Fri.Apr 12, 2019

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A simple, effective test automation strategy

Xebia

In my whitepaper I wrote about different types of testing and what to consider when choosing a test automation strategy. More than a few readers asked how to put this advice into practice, and a good friend inspired me to write another blog post about it. DevOps teams automate everything. When you’re getting started with test automation, it’s […].

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Why Less Communication is Better!

scruminc

“People were saying that groups needed to communicate more. Jeff (Bezos) got up and said, ‘No, communication is terrible!’” Alan Deutschman, 1 Aug 2014, Fast Company. The reason for this is that more communication doesn’t scale while just enough communication is essential to high performance of a team and particular teams of teams. More meetings and more reports cause higher decision latency, the primary cause of project failure.

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CloudBees Allies with Atos to Accelerate DevOps Adoption

DevOps.com

In a move that should accelerate adoption of best DevOps practices in the enterprise, CloudBees and Atos announced this week that the two are collaborating to advance adoption of continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platforms on the Google public cloud. Announced at the Google Cloud Next 2019 conference, the alliance will result in the IT services […].

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Technical Skills

Ron Jeffries

A couple of people asked me to list all the technical skills required in order to do Agile Software Development. I can't do that, but I can do this.

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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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How Feature Flagging Transforms Teams and Supports DevOps

LaunchDarkly

Originally published on The New Stack on 27 February 2019. Move fast, don’t break things. Delight the customer. Meet SLAs that limit downtime to absolute minimums. Keeping pace with the customer expectations and the competition today is a tall order. Releasing more, faster is risky, and can transfer undue burden from development to operations and even business teams within an organization.

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With AI ramping up, it's time to rethink 'data temperature'

TechBeacon

Data temperature is a metaphor for how close to the CPU your data is. Data on tape is perhaps the coldest, while data in volatile memory—the familiar random-access memory (RAM) that all computers have—is the hottest.

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Tax Day IT Lessons, or How to Avoid Wiping Out on Your Biggest Day of the Year

DevOps.com

This time last year, as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) geared up for its biggest day of the year, a firmware bug deep in its storage network was waiting to take down the system. When Tax Day arrived, the onslaught of last-minute filers triggered a systemwide outage that lasted 11 hours and forced the IRS […]. The post Tax Day IT Lessons, or How to Avoid Wiping Out on Your Biggest Day of the Year appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Customer Experience is a Team Sport

IDC

Customer Experience (CX) will have a greater influence over future purchase decisions, say 93% of tech buyers. CX improvement must become a top initiative for CMOs or marketing will be the proverbial canary in the coal mine – the first to be blamed if the pipeline erodes due to customers’ poor experience. The CMO’s conundrum? Marketing can’t do this alone.

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The Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2019: Taking the Right Steps Toward AI Success

DataRobot

This week, two U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would require large companies and specialist data traders to assess and manage the risks associated with automated decision systems.

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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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Kubernetes Tutorial on Rolling Deployments

Gorilla Logic

In my previous blog posts , I have talked about how to deploy a Spring Boot App in a Kubernetes cluster. You already know the fundamental concepts about K8s (Kubernetes), such as Nodes, Pods, and services. In this Kubernetes tutorial, I will introduce you to a new one: rolling updates. Users regularly have the same expectation: that their applications be available all the time.

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Data & Deep Learning: Embracing the Art of the Possible

Dell EMC

I’m often surprised to find companies that continue to invest in data strategies that fail to respond to their business needs. They are taking a page from an old playbook and expect it to work in their new, rapidly evolving environments. They’re trying to forge a new path with an old map, which won’t help them keep pace with competitors, continue to innovate or ultimately grow their businesses.

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Money can’t buy happiness — or job satisfaction

DXC

Happiness in a job depends on a combination of factors, including whether the position fits with your skill set and interests, how it meets your expectations (and how you’re meeting the organization’s expectations), the salary and perks, growth potential, culture, and relevance to the enterprise’s core strategic mission. It’s a very individual thing.

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GFI Top Cyber Stories for March 2019

TechTalk

GFI Top Cyber Stories for March 2019 With so much cybersecurity news flying around, it is hard to keep track of the more important stories that emerged. Here is the GFI Security round-up of three pertinent cybersecurity stories of March 2019. Citrix breach leaks 6TB of data In early March, collaboration and cloud giant Citrix […].

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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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The Secret to Success in a Digital World

Dell EMC

Henry Ford once said, ‘before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.’ Most, if not all business leaders will agree that getting ready; having a plan; being on offense vs. defense; all these things will help your business survive and thrive in today’s digital world. Dell Technologies’ recent Digital Transformation Index Study shows that businesses around the globe are thinking about digital transformation, and they’re getting ready to seize the opportunities their data holds.

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Four short links: 12 April 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Automating Statistical Analysis, Chinese AI, Data Sovereignty, and Open vs. Government Licensing. Tea: A High-level Language and Runtime System for Automating Statistical Analysis -- In Tea, users express their study design, any parametric assumptions, and their hypotheses. Tea compiles these high-level specifications into a constraint satisfaction problem that determines the set of valid statistical tests, and then executes them to test the hypothesis.

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Help Your Customers Focus on Their Data

Dell EMC

Dell EMC ECS 3.3 software upgrade helps customers unlock value – and helps you protect your revenue and boost your business Sometimes – in business as well as in life – we put too much emphasis on the wrong thing. Technology is a case in point. It can deliver all kinds of benefits in terms of costs, simplicity and accessibility. But technology is only part of the story – what truly counts is the message – and that’s information.

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Identity is Security: The Art of Adaptation

Sailpoint

If one thing is certain in cybersecurity, it’s that adaptation is the one thing we must all master. Whether it’s new and evolving threats to the latest compliance requirement, the ability to shape shift to fit whatever challenge is next is so important. In reality, it often feels like this. That’s why this BBC article caught my eye this week , which highlights why we may need to rethink our approach to combatting hackers.

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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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7 Types Of Marketing You Can Do Yourself

Strategy Driven

You don’t need to hire a marketing company to promote your business. Whilst creating adverts and designing packaging are probably best left to professionals, there are many other forms of marketing that can be easily DIYed. This could save you money and give you more control over the voice of your brand. Here are just 7 types of marketing that you can do yourself.

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Discover the Value of Training at.NEXT 2019

Nutanix

While.NEXT Conference is known for amazing guest keynotes, rockstar parties, and ample networking, it is also the perfect chance to elevate your career with knowledge and skills from the.NEXT education courses, certification opportunities, and hands-on labs.

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How to Start a Team Building Events Company

Strategy Driven

While most business owners are aware of the fact that their employees play a huge part in the company’s overall success, it has really only been in the past decade or so that business owners have come to appreciate that to its fullest. Not only do you need a staff of properly trained, experienced, and knowledgeable employees, but they also need to work well as a team.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 12th, 2019

High Scalability

Out sick today, but start saving up for that ticket to Mars ( more ):

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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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History of Flight Booking: CRSs, GDS Distribution, Travel Agencies, and Online Reservations

Altexsoft

Through the decades flight reservation was obnoxiously difficult. Since aircraft were presented as a means of public transportation in the early 40s, airlines got thousands of passengers wanting to buy tickets. With the growing number of customers, carriers had to solve numerous tasks to make booking fast, convenient, and operationally easy. As a result, in the 60s, the whole booking process could be done in minutes given that you call a travel agent.

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Windows Server Has Arrived On Linux Academy Cloud Playground

Linux Academy

At Linux Academy, we do not just teach Linux. We teach the whole cloud computing technology stack including working with Linux and Windows in a business environment. Linux Industry Disruption. Recently, Linux has started disrupting some traditional workloads, and it’s honestly thanks to Microsoft which has ported things like SQL servers and the.net framework to run natively on Linux, not to mention the availability of Windows Subsystem for Linux.

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Developer’s Guide to Cognito with Stackery

Stackery

Stackery has a cloud-based app for building and deploying serverless applications , and we use Cognito for our own authentication. This guide will help you set up an authentication back-end for a largely static site. Cognito is AWS’s cloud solution for authentication – if you’re building an app that handles users with passwords, you can use AWS to handle the tricky high-risk security issues related to storing login credentials.

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Strata San Francisco, 2019: Opportunities and Risks

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Balancing risk and reward is a necessary tension we'll need to understand as we continue our journey into the age of data. The Strata Data Conference in San Francisco was filled with speakers talking about opportunity. But those opportunities were balanced against risks—risks that loom large as we discover more powerful ways to apply data using machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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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.