TechSoup
JANUARY 23, 2020
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) went into effect on January 1, 2020. It is the first law insuring personal online privacy being implemented in the U.S. Any "business" with an online presence around the world will have to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act if it receives personal data from any California residents or has gross revenues over $25 million.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 23, 2020
The merger of XebiaLabs and CollabNet VersionOne announced this week will accelerate the ongoing consolidation of providers of DevOps platforms that has been slowly gaining momentum for the better part of two years. Under the terms of the agreement, the unnamed combined company will be led by Ashok Reddy, formerly with Broadcom, CA Technologies and […].
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Martin Fowler
JANUARY 23, 2020
Luiza and James finish their article on running programs in product mode organizations by discussing two useful practices. Investing in visual artifacts to help convey information to those involved, and the necessity of having defined roles for managing the overall program.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
JANUARY 23, 2020
According to StackOverflow , the demand for software developers still outpaces the supply. Research reveals that in the US alone, tech talent shortage is predicted to cost the country USD 435.7 billion. . Unfortunately, businesses in major tech countries such as the US and the UK have long been suffering because of the rapid growth of tech industries and the shortage of talented developers.
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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 23, 2020
Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their thoughts about how to achieve better results in 2020. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors. Are you […]. The post How to Get Better Results in 2020: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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A List Apart
JANUARY 23, 2020
Writing to meet WCAG2 standards can be a challenge, but it’s worthwhile. Albert Einstein, the archetypical genius and physicist, once said, “Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.”. Hopefully, this entire book will help you better write for accessibility.
Confluent
JANUARY 23, 2020
A preview of Confluent Tiered Storage is now available in Confluent Platform 5.4, enabling operators to add an additional storage tier for data in Confluent Platform. If you’re curious about […].
TechBeacon
JANUARY 23, 2020
Apple killed its plan to protect iCloud with end-to-end encryption. Over two years ago, the FBI told Tim Cook to knock it off.
CTOvision
JANUARY 23, 2020
Read Ian Cruxton explains how to train employees to spot sophisticated phishing attacks on Dark Reading : Deepfake fraud is a new, potentially devastating issue for businesses. In fact, last year a top executive at an unidentified energy company was revealed to have been conned into paying £200,000 by scammers using artificial intelligence to replicate […].
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
Agile42
JANUARY 23, 2020
Nowadays, there are hardly any IT projects in which non-agile approaches are used. But what does agility mean for the rest of the organizations, is it a method or an attitude? I am very happy to be able to present this year at the Agile Beyond IT conference in Berlin , where they are creating a networking platform for mutual exchange of experience to promote agility in companies.
CTOvision
JANUARY 23, 2020
Apple dropped plans to offer end-to-end encrypted cloud back-ups to its global customer base after the FBI complained, a new report has claimed. Citing six sources “familiar with the matter,” Reuters claimed that Apple changed its mind over the plans for iCloud two years ago after the Feds argued in private it would seriously hinder investigations. The […].
DevOps.com
JANUARY 23, 2020
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) was the great hope of organizations decades ago when they sought to advance legacy system integration, reduce and bypass layers, and rapidly access the system of record. At the time, the existing solution was point-to-point integration, creating a brittle “spaghetti” middle layer that was hard to manage. This was replaced by […].
CTOvision
JANUARY 23, 2020
Read Tim Mocan explain why businesses should start prioritizing cybersecurity on Enterprise Times : Do you have £45 million to spare? That’s how much a ransomware attack cost Norsk Hydro in the first quarter of 2019. A total of 22,000 computers had their files forcibly encrypted (made unreadable without a particular key) across 40 countries […].
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Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet
TechBeacon
JANUARY 23, 2020
In 2015, Dropbox embarked on a massive project to migrate its software infrastructure and development teams from Python 2 to the more modern Python 3. While Python's core developers had announced their intention to sunset Python 2 seven years ago, for Dropbox, it was only in 2015 that the payoff of converting all its software to the latest version of Python made sense.
Toptal
JANUARY 23, 2020
Supervised learning is the key to computer vision and deep learning. However, what happens when you don’t have access to large, human-labeled datasets? In this article, Toptal Computer Vision Developer Urwa Muaz demonstrates the potential of semi-supervised image classification using unlabeled datasets.
CTOvision
JANUARY 23, 2020
It was a simple misconfiguration that doomed Capital One. In March 2019, former Amazon employee Paige Thompson exfiltrated the data of more than 100 million Capital One customers, culminating in one of the year’s worst breaches. Thompson exploited what’s known as a server-side request forgery (SSRF) to access credit applications, Social Security numbers and consumer […].
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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
Coding Dojo
JANUARY 23, 2020
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is … Read more >>. The post The Top 7 Reasons Alumni Recommend Coding Dojo appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.
CTOvision
JANUARY 23, 2020
Read Alexander Culafi list 10 of the biggest data breach disclosures of 2019 on Tech Target : The details of these breaches vary widely in terms of how many users were affected as well as how long it took for a company to detect a breach; sometimes not long at all, like with Zynga, and […].
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
JANUARY 23, 2020
Our reader poll today asks: What does your budget look like going into the new year? We have a lot more to spend than this past year. 15.4% We have about the same amount to spend as this past year. 54.7% We have much less to spend than this past year. 29.9% Belts are a little tighter. A large portion of you reported having less to spend in the coming year.
The Daily WTF
JANUARY 23, 2020
"Hey Alexa, can you help Amazon with their math?" Timothy W. wrote. . "Name my %1$s so I can identify it later? How about 'Placeholder Text Goes Here'?" writes Vladimír C. . Adam L. wrote, "Now I haven't seen the code behind the scenes here, but I imagine someone might have gotten a greater / less than operator backwards." .
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Teradata
JANUARY 23, 2020
With the consumer expectations and experience bleeding into all aspects of business and life, how is consumerization translating to the enterprise? Read more.
Palo Alto Networks
JANUARY 23, 2020
Palo Alto Networks has achieved certification for Rated Outstanding Assisted Support for a fifth consecutive year from the J.D. Power Certified Assisted Technical Support program. This distinguished certification recognizes Palo Alto Networks for delivering outstanding assisted support for five straight years to customers globally. This means Palo Alto Networks will assist and support your organization throughout your entire lifecycle of Palo Alto Networks solutions to ensure maximum security an
TIBCO - Connected Intelligence
JANUARY 23, 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes. In this blog, written for logistics and operations management, marketing professionals, and other business leaders, you’ll learn a bit about why a scripting language, Python, may be invaluable for your analysts and data scientists, and how it can help them to get more meaningful insights faster. What’s Python, and why does it matter to your data analysts and data scientists—and to you?
Palo Alto Networks
JANUARY 23, 2020
This blog is the third in a series based on our book, “Elements of Security Operations,” a guide to building and optimizing effective and scalable security operations. Download a free copy today. . Presumably, you hire smart people because you want them to spend their time doing smart things. But what happens when your processes are broken, outdated, poorly defined or unscalable?
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
JANUARY 23, 2020
The Business Case for Formal Methods — a short explanation, a list of benefits and case studies, and a demo. Everything’s in TLA+, but the arguments apply equally well to Alloy, B, statecharts, etc. (Via Lobsters ). Backend Lore — From late 2012 to the present I have been writing backends (server-side code) for web applications. This document summarizes many aspects of how I write these pieces of code. float-toy — play with the binary representation of IEEE floats. matterbridge
Honeycomb
JANUARY 23, 2020
Honeycomb engineer Ben Hartshorne is highlighted in Ben Linder’s InfoQ article on reducing build time with observability in the software supply chain. Read about how Hartshorne got a more in-depth insight into the build process performance, the benefits of this, and the valuable knowledge he gained. The post Reducing Build Time with Observability in the Software Supply Chain appeared first on Honeycomb.
Actian
JANUARY 23, 2020
Social relationships hold a wealth of information about your customers, employees, and suppliers that (if you have the tools to harness them) can provide you valuable insights about the factors that influence behaviors that ultimately impact your bottom line. The challenge with analyzing and visualizing social relationships is that the underlying data doesn’t match well with the relational data structures that most data warehouses are designed around.
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