Tag: Leadership and career
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Separate stateful infrastructure with Serverless Compose
Posted on July 4, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
One of the most significant benefits of serverless is that the development teams can fully own and manage all of their infrastructure themself. Keeping all of that infrastructure in the same CloudFormation stack can sometimes be troublesome however, and there are many reasons why you might consider having parts of it in a separate stack. By Sebastian Bille.
Tags product-and-design architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd
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Guide to Reinforcement Learning with Python and TensorFlow
Posted on July 3, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In reinforcement learning, self-learning agent learns how to interact with the environment and solve a problem within it. In this article, we present complete guide to reinforcemen learning and one type of it Q-Learning (which with the help of deep learning become Deep Q-Learning). We learn about the inspiration behind this type of learning and implement it with Python, TensorFlow and TensorFlow Agents. By Nikola M. Zivkovic.
Tags leadership-and-career data-and-analytics backend-development
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5 tips for managing high-performing teams (remotely!)
Posted on July 2, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Today's workplace is more digitized than ever before – especially in tech. Work-from-home adjustments and nearshore outsourcing has surged in the last two years, requiring the modern manager to adapt quickly. By Steve Taplin.
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Linked Lists explained in PHP
Posted on July 1, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
As one of the most common data structures, the linked list has to be one of the simplest in concept; yet still very powerful. In this post we will be looking at what linked lists are; what types of linked lists there are; when to use a linked list; and whether or why a linked list might be better than an array. By Doeke Norg.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career product-and-design software-engineering
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The importance of model versioning in machine learning
Posted on June 30, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Version control is an essential concept in software development. Version control tools, such as Git, are used to manage and track source codes. Developers and organizations alike value source code because it is the backbone of their product(s), from which they earn revenue. By Oghenefejiro Esosuota.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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Things a city needs to become a startup hub
Posted on June 22, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
It's common sense that being part of a thriving startup community can bring immense advantages to your own project. Yet, not all startup founders have the opportunity or desire to move to Silicon Valley, New York, London, Beijing, or any of the other big startup hubs. By Abdo Riani.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Why managed container services help startups and tech companies build smarter
Posted on June 21, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Learning how to install and manage Kubernetes clusters can be a big obstacle between your organization and all the potential magic of a container orchestration platform. You have to consider tasks like provisioning machines, choosing OS and runtime, and setting up networking and security. By Fer De Oliveira @google.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Automating AWS IAM remediation in Python
Posted on June 20, 2022, Level advanced Resource Length long
Since automating IAM remediation requires recurring parsing of JSON documents, modulating your parsing function(s) will save you time as you work on each control. If you have controls that pertain to trust policies, you will need a separate function to parse those out since the format differs from that of permission policies. By Cody Bench.
Tags backend-development product-and-design security-and-privacy software-engineering leadership-and-career
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New superconductors could make faster Quantum computers
Posted on June 17, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Practical quantum computers could soon arrive with profound implications for everything from drug discovery to code-breaking. By Sascha Brodsky.
Tags software-engineering leadership-and-career product-and-design miscellaneous architecture-and-apis
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A deep dive into OpenTelemetry metrics
Posted on June 12, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for infrastructure instrumentation hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The project gained a lot of momentum with contributions from all major cloud providers (AWS, Google, Microsoft) as well as observability vendors (including Timescale) to the point it became the second-highest ranked CNCF project by activity and contributors, only coming second to Kubernetes itself. By James Blackwood-Sewell.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career product-and-design
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How Power BI metrics and scorecards can transform productivity within business objectives
Posted on June 11, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Metric and goal setting is paramount when formulating business operations. That's why Microsoft Metrics (previously known as "Goals") make it possible to keep every member of a team striving toward a singular, unified key objective and ensures a higher probability of positive outcomes. By Jocelyn Porter.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd
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Blockchain scalability: Execution, storage, and consensus
Posted on June 10, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Trust minimization is a valuable security property that blockchain technology is uniquely positioned to generate—replacing handshakes, brand reputation, and paper contracts with guarantees based on computer code, cryptography, and decentralized consensus. These superior guarantees provided by blockchains form the basis of cryptographic truth. By chain.link.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech leadership-and-career software-engineering data-and-analytics