Mon.Jul 31, 2023

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The Power of Automation in DevOps: Streamlining Software Development and Delivery

Dzone - DevOps

In today's constantly evolving digital landscape, staying ahead of the competition requires organizations to innovate continuously. Additionally, delivering high-quality software at an accelerated pace has become essential. This is where DevOps comes into play. DevOps, short for Development and Operations, is a set of practices that brings together software development and IT operations teams.

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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower CTO

When talking to startup founders or other innovators, we always ask questions to better understand their business as a core. What does the business do? How does it meet customers’ needs? And most importantly, how does it make money? One way to approach that last question is to use this simple model: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) How will your business reach prospects?

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The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements

CIO

With all the articles about all the amazing AI developments, there’s plenty of hand-wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. They imagine all the business execs and product researchers will bypass most or all of their software developers and ask AI directly to build exactly what they think they want or need.

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Bottlenecks of Scaleups: Cost Efficiency

Martin Fowler

As startups begin to grow rapidly, they often find that early decisions that helped them find a product/market fit lead to excessive costs once traffic increases. These costs can threaten a scaleup's ability to grow. Sofia Tania and Stefania Stefansdottir have worked with many scaleups in this predicament and share their approach to understanding and reducing these costs.

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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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Simplifying IT strategy: How to avoid the annual planning panic

CIO

For those companies operating on a calendar year, the end of summer signals the start of annual planning and the mad dash to prepare their IT strategies. Annual or not, like running with the bulls in Pamplona, this exercise never fails to test your mettle and often leaves you staring frantically at the page and wondering: how do I tell this story? This year, before you open any slides, grab a notepad.

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20 issues shaping generative AI strategies today

CIO

Organizations are rushing to figure out how to extract business value from generative AI — without falling prey to the myriad pitfalls arising. The adoption curve here is by no means gradual, with most enterprise leaders quickly working to harness the technology’s potential mere months after the November 2022 launch of gen AI tool ChatGPT kicked off a wave of enthusiasm (and worry).

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How Leaders Use Small Habits for Big Results

Let's Grow Leaders

Transform your leadership and team’s results with the power of small habits Your team won’t become a high-functioning powerhouse after one offsite. You can’t be a trusted, influential leader after one week on the job. There are no leadership hacks or shortcuts that will transform your organization or results. But there is a way to do all these things that’s available to you and every leader: the power of small habits.

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Swiss Re streamlines insurers’ natural disaster response with AI

CIO

Natural disasters have been increasing in frequency, severity, and diversity in recent years, pressuring insurers to be more efficient and to anticipate event and claim fallout. The same goes for reinsurance firms, which provide insurance for insurers, reducing their likelihood of large payouts—a significant factor in the insurance industry’s response to natural disasters.

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The Neuroscience of Success: The Secret to Fearless App Modernization

Perficient

In a comedy special, Jerry Seinfeld once humorously said, “I saw a study that said speaking in front of a crowd is considered the number one fear of the average person. I found that amazing. Number two was death. Death was number two? This means to the average person if you have to be at a funeral, you would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.” The crowd roared with laughter.

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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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How Bloomberg’s engineers built a culture of knowledge sharing

CIO

Bloomberg is a company synonymous with finance, technology, and media. It has offices across the globe and more than 8,000 engineers working to support everything from real-time data feeds about moves in the financial markets and the company’s journalists to mobile apps and AI models that can analyze financial data and sentiment. To help its employees collaborate and share knowledge, Bloomberg turns to Stack Overflow for Teams.

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers.

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Why knowledge management is foundational to AI success

CIO

Amid all the conversations about how AI is revolutionizing work—making everyday tasks more efficient and repeatable and multiplying the efforts of individuals—it’s easy to get a bit carried away: What can’t AI do? Despite its name, generative AI—AI capable of creating images, code, text, music, whatever—can’t make something from nothing. AI models are trained on the information they’re given.

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Three Years Later: The Meow Campaign Reaches Jupyter

Aqua Security

In 2017 and 2020 we have seen the oddest campaign - ‘Meow’ - targeting unsecured databases such as MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, CouchDB, and other software such as Hadoop clusters, FTPs, Jenkins etc. The Modus Operandi was very simple finding an exposed instance, deleting everything, and destroying data without any explanation. Back in 2017 and 2020 , it was quite a conundrum.

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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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Stack Overflow announces OverflowAI

CIO

Today marks the beginning of a new and exciting era for Stack Overflow. We are announcing our roadmap for the integration of generative AI into our public platform, Stack Overflow for Teams, and brand new product areas, like an IDE integration that brings the vast knowledge of 58 million questions and answers from our community right into the area where developers find focus and get work done.

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Increase the Engagement Rate of Your Digital Health Product

Mentormate

There’s no sense dancing around it—people do not want to engage with digital products in the healthcare space. Data shows that engagement rates within healthcare are below interactions with lawyers and people look at their financial health data far more than their actual health data. Why don’t people engage with digital health products? In many ways, the resistance to engage with healthcare products makes sense.

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4 Things Engineering Leaders are Thinking About Right Now

DevOps.com

Spiderman and engineering leaders have something in common: They both have great power and great responsibility. Engineering leadership is more critical than ever, with more than 4.4 million software developers in the United States building our experiences daily. Leaders do more than just manage the day-to-day.

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Apache APISIX Without etcd

Dzone - DevOps

etcd is an excellent key-value distributed database used internally by Kubernetes and managed by the CNCF. It's a great option, and that's the reason why Apache APISIX uses it too. Yet, it's not devoid of issues. First, some mention scalability, but one can expect this from a distributed data store that values consistency. Another issue may be the need for more familiarity with etcd.

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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 Value of Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

A team at McKinsey tracked the performance of 80 banks over four years to identify exactly how their transformation efforts paid off — and how others can follow suit.

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Tested Solutions: Working With React Design Patterns

Toptal

Design patterns offer a convenient way to tackle challenges with tried-and-tested solutions, saving developers time and effort. Here’s how React design patterns allow for coherent modules with less coupling.

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Considering Scriptless Automation: iOS App Dev in 2023

DevOps.com

According to Statista, over 31,000 apps were released on Apple’s App Store in March 2023. As impressive as that is, it’s considerably smaller than the number of apps submitted to the Apple store during the same month. And it’s probably less than the number of apps removed from the App Store. Why?

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4 Ways SaaS Brands Evolved Their Pricing Strategy Using Cost Intelligence

CloudZero

One powerful way SaaS companies can balance their own costs while still providing plenty of value to their customers is to be strategic about pricing tiers and payment plans.

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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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Resource Management in Tech Companies: A Key Driver for Success

Gorilla Logic

Many decades ago, manufacturing companies transformed when the Industrial Revolution led them to become more efficient, capable, and precise–while reducing costs. Since then, change has become a constant in all of today’s industries, and even more so within the tech industry, where topics such as processes, tools, methods, and the global economy are all adding immense pressure to companies that need to get ahead to remain competitive.

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How to Secure Support for Your ERG’s Initiatives

Harvard Business Review

Employee resource groups are essential in fostering belonging and advancing potential, and they need support to be able to continue to do that. But given cost cutting, lack of cultural awareness, and increasing pressure to slash DEI budgets, the challenges many identity groups or social causes face can slip through the cracks. In such challenging circumstances, how can ERG members galvanize and get the attention their networks need to influence and have impact?

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Insights Unlocked: Introduce AI to Your Data

Dell EMC

Modernize your infrastructure, and secure and act on your data to drive AI innovations with Dell Unstructured Data Solutions.

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Darktrace/Email in Action: Why AI-Driven Email Security is the Best Defense Against Sustained Phishing Campaigns

Darktrace

With the help of generative AI tools, the barrier to entry is lowered for cyber criminals to create many hyper-realistic emails with minimal errors, which are less likely to contain the low-sophistication markers of a typical phishing attack. This blog outlines how Darktrace/Email used its understanding of ‘normal’ to accurately detect and respond to a sustained phishing campaign targeting a real-life company.

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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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Deliver Faster Value with Dell Generative AI Solutions

Dell EMC

Rapidly deploy a full-stack solution for generative AI and inferencing.

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Detecting Opioid Abuse in Clinical Notes Using Healthcare NLP

John Snow Labs

Understanding and evaluating patients’ clinical notes is crucial in providing accurate diagnosis and treatment in the field of medicine. Today, issues like opioid abuse and addiction pose significant challenges for medical professionals. In this blog post, we will explore an approach using the powerful natural language processing capabilities of Healthcare NLP to detect opioid abuse in clinical notes.

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“Testers will be the last people standing.” Examining the impact of AI on software testing.

Coveros

What will be the impact of AI? It’s a question being asked in nearly every industry and every walk of life. In the software community, the emergence of AI has stoked thoughts of both possibility and concern about its impact. For software testers, the critical questions swirling around AI are “What is the future of testing in a world of AI? Will testers become obsolete?

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