Wed.Jun 19, 2019

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What's an infrastructure pro to do in a DevOps world?

TechBeacon

By the time I had spent 20 years in infrastructure, I thought I knew how it all worked. Some new technology comes along and is introduced into your organization by an excitable and enthusiastic group that gets business or technical value out of it. Then it usually gets harder—to scale, maintain, or secure—so it gets handed over to the infrastructure team.

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What are model governance and model operations?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A look at the landscape of tools for building and deploying robust, production-ready machine learning models. Our surveys over the past couple of years have shown growing interest in machine learning (ML) among organizations from diverse industries. A few factors are contributing to this strong interest in implementing ML in products and services. First, the machine learning community has conducted groundbreaking research in many areas of interest to companies, and much of this research has been

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Downsides of micro frontends

Martin Fowler

Any significant architectural pattern has downsides. Cam finishes his explanation of micro frontends by looking at some of the costs of this approach, such as payload size and complexity in operations and governance. more….

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Age Before Beauty – A Guide to Interface Design for Older Adults

Toptal

As people age, there are certain physiological and cognitive changes that are almost inevitable. Designers need to understand these changes to effectively master interface design for older adults.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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IT Skills Challenge: Let’s Talk About the Elephant in the Hiring Room

DevOps.com

There is a glaring skills challenge facing the UK tech industry. It is the perennial concern of business leaders, with the most recent research from the Cloud Industry Forum stating that 52% of UK tech companies lack IT skills in at least one area of their business. The findings, based on interviews with senior IT […]. The post IT Skills Challenge: Let’s Talk About the Elephant in the Hiring Room appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Checkout the Last Public Revision with Mercurial

David Walsh

I’ve always preferred git over Mercurial ( hg ) because the feature branch workflow makes organizing code and working off of master very easy. You don’t get that with vanilla mercurial — instead, commits can just sort of apply on top of each other, without much organization. Sometimes mercurial can feel a bit chaotic. When working on Mozilla’s mozilla-central repository (for your beloved Firefox!

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Is True Employee Engagement the New Leadership Mindset?

CEO Insider

CEOWORLD magazine. Is True Employee Engagement the New Leadership Mindset? Picture this – a new process comes down from senior leadership. Front-line employees roll their eyes and already know it won’t work. A rush of emotions follows and then the question – “Why didn’t they ask US?” Some leaders do this when driving new directives. Other leaders believe that getting employees to weigh in on […].

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How to Care for Yourself as an Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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Waterbug: Espionage Group Rolls Out Brand-New Toolset in Attacks Against Governments

Symantec

Waterbug may have hijacked a separate espionage group’s infrastructure during one attack against a Middle Eastern target.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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The Taxonomy of DataOps

DevOps.com

Data Operations, or DataOps for short, is one of those IT buzzwords that lots of people use, yet few can define precisely. Like the cloud or DevOps, DataOps doesn’t make sense until you sit down and really think through what it entails. To that end, let’s take a look in this article at the taxonomy […]. The post The Taxonomy of DataOps appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How KeyBank achieved continuous integration and delivery

TechBeacon

DevOps has brought fundamental, positive changes to how we deliver software at KeyBank. But getting there required that we take a series of incremental steps.

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A16z Provides Insights Into Digitization

CTOvision

The video below provides insights that can be of use to any enterprise embarked on digital transformation (which these days is most every enterprise). In the video, Jad Naous and Frank Chen of a16z discuss ways enterprises are changing their decision making because of digital transformation (including, for example, pushing decisions further down the organization […].

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Introducing Slackor, a Remote Access Tool Using Slack as a C2 Channel

Coalfire

As a penetration tester at Coalfire Labs, I frequently use exploitation frameworks such as Metasploit or PowerShell Empire to perform post-exploitation actions on compromised endpoints. While anti-virus (AV) bypass and detection avoidance is often trivial in all but the most mature environments, detections from AV have caused me to look toward custom tooling to mitigate the risk of being detected by both traditional AV as well as security operations teams relying on network indicators.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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Digital Engineering – A new approach to product innovation and lifecycle management

Capgemini

“57% of manufacturing companies are not able to adequately create, capture, share, and reuse knowledge across functions,” reveals a recent digital engineering survey conducted by Capgemini Research Institute. But with all the buzz around digital transformation in discrete manufacturing, what this report really highlights is where these organizations stand when it comes to becoming a truly digital engineering enterprise.

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Social Media for Better Leadership and Learning

QAspire

Leadership in a connected world is a complex sport. Leaders risk relevance quite fast if they continue to operate in an isolated box within a tight hierarchy. When the complexity around us increases, we need more connected leadership that is constantly making sense of evolving patterns, thinking and mindset. Leadership that is social in approach when it comes to building communities, enabling engagement and participating in knowledge flows across the network (both inside the organization through

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The Shift is On: Why Lacework is Extending Security From Run Time to Build Time

Lacework

Software Requirements: FAST. GOOD. CHEAP. Choose any two… When I started my career as an engineer, that was a joke we used to kick around. That was at a time when development projects ran into multiple quarters and often relied on layers of project managers to keep other projects managers honest, so those project managers [.]. Read More. The post The Shift is On: Why Lacework is Extending Security From Run Time to Build Time appeared first on Lacework.

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Los modelos de aprendizaje automático no siempre pueden manejar la realidad (mientras que la mayoría de los humanos sí)

DXC

Cada vez más directivos de empresa observan la inteligencia artificial (IA) y el aprendizaje automático (ML) como tecnologías de transformación que pueden mejorar la toma de decisiones, aumentar su eficiencia, evitar errores humanos y reducir costes. Sin embargo, para muchos trabajadores, el rendimiento constante e implacable que prometen las máquinas inteligentes aparece como seria amenaza […].

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Introduction to Databases: Learn the Essentials

Linux Academy

What Are Databases, Anyway? A database is, essentially, an organized collection of data. That’s it. There are no big words here, no complex diagrams. They’re both essential and often misunderstood. Many an introduction to database basics overcomplicates this, but we’re aiming for straightforward. A database is just a simple, organized collection of data.

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Cryptojacking Extensions Found on Google Chrome Web Store

Symantec

Symantec found two Chrome extensions that secretly mine for Monero.

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Executive Decision Making Skills For Your Business

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Developing and honing your executive decisive making process is not only a key part of career growth but a necessity for the success of your business. There are three major considerations that separate executive decision making from day-to-day or managerial decision making. First, you have to think through the strategic impacts of the decision you’re going to make.

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5 Survey Templates to Measure Volunteer and Board Satisfaction

TechSoup

For any nonprofit, volunteers are valuable assets who put in their time, effort, and sweat to nurture the lifeblood of the organization. However, it's difficult to predict the behavior of volunteers. Sometimes they will happily offer their time, and sometimes they will just vanish from the radar. And no matter the context, pleasing a diverse group of stakeholders is a hard thing to do.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Web AppSec interview questions every company should ask

Synopsys

Preparing for a web application security interview? Here’s a thorough list of web AppSec interview questions for companies to ask and candidates to review. The post Web AppSec interview questions every company should ask appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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How CIOs Can Do A Good Job Of Delivering Bad News

The Accidental Successful CIO

One of the jobs of a CIO is to be able to deliver bad news Image Credit: Still The Oldie. Let’s face it, as CIOs we’d all like to be liked. We enjoy the parts of our job that are fun and which have to do with the importance of information technology. It makes us happy when another large IT project is successfully rolled out. However, life is life and part of our job is that when there is bad news to be delivered , we’re the ones who have the job to share the news with the people who

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How to Have Your Best Week

Next Level Blog

Let’s face it. There’s way more to do in any given week than you can possibly do. What you can do, however, is manage your week in a way that gives you the best chance of living and leading at your best. For example, I recently talked with an assistant general counsel during a leadership workshop that I was doing for the big company she works for. We were talking about time management strategies and she shared how she organizes her week.

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Three steps toward creating market-leading products

Lead on Purpose

The goal of every company and product leader is to invent products (or services) that become recognized market leaders. Creating a new product category is icing on the cake, but also rare and extremely difficult.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Modern Medicine: New Ways To Tackle Old Problems in Healthcare

Mentormate

As the presence of connected devices in our daily lives increases, one area that continues to experience tremendous growth is the medical device industry. The Internet of Things (IoT) in the consumer space might make life more convenient, but it doesn’t truly impact our overall health and well-being. Connected medical devices, however, do just that — and are beginning to do so with much more frequency.

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The next step in AI-based meeting management

DXC

Microsoft this spring has been rolling out intelligent features in Outlook designed to make work meetings both easier to schedule and more productive. The new features appear in Outlook’s email application and calendar. It seems like a pretty good marriage of artificial intelligence (AI) and enterprise productivity needs — and done in a way that […].

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Are You Ready for 5G? 3 Ways to Prepare

IDC

By now you’ve probably heard about this next generation of cellular connectivity thing known as 5G. Nationwide advertising campaigns tout the ability to play multiplayer games on the move and logos are already changing on our phones. You might even think you have it via the 5G (GHz) channel on your WiFi router. Mobile operators began announcing launches of one form of 5G service or another beginning late last year and are continuing through 2019.