O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 9, 2019

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Netflix Tech

JULY 12, 2019

By Drew Koszewnik This is the story about how the Content Setup Engineering team used Hollow, a Netflix OSS technology, to re-architect and simplify an essential component in our content pipeline?—?delivering a large amount of business value in the process. The Context Each movie and show on the Netflix service is carefully curated to ensure an optimal viewing experience.

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DevOps.com

JULY 8, 2019

Does your cloud work for you, or do you work for your cloud? Given the enormous dependency and costs associated with cloud computing, that is a question more and more DevOps teams are asking these days. After more than a decade of pressure from higher-ups to move workloads to the public cloud, DevOps teams are […]. The post Making Your Cloud Work For You appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 11, 2019

Eliminate courage sinkholes to energize your team When you think about inspiring courage at work, what comes to mind? Encouraging your team to… Speak their truth in meetings? Challenge your thinking? Share new ideas? Question the way we’ve always done it? Find […]. The post How to Stop Wasting People’s Courage appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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CIO

JULY 8, 2019

Parcel delivery is a cutthroat business in the U.K., with margins of just pennies per parcel.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2019

When you look back on your career, you remember the jobs you took, the jobs you declined, the opportunities realized and the opportunities lost. You remember the special people along the way; the great bosses, mentors, coaches and the lifelong friends. You also remember the Consultants. As a consumer of consulting services for more years than I care to admit, I have developed a well defined view of a typical engagement.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 8, 2019

Ditch the Post-Mortem and Hold a Post-Project Celebration If you’re like most managers we talk with, you know the importance of post-mortem reviews. But unless your project ends in disaster, it’s easy to skip the review and move on to the next […]. The post How Conduct a Remarkably Better Post-Mortem Review appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2019

People communicate mostly through natural language—not equations or Excel spreadsheets or structured daily reports. This has historically posed a challenge for marketers because while the words we use are full of consumer insights, they have been generally inscrutable to analytical tools. This is, of course, changing. With natural language processing and machine-learning software, companies can […].

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Flexagon

JULY 10, 2019

Continuous Improvements In the spirit of “continuous”, Flexagon has released a bunch of enhancements, usability improvements, and bug fixes over the past two month. FlexDeploy is our DevOps platform for CI/CD and release automation which automates and orchestrates the entire build, deploy, and release lifecycle. FlexDeploy is an open and extensible platform with lots of plugins for commercial and open source.

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Analytics

DevOps.com

JULY 12, 2019

In theory, DevOps is about bridging the gap between developers and ITOps teams. In practice, however, DevOps often can feel as though its real goal is to turn ITOps engineers into developers, without really requiring developers to dive head-first into ITOps work. In this article, we’ll explain why DevOps gives more glory to development work […].

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Weak Development Team DevOps Engineering Development 111

Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 12, 2019

What do you do when you’ve talked with a team member about a performance issue, but nothing changes? In this episode, learn the ART of the tough conversation – how to avoid talking about the same issue repeatedly and address what’s […]. The post When One Tough Conversation Isn’t Enough appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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CTOvision

JULY 10, 2019

In Forbes: In today’s digital world, with near-instantaneous conveyance of information and data, cyber-events could (and routinely do) rapidly impact brand and shareholder value. While opinions differ on the need for cybersecurity experts on certain boards, there is a general consensus among management, boards, and investors alike that this need is growing.

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Toptal

JULY 9, 2019

Chatbots are revolutionizing the way people interact with technology. In recent years, their simplicity and low cost have helped drive adoption across various fields and industries. In this article, Toptal Natural Language Processing Developer Ali Abdel Aal demonstrates how you can create and deploy a Telegram chatbot in a matter of hours.

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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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Women on Business

JULY 12, 2019

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DevOps.com

JULY 9, 2019

Doing DevOps would be simple if you had total control over the tools, code and infrastructure that your company used. But the fact is, you don’t. Instead, we live in a world where most CI/CD chains connect in some way to third-party resources or processes. In other words, doing DevOps effectively means integrating with entities […]. The post Doing DevOps in an Interconnected World appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CTOvision

JULY 11, 2019

Startup CEOs: The federal government needs your technology! A high tech startup that has made it through the wickets required to get VC funding and create real capabilities almost always has something that someone in government needs. But that does not mean you should drop everything and pursue federal business. There are many things to […].

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Toptal

JULY 8, 2019

Without interface copy, there’d be UX chaos on a global scale. Thankfully, we can use words whenever we want, but how do we use them well? These easy-to-use principles lead to convincing microcopy.

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Cloudera

JULY 10, 2019

Open source has been core to the missions of both Hortonworks and Cloudera and central to our values and culture. With more than 700 engineers in the new Cloudera, our company writes a prodigious amount of open source code each year that’s contributed to more than 30 different open source projects. We’re also a very innovative open source company, having collectively launched more than a dozen new open source projects since the founding of the two companies. .

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DevOps.com

JULY 7, 2019

Cisco Systems recently announced sweeping changes to its training and certification programs to increase the real-world value of both. Cisco’s move demonstrates a trend by organizations that provide training and certification to place more value on the practical aspects of educating technology professionals—which, in turn, should have a major impact on those looking to build […].

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CTOvision

JULY 10, 2019

Read why Don Scales says that CEOs need to take a more personal approach to cybersecurity on Forbes : Cyber threats are one of the top concerns facing CEOs in 2019. But not enough CEOs are acting on those concerns. They’re relying on their IT departments to handle security, as they should, but CEOs need […].

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Toptal

JULY 10, 2019

One of the most notable developments of recent years has been the boom in veganism. The Beyond Meat Company’s IPO in May 2019 captured this zeitgeist and is one of the stand-out financial events of the year. Can the company live up to the hype and satisfy its investors?

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“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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DataRobot

JULY 10, 2019

As machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) usher in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it seems like everyone wants to get in on the action. And who can blame them? AI promises improved accuracy, speed, scalability, personalization, consistency, and clarity in every area of business. With all those benefits, why are some businesses hesitating to move forward?

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DevOps.com

JULY 8, 2019

The way we develop and deliver software has changed dramatically in the past five years—but the metrics we use to measure quality remain largely the same. Despite seismic shifts in business expectations, development methodologies, system architectures and team structures, most organizations still rely on quality metrics that were designed for a much different era.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2019

Facebook today announced the open source release of Deep Learning Recommendation Model (DLRM), a state-of-the-art AI model for serving up personalized results in production environments. DLRM can be found on GitHub, and implementations of the model are available for Facebook’s PyTorch, Facebook’s distributed learning framework Caffe2, and Glow C++. Recommendation engines decide a lot of what […].

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TechBeacon

JULY 10, 2019

If you want to succeed at enterprise DevOps, take a software factory approach to software development. Many enterprises that want to scale DevOps struggle because, unlike Spotify's or Facebook's, their systems weren't designed from the ground up for it.

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Applications

Algolia

JULY 9, 2019

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) design and manage efficient processes and operations, and they keep a company’s infrastructure in healthy working order. . Here at Algolia, our team has grown from 4 to 10 in less than two years, a growth rate similar to the company as a whole. The team has grown not only in number but in how we work together and create sound operational processes. .

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DevOps.com

JULY 11, 2019

I recently attended the prestigious DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. During the three-day event, I asked people what their major DevOps transformation challenge is. I wanted to examine these at global events, asking the same question. I was GamingWorks’ booth boy at the event, which gave me a chance to ask a lot of delegates […]. The post Top DevOps Challenges at DOES19 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Teradata

JULY 9, 2019

Integrated data and analytics has a proven track record of helping organize operations, enhance customer experience and improve revenue and market growth.

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