Tue.Aug 29, 2023

article thumbnail

Don’t Build Microservices, Pursue Loose Coupling

DevOps.com

Teams that embrace loose coupling are better equipped to respond to challenges, gain a competitive advantage and adapt to a constantly changing tech landscape.

article thumbnail

Your AI journey: Destined for the ditch?

CIO

Every organization is on an AI journey. Some don’t know they are. Others don’t want to leave home. Very few have a map or a mutually agreed upon destination. And only a tiny fraction have the appropriate shoes. That’s the current state of AI at Global 2000 enterprises, whose behavior set thus far in the AI space appears to be designed more to avoid embarrassment than to maximize value creation.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

High-performance computing on AWS

Xebia

How does High-Performance Computing on AWS differ from regular computing? Today’s server hardware is powerful enough to execute most compute tasks. With common compute resources most (serial) computing challenges can be solved. However, some tasks are very complex and require a different approach. Think of cases that require improved speed and efficiency, ability to handle large datasets and flexibility etc.

AWS 147
article thumbnail

BMC Helix: Leading the charge in Generative AI-driven enterprise service management

CIO

Generative AI is likely the most heavily hyped technology innovation since the World Wide Web during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. And while many companies oversold the internet’s capabilities—at least, at the time—it has undoubtedly transformed enterprise technology and modern life over the past two decades. Generative AI seems to be following the same path.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Kinsing Malware Exploits Novel Openfire Vulnerability

Aqua Security

Aqua Nautilus discovered a new campaign that exploits the Openfire vulnerability (CVE-2023-32315), that was disclosed in May of this year, to deploy Kinsing malware and a cryptominer. This vulnerability leads to a path traversal attack, which grants an unauthenticated user access to the Openfire setup environment. This then allows the threat actor to create a new admin user and upload malicious plugins.

Malware 116

More Trending

article thumbnail

Partnering with Google Cloud to secure your multicloud

Lacework

Today, we celebrate all the phenomenal work that we at Lacework are achieving with Google Cloud. As a cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP), we understand how important it is for cloud security solutions to support multiple organizations, multiple teams, and multiple stages of your application lifecycle across multiple clouds.

article thumbnail

Accelerate change with Value Stream Management

CIO

Interest in Value Stream Management (VSM) has never been higher – and for good reason. VSM is very much driven by digital transformation. Whether it’s a very strategic, top-down transformation initiative, a bottom-up effort to scale a successful pilot, or something in between – every organization is recognizing the need to change the way they operate in order to create and deliver customer value more effectively.

Culture 246
article thumbnail

Spark NLP 5.1: Introducing state-of-the-art OpenAI Whisper speech-to-text, OpenAI Embeddings and Completion transformers, MPNet text embeddings, ONNX support for E5 text embeddings, new multi-lingual BART Zero-Shot text classification, and much more!

John Snow Labs

It’s a well-established principle: any LLM, whether open-source or proprietary, isn’t dependable without a RAG. And truly, there can’t be an effective RAG without an NLP library that is production-ready, natively distributed, state-of-the-art, and user-friendly. This holds true in our 5.1 release! We’re excited to unveil Spark NLP 5.1 with: New OpenAI Whisper, Embeddings and Completions!

article thumbnail

No, SCOTUS Did Not Make Your Company’s DEI Programs Illegal

Harvard Business Review

The most effective approach to DEI is also the best for controlling legal risk: Focus your DEI program on interrupting the bias that’s constantly transmitted through basic business systems. This is how most corporate DEI programs, which typically focus on trainings and tweaks to organizational systems to level the playing field, already work.

article thumbnail

Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

article thumbnail

Elevating enterprise deployment: Introducing an enhanced monorepo experience on Netlify

Netlify

Enterprises continually seek ways to enhance their development strategies to stay ahead of the curve, and monorepos have emerged as an increasingly popular solution.

article thumbnail

Arrange Your Meeting Schedule to Boost Your Energy

Harvard Business Review

Most meeting advice focuses on how to make meetings more effective or how to cut down on the number of meetings you have altogether. But what about how to schedule your meetings alongside other work tasks to best manage your productivity? New research explores this question and finds that many people commit two key errors in organizing their schedules: stacking too many meetings together on the same day or pairing intense meetings with other intense tasks.

Meeting 97
article thumbnail

5 Microservices Design Patterns Every DevOps Team Should Know

DevOps.com

Understanding and applying these five key microservices design patterns can help you design more scalable, reliable and maintainable applications.

article thumbnail

Planbox Fuels ESA’s Journey Towards Standardized Innovation

Planbox

ESA taps Planbox to institutionalize innovation, aligning with ISO 56002 standards to strengthen its competitive advantage. Wilmington, Delaware — Planbox, the pioneering agile innovation management platform, has been selected by Environmental Science Associates (ESA), a 100% employee-owned environmental consulting firm with over 50 years of experience, to standardize and scale its innovation efforts and unlock the full potential of ESA’s innovative spirit.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

What Can Identity Teams Take From Data Management? Start With an Identity Data Catalog

Radiant Logic

The post What Can Identity Teams Take From Data Management? Start With an Identity Data Catalog appeared first on Radiant Logic.

Data 98
article thumbnail

Talks With Software Development Experts Initiative – Part 3

Apiumhub

Welcome to the third and last part of our Talks With Software Development Experts series. As we have mentioned before, this initiative is a section where we interview software engineers and industry experts to learn more about their professions, efforts, hobbies, and perspectives on a variety of tech-related issues. Today we bring you four interviews with software development experts that are worth watching.

article thumbnail

Failures Are Experiments, Not Failures

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

There’s a difference between experiencing failure and being a failure. Some of the greatest lessons come from failing – but only if you’re willing to learn them. Today’s post is by Shawn Hunter, author of Small Acts of Leadership ( CLICK HERE to get your copy). On March 2, 1962, Wilt “the Stilt” Chamberlain had the highest scoring NBA basketball game of all time.

article thumbnail

Flink in Practice: Stream Processing Use Cases for Kafka Users

Confluent

Apache Flink can be used for multiple stream processing use cases. Learn how developers can use Flink to build real-time applications, run analytical workloads or build real-time pipelines.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

As Social Networks Get More Competitive, Which Ones Will Survive?

Harvard Business Review

How Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube compete to attract audiences and creators.

Social 91
article thumbnail

Edge Triumphs: Conquering Challenges, Unleashing Potential

Dell EMC

Manage applications securely, efficiently and at scale. The future of edge operations is here with Dell NativeEdge.

article thumbnail

Spark NLP 5.1: Introducing state-of-the-art OpenAI Whisper speech-to-text, OpenAI Embeddings and Completion transformers, MPNet text embeddings, ONNX support for E5 text embeddings, new multi-lingual BART Zero-Shot text classification, and much more!

John Snow Labs

It’s a well-established principle: any LLM, whether open-source or proprietary, isn’t dependable without a RAG. And truly, there can’t be an effective RAG without an NLP library that is production-ready, natively distributed, state-of-the-art, and user-friendly. This holds true in our 5.1 release! We’re excited to unveil Spark NLP 5.1 with: New OpenAI Whisper, Embeddings and Completions!

article thumbnail

7 Fundamental Steps to Complete a Data Analytics Project

Dataiku

It's hard to know where to start once you’ve decided that, yes, you want to dive into the fascinating world of data, analytics, and AI. Just looking at all the technologies you have to understand and tools you’re supposed to master can be dizzying. What data science steps do you take first?

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

CodeSOD: Serialization and Deserialization

The Daily WTF

Over 15 years, an intranet application with a small userbase has gradually become "mission critical" The original developers and all of the maintainers have been folks who didn't have any software development experience, beyond "I took a bootcamp once ten years ago" and "I can do Excel macros" At least they didn't 15 years ago , but over the past 15 years, it's turned into some people's full time job.

article thumbnail

A Comprehensive Guide to Implementing BDD testing in Katalon Studio

Perficient

This article will explore how we can perform BDD testing in Katalon Studio. We will dive into creating a BDD Feature file and Step Definition file in Katalon Studio for a test case and perform execution of the test by two methods: Directly running the Feature file and utilizing in-built Keywords to run it from the Test Case. As we delve deeper, we’ll look into the concept of parameterization in BDD testing by using it in our test case.

Testing 52
article thumbnail

How to Hire Remote Tech Talent: 101 Guide

TurnKey Labs

The shift towards remote work is more than just a temporary trend; it’s the new normal. With the digital age propelling us into an interconnected world, hiring has transformed too. Businesses, now more than ever, are realizing the importance of widening their recruitment lens to encompass the global stage.

article thumbnail

Supercharging Productivity in Microservice Development With AI Tools

Dzone - DevOps

Building APIs and their related components is often a tedious task, especially when dealing with complex data models and architectures like microservices. Repetitive coding, setting up the configurations, and the overhead of building unit tests can quickly become time-consuming. Here's how AI tools, like ChatGPT, can be a game-changer. Harnessing AI Tools (Chat GPT) In API Development To understand the capabilities of ChatGPT, let's dive into a hands-on example.

ChatGPT 52
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Perficient Recruiters Squash Job Search Anxiety

Perficient

Job Searching Can Feel Like a Job Job searching can be a job in and of itself! It requires immense effort to polish your resume, research a company and find a position that speaks to you. While the prospect of a new opportunity, better compensation, and improved work-life balance can be enticing there are several hurdles that ought not be ignored when making a job switch.

article thumbnail

New partnership announcement

Praxent

ISI partners with Praxent to help insurers boost efficiency, retention, and customer acquisition Praxent , a financial services digital experience consultancy and development firm with more than two decades of experience, today announced that it has partnered with Insurance Systems Inc. (ISI) to offer custom digital experiences for insurers. “As new digital competitors continue to flood the market, the seamless, user-friendly portal implemented by ISI and Praxent helps us stay ahead.

article thumbnail

Confluent Awarded a Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year

Confluent

Confluent deepens ties with Google Cloud, winning "Technology Partner of the Year" for Data & Analytics. This collaboration lets firms stream data into Google Cloud, emphasizing the vital role of cloud marketplaces for customer needs.