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How to Reduce Engineer Burnout During COVID-19

DevOps.com

Burnout is increasingly common during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s how to cope effectively The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we all work, connect and live. Many teams have been forced to transition their work into their homes and to learn ways to organize and execute that they aren’t used to. For product and engineering […]. The post How to Reduce Engineer Burnout During COVID-19 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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One Crucial Way to Release Your Team’s Best Thinking

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Team’s Best Thinking Won’t Always Raise Its Hand Medical insurance rates had gone up again. Our company’s insurance provider had restructured all their plans, and the numbers didn’t look good. Three days after we got the news, the CEO, Director of […]. The post One Crucial Way to Release Your Team’s Best Thinking appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Digitization, Digitalization, and how both fit into AI Projects

CTOvision

Digitization focuses on the capturing and extraction of value from non-digital data by converting it to a usable digital state. Digitalization expands upon the idea of digitization by addressing human-bound processes and processes […].

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Top 5 Best Coding Apps in 2020

The Crazy Programmer

We humans may be a little cunning and mischievous (nervous laugh!) but we surely are focused on various things. And when we are focused on something, we give it full priority to we matter it completely. Right? One of such things on which we are fully focused is learning. Our brain is a powerhouse which is always ready to take in information. And this capability of the brain makes us capable to learning whole new things each and every second.

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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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3 Reasons Why Traceability Should Be a DevOps Priority

DevOps.com

Traceability in DevOps is about ensuring clarity, accountability and the best possible end product for customers There’s a lot to think about when it comes to mobile DevOps. For a start, there’s the need for effective cooperation between members of different teams, perhaps even via team collaboration software for remote workers. With so many people […].

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Snyk Report Finds Decline in Open Source Vulnerabilities

DevOps.com

Snyk, a provider of tools for discovering and remediating vulnerabilities in open source code, today published a report that finds the number of new vulnerabilities discovered in open source software packages has declined 20% on a year-over-year basis. However, the bulk of the vulnerabilities being discovered are considered to be high severity, the report finds. […].

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Agile strategy: How to go from projects to products in 3 steps

TechBeacon

A big trend in the agile community is to move from projects to products, where an organization sees all work as the creation or modification of its products. The organization funds products for the long term and allows persistent teams and their product owners to determine how to spend that money.

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Survey Finds SRE Role Remains Largely Aspirational

DevOps.com

Monitoring tools provider Catchpoint, in collaboration with the DevOps Institute, has published a survey that finds there is a significant gap between the tasks and duties that define the role of what a site reliability engineer (SRE) should be versus what is actually occurring within IT organizations that have hired SREs. Based on a survey […].

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Embeddings in Machine Learning: Making Complex Data Simple

Toptal

Working with non-numerical data can be challenging, even for seasoned data scientists. To make good use of such data, it needs to be transformed. But how? In this article, Toptal Data Scientist Yaroslav Kopotilov will introduce you to embeddings and demonstrate how they can be used to visualize complex data and make it usable.

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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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Puppet Launches Relay to Simplify Automating DevOps Workflows

DevOps.com

Puppet today made available a public beta of Relay, an event-driven platform through which DevOps teams can automatically invoke pre-configured workflows. Company CTO Deepak Giridharagopal said Relay listens for DevOps events that can then trigger an automated workflow such as automatically deleting underutilized cloud resources, enforcing cybersecurity controls or remediating known issues.

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Article: Silos, Politics and Delivering Software Products

InfoQ Culture Methods

Technical teams tend to be unprepared for politics. This leads to political problems being either accepted as tragically inevitable or written off as due to the incompetence of others. Politics in business emerges when direction is not set with sufficient clarity. Better understanding the causes of politics helps understand how best to either resolve or navigate politics in software projects.

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SaltStack Looks to Automate DevSecOps Processes

DevOps.com

SaltStack announced today it has integrated its automation framework with a variety of third-party security platforms to further the adoption of best DevSecOps processes. Mehul Revankar, director of product management for SaltStack, said version 6.3 of SaltStack Enterprise provides integration with offerings from Splunk, Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7 and Kenna Security.

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CodeSOD: Classic WTF: Pointless Revenge

The Daily WTF

As we enjoy some summer weather, we should take a moment to reflect on how we communicate with our peers. We should always do it with kindness, even when we really want revenge. Original -- Kind regards, Remy. We write a lot about unhealthy workplaces. We, and many of our readers, have worked in such places. We know what it means to lose our gruntle (becoming disgruntled ).

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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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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Enhancements and New Certified Ansible Content Collections Refine the Automation Experience to Drive Business Imperatives

DevOps.com

Ready-to-use, curated automation for a wide range of platforms, public clouds, network and security technologies help organizations more easily get started with the latest trusted automation RALEIGH, N.C. — June 23, 2020 —Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced key enhancements to the Ansible Automation portfolio, including the latest version of Red Hat […].

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Unifying Streams and State: The Seamless Path to Real-Time

Confluent

More than ever before, people demand immediacy in every aspect of their lives. Expectations for how we shop, bank, and commute have completely evolved over the last decade. When you […].

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Department of Defense Officials Report on Cyber Risk-Based Decisions

Tenable

In a new report, Navy, Air Force and Defense Information Security Agency (DISA) leaders provide insights into managing cyber risk and protecting critical infrastructure. Here is a quick summary. . A recent survey of senior Department of Defense (DoD) cyber officials revealed a consistent focus on delivering accurate and actionable cyber risk information to support “operationally informed risk decisions.”.

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Keysight Technologies Acquires Eggplant

DevOps.com

Brings together two complementary companies to create an innovative force in the intelligent software test automation market Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, and Eggplant, the digital automation intelligence specialist, today announced that Keysight has completed the acquisition […].

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Is the Future of Hotels Contactless?

Battery Ventures

This season of the Powered by Battery podcast features portfolio executives representing companies from various geographies and technology sectors. The views expressed here are solely those of podcast guests, not Battery. If you’re interested in learning more about these companies, or others in the Battery portfolio, you can access more information here.

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Build Endpoint Security into Your Zero Trust Strategy

Palo Alto Networks

While the term “Zero Trust” may immediately make you think of network security, a proper Zero Trust strategy extends beyond network. Endpoints play an important role, as they store and access data all around the world, making them vulnerable entry points for cyberattackers. With data and applications being accessed from distributed devices, the prevention-first approach and security policy should be consistent and coordinated between your endpoints and your network.

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IoT Part 3: Fire!

Coalfire

When we left off in Part 2 of our blog series, we had just identified the max temperature variable and set it to a much higher number. Our celebrations quickly ended, however. Upon flashing the firmware with the new edited max temperature variable, we realized that the printer would get up to around 261 o Celsius then suddenly stop heating and cool back down to room temperature.

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How important is it to your employees that you treat them consistently with one another?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How important is it to your employees that you treat them consistently with one another? Extremely: They want everyone to always be treated equally: 51.14% Very: They’ll tolerate some special treatment but not very much: 31.99% Somewhat: Some want consistent treatment, while others don’t seem to care: 11.34% Not very: Most of them only worry about how they’re treated themselves: 4.28% Not at all: Special and different treatment is an accepted norm: 1

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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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It’s Time to Simplify Virtual and Physical Network Management

Dell EMC

Virtualization has expanded in the data center as organizations seek to maximize the use of resources and simplify operations and management. What’s left to complete this transformation in the final step towards a software defined data center (SDDC)? The network, of course. But the reality is that networks are complex. They also support the business-critical applications and workloads that today’s businesses rely on to operate, compete and grow.

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New Jupyter notebooks enable data scientists and policy makers to analyze real-time COVID-19 data

DevOps.com

New open source COVID-19 notebooks offer a toolkit that helps developers and data scientists answer important questions about the pandemic. By Frederick Reiss, Chief Architect, Center for Open Source Data and AI Technologies, IBM For data scientists and policy makers who are analyzing the effects of COVID-19 and trying to come up with actionable plans based […].

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Try harder: CSP won’t save you from Magecart-style attacks

TechBeacon

A new hacker trick to exfiltrate data is revealing old security weaknesses. Seems some sites rely a little too heavily on Content Security Policy (CSP).

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Password Management and Social Intelligence in the Era of Mr. Robot

Perficient

Great TV shows take deep inspiration from reality and use that insight to teach us and also show us things we might be unaware of amid the chaos of our daily lives. As a tech company, one of our favorite examples of this is Mr. Robot, a show that fol.

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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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How to Fix Problems with Electronic Health Records: Addressing EHR Usability, Interoperability, and Documentation Issues

Altexsoft

More than 96 percent of hospitals in the US use an EHR system. Electronic Health Record system is a central unit in the IT ecosystem of the whole hospital, where patients book an appointment, receptionists manage the schedule, and physicians access patient charts. On top of that, EHRs can compile prescriptions and send them to pharmacies, receive lab results, prepare insurance claims, and so on.

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What the EKANS ransomware attack reveals about the future of OT cyber-attacks

Darktrace

The EKANS ransomware attack that disrupted Honda’s operations across the globe this month has opened old wounds in the OT security world – and highlighted the importance of a unified security strategy across the entire digital estate.

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Assistive Technology Tips from Expert Librarians

TechSoup

Editor's note: This post was published in April 2015 on the previous TechSoup for Libraries blog. It was updated with new information in June 2020. Assistive technology continues to be an important topic as public libraries strive to become more inclusive spaces for all members of the community.