Tag: Leadership and career
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Background of Coinbase's May 2025 breach
Posted on May 31, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
Coinbase, America's largest cryptocurrency exchange, received an unsolicited email from an unknown threat actor on May 11, 2025. They claimed to possess sensitive information about its customers and demanded a ransom of $20 million. By Dilip Kumar Patairya.
Tags security-and-privacy business-and-emerging-tech leadership-and-career
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Introducing KBLaM: Bringing plug-and-play external knowledge to LLMs
Posted on May 20, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning, language understanding, and even creative tasks. Yet, a key challenge persists: how to efficiently integrate external knowledge. By Taketomo Isazawa.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure ai-and-machine-learning leadership-and-career data-and-analytics
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How much observability is enough?
Posted on May 17, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Observability is the process of watching what your systems do at every layer so that you can build a comprehensive picture of how it does what it does. By Dotan Horovits and Jujhar Singh.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) tutorial for beginners
Posted on May 9, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG) is an AI approach that improves machine understanding and response accuracy. By integrating traditional AI language models with real-time retrieval of relevant external data, RAG bridges knowledge gaps, enabling more precise and contextually rich answers. By Vidhi Gupta.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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Learnings from a machine learning engineer — data
Posted on May 5, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
Practical insights for a data-driven approach to model optimization. By David Martin.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics how-to leadership-and-career
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Can vibe coding produce production-grade software?
Posted on May 1, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
Thoughtworks explored "vibe coding," where an AI generates software from minimal functional requirements without detailed architectural guidance. They tested this approach through three experiments building the System Update Planner application. By Premanand Chandrasekaran.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning software-engineering miscellaneous how-to leadership-and-career
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Fourteen advanced Python features
Posted on April 28, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
Python is one of the most widely adopted programming languages in the world. Yet, because of it's ease and simplicity to just "get something working", it's also one of the most underappreciated. By Edward Li.
Tags software-engineering backend-development how-to leadership-and-career
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How AI coding tools open the door to hackers through fake packages
Posted on April 20, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A new UTSA study exposes how AI coding assistants can hallucinate fake software packages—creating an easy gateway for hackers to hijack your code with a single, trusted command. By University of Texas at San Antonio.
Tags security-and-privacy product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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State of generics and collections
Posted on April 16, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
Generics have been on the list of wanted features for a long time by numerous PHP developers. The topic is often brought up in "What's New in PHP?" talks as well during Q&A. By Arnaud Le Blanc, Derick Rethans, Larry Garfield.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile product-and-design leadership-and-career
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AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported
Posted on April 8, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Researchers say Aardvark Weather uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current systems. By Rachel Hall and Ian Sample.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning leadership-and-career miscellaneous data-and-analytics
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Leading effective engineering teams in the age of GenAI
Posted on April 4, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Using AI in software development is not about writing more code faster; it's about building better software. It's up to you as a leader to define what "better" means and help your team navigate how to achieve it. Treat AI as a junior team member that needs guidance. Train folks to not over-rely on AI; this can lead to skill erosion. Emphasize "trust but verify" as your mantra for AI-generated code. Leaders should upskill themselves and their teams to navigate this moment.Using AI in software development is not about writing more code faster; it's about building better software. It's up to you as a leader to define what "better" means and help your team navigate how to achieve it. Treat AI as a junior team member that needs guidance. Train folks to not over-rely on AI; this can lead to skill erosion. Emphasize "trust but verify" as your mantra for AI-generated code. Leaders should upskill themselves and their teams to navigate this moment. By Addy Osmani.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering ai-and-machine-learning
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Ansible tutorial for beginners: Playbook, commands & example
Posted on February 24, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Ansible is an open-source automation tool that simplifies software provisioning, configuration management, and deployment across Unix-like and Windows systems by using infrastructure as code principles. Its standout features include ease of installation, agentless architecture (utilizing SSH for connections without requiring additional client-side installations), and comprehensive documentation which facilitates its use even among those with minimal system administration skills. Ansible's modularity supports large-scale orchestration efforts, making it ideal for managing complex environments. By David Carter.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career software-engineering