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The Who, What, Where, When, and Whys of Developer Relations

Algolia

In September 2018, I was sitting on a park bench in Paris, when a nice old lady sat next to me. The problem is, I don’t speak French, and she didn’t speak English. We attempted to have a conversation anyway. As she was talking about what I could only assume was how great her grandchildren are, I ask myself: how did I get here? Today I am a Developer Advocate.

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Full-Time Employment in the Age of Automation

DevOps.com

Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote a short essay, “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,” in which he predicted that in a hundred years the 15-hour work week will be commonplace. Keynes made this assertion based on two factors: first, the increase in capital due to extraordinary yields from the compound interest that […].

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Applications and innovations in the Internet of Things (IoT)

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated devices that have unique identifiers and can autonomously transfer data over a network. IoT ecosystems consist of internet-enabled smart devices that have integrated sensors, processors, and communication hardware to capture, analyze, and send data from their immediate environments. IHS Technology predicts that there will be over 30 billion IoT devices in use by 2020 and over 75 billion by 2025.

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Agile Q&A: What is a Self-Organizing, Cross-Functional Team?

Agile Alliance

Learn how project managers accustomed to a more traditional software development environment can adapt to a more Agile approach in this post from the Agile Alliance blog.

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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 Respond When You Can’t Use an Idea

Let's Grow Leaders

When You Can’t Use an Idea, Pivot to Get More Ideas “I need people to think.” Mattias, the CEO of a mid-sized human service provider, leaned back in his chair and sighed. “They have all kinds of idea that just don’t work. […]. The post How to Respond When You Can’t Use an Idea appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How OKR Works: A Beginner’s Guide

Evolution4all

In this article, we will explain how OKR works. Objectives and Key Results ( OKRs ) is a phenomenal goal setting framework that many organisations utilise. It’s a simple, easy, straightforward and results-driven system. Companies like Intel, Google, Amazon, Spotify and many others have been using OKRs for years. It has been described as an effective tool that promotes accountability, transparency, productivity and engagement among employees from to bottom.

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Russell Ackoff

Agile Alliance

This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people become more Agile. As a member of the Supporting Agile Adoption initiative, I was fortunate recently to spend a few days in a workshop with Agile thought leaders from a number of … Continued.

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How to Unlock Your Team’s Best Ideas

Let's Grow Leaders

To get your team’s best ideas, ask courageous questions. Have you ever watched a team member do something insightful, helpful, or creative and asked them why they hadn’t shared it with everyone else? Their answer holds the key to unlocking your […]. The post How to Unlock Your Team’s Best Ideas appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Controlling the Flow: Why Today’s Leaders Have To Be Plumbers Too

Terry Starbucker

There’s a role a leader must play that in this day and age is even more important than being a teacher or mentor. It’s the role of a plumber. Yep, a plumber. Think about this for a minute – a plumber deals with pressure and flow all the time –in this case as it pertains to water. How that water is pressure controlled and directed is critical to the overall performance of a water circulation system, especially when heated water is involved.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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.

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OKR Guidelines: How to Set and Reach Your Goals

Evolution4all

Since the mid-1980s, Objectives and Key Results ( OKRs ) has been in use by many companies and that’s why in this article we will talk about OKR Guidelines. Examples of companies that are using this system are Amazon and Google. OKRs is a goal-setting methodology that was developed by Andy Grove of Intel and Gary Kennedy of Oracle. The methodology has become a solid framework being implemented by leading companies all over the world.

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7 Talks to Add to Your Schedule at DevNexus 2019

OverOps

It’s hot, it’s relevant, and it’s the second largest Java conference in the nation. It’s DevNexus, the conference by developers for developers. Hosted this year in the bustling hub of Atlanta from March 6-8, this is where developers come to see what others are developing, learn about the latest technologies and find out what’s coming down the pike. This sold out event has it all: It’s interactive, it’s fun and developers love it.

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Assessing Manager Commitment to Change

Change Starts Here

A recent article at Harvard Business Review titled, “Why Visionary Leadership Fails,” describes how it is counterproductive to teach managers how to lead change if they aren’t in fact committed to leading the desired change, project, or strategy. If managers become strong change leaders but aren’t aligned with leading the change vision cast by senior […].

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Artificial Intelligence Regulation May Be Impossible

CTOvision

Read why Michael Spencer says that artificial intelligence regulation is nearly impossible on Forbes : Artificial intelligence is a tool humanity is wielding with increasing recklessness. We say it’s for our common good with machine learning hype equal to business profits. But what happens when we don’t have the code of ethics, laws, government accountability, corporate transparency […].

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Full Maximisation Of OKR Benefits For Your Company

Evolution4all

Would your company or organisation benefit from Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)? Well, this is what we will explain in this blog post, the OKR benefits. This goal-setting framework is useful for any company regardless of the industry. Below are some of its major merits. OKRs is an Agile System. The framework is different from traditional goal-setting methods in the sense that they are reviewed on a short-term basis.

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My Five Worst WordPress Development Mistakes

Toptal

Join an expert in a look back in horror at his most embarrassing mistakes in his early days as a WordPress developer. He discusses general PHP bugs, WordPress-specific bugs, and also mistakes made at a managerial level while supervising other developers.

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Report Identifies DevOps Skills in Highest Demand

DevOps.com

When it comes to DevOps there’s general agreement that a skills shortage is holding back broader adoption. The real issue, of course, is identifying what specific DevOps skills are required most. With that goal in mind, the DevOps Institute this week published a report that finds the DevOps skills most in demand fall into three […]. The post Report Identifies DevOps Skills in Highest Demand appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How is software developed at Amazon?

High Scalability

How is software developed at Amazon? Get a couple of prime pizzas delivered and watch this excellent interview with Ken Exner, GM of AWS Developer Tools. It's notable Ken is from the tools group, because progress in an industry is almost always made possible by the development of better tools. The key themes from the talk: decomposition, automation, and organize around the customer.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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The System Of OKR At Google

Evolution4all

Google is one of the largest multinational technology companies in the world today. Apart from being a search engine, the technology giant has many products and services, with some being acquired or purchased over the years. The secrets to Google’s success are numerous, but there is definitely one that cannot be overlooked called OKRs. This can be adopted by a company’s management.

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How to do application security on a budget

TechBeacon

As a bit of a thought experiment, I asked myself, “What if I had to develop an application security program with a budget of zero dollars? How would I do it?” People often talk about unlimited security budgets. Some of the largest financials in the world have gone on record to say that there is no limit to what they'll spend on cybersecurity.

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Instill Confidence in Employees

Career Advancement

“Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what’s needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.”. ~Kris Carr~. Client Gerald asks: Some of the employees I supervise really seem to self-sabotage at work a lot.

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Zero Downtime Jenkins Continuous Deployment with Terraform on AWS

Toptal

When your app’s next iteration is ready to deploy, you have two choices: either stop the entire application and deploy the new version manually every time or build an automated zero downtime CI/CD deployment pipeline once. In this article, Toptal Freelance DevOps Engineer Gaurav Kohli demonstrates the latter using the Jenkins-powered continuous deployment pipeline of a three-tier web application built in Node.js, deployed on AWS Cloud, and using Terraform as an infrastructure orchestrator.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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How to Apply Agile and DevOps Principles to Accelerate Customer Experience Innovation

DevOps.com

These days, it’s not enough for companies to offer quality products or services; they must deliver an exceptional customer experience. In fast-changing environments, continual innovation on the front lines of customer service requires an agile and nimble approach. How important is the automation of development and monitoring for accelerating customer experience (CX) innovation?

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Operationalizing AI

CTOvision

When AI practitioners talk about taking their machine learning models and deploying them into real-world environments, they don’t call it deployment. Instead the term that’s used in the industry is “operationalizing”. This might be confusing for traditional IT operations managers and applications developers. Why don’t we deploy or put into production AI models?

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BLE vs Wi-Fi Which is Better for IoT Product Development

Cabot Solutions

Both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are methods that provide wireless communication This article compares the difference between the two main stems that will help us chose the best for our IoT Product development

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Data-driven Design and Generative Design – An Overview

Toptal

Data-driven and generative design are two important design processes that can be exploited at the same time to create better product designs and user experiences.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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DevOps and Security: The Path to DevSecOps

DevOps.com

A secure DevOps is highly beneficial for organizations. However, a secure DevOps environment shouldn’t be the end goal. When it comes to DevOps security, it’s important to integrate security right from scratch, secure the entire architecture, automate the security and use this technology to test the environment and the codes and respond to concerns immediately. […].

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The Value Of Ethics And Trust In Business. With Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

Read why Stephen Ibaraki says that ethics and trust are very important issues while dealing with artificial intelligence on Forbes : The 128 most ethical companies for 2019 were announced this week from the Ethisphere Institute. The timing is fortuitous with the upcoming AI for Good, which I founded, global artificial intelligence dialogue including accountability, responsibility, […].

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Everyone Has a Responsibility to Better the Balance and Better the World

Symantec

For International Women's Day, Francesca G. shares her story of how active encouragement and allyship made a positive difference in her life when her personal interests conflicted with traditional gender roles and expectations.

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