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Why You’re Not Ready for Cloud Computing Challenges – and What to do About It

Arcserve

Research shows that companies are losing billions of dollars by not having the necessary cloud professionals. Why? Because fewer cloud professionals means there is less innovation and revenue. That may be why some companies are actually hiring tech people before there are jobs available – they know the talent pipeline isn’t overflowing and they don’t.

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Test in production? Yes you can (and you should)

TechBeacon

"I don't always test," muses the Most Interesting Man in the World, on one of the most evergreen tech meme posters of all time, "but when I do, I test in production." I have been laughing at that meme ever since someone posted it on the wall at work way back in. 2013? It's hilarious! Since then, "test in prod" has become shorthand for all of the irresponsible ways we interact with production services, or cut corners in our rush to ship.

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Calculating The Cost of Software Quality in Your Organization

OverOps

The following is a guest post from Herb Krasner, an Advisory Board Member for the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) and industry consultant for 5 decades. Demands of the competitive global economy have placed a strong emphasis on quality across the IT industry, and it shows no signs of going away. Meeting the customer’s expectations at a high degree of conformance is no longer expected to come at a premium – it is just expected.

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5 Reasons Not to Be a Jerk When an Employee Resigns

Let's Grow Leaders

How you treat your employees on the way out the door may have more impact than you think What do you do when an employee resigns? I’m not sure exactly why this is a thing, or if it’s getting worse in a […]. The post 5 Reasons Not to Be a Jerk When an Employee Resigns appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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IDG Contributor Network: Transforming data with Apache Spark

CIO

Apache Spark is a fast data processing framework dedicated to big data. It allows the processing of big data in a distributed manner (cluster computing). Very popular for a few years now, this framework is about to replace Hadoop. Its main advantages are its speed, ease of use, and versatility. Apache Spark is an open source big data processing framework that enables large-scale analysis through clustered machines.

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[Video] Continuous Reliability: An Agile Process to Deliver Higher Quality Applications

OverOps

Our favorite VP Solution Engineering Eric Mizell gave a talk at DevNexus this year, and we think he rocked it , so naturally we have to share with all of you. (S kip to the bottom to watch right away.). In this session, Eric covers the concept of Continuous Reliability, from what it is and what makes it hard to achieve, to actionable steps you can take to introduce it to your own workflow.

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Guide to Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

This is the CTOvision guide on the megatrend of Artificial Intelligence. This report gives a high level overview of the most important factors of the trend, gives updated insights into the activities of the major AI companies, and succinct descriptions of AI tech. It also points to key CTOvision reporting to help readers dive deeper […].

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How to Minimize a Downside to Change

Change Starts Here

Let’s face it. Not all changes are 100% positive for everyone in your organization. During the implementation, some people may temporarily feel more strain than others. More crucially, the long-term benefits and burdens of change may be unevenly distributed.

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Appium: The Untold Story – Dan Cuellar & Jason Huggins

Agile Alliance

Today, Appium is the defacto standard for automating mobile apps, but it hasn’t always been that way. Not long ago, many questioned the purpose, philosophy, and even the usefulness of Appium. Those who actually used it suffered with frequently breaking builds and many missing and broken features. Dan, along with special guest Jason Huggins, will tell the story of how Appium came to be and how it rose to popularity and eventually overcame its initial problems.

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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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How to Succeed in Your First Job After Graduation

Let's Grow Leaders

Looking to make a great impression in your first job after graduation? Or perhaps you’re about to start the first job you actually care about. How do you show up strong and make a great contribution in the first sixty days? How to […]. The post How to Succeed in Your First Job After Graduation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Could This Be The Real Reason to be Afraid of Artificial Intelligence?

CTOvision

A robotics researcher afraid of robots, Peter Haas, invites us into his world of understand where the threats of robots and artificial intelligence really are. In his view, we really need to worry about the bias and ethical issues around AI. And he worries even more that we humans don’t understand how these algorithms work. […].

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Interview with Dan Goerdt, President and Co-Founder of Flexagon

Flexagon

From operating system development to middleware product development and more, Dan Goerdt had no lack of experience heading into the formation of Flexagon five years ago. As we get ready for Kscope19 (where Dan will be presenting!) we wanted to pick the brains of the president and co-founder of Flexagon with a short interview. Can. Read more. The post Interview with Dan Goerdt, President and Co-Founder of Flexagon appeared first on Flexagon.

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Africa Shines in Employee Engagement

N2Growth Blog

Companies in the public and private sectors across the world are faltering when it comes to employee engagement, yet Africa shines. Progress in employee engagement has stalled or is rolling backwards. The significant increases in employee engagement have been partially eroded due to global anxiety and rapid technological advances creating uncertainty about job losses, although Africa’s engagement levels continue to rise.

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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 Secret Ingredient to Master Delegation

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever delegated a task and then six weeks later wonder what happened to it? Avoid the delegation black hole, help your team to work more productively, and distinguish yourself as a manager who gets more done with this one […]. The post The Secret Ingredient to Master Delegation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Have you ever delegated a task and then six weeks later wonder what happened to it?

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Science Fiction Gadgets You Can Get Today

CTOvision

Technology is advancing pretty fast, at times influenced by the exciting world of Science Fiction. This video captures 10 of the tech developments first seen in SciFi that are available now. A key point of this, if you want to know what is in our future, watch more SciFi!

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Interview with Eugene Fedorenko, Senior Architect at Flexagon

Flexagon

Getting to Know Eugene Fedorenko Born and raised in the Ukraine. Expert in containers and serverless. Senior Architect at a DevOps Platform company. It’s hard not to be curious about the subject of these statements. Eugene Fedorenko, a senior architect at Flexagon, has been working with us full time since 2017. He’s been a wealth of knowledge for.

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The Dos and Don'ts of a Rebranding Strategy

Toptal

Rebranding requires a lot of strategy. Some companies have done it well, others have flopped. Learn what works and what doesn’t in this list of lessons gathered from those who have rebranded.

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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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Which Desktop OS Is Best for DevOps?

DevOps.com

Which operating system (OS) is best for DevOps engineers to use on their workstations? That’s a weighty question. Talk about which OS is “best” for any purpose is always controversial. I’m not going to stick my neck out by saying that one OS is definitively better than others when it comes to doing DevOps work. […]. The post Which Desktop OS Is Best for DevOps?

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How to explain 5 clear benefits of DevOps to leadership

TechBeacon

Many organizations are in the midst of transitioning to, or have recently adopted, a DevOps culture. In response, other organizations are considering following suit, but often they don't know why they are changing other than because others did it.

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Reduce Your Corporate Risk and Seize Opportunities With OODA

CTOvision

OODA Loop provides actionable intelligence, analysis, and insight on global security, technology, and business issues. Our free newsletter keeps our readers up to date on a daily basis, and our special reports and advisories provide insights for those that need deeper insights into key markets and topics of executive interest. OODALoop offers additional insights and […].

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Zero to Hero: Flask Production Recipes

Toptal

Flask is a great way to get up and running quickly with a Python applications, but what if you wanted to make something a bit more robust? In this article, Toptal Freelance Python Developer Ivan PoleschyuI shares some tips and useful recipes for building a complete production-ready Flask application.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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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RHEL8: Upgraded Security and Performance

Linux Academy

RHEL 8: Upgraded Security and Performance. By now most of you have heard the buzz that Red Hat released the newest version, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8). Because RHEL 8 distribution is live externally, we also made sure to include it in our Linux Academy Cloud Playground , so you can start training with it immediately. There’s not much we aren’t excited about with this release.

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Why Your Test Automation Is Failing

DevOps.com

If you have been investing in test automation, but it’s not getting you where you think it should, it could be that you approached it superficially. One of the most common issues is that the test part of test automation is rather straightforward to automate, especially with today’s abundance of great automation tools. But jumping […]. The post Why Your Test Automation Is Failing appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Detect if Element is a Web Component

David Walsh

I’ve advocated for web components since before they became a spec, mostly inspired by the Dojo Toolkit’s dijit framework. Empowering first class JavaScript widgets, as opposed to a mess of DIVs and templates, always made the most sense. Now that web components exist, and awesome frameworks like Ionic are based on them, I wanted to discover how to detect a web component, as opposed to a regular HTML element, with JavaScript.

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5 Questions a Scrum Master Should Ask Before Joining a Startup

Toptal

The scrum master role has been gaining popularity with the widespread adoption of Agile. Startups adopt Scrum at an ever earlier stage and look for professionals to help them out. There are some simple questions a scrum master candidate can ask to find the right startup company for their skill set.

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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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Everything You Need to Know About Refs in React

Modus Create

The React API is fairly simple , even though it has been growing bigger. With recent features such as Context and Hooks, the whole ecosystem has become more complete. Yet, some concepts are usually a source of struggle for beginners and even experienced developers. One of them is the Refs API. Short for “reference”, refs are a way to access underlying DOM elements in a React component.

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Going Serverless: Where to Start

Linux Academy

What is serverless framework? Why use it? The Serverless Framework is an open-source project that replaces traditional platforms (hardware, operating systems) with a platform that can run in a cloud environment. It can scale up or down and doesn’t require as much provisioning when you want to roll something out; which translates into saving money on resource use.

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Can DevOps and MSPs Work Together?

DevOps.com

DevOps and the adoption of MSP-based IT operations are both surging trends in the IT industry today. They are also trends that contradict each other in some key respects. Here’s a look at what MSPs mean for DevOps, and vice versa. DevOps and MSPs: A Primer MSPs, or managed service providers, are companies that provide […]. The post Can DevOps and MSPs Work Together?

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