Tag: Leadership and career
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How to tell a story with data: A guide for beginners
Posted on November 4, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
Over the past few years, data storytelling has taken off. This is not only because data and the role it plays in our lives is increasing. It's also because storytelling is the way we as humans have always come to understand ourselves and the world we live in. By Lydia Hooper.
Tags data-and-analytics leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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How to deal with resistance of executives in transformation projects
Posted on November 3, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The digital transformation is in full swing. Digitalization is not only changing technology and processes, but also the way we work together, i.e., the organization, leadership, and culture in companies. The companies that recognize these connections and continuously develop them are successful in the changes. But the reality is also: Many of these transformation projects fail, do not have the expected successes or are still waiting, because the associated changes and resistances are seen as too high hurdles. By Klaus Peren.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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Code is everyone's business
Posted on November 2, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Nearly every company now produces software or applications to enable it to do business. That can include using software as an interface to customer support, enabling e-commerce channels, and powering internal operations to serve customers and keep the business running. By Brian Rue.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure
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Swiftly search metadata with Amazon S3 serverless architecture
Posted on October 31, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
As you increase the number of objects in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you'll need the ability to search through them and quickly find the information you need. By Jiwan Panjiker, Haider Naqvi, and Muthuvelan Swaminathan.
Tags architecture-and-apis product-and-design data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Choosing a FaaS (Function as a Service) provider in 2021
Posted on October 29, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Function execution platforms really gained rise as more people got tired of setting up full containerized environments for simple code execution. The costs, overall maintenance, and cascading consequences of failures meant more people were looking for a lean context to execute one-off workers in the cloud. By Jesse Martin.
Tags leadership-and-career product-and-design architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure
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Videogames or homework? Why not both
Posted on October 27, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Despite the growth of technology in our daily lives, the integration of digital technologies into education has been slower than anticipated. There seem to be a number of factors at work here, including problems with access to technology and the time and support needed to use technology successfully in the classroom. By Amber McLeod and Jo Blannin.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous how-to software-engineering
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What's wrong with business cases
Posted on October 20, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Older but still valid article by Jason Kitcat. Business cases are not a good way to make decisions. They give us false certainty and almost invariably mislead some or all of an organisation's leadership.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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Influencing ingress BGP routing using communities and local preference
Posted on October 19, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an enormous protocol with a nearly endless list of features, knobs and capabilities. BGP's mechanism for choosing the best path is complex but also well known. You should brush up on that algorithm if you're out of practice. By Nicholas Russo.
Tags security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career
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The state of security operations: How SOCs changed in 2021
Posted on October 17, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Security operations has seen non-stop evolution and growth for many years, but the past 18 months has been particularly impactful on security operations teams. In addition to the drastic transformation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, there have also been some significant breaches that have shifted perspectives and highlighted some key areas of concern. By pwheiler.
Tags leadership-and-career security-and-privacy miscellaneous
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What I wish I knew when learning F#
Posted on October 16, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
I've used F# a lot in the last 3 years and for quite some time I wanted to collect a few good starting points to venture into F# in one place. I also wanted to collect some of those random things that I felt weren't easily available anywhere because they fall through the cracks of the official language reference and library documentation. By Justine Kavanaugh-Brown.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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Rate limiting with HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress controller
Posted on October 13, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length short
DDoS (distributed denial of service) events occur when an attacker or group of attackers flood your application or API with disruptive traffic, hoping to exhaust its resources and prevent it from functioning properly. Bots and scrapers, too, can misbehave, making far more requests than is reasonable. By Jim O'Connell.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career software-engineering
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Distributed transaction patterns for microservices compared
Posted on October 8, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
One thing most customers want to know is how to coordinate writes to more than one system of record. Answering this question typically involves a long explanation of dual writes, distributed transactions, modern alternatives, and the possible failure scenarios and drawbacks of each approach. By Bilgin Ibryam.
Tags leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis