Tag: Leadership and career
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4 tips for automation engineers interested in Site Reliability Engineering
Posted on June 3, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Software has undoubtedly become more complex over the last two decades. In 2000, it was estimated that there were 3.4 million internet users. The expectation of all software today has increased tremendously. To support these expectations, organizations have had to invest in reliability and operability of their systems. Zero downtime deployments, high levels of resilience to failure, and ease of restoring service are all key characteristics for any software system today. By Abigail Bangser.
Tags product-and-design leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd
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GRPC delivers on the promise of a proxyless Service Mesh
Posted on June 2, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length medium
With the newest edition of the gRPC protocol, microservices-based systems will no longer need separate stand-alone service mesh sidecars, noted Megan Yahya, Google's product manager for gRPC, in her talk at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon EU earlier this month. By Joab Jackson.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career
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Cloud account takeovers present serious security risk to enterprises
Posted on May 31, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Cloud account compromises cost organisations millions of dollars every year, with many IT professionals stating takeovers are a significant risk to their organisations. By Catherine Knowles.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure security-and-privacy leadership-and-career
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Neurons act not as simple logic gates, but as complex, multi-unit processing systems
Posted on May 30, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A study published in the journal Science has upended 80 years of conventional wisdom in computational neuroscience that has modeled the neuron as a simple point-like node in a system, integrating signals and passing them along.? By William Brown, resonance science research scientist.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning miscellaneous leadership-and-career product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure
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The 10 best practices for remote software engineering
Posted on May 27, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
At face value, when we think of developer productivity we might think of effectiveness in time management, communication, and task completion. By Vanessa Sochat.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering miscellaneous
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Product analytics at startups
Posted on May 26, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
A solid product analytics stack is the foundation of data-driven culture. Behavioral data enables a development team to track results, connect feature improvements to outcomes, and measure progress to inform decision making. By Julia Enthoven and Shah Ahmed.
Tags data-and-analytics software-engineering business-and-emerging-tech leadership-and-career
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Putting digital at the heart of strategy
Posted on May 23, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
When everyone is digital, strategy is the differentiator. Before long, every business will be a digital business. CEOs must make explicit choices about their strategy to win in a digital economy. By Ragu Gurumurthy, Rich Nanda, David Schatsky @deloitte.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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5 feedback loops that avoid software architecture chaos
Posted on May 19, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Product development can be chaotic these days. Planning for these five challenges helps avoid them. By Jim Tyrrell (Red Hat).
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure
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Good mental health practices for entrepreneurs
Posted on May 14, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
While it's essential that everyone pays attention to their mental health no matter their age, job title, or gender, entrepreneurs have a unique lifestyle that may require them to pay even closer attention. By Tycoonstory.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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The art of automation: Robotic process automation (RPA)
Posted on May 10, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
RPA is made up of three core technologies: workflow automation, screen scraping and AI. The unique combo of these technologies allows RPA to solve the productivity challenge of manual desktop tasks. By Allen Chan, DE & CTO, Digital Business Automation.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning business-and-emerging-tech leadership-and-career
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Flow efficiency: Powering the current of your work
Posted on May 8, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
How can we be more efficient? What's holding us back from delivering great customer value, sooner? By Sonya Siderova.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous software-engineering
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Defenseless: UVA engineering computer scientists discover vulnerability affecting computers globally
Posted on May 7, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In 2018, industry and academic researchers revealed a potentially devastating hardware flaw that made computers and other devices worldwide vulnerable to attack. Since Spectre was discovered, the world's most talented computer scientists from industry and academia have worked on software patches and hardware defenses, confident they've been able to protect the most vulnerable points in the speculative execution process without slowing down computing speeds too much. By Audra Book @virginia.edu.
Tags security-and-privacy leadership-and-career miscellaneous software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech