Martin Fowler
APRIL 24, 2018
As monolithic systems become too large to deal with, many enterprises are drawn to breaking them down into the microservices architectural style. It is a worthwhile journey, but not an easy one. My colleague Zhamak Dehghani has trod this road several times and has distilled her experiences, together with those of our other colleagues, into a brief guide to help fellow travelers on the path.
The Parallax
APRIL 24, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO—Security patches don’t often come wearing gold-sequined tuxedo jackets, but maybe they should. If they did, everybody from consumers to security experts might pay more attention to them, and perhaps have a better understanding of why, when a vulnerability is discovered, “just patch it” isn’t exactly the answer. That was the message of a game show-style panel here last week at the security conference BSides led by Allan Friedman, director of cybersecurity for the U.S.
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NeverFriday
APRIL 26, 2018
Reactive programming is a concept that is finally gaining some popularity among programmers. It makes it easier to think in data flows and to manage and work with them. Instead of imperative programming, you’re thinking about code as a series of processes that take place on streams. This is similar to the conceptual shift to map/reduce thinking.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 24, 2018
“Karin, TRUST me. I would LOVE to delegate more of these decisions and loosen up the reigns, but then I go out into the field and find all this crap. I just don’t think we have the critical thinking skills we need […]. The post Critical Thinking: 5 Ways to Build Your Team’s Capacity to Think appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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.
Change Starts Here
APRIL 25, 2018
At last month’s Organization Change Alliance meeting in Atlanta, five panelists shared their experience with building change capability within their organizations. When answering a question about methodology, every panelist said that they customized their approach to suit the organization and the change initiatives they were implementing. In fact, following any one methodology exactly was a […].
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Xebia
APRIL 26, 2018
We as humans make numerous decisions every day without even realising it. Even when making decisions which have a relative big impact on our lives, we often do this rather irrationally. How else for example could it be that a majority of people under-save for retirement? This is not based on a careful evaluation of […]. The post Behavioural science, a way to influence human behaviour appeared first on Xebia Blog.
NeverFriday
APRIL 26, 2018
Reactive programming is a concept that is finally gaining some popularity among programmers. It makes it easier to think in data flows and to manage and work with them. Instead of imperative programming, you’re thinking about code as a series of processes that take place on streams. This is similar to the conceptual shift to map/reduce thinking.
CTOvision
APRIL 22, 2018
Westworld season one was a great mix of science fiction and drama and action and it was done in a way that should help people think through many tech ethics questions, like how do we want to treat our robots? Does treating robots with violence change our nature? Can robots become sentient? HBO has a […].
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 26, 2018
What are the one or two behaviors, if you did them consistently, would dramatically improve your sales team performance? “Build deeper, trusting relationships.” Table stakes. “Add real strategic value.” Amen. “Invest deeply in truly understanding my business.” Please! “Become an extended go-to member […].
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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.
Xebia
APRIL 25, 2018
Storybook received the “most impactful contribution to the community” award at the React Amsterdam conference ( the biggest react conference in the world, with 1200+ attendees ). Runners up included: ‘bundle-size’, ‘How to GraphQL’ and ‘NativeBase’. Philipp and I received the award on behalf of the maintainers and gave short speeches. I talked about maintaining Storybook together […].
Women on Business
APRIL 21, 2018
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Toptal
APRIL 27, 2018
Software delivery has come a long way. And, somewhere between the transition from physical media to software containers, we have changed the way we try to manage them. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Jonathan Bethune explores how software containers have motivated us to treat servers as more dispensable, and the risks and rewards involved.
TidalScale
APRIL 26, 2018
Before TidalScale, I spent years working with animation software to create visual effects for major motion pictures. As part of that process, I learned something that DevOps and IT administrators have since realized: delivering on difficult schedules often means making maximum and efficient use of hardware resources, and servers in particular. But DevOps?
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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.
Agile42
APRIL 26, 2018
It’s been a long journey of collaborations and discovery and now we are extremely happy to officially launching the local presence of agile42 in Sweden, agile42 Consulting AB. Based in Stockholm and working closely with the company presence in other Nordic countries and all over the world, we will able to deliver the same range of training and coaching opportunities for our clients.
Women on Business
APRIL 27, 2018
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Toptal
APRIL 26, 2018
A design sprint is a methodology used to validate ideas through design, prototyping, user testing, and collaboration in only five days, offering a more structured, effective approach to creative thinking.
CTOvision
APRIL 27, 2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to become a focus for many enterprises and these organizations are increasing realizing how important it is to have the right people and skills in place. In particular, there has been a significant increase in demand for data scientists. Companies are searching and competing for increasingly scarce data scientists as the […].
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Presidio
APRIL 26, 2018
IT environments are inundated by an ever-rising wave of data that must be stored, managed and mined – resulting in application latency issues that impact performance. Now, a new class of solid-state drives, Intel® Optane™ SSDs for the data center, are proving themselves in multiple independent tests, accelerating storage performance for latency-sensitive workloads.
Women on Business
APRIL 26, 2018
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Toptal
APRIL 23, 2018
Wireframing is a major step in designing any user interface, whether a website, application, or software product. Apps in the Adobe CC suite can be used to create wireframes for an efficient workflow.
CTOvision
APRIL 25, 2018
There are places on this planet where good, civilized people simply do not voluntarily go, or willingly stay. What elected governments do in safer and more developed parts of the world are carried out in these areas by despots and militias, often at terrible cost to those who have nowhere else to go and no […].
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Accenture
APRIL 26, 2018
The momentum of business agility is building, and as it does there will be consequences and side effects. The values and principles of Agile should cause us to completely re-think the ways in which we look at the future of our organizations, and to be prepared to use these lessons to make substantial changes in the way we approach producing value. The greatest of all challenges is making certain that the principles and values we teach so enthusiastically to our development teams also take root i
Women on Business
APRIL 24, 2018
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Toptal
APRIL 26, 2018
The discount rate is a critical input in any discounted cash flow valuation analysis. How does an analyst estimate a reasonable discount rate for a private company that has no publicly traded debt or equity? This article focuses on best practices for estimation of the WACC in the context of a private company valuation. The discussion begins with an overview of the WACC, background on the components of the WACC, methods to estimate the WACC components for private companies, and an example of how
CTOvision
APRIL 27, 2018
The Global Cyber Alliance continues to coordinate smart guidance, tips and approaches for improving security posture. They are an international, cross-sector organization designed to confront, address, and prevent malicious cyber activity (it is led by the gracious and sociable cyber champion Phil Reitinger). Their most recent report is titled "Top Federal IT Contractors Leave Emails […].
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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.
CollabNet VersionOne
APRIL 26, 2018
While it may seem that DevOps is past its honeymoon phase, quite the opposite might be true. As noted in the 12th Annual State of Agile Report , 48 percent of respondents said that their organization is currently undergoing a DevOps initiative. That leaves 52 percent who are only planning or are not even on their DevOps journey yet! However, 65 percent of respondents said that a DevOps transformation was important or very important to their business.
Dzone - DevOps
APRIL 27, 2018
Earlier this month, I was fortunate to have a one-on-one interview with GitLab CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij. My focus was to talk about the last twelve months at GitLab and to inquire on some future enhancements that may be in the works. John Vester: I remember sitting down with Job van der Voort just over a year ago, talking about the latest features with GitLab 9.0.
CO2 Business Leadership
APRIL 24, 2018
Aaron Hobbs is president of RISE (Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment), a trade association in Washington DC that advocates on behalf of businesses that manufacture, formulate, and distribute pesticides for commercial and residential markets. An agriculture economist by education, Aaron has been in the role for eight years and with RISE for nine.
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