Thu.Jul 27, 2023

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IT leaders grapple with shadow AI

CIO

Max Chan knew he had to do something. Soon after ChatGPT burst on the scene in November 2022, Chan realized generative AI would amount to far more than the just the latest technology flash-in-the-pan. With the ability to instantaneously ingest reams of data using large language models (LLMs), generative AI technologies such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard can produce reports, contracts, and application code far surpassing earlier technologies in speed, accuracy, and thoroughness.

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Exploring Gen AI - Three versions of a median

Martin Fowler

Birgitta Böckeler continues her explorations in using LLMs, this time by asking GitHub Copilot to write a median function. It gave her three suggestions to choose from. The experience shows you still have to know what you're doing when asking LLMs to write code, since the LLM's programming skills are often rather flawed.

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SAP raises on-prem support costs again to drive cloud adoption

CIO

First came the carrot of lower costs in the cloud with the bundled Rise with SAP offering. Now here comes the stick. SAP said Thursday it will raise the cost of support for users of its on-premises software for the second year in a row, just days after announcing plans to withhold future innovations in its products from on-prem customers. “SAP’s newest innovations and capabilities will only be delivered in SAP public cloud and SAP private cloud using RISE with SAP as the enabler,” CEO Christian

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Breaking Boundaries: Integrating Generative AI for Developers

DevOps.com

Many organizations are experiencing deficits in technical skills and gaps in productivity that ultimately harm their bottom line. To overcome those obstacles and drive growth, businesses can use generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard to handle large volumes of data and increase the speed and output of basic tasks without draining valuable human capital.

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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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The central role of a multi-cloud approach when future-proofing today’s dynamic enterprises

CIO

As we closed out 2022 and began 2023, VMware’s Research and Insights organization interviewed more than 450 technology executives to get their candid views on the topics that present enterprises with the greatest opportunities and challenges. The resulting report revealed a technology landscape marked by excessive pressure to deliver IT value in uncertain times.

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CIO Diane Schwarz on the power of professional ecosystems

CIO

Diane Schwarz knows it as well as anyone: You can’t climb to the C-suite alone. It takes an ecosystem of colleagues, clients, and partners — all of whom help you navigate what is often a nonlinear path. Such has been the case in Diane’s own storied career, from her education at Notre Dame and Chicago Booth to CIO posts at Textron, Hunt Energy, and most recently, Johnson Controls, the $25 billion global enterprise that is helping to create smart, sustainable buildings through its OpenBlue suite o

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SOCKET IO

InnovationM

Socket.IO is a library that enables bidirectional and event-based communication between clients and servers. Installation: Open Cmd and run the command given below: npm install socket.io-client Import: import * as io from 'socket.io-client'; Connection: From same domain From different domain In case of different domains, please make sure to enable Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) on the server.

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Article: Actionable Green Choices for Your Software, Your Products, and You

InfoQ Culture Methods

Climate change is no longer just a huge worry cloud hanging over our heads. There are solutions, choices, and actions we can take - for ourselves, our children, and the future. This article gives you information about some of those choices: some bare glimpses into the art of the possible; others are tried and tested methods with known outcomes.

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Upgrade SRE Performance Management With AI

DevOps.com

In my recent blog, Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of SRE with AI-Engineered Tools, I indicated that AI could analyze application and infrastructure performance data to identify optimization opportunities and predict capacity requirements.

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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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Zenbleed CVE-2023-20593: What you need to know about the latest CPU vulnerability

Lacework

If you woke up this week to news of a new CPU vulnerability affecting virtually everyone, you’re not alone. Named “Zenbleed” (CVE-2023-20593) by its reporter/discoverer Tavis Omandy, this new vulnerability primarily targets AMD Zen CPUs and has the potential to cause substantial damage, much like previous CPU vulnerabilities such as Spectre and Meltdown.

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Cluster Autoscaler Helm Chart: How To Improve Your EKS Cluster

Dzone - DevOps

Kubernetes autoscaling quickly gets tricky, but developers can save time and effort thanks to all the ecosystem's tools that make configuration and management easier. One of them is Helm. Helm charts are there to help teams define, install, and upgrade complex Kubernetes applications. And the Cluster Autoscaler Helm Chart does some of the heavy lifting for you around autoscaling.

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Why Companies Can — and Should — Recommit to DEI in the Wake of the SCOTUS Decision

Harvard Business Review

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ban on affirmative action at colleges and universities, state legislation attaching diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts on campus, and more general attacks on DEI, companies are considering whether they need to change their DEI strategies. The short answer is they don’t. But it is a good time to review corporate values, personnel policies, and engage with employees on these issues.

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The Evolution of Software Development: From Waterfall to Agile to DevOps and Beyond

Dzone - DevOps

In the dynamic world of technology, the methods and processes we use to create software have undergone significant transformations. The evolution of software development methodologies is a testament to our continuous pursuit of efficiency, quality, and adaptability. In the early days, software development was a linear and rigid process, often compared to constructing a building.

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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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Research: Why Employees Accept Lower Pay at Mission-Oriented Companies

Harvard Business Review

Today’s companies are likely to tout how their work benefits human welfare or “makes the world a better place.” Recent research suggests that this may come with a potential financial drawback for workers, as it can inhibit them from negotiating for higher pay. Over five studies, job candidates consistently reported that they worried asking for higher pay from these companies would be seen as greedy or inappropriate.

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Overture Maps’ Challenge to Google ¦ Frontier Model Forum’s AI Safety Shtick

DevOps.com

In this week’s #TheLongView: A big-tech consortium goes toe-to-toe with Google Maps, and a big-tech consortium tries to fool AI regulators.

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4 Tips for Better ChatGPT Prompts

TechSoup

ChatGPT is a powerful tool, and one of the most important ways to make the most of it is to learn how to create the right prompts. This enables you to get the results you want from the model. Here, find four tips that can help you to get more comprehensive, helpful results from ChatGPT.

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Continuous Deployment: Accelerating Software Delivery and Improving Agility

Dzone - DevOps

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses constantly seek ways to deliver software faster, enhance customer experiences, and stay ahead of the competition. Continuous Deployment (CD) has emerged as a game-changing practice that enables organizations to streamline software delivery, increase agility, and reduce time-to-market. Continuous Deployment (CD) is an agile software development approach that addresses this challenge by enabling organizations to automate the release process and d

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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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Palo Alto Networks Extends CNAPP to CI/CD Platforms

DevOps.com

Palo Alto Networks' CNAPP now includes the ability to secure continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms.

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How effectively does your leadership team function?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How effectively does your leadership team function? Extremely — they are a high-performing team 14.60% Very — they generally work well together 35.77% Somewhat — they function but have their issues 30.66% Not very — they struggle to work well together 12.41% Not at all — they’re a dysfunctional team 6.56% Functional versus dysfunctional leadership teams.

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Security: The innovation enabler. Building better teams and relationships with Wes Mullins, CTO of Deepwatch

Lacework

This episode of Code to Cloud features an interview with Wes Mullins, Chief Technology Officer at Deepwatch. Deepwatch’s innovative cloud platform and borderless SOC extend their customers’ cybersecurity teams and proactively protect their brand, reputation, and digital assets.

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The Game-changing Potential of Generative AI

Dell EMC

Dell's unique portfolio of solutions, services and products is helping customers gain a competitive edge in the GenAI era.

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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 Evolution of Software Development: From Waterfall to Agile to DevOps and Beyond

Dzone - DevOps

In the dynamic world of technology, the methods and processes we use to create software have undergone significant transformations. The evolution of software development methodologies is a testament to our continuous pursuit of efficiency, quality, and adaptability. In the early days, software development was a linear and rigid process, often compared to constructing a building.

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Error'd: Total Zeroes

The Daily WTF

Today, scattered amidst the gems, you will find a whole bunch of zeroes. No, not the contributors! The zeroeth submission of the day is from Bluejay A. who sagely notes "That shouldn't be too hard to find." Super-poster Michael R. hints at a much stronger encryption than boring old rot13. "Use Base85 if you want to be safer." (seriously, I'm a frequent user of base36 for this kind of thing).

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What NewgenONE Does That Others Can’t?

Newgen Software

Automation is not new. Digital transformation efforts aren’t new, either. However, today we are in a different world from five years back. The same old does not and will not take you forward. So, bid adieu to localized, sequential automation. The world is moving fast, and you need an enterprise engine that can not only […] The post What NewgenONE Does That Others Can’t?

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Webinar Recap: Zero Interruptions in Deployment

LaunchDarkly

Every company wants to ship faster. To ship faster, you have to ship safer. Cody De Arkland of LaunchDarkly and Taiji Hagino of Datadog explain how it’s possible to go faster, more safely, and with less stress.

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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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Scrum Spotlight: Saraounia Mboka-Boyer

scruminc

Scrum Spotlight: Saraounia Mboka-Boyer The Inspiring Intersection of Social Impact and Agility by the Scrum Inc. Team | July 27 , 2023 | Blog This month, we are thrilled to introduce Saraounia Mboka-Boyer, a true visionary and trailblazer at the remarkable intersection of social impact and agility. While numerous individuals harness the potential of the Scrum framework and other agile methodologies primarily for business-driven objectives such as revenue growth and market demand, Saraounia̵

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ATTRACTING TALENT, DEVELOPING EMPLOYEES & MANAGING TEAMS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHERYL LIM (PART TWO)

Clint Padgett – Project Success

Episode Information: Clint continues his conversation with Cheryl Lim, Chief Human Resources Officer at Vertiv. During their discussion, Cheryl talks about attracting and retaining top talent, including the need to align personal values with company values, and the importance of balancing what people need with what the company needs. She also shares the leadership principles that she follows and the best piece of advice she ever received.

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2023 Scrummer Reading List

scruminc

2023 Scrummer Reading List by The Scrum Inc. Team | July 26, 2023 | Blog Welcome to the 2023 edition of the Scrummer Reading List ! As another exciting year unfolds, we continue our tradition of sharing the books and podcasts that have captured the hearts and minds of the Scrum Inc. team. If you’re seeking fresh perspectives, inspiration for personal growth, a deeper understanding of human dynamics, honing your Agile expertise, or simply indulging in some captivating escapism, we’ve got

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