July, 2018

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DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?

OverOps

DevOps or SRE? We’re going over the two concepts, highlighting the differences between them and trying to understand how each one came to be. DevOps and SRE seem like two sides of the same coin. Both titles aim to bridge the gap between development and operation teams, with a unified goal of enhancing the release cycle without any compromises. And indeed, in most companies we can see that there’s a requirement for just one of these positions, with an overlap in responsibilities and abilities.

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Scrum by Example: Feeling Pain from your Daily Scrum?

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Scrum by Example is a narrative-style blog series designed to help people new to Scrum, especially new ScrumMasters. If you are new to the series, we recommend you check out the introduction to learn more about the series is and discover other helpful articles. Dramatis Personae. Steve – a ScrumMaster and the hero of our story. Michael – another ScrumMaster for a different team.

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Completed Copyedit and other notes

Martin Fowler

I've added a couple more memos to my thoughts on producing the second edition of Refactoring. Last week I shone a light on the hidden heroes. whose technical reviews removed many a mistake from the book. Today I added some thoughts about the copyediting of the book , which we've just finished.

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Changing the Culture by Changing Habits

Agile Alliance

By Jutta Eckstein and John Buck We hear people often say that an Agile transformation implies a culture change and that this culture change refers actually to a change of the mindset. However, what does this really mean, and how can you possibly change the culture (or help others do it)? The very first answer … Continued.

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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 Become a Programmer Without a Degree?

The Crazy Programmer

Hello there folks, today we are going to shed some light on how one can become a programmer without a degree. By the word ‘programmer’, one can convey three different meanings, first, someone who barely have enough knowledge or experience in the programming field and writing few lines of code using some mark-up or scripting language considers him/herself a programmer.

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Stack Overflow: Top Java Questions We Didn’t Know We Had – and How to Answer Them

OverOps

A collection of Stack Overflow questions that you shouldn’t miss out on: It’s no secret; we all use Stack Overflow. It holds the answers to life, the universe and pretty much everything code related. The platform provides a place for developers, engineers and others to find answers to an issue that they’re facing, or at least set them on the right track towards a solution.

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Google Sprint Overview: How Innovations Happen in just one week

Evolution4all

Markets are changing. Products are evolving. But how about the companies and organisations? Many traditional methods are no longer working leaving the companies behind their respective industry standards. As a result, companies are investing a lot of money in different tools that can make their operations run smoothly. But what if machines and tools are not the problems?

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Google Sprint Overview: How to Deploy Innovative Solutions in Five Days

Luis Goncalves

Many leaders and business owners are looking for effective ways on how to cut lead time and make the most out of their human resource to deploy innovative undertakings for their company. Usually, team huddles focus on discussing “big” ideas that rarely reach the end user and customers. More often than not, this type of “meeting and brainstorming session” leads the project stakeholders more confused than they were when they entered the boardroom.

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Why Bother Speaking Up? It Won’t Help (and other Destructive Thinking)

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever heard yourself saying those words? “Why bother speaking up, it won’t do any good?” Or “I’ve tried speaking up in the past, and no one cared.” Or “Speaking up isn’t valued around here, I’ll just keep my head down […]. The post Why Bother Speaking Up? It Won’t Help (and other Destructive Thinking) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Primer: Why Google is pushing HTTPS

The Parallax

Leading sites hosting services or content as broad as fantasy football, Doctor Who , and search in China have this in common: Google Chrome now marks them as unsafe to visit. As of Tuesday, the browser labels ESPN.com, BBC.com, Baidu.com, and thousands of other sites that don’t use HTTPS as “Not secure.”. It’s the first browser to do so, but because of Chrome’s position as the most popular browser in the United States and around the world, it’s a change that could indicate how browsers will reac

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Of oaths and checklists

O'Reilly Media - Data

Oaths have their value, but checklists will help put principles into practice. "Oaths? We don't need no stinkin' oaths" (with apologies to Humphrey Bogart in “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”). Over the past year, there has been a great discussion of data ethics, motivated in part by discomfort over “fake news,” targeted advertising, algorithmic bias, and the effect that data products have on individuals and on society.

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Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate Review

The Crazy Programmer

Working on videos isn’t always as easy as making them. Editing, converting, recreating and enhancing the videos might be a very essential task of our day to day activities but it is not always the easier one. It sounds good to have a video edited within the spur of a moment, but in reality it takes a lot of hard work, focus, dedication and concentration.

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Lean Budgeting – Foster Growth & Innovation in Your Organisation

Evolution4all

Your annual budget could be harming your business. Does your organisation’s budget system hinder growth and innovation? Does it make every CEO or CFO like you feel powerless to make better decisions? This may not be the soundest proposition, but budgeting, as it is currently practised by many companies, should be abolished. Why? Many experts such as Jack Welch, an American retired business executive and author, believe that budgeting doesn’t always provide something meaningful or useful to an or

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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The Spark Engine

Agile Alliance

This book describes creative exercises that foster team-building and warm up the right side of your brain – the creative side.

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5 Ways to Gain More Influence and Impact

Let's Grow Leaders

Jessica approached me after my keynote last week. “My boss is about to make a REALLY big mistake and I don’t think I have the influence to stop it. What can I do?” She continued: My boss says we need to eliminate […]. The post 5 Ways to Gain More Influence and Impact appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Smart Cities Cybersecurity Challenge

CTOvision

Smart Cities will become a full-scale cyber war battleground unless Congress mandates cybersecurity. The biggest danger in Smart Cities is the assumption that IoT sensors communicating over a 5G fabric to Machine Learning and Blockchain systems will be safe from cyberattacks. To the contrary Smart Cities suffer from all the cyber vulnerabilities we have today [.].

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Doing good data science

O'Reilly Media - Data

Data scientists, data engineers, AI and ML developers, and other data professionals need to live ethical values, not just talk about them. The hard thing about being an ethical data scientist isn’t understanding ethics. It’s the junction between ethical ideas and practice. It’s doing good data science. There has been a lot of healthy discussion about data ethics lately.

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Lessons Learned in PostgreSQL®

In today's digital landscape, the threat of ransomware demands proactive defense. This paper, inspired by a real PostgreSQL® database incident, offers vital strategies for effective mitigation. Instaclustr expert Perry Clark outlines immediate actions to minimize risks, ensuring a swift response to ransomware threats and protecting critical data assets.

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Wondershare DVD Creator Review

The Crazy Programmer

Ever since we got introduced to the era of DVDs, creating, burning and working on them on a platform basis has been a professional’s task. If we need to perform any operations concerning DVDs, we need to contact a person who is an ace in this field and has practiced this on many DVDs before. And this is certainly because of the complications our DVDs can lead us to.

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Best Tips to Reduce Mobile App Development Cost

OTS Solutions

Best Tips To Reduce Mobile App Development Cost. Technology is changing every day. Today, with technology it is very easy to reach out to people through mobile applications as almost everyone uses mobile devices in their everyday life for different reasons like communication, entertainment and for business amongst others. This has led to a huge demand for mobile app developers across the world.

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A Deep Dive into Reinforcement Learning

Toptal

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are popular topics, vast domains with multiple paradigms to solve any given challenge. In this article, Toptal Machine Learning Expert Adam Stelmaszczyk walks us through implementing deep Q-learning, a fundamental algorithm in the AI/ML world, with modern libraries such as TensorFlow, TensorBoard, Keras, and OpenAI Gym.

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How to Avoid the Most Seductive Leadership Mistake

Let's Grow Leaders

This leadership mistake is seductive–we know because we’ve been there. It feels good. It feels logical. And it’s the fastest way to stunt your growth as a leader. Have you ever sat in a leadership meeting or training and thought, “Oh, it’s so […]. The post How to Avoid the Most Seductive Leadership Mistake appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. But most products fail to do so. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook. He will explain his Product-Market Fit Pyramid and The Lean Product Process, a 6-step methodology that guides you through how to: Determine your target customer Identify underserved customer needs Define your

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How to Impose Agile

Ron Jeffries

There's a lot of whinging going on about imposing 'Agile' methods and practices. These whiners just don't know how to do imposition correctly. Me either, but here's what I'd try.

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Data engineering: A quick and simple definition

O'Reilly Media - Data

Get a basic overview of data engineering and then go deeper with recommended resources. As the the data space has matured, data engineering has emerged as a separate and related role that works in concert with data scientists. Ian Buss, principal solutions architect at Cloudera, notes that data scientists focus on finding new insights from a data set, while data engineers are concerned with the production readiness of that data and all that comes with it: formats, scaling, resilience, security,

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Difference between Frontend and Backend

The Crazy Programmer

There always been a lot of buzz especially among the people who are novice to the field of programming stuff about the two terms Frontend and Backend. Although these two are the most fundamental and basic terms in the design and development world, people more often fail to understand the fine line between the two and yeah we can’t solely blame people for this.

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6 great tech events you shouldn’t miss in Barcelona

Apiumhub

Looking for tech events in Barcelona? You are in a right place! Every month we update Barcelona tech events list to go to the most interesting ones! Whether you’re a local, new in town, or just passing through, you should definetely go to tech events here, as Barcelona made it to the top 5 of innovation hubs and in this city you will find events related to startups , mobile , smart cities , iot , big data , software development , software architecture , blockchain and many many others.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Design Problem Statements – What They Are and How to Frame Them

Toptal

Even exciting product ideas can flop without an understanding of the user problem to solve. A design problem statement is an essential step in the design process for creating products that truly matter.

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The Art of the Tough Conversation: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on the art of the tough conversation. We asked thought leaders from around the world to share their very best post on this topic. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic […]. The post The Art of the Tough Conversation: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Blockchain in Plain English

CTOvision

We hear a lot about Blockchain these days, but how many people know what it's really about? In an attempt to make this definition as simple as possible, blockchain automates trust. It’s a software architecture that allows non-trusting parties to record transactions without requiring a trusted governing authority. In other words, it does away with [.].