Accelerate DevOps with GitHub – by Michael Kaufmann

Xebia

Are you struggling with DevOps? You are not the only one. Many people have read books and done the research, but still fail to apply DevOps in their organization.

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Remote Team Culture: How to Improve Collaboration

Let's Grow Leaders

Boost Your Remote Team Culture: Help Your Team to Collaborate AS IF They’re in the Same Room. One of the biggest challenges we’re hearing from managers leading remote and hybrid teams is how to build a better remote team culture.

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