Author Archives: Kate Ilardi

Updated Recipe for Success Pie

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Kate Ilardi

So about 6 years ago, during my Year-End Reviews of my Employees, I came up with this concept which I called “The Recipe for Success Pie.” It can really be shortened to “Recipe for Success” (please see the original “recipe” … Continue reading →

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Wisdom is Real and Meaningful

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Kate Ilardi

Back in College, a humanities professor I had, postulated that Wisdom is meaningless, and there is an assumption that just because someone is older they are wise and someone who is younger and educated via the modern western education system … Continue reading →

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Universities need to teach Freshman the Economic Prospects of their Majors

Posted on March 24, 2018 by Kate Ilardi

In this video I will discuss the need for Universities to teach a Zero Credit Required Course for All Freshman on Economic and Job Prospects related to each Major. The University was first created in Medievial Bolonga, in Italy. The University … Continue reading →

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Defining Sub-Generations of the Millennials (In preparation to discuss High Performance Workspaces)

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Kate Ilardi

I’m planning on doing a blog entry on “High Performance Workspaces” and how corporations are saying these are the types of work environments that attract Millennials. I personally highly dislike these so called “High Performance Workspaces”. But in preparation for … Continue reading →

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Master Map-Reduce Job – The One and Only ETL Map-Reduce Job you will ever have to write!

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Kate Ilardi

It’s fitting that my first article on Big Data would be titled the “Master Map-Reduce Job”. I believe it truly is the one and only Map-Reduce job you will every have to write, at least for ETL (Extract, Transform and … Continue reading →

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Synthetic Transactions and Capability Monitoring of your Enterprise Architecture

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Kate Ilardi

Back in my days at Lehman Brothers, I was introduced to the concept of “Synthetic Transactions”. That is an automated action that is scheduled to execute periodically to monitor performance and availability of one of more components in your enterprise … Continue reading →

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Lightweight User Reference Object for Securing APIs

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Kate Ilardi

Back in 2005, I was face with developing a Secure Set of APIs that could run in multiple deployment configurations. At the time we were heavily developing EJB’s, specifically Stateless Session Beans. We were also starting to deploy SOAP based … Continue reading →

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Writing a Good Job Description for Hiring Core Java Developers

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Kate Ilardi

As a Development Manager or a Team Lead, you often need to write up Job Descriptions which include a brief description of the Team, and the Role’s responsibilities. Some people also include a description of the company, but I usually … Continue reading →

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The Lehman Brothers Experience…

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Kate Ilardi

I originally published this article on my personal blog “Just another stream of random bits…”, back in September 2008, a few days after the now famous Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. Today being the 7th anniversary of the bankruptcy, I was … Continue reading →

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Another Class In the JAR, Part 1

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Kate Ilardi

Another Class In the JAR, Part 1 I wrote this back when I was a lowly Senior Developer at Lehman Brothers. When I write code, both, now and back then, I listen to music, usually Metallica or Pink Floyd, and … Continue reading →

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