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CXOs Overestimating DevOps and Continuous Testing Maturity

DevOps.com

More work is needed to achieve continuous testing, Forrester report shows Forrester recently completed an interesting new research project exploring what separates DevOps leaders from DevOps laggards. After analyzing data collected from 603 global enterprise respondents responsible for their firms’ DevOps strategies, Forrester learned that firms with the most mature DevOps practices do several key […].

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3 emerging trends tech leaders should watch

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Analysis of the O’Reilly online learning platform reveals a new approach to technical architecture, the rise of blockchain, and shifts in programming language adoption. Keeping up with technology can be a daunting task for tech leaders. Each year, to make the task a little easier, we analyze behavior on the O’Reilly online learning platform , using the platform as a massive sensor that yields insights and identifies areas tech leaders should pay attention to, explore, and learn.

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Questions about Agile: Agile Beyond Software

Agile Alliance

This is part of a series of posts where I take a look at some commonly asked questions and provide my spin on them. The answers are all my own. So while my answers do not necessarily reflect the policy or positions of Agile Alliance, I’ll point to some relevant resources on AgileAlliance.org that either … Continued.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Help Businesses Make Better Decisions?

OTS Solutions

Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Help Businesses Make Better Decisions? The current developments in technology have made it possible for the once unattainable artificial intelligence (AI) to now make its presence known across various sectors. From being your digital assistant to helping you control your home devices, you can find AI in an array of everyday situations.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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How to Hire for Values and Retain 87% of Your Employees

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Picture this. You have shortlisted 2 stellar candidates running for a position in your company. On paper, both have a great deal of relevant experience, solid education, and some praiseful references to back things up. One of them will soon become an A+ player introducing all sorts of initiatives making a tangible impact on the company’s bottom line.

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Safeguarding Your Way to Improving Your Code, Your Processes, and Your Life!

Agile Alliance

Hi, my name is Brian Button. I’m one of the people who helped put together deliver:Agile 2019. I wanted to share with you one of the sessions I’m really looking forward to seeing. Arlo Belshee, the presenter for this workshop, is well known in the Agile world for his challenging and deep takes on … Continued.

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Thrashing in Operating System (OS)

The Crazy Programmer

When a program need space larger than RAM or it need space when RAM is full, Operating System will try to allocate space from secondary memory and behaves like it has that much amount of memory by serving to that program. This concept is called virtual memory. To know about thrashing we first need to know what is page fault and swapping. Page fault and swapping: We know every program divided into some pages.

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Breaking through organizational silo’s with EventStorming

Xebia

Tedious and lengthy internal processes delay the delivery of value to end-users and lower your competitiveness. The bigger your organization, the more likely you are to encounter this problem. Visual collaboration tools like EventStorming can help with kickstarting the necessary focus shift. Internal Competition vs External Excellence Once an organization reaches a certain critical mass, […].

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The Basic Tenets of Objective and Key Results Implementation

Luis Goncalves

Objective and Key Results Implementation – to be able to effectively implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), it is important to understand how this whole process starts. The following diagram demonstrates how your organisational vision is connected to every team and individual contributors in your team, from the annual down to the quarterly OKRs.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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How to Encourage More Micro-Innovation on Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Are you looking for ways to uncover more micro-innovation on your team? Is your team a bit stuck? Stuck doing things the way they’ve always done them? Stuck with workarounds to systems that no longer work? Stuck in silos, unaware that there’s a […]. The post How to Encourage More Micro-Innovation on Your Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Growing Agile: A Coach’s Guide to Agile Testing

Agile Alliance

This books includes a collection of workshops to help teams grasp 5 key agile testing principles and adopt an agile testing mindset. It's not just for testers.

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Seven Essential Traits of a Change Agent

Change Starts Here

Over the last ten years, I’ve worked with a lot of change agents with varying types of authority, expertise, roles, and projects. And even though every situation is different, those who are most effective at getting things done tend to exhibit common traits. When coaching individual change agents, I find we work on building these […].

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Unlocking How Google Sets OKRs

Luis Goncalves

For years, Google has made headlines for being a key leader in so many things – innovation, revenues, growth and expansion, people management, and leadership. There’s no wonder why so many people love to seek work opportunities at Google, thinking that by the time they leave the company and start a tech business on their own, they would be able to manage their own companies like Google does.

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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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Are You Treating Team Communication Like Pornography?

Let's Grow Leaders

Unclear expectations for team communication kill productivity. When we work with leaders to help them build more effective organizations, we do a quick assessment of their team communication. Let’s check in on your team: How would you answer the following two questions? […]. The post Are You Treating Team Communication Like Pornography? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Sophisticated new phishing campaign targets the C-suite

CTOvision

A new phishing campaign to steal login credentials is being launched on businesses – specifically the C-suite. Researchers at GreatHorn first discovered the campaign which targets senior executives by claiming to be from the company’s CEO. The fake email regards the rescheduling of a board meeting. By following the link from this email and users are greeted […].

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5 Benefits of Database DevOps and How to Achieve Them

Flexagon

One of the major benefits of DevOps is that it speeds up the development and delivery process, typically for application and other software development. It increases efficiency, reduces errors and better leverages IT talent. But these benefits can be delayed when database changes are also required because most DevOps teams don’t encompass databases.

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OKR History for the Leadership and Management Nerds

Luis Goncalves

If you landed on this page, you have my respect for researching a topic that only gets researched by management nerds Kidding aside, it’s also great to know about OKR history and the framework has evolved to what it is today so you will have full understanding of the rationale behind its final form. The idea of restructuring and streamlining corporate processes and organisational structures began with Taylor and Ford , known as the “Fathers of Scientific Management”.

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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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Artificial intelligence and machine learning adoption in European enterprise

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

How companies in Europe are preparing for and adopting AI and ML technologies. In a recent survey , we explored how companies were adjusting to the growing importance of machine learning and analytics, while also preparing for the explosion in the number of data sources. In practice this means developing a coherent strategy for integrating artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and cloud components, and specifically investing in foundational technologies needed to sustain the sensible use of da

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Booz Allen’s Cyber threat analysis provides actionable recommendations for business and governments

CTOvision

Booz Allen has just released a report we would like to endorse and most highly recommend you review. Their 2019 Cyber Threat outlook is particularly relevant because it is informed by real practitoners. This is our favorite kind of asesssment since practitoners have skin in the game. Booz Allen is also in a good position […].

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Machine Learning with Python, Jupyter, KSQL and TensorFlow

Confluent

Building a scalable, reliable and performant machine learning (ML) infrastructure is not easy. It takes much more effort than just building an analytic model with Python and your favorite machine learning framework. After all, machine learning with Python requires the use of algorithms that allow computer programs to constantly learn, but building that infrastructure is several levels higher in complexity.

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Understanding the OKR Basics to Fully Unleash Your Company’s Potential

Luis Goncalves

Understanding the OKR Basics. In his new book entitled Measure What Matters , American Investor and venture capitalist John Doerr talks about how focusing on the objectives and key results (OKR) can significantly boost the performance of any team. Doerr studied electrical engineering. He joined Intel in 1974 and later moved to a venture capital firm.

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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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Revenue-Based Financing in VC: A Study on Playing Averages Over Home Runs

Toptal

Revenue-based financing allows an entrepreneur to repay an investment over time, to retake ownership of their business, and give a capped return to investors. With founders increasingly rejecting the scale-at-all-costs mentality, this article investigates the math of revenue-based investing and whether in VC it is possible to play averages over home runs.

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How Software Outsourcing Can Empower Digital Transformation

DevOps.com

Businesses are constantly readjusting themselves to become more agile and innovative while maximizing their opportunity in today’s digital economy. This is especially true for up-and-coming businesses with limited budgets that need to think ahead of the curve to find additional resources to fuel their digital transformation. Software outsourcing is no longer perceived as a choice […].

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4 Low-Tech Action Steps to Implement When Starting a New Business

Women on Business

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Designing a package manager from the ground up: an inside look at CircleCI orbs

CircleCI

Less than three months ago, we launched CircleCI orbs , our package management ecosystem for CircleCI configuration. In that time we have seen over 300 orbs created in just the first 10 weeks and more than 200 organizations using orbs across over 1,000 projects in tens of thousands of builds. We are also featuring more than 20 official partner orbs through our new Technology Partner Program.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Working with the React Context API

Toptal

The React Context API was been around as an experimental feature for a while now but finally became safe to use in production last year, solving one major problem React problem — prop drilling. In this article, Toptal Freelance Javascript Developer Boris Yordanov will introduce us to the API and illustrate it with two basic web store apps, one built with the Context API and one without it.

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Cloud Waste To Hit Over $14 Billion in 2019

DevOps.com

The good news to start 2019 is that cloud adoption is growing rapidly. Most people realize this, but along with major growth comes some less welcome news. Wasted cloud spend is also up—often dramatically. Chances are, if you’re spending money on cloud, some of that money is being wasted. For some, a lot of that […]. The post Cloud Waste To Hit Over $14 Billion in 2019 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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3 Tips for Long-Term Business Success

Women on Business

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