Wed.Nov 15, 2023

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XOps: Your AI Assembly Line for Safeguarding Long-Term IP

Dataiku

Organizations are moving beyond mere pilot projects and proof of concepts, much like the automotive industry's shift from custom-made vehicles to standardized assembly lines that promote efficiency and scalability. In this blog post, we not only uncover these AI scaling challenges, but also take it one step further while drawing intriguing parallels with the automotive engineering realm.

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CIO as enabler: Building an ecosystem of innovation partners

CIO

There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. The reason for this shift is simple: While CIOs can often call on talented teams of internal IT professionals to deliver business solutions, no technology department can be expected to generate every innovation necessary to

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Neurodiversity and invisible disabilities in Agile

Agile Alliance

Shedding light on the significance of accommodating neurodiversity and providing practical tips for creating an inclusive and effective Agile team. The post Neurodiversity and invisible disabilities in Agile first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Microsoft Ignite 2023: 11 takeaways for CIOs

CIO

This year’s Microsoft Ignite developer conference might as well be called AIgnite, with over half of the almost 600 sessions featuring artificial intelligence in some shape or form. Generative AI, in particular, is at the heart of many of the new product announcements Microsoft is making at the event, including new AI capabilities for wrangling large language models (LLMs) in Azure, new additions to its Copilot range of generative AI assistants, new hardware, and a new tool to help developers de

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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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Cloud Data Security: Encryption at Rest Best Practices

Xebia

Encryption at rest is defined as the practice of encrypting data stored in any type of volume when not in transit. While the benefits of encryption at rest are often clear for on-premises drives and portable devices, it can be challenging to discern the added value for Cloud resources. This document is a high-level overview of good reasons to make it a standard practice.

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What CEOs Need to Know About the Costs of Adopting GenAI

Harvard Business Review

CEOs must not overlook the intricacies of genAI costs. CEOs must integrate the multifaceted costs into their strategic vision, acknowledging nuances such as inference cost, fine-tuning cost, prompt engineering cost, cloud expenses, talent costs, and operation costs. Additionally, CEOs need to be vigilant about often overlooked expenses, including infrastructure overhaul, data security, and ethical considerations.

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Illuminating the black box: why CIOs should consider publishing an annual IT report

CIO

This article was co-authored by Ishan Prakash , a Manager at Metis Strategy. The black box For decades IT has been a black box—an obscurity of inner workings mostly just accepted by the firm. But that paradigm is changing and not least because IT itself has changed. Once relegated to a role of support, the function now can inform entire strategies as critically as it does key processes or core products.

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Cutting Costs, Boosting Efficiency: The Economic Benefits of Framework-Defined Infrastructure

DevOps.com

Understanding the role of framework-defined infrastructure in defining and automating infrastructure—and its impact on the development experience in open source frameworks—is crucial.

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Your Company Will Need Remote Work as Extreme Weather Gets Worse

Harvard Business Review

Remote-work-readiness is an important form of flexibility that companies need to consider. The Covid-19 pandemic made this clear, but research shows that it is true of other forms of unexpected disruptions, too. Extreme weather events are harder on companies that aren’t able or prepared to work from home. As those events become more frequent, the ability to work remotely will become more important.

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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

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Software Architecture Design Patterns for Serverless System

Dzone - DevOps

Since the concept of a “ serverless ” system is gaining traction, you’re likely to develop curiosity in this regard. But, it isn’t a big deal to understand the reasons for it. With an assurance of flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, the serverless system brings a paradigm shift in the software development arena. As more and more users tend to go with serverless architecture, the need for efficacious serverless design patterns is getting higher and higher day in and day out.

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To Prove Your Company Isn’t Greenwashing, Endorse Smart Regulation

Harvard Business Review

Whether you call it propaganda or greenwashing, companies have long used marketing to tout the good they do for the environment while obfuscating any negative externalities of their businesses. However, thanks to the rise of the internet and social media and the proliferation of data on ESG performance, consumers (and employees) are now acutely aware of whether organizations are actually practicing what they preach.

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Identity primer for developers: How to get started

Netlify

Netlify and Auth0 by Okta have partnered to support your Identity and Access Management journey. Read on and learn how to get started.

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Balancing Your Team’s Workload

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Consider these five criteria when distributing work to your high-performing team. Another key task as the leader of a high performing team is how you distribute and balance work across the members of that team. It needs to be done fairly. Note, I didn’t say equally. Work allocation needs to be done fairly because you want perceptions of equality and you want people to work on things they’re good at but also that they’re excited by.

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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 Paternity Leave Helps Dads’ Brains Adapt to Parenting

Harvard Business Review

Parenting is not as “instinctual” as previously believed. While decades of research have focused on the maternal brain, revealing fascinating changes that train the brain for the demands of keeping a small human alive, new research on the paternal brain shows similar changes. And these changes happen even though fathers do not have the physical experiences of pregnancy, birth, and the related hormone shifts.

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The Use Case for Generative AI-Powered Sales Prospecting: Personalizing Outreach and Boosting Sales

Perficient

Perficient’s Generative AI Lab, part of our larger Generative AI Innovation Group, is consistently exploring and implementing use cases for generative AI and helping clients operationalize it with policies, advocacy, controls, and enablement. One use case organizations can consider is augmented research for sales prospecting, which allows sales professionals to find valuable prospects quickly and generate personalized and effective sales reports and outreach content.

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Architecture Patterns: API Gateway

Dzone - DevOps

What Is an API Gateway? An API Gateway is a tool that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from servers or microservices. It manages, routes, aggregates, and secures the API requests. Like previous patterns we have explored, this is often described as a “microservices context” pattern, but this is not necessarily the case.

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To Achieve Net Zero, We Need to Think Like Hockey Players

Dell EMC

Dell Technologies is focused on net zero goals, and we want to help communications service providers and enterprise edge customers do the same.

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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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MuleSoft: Anypoint Mule Gateway vs. Anypoint Flex Gateway vs. Anypoint Service Mesh

Dzone - DevOps

In this article, I would like to do a comparison study of MuleSoft Anypoint Gateway Runtimes — Mule Gateway , Flex Gateway , and Service Mesh. I will take you through key differences and commonalities (high-level — not at code- or configuration-level) among these gateway options.

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The Internet of Things: Development and Examples

Apiumhub

Introduction The Internet of Things (IoT) is not just a buzzword; it’s a transformative technology that has been reshaping our world for the past few decades. In essence, IoT is a network of interconnected devices and objects equipped with sensors, software, and communication capabilities, enabling them to collect and exchange data. The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a disruptive force, revolutionizing how we interact with technology and transforming our living spaces and urban landsc

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Instant Microservices: Rules for Logic and Security

Dzone - DevOps

In this article, see how to build a complete database system, in minutes instead of weeks or months: An API , and, we'll add UI and logic to make it a microservice Logic and security: Multi-table constraints and derivations, and role-based security An Admin app: And finally, a multi-page, multi-table web app We'll use API Logic Server (open source), providing:

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Dell and Druva Power Innovation Together

Dell EMC

Dell’s APEX Backup Services has reduced data protection costs and complexity for more than 1,000 customers.

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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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Tenable Nessus Scanner Capabilities Receive Red Hat Recognition

Tenable

The Red Hat Vulnerability Scanner Certification for Tenable Nessus represents our commitment to continue providing customers with visibility into their Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. Read about what this means and how it benefits our customers. Tenable is proud to announce that it has received the Red Hat Vulnerability Scanner Certification. This certification recognizes that the Tenable Nessus scanner has been tested and certified to meet the high standards of Red Hat's certification program

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The Power of Selfless Leadership

Harvard Business Review

If you’re trying to become a more self-aware leader, this episode is for you.

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Influencing Shopping Lists with Gen AI for Consumer Goods

Perficient

What makes a consumer buy a product from one brand over another? The answer used to be brand loyalty and quality of product, but the landscape for consumer goods companies has recently flipped upside down. Anymore, consumer goods companies gain and retain loyalty from customers because of the experiences they provide. Thankfully, generative AI has brought about the acceleration of experience creation and allowed companies to dive into new levels of personalization.

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SEC vs. SolarWinds: A Cybersecurity Game Changer for CISOs

Aqua Security

As winter winds swept across the US this month an even colder wind swept through offices of organizations everywhere, as the SEC brought charges against SolarWinds Corporation and its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). With one simple indictment the lives of CISOs everywhere changed (even if they may not know it yet) as the consequences of this have started to raise what may become the redefining of the CISO role.

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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.

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GitHub Aims to Expand Copilot Scope and Reach in 2024

DevOps.com

GitHub's Copilot Workspace will leverage generative AI to automatically propose a plan for building an application based on natural language descriptions.

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CodeSOD: Mapro

The Daily WTF

Steinin was doing some work for a company that needed some geographic information systems work done. Steinin was just the programmer, and was no expert on the algorithms they needed implemented, and so asked for some references on how to implement them. They handed him this C code. # define get(l, row, col) (parm.seg ? (segment_get(l.seg, &v, row + l.row_offset, col + l.col_offset) < 1 ?

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The Risks of Rebranding

Harvard Business Review

Brands are constantly changing to “stay fresh,” but that’s often a mistake.