Wed.Aug 23, 2023

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How to Compete With Tech Giants for Top Talent

TurnKey Labs

In 2023, securing top-tier talent poses a common hurdle for both small startups and corporate giants. Despite the apparent advantages of tech behemoths in terms of resources and brand recognition, smaller enterprises have ample opportunities to vie for elite candidates.

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Examining Cargill’s push to nurture growth through digital and data strategies

CIO

For 158 years, Minneapolis-based Cargill is the largest privately held company in the US and employs 155,000 people across 70 countries, earning an estimated $165 billion in annual revenue. Having joined its executive team 18 months ago, CDIO Jennifer Hartsock oversees its global technology portfolio, and digital and data strategies, so she has to keep track of a lot of moving parts, both large and small, to help achieve the company’s big corporate strategy about being ‘better together.

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Demo Front-End: A front-end application to test and explore an API

Martin Fowler

Many software teams create services exposed as APIs, designed to be consumed by other software and thus without any user-interface. Such services are hard to demonstrate, as they effectively just dump pages of JSON. A demo front-end is a simple user-interface just used to manipulate such an API. Matteo Vaccari describes how and why to build one - showing its usefulness both in explaining the API's capabilities to stakeholders and to help client developers explore how to interact with the API.

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Google opens second cloud region in Germany

CIO

Google has opened a second cloud region in Germany as part of its plan to invest $1.85 billion in German digital infrastructure by 2030. Dubbed the Berlin-Brandenburg region, the new data center will be operational alongside the Frankfurt region and will offer services such as the Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, Persistent Disk, CloudSQL, Virtual Private Cloud, Key Management System, Cloud Identity and Secret Manager.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

The Crazy Programmer

Here I have shared some popular quotes by Tim Berners-Lee. Before going through the quotes let’s have a short overview of his life. Tim Berners-Lee was born on 8th June 1955 in London, England. He is known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He completed his schooling at Emanuel school in London and later he enrolled in the Queen’s College, Oxford where he earned his bachelor’s degree in physics in the year 1976.

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Using environment based Terraform Workspaces for development with Terraform Cloud

Xebia

After working with Terraform for a few years now, I have only recently begun to explore the power of workspaces and their role in development. One thing that always frustrated me when working with terraform was having to separate configurations by environment. Although this is a well documented “best practice” to separate configurations by environment, I always found this to be a sub optimal approach, as anytime something had to be updated or added, it would have to be done manually in all each

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Dear SAP Support – We’ve Grown Apart

CIO

Dear SAP Support, I don’t think we should see each other anymore. It’s not you; it’s me. No … wait … it’s mostly you. Our relationship started as expected, but we’ve grown apart. We now want different things. You aren’t who you were You’ve changed. It used to be that my annual maintenance fee got me support, maintenance, and new functionality. But then the new features were fewer and fewer and came less frequently.

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dbt Quicktip: Overriding global and packages macros

Xebia

dbt, amongst other functionalities, allows developers to create packages, offering a structured way to organize and share code, models, tests, and macros. They improve code organization, promote collaboration, and enable the reuse of pre-built and tested code from the dbt community, making data transformation projects more efficient and maintainable.

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Data soup and the art of finding relevance: Why AIOps isn’t enough for modern network monitoring

CIO

“Plastic soup” is one term that’s been used to describe the pollution that’s plaguing our oceans. The phrase was coined by Captain Charles Moore in 1997. Moore came across massive amounts of plastic floating in the middle of the ocean and his accounts of this experience helped raise awareness of the scope and severity of the problem. We know we need to get plastic out of our environment, but that is easier said than done. 71% of the earth’s surface is water and it is extremely costly and difficu

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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LangTest 1.3.0 announcement

John Snow Labs

LangTest 1.3.0 is here with an array of advancements: We’ve amped up our support for Clinical-Tests, made it simpler to upload models and augmented datasets to HF, and ventured into the domain of Prompt-Injection tests. Streamlined codebase, bolstered unit test coverage, added support for custom column names in harness for CSVs and polished contribution protocols with bug fixes!

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Financial IT leaders prep for a quantum-fueled future

CIO

If there’s an industry steeped in computations, it’s the financial services sector. Optimization problems, for which a whole chorus of variables must be fine-tuned and modulated, routinely plague financial firms, especially when it comes to highly engineered financial products such as those developed through quantitative analysis. That need for complex mathematical modeling at scale makes the finance industry a perfect candidate for the promise of quantum computing, which makes (extremely) quick

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Want To Scale High-Performance Hybrid Teams? The Data is Right in Front of You.

CEO Insider

Americans are obsessed with productivity. A quick Google search of “productivity blogs” yields more than 70 million results, with the top articles parsing out the best ones to read and follow. Social media platforms offer more of the same. Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index found that although 87% of employees believe they’re as productive at […] The post Want To Scale High-Performance Hybrid Teams?

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Perficient Included in IDC Market Glance: Digital Business Professional Services Report

Perficient

Today’s environment is relentlessly volatile. It rewards speed over size, agility over efficiency, and cross-functional flow over rigid structure. You must be ready to shift and scale your teams as priorities change. The way forward requires a comprehensive digital strategy that defines the capabilities, agility, and alignment to put you on the right side of digital disruption.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

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.

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IBM to Provide Hybrid Cloud Service Based on VMware Cloud

DevOps.com

At the VMware Explore 2023 conference this week, IBM announced that it will soon provide a fully managed service based on a streamlined edition of VMware Cloud.

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Investing in Your Company’s Physical Risk Resilience

Harvard Business Review

Extreme weather events, infrastructure and technology failures, and transportation accidents are on the rise globally. These physical threats often have cascading effects that reach all areas of a business. Organizational resilience, or the ability to anticipate, absorb, and recover from hazardous events, is now table stakes. When the C-suite prioritizes resilience, they set the business up for recovery in the face of these physical threats, saving time, resources, and revenue and making the org

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IBM LLM AI: COBOL to Java ASAP ¦ ARM IPO is GO!

DevOps.com

In this week’s #TheLongView: Translating legacy COBOL code to a slightly more modern language, and Arm will go public (again) next month.

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Research: When Leaders Disclose a Chronic Illness at Work

Harvard Business Review

Living with a chronic illness (e.g., diabetes, cancer, depression etc.) is a growing reality many leaders face. But disclosing your illness when you’re in a position of leadership can feel fraught. In this article, the authors outline the findings of their research on chronic illness disclosure and offer a series of questions to ask yourself if you’re discerning whether to disclose or not.

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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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Serverless vs Containers: Which Is Right for Your Business?

Dzone - DevOps

Are you attempting to determine the ideal method for deploying your apps in the cloud? The two most common solutions are Serverless vs Containers. But deciding which one to use might be difficult. Which one is superior? Which is more economical? Which one is simpler to manage? In this blog, we will talk about Serverless vs Containers and explain when to utilize each one.

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What Are You Securing?

DevOps.com

In the case of information security, we need to ask, “What, exactly, are we trying to protect?” Don MacVittie explains.

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Reduce Downtime with Mission Critical Support for Your Infrastructure

Dell EMC

Your business can’t afford downtime. Dell ProDeploy and ProSupport Infrastructure Suites keep your systems running efficiently.

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Being a Net Exporter of Talent

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

You can either hoard talent on your team or you can develop it and export it. If you’re a net exporter of talent, there are huge benefits both to the broader organization as well as your individual team. Some of the strongest leaders I know are what I call net exporters of talent. You can either hoard talent on your team or you can develop it and export it.

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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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API Technology is Automating and Transforming the Procurement Process

Dell EMC

Dell Premier uses APIs to help customers and partners save time, automate processes and enjoy the benefits of online commerce.

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How Eastern Bank Shifted Its Strategy to Compete with Online Lenders

Harvard Business Review

How one 200-year-old regional bank in the U.S. used intrapreneurship to compete with online lenders.

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What Is The Difference Between APIs And Microservices

KitelyTech

As third-party integrations and interconnected systems become more important to business operations, we have seen the rise of microservices and APIs. Many businesses confuse APIs with microservices and vice-versa, making it harder to implement either effectively. Here is what you need to know about APIs, microservices, how they are used, and how they are different.

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What It Takes to Lead Across Generations

Harvard Business Review

Empathy can help you build common ground and tackle generational tensions on your team.

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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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CodeSOD: Page Up? Page Down. Thumbs Down.

The Daily WTF

Putting a full-featured IDE on every user's desktop and providing them basically no guidance on how to use it would, in most circles, be considered a mistake. That mistake is also known as "Microsoft Office", which continues to haunt us. Now, much of the macro-based application development in Office applications is written by non-programmers.

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Workato Partner Delivery Bootcamp-2023

Perficient

In this blog, I will be discussing my experience attending the 2023 Workato Partner Delivery Bootcamp in Bangalore. This was the first time Workato has organized such event for Strategic partners in INDIA. As a Strategic Partner of Workato, Perficient received an invitation to join their event to discuss the roadmap, future statistics and to share the strategies.

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Mastering Multiple GitHub Accounts

Dzone - DevOps

Managing multiple GitHub accounts can be a daunting task, especially for developers who work on personal and professional projects across different organizations. Manually switching between accounts every time you want to push code can lead to confusion and potential errors. Thankfully, there’s a powerful solution — the ~/.ssh/config file. In this blog post, we'll explore how to leverage this configuration file to set up seamless access to multiple GitHub accounts simultaneously.