September, 2023

article thumbnail

What I Have Changed My Mind About in Software Development

Henrik Warne

I really like this quote from Jeff Bezos: “Anybody who doesn’t change their mind a lot is dramatically underestimating the complexity of the world we live in.” Lately I have been thinking about what I have changed my mind about in software development. Here are the things I came up with: Self-documenting code. I used to think that the names of the classes, methods and variables should be enough to understand what the program does.

article thumbnail

How is GenAI different from other code generators?

Martin Fowler

How is code generation with GenAI different from more "traditional" code generators? The newest memo in Birgitta Böckeler's explorations of GenAI talks about abstraction levels in software engineering, and on which levels GenAI sits in the translation of our thoughts into zeros and ones.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Xef 0.0.3 Adds Google Cloud Platform Integration and More

Xebia

We are excited to announce the release of xef version 0.0.3! Here are the notable changes and improvements: Features & Improvements Introduced CoreAIScope as Autocloseable which has now been renamed to Conversation for simpler access. Thanks, @victorcrrd! Various Java examples have been added including SQL examples by @adam47deg, GPT-4 examples by @Zevleg, and more.

article thumbnail

One Dancing XP Guy Found a Fix to Dark Agile

Agile Alliance

Tired of dark/flaccid/zombie/corporate Agile, endless meetings, and only lip service to autonomy, one guy and his team found a way to put the self-organization back into Agile and the host organization. The post One Dancing XP Guy Found a Fix to Dark Agile first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile 176
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Clear Talk, Less Squawk: How to Leverage Clear Communication for More Useful Conflict

Let's Grow Leaders

Clear communication gets you past “magical thinking” to create a shared understanding of success. Think about any significant conflict you’ve been a part of. We’ll bet that somewhere along the line, clear communication was compromised, and “magical thinking” crept in. It happens all the time. You assume they should know what’s expected because __ fill in the blank here (e.g. after all, they’re a grown-up, have a certification, have been doing this

How To 131

More Trending

article thumbnail

Tenable and Cyversity Partner on CISSP Exam Prep Program

Tenable

Tenable is now accepting applicants for its training scholarship dedicated to supporting cybersecurity professionals from diverse backgrounds in their preparation for the CISSP exam Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is a priority at Tenable. We strive to be a career destination in which individuals from all backgrounds are welcomed and empowered, treated with fairness and respect, presented with opportunities to make a difference and provided with resources to enable them to grow.

article thumbnail

Ship Of Fools

Successful Software

I recently had a 3 week holiday in Florida with my family. My 17 year old son is interested in rocketry and my wife is interested in wildlife. We got to see plenty of both and had a great time. There is a lot to like about America and Americans. But the sheer waste of resources on show everywhere was pretty shocking. In Europe we absolutely aren’t doing enough to protect the environment and avert the impending climate catastrophe (I flew to Florida and drove a car there, so I am no environ

Hotels 121
article thumbnail

The Real Problem with Software Development

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A few weeks ago, I saw a tweet that said “Writing code isn’t the problem. Controlling complexity is.” I wish I could remember who said that; I will be quoting it a lot in the future. That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. It’s not just memorizing the syntactic details of some programming language, or the many functions in some API, but understanding and managing the complexity of the problem you’re trying to solve.

article thumbnail

Agile2024: An Amazing Program Needs Amazing Reviewers

Agile Alliance

We'd like to officially invite you to raise your hand to serve as a reviewer for Agile2024 this year. We'll take as many as we can get, and you’ll get to participate as much as you want in the process. The post Agile2024: An Amazing Program Needs Amazing Reviewers first appeared on Agile Alliance.

154
154
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Article: Bridging Silos and Overcoming Collaboration Antipatterns in Multidisciplinary Organisations

InfoQ Culture Methods

There's a worrying trend towards focusing on specialisms at the expense of collaboration, shared responsibility and valuable outcomes, which can take teams away from multi-disciplinary collaboration. This article calls out three collaboration anti-patterns that appeared in more than one organisation, some of the symptoms they cause and some thoughts on how to go about counteracting them.

Trends 117
article thumbnail

2023 Unit 42 Attack Surface Threat Report Highlights the Need for ASM

Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 illuminates some of the riskiest security observations around attack surface management (ASM) with the 2023 Unit 42 Attack Surface Threat Report. The report contrasts the dynamic nature of cloud environments with the speed at which threat actors are exploiting new vulnerabilities. It found that cybercriminals are exploiting new vulnerabilities within hours of public disclosure.

Report 126
article thumbnail

Tenable's Plan to Acquire Ermetic Will Accelerate Customer Value in CNAPP and Exposure Management

Tenable

The acquisition of cloud security innovator Ermetic, once completed, will add unified, elegantly integrated CNAPP and market-leading CIEM capabilities to the Tenable portfolio. Today, Tenable announced our intent to acquire Ermetic, an innovator in the cloud security market with deep expertise and capabilities in the complex discipline of securing cloud identities and entitlements.

Cloud 138
article thumbnail

Data – The Lifeblood of Intelligence Automation

Perficient

With all the hype around artificial intelligence (AI), AI can feel complicated, distant, or foreign. But guess what? It’s not new news and it doesn’t need to be complicated; it’s just a revolution of how we leverage data! Let’s take a quick dive into the data-driven universe of AI (i.e., intelligence automation). This article breaks down how data powers intelligence automation.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

New detection capabilities bring deeper insight and broader context for enhanced threat identification

Lacework

How did the cloud attacker escape? They ransomware. Cloud threat detection is often overlooked when considering the full spectrum of capabilities in cloud infrastructure and security tools. IT and security teams see a problem like an over-provisioned user, or access to a web server from an unauthorized IP address, and immediately want to address it; how the attacker got there and when the risk first surfaced can feel far less important in the day-to-day of business operations.

article thumbnail

Office comeback: Why leaders need to rethink the office space

CEO Insider

From 2020 to 2022, employers and employees embraced remote work, and many have argued that they’ve worked just as, if not more productively than at the office. However, fast forward to 2023, during the post-pandemic era; recent studies show that while employees feel they’re just as, or more productive at home, this may not always […] The post Office comeback: Why leaders need to rethink the office space appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

Study 111
article thumbnail

Documentation as Code: A Game Changer for DevOps Teams?

DevOps.com

Documentation-as-code improves collaboration, ensures consistency and accuracy, facilitates version control and streamlines updates and maintenance processes.

DevOps 126
article thumbnail

The Service Experience Holds the Keys to Sustained Success

IDC

In today's dynamic business landscape, organizations overlook three pivotal components within the service and support realm. This oversight not only hinders their growth but also prevents them from harnessing a significant opportunity that could set them apart in the competitive market. Discover the missing links that can potentially transform your business into a standout success story.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Microsoft’s September 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 61 CVEs (CVE-2023-36761)

Tenable

Microsoft’s September 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 61 CVEs (CVE-2023-36761) Microsoft addresses 61 CVEs including two vulnerabilities that were exploited in the wild. 5 Critical 55 Important 1 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft patched 61 CVEs in its September Patch Tuesday release, with five rated critical, 55 rated important and one rated moderate. This month’s update includes patches for: NET and Visual Studio.NET Core & Visual Studio.NET Framework 3D Builder 3D Viewer Azure DevOps Azure HDInsights Mic

LAN 124
article thumbnail

Is All-in-One Nonprofit Software Right for You?

TechSoup

Do you feel like you're using too many apps? Do you find yourself jumping between several different pieces of software to complete a given task? Do you feel like you're wasting time and energy by entering information into multiple places?

Software 114
article thumbnail

Announcing the General Availability of Netlify Software Development Kit (SDK)

Netlify

Empower your development teams to streamline the process of taking their concepts from idea to production, quickly and at global scale with Netlify SDK.

article thumbnail

A new community for Lacework customers

Lacework

Modern cybersecurity takes a village. This week, Lacework takes a huge step to connect experts, curate knowledge, and make sure we’re all doing cybersecurity better, together. Lacework is launching its brand new customer community where customers, Lacework employees (a.k.a.

Cloud 119
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Measuring GitHub Copilot’s Impact on Engineering Productivity

DevOps.com

What methodology (and metrics) should you use to accurately assess the impact on productivity and value delivery of a tool like GitHub Copilot?

article thumbnail

Keeping your own XM Cloud repository in sync with official XM Cloud starter kit template

Perficient

XM Cloud is a live evolving platform – the development team releases new base images almost on a weekly basis, and new features are coming to the product regularly, which gets reflected in the underlying dependencies, as well as public starter kit templates such as XM Cloud Foundation Head Starter Kit. At the same time XM Cloud professionals and enthusiasts and of course – the partners, are building their own starter kits based on publicly available templates provided by Sitecore.

Cloud 104
article thumbnail

Cybersecurity Snapshot: Get the Latest on Deepfake Threats, Open Source Risks, AI System Security and Ransomware Gangs

Tenable

Tasked with securing your org’s new AI systems? Check out a new Google paper with tips and best practices. Plus, open source security experts huddled at a conference this week – find out what they talked about. Also, Uncle Sam says it’s time to prep for deepfake attacks. And much more! Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending September 15. 1 - Google: The ins and outs of securing AI systems As businesses adopt artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity teams get tasked w

article thumbnail

Dell Technologies Named Google Cloud Partner of the Year

Dell EMC

Dell wins prestigious award for Backup & DR solutions that enhance data protection, security and cost-efficiency in Google Cloud.

article thumbnail

10 Rules for Managing PostgreSQL®

PostgreSQL is a highly versatile and robust technology, capable of addressing a wide range of challenges in diverse environments. Its expanding range of use cases is witnessing exponential growth, allowing PostgreSQL to effectively target an ever-increasing number of applications while minimizing limitations. This whitepaper presents ten indispensable rules that will empower you to optimize your PostgreSQL installation and stay ahead of the evolving landscape.

article thumbnail

The Future of Mobile App Development – Predictions and Trends

Xicom

The number of smartphone users is set to exceed 7.6 billion by 2027, which explains the thriving mobile app industry and its readiness for new ideas and opportunities. However, the industry is bound to evolve with the influence of Covid-19 pandemic, the advent of 5G technology, and the increasing need for convenience.

97
article thumbnail

OpenID Connect: Let’s Talk Security

Prisma Clud

OpenID Connect (OIDC) is a modern authentication and authorization protocol built on top of the 0Auth 2.0 framework. OIDC enables secure and standardized authentication in applications, particularly web and mobile applications. But while OIDC improves security, minimizing user credential exposure, it can introduce security risks such as misconfigured identity and access management (IAM) policies.

article thumbnail

Tips for Increasing Developer Velocity in the AI Age

DevOps.com

AI has been a boon for automatic code generation, but the code doesn't matter if you can't deploy it into production efficiently.