Wed.Jul 29, 2020

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Delivery Experiences Supported by Agile

Agile Alliance

I had the pleasure to interview Diego Garagorry from Montevideo, Uruguay. Diego is a prominent member of the Agile Community in South America and was one of the organizers of the Agiles 2015 Conference in Uruguay. Diego is the current VP of Delivery for Globant, a company that builds software products for multiple clients in … Continued.

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What are AI and machine learning adding to threat intelligence – brains, brawn or both?

CTOvision

Read Ariadna Miret take a look at what artificial intelligence and machine learning bring to threat intelligence on Security Boulevard : Too much information and not enough time. This, and […].

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A Developer’s Guide to CCPA, GDPR Compliance

DevOps.com

Here’s what developers need to know to ensure compliance with the two biggest privacy laws The digital landscape is continuously evolving, and privacy regulations such as CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) and the European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) are in effect to give consumers their fundamental right to data privacy.

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React Test-driven Development: From User Stories to Production

Toptal

Employing a test-driven development (TDD) approach in React projects tends to be straightforward, especially with the aid of Jest and Enzyme. However, there are a few things to look out for. In this article, Toptal JavaScript Developer Dave Hyungmok Lee demonstrates his React TDD process, from epics and user stories to development and production.

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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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Data analytics 101: What it means, and why it matters

TechBeacon

Incorporating analytics into the enterprise toolkit can be straightforward or complex, relatively inexpensive or a multimillion-dollar initiative. It all depends on what you want to accomplish.

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Stop Monday-itis by changing the way you work

CEO Insider

Monday morning strikes fear (or at least a flat mood) into the minds of many. If you are suffering from a case of Monday-itis, browsing employment websites might be overtaking the time spent doing your actual job. But here’s the good news: research conducted by the University of New South Wales and behavioural science consultancy […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Stop Monday-itis by changing the way you work are those of the author Dr.

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Insider Threat: The Biggest Contributor to Cyber Attacks

CTOvision

Read why Pallavi Datta says that insider threat is the biggest contributor to cyberattacks on Security Boulevard : In 2019, a renowned cloud hosting company fell victim to a data […].

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3 Observability Strategies to Reduce Debugging Cycles

DevOps.com

These observability tips can help developers uncover issues that impede performance and derail customer experience Modern technologies and methodologies such as cloud services, containers, DevOps, microservices and serverless have made it easier for organizations to deploy application code to production. However, the additional layers within the modern tech stack have increased complexity, making it more […].

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Google launches its Recommendations AI tool for online retailers

CTOvision

Google LLC said today that its Recommendations AI tool is now publicly available in public beta test mode. Recommendations AI was first announced in private beta in April 2019, and relies […].

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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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Survey: DevOps Haves Benefiting Over Have-Nots

DevOps.com

A global survey of 400 global IT executives and practitioners conducted by Longitude, an arm of Financial Times Group, on behalf of New Relic suggests organizations that have embraced best DevOps practices are starting to enjoy material financial benefits over rivals that have not yet made similar investments in modernizing application development processes.

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Autonomous IT: Less Reacting, More Securing

CTOvision

Read Greg Jensen explains what autonomous IT is on Dark Reading : Artificial intelligence (AI) is a game changer in fighting cybercrime and defending data, and it can be decisive […].

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CodeSOD: A Variation on Nulls

The Daily WTF

Submitter “NotAThingThatHappens” stumbled across a “unique” way to check for nulls in C#. Now, there are already a few perfectly good ways to check for nulls. variable is null , for example, or use nullable types specifically. But “NotAThingThatHappens” found approach: if(((object)someObjThatMayBeNull) is var _) { //object is null, react somehow }. else {.

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Experts: Devastating ransomware attack on Garmin highlights danger of haphazard breach responses

CTOvision

GPS titan Garmin is still recovering from the fallout of the devastating ransomware attack that has crippled its website, disrupted customer support, disabled apps, and paused communications since late July […].

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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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CVE-2020-10713: “BootHole” GRUB2 Bootloader Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Tenable

Recently disclosed vulnerability in GRUB2 bootloader dubbed “BootHole” could allow an attacker to gain silent malicious persistence by attacking the GRUB2 config file, grub.cfg. Background. On July 29, researchers at Eclypsium disclosed a high severity vulnerability in the GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) version 2. Dubbed “BootHole,” the flaw affects the GRUB2 bootloader in Windows and Linux devices using Secure Boot.

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Artificial Intelligence Loses Some Of Its Edginess, But Is Poised To Take Off

CTOvision

Read why Joe McKendrick says that artificial intelligence is poised to take off in a big way on Forbes : More than a decade ago, Nicholas Carr, in his work […].

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ScaleOut Software Announces the Release of ScaleOut StateServer® Pro

DevOps.com

Next-Level Product Integrates Data Analytics with In-Memory Data Storage to Extract More Business Value from Fast-Changing Data BELLEVUE, Wash – ScaleOut Software today announced ScaleOut StateServer® Pro, a new software product release that adds integrated data analytics to the company’s battle-tested ScaleOut StateServer® in-memory data grid (IMDG) and distributed cache to help businesses gain more […].

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The InfoSec Barrier to AI

CTOvision

Read why Praful Krishna says that information security challenges are proving to be a huge barrier for the artificial intelligence ecosystem on Dark Reading: Information security is all about keeping […].

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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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Analysing Changes with Debezium and Kafka Streams

Confluent

Change Data Capture (CDC) is an excellent way to introduce streaming analytics into your existing database, and using Debezium enables you to send your change data through Apache Kafka®. Although […].

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Juniper Networks Brings AI to SD-WANs

DevOps.com

Juniper Networks today announced it can now apply the same artificial intelligence (AI) engine it uses to automate the management of wireless local area networks (LANs) to software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs). Based on an AI engine that Juniper Networks gained when it acquired Mist Systems, the Juniper Mist WAN Assurance cloud service streams telemetry […].

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5 Reasons Organizations Shouldn’t Build Their Own AI Platforms

Dataiku

A colleague recently told me a story about a large US tech company that built its own data science and machine learning (ML) platform. It employed some of the best data scientists and software developers in the world, and yet after three years, the platform was only 50% functional — ML model operationalization was still a struggle.

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How to reduce your reactivity and work more proactively

CEO Insider

Many of us feel like we are working under the constant pressure of urgent issues and deadlines. We feel like we have little control over our time and our priorities, and that we must work reactively to stay in the game. But if we stop and examine what is really happening with our work when […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article How to reduce your reactivity and work more proactively are those of the author Dermot Crowley alone and not the CEOWORLD magazine.

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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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How Online Grocery App Comes As Headturner In The Online Marketplace?

Xicom

Waves Of Opportunity For Online Grocery Apps. DID YOU KNOW! Food sites climbed 33% in search volumes, with big winners like Dominos and Subway seeing 41% to 60% increase respectively. Searches for “online pharmacy” raised to 238 per cent whereas “pharmacy delivery” searches upsurge by 184 per cent. UAE web traffic analysis indicates a trend of users bypassing aggregators to place a food order online.

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Achieving a Self-Securing Infrastructure in Public Clouds

Aqua Security

One thing that most researchers look for when investigating security breaches is whether or not there’s a common element. In the case of security breaches, the kill-chain for almost every cloud security breach we looked at involved the exploitation of misconfigured or mismanaged cloud infrastructure settings. The reason for this is simple; there are just too many settings to track.

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Security bugs and flaws: Both bad, but in different ways

Synopsys

Security flaws are different from bugs, but they endanger the security of applications and systems just the same. Here’s how to find and fix design flaws. The post Security bugs and flaws: Both bad, but in different ways appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Remote Work Raises New Cybersecurity Challenges: Steps to Reshape Your Approach

CTOvision

Read why Jason Dettbarn says that work from home raises new cybersecurity challenges and how to overcome them on Infosec Magazine: Is your organization among the 84 percent of businesses […].

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Types of hard drives: SATA vs. SSD vs. NVMe

Gitprime

There are three different kinds of hard drives: SATA, SSD and NVMe. Learn about each type and what their strengths and weaknesses are.

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IBM: Compromised credentials led to higher data breach costs

CTOvision

The average cost of a data breach has fallen slightly, according to new research from IBM and the Ponemon Institute, but there are concerning — and costly — trends for […].

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Applitools Announces Winners of Ultrafast Cross Browser Testing Hackathon

DevOps.com

Global competition showcases ability for dev teams to execute cross browser tests 30x faster than traditional cloud testing solutions SAN MATEO, Calif., July 29, 2020 — Applitools ([link] provider of a next generation test automation platform through Visual AI and Ultrafast Grid, announced the 100 winners of the Ultrafast Cross Browser Testing Hackathon.

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