Thu.Mar 21, 2019

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Our entire economy seems to have forgotten that workers are also consumers, and suppliers are also customers. The pursuit of monopoly has led Silicon Valley astray. Look no further than the race between Lyft and Uber to dominate the online ride-hailing market. Both companies are gearing up for their IPOs in the next few months. Street talk has Lyft shooting for a valuation between $15 and $30 billion dollars , and Uber valued at an astonishing $120 billion dollars.

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Inspiring Creativity and Innovation on Your Team: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their thoughts about inspiring creativity and innovation on your team. We’ve expanded the Frontline Festival to include other formats such as podcasts and artwork and are always looking for […]. The post Inspiring Creativity and Innovation on Your Team: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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DevOps: Assessing Behavior Flows Through an Organization

DevOps.com

I’ll admit it, this article is a little strange. It is an experiment. But DevOps is all about experimentation, right? This article explores how information and behaviors in fact “flow” through an organization. It is based upon my observations with literally hundreds of DevOps teams. I have used the Three Ways of DevOps to show […]. The post DevOps: Assessing Behavior Flows Through an Organization appeared first on DevOps.com.

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New Web Order: An Overview of Content-First Design

Toptal

Designers do not simply decorate, they create an experience of moving through content. There are various strategies available that align the client and team in creating content that will result in better designs.

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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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DevOps Chat: The CD Foundation, with CloudBees’ Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Tracy Miranda

DevOps.com

A new foundation, the CD Foundation, has been formed under the auspices of the Linux Foundation to serve as the home base for a vendor-neutral movement committed to making it easier to build and reuse DevOps pipelines across multiple continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms. The first projects to be hosted under the auspices of CD […].

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Perfecto Applies AI to Writing Test Scripts

DevOps.com

Artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to be applied to the writing and update test scripts. Perfecto has unfurled Perfecto Codeless, which employs machine learning algorithms to automate writing of test scripts in a way that allows them to not only run continuously, but also adjust to changes made to the application. Eran Kinsbruner, chief evangelist […].

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100 Percent Of Small Businesses Go Out Of Business One Nanosecond After the Simplest of Cyberattacks

CTOvision

I just read another scary marketing email. This one from one of my favorite firms. I love Cisco. They have done more for America and our way of life that most others. They are creators and innovators and I am honored to have interacted with them through the years. But their marketing team has fallen […].

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5 Considerations to Get DevOps Right in Telco IT Systems

DevOps.com

Implementing DevOps in telco IT systems, such as business support systems/operations support systems (BSS/OSS), is not easy. This is especially true with telcos that overly rely on third-party commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) vendors or systems integrators (SIs) to implement new capabilities, and to run operations. To effectively control the vendors, telcos extensively use traditional levels found […].

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How to Manage 6 Challenging Personality Types in Meetings

Modus Create

Software teams are interdisciplinary. They are increasingly comprised of people who have not only cross-functional skills, but also deep specializations. While different teams will have different roles, a typical software team might look something like this: Product Managers. Engineers. User Experience Designers. Visual Designers. User Researchers. DevOps.

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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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Thwarting an invisible threat: How AI sniffs out the Ursnif trojan

Darktrace

The cyber AI approach successfully detected the Ursnif infections even though the new variant of this malware was unknown to security vendors at the time.

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The diagnosis for US electronic health records: Fatally flawed

TechBeacon

EHR is badly broken. That’s the conclusion of a too-long report into electronic health records in the US.

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Python Web Scraping Tutorial

The Crazy Programmer

In this tutorial, we are going to talk about web scraping using python. Firstly, we have to discuss about what is web scraping technique? Whenever we need the data (it can be text, images, links and videos) from web to our database. Lets discuss where we should need the web scraping in real world. Nowadays, we have so many competitors in each and every field for surpassing them we need their data from the website or Blogs to know about products, customers and their facilities.

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In security, it’s usually the basic stuff that gets you — like passwords

DXC

There are some very smart hackers out there with access to the latest techniques and exploits, but time and again it has been observed that attackers don’t need to deploy the latest and greatest because they can achieve their goals with the older and basic. Why bother with something complex or burn a new tool […].

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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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The Complete Guide to Java 12 New Features

OverOps

6 months flew by so fast, and again, it’s time to take a closer look at the new JDK version that’s out. Let’s meet Java 12 and the features it’s introducing to developers. It’s a been a while since Oracle introduced its accelerated 6-month release cadence, and it’s getting harder to keep up with every version and the features they add to the table. On the bright side, this fast release rate also means that Java is introducing a lot of new features for us to take advantage of.

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High-Power Hash Cracking with NPK

Coalfire

Password hashes are an everyday part of life in Coalfire Labs. Barring any other low-hanging fruit, it’s not uncommon for a penetration test to hinge on recovering a plaintext password from one of these hashes. Whether it’s NTLM hashes from Active Directory, NetNTLMv2 from Responder, WPA2 PMK from a wireless penetration test, or hundreds of other possible sources of hashes, recovering the original password has been a challenge for hackers for decades.

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Mobility Lab Webinar #3: Inter-Operator Mobility with CBRS

CableLabs

The emergence of spectrum sharing with Citizen Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) has unlocked opportunities for new entrants including traditional multiple service operators (MSOs) to provide mobile service. CBRS networks will use low power small cells which inherently provides short distance coverage and thus target deployment in high traffic areas. Operators will likely have to rely on macro-cell network coverage to compensate for mobile service outside CBRS network coverage.

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Delegating Work and Tasks = Effective Leadership

CoachStation

Delegating work and tasks to your team members is one of the necessary and important skills of leadership. It also remains one of the most challenging for many new and experienced managers. However, there are several things you can do to develop this skill. Continue reading Delegating Work and Tasks = Effective Leadership at CoachStation.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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5 Lessons Learned as a Technical Lead at Gorilla Logic

Gorilla Logic

Being a Senior Consultant at Gorilla Logic is super fun, but it is even more fun leading a highly productive team under the nearshore business model. During my time at Gorilla Logic, I have had the opportunity to work as a Senior Consultant and as a Technical Lead on a very demanding set of services/products for companies that want to skyrocket their efficiency and revenue while maintaining quality, performance, and low technical debt.

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Le changement : disruptif mais humain

DXC

Par Mattis Vimard, consultant Digital Strategy, DXC Technology D’après une Ă©tude de 1995, menĂ©e par la Harvard Business Review, 70% des changements organisationnels n’atteindraient pas leurs objectifs. Plus de vingt ans après ce constat, la vision de l’entreprise s’avère encore Ă©loignĂ©e des aspirations individuelles des collaborateurs. Les rĂ©sistances aux changements restent l’un des principaux freins […].

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Business Agility in the Cloud | Maximizing Business Value with AWS

Linux Academy

In the previous article in this series, I discussed the value proposition of cloud computing and also highlighted some of the benefits of the variable pricing model. Let’s now discuss business agility in the cloud. Business Agility in the Cloud. Business agility is one of the most important activities that a healthy business must do in order to continue to grow and innovate is to scope, prioritize, and to take on new initiatives.

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[“Define Your Product” Series”] 3 Keys to Practical User Research for New Products

Praxent

User research for new products can be expensive, but it doesn’t have to be. Using simple, cost-effective methods, conduct user research at the beginning of a product development project. The relatively minimal effort will save thousands in the long run. Aim to achieve these three deliverables from a user research initiative for new product development: User personas, a first-stage definition of potential target users.

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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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Close the Tech Skills Gap by Learning In-Demand Tech Skills | Infographic

Linux Academy

With in-demand tech skills being searched for every day across not only the tech industry but every industry, it’s the perfect time to develop your tech skills and fast-track your career! Employers can’t find new candidates with the tech skills that they need, and 70% of executives say current employees lack the IT skills required for certain business projects.

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Attivo Networks Powers up with Energy Impact Partners

DevOps.com

Utility-backed venture capital firm invests in company to secure energy operations and security infrastructure Fremont, CA – March 21, 2019 – Attivo Networks®, the award-winning leader in deception for cybersecurity threat detection, today announced that Energy Impact Partners(EIP), a leading utility-backed energy investment and innovation firm, has become a strategic investor in the company.

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Netflix Public Bug Bounty, 1 year later

Netflix Tech

by Astha Singhal (Netflix Application Security) As Netflix continues to create entertainment people love, the security team continues to keep our members, partners, and employees secure. The security research community has partnered with us to improve the security of the Netflix service for the past few years through our responsible disclosure and bug bounty programs.

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SRE: How Do You Get to Blameless?

DevOps.com

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the companion to DevOps. If we take my normal divisions of DEVops versus devOPS, traditional DevOps is mostly the developer side, and SRE is mostly the Ops side. This isn’t a perfect comparison, but it is a good starting point, and for this blog, I’ll run with it. While DevOps […]. The post SRE: How Do You Get to Blameless?

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Using Technology to Save Water

Beyond B2B

Over 2 billion people live without safe water at home. Water shortages impact every aspect of life – health, commerce, the economy, education – making conservation and management a top priority globally.

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Gratitude Notification

DevOps.com

The post Gratitude Notification appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Simplifying Big Data Projects with Data Virtualization

Data Virtualization

According to Gartner, 60% of all the big data projects fail and according to Capgemini 70% of the big data projects are not profitable. There can only be one conclusion, big data projects are hard! There is not one specific. The post Simplifying Big Data Projects with Data Virtualization appeared first on Data Virtualization and Modern Data Management.