The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 23, 2019

Unlike a decade ago, databases have become more complex than before, but so have the means to spot performance issues evolved. For their businesses to remain at par with the ever-changing IT landscapes, most IT professionals have been forced to invest in monitoring tools to help them comb through the system and identify threats. However, a slight problem lies in how these professionals handle database threat alerts.

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Luis Goncalves

JANUARY 21, 2019

Maybe you’ve heard about OKR in an executives-only grapevine. You heard other guys saying they’re having lesser headaches with their teams. Maybe you heard that everyone in Company A is breaking their performance score after many years of stalling the company’s growth. The culprit behind, OKRs. Of course, as the leader of your company, you want the same results.

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 23, 2019

I recently received a question about the basic qualities Agile teams should have via the website. I replied with a reader’s digest version to the requester and promised a more complete answer in a blog post. Here’s that more complete answer. Basic qualities for an Agile team What are basic qualities should Agile teams have? … Continued.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2019

These poor leadership practices are common but limit your influence. You’re working hard to be a great leader. You focus on results and relationships. You try to show up with confidence and humility. But despite your effort, you’re still struggling. Could one […]. The post 5 Poor Leadership Practices You Need to Stop appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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OverOps

JANUARY 24, 2019

One of the main challenges QA, DevOps and SREs face is knowing when a release is good to go. More often than not, we release not because we think it’s ready, but because it’s time and we have to. We face a dual problem; one part is Coverage : our testing is only as good as our coverage, which is never 100%. In complex systems it’s very hard to foresee all the different code and infra combinations, especially with the release of a new feature.

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 21, 2019

Every Agile project must respond to organizational conditions and climate. Gaining awareness of context helps the core team and project community know how they fit into the larger organization. As a systems thinking approach, Agile Chartering and its focus on context enables better decision making, taking the whole system into account. Diana Larsen and Ainsley … Continued.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 22, 2019

When Karin was in her sales exec role at Verizon, she would often walk into the back door of a store to find her highest performing team huddled just before the store opened, talking about their plans for the day. When she […]. The post How to Hold a Remarkably Effective Team Huddle appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 22, 2019

A hackathon can be the wind to the sails of your business. Regardless of the niche or industry, your business belongs to, conducting a hackathon can be an excellent choice for generating new ideas, and potential fusion of existing ideas that could lead to a fresh perspective altogether. At HackerEarth, we have conducted over 2,000 hackathons to date, for enterprises, companies, startups, non-profits, universities, and others.

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The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 25, 2019

Here you will learn about difference between class and structure. A class and a structure, both are user defined data types and understanding the difference between both of them might be confusing at times. In order to understand this, the following table shows clear differences between the two. Class. Structure. It is a reference data type and uses the keyword “class”.

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OTS Solutions

JANUARY 24, 2019

Things You Should Know Before Buying CRM Software. Customer relationship management (CRM) software, is one of the most powerful tools that a business can use to succeed. By utilizing the right CRM, you can get to know your customers better, predict what they want, and keep track of all of the various pieces of your business more effectively. While a good CRM can be powerful, choosing the wrong one could set you back significantly.

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Xebia

JANUARY 24, 2019

There are 2 systems in any company that are critical: the payroll system, and the CI/CD system. Why? You may ask… If the payroll system doesn’t work, people will leave the company and the company (may) face legal problems; the CI/CD system is the gateway to production. If it is down and there is a […]. The post Build and secure containers to support your CI/CD pipeline appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 22, 2019

A hackathon can be the wind to the sails of your business. Regardless of the niche or industry, your business belongs to, conducting a hackathon can be an excellent choice for generating new ideas, and potential fusion of existing ideas that could lead to a fresh perspective altogether. At HackerEarth, we have conducted over 2,000 hackathons to date, for enterprises, companies, startups, non-profits, universities, and others.

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 25, 2019

Discover how to provide value as a business analyst on an agile team and see how BAs can broaden their roles and step outside of their role boundaries.

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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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OverOps

JANUARY 24, 2019

The New Dev and Ops Collaboration: Reframing the Dev vs. Ops Blame Game. Is DevOps really a common practice fueling Dev and Ops collaboration, or just another buzzword? How many enterprises have actually adopted CI/CD workflows, and what Ops tools do they use to support faster releases? What challenges, both new and existing, are teams facing as new technologies and practices emerge?

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Luis Goncalves

JANUARY 21, 2019

OKR (Objective and Key Result) is a promising framework for keeping your team aligned with the long term vision and mission of your company. If you’ve been planning to implement this for company but uncertain of the ways to fully maximise its implementation, below are some of the guidelines and best practices for adopting OKR. Before writing anything for your company, you have to understand the nature of OKR.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 23, 2019

The dictionary definition of Resistance is: Any force that slows down or prevents motion. Resistance is a scientific term that stems from Newton’s laws of motion. An object in motion stays in motion until subjected to an outside force. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Resistance plays a crucial part in […].

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Flexagon

JANUARY 22, 2019

Automation is a major theme in IT, especially when it comes to DevOps culture and CI/CD methodologies. Automation can greatly reduce the stress and manual tasks involved in enhancing software or developing new functionality. With application release automation tools, processes that previously required long hours, and resulted in ongoing frustrations with manual steps and scripts, Read more.

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Github

JANUARY 24, 2019

In our 2018 Octoverse report, we noticed machine learning and data science were popular topics on GitHub. tensorflow/tensorflow was one of the most contributed to projects, pytorch/pytorch was one of the fastest growing projects, and Python was the third most popular language on GitHub. We decided to dig a little deeper into the state of machine learning and data science on GitHub.

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Luis Goncalves

JANUARY 21, 2019

Google is probably the largest (and richest) multinational technology company in the world today. Everybody knows Google and the name has been part of many people’s daily lives. But apart from being the search engine as we know it, Google has so many technology products and services (some of it, the company has acquired or purchased over the years).

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Toptal

JANUARY 24, 2019

Discord is a popular real-time messaging platform with robust support for programmable bots. Bots are ubiquitous on Discord and provide a wide range of services, including moderation assistance, games, music, internet searches, payment processing, and more. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer and Chatbot Developer Randall Schmidt will start by discussing the Discord UI and APIs for bots before moving on to a Discord bot tutorial.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 23, 2019

Migrating to the cloud isn’t as simple as signing up for a SaaS application or deploying applications on a cloud infrastructure or platform; there are other factors at play. And the move to cloud shows no signs of slowing, with Gartner predicting the worldwide public cloud services market to grow 17.3 percent in 2019. Getting […]. The post Identifying Cloud Migraines Before Cloud Migration: 6 Tips appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 21, 2019

5G, or fifth generation cellular communications technology, has become a hot topic across industries for its potential impact on emerging technologies, and specifically, the Internet of Things (IoT), which describes the development, manufacture, and use of connected devices. These devices range from small heart-rate-monitors to autonomous vehicles, smart home appliances, intelligent factories, and much more.

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Luis Goncalves

JANUARY 21, 2019

OKR Guidelines. First introduced in the mid-1980s, OKRs is a goal-setting methodology is still being used today by many companies, including Google and Intel. It was developed by Andy Grove of Intel and Gary Kennedy of Oracle. Fast forward to the present, OKR has become a solid framework being implemented by leading companies worldwide. If you want to greatly accelerate the growth of your company, it makes sense to follow suit whatever strategy these other successful companies do, right?

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Toptal

JANUARY 24, 2019

Designers who approach minimalist design as being easy are often surprised at the amount of effort, time, and skill required to create a product that can achieve its aims while remaining truly minimalist.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 24, 2019

Google is moving to address a chronic shortage of cloud skills necessary to advance DevOps. Specifically, Google plans to add Professional Cloud Developer (GA), Professional Cloud Network Engineer (Beta), Professional Cloud Security Engineer (Beta) and G Suite certifications (GA) alongside Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Data Engineer and Associate Cloud Engineer certifications that already exist.

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Edge Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2019

Everyone talks about transformation these days, but the term is used so loosely that it’s begun to lose all meaning. I recently wrote a blog post suggesting that the ultimate test of transformation is whether the caterpillar became a butterfly – is it so different that it’s unrecognizable? That’s a useful metaphor, but many have asked me to make it more tangible in the world of institutions.

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scruminc

JANUARY 22, 2019

How Scrum Improves Gender Parity in the Workplace. by Avi Schneier | January 22, 2019 | Blog. Equal treatment. Equal pay. Equal opportunities. In a perfect world, these would not be issues to be debated, they would just be the norm. Yet even today in 2019, women in the workplace are treated differently than their male counterparts. The question of equality between the genders in the US and around the world isn’t anything new.

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Toptal

JANUARY 22, 2019

Color: It’s stunningly beautiful and maddeningly deceptive. Use this color theory field guide (with an infographic) to make lightning-quick color choices with unwavering confidence.

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