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Test-Driving HTML Templates

Martin Fowler

When building a server-side rendered web application, it's valuable to test the HTML that's generated through templates. While these can be tested through end-to-end tests running in the browser, such tests are slow and more work to maintain than unit tests. My colleague Matteo Vaccari has written an article on how to use TDD to test drive these templates using xunit-style tools which can be run easily from the command line or as part of build scripts.

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Reducing CIO-CISO tension requires recognizing the signs

CIO

CIOs and CISOs operate in high-stress environments that can at times place additional strain on their relationship, further distracting them from achieving beneficial outcomes. In my own career, I’ve been a CIO and a CISO, so I have firsthand experience with this issue from both perspectives. Defusing the situation so that the relationship is workable, healthy, and respectful for both parties can be challenging, especially for CISOs, who often reportto the CIO.

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Implementing SQL Merge functionality into Entity Framework Core

Xebia

In the previous article Extending Entity Framework Core , we touched upon the subject of extending Entity Framework Core (EF core) to automatically generate custom statements. We wrapped up the previous article with a basic solution that you can build upon to create your own custom code to be generated. In this article, we will be implementing a SQL merge statement in EF core.

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AI is driving productivity and wage increases: Report

CIO

Business sectors using artificial intelligence are seeing significant gains in productivity while AI skills are commanding higher wages, according to a new PwC report. Industries such as financial services, information technology, and professional services are seeing labor productivity growth nearly five times greater than industries with less AI integration, the consulting firm said in a statement.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.

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Modernizing on AWS: Strategies, Benefits, and Partnerships with Xebia

Xebia

Cloud modernization has become a prominent topic for organizations, and AWS plays a crucial role in helping them modernize their IT infrastructure, applications, and services. Many companies across various industries prioritize modernization in the cloud for several reasons, such as greater agility, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency, enabling them to innovate faster and stay competitive in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape.

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Using markup for fallbacks when fetching data

Martin Fowler

Juntao Qiu's next data fetching pattern looks at how to specify fallback behavior using markup. This allows developers to pull such declarations out of the JavaScript components and into the markup they use while laying out the rest of the page. Juntao's React example shows how this works with the Suspense element, with a similar approach in vue.js.

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Epicor announces Grow portfolio to weave AI into ERP

CIO

ERP vendor Epicor is introducing integrated artificial intelligence (AI) and business intelligence (BI) capabilities it calls the Grow portfolio. Grow will reimagine how AI-powered ERP software can and should serve the supply chain industries and their workers, delivering more than 200 adaptive industry use cases, it said at its Insights 2024 user conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

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You Need New Skills to Make a Career Pivot. Here’s How to Find the Time to Build Them.

Harvard Business Review

With any significant change in your career comes the need for new skills. But that’s even more true when you want a radical career change. In these situations, it’s going to take more than listening to a few webinars to build the knowledge you need get to where you want to go. You must set aside a significant amount of time for self-directed learning, formal training, or even a second job to gain the skills for the big leap.

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Porsche Carrera Cup Brasil gets real-time data boost

CIO

In the annual Porsche Carrera Cup Brasil, data is essential to keep drivers safe and sustain optimal performance of race cars. Until recently, getting at and analyzing that essential data was a laborious affair that could take hours, and only once the race was over. Today, with the help of Microsoft Fabric, Enzo Morrone, director of operations for Porsche Cup Brasil (pictured), says he and his team of engineers can access that data in real-time during races, transforming everything.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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A Great Sales Pitch Hinges on the Right Story

Harvard Business Review

When you’re working in sales, you need to master the art of persuasion and that involves being able to tell a compelling story that explains why your product or service will meet someone’s needs. It involves listening, making an emotional connection, and thinking from the customer’s point of view. The earlier you can learn how to communicate in this way, the faster you will likely grow in your role.

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La Comunidad de Madrid busca, a través de una alianza con Microsoft, impulsar la IA en los servicios públicos

CIO

La C omunidad de Madrid busca, a través del protocolo de colaboración firmado con Microsoft, impulsar la modernización de los servicios públicos, mejorar la personalización de la atención al ciudadano y optimizar los procesos administrativos gracias a la aplicación de la inteligencia artificial (IA). El acuerdo, rubricado por Miguel López-Valverde, consejero de Digitalización del Ejecutivo regional, y Alberto Granados, presidente de Microsoft España, contempla el trabajo conjunto en la definició

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HHS Launches $50 Million ARPA-H Program to Improve Hospital Cybersecurity

Ooda Loop

In the wake of the Ascension and Change/United Healthcare ransomware attacks, The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) recently “announced the launch of the Universal PatchinG and Remediation for Autonomous DEfense (UPGRADE) program, a cybersecurity effort that will invest more […]

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VMware Cloud on AWS – here today, here tomorrow

CIO

Customers around the world have seamlessly migrated their enterprise applications to VMware Cloud on AWS to combine the scale and agility benefits of public cloud with the security, resiliency, and performance benefits of private cloud. VMware first launched this offering with AWS almost seven years ago and it continues to serve customers’ needs today.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Kafka

Without proper guidance, it’s easy to miss out on Kafka’s full capabilities. While not the easiest technology to optimize, Kafka rewards those willing to explore its depths. Under the hood, it is an elegant system for stream processing, event sourcing, and data integration. Download this white paper to learn the 10 critical rules that will help you optimize your Kafka system and unlock its full potential.

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Prowling the Wilds — Upgrade Your SOC and Hunt Down Threats

Palo Alto Networks

It would be nice to imagine our SOC analysts as the apex predators of the IT jungle, stalking the network perimeter and tracking the scent of trespassing attackers. But, for most SOCs and their analysts, that’s far from the reality of their operations. Most are overwhelmed by data points and ill-equipped to correlate and analyze them. Analysts, who wish they could proactively hunt down threats and remediate vulnerabilities, are too busy churning through alerts and documenting false positives.

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A Glance at the Intelligent Network Plans from Huawei Analyst Summit 2024

CIO

In today’s digital economy, networks are the backbone of digital productivity. They are crucial in enabling the intelligent transformation of industries by facilitating high-quality digital services. These networks cover all the scenarios of enterprise services, including the access network, the transport network in the wide area, and the data center network.

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Spreading The Risk: How To Strategically Diversify For Sustainable Company Growth

Crunchbase News

In the risky realm of entrepreneurship, putting all your eggs in one basket can lead to precarious situations, both in your short-term commercial success and your long-term growth trajectory and exit potential. As companies expand, they often face increased risks due to over-dependence on limited customers, geographic markets, supply chains and more.

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IBM previews watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java Applications

InfoWorld

IBM has previewed its upcoming watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java Applications at its annual Think conference. The generative AI -based code assistant is aimed at accelerating Java application lifecycle with capabilities such as code generation, code explanation, and test generation, underpinned by IBM’s open source Granite family of large language models (LLMs).

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Megadeals Explode Early In The Year As US Startups Gobble Up More $100M+ Rounds

Crunchbase News

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. Although venture funding seems to be stagnating , more and more startups seem to be having an easier time securing really big funding rounds — that seemed to dry up last year — from investors.

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C# 13 enhances params, introduces extension types

InfoWorld

C# 13, a planned update to Microsoft’s popular general purpose language for.NET development, is set to enhance params parameters to give developers more flexibility, and to introduce extension types, a new kind of type that provides extension members for an underlying type. Microsoft detailed the plans for C# 13 on May 21. Beginning with C# 13, the params parameter type can be any of the types used with collection expressions such as Span<T> , List<T> , and IEnumerable<T>

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OpenSSF Siren: Security for One, Security for All

DevOps.com

The OpenSSF Siren is a fresh, new take on ye old security mailing list.

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Microsoft Copilot Studio to build AI agents

InfoWorld

Microsoft revealed at its Build 2024 developer conference today that it was working to enable new agent building capabilities in Microsoft Copilot Studio, the company’s low-code tool for creating copilots. “Developers provide their copilot with a defined task, equip it with the necessary knowledge and actions, post which the Copilot Studio orchestrates dynamic workflows and acts behind the scenes to integrate them to automate the task,” Charles Lamanna, Microsoft corporate vice president of busi

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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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New Machines For A New World

Dell EMC

How AI is turning data into "wisdom we’ve never had before.

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Microsoft Azure AI gains new LLMs, governance features

InfoWorld

Microsoft today at its annual Build conference introduced several updates to Azure AI , the company’s cloud-based platform for building and running AI applications. Azure AI competes with similar offerings from rival cloud providers such as AWS, Google, and IBM. The updates include the addition of new governance features, new large language models (LLMs) , and Azure AI Search enhancements.

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Introducing Confluent Cloud OpenSearch Sink Connector

Confluent

Confluent’s OpenSearch Sink Connector lets you easily send events to AWS OpenSearch and others—enabling fraud detection, log analytics, social media monitoring & GenAI w/RAG.

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How to improve cloud-based generative AI performance

InfoWorld

It’s Monday. You come into the office only to be met with a dozen emails from your system development teammates requesting to speak with you right away. It seems that the generative AI-enabled inventory management system you launched a week ago is frustrating its new users. It’s taking minutes, not seconds to respond. Shipments are now running late.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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Scale AI Raises $1B In Accel-Led Round; Hits $13.8B Valuation

Crunchbase News

Scale AI raised $1 billion in a round led by Accel that values the data labeling and evaluation startup at a stunning $13.8 billion. The valuation is nearly double the $7.3 billion the San Francisco-based startup hit after a $325 million raise in April 2021. The new financing included some of the biggest names in tech, with Nvidia , Meta and Amazon all investing.

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Microsoft Azure Copilot moves to public preview

InfoWorld

Microsoft has been polishing up its AI-powered Copilot for Azure for months now, and finally decided it’s ready for everyone to use. A public preview of Copilot for Azure will roll out relatively quickly, over a couple of weeks. If you’re not able to access Copilot for Azure immediately, rest assured you should see it in your Azure Portal soon, where it can help you manage, secure, and tune your Azure cloud infrastructure.

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What To Keep in Mind When Securing Kubernetes Persistent Volumes

Tenable

To many, Kubernetes is a black box that’s difficult to understand, manage and secure. If you’re using stateful persistent volumes – cloud resources that live and manage data outside the scope of your pods – it can be even darker. Many organizations use stateful persistent volumes to provide stable storage for certain applications, such as databases.

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