Tue.Oct 17, 2023

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The Growing Impact of Generative AI on Low-Code/No-Code Development

DevOps.com

The fusion of generative AI and no-code/low-code platforms empowers users to shape their software's behavior without delving into intricate technicalities.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO

The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. (IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce are in the 2-3% range.) Revenue growth remains solid across the industry, but slowing somewhat, with none of the Big 3 outperforming the others enough to materially alter the balance of power.

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Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses have ‘influencer’ written all over them

TechCrunch

This is a review-in-progress. More soon! Somewhere between the Ray-Ban Meta and Meta Quest 3 sits an ideal mixed-reality headset. It’s slim, light, offers hand tracking and passthrough and livestreams video when the moment calls for it. It’s designed to be worn inconspicuously outdoors, until the time comes for content capture. The Meta Quest Ray-Ban […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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The 4 pillars of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange: Customers share their successes

CIO

We’ve all heard this mantra: “Secure digital transformation requires a true zero trust architecture.” But what exactly does that mean? Zero trust has come a long way. No longer a nebulous, aspirational term equated with the concept “never trust, already verify,” zero trust has evolved into a solid technology framework that enables proactive defense and digital transformation as organizations embrace the cloud and hybrid work models.

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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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5 Tactics to Combat a Culture of False Urgency at Work

Harvard Business Review

The headwinds of false urgency can be intense. But they also foster a reactive culture. If everything is urgent, there’s little opportunity for creative and deep work, which tends to flourish only when there’s time and space. In this article, the author offers tips that will help you focus on what’s truly urgent in your organization and enable your team to deliver strong results and sustain high performance over time.

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Do You Manage Too Many People?

Harvard Business Review

The more direct reports you have, the harder it is to give each of them personal attention. Yes, you’re stretched thin and you’ve got a lot on your plate, but when you come across as too busy for your employees, you make them feel as if they don’t matter. So how can you be a supportive manager if you manage a large team? It comes down to giving your team members agency and autonomy.

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How to get internal employee poaching right

CIO

Market competition for IT talent remains so stiff that IT leaders are increasingly looking to poach employees from other departments to fill IT openings. But snagging a potentially new IT “shining star” from another business function, even when the employee has already expressed an interest in shifting to an IT career, can get complicated. Take, for example, an employee who has strong business chops in a particular domain that IT lacks.

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How to Get Out of the Executive Meeting Spin Cycle

Next Level Blog

The number one complaint I hear from my senior executive coaching clients is the number of meetings they find themselves in every day. Their calendars are so racked and stacked they feel like they’re stuck in a spin cycle of conversations which leaves little to no time for strategic thinking or action. If this condition sounds familiar, here are seven simple steps you can take to get yourself out of the executive meeting spin cycle: Demand Clear Objectives : When you’re asked to attend a meeting

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Don’t make the biggest mistake in application modernization projects

CIO

Application modernization isn’t simply a trend; it’s the mandate for every IT organization. The cost of running old applications and the infrastructure that supports them is problematic. They also lack new features and capabilities, making them a competitive liability. Simply lifting and shifting current code to the cloud doesn’t help and can cost much more.

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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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10 Emotions That Are Undervalued in the Workplace

Harvard Business Review

In addition to being powerful tools of persuasion and influence, emotions ground us in our humanity and give us important data about our environments.

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Prompting Isn’t The Most Important Skill

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Anant Agarwal, an MIT professor and of the founders of the EdX educational platform, recently created a stir by saying that prompt engineering was the most important skill you could learn. And that you could learn the basics in two hours. Although I agree that designing good prompts for AI is an important skill, Agarwal overstates his case. But before discussing why, it’s important to think about what prompt engineering means.

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Best Practices for Engaging a Multigenerational Workforce

Harvard Business Review

People have the potential to live longer than ever before, which is prompting workers to rethink their time in the workforce relative to retirement. Many workers — whether by choice or by necessity — now seek to extend their working lives beyond the traditional retirement age. An individual’s working years can now span six or more decades. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that almost one in four workers will be age 55 or older by 2031 and that age 65-plus workers represent the faste

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Exploring Success and Cultural Diversity at Perficient

Perficient

Recently, the Cultural Connections ERG held its first “Cultivating Career Growth” event highlighting the experiences of Malvika Malviya, Lead Technical Consultant in India; Ron Jones, Director in the United States; Miroslav Maric, Manager in Serbia and Margarita Hoyos, Lead Software Developer in Colombia, who are part of Perficient’s global community.

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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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GitGuardian Adds Tool for Discovering Secrets in Public Repositories

DevOps.com

GitGuardian added a tool that makes it possible for DevOps teams to search GitHub repos to determine if secrets have inadvertently found their way into other apps.

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Kafka Event Streaming AI and Automation

Dzone - DevOps

Apache Kafka has emerged as a clear leader in corporate architecture for moving from data at rest (DB transactions) to event streaming. There are many presentations that explain how Kafka works and how to scale this technology stack (either on-premise or cloud). Building a microservice using ChatGPT to consume messages and enrich, transform, and persist is the next phase of this project.

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Low-Code/No-Code Application Development – Putting Users in Control

DevOps.com

Low-code and no-code development systems fulfill ever-increasing demands for fast application delivery and highly customized automation workflows.

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10 Innovative Tech Startup Ideas for 2023

Openxcell

Introduction Startups are as rare as diamonds in the rough. However, the ones that are successful shape the tech scenarios as we speak. From basements of Silicon Valley to full-fledged corporate offices employing millions, the journey of a startup is a rollercoaster ride. It’s impossible to build such a journey without having an exceptional, avant-garde idea that when executed nearly perfectly transforms the way its users interact with their environment.

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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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Save Energy, Accelerate Cyber Resiliency with PowerMax Innovation

Dell EMC

PowerMax delivers enhanced data reduction, a real-time power consumption dashboard and industry-leading AI-driven cybersecurity.

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Avoid Merge Conflicts, Don't Manage Them

Dzone - DevOps

When discussing continuous integration on the interwebs, inevitably someone pops into the conversation with this hand grenade of wisdom: BUT ACTUALLY … you don’t need continuous integration. It’s good enough to just merge mainline into your feature branch regularly. You get the same benefit, without the effort of changing your workflow.

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Tools for Managers to Help Employees with Their Mental Health Challenges

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with a psychologist and a management professor on helping workers address anxiety or depression.

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Webinar | Unraveling Workplace Dynamics: Insights from Humanizing the Workplace 

Agile42

In our recent webinar titled Humanizing the Workplace: The Key to Finding and Keeping Top Talent , experts Regina Martins and Birge Kahraman delved into the essential aspects of fostering a positive work environment. The discussion revolved around the challenges organizations face when transitioning to remote work and the importance of humanizing the workplace when it comes to attracting and retaining top talent.

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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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Threat Hunting to Find the Good Stuff

Palo Alto Networks

In the final episode of Season One of “This is How We Do It,” Peter Havens from Cortex product marketing sits down with Leeroy Perera, staff security engineer. They discuss the practice of threat hunting and how we apply it in our SOC. In this interview, we gain valuable insights into why threat hunting is vital, its unique approach at Palo Alto Networks, and how it contributes to keeping the company and our customers safe from cyberattacks.

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Real-Time Inventory in Retail with Confluent Cloud

Confluent

Use data streaming and stream processing (Flink, ksqlDB) to integrate data from store returns, purchases, exchanges, shipments, interstore transfers, etc., to produce a consistent, real-time view of inventory.

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Unified IT and Web App Security: On-Prem Web App Scanning Integrated into Security Center

Tenable

On-prem web app scanning is now available within Tenable Security Center, offering comprehensive exposure management with accurate analysis, OWASP Top 10 coverage and easy setup. Here’s what you need to know. In the world of cybersecurity, staying ahead of threats is a constant challenge. Over the past decade, web application security has evolved and become significantly more complex.

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The Dynamic Duo: Shaping Generative AI With Tech-Agnostic Platforms and Governance

Dataiku

There is an abundance of information, both in published sources and from firsthand experiences , that delves into the governance complexities associated with the deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) or Generative AI. Whether you are examining the ethical repercussions downstream of Generative AI, the concerns surrounding data security and privacy when training a model internally or relying on third-party models, or the considerations related to audit logging and documentation for regulator

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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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How Much Does Capital One Spend On AWS?

CloudZero

Capital One offers a variety of financial products, such as credit cards, financial accounts, and auto financing. Now, Capital One might appear as a leading financial institution. But it views itself as a technology company that provides financial services — rather than a financial services company that uses technology.

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Optimizing Employee IT Experiences with Financial and Business Payoffs

Dell EMC

Dell APEX PC-as-a-Service delivers up-to-date IT tools and anywhere, anytime support while generating an average ROI of 28%.

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How AI is Revolutionizing Customer Service and Experience

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 4 minutes AI systems are, by their nature, clever. Or, perhaps it’s the developers who are clever in the way they program the machines to learn things. Then, of course, the AI takes on a life of its own and learns as it goes along. This is precisely why AI is revolutionizing the world of customer service and experience. Interacting with customers is central to many, many websites that offer different services or products to the public.