March, 2023

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The Impact of Developer Happiness on Productivity

DevOps.com

Even in an era of unprecedented tech layoffs, most companies are still eager to find and retain top software developer talent. What’s more, many firms are discovering that they lack direct insight into their development teams’ needs and priorities. As a result, some of them are struggling to keep their developers happy and thus productive. […] The post The Impact of Developer Happiness on Productivity appeared first on DevOps.com.

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7 Possible Causes of SVB Failure and Predicting the Impact on Regulatory Reporting

Perficient

Recent headlines have highlighted the failure of SVB Financial Group, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”). To help both current and future clients, using publicly available financial records of SVB, including the last two annual reports and every 10-Ks and 10-Q filed this decade, a team of Perficient team members from around the world have gone beyond the headlines to analyze what the root cause of the run on the bank was, and what our clients and us can both learn from the mistake

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Winning Agile friends in your organization

Agile Alliance

Learn how to effectively promote Agile to your organization by tailoring your message to your audience The post Winning Agile friends in your organization first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Communicating Goals to Your Organization

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Once you’ve built some great goals, you need to communicate them to the organization. Operating in silos leads to missed opportunities. Once you’ve built some great goals, you need to communicate them to the organization. People in your department need to understand how their own goals, as well as the goals of their colleagues, tie to the broader organization goals.

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Apache Cassandra® NoSQL for the Relational DBA

Unleash the power of NoSQL with "Apache Cassandra® NoSQL for the Relational DBA." Learn from Lewis DiFelice, an experienced Professional Services Consultant at Instaclustr, as he shares his journey transitioning from SQL to managing a 40-node Cassandra cluster. Gain insights into Cassandra's architecture, configuration strategies, and best practices.

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How to Increase Trust in Your Remote Team (with video)

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Increase Trust in Your Remote Team When You’re Rarely in the Same Room “Hey Karin, I have a great team, but they’re spread out ALL OVER THE WORLD. I wouldn’t say we have a trust issue, but I would like to find some additional ways to INCREASE TRUST. What do you suggest? Today on #askingforafriend I’m taking you on a road trip to Virginia, on my way to give a keynote and talk about how to increase trust in a highly dispersed remote or hybrid team along the way

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: A ChatGPT Special Edition About What Matters Most to Cyber Pros

Tenable

Since ChatGPT’s release in November, the world has seemingly been on an “all day, every day” discussion about the generative AI chatbot’s impressive skills, evident limitations and potential to be used for good and evil. In this special edition, we highlight six things about ChatGPT that matter right now to cybersecurity practitioners. 1 - Don’t use ChatGPT for any critical cybersecurity work yet Despite exciting tests of ChatGPT for tasks such as finding coding errors and software vulnerabiliti

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Functional Domain Modeling in Kotlin

Xebia

This article was originally published at 47deg.com on February 11, 2021. At Xebia, we care a lot about domain modeling to describe our domain as precisely as possible. The goal of functional domain modeling is to describe your business domain as accurately as possible to achieve more type-safety, maximize the use of the compiler with our domain and, thus, prevent bugs and reduce unit testing.

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How To Go About Getting That Next CIO Job

The Accidental Successful CIO

Things have changed and perhaps for the better Image Credit: Temping Agency London I’m pretty sure that we are all experienced at getting another job. Very few people rise up in a single company and become CIO. However, perhaps it has been a while since you last went through the process of finding another job. If the itch to move on has once again struck you, then you are going to have to realize that things have changed.

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CorePlague: Severe Vulnerabilities in Jenkins Server Lead to RCE

Aqua Security

Aqua Nautilus researchers have discovered a chain of vulnerabilities, dubbed CorePlague , in the widely used Jenkins Server and Update Center (CVE-2023-27898, CVE-2023-27905). Exploiting these vulnerabilities could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim's Jenkins server, potentially leading to a complete compromise of the Jenkins server.

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Future Focus: Constructing Unshakeable Stability in Your Manufacturing Supply Chain

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

We’ve all heard the buzzwords to describe new supply chain trends: resiliency, sustainability, AI, machine learning. But what do these really mean today? Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible. Stability has become key in this post-COVID world, and will remain key moving forward.

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Powerful Phrases to Deal With a Credit Stealer or Idea Thief

Let's Grow Leaders

Stop that Credit Stealer and Get the Recognition You Deserve “I was in a meeting the other day, and one of the executives thanked my boss for the success of a project I’ve been working on all year. And you know what she said next? Thank you. I was sitting right there. She took ALL THE CREDIT! The really infuriating thing is that she had NOTHING to do with that project.

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What DevOps Leadership Should Look Like

DevOps.com

Implementing DevOps has become a major focus, but the practice’s attempt to provide organizational support and streamline production systems simultaneously leaves developers with no clear hierarchical structure. We know we need DevOps and we know it helps, but we also know that without proper leadership or structure, it can be misunderstood and undervalued.

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What Is Dumbing Us Down?

CEO Insider

At a party in rural Virginia, I listened as three military retirees carried on about the horrors of government and taxes, never stopping to think that every penny they earned came from government taxes. What is dumbing so many people down? This could be the question of our age, to answer before it’s too late. […] The post What Is Dumbing Us Down?

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The “suspend + receivers” style in Kotlin

Xebia

The "suspend + receivers" style The Arrow project, in particular starting with its 2.0 version, promotes a specific style of Kotlin to achieve composability of effects. Functional programming patterns inspire many concepts, but the specific implementation differs from Haskell’s or Scala’s typical way of doing things (monads, IO , and transformers).

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Finding The Application Modernization Strategy That Is Right For Your Business

As a business leader, you understand the importance of modernizing your applications. However, it can be difficult to find the right strategy. This whitepaper can help you modernize your apps without disrupting your business.

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Don't Be a Big Box Nonprofit: 3 Steps to Better Donor Relationships

TechSoup

For years, many book lovers felt that Barnes & Noble was the epitome of a soulless big box store. The store prioritized cost and efficiency over readers while putting many local, independent bookstores out of business. Then Amazon supersized this approach and put Barnes & Noble on the brink of bankruptcy as the pandemic began.

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Uniting the Machine Learning and Data Streaming Ecosystems - Part 1

Confluent

The future of data is real time and enriched by machine learning. How can we overcome socio-technical blockers and unite the ML and data streaming markets?

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What Is a Large Language Model, the Tech Behind ChatGPT?

Dataiku

The release of ChatGPT by OpenAI in December 2022 has drawn an incredible amount of attention. This curiosity extends from artificial intelligence in general to the class of technologies that underpins the AI chatbot in particular. These models, called large language models (LLMs), are capable of generating text on a seemingly endless range of topics.

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Debunking Myths About Reliability

DevOps.com

“Our service should always be up.” Some myths just won’t die. Engineering for reliability is well understood by engineering leaders, less so by bosses demanding unreasonable uptime with minimal resources and immense feature pressure. Business leaders tend to waffle between ignoring reliability with a hand wave and freaking out after an outage. How can they […] The post Debunking Myths About Reliability appeared first on DevOps.com.

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From Hadoop to Data Lakehouse

Getting off of Hadoop is a critical objective for organizations, with data executives well aware of the significant benefits of doing so. The problem is, there are few options available that minimize the risk to the business during the migration process and that’s one of the reasons why many organizations are still using Hadoop today. By migrating to the data lakehouse, you can get immediate benefits from day one using Dremio’s phased migration approach.

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SRE vs. Platform Engineering vs. DevOps

LaunchDarkly

Site reliability engineering (SRE), platform engineering, and DevOps are all related concepts around optimizing and giving structure to different aspects of the software delivery and software deployment lifecycles.

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Functional Domain Modeling in Rust – Part 1

Xebia

When I start learning new programming languages, I often consider how to create models for specific domains. I don’t know whether my consulting background influences this, but it always comes to mind. I’m sharing my initial attempts at using Rust , following a functional domain modeling approach, so there may be room for improvement in some of the implementations in this blog post.

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Technology Trends for 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This year’s report on the O’Reilly learning platform takes a detailed look at how our customers used the platform. Our goal is to find out what they’re interested in now and how that changed from 2021—and to make some predictions about what 2023 will bring. A lot has happened in the past year. In 2021, we saw that GPT-3 could write stories and even help people write software ; in 2022, ChatGPT showed that you can have conversations with an AI.

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What if the future of our businesses depends upon our ability to be un-business-like?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Why are memorial services celebrating the life of a loved one who has passed always convened around candlelight, music, and poetry and not around bright lights, PowerPoint presentations and spreadsheets? Today’s guest post is by Dr. Robert H. Lengel, author of A Place For T: Giving Voice To The Tortoise In Our Hare-Brained World (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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Feedback Frenzy: Restoring Customer and Internal Alignment for Product Success

Speaker: Evan Leong - CEO & Founder, Product Signals

Customer feedback is integral to effective problem management and product development for senior product professionals. Despite its significance, many organizations struggle to collect and utilize feedback appropriately. How do industry leaders like Apple and Amazon successfully leverage customer and market insights to enhance their products, even with vast customer bases and extensive market data?

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The World’s Most Influential CEOs And Business Executives Of 2023

CEO Insider

Who is the best CEO in the world? Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren E. Buffett, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, AT&T Inc’s John T. Stankey, or Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook? Well-known or unknown, these are the most successful, talented, and influential CEOs for long-term investors to watch as they build remarkable businesses that are worth holding for decades. […] The post The World’s Most Influential CEOs And Business Executives Of 2023 appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Survey: More Cybersecurity Pros Embedded in DevOps Teams

DevOps.com

A survey of 2,500 C-level executives published today by Palo Alto Networks found 81% of organizations have embedded cybersecurity professionals within their DevOps teams. Despite the presence of those cybersecurity professionals, however, the survey also suggested there is much work to do in terms of optimizing DevSecOps workflows. A full 90% of organizations cannot detect, […] The post Survey: More Cybersecurity Pros Embedded in DevOps Teams appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Cloud Takes Center Stage at 2023 Bank Automation Summit

Perficient

Recently, I attended the 2023 Bank Automation Summit , where one of the significant topics of discussion was how banks navigate their transition to the cloud. The “cloud” refers to a global network of servers, each with a unique function, that works in tandem to enable users to access files stored within from any approved device. The computing and storage of cloud data occur in a data center, rather than on a locally sourced device.

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NTS: Reliable Device Testing at Scale

Netflix Tech

By Benson Ma , ZZ Zimmerman With contributions from Alok Ahuja , Shravan Heroor , Michael Krasnow , Todor Minchev , Inder Singh Introduction At Netflix, we test hundreds of different device types every day, ranging from streaming sticks to smart TVs, to ensure that new version releases of the Netflix SDK continue to provide the exceptional Netflix experience that our customers expect.

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The Definitive Guide to Dashboard Design

Dashboard design can mean the difference between users excitedly embracing your product or ignoring it altogether. Great dashboards lead to richer user experiences and significant return on investment (ROI), while poorly designed dashboards distract users, suppress adoption, and can even tarnish your project or brand. That’s one of the many reasons we wrote The Definitive Guide to Dashboard Design—to help you avoid common pitfalls, including… Cramming too much onto one screen and expecting the u

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Nullables Livestream #15: Test Design

James Shore

In this weekly livestream series, I pair up with Ted M. Young, aka jitterted , to look at Nullables and A-Frame Architecture as an alternative to Mocks, Spies, and Hexagonal Architecture. Each episode combines a healthy dose of architecture and design discussion with hands-on coding. Watch us live every Monday! For details, see the event page. For more episode recordings, see the episode archive.

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Streaming Ingestion for Apache Iceberg With Cloudera Stream Processing

Cloudera

Recently, we announced enhanced multi-function analytics support in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) with Apache Iceberg. Iceberg is a high-performance open table format for huge analytic data sets. It allows multiple data processing engines, such as Flink, NiFi, Spark, Hive, and Impala to access and analyze data in simple, familiar SQL tables. In this blog post, we are going to share with you how Cloudera Stream Processing ( CSP ) is integrated with Apache Iceberg and how you can use the SQL Stream

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World’s Most Influential and Innovative Companies, 2023

CEO Insider

Which companies have the strongest reputations within and across industries? That’s the question at the heart of the CEOWORLD 200 Most Influential and Innovative Companies, an annual ranking of corporate reputation based on a poll of some 125,000 global corporate executives, company directors (or equivalent), business leaders, private equity investors, investment bankers, and financial analysts […] The post World’s Most Influential and Innovative Companies, 2023 appeared first on CEO