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Ending the DevOps vs. Software Engineer Cold War

Dzone - DevOps

If we were that metaphorical fly on the wall, following an all too common Slack conversation between a software engineer and DevOps engineers, it might go something like this: Software Engineer: This is gonna take forever. “I need a new environment for my app.

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Avoiding Developer Burnout With Clean Code Best Practices

DevOps.com

Employee burnout is common in the tech industry, especially for developers. In fact, 83% of software developers feel burnt out from their work and of those, nearly half of them feel overworked. Often, this is because the processes currently in place at their companies are not effective and too much time is spent doing mundane […]. The post Avoiding Developer Burnout With Clean Code Best Practices appeared first on DevOps.com.

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10 Key DevOps Metrics to Manage Deployment Pipeline

Daffodil Software

With the continuous development in DevOps practice and its unparalleled benefits, now every organization wants to embed it in their software development lifecycle to make the deployment of software even faster and more efficient.

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5 Ways to Turn Engineering Data Into Impact

Allstacks

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The Best Product Strategy Is a Customer-Facing Portfolio Strategy

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.

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Visually Staffing Your Developer Teams

DevOps.com

Effective collaboration within developer teams is key to creating and improving any product, so who you choose to put on the team—and how it’s structured—can make a huge difference. There are many considerations that go into these decisions, and the challenge is even greater thanks to the widespread movement to a hybrid work environment. To […].

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Favorite Google Cloud Security Service: Google Cloud Security Command Center Premium

Xebia

Introducing the Service. To help users secure their cloud assets, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides many security tools that natively integrate with GCP services, including tools for key management, identity and access management, logging, monitoring, security scanners, asset management, and compliance. Generally, security experts never disclose secrets, but today, we sat down with Jorge Liauw Calo, one of Xebia’s Google Cloud Security Engineers, and spoke about the security services that you

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Shift That [bleep] Left

DevOps.com

Seriously. The more you can shift things like security and test to the left, the more responsive the DevOps process will be. Some things are better shifted right … But only while solving the problem with shifted-left work. A good example is blocking zero-day attacks proactively while the development process fixes the code to stop […]. The post Shift That [bleep] Left appeared first on DevOps.com.

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IT Recruiting: Strategy and Tips for Success

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Hiring skilled personnel is the top priority for any HR manager , as the organization’s success is directly linked to the quality of professionals in its ranks. For an IT organization, this process assumes even greater importance as the rapid pace at which technology is progressing; you can never have enough talented workers. More than 50% of businesses struggle to find suitable candidates for profiles requiring data skills.

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Using the cloud to scale Etsy

Martin Fowler

Etsy is a well-known marketplace for craft items. The pandemic led to a huge spike in growth, growing from 46 million buyers to 90 million buyers in two years. Etsy coped with this, with no bottlenecks in the business. One aspect of how they did this was a shift to Google cloud. Tim Cochran and Keyur Govande begin this story by describing the strategic principles that guided this effort and the incremental federated approach that they took.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Job Interview: The Best Way to Showcase Your Unique Talents (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Nail Your Next Job Interview By Showcasing Your Unique Value. I get frustrated and sad when I see highly qualified people unable to sell themselves in a job interview– particularly when they seem to be so qualified. It happened again, perhaps you know someone who can benefit from this story and the actions that followed. Meet Me in St. Louis.

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Keeping it real with BDD

Agile Alliance

Business and tech people often speak different languages, which makes sense because they have different mindsets. While this enables them to be good at their very different jobs, it also makes it harder for them to understand each other. In Agile teams, it’s essential to bridge this gap, and one of the best ways to … Continued. The post Keeping it real with BDD first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Guido Van Rossum Biography

The Crazy Programmer

If you’re an experienced programmer, you may have heard of Guido Van Rossum before. He’s the creator of the Python programming language, and he’s also worked as an engineer at Google, Apple, and MercadoLibre. It’s hard to find more experience in software design and implementation than that! What inspired Van Rossum to create Python? What other programming languages does he prefer?

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Using CWs

Martin Fowler

One of the new features on Mastodon for a recovering twitterer is the CW field for new posts. CW stands for Content Warning. When I’m composing a post, if I press the CW button, I have the option of putting a short phrase into a dialog. Readers will initially only see that short phrase, and need to click a button to see more. But there's a lot of strong opinions on when and how to use it - how do I navigate that?

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Value-Driven AI: Applying Lessons Learned from Predictive AI to Generative

Speaker: Data Robot

Enterprise AI maturity has evolved dramatically over the past 5 years. Most enterprises have now experienced their first successes with predictive AI, but the pace and scale of impact have too often been underwhelming. Now generative AI has emerged and captivated the minds and imaginations of leaders and innovators everywhere. Join our DataRobot experts to reflect on lessons learned from helping hundreds of enterprises grow their AI maturity over the past 5 years.

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How to Make Better, Frequent Employee Recognition a Daily Habit

Let's Grow Leaders

Why Gallup Question 4 Matters: “In the last seven days, I have received recognition or praise for doing good work.” When employees come to us venting their frustrations that their boss doesn’t value or appreciate their hard work, it’s usually not about who got the plaque in the end-of-year meeting. Of course, the time you spend on getting your formal employee recognition right matters.

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Resilience, an introduction.

Xebia

What is resilience? What distinguishes the various types of resilience? How does this impact your business design and IT design? This article will provide some foundational views on resilience as refeference. Oxford Dictionary defines resilience as: “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.” [<a href="[link]. Organizations need a purpose.

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The Ultimate Guide to Warehouse Operations Technology

Cherry Work

The evolution of warehouses is no more a nice-to-have but a must in the era of e-commerce and the “I want it yesterday” customer mindset. So how do you keep up with the increasing customer demand while maintaining operational agility? ‘Mobility’ Picture this. Warehouse managers and employees work efficiently without any location constraints, making informed business decisions while delighting customers, and enhancing productivity, operational efficiency, asset performance, and profit

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Developers Skill Assessment Software: Testing Beyond the Technical

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Skill assessment software has become the new buzzword in the software development industry. Recruiters are looking for highly skilled candidates to handle their software development duties. The market for systems integration, software, and IoT hardware has reached $520 billion as of 2021 compared to $235 billion in 2017 and is expected to continue the trend for many years.

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ERP Migration: Why Data Quality Comes First

We are living through a fundamental transformation in the way we work, and the way that organizations function. Automation and machine learning are augmenting human intelligence, tasks, jobs, and changing the systems that organizations need in order not just to compete, but to function effectively and securely in the modern world. These momentous changes raise huge organizational, digital and data challenges – at a time when business leaders are already wrestling with unprecedented risks, disrup

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How Leaders Use Failure To Thrive with Olankunle Soriyan

Let's Grow Leaders

How do leaders use failure to thrive? Too many efforts with potential game-changing outcomes are short circuited by the fear of failing; people with huge ideas become paralyzed by “what ifs,” unable to see past the challenges of today. Shift your perspective and use failure to thrive. Olakunle Soriyan, known by most as PK, author of A Love Affair With Failure: When Hitting Bottom Becomes A Launchpad To Success , paints “failure” and “failing” as two different realities an

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What are Java Records?

Xebia

Records in Java (3 part series). What are Java Records? How to use Java Records. Java Records as Data Transfer Objects (upcoming). Records have been in Java since version 16, but what are they and what can you use them for? Records can be thought of as a replacement for simple data-holding POJOs. These holders usually have one or more of the following properties: They are defined solely by the data they hold.

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Streamlining 5 Warehouse Essential Processes

Cherry Work

The five important processes for warehouse operations are Receiving, Put-Away, Storage, Picking, Packing & Shipping. Streamlining these processes can ensure maximum warehouse efficiency, faster product delivery, and customer satisfaction. “Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee.

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4 Images That Show What Developers Think Of Layoffs In Tech

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Some days ago, we polled our Twitter and LinkedIn community and asked them if they would ever take another job at the company that laid them off. This was the result. The two years of the pandemic (2020-2022) saw 1100+ companies globally laying off employees. In the first 8 months of 2022, we reached half that number with 500+ companies announcing layoffs in tech in August.

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The Product Symphony: Orchestrating Success with Storymapping

Speaker: Jamie Bernard - Senior Product Director at Launch by NTT Data

In today’s dynamic business landscape, successful product management hinges on a keen understanding of customer needs and market dynamics. Storymapping emerges as an invaluable pre-investment tool, enabling smarter decision-making, more accurate resource allocation, and enhanced scope control. It serves as a catalyst to better align your entire organization, setting the stage for impactful, customer-centric product management.

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Executive Coaching Company Breakdown: How to Get the Most Out of Coaching for Strategic Change

N2Growth Blog

Executives are the best business leaders in the world. They are subject matter experts in their field, the brightest minds, and equipped with the immense technical skills and experience to be at the helm of the world’s most powerful and disruptive companies. The truth is that even these world-class leaders have room to grow and can find ways to identify their weaknesses, optimize their performance, and become even better leaders.

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How to use Java Records

Xebia

Records in Java (3 part series). What are Java Records? How to use Java Records. Java Records as Data Transfer Objects (upcoming). Table of Contents. Creating and using records. Documentation. Default Values. Validation. Normalization. Modifying records. Manually add wither methods. Use a compiler plugin. Enforcing non-null. Derived data. Creating and using records.

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Streamlining 5 Warehouse Essential Processes

Cherry Work

The five important processes for warehouse operations are Receiving, Put-Away, Storage, Picking, Packing & Shipping. Streamlining these processes can ensure maximum warehouse efficiency, faster product delivery, and customer satisfaction. “Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee.

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Infrastructure Abstraction Will Be Key to Managing Multi-Cloud

DevOps.com

There’s no doubt we’re now living in a hybrid multi-cloud age. Companies are using major cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCP with niche cloud computing providers emerging within the market. Simultaneously, many organizations still retain workloads in on-premises data centers or embrace colocation. Regardless of deployment pattern, DevOps teams desire the same elasticity as […].

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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Article: Bringing a Product Mindset into DevOps

InfoQ Culture Methods

To be successful, organisations need two things: products and services their customers find valuable and the ability to deliver these products and services well. This article shows why we must design, implement and operate our delivery pipelines (the means of turning ideas into products in the hands of users) as we would any other product or service: by adding a “product mindset’.

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Lean coffee “cheat sheet”

Xebia

Intro. Lean coffee is an incredible format. It’s a simple yet powerful way to discuss important topics in a team without any upfront costs. Yet, this format is surprisingly often unknown to the people I work with. What is a lean coffee? Let’s have a look at the official definition: Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking.

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The Ultimate Guide to Warehouse Operations Technology

Cherry Work

Pricing based on gut instinct, or a simpler cost-plus pricing plan may appear to be a smart idea at first. Still, it may not be the most sustainable option, in the long run, lacking a rule-driven pricing strategy, defining price change trend analysis, and anticipating the impact of pricing changes before implementation. Using a smart pricing applications helps ensure that you consistently leverage your pricing as intended and unearth fresh opportunities that you were unaware of.