Erik Bernhardsson
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a tiny data team (~4 people) at a mid-stage startup (~$10M annual revenue), although this story could take place at many different types of companies.
Coding Horror
DECEMBER 31, 2021
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn't boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command line. From here, if you were lucky, you might have a cassette tape drive. If you knew the right commands, you could type them in to load programs from cassette tape.
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The Crazy Programmer
MARCH 16, 2021
Used by some of the most prominent market players like Netflix, Reddit, LinkedIn, PayPal, Amazon and more, there is no doubt that Node JS is a premier web application architecture. It did not take much time for Node JS to become one of the most preferred web development frameworks by companies and developers across the world. Thanks to its amazing capabilities, stability and functionalities, over 43% of the Nodejs developers out there use the programming language to develop solid enterprise appl
Henrik Warne
JUNE 15, 2021
I used to think that I didn’t need comments if I wrote self-documenting code. However, I have realized that I do write comments, and that I find them really useful. To see how many comments I write, and what kind they are, I wrote a script to analyze my git commits from the last six years. In total, seven percent of my committed lines contained a comment.
Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University
You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 5, 2021
My colleague Tim Cochran has helped many software engineering organizations transform to respond faster to changing market needs. Often companies struggle with these transformations and a primary reason for these problems is that engineering organization has neglected to provide developers with an effective working environment. The key to to developing an effective environment is to concentrate on feedback loops.
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Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 9, 2021
To Ensure Your Upward Feedback is Received Well, Start with Connection and Intention. You have some difficult feedback for your boss, but you’re not quite sure they’re ready to hear it. It might feel safer to stay silent. After all, they can’t shoot the messenger if there’s no message. But if you stay silent, the problematic behavior will only continue, or even get worse.
Planbox
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Curb Transactional Open Innovation and Embrace an Integrated Ecosystem Strategy “It’s a wall,” “It’s a snake,” “It’s a rope,” “It’s a spear,” “It’s a fan,” no, “It’s a tree,” and so goes the story of “The Blind Men & The Elephant”.
CTOvision
MARCH 23, 2021
Two years after announcing the general availability of its fully-managed blockchain service, Amazon has extended it with Ethereum support. Using Ethereum on Managed Blockchain, developers can easily instantiate Ethereum nodes without […].
Confluent
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
I’m pleased to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. Apache Kafka 3.0 is a major release in more ways than one. Apache […].
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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.
TechBeacon
DECEMBER 27, 2021
To keep ahead of the security curve, you have to be constantly learning. As malicious threats become more sophisticated on an almost daily basis, continuously evolving your security knowledge is really the only way to keep up.
Erik Bernhardsson
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors 1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Other pure-software providers will build all the stuff on top of it. Databases, running code, you name it. We currently have cloud vendors that offer end-to-end solutions from the developer experience down to the hardware: What if cloud vendors focus on the lowest layer, and other (pure software)
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
DECEMBER 13, 2021
There’s been a lot of talk about Web3 lately, and as the person who defined “Web 2.0” 17 years ago, I’m often asked to comment. I’ve generally avoided doing so because most prognostications about the future turn out to be wrong. What we can do, though, is to ask ourselves questions that help us see more deeply into the present, the soil in which the future is rooted.
The Crazy Programmer
AUGUST 14, 2021
What are the most vital characteristics that developers seek in a JavaScript framework? There is no definitive answer, but there might be some insight to glean from exploring performance, speed, and popularity. For starters: Performance (how long it takes for your application’s code to execute), Speed (how long does it take you to get something running on your browser?
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.
DataRobot
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Anima Anandkumar joined Ben Taylor, Chief AI Evangelist at DataRobot, on the More Intelligent Tomorrow podcast to discuss the future direction of AI technology and its possible enhancement by the addition of more human capabilities. Bren Professor of Technology at California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Anima joined Nvidia three years ago as the Director of Machine Learning Research.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
As society continues to recover from the global COVID-19 pandemic and some semblance of normal starts to return, technology continues to move forward. The pandemic certainly changed what normal means and people, processes and technologies all have adapted and evolved to meet those challenges. The narrative that the pandemic caused of your organization’s digital transformation […].
CTO Universe Submitted Awards Articles
OCTOBER 7, 2021
If you work with video on the internet, you know how resource-intensive encoding can be. While moving from in-house to cloud-hosted servers can save you a lot of money, that doesn’t change the fact that processing large videos with modern codecs takes significant computing power.
Kentik
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Every year the internet experiences numerous disruptions and outages, and 2021 was certainly no exception. This year we documented outages, including multiple government-directed shutdowns, as well as what might be the internet’s biggest outage in history. In this post, I run through 10 of the top outages that we covered in 2021. Needless to say, the world’s network engineers deserve a load of #HugOps in 2021.
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Planbox
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Good news is 2021 will be shorter since Earth is spinning faster and faster, scientists say. Bad news is the pace of technology advancements is speeding up exponentially, and it’s getting harder to stay in the game.
Tenable
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The Apache HTTP Server Project patched a path traversal vulnerability introduced less than a month ago that has been exploited in the wild. Background. On October 5, the Apache HTTP Server Project patched CVE-2021-41773, a path traversal and file disclosure vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server, an open-source web server for Unix and Windows that is among the most widely used web servers.
Toptal
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Two heads are better than one. This proverb describes the concept behind ensemble methods in machine learning. Let's examine why ensembles dominate ML competitions and what makes them so powerful.
TechBeacon
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
For most organizations, moving to the cloud is no longer a matter of debate. Most are already using it in some form—maybe cloud-based productivity applications such as Office 365 and SharePoint or an app on users' smartphones that lets them interact with in-house business applications.
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Netlify
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Today we’re thrilled to announce that Y Combinator and SignalFire-backed OneGraph is joining Netlify, driving innovation in the Netlify platform to make it even easier to compose apps with APIs and services. We launched Netlify in 2015 to help developers move from legacy monolithic web architecture to Jamstack, where the web presentation layer is decoupled from backend logic.
Confluent
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
The full inventory of three online Kafka Summits in 2021 is now complete. Kafka Summit Americas wrapped just yesterday. Being a part of the event team and the Program Committee, […].
The Crazy Programmer
APRIL 14, 2021
Cloud technology is the new normal for tech-savvy people who consider themselves Digital Nomads. With the rise in a shift towards cloud technology, especially IT people, have changed the way they work. Besides, it has made it easier for professionals and even ordinary people to access the data on any device from anywhere. Shells is one such platform for hosting a Virtual Desktop/ Computer on the cloud.
DataRobot
OCTOBER 18, 2021
I have a confession to make—I’m a back-seat driver! When sitting in a taxi, I can’t help but grumble when the ride isn’t smooth, or the driver chooses the slowest lane of traffic. I have to fight the urge to take control. When it comes to shopping, I passively accept what is offered for sale. But my wife, who grew up in Asia where haggling is part of the culture, is different.
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DevOps.com
DECEMBER 20, 2021
The recent discovery of the Apache Log4j vulnerability has wide-ranging implications for anyone who develops software, especially for those in the DevOps realm. What’s most troubling about the vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) is how prevalent the use of Log4j is. The vulnerability is reported in a vast array of applications and directly impacts numerous Apache projects, including […].
CTO Universe Submitted Awards Articles
OCTOBER 7, 2021
In the last 10 years, over 100 unique streaming services have launched around the world, with a mass acceleration of new services launched in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. This growth in new services shows no indication of slowing any time soon, as new niche verticals like eLearning, faith-based services, fitness, and entertainment (live music/theater) are building out their own services to expand their reach and monetize their content.
Kentik
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Yesterday the world’s largest social media platform suffered a global outage of all of its services for nearly six hours. Facebook and its subsidiaries, including WhatsApp, Instagram and Oculus, were unavailable to its 3.5 billion users in what can arguably be considered the most impactful internet service outage in modern history. When we first heard about problems with Facebook, we checked Kentik’s OTT Service Tracker, which analyzes traffic by over-the-top (OTT) service.
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