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The Real Reasons for Doing Test-Driven Development ??

Xebia

Why do people apply TDD? Here’s a secret: it’s not for the tests. Learn about the actual goal and values hidden under the surface of Test-Driven Development. What Are the Real Reasons for Doing TDD? Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a controversial topic amongst developers. After many years of doing TDD daily, I think part of the reason is that some people do not fully grasp the reasons behind TDD.

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The Power of Three: What Are My Three (or More) Options

Agile Alliance

Individuals and teams often jump to conclusions too quickly. Often there are good reasons for it—real- or imagined-time constraints, limited confidence or experience, a single experienced voice dominating the group, or it’s the first thing that came to mind and seems to be the right way to go. The post The Power of Three: What Are My Three (or More) Options first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Fourth Generation Language (4GL) – Advantages & Disadvantages

The Crazy Programmer

This is a high-level programming language, which is used by database users to access the database. This is also called non-procedural language because just like other programming languages it does not follow any fixed procedure or sequence for execution. Instead, it allows users to just pass on the commands in simple English text that follow simple syntax which can be easily understood by any user like this: create table, select data, insert data, etc.

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Don’t Get Lost or Hurt: The Vital Role of Leadership Strategy and Tactics

Let's Grow Leaders

Balancing leadership strategy and tactics is critical for leaders at every level of an organization. When you don’t pay enough attention to strategy, you and your team end up lost in a wilderness of meaningless, unproductive busyness. However, when you don’t pay attention to tactics and effective management, you create needless conflicts, frustrations and hurt feelings.

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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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5 Best Technical Screening Platforms

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Recruitment, in general, has undergone several transformations in recent years and it comes as no surprise that most of these were influenced by technological advancements. This applies to non-technical and technical industries alike. But today, we’re talking about the technical screening platforms. A technical screening platform needs to be developed the right way.

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Exploring Blockchain Technologies and How They Work

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 4 minutes Blockchain is relatively a new technology that is quickly transforming the world. This popular digital ledger has created much buzz and has even been called the "new internet." But what exactly is blockchain? What Is The Blockchain? Blockchain technology has existed for over a decade. Still, it's only recently been getting the attention it deserves.

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Distributed Postgres goes full open source with Citus: why, what & how

The Citus Data

A few months ago we made Citus fully open source. This was a very exciting milestone for all of us on the Citus database engine team. Contrary to folks who say that Postgres is a monolith that can’t scale—Postgres in fact has a fully open source solution for distributed scale, one that’s also native to Postgres. It’s called Citus ! This post will go into more detail on why we open sourced our few remaining enterprise features in Citus 11, what exactly we open sourced, and finally what it t

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Unleashing Partner Opportunity with APEX Enhancements

Dell EMC

APEX updates for partners enable greater customization and flexibility, while geo-expansion, training and resources open new doors.

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The Problem with Intelligence

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Projects like OpenAI’s DALL-E and DeepMind’s Gato and LaMDA have stirred up many discussions of artificial general intelligence (AGI). These discussions tend not to go anywhere, largely because we don’t really know what intelligence is. We have some ideas–I’ve suggested that intelligence and consciousness are deeply connected to the ability to disobey , and others have suggested that intelligence can’t exist outside of embodiment (some sort of connection between the intelligence and the physical

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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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Questions to Ask in Your Next Job Interview

Agile Alliance

You are passionate about software development, or product management, or leadership, or user experience, or documentation, or organization, or something else. The post Questions to Ask in Your Next Job Interview first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Alan Kay Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Alan brought a revolution in the field of computers. He was one of the first scientists to recognize that a computer has the capability to represent objects as pictures. He is well-known as the Father of Personal Computers. Alan Kay was a Computer Scientist from America. He was a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society of Arts.

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What Leaders Need to Know About AI with Kavita Ganesan

Let's Grow Leaders

Do you want to take advantage of artificial intelligence but are not sure where to start? The process can feel overwhelming—from analyzing existing processes and software systems and choosing where to apply AI automation, to preparing every tier of the organization for the transition. In this episode, Kavita Ganesan, author of The Business Case For AI, takes the mystery out of implementing AI, sharing how to launch AI initiatives that get results.

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How to create a great take-home coding test

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Like with any other job role, in order to be a successful developer, you have to possess the required coding skills. It can also be referred to as the building blocks of a great developer. The challenge arises when assessing them and there are numerous reasons for the same. For starters, it could be the pressure of the interview that could hinder developers from showcasing their skillset.

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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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Organizational Learning: Experiment with Better Ways to Experiment

Agile Alliance

You’ve learned a lot at the conference, but how can you make that learning operational in your organization? How can you spread your newly gained knowledge - adapted to your organization so that it sticks and grows? The post Organizational Learning: Experiment with Better Ways to Experiment first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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John Backus Biography

The Crazy Programmer

John Backus was a mathematician known for his invention of FORTRAN & for BNF notation for describing syntax for the programming language. John developed Formula Translator or Fortran, which was the first high-level programming language. It was a widely used programming language that made computers accessible and practical machines for developers and scientists without any need to have in-depth knowledge of this machinery.

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How Do I Deal with a Manipulative Boss?

Let's Grow Leaders

“What do I do if my boss is a “gamer” manager–the kind of manipulative boss you talk about in your book Winning Well )? This dude is not really focused on results or relationships. I feel like a pawn. What should I do? #AskingforaFriend ” This is a question we get quite frequently from people reading our book: Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide To Getting Results– Without Losing Your Soul. 3 Tips for Dealing with a Manipulative Boss.

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5 Best Technical Screening Platforms

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Recruitment, in general, has undergone several transformations in recent years and it comes as no surprise that most of these were influenced by technological advancements. This applies to non-technical and technical industries alike. But today, we’re talking about the technical screening platforms. A technical screening platform needs to be developed the right way.

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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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Energize Without Using Power Over

Agile Alliance

No leader wants to walk into a conversation-filled room, only to have everyone go silent and stare at them. Too frequently, this is followed with an attempt to diminish the power dynamics with "just consider me one of the team.". The post Energize Without Using Power Over first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Degree of Relationship in DBMS

The Crazy Programmer

The degree of relationship means the number of entities associated with a relationship in a relational model. Based on the number of entities associated we have the following degree of relationships. Unary Relationship. In this only a single entity is associated in a relation. It is mostly used to represent the recursive relationship, which means a single entity can be further divided into multiple categories.

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Why Isn’t AI Working for Your Business?

TechBeacon

More than a third of companies use artificial intelligence (AI), while another 4 2% are exploring their AI options, according to IBM's recent Global AI Adoption Index. AI adoption looks easy, thanks to rapid advancements in AI technology and the availability of off-the-shelf AI tools.

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The Great DevOps Burnout

DevOps.com

DevOps needs a mindset shift to save the overworked engineering collective. There’s a considerable discussion right now about the Great Resignation. But if you work in software engineering, you’re probably even more familiar with the Great Burnout. Everything in the software development realm has sped up over the last few years. Engineers perform at a […].

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The Ultimate Guide to Software Delivery & Engineering Metrics

As DevOps Value Stream Management (VSM) goes mainstream, large and small organizations increasingly recognize the need to apply data analytics to manage the end-to-end software delivery process more effectively – to deliver quality software faster and more predictably. Plandek is a global leader in end-to-end software delivery metrics and analytics, and we work with clients of all sizes and levels of Agile DevOps maturity.

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FAST: An Innovative Way to Scale

Agile Alliance

If you're familiar with unit testing, you're probably also familiar with the brittleness and excessive boilerplate that often results from overuse of mock objects and other test doubles. The post FAST: An Innovative Way to Scale first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Grace Hopper Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Grace Hopper, brought a revolution in the field of computers. She was the first to explore computer programming. She is rightly known as the Queen of Computer Code. Her motto in life was “Dare and Do” Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was a Computer Scientist, mathematician, and Admiral in the U.S. Navy. Birth and Education. Born on December 9, 1906, in New York City, USA, Grace was brought up by her parents very nicely.

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Threat Alert: New Malware in the Cloud By TeamTNT

Aqua Security

Over the past week we observed three different attacks on our honeypots. The scripts and malware that were used bear a striking resemblance to none other than the threat actor TeamTNT. Eleven months ago they posted a farewell note on Twitter. Since then, we have only seen legacy attacks which automatically run on past infrastructure. Could it be that TeamTNT is back with new tricks?

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How to Avoid Burning Out if You Are a Data Scientist

Dataiku

This is a guest article from Eric Kahuha. Kahuha is an ambitious data scientist and an experienced technical writer. His work has been published in many blogs. He writes highly technical yet easy-to-understand content for beginners and experts in the tech field.

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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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Managing Dependencies to Unlock Product Development Flow at Scale

Agile Alliance

As we build products with more teams (scale) it can become difficult to coordinate the smooth flow of work between those teams (dependencies). The post Managing Dependencies to Unlock Product Development Flow at Scale first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Anomalies in DBMS with Example

The Crazy Programmer

A Database is a very complex mechanism to handle and control a large amount of data. As we all know the overall design of the database is known as database schema which is further divided into three categories as given below: Physical schema Logical schema View schema. The database or relational schema looks quite simpler and effective from the top but as we go to the bottom, we find a massive collection of data.

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Embrace Change in Production to Improve MTTR

DevOps.com

DevOps creates value through constant deployment changes. When done right, more frequent deployments allow teams to continuously improve their products or services while making it easier to manage the effects of the change. One way to do this is with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). CI/CD helps to reduce the risks to each build […].

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