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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

How long should a Scrum Sprint be? A Scrum Sprint is a short period of time when the Scrum Team works, but there is no hard rule as to how long that should be – in this post, we cover the pros and cons of shorter and longer Sprints and how you can discover what works best for you. Let’s start with the purpose of a Sprint: a fixed period of time for the Team to focus and develop a product with quality high enough that they could release it to the customer.

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TechBeacon

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

With every day seeming to bring news of fresh security breaches, protecting the enterprise seems like an impossible task. Already this year, to name just a few, we've seen 885 million records compromised by malicious actors at First American Financial Corp., 540 million records at Facebook, and more than 100 million records at Capital One.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

For some people, motivation is a difficult thing to possess on the job. As a business owner or manager, there will be many times that you need to get your team motivated. Getting your team ready and motivated to work together is a skill you can learn and practice along the way. Keep reading for our five tips on how to get your team motivated. 1. Set Goals and Celebrate Them.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Agile leadership is the art and craft of creating the right environment for self-managing teams. The book Agile Leadership Toolkit by Peter Koning is a practical book that supports existing agile managers and leaders in growing their agile teams and creating the right environment for them. By Ben Linders, Peter Koning.

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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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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The task of keeping networking straight while expanding the definition of network to include both physical and virtual networking has fallen heavily upon the op-centric side of DevOps–or what I like to call devOPS. What is defined as networking has grown, sometimes at a ridiculous rate. While the terms are familiar, how you manage them […]. The post IoT, AIOps and OMG!

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Read Rob Toews take a long hard look at the long term importance of big data in artificial intelligence on Forbes : No asset is more prized in today’s digital economy than data. It has become widespread to the point of cliche to refer to data as “the new oil.” As one recent Economist headline […].

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Gateways have been an essential piece of three-tier IoT architecture for years. Their traditional spot between the edge and the cloud is in flux as cellular IoT technology rolls out. When are gateways still the right approach? How will gateways go away with cellular IoT? Here’s the trade-off between traditional three-tier and cellular IoT architecture […].

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

I did a double-take last week when Micron Technology, one of the world’s largest memory chip makers, acquired artificial intelligence hardware and software startup Fwdnxt. The move could be very interesting. If it bears fruit, Fwdnxt could bring Micron into direct competition with partners such as Intel and Nvidia, as Micron believes that memory and AI […].

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

God Nisanov is a prominent real estate investor and developer, known for regularly appearing on Forbes lists (#617 for the Billionaires of 2019). Along with Zarakh Iliev, Nisanov owns Kievskaya Ploshchad Group of companies that is ranked #74 of the top 100 private companies in Russia by the Forbes with such projects as largest wholesale […].

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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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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Workflow automation was a predictable focus as Microsoft Ignite kicked off in Orlando, Florida this morning. To this end, the company took the wraps off new cloud-hosted AI, data analytics, and managed database services in preview and announced updates to existing offerings like Azure SQL Database Edge. Perhaps the headliner is Azure Synapse Analytics, a […].

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TechBeacon

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The fight to educate developers is far from over, but the majority of application security specialists believe that their companies and developers now have the policy chops and awareness to secure their software. Unfortunately, most development teams' security tools and controls are failing to meet the need.

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Planbox

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

If your sights are set on continuous innovation and implementing new but ever-changing technology, then it is critical for your business to attract and retain valuable employees. In our previous blog 5 Things Most Innovative Companies Have In Common , we discuss the importance of encouraging and rewarding employees for taking part in the broader workplace culture and sharing their ideas.

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Gitprime

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Four reasons Kubernetes will future-proof your development process, including being self-healing, system agnostic and automatically scalable.

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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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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This is a guest article by a tech writer Mary Hampton. Finding bugs in the software development process is one of the most critical stages. Without doing so, it is impossible to imagine the normal operation of the finished application. The process of finding bugs, analyzing, and solving a problem is a laborious task that can take a lot of time. Today, the market is abundant with different bug search systems, and it is difficult to distinguish one from another and understand which option is bette

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Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

I’ve written about the paradox of the Big Shift – the forces reshaping our global economy are simultaneously creating exponentially expanding opportunity and mounting performance pressure. Here’s the challenge. In a world of mounting performance pressure, we have a natural human tendency to shrink our horizons. We focus only on the short-term. We focus only on ourselves.

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The Crazy Programmer

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In this tutorial, we will learn how to find height and depth of binary tree with program implementation in C++. It is one of the most commonly used non-linear data structures. We will learn about: What is the height of a binary tree? Algorithm and implementation for finding height of Binary tree. What is the depth of a binary tree? Algorithm and implementation for finding depth of Binary tree.

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Take a look at this second set of CI/CD tips. The following is part two of our three-part series, "10 Tips to Improve Automated Performance Testing within CI Pipelines." This week's installment focus is on tips 3-6: keeping tests small and targeted, testing of segments before the whole, automating things that are not flaky, and saving time through smoke testing.

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“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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Dell EMC

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It’s hard to remember now, but attitudes to the public cloud have changed massively in a short period of time. When public cloud services first become available around 2006, most organizations were understandably skeptical. The idea of storing data in a remote location made them uncomfortable. They worried about reliability, security, and the loss of direct control over their applications and data.

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DXC

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Verizon rolled out 5G network service to four cities in October 2018, which I noted last March when I wrote, “Given that 5G is far from ubiquitous, it will be a few years before everyone everywhere is hurtling down the cyberspace fast lane.” Still true! That being said, definite progress has been made in rolling […].

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Nutanix

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Today, we are continuing to deliver on giving customers the most choice, with the general availability of Frame support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This means that our customers can choose to run their Frame desktops and applications on VMs in GCP regions worldwide.

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Samanage

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Technology’s prevalence and our dependence on said technology in the workplace is only growing. It should come as no surprise then that in a recent survey of SolarWinds global customers , more than half * said that organizational leadership views IT as “very important” when it comes to leading digital transformation. According to the same survey, another one-third said IT is at least “somewhat important” in leading this endeavor.

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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.

Coding Dojo

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

If you’re under 40, the future can seem pretty grim. Having to save decades for a house isn’t going to … Read more >>. The post The Smartest Investment Anyone Under 40 Can Make appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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David Walsh

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

So many developers believe that scraping a URL’s content is easy — just a simple curl and you’re done, right? Nope. CAPTCHAs, rate limitations, origin-specific limitations — they make getting content off the web a nightmare. Luckily we now have services like zenscrape which do the heavy lifting for you — the perfect middle man between you and the desired content!

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DataRobot

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

With time-poor consumers, grocery shopping is a hectic but necessary chore. Retailers provide a huge array of choices for every type of product from cereal to dish soaps. With so many options available, grocery shopping can be an overwhelming experience. How can any type of retailer ensure that their customers get the products they need while also having a positive and enjoyable experience?

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Toptal

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

When starting a new React project, you have many templates to choose from. These templates are able to support application development at a very large scale. But they leave the developer experience and bundle output saddled with various defaults, which may not be ideal.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Whether you’re intrigued or skeptical about it, the use of facial recognition technology is growing – and now Fujitsu claims to have developed a way to help track emotions better too. The company’s laboratories have come up with an AI-based technology that can track subtle changes of expression such as nervousness or confusion. Companies like […].

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Kaseya

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Vue Entertainment is part of Vue International, one of the world’s leading cinema operators. It has 86 cinemas in the UK and Ireland, and a strong presence in Germany, Poland, Italy and the Netherlands. Vue has been using Kaseya VSA to manage its point of sale (POS) hardware and related applications for several years. Initially, the retail firm had been using spreadsheets to maintain software information, which turned out to be inefficient and time-consuming.

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InnovationM

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

React v16.0 was released with an update to react core algorithm. This new core architecture is named “Fiber”. Facebook has completely rewritten the internals of React from the ground-up while keeping the public API essentially unchanged, in simple terms it means only changing the engine of a running car. With this release, some new features are also added like Asynchronous Rendering, Portals.

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