Tue.Sep 22, 2020

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We Heard You. An Agile Approach to Managing Network Security Policy

Firemon

An Agile Approach to Managing Network Security Policy. Today we announced the industry’s first agile network security policy platform which marks both the delivery of core new features and a statement of our future direction. We believe these new features, along with a compelling roadmap, sets a new standard for NSPM and provides our customers with the capabilities they need to enable their businesses to move faster while staying secure.

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Mortality statistics and Sweden's "dry tinder" effect

Erik Bernhardsson

We live in a year of about 350,000 amateur epidemiologists and I have no desire to join that “club” But I read something about COVID-19 deaths that I thought was interesting and wanted to see if I could replicated it through data. Basically the claim is that Sweden had an exceptionally “good” year in 2019 in terms of influenza deaths causing there to be more deaths “overdue” in 2020.

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If something is too complex to understand, it must be wrong

Xebia

Recently, I was invited for a podcast interview by my brilliant colleague João Rosa. It was my first podcast interview (yes I was excited and nervous), and it has been keeping my mind busy ever since I received that calendar invite. The idea was that we would discuss a heuristic and see where we’d end up […]. The post If something is too complex to understand, it must be wrong appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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This is Recruiting: How to Develop a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

This is Recruiting: How to Develop a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative. “ When we listen and celebrate what is both common and different, we become wiser, more inclusive, and better as an organization. ” — Pat Wadors. At Hackerearth we believe that skills do not discriminate. We want to help brands create effective workforces, and that cannot be done if companies do not evolve to hire based on talent rather than focussing on gender and racial stereotypes.

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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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5 Steps to Avoid Shadow IT Around Low-Code

DevOps.com

Shadow IT is far more pervasive than most CIOs think. Cisco Systems estimates that a typical firm has 15 to 22 times more cloud applications than authorized by the IT department. While shadow IT solves problems in the short-term for a select few, undocumented software ultimately encourages tribal thinking and siloed departments. This can stunt […].

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How Logs Can Empower Your CI/CD Delivery Pipeline

DevOps.com

Change is the currency of software success. This need to change and grow is the basis for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Each year, new industries embrace this philosophy of constant change, but without the necessary data underpinning their decisions, every deployment is a risk. When you enrich your software delivery with log data […].

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Fast and stealthy malware attempts to steal public data from government organization

Darktrace

Darktrace’s Immune System recently detected Glupteba malware attempting to steal sensitive information from a government organization. This blog post details how targeted and autonomous actions from Darktrace Antigena would have contained the attack.

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Instana Makes Maintaining App Service Levels Easier

DevOps.com

Instana announced today it has made it easier for DevOps teams to achieve and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) for applications when employing its application performance management (APM) platform. Announced at the DevOps World 2020 conference hosted by CloudBees, the Instana tools provided to configure, monitor and manage SLOs are based on a series of […].

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How Teladoc works? Business model and revenue streams

Daffodil Software

Planning to pay a visit to your doctor but can’t for some reason or the other? You’re not alone. Why not schedule an online doctor appointment instead? Try telemedicine to discuss a non-emergency medical condition with a physician anytime, anywhere from the comfort of your home or office.

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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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CloudBees Advances Expanding DevOps Agenda

DevOps.com

CloudBees today at its online DevOps World 2020 conference announced it is embedding additional DevSecOps capabilities that span the application development and deployment process within the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform based on the open source Jenkins projects. In addition, CloudBees announced it will make generally available by the end of this year two additional […].

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Meet the CableLabs Experts Speaking at the All-Virtual SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo® 2020

CableLabs

This year, our colleagues at SCTE•ISBE are taking full advantage of the power of connectivity to make one of the biggest industry events completely virtual—and FREE —to all attendees. The first-ever SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo® Virtual Experience (sponsored by Charter Communications, Comcast and Cox Communications) is scheduled for October 12–15, 2020, and we’re very excited to be a part of it.

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Codefresh Reports Unprecedented Team Growth with Addition of Three New Executives

DevOps.com

Vidhya Vijayakumar, Head of Customers, Sasha Shapirov, VP R&D, and Ran Zaksh, VP Product, are the latest to join Codefresh’s global team September 22, 2020 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–It’s been a productive few months for Codefresh, from securing $27 million in new funding and launching its hybrid cloud Runner to releasing results of a new […].

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The latest from DXC’s Applied AI Studio: A chatbot to help remote workers de-stress

DXC

Lee, an online personal counselor, helps employees who struggle with feelings of mild anxiety or loneliness while working from home. Rather than cope alone, they talk with Lee to destress. “You’re lonely?” Lee might say. “I’m sorry about that. Can you tell me more about how you’re feeling?” Those words might not seem surprising from […]. The post The latest from DXC’s Applied AI Studio: A chatbot to help remote workers de-stress appeared first on DXC Blogs.

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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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New Tracks = New Insights at DevOps World 2020

DevOps.com

What’s new at DevOps World this year? Aside from the fact that this year’s event, happening today through Sept. 24, is being held virtually and is free of charge, DevOps World is also reorganizing the conference into three new tracks: Leadership, Community and CDF (Continuous Delivery Foundation). Together, the three tracks illustrate the broad-ranging focus […].

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CodeSOD: A Random While

The Daily WTF

A bit ago, Aurelia shared with us a backwards for loop. Code which wasn’t wrong, but was just… weird. Well, now we’ve got some code which is just plain wrong, in a number of ways. The goal of the following Java code is to generate some number of random numbers between 1 and 9, and pass them off to a space-separated file. StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer(); long count = 0; long numResults = GetNumResults(); while (count numbers = new ArrayList (); while (numbers.size().

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Synopsys Report Shows DevSecOps Progress

DevOps.com

A report based on analysis of the software security initiatives of 130 organizations conducted by Synopsys, a provider of static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis tools, suggests progress in terms of DevSecOps adoption is being made but there is still a long journey ahead. According to the survey results, 121 organizations now […].

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DevSecOps - Be Independent Again

Dzone - DevOps

What Has Happened So Far. Again and again, changes have happened that set things in motion that were considered to have been set. In some cases, services or products have been freely available for many years, or the type of restriction has not changed. I am taking one of the last changes as an occasion to show the resulting behavior and to formulate solutions that help you deal with it.

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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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TechStrong TV: Sumo Logic Goes the IPO Route

DevOps.com

Sumo Logic has come a long way, becoming a public company with its IPO of 14.8 million shares at $22 per share. In this TechStrong TV interview Christian Beedgen, CTO and co-founder at Sumo Logic, joins Alan Shimel to discuss all the hard work that lead to this major accomplishment. Transcript Alan Shimel: Okay. Big […]. The post TechStrong TV: Sumo Logic Goes the IPO Route appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Intro to o11ycast: A Human Perspective on the Role of Observability

Honeycomb

Hi! I’m new here. And I don’t just mean at Honeycomb.io. I’m Emily Ashley, a community-taught software engineer in New Orleans who made my way into software engineering through the wonderful world of web cartography. (yes, I love maps). And yes, I listened to all 24 episodes of o11ycast in a month. “But Emily, why would you do that?” I don’t know, you’d have to ask my team?

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TechStrong TV: How strongDM Helps Fintech MANTL With Access Management

DevOps.com

The fintech space is growing by leaps and bounds, as more consumers shift their financial transactions online for both convenience and necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic. MANTL is a fintech startup providing banks and credit unions with the technology they need to meet the demands of their customers who want to do their banking from […]. The post TechStrong TV: How strongDM Helps Fintech MANTL With Access Management appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How to Lead with Influence Instead of Authority

Next Level Blog

One of the things you read most often about the effects of the pandemic is that it has accelerated trends that were already in play by about 10 years. In certain aspects of work and life, it suddenly seems like 2030 instead of 2020. Working from home and in other distributed locations away from the office is probably the most prominent example. That trend was predicted for years and, now, suddenly, it’s a reality that will likely permanently alter the way work gets done in organizations.

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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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New ASG Report Looks at COVID-19’s Impact on Software Development

DevOps.com

We are all trying to adapt to a new world created by COVID-19. As the coronavirus continues to spread, the economy and businesses everywhere have been severely impacted, and no one really knows what the so-called “new normal” will be. For now, most organizations have gone remote, not knowing when—or even if—employees will be able […]. The post New ASG Report Looks at COVID-19’s Impact on Software Development appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Ansible Best Practices: From the Very Beginning to 2020

Dzone - DevOps

The crucial part of Ansible is variables. One of the dubious things about Ansible is that it offers too much freedom. This has advantages and disadvantages. A disadvantage would be the complexity along with high responsibility. In turn, an advantage would be flexibility. Therefore, let's revise what we know about variables and try to arrange the information and make it simpler.

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Instana Announces Availability of Integrated Service Level Initiative and Objective Management

DevOps.com

New Features for DevOps and SREs include automatic threshold determination and wizards to setup Instana Application Perspectives Chicago – September 22, 2020 – Instana is changing the way organizations use Service Level Objectives (SLOs) by integrating SLO configuration, monitoring, and management with the critical troubleshooting capabilities of application performance monitoring, tracing and profiling.

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Creating an IT Contingency Plan at Your Nonprofit

TechSoup

As COVID-19 continues to affect our world in unprecedented ways, many nonprofits are settling into a "new normal" that may persist for months — or even years. For some organizations, a distributed, remote workforce will remain in place even once restrictions are lifted. And in certain cases, the unexpected and rapid shift to this "new normal" may have exposed some gaps in and limitations of the general IT infrastructure at your nonprofit.

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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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Applause’s Bring Your Own Testers Feature Combines Fully Managed Service with Internal Teams for Comprehensive Test Coverage

DevOps.com

Boston, Massachusetts – September 22, 2020 Applause, the worldwide leader in digital quality and crowdsourced testing, today announced the availability of its Bring Your Own Testers (BYOT) feature that enables clients to manage their internal teams – employees, friends, family members and existing customers – and invite them to test cycles in the Applause Platform alongside […].

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DDD-Software Design: A Two Person Job

Dzone - DevOps

In the previous blog , I described what happened Domain Driven Design met Deadline Driven Design? Software design is a complicated activity. Pushing the deadline doesn’t work in most cases, cutting the software design will never work. Not Existing No-Design-Software, It’s Either Good or Bad. Let’s first explain what I call the two person job in my previous blog.

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Continuous integration for Svelte applications

CircleCI

The Svelte framework is, at the moment of this writing, one of the most popular Javascript frameworks. Last year, it overtook Vue.js in popularity according to the State of JS 2019. Unlike other frameworks, Svelte does not do its DOM-updating work in the browser using the Virtual DOM, but instead compiles Javascript code in its build step that efficiently updates your DOM when a state change occurs.