Wed.Jul 10, 2019

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What Are Microservices And How To Best Leverage Them

iTexico

What Are Microservices And How To Best Leverage Them. The tech industry is a landscape of constant progress, adaptation, and change to fit an evolving market. Within the last 20 years, we’ve made leaps and bounds for technological innovations, and that’s including the coding that’s required to keep pace with it. What’s important here, however, is not the code itself in particular, but rather how the code is structured.

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DevOps at scale: How to build your software factory

TechBeacon

If you want to succeed at enterprise DevOps, take a software factory approach to software development. Many enterprises that want to scale DevOps struggle because, unlike Spotify's or Facebook's, their systems weren't designed from the ground up for it.

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AI Ethics: Building Trust by Following Ethical Practices

DataRobot

As machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) usher in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it seems like everyone wants to get in on the action. And who can blame them? AI promises improved accuracy, speed, scalability, personalization, consistency, and clarity in every area of business. With all those benefits, why are some businesses hesitating to move forward?

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Enhancements and Improvements and Bug Fixes, Oh My! – FlexDeploy 5.1.0.3

Flexagon

Continuous Improvements In the spirit of “continuous”, Flexagon has released a bunch of enhancements, usability improvements, and bug fixes over the past two month. FlexDeploy is our DevOps platform for CI/CD and release automation which automates and orchestrates the entire build, deploy, and release lifecycle. FlexDeploy is an open and extensible platform with lots of plugins for commercial and open source.

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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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Good Governance: Do Boards Need Cyber Security Experts?

CTOvision

In Forbes: In today’s digital world, with near-instantaneous conveyance of information and data, cyber-events could (and routinely do) rapidly impact brand and shareholder value. While opinions differ on the need for cybersecurity experts on certain boards, there is a general consensus among management, boards, and investors alike that this need is growing.

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Five Ways CEOs Can Take A More Personal Approach To Cybersecurity

CTOvision

Read why Don Scales says that CEOs need to take a more personal approach to cybersecurity on Forbes : Cyber threats are one of the top concerns facing CEOs in 2019. But not enough CEOs are acting on those concerns. They’re relying on their IT departments to handle security, as they should, but CEOs need […].

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Plant Power – A Look at Beyond Meat and Its Competitors

Toptal

One of the most notable developments of recent years has been the boom in veganism. The Beyond Meat Company’s IPO in May 2019 captured this zeitgeist and is one of the stand-out financial events of the year. Can the company live up to the hype and satisfy its investors?

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HashiCorp Tools Bridge DevOps, Legacy IT Environments

DevOps.com

At its HashiConf EU 2019 conference this week, HashiCorp extended the reach of its Terraform Enterprise tools for automating the management of IT infrastructure beyond the realm of DevOps into legacy IT environments. Via integration with the Service Catalog from ServiceNow, IT administrators working with a traditional ITIL-based framework now can invoke Terraform Enterprise to […].

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Supercharged Testing Tips for 2019: A Java Automation Testing Tutorial

Toptal

Test automation engineers continuously research the latest tools and techniques to ensure that their test automation framework stays fast, stable, and easy to use. In this article, Toptal Freelance Java Developer Simon Stratton will take a look at some tips that you can use to update your framework for 2019 by improving your use of Selenium Grid, Java’s wait function, and Chrome DevTools.

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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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The Next AI in Government Events is 25 July 2019 at George Washington University

CTOvision

Join the next AI in Government event Thursday, July 25, 2019 from 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM at GWU. Note it’s in the morning this month! Our speaker is Adam Murray from the U.S. Department of State in the Office of International Communications and Information Policy. He will share with us how the US seeks […].

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3 Ways to Ready Your Leadership Team for Digital Transformation

CEO Insider

Digital transformation is no longer optional for businesses — it’s mandatory. Companies must integrate technology into their business models in order to thrive. This requires 21st-century business leaders who can rethink the role of technology to enhance the customer experience, create competitive advantages, and drive productivity. In truth, digital transformation is business transformation.

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Medicare Fraud Detection Tutorial

Dataiku

Insurance fraud is a major issue that drives up healthcare costs for insurers, providers, taxpayers, and patients. The risk of unnecessary or nonexistent medical services due to misrepresentations by patients or providers is a costly one; in the U.S. the National Healthcare Anti-Fraud Association estimates that payers spend up to $68 billion a year due to fraud.

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Android Agent Smith mobile malware hits millions of devices

CTOvision

Mobile malware dubbed Agent Smith has infected about 25 million devices, mainly in India and other Asian countries, but other countries have also been affected, including the UK and US, according to security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies. Disguised as a Google-related application, the malware exploits known Android vulnerabilities and automatically replaces installed apps […].

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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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Your database isn't inflexible. You are.

TechBeacon

Over seven decades of computer science, we've come to accept a world of trade-offs: Systems that work great within a narrow band of use—for example, storing years with two digits, and the infamous 640k limit (who would ever need more?). While these system shortfalls are ancient history in computing terms, we still deal with similar limitations today; they’re just less obvious.

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Japenese Translation Service Can Help You Break into New Markets in Japan

Women on Business

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Another GDPR Fine: Marriott fined $123m for 2018 data breach that hit 339m customers

CTOvision

Hot on the heels of British Airways, international hotel group Marriott is set to face the wrath of the UK‘s data privacy regulator. The country’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said it plans to fine the US-based chain £99 million ($123 million) under EU GDPR laws for a data breach that exposed personal details of over 339 […].

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Shining a light on Shamoon 3: What cyber AI revealed about the data-wiping malware

Darktrace

During an extended trial in the network of a global company, Darktrace observed a Shamoon-powered cyber-attack.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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eCh0raix — New Ransomware Targets QNAP NAS Devices

CTOvision

A new ransomware family has been found targeting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices made by Taiwan-based QNAP Systems and holding users’ data hostage until a ransom is paid. Ideal for home and small business, NAS devices are dedicated file storage units connected to a network or through the Internet, which allow users to store and […].

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The Linux Foundation Breathes New Life into Osquery

DevOps.com

Facebook’s useful but neglected DevOps tool Osquery has gotten a new lease on life, thanks to The Linux Foundation. Anyone who has been tasked with monitoring the security of server instances in a data center or cloud knows how laborious and time-consuming it can be. Osquery, a project started by Facebook, aims to lessen this […]. The post The Linux Foundation Breathes New Life into Osquery appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Lake City Sacks IT Director Over Ransomware Attack

Kaseya

As the saying goes, when nightmares come true, only then are people truly awake and take notice. As per a recent news report, Lake City, Florida had been hit by a ‘ triple threat’ ransomware attack which disabled its computer servers, telecom networks and email systems. The city officials paid 42 bitcoins worth $460,000 in exchange for a decryption key, after failing to restore the networks by themselves.

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The 3 Masters that Traditional Budgets Serve

Accenture

Once upon a time, traditional management practices were a new thing. For all the ink that is spilled calling to revolutionize things like annual budgeting cycles or performance management, these were once very effective innovations. Simply put, without them we wouldn’t be where we are today: needing to revise them to help organizations perform even better so they don’t fall prey to disruption.

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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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Taking IT Automation to the Next Level

Kaseya

The promises of IT automation are alluring — saved time, increased efficiency, and standardized IT processes. But how does it work and how do you get started? In the webinar Take IT Automation to the Next Level , John Emmitt, the Director of Product Marketing at Kaseya and Ronny Tunfjord, IT Automation Expert at Upstream AB, discuss use cases and a few best practices for IT automation.

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CIOs Need To Learn How Best To Use Email

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to learn how to tame their email Image Credit: Simplificamos Su Trabajospan> Ah, email. What a powerful tool. What an utter nightmare! The person who has the CIO job probably uses email so often that they no longer really spend that much time thinking about it. However, that may be a mistake. What we forget is that email is a tool and if we can learn how best to use it, then we can become more effective.

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Emerging digital technology means emerging job opportunities for cyber security pros

DXC

Every technology, from the wheel to artifical intelligence (AI), has introduced both opportunities and dangers. The wheel, for example, allowed humans to travel and to transport goods and equipment across distances. The wheel also allowed the Greeks to roll a giant Trojan horse into the city of Troy to launch a sneak attack with soldiers […].

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Cloning Code In Containers

Dzone - DevOps

One common situation that I run into on different projects is how to tell my Docker container to clone or pull code automatically. In this article, we will see the various ways of getting the code to the Docker container. There are multiple ways of getting code into the Docker container. In this post, we will see how we can clone a Github public and private repo using oauth tokens and with ssh keys.

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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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Six Ways To Prepare Your Team For A Digital Transformation

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

The digital age has been here for quite some time now and will only continue to grow and become more advanced, so making sure your team is ready for a digital change is key. Today’s post is by Maureen Metcalf, a thoughtLEADERS principle. Experts have been discussing technological changes, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, […].

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A Life Leadership Lesson from My Mom

Next Level Blog

If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you may remember the post I wrote back in April after my dad, Jack Eblin, passed away. One of the things I mentioned early on in that post was that my mom and dad were together for a total of 69 years. They dated for seven years starting at age 14 and were married for another 62 years after that. So, not surprisingly, I’ve had a lot of friends and readers ask me over the past few months, “How’s your mom doing?”.

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Twilio SendGrid Adds Automation and Email Testing Features to Marketing Campaigns, Instilling Confidence in Every Email Sent

DevOps.com

New functionality enables customers to optimize email campaigns across automated and recurring series, one-time campaigns and transactional mail SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 10, 2019 — Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), the leading cloud communications platform, today introduced new Automation and Email Testing features within Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns providing customers with the confidence, scalability and streamlined personalization […].

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