Tue.Jul 25, 2023

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Why entrepreneurs claim there’s no better place to do business than Puerto Rico

CIO

After graduating from Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico with a degree in computer engineering, Alberto Lugo knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur, and he knew that he wanted to build his company on the island. A college internship in Puerto Rico with Microsoft gave him the spark of an idea, and after working for six months in IT for a bank, also located on the island, he saw his opportunity.

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How we created amazing music with video using Artificial Intelligence

Xebia

The journey of Pixelated Poets is a testament to the endless possibilities AI brings into our lives. It’s an expedition into the unknown, a chronicle of innovation, and most importantly, a celebration of how creativity and technology can together compose a beautiful symphony. So, let’s dive in and hit the high notes of this exciting musical saga.

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The unsung skill too many IT leaders shortchange

CIO

When it comes to harvesting full value from the rich set of technologies available to every organization, communications skills are probably not on every IT leader’s short list of essential capabilities. Technical skills, for sure. Integration? No doubt. But full spectrum communication skills — that is, oral, written, and digital/social — are almost as essential, if not more so, when it comes to conveying the value of IT’s work and ensuring adoption of it.

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Guarantee unique keys in Terraform

Xebia

When using Terraform to dynamically create resources based on lists of maps you probaby have run into this issue. Consider the following list of maps that represents IAM access on a generic cloud resource: locals = { members = [ { member = "contact@christerbeke.com" resource = "projects/12345" role = "roles/owner" }, { member = "test@christerbeke.com" resource = "projects/12345" role = "roles/reader" } ] } If we want to iterate over this list to cr

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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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Salesforce updates its Commerce Cloud with digital commerce capabilities

CIO

Salesforce is adding new features to its Commerce Cloud that will help organizations embed digital commerce capabilities into sales, service, or marketing processes to drive more revenue, the company said on Tuesday. The Commerce Cloud is a product suite aimed at helping organizations create unified buying experiences for their customers across channels, including mobile, social, and web.

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Bliki: TwoPizzaTeam

Martin Fowler

A two-pizza team is a small team that fully supports software for a particular business capability. The term became popular as it used to describe how Amazon organized their software staff. The name suggests the most obvious aspect of such teams, their size. The name comes from the principle that the team should no larger than can be fed with two pizzas.

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3 Ways Our Brains Undermine Our Ability to Be a Good Leader

Harvard Business Review

To be successful, researchers at the Neuroleadership Institute have found we must excel across three core domains of great leadership: being future-focused, being good with people, and being able to drive results. And yet, as we develop as leaders, our brains evolve in ways that challenge our ability to excel in these areas. The team analyzed dozens of leadership development programs used by larger organizations and discovered they often fail to equip leaders across all three domains.

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55 Fascinating DevOps Statistics You NEED To Know In 2023

CloudZero

Today's development and operations teams are intertwined like the strands of a rope. The two heavily depend on each other to form a stronger, more solid unit. Unlike traditional teams that worked in silos, today's developers and operations’ workflows should work like a well-oiled machine.

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Ask an AI Engineer: Trending Questions About Artificial Intelligence

Toptal

In this ask-me-anything style Q&A, leading Toptal AI developer Joao Diogo de Oliveira fields questions from fellow engineers about resources for pivoting to ML, approaches to large language models, and the most critical future applications of AI.

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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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CVE-2023-35078: Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) / MobileIron Core Unauthenticated API Access Vulnerability

Tenable

Critical vulnerability in a popular mobile device management solution from Ivanti has been exploited in the wild in limited attacks Background On July 24, a post from Heise Online ( English translation ) detailed a recently patched zero-day vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), a mobile management software that can be used for mobile device management (MDM), mobile application management (MAM) and mobile content management (MCM).

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How Do I Run My Go Applications in a Serverless Way?

Dzone - DevOps

The Go programming language has always had rich support for building REST APIs. This includes an excellent standard library (net/HTTP) along with many popular packages such as Gorilla mux , Gin , Negroni , Echo , Fiber , etc. Using AWS Lambda Go runtime , you can use Go to build AWS Lambda functions. Imagine a web app that needs to authenticate users, store user data, and send emails.

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HCL Commerce Customization Capabilities: Empowering Businesses with Tailored E-commerce Solutions

Perficient

Introduction: In the competitive world of e-commerce, delivering a personalized and flawless shopping experience is consummate to success, businesses face the challenge of delivering unique and individualized shopping experiences to their customers. Businesses must figure out how to give their customers distinctive and personalized purchasing experiences in the rapidly changing world of e-commerce.

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Dynatrace Adds Generative AI Capabilities to Davis Engine

DevOps.com

Dynatrace added generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to the Davis engine it uses to apply machine learning algorithms to its observability platform.

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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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Digital Skills Provide a Development Path for Sub-Saharan Africa

Harvard Business Review

Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing with massive rural-urban migration. But unlike the urbanization of the Western world, Sub-Saharan Africa is missing a critical component: industrialized urban cities. Because of this, these urban areas have become overcrowded with substandard housing and severely inadequate infrastructure to cope with unplanned population growth.

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Harnessing AI for Automated and Toil-Free SRE

DevOps.com

AI not only reduces toil but also contributes to improving system reliability, efficiency and scalability, forming a critical part of modern SRE practices.

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Confluent's Commitment to Data Privacy: Announcing ISO 27701 Certification

Confluent

Confluent obtained the ISO 27701 certification which demonstrates the high standard of Confluent’s privacy program and practices.

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Using Generative AI for Issue Remediation and Software Reliability

DevOps.com

Generative AI offers SRE teams a way to automate and streamline error investigation and remediation, making it more intelligent, focused and efficient.

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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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Mastering Interpersonal Communication: The Key to Professional Growth

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

If you want to grow in your career, it’s essential that you dedicate time to skills such as active listening, direct communication, and giving and receiving constructive feedback. Today’s guest post is by Dr. Laurie Moroco—Certified Business Coach, Keynote Speaker & Corporate Trainer. For many of us, the career ladder feels like a slippery slope.

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Planbox Innovations & Improvements, Summer 2023

Planbox

I scream, you scream, we all scream for… innovation! Wilmington, Delaware — Planbox, the pioneering agile innovation management platform, is excited to serve up its latest round of Innovation & Improvements (I&I) to its top-ranking platform. Following up on the Spring 2023 release, this Summer scoop of I&I introduces a refreshing twist on familiar features, alongside novel additions aimed at making the life of innovators a whole lot easier.

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From ViewModel to Compose Presenter: The New Form of State Management

Apiumhub

Commonly, we manage the state logic in an Android ViewModel by applying MVI or MVVM, and we may combine a number of asynchronous data elements to create the state of the view. Some of this data does not change, some are immediately available, and some change over time. However, it is important to keep in mind that the task of combining reactive flows becomes more complex as the data sources and logic involved increase, making the code more difficult to understand.

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Building Resilient, Scalable Cloud-Native Applications

Dzone - DevOps

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Development at Scale Trend Report. For more: Read the Report Back in 1986, I relocated to Boulder, CO, to work for my uncle's start-up company. When we arrived at the office that first day, he helped me to a nearby desk supporting a Compaq Portable computer. On top of the system was a book focused on using dBase II.

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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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Edge Innovation Lands VxRail a Third CRN Tech Award

Dell EMC

Exploring the innovation behind simplicity at the edge and the award-winning VxRail VD-4000 features.

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How One F-35 Fighter Pilot Makes Decisions Under Pressure

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with the U.S. Air Force’s Hasard Lee about advanced tools and mental models.

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The Enterprise Guide to Database Migration

DevOps.com

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PEAK Leadership

CO2 Business Leadership

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. Like many of the CEOs whom I coach, he was anxious in this pandemic and had a hard time thinking of any other question other than, “How do I cut costs?” The complexity of our current crisis is clearly overwhelming many leaders, who haven’t adjusted to asking new questions that befit the new environment.

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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: Base of the Hash

The Daily WTF

Jamie Kitson followed the instructions to integrate their software with a new payment provider. The payment API was fairly straight forward, mostly a straightforward call to a web endpoint. As an error check, the request required an base-64 encoded, MD5 hash of its contents appended to the end of it. Jamie did just that, in C#. And the payment processor balked: the hash was wrong.

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Offshoring to Poland: An Excellent Ecosystem for Tech Businesses

TurnKey Labs

Devoted readers of our blog will recognize that we’ve embarked on a vast exploration, scrutinizing software development ecosystems across the globe. As a global provider of offshoring software development services, we’ve come to understand that working with different countries can be likened to tasting various flavors of ice cream.

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Palo Alto Networks Secures Black Hat from Itself

Palo Alto Networks

Founded by Jeff Moss in 1997, the Black Hat conference has grown considerably. Since its inception, it has gone from a maverick event that gave attendees a glimpse into the hacker mindset, to a global event series held in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It has evolved into the “intersection of network security and hacker ingenuity… where the establishment and the underground are equally at home.

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