Fri.Jan 11, 2019

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5 Trends Transforming Digital and IT Operations Management

DevOps.com

In 2018, digital transformation ushered in a radical shift in how enterprises harness customer insights, technology capabilities and rapid experimentation to drive revenue growth, profitability and market leadership. Enterprises spent $1.3 trillion in 2018 on digital transformation technologies such as public cloud platforms, microservices and containers, edge computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve […].

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Celebrating one year of Scrum Boosters!

Xebia

History In 2014 I started at Xebia in the business unit Agile Consultancy and Training (ACT). Colleague Nicole Belilos took me under her wings and helped me develop and grow within this group of Agile coaches. Together with Laurens Bonnema we formed a group who had experienced a lot of bad Scrum, fake Scrum, Scrum […]. The post Celebrating one year of Scrum Boosters!

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How to Automate HIPAA Compliance with DevOps

DevOps.com

DevOps can help make HIPAA compliance more achievable Automating the provisioning of HIPAA-compliant server infrastructure enables compliant hosting service providers with the ability to provision and deploy infrastructure-as-code with minimal human intervention. Providing the automated process is thoroughly tested, revised and updated, it can offer a healthcare organization huge flexibility when enforcing a HIPAA-compliant server […].

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4 agile best practices every enterprise architect should follow

TechBeacon

The architect's role in an agile team is challenging, and not well defined. Neither agile nor Scrum principles offer a clear definition of the responsibilities. But the role of an architect in agile is important.

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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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Coding Dojo’s “Fresh Start” Program

Coding Dojo

The initial impact of a layoff can be staggering. Coding Dojo wants to help get you back on your feet. … Read more >>. The post Coding Dojo’s “Fresh Start” Program appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Get the Most Out of Your Salesforce Applications – Success Stories from 2018

Apps Associates

Are you looking to make some improvements to your Salesforce Applications, create best practices, upgrade to Lightning in 2019? See what changes some of our customers made in 2018 and how it is impacting their business positively. 2018 was a year filled with exciting changes for Salesforce and for our Salesforce customers. Check out a … Continue reading "Get the Most Out of Your Salesforce Applications – Success Stories from 2018".

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5 Cyber Security Threats to SMEs, and How Software Development Services Can Help

KitelyTech

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are often more susceptible to cyber attacks than giant companies because of their limited resources. Every year, cyber attacks cost SMEs close to $150,000, and 60 percent of those affected closed shop six months after an attack. Sadly, about 90 percent of SMEs lack sufficient data protection. Here are five cybersecurity threats to SMEs and how custom software development services Chicago wide can help. 1.

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The Screenplay Test Design Pattern

Modus Create

The Screenplay Test Design Pattern, also known as the Flow Pattern, has been around since 2007 and is brilliantly described by Antony Marcano, Andy Palmer, Jan Molak and John Ferguson Smart in their article Page Objects Refactored: SOLID Steps to the Screenplay/Journey Pattern. They have an excellent explanation about the concept of this pattern and what common problems it intends to address.

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Don't Panic Series (Part 2): How does culture change?

Agile42

Fundamentally, changing culture is going to require some pretty significant changes. There’s going to be a new direction on where to go, and you’re almost certainly going to have to stop doing something. This means interrupting the way you normally work because in order to change direction, you have to pause and put the brakes on. Continuing with the Don’t Panic series , Dave Sharrock and Melissa Boggs will explain how culture changes as well as discuss the technique of storytelling.

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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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The Power of Business Scenarios for Digital Transformation

J.D. Meier's Blog

I wrote a new post, fresh off the press, on how to use Business Scenarios to drive Digital Transformation the Agile way: The Power of Business Scenarios for Digital Transformation. It’s a serious post that distills a lot of what I’ve learned over the past several years driving Digital Transformation. I learned a lot from my Enterprise Strategy days as well as when I was “head coach” on Satya Nadella’s Innovation team.

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Error'd: Next Stop.Errortown

The Daily WTF

"Rather than tell me when the next train is supposed to arrive, this electronic sign is helpfully informing me that something's IP address is.disabled?" Ashley A. writes. . "I think that fonehouse may need to apologize for their apology," writes Paul B. . Brian C. wrote, "Many new riders don't expect it, but my commuter train goes through several dimensions where time is kept quite differently. . "When your email about keeping messages out of the spam folder, e

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Dell EMC Cyber Recovery Solutions at VMware VMUG Virtual Event

Dell EMC

Dell EMC Cyber Recovery Solutions at VMware VMUG Virtual Event (December 2018) The number of successful Cyber Attacks are growing, and they are also evolving with more elaborate and innovative methods being used. As fast as organizations build defenses against attacks, hackers adapt and come up with new ways to work around them. Most organizations affected by these attacks have strong detection capabilities in place.

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My Best Essays

James Shore

11 Jan 2019. James Shore/Blog. I've been writing about agile software development for nearly 20 years, and most of it is available on this blog. I took some recently to refresh my list of best essays. The ten most popular are below. You can find the full list here. Top Ten. The Agile Fluency™ Model: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile - 6 Mar 2018.

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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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Are You Triaging or Prioritizing Your Work?

Next Level Blog

If you’ve ever had to make a trip to the emergency room (hopefully not) or watched a medical drama on TV (probably so), you’ve seen a team of doctors, nurses and other team members doing triage. Triage is the process of assessing which patients need immediate treatment or attention and which can wait until after the more urgent cases are addressed. It’s a big reason why you might end up hanging out in the waiting room for hours if you go to the ER to get your flu or some other non-life-threateni

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My Best Essays

James Shore

11 Jan 2019. James Shore/Blog. I've been writing about agile software development for nearly 20 years, and most of it is available on this blog. I took some recently to refresh my list of best essays. The ten most popular are below. You can find the full list here. Top Ten. The Agile Fluency™ Model: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile - 6 Mar 2018.

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New Cloud Security Alliance Study Finds Cybersecurity Incidents and Misconceptions Both Increase as Critical ERP Systems Migrate to Clouds

DevOps.com

Seattle, WA – January 11, 2019 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, today released the findings from the first research survey on “Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Applications and Cloud Adoption.

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Four short links: 11 January 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Storage Orchestration, Trolls and Media, Language Bias, and AI Attitudes. Rook -- storage orchestration for Kubernetes. Why We Can't Have Nice Things (MIT Press) -- Trolls' actions are born of and fueled by culturally sanctioned impulses—which are just as damaging as the trolls' most disruptive behaviors. [.] For trolls, exploitation is a leisure activity; for media, it's a business strategy.

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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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Greenlight Your SAP Migration Project Into The Public Cloud

Protera

Automation decreases the risk and costs of SAP migration, while accelerating the timetable. If you’ve been having difficulty going forward with your SAP cloud migration project , here’s how automation might be the missing ingredient. SAP Self-Service Assessment Lets You Plan Before Investing. The SAP assessment has often been a stumbling block for starting SAP migrations.

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Android: The Next Decade

Ivanti

Android: The Next Decade. sraikow. Fri, 01/11/2019 - 15:00. In my personal mobile history museum at work, I’ve got the original box for the G1, the first Android TM phone available in the U.S. that was released a decade ago. Over the last ten years, Android established a massive, global footprint with consumers across the world. The next ten years will be even more exciting for us, because now Android has the opportunity to catalyze transformation in the workplace as well.

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The Power of Business Scenarios for Digital Transformation

J.D. Meier's Blog

I wrote a new post, fresh off the press, on how to use Business Scenarios to drive Digital Transformation the Agile way: The Power of Business Scenarios for Digital Transformation It’s a serious post that distills a lot of what I’ve learned over the past several years driving Digital Transformation. I learned a lot from my Enterprise Strategy days as well as when I was “head coach” on Satya Nadella’s Innovation team.

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How To Improve ITSM Metrics With a Millennial Workforce & Gen Z

Samanage

How the Tech-Savvy Millennials and Younger Generations Will Influence ITSM Metrics. As the ongoing retirement of the boomer generation begins to draw to a close, it is only natural that some Millennials and many of their younger counterparts, the members of Generation Z, will begin to take on positions of leadership and influence alongside members of Generation X.

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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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A Simple Solution to Agile at Small-Scale

Net Objectives

I keep running across organizations with 4-10 dev teams struggling with Agile. They look to the two most popular frameworks out there for a solution (Scrum & SAFe) to solve their problems. On one hand they see something that can work at the team but doesn’t help them with their product management. On the other … Continue reading "A Simple Solution to Agile at Small-Scale".

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Special Operations Focuses Inward

The Cipher Brief

United States Special Operations Forces are attracting attention for the wrong reasons after a spate of incidents overseas that involved the murder of Americans, allegedly carried out by SOF Forces. A former Green Beret, who was working as a contractor for Lockheed Martin died in Iraq on New Year’s day from what authorities characterize as severe head trauma.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 11th, 2019

High Scalability

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: The modern day inner sanctum revealed for all to experience. Nausea no extra charge. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. Need cloud? Consume Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (35 nearly 5 star reviews). 8x : V8 Promiss.all parallel performance improvement; 1.3% : print sales increase; 11% : over 65 shared a hoax; 40% : add jobs after deploying AI; 3% : Eventbot's revenue pledged to open source; 51% : successful Ethereum attack; $308,620 :

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Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Advances in 2018 and Trends for 2019

Altexsoft

2018 has passed. The insane pre-holiday shopping is behind us, along with celebrations, and personal to-do lists for the next 12 months. But it’s a great time for a retrospective. So, let’s analyze the data science and artificial intelligence accomplishments and events of the past year. We talked with experts from Booking.com, Wolfram Research, BetConstruct, and other data science specialists who shared their thoughts about opportunities as well as their influence on business, research, and ever

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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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AWS Elasticsearch bounces into 2019 with Reserved Instances, Easier Data Migration and More

Cloud Conformity

3 reasons why your AWS Elasticsearch is powered up for 2019 Make 2019 Data-driven with Elasticsearch AWS Definition AWS Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES), is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, operate, and scale Elasticsearch to search, analyze, and visualize data in real-time. The service provides easy-to-use APIs and real-time analytics to power use-cases, whilst benefiting from enterprise-grade availability, scalability and security.

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Trying out test commit or revert

Marcusoft

I stumbled over a new concept the other day. As it was conceived by Kent Beck, that inspired and thought me a lot in the past, I got interesting. When I read his blog post I got to this quote: I hated the idea so I had to try it. I felt the same actually and now I’ve tried it. I was so provoked by it so I had to try it. The idea is pretty simple: The full command then is test && commit || revert.

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