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Survey Finds CI/CD Adoption Has Long Way to Go

DevOps.com

At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 conference, Codefresh published the results of a survey of 130 developers that finds not only are nearly a third (32%) not using any type of continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform at all, but 60% said their organization has yet to take full advantage of automation to accelerate application […].

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Self-serve data platform

Martin Fowler

One of the main concerns of distributing the ownership of data to the domains is the duplicated effort and skills required to operate the data pipelines technology stack and infrastructure in each domain. Luckily, building common infrastructure as a platform is a well understood and solved problem; though admittedly the tooling and techniques are not as mature in the data ecosystem. more….

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How to Prevent Training From Wasting Time and Money

Let's Grow Leaders

A Manager’s Guide to Reinforcing Training When People Get Back to Work Your employees go to training. Hopefully, they come back fired up and excited about what they’ve learned and what they can do with it. Two weeks later though, they’re back […]. The post How to Prevent Training From Wasting Time and Money appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Security: Are You Doing DevOps Right?

DevOps.com

Phil Kernick, co-founder and CTO of cybersecurity specialist CQR Consulting, has no fundamental problem with DevOps, but asks, from a security perspective, “How many people do it right?” If DevOps is going to work and produce secure systems, then developers must take responsibility for security. It’s not something that can be treated as an additional […].

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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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Reducing UI Bugs with Automated Visual Testing

Gorilla Logic

Current software development emphasizes the delivery of value and quality to customers as quickly as possible. However, in order to accomplish this, quality must be ensured on many levels. One of these levels comes in the form of visual testing, or how the look and feel of the application is, taking into consideration factors such as multiple browsers, devices, and operating systems.

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3 Things that Will Make You the Top Franchise in Your Brand

Women on Business

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Rich List Index: The World’s 500 Billionaires (Meet The Richest People On Earth)

CEO Insider

CEOWORLD magazine. Rich List Index: The World’s 500 Billionaires (Meet The Richest People On Earth). As of May 20, 2019, with a personal wealth of $117 billion, the e-commerce Goliath Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world, followed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (net worth $1023 billion); Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH (net worth $90.3 billion); and investor Warren Buffett (net worth $84.0 billion). […].

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Facebook Takes on Epidemics With New Disease Prevention Maps

CTOvision

Facebook wants to help fight infectious diseases like measles by introducing maps that health organizations can use to prevent and respond to outbreaks. The disease prevention maps, which debuted Monday, provide detailed information such as population density, the movement of people in real time, and network connectivity across regions. The point is to give researchers and […].

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AWS Lambda Pricing: Low, But Unpredictable

ParkMyCloud

Today’s entry into our exploration of public cloud prices focuses on AWS Lambda pricing. Low costs are often cited as a benefit of using serverless. A recent survey showed that companies saved an average of 4 developer workdays per month by adopting serverless, and 21% of companies reported cost reduction as a main benefit. But why aren’t 100% of companies reporting cost savings?

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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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Microsoft open sources algorithm that gives Bing some of its smarts

CTOvision

Search engines today are more than just the dumb keyword matchers they used to be. You can ask a question—say, “How tall is the tower in Paris?”—and they’ll tell you that the Eiffel Tower is 324 meters (1,063 feet) tall, about the same as an 81-story building. They can do this even though the question […].

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CRN Recognizes 22 Dell Technologies Leaders as 2019 Women of the Channel

Dell EMC

In the Global Partner Summit general session during Dell Technologies World 2019, Joyce Mullen, President, Dell EMC Global Channel, OEM & IoT, spoke of the joint success Dell Technologies and our partners have achieved together. “… Nothing is holding us back, and nothing is holding us down. We are … DEFYING GRAVITY!” And, just as our partners give all they have in order to realize a world without limits, so do the many individuals of Dell Technologies who work tirelessly to advance the or

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Introducing Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation Model

CTOvision

Speech-to-speech translation systems have been developed over the past several decades with the goal of helping people who speak different languages to communicate with each other. Such systems have usually been broken into three separate components: automatic speech recognition to transcribe the source speech as text, machine translation to translate the transcribed text into the […].

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AI-Backed Image Background Removal (Sponsored)

David Walsh

I’ve worked on dozens of eCommerce sites in my career and many of them were hamstrung by the same pain points: tax collection, payment customization, and image optimization. While tax collection and payment customization were important, image optimization was always the hardest and most important problem to solve: no one wants to buy a product whose imagery looked amateur.

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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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Spotify begins testing its first hardware: a car smart assistant

CTOvision

Spotify is about to begin publicly testing its first hardware: a voice-controlled smart assistant for cars, meant to help Spotify learn how people consume audio while they’re driving. As part of the test, some Premium users will receive the device for free. The device, called Car Thing, plugs into a vehicle’s 12-volt outlet (aka a cigarette […].

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pymetasploit3 – Metasploit Automation Library

Coalfire

Have a checklist of tasks you perform every penetration test, such as SSH bruteforcing or port mapping? Automate it with Python and Metasploit! Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a working, full-featured Python library for making these tasks easy for many years now. This changes today.

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How to Manage 6 Challenging Personality Types in Meetings – Part 4: The Multitasker

Modus Create

Welcome back to our series about how to facilitate meetings with people who have challenging personalities. In this part of the series, we’re talking about multitaskers. Have you ever been talking in a meeting, only to realize that no one is actually listening to what you’re saying? No? I don’t believe you. In today’s fast moving world of digital transformation, distractions abound.

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Building IoT Applications with Containers

Aqua Security

Docker and Arm Announcement. At DockerCon earlier this month, Docker and Arm announced a joint venture in which new Docker-based solutions will be available to the Arm ecosystem. Docker and Arm touted this synergy as a way for developers to leverage containers, both remote and on-premises, in an easier way. There will be a common software pipeline, in addition to shared delivery and production frameworks.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

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

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AI World Gov: Come network with peers and share lessons learned in application of AI to real world challenges in government

CTOvision

AI World Gov is coming! Mark your calendars now for this 24-26 June 2019 conference and symposium at the Reagan Center in DC. OODA LLC and CTOvision are very proud to be sponsors and strong supporters of this virtuous forum. AI World Government provides a comprehensive three-day forum to educate and inform public sector agencies […].

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FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Provisioning the Gateways

Flexagon

This blog is part of a series, check out other entries! FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Series Overview FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Provisioning the Gateways FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Managing APIs FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Automating Gateway Downtimes Provisioning anything in this day and age just seems barbaric.

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Managed EDR Accelerates Cyber Response for Government Agencies

Symantec

Bolstering defenses at the endpoint can help agencies blunt new threats from attackers targeting systems to disrupt operations

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FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Managing APIs

Flexagon

This blog is part of a series, checkout other entries! FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Series Overview FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Provisioning the Gateways FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Managing APIs FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Automating Gateway Downtimes Oracle API Platform provides a centralized location to develop and manage your APIs.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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How One IT Professional Supports a Faith-Based Nonprofit in the Pacific Northwest

TechSoup

A variety of factors can impact a nonprofit's ability to optimize its IT setup. However, as the world hurtles ever more rapidly into a cloud-first, tech-centric reality, it's more important than ever to make IT needs a central part of a nonprofit's planning strategy — not an afterthought. And, like other parts of the sector, faith-based nonprofits face this issue as well.

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Is your security testing a DevOps blocker?

TechBeacon

Hundreds of Google engineers and developers stopped writing code for a week and instead tackled nearly 4,000 warnings from the company's use of FindBugs, a Java static code checker. While 44% of the triaged issues resulted in a bug report, only 16% were considered important enough in practice to fix, according to an article published last year in the Communications of the ACM.

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Once Again, Symantec Recognized as a Leader in Email Security

Symantec

Symantec Named a Leader in Email Security by Third-Party Evaluators

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DXC employee volunteers construct IT School in Colombia

DXC

The indigenous Wayuu children in the remote La Guajira region of northern Colombia now have a bright yellow, two-classroom, IT school — thanks to DXC Technology and hardworking employee volunteers in the North and Central Europe (NCE) region. The school — a first for DXC — was inaugurated February 22 as the successful finale of […].

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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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Announcing the Teaching Washington Teachers Scholarship

Coding Dojo

Teachers are one of, if not the most underappreciated profession in the US. They have such a huge impact on … Read more >>. The post Announcing the Teaching Washington Teachers Scholarship appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Top Billionaires: Time It Took To Make Their First Million

CEO Insider

CEOWORLD magazine. Top Billionaires: Time It Took To Make Their First Million. Interestingly, the 100 wealthiest people the world have a combined wealth of over $2,800 billion ($2.8 trillion). But, just how long did the likes of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Carlos Slim Helu, and others to work for their first million? The world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos took three years to make his first […].

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CodeSOD: Tern Failure into a Success

The Daily WTF

Oliver Smith stumbled across a small but surprising bug when running some automated tests against a mostly clean code-base. Specifically, they were trying to break things by playing around with different compiler flags and settings. And they did, though in a surprising case. bool long_name_that_maybe_distracted_someone() { return (execute() ? CONDITION_SUCCESS : CONDITION_FAILURE); }.