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Advice from 3 Engineering Leaders on Becoming a Manager of Managers

Gitprime

The transition to becoming a manager of managers requires an entirely new set of skills: hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineering managers are fundamentally different jobs than hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineers. Leading other managers becomes much more about guiding teams, communicating in terms of broad themes of work, and proactively calibrating with peers to stay connected and aligned.

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Achieving Observability: How to Address the Unknown Unknowns in Your Application

OverOps

Imagine if nature documentaries were composed solely of stationary footage shot in the wild. As a viewer, you would likely catch a few glimpses of wildlife and may even be able to see some interesting animal behavior, but your ability to gain any understanding of the ecosystem would be severely stunted. That’s why there are many more tools (and people) involved in the filming and editing process for shows like National Geographic.

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How Theatre Made Me a Better Software Consultant

Tandem

I didn’t follow a traditional path to software consulting. Frankly, I started in the opposite direction. I get looks ranging from bemusement to horror when I tell collea gues or clients that I have a degree in medieval history (Technically, it’s a history degree with a focus in pre-modern Europe, but that doesn’t make it any more relevant.) I didn’t join any entrepreneurship clubs and I didn’t spend time doing anything related to coding or designing for fun while growing up. .

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How Do You Know Something Is A Bug? – Using Mental Models and Oracles in Testing

Xebia

Did you ever find a problem of which you weren’t sure it was a bug? You probably thought it over, looked up the requirements or discussed with a team member. Perhaps you figured it out by yourself, the requirements made things clear or your team member could help you out. Either way, you needed some […]. The post How Do You Know Something Is A Bug?

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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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Article: Categorise Unsolved Problems in Agile Development: Premature & Foreseeable

InfoQ Culture Methods

Productivity decline and technical debt, as often seen in agile development, can be prevented by separating unsolved problems into premature and foreseeable. It shifts the discussion about unsolved problems from importance to likelihood. With small but essential adjustments agile can be kept sustainable. With this insight, developer-architect differences and team psychology gaps can be bridged.

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Enterprise DevOps: Bridging the Journey from Now to Next

Dzone - DevOps

Don't wait to cross the enterprise DevOps bridge when you get to it. Digital transformation is driving the demand for swift innovation and the evolution of new technologies and business models. It is tempting to embrace both at any cost. The software industry seems obsessed with “the new,” but large enterprises have already made big investments in a world-class infrastructure that manages and controls risk, compliance, and security.

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Serverless and multi-cloud: Hype or reality?

TechBeacon

Much has changed since serverless computing arrived, along with AWS Lambda in November 2014. Kubernetes has taken IT infrastructure by storm, developers have embraced containers, and IT now embraces public clouds as providers of managed services.

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Legacy Databases Are Holding Back Enterprise Digital Transformations

DevOps.com

As enterprises rush to digitize their business operations and enhance customer engagement, few are seeing the success they hoped. A recent survey points to a couple of culprits, including the difficulty of utilizing data held in legacy databases. The survey, conducted by market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Couchbase, of 450 heads of […].

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The Power of EventStorming

Agile Alliance

Learn about EventStorming, a collaborative workshop technique with roots in the Domain-Driven Design Community.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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10 Stories Great Leaders Tell – Interview with Paul Smith

Let's Grow Leaders

One of the most effective leadership communication tools you’ll ever have is a powerful story. Join David and his guest, Paul Smith – an expert in leadership and business storytelling – for a powerful discussion of how to tell a good […]. The post 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell – Interview with Paul Smith appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Xhelper: Persistent Android dropper app infects 45K devices in past 6 months

Symantec

Malicious app hides itself, downloads other threats, displays ads, and is mainly targeting users in India, U.S., and Russia.

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Want effective test automation in DevOps? Manage your test data

TechBeacon

Having access to stable test data is the biggest challenge to effective test automation for most organizations. And now, with the fast feedback required by DevOps, the consequences of a lack of good test data are even worse.

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Exceptional QA Engineer Skills: 6 Valuable Traits

Gorilla Logic

Have you ever considered what it means to be a tester or quality assurance (QA) engineer? Is it someone who finds issues on web pages, programs, or applications so they can be fixed? If that’s all that’s involved, we might assume that a QA engineer’s skills are minimal and they don’t require any special ability, training, or knowledge. We might think that anyone who has a good eye and understands the logic of computer systems could do this work. .

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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How to Avoid Pigeon Holing Yourself For Greater Career Success

Let's Grow Leaders

Do you ever feel like you’re pigeon-holed at work? You’re nailing your role and have a track record of career success. In fact, you’re known as the best there is. So, how do you get others to recognize that you have […]. The post How to Avoid Pigeon Holing Yourself For Greater Career Success appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Performance and Efficiency: Working with HTTP/3

Toptal

HTTP/3 is on the horizon, but many aren't even familiar with HTTP/2 yet. Find out what HTTP/3 means for web development, administration, and the internet.

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Fast Data is Forcing New Strategies in DevOps

DevOps.com

DevOps has established itself as a critically important discipline, developing and leveraging unique tooling and processes to deliver many types of applications more rapidly, efficiently and reliably. As data has become a more central component in these applications, DataOps has emerged to work hand-in-hand with DevOps to better support the role of data in the […].

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5 Ways to Fuel the Entrepreneurs in Your Teams

Women on Business

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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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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The Looming Crisis: Government Agencies and Cyber Security

Symantec

How secure are the government agencies to cyber attacks? The answers are disturbing at best, frightening at worst. Solutions exist.

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What is a CI/CD Engineer?

CircleCI

Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the enormous growth in the adoption of DevOps within the tech space. DevOps adoption is changing the way that teams and organizations are building and releasing software. Now, most teams’ software development and release cycles have decreased from weeks, months, or even years, to hours and minutes.

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Five Don’ts When Scaling DevOps

DevOps.com

The DevOps market is expected to reach $50 billion by 2022. However, despite the growing market, many organizations are struggling to make the transition from the successful implementation of a DevOps project to scaling across an organization. Gartner anticipates that 75% of DevOps initiatives will fail to fully meet expectations through 2022. If organizations are […].

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How Indian State of Odisha Plans To Turn Into A 1$ Trillion Economy

CEO Insider

Indian state of Odisha is bolstering its effort to set up new industries to establish itself as the “Manufacturing Hub of the East.” Earlier this year, Naveen Patnaik led government laid the foundation stone of 14 industries and inaugurated four industrial units which is expected to give a major boost to the state’s economy by […].

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Follow the 8 Rules of Fight Club: Protect Against Advanced Threats

SecureWorks

Follow the 8 Rules of Fight Club: Protect Against Advanced Threats Advanced threats can quickly lead to knockouts when organizations are not prepared. Advanced threats can quickly lead to knockouts when organizations are not prepared. Follow these rules to ensure you are ready for any cyber attack.

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Adding application and image scans to your CI/CD pipeline

CircleCI

Have you ever heard someone say, “security is everyone’s job?” I’ve been hearing this now for the majority of my career. Like most people that have had the “honor” of hearing this phrase, primarily spoken by security team members, I, too, rolled my eyes after it graced my ears. I remember being offended and thinking, “what gives this person the right to shed their duties on to me?

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Rethinking Data Management in a DevOps Environment

DevOps.com

You often hear data is the new oil. This valuable, ever-changing commodity has begun to play a starring role in many cloud-native applications. Yet, according to a number of DevOps teams, data issues continue to plague their efforts to continuously integrate, test and deploy frequent software releases. More specifically, issues with persistent data (and its […].

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A data breach could be game over for a brand

CTOvision

Data security is a legitimate worry for today’s consumers around the world, Ping Identity survey reveals. Approximately one half (49%) of respondents report that they are more concerned about protecting their personal information than they were one year ago. This is evident by the lack of confidence consumers around the world have in a brand’s ability […].

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Ransomware attacks show no signs of slowing

DXC

Ransomware attacks are showing no signs of letting up. In fact, recent research shows how these attacks are flourishing. The findings are based on more than 230,000 ransomware attack submissions, between April 1 and September 30, 2019, to antivirus firm Emsisoft and ransomware information site ID Ransomware. ID Ransomware is a site that enables anyone […].

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Data Science Fails: There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

DataRobot

When I was young, I took a packed lunch to school every day, and since I grew up in Australia, my packed lunch would include a couple of Vegemite sandwiches. Unless you grew up in Australia, you’ve probably never tasted it. And judging by this American’s first taste reaction of “Oh, that’s bad!”, you probably wouldn’t like the taste if you tried it out.

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10 ways to sabotage your ITSM project

TechBeacon

That IT service management (ITSM) automation project you are about to undertake is big and complicated. Because it is so technical, it's easy to become so focused on the technologies that you might find yourself overlooking other critical considerations that could cause your project to fail. Choosing a top-notch ITSM tool is just part of the solution.

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