Tag: Leadership and career
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Running scaled retrospectives
Posted on May 6, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A scaled retrospective provides the chance to expand scope of improvements beyond the individual team. By Colleen Johnson.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering
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What is the Circular Economy?
Posted on April 30, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The World Economic Forum's circular economy definition is "an industrial system that is restorative or regenerative by intention and design." As opposed to the traditional linear model that transforms raw materials into products that are used once and discarded, the circular model closes the loop by bringing products back into the cycle after use so they can be reused, recycled, or repurposed.
Tags miscellaneous leadership-and-career how-to
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How to establish a DevSecOps organization
Posted on April 29, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
DevSecOps integrates automated security checks and hardening into every stage of the software development and deployment process. Practitioners aim to have risk-checked applications fully developed and into production at the speed the business needs, making continuous incremental improvements. By Chris Buijs.
Tags security-and-privacy devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career
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Network MOP's as automated workflows
Posted on April 29, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
While there are generic use-cases, the real value of automation is truly uncovered when you are able to translate your existing processes into automated workflows that need no human intervention in order to be executed. By Nicolas Leiva.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career
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When does reinventing the wheel make perfect sense?
Posted on April 28, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
Electrification of road transport promises environmental and commercial gains. At the threshold of an evolution in transport, the environmental consequences are huge. So too are the commercial gains for the earliest and fastest movers. By Serge Colle, Randall Miller, Thierry Mortier, Marc Coltelli, and Andrew Horstead @ey.com.
Tags miscellaneous data-and-analytics how-to leadership-and-career
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The myth of the young startup founder
Posted on April 27, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
While the story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook has undoubtedly inspired an entire generation of young entrepreneurs and reshaped their imaginations about what's possible, people too easily forget that a big part of what makes the story compelling is that it's so unusual. Mark Zuckerburg is not only an outlier — he's an outlier among outliers. By Ian Hathaway.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous leadership-and-career data-and-analytics
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Postgres is out of disk and how to recover: The dos and dont's
Posted on April 22, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Welp ... sometimes "stuff" happens ... and you find yourself having a really bad day. We'd like to believe that every database is well configured from the start with optimal log rotation, correct alerting of high CPU consumption and cache hit ratio monitoring. By Elizabeth Christensen.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics leadership-and-career software-engineering
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Kubernetes in space - Azure
Posted on April 21, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Brendan Thompson published this article about deploying Kubernetes (k8s) to the major public clouds. There is a lot of drive with Cloud Native technology and consuming public clouds native PaaS offerings and I think we are losing some of the joy and certainly flexibility when it comes to consuming those.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Trapped on technology's trailing edge
Posted on April 20, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
We're paying too much to deal with obsolete electronic parts. Keeping aging systems on their feet is a daunting and resource-intensive task. By Peter Sandborn.
Tags miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career software-engineering
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PyTorch – How to apply Backpropagation with Vectors and Tensors
Posted on April 19, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
In Machine learning, a backpropagation algorithm is used to compute the loss for a particular model. The most common starting point is to use the techniques of single-variable calculus and understand how backpropagation works. However, the real challenge is when the inputs are not scalars but of matrices or tensors. By Strahinja Stefanovic.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics leadership-and-career business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous software-engineering
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How can we fix the data science talent shortage?
Posted on April 17, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Data science might just be the most buzzed-about job in tech right now, but its pop culture sheen conceals some of the harsh realities of being a fresh graduate in the industry. By Kindra Cooper.
Tags data-and-analytics leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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Leverage enterprise-scale reference implementations for your cloud adoption
Posted on April 17, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This blog will discuss the IT team at Tailwind Traders and how they leveraged enterprise-scale reference implementations for the cloud environment they are building. By Thomas Maurer Senior Cloud Advocate, Azure and Sarah Lean, Senior Content Engineer, Azure.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career product-and-design frontend-and-mobile