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A case study of getting out of the costs bottleneck

Martin Fowler

Sofia and Stefania begin their examination of how to get out of the bottleneck of surging cloud costs by relating a case study from a recent client - illustrating how the cost control can be separated into reduce and sustain phases.

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Invoking IT to help revitalize Indigenous languages at risk of extinction

CIO

The Miami-Illinois language of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma (Myaamiaki tribe) fell dormant during the 19th and 20th centuries, at a time when Indigenous populations faced forced relocations and abusive boarding schools, where children were forced to assimilate and were punished for using their own language. It wasn’t until the 1990s that Indigenous rights were recognized by the US government, along with the right to their heritage, language, and culture.

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Exploring Gen AI: When is in-line assistance useful?

Martin Fowler

The most widely used form of coding assistance in Thoughtworks at the moment is in-line code generation in the IDE, where an IDE extension generates suggestions for the developer as they are typing. Birgitta Böckeler looks at the factors that impact the usefulness of these suggestions, indicating where they lead to safe waters, and the rocks that we need to look out for.

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IT services company Atos finalizes plan for IBM-style split

CIO

IT services company Atos has found a buyer for its legacy managed infrastructure services business as it prepares for an IBM-style split between faster- and slower-growing activities. The deal will spell an end to the current one-stop shop for IT services that it offers its enterprise customers, but will free up capital and cash-flow for it to invest in more modern activities: digital transformation , smart digital platforms, cloud technology, cybersecurity, high-performance computing and AI.

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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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Using DynamoDB as a Cache

Xebia

Caching is a useful technique to improve performance or avoid overload of services. There are many solutions available, and in AWS one of them is using DynamoDB. Using DynamoDB as a cache to store data with a limited time to live (TTL) made sense in our use case. We were already using the database for client data. Using it as a cache allowed us to limit the number of services we needed expertise on.

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History of Fiber Optics

The Crazy Programmer

Anyone who is interested or has paid close attention to communications and networking technologies knows exactly how meteoric the fiber optic cables rise was. They are adopted widely as the most durable, efficient, and cost-efficient alternative to traditional copper cables. Besides, these cables are used for various applications that include networking, audio and visual setups, and more.

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Generative AI usage gains traction among enterprises: McKinsey

CIO

The usage of generative AI across enterprises is already widespread, although it is still early days for the new technology, according to a report from McKinsey’s AI consulting service, Quantum Black. The report is based on an online survey conducted in April, which received responses from 1,684 participants globally across multiple industry sectors, company sizes, and functional specialties.

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Into the Wild: Infobest Teams Unleash Fun and Adventure at TOR 2023!

InfoBest

Picture this: It’s a sunny summer weekend, and you find yourself racing through the spectacular Romanian Mountains with your awesome friends and colleagues. Sounds like the ultimate adventure, right? Well, for all of us nature-loving, thrill-seeking, and competition-hungry folks, there’s only one answer – the Team Outdoor Race (TOR) is THE place to be!

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Broadcom’s Approach Towards Delivering Customer Value

CIO

At Broadcom, we make business decisions driven by what will bring customers the most value. The idea is simple: We tailor our innovations and solutions to their needs over the long term and equip them with the tools they need to drive outcomes. So, how do we make that happen? We listen to our customers. We co-create with them, and we invest in continuously addressing their needs.

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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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Using AI to Build Stronger Connections with Customers

Harvard Business Review

As companies learn to use generative AI to create value, there’s a risk that they take the wrong approach when applying the technology to the customer experience. In fact, research shows AI can help boost customer satisfaction when it’s used to offer customers more personalized solutions or to help human employees provide better service than they would without the technological assist.

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This is the easiest AI strategy decision you’ll ever make

CIO

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Years before the meteoric adoption of ChatGPT made AI top of mind for just about everyone, the authors of Competing in the Age of AI had already pointed out something every business leader should ignore at their peril: In traditional operating models, scale inevitably reaches a point at which it delivers diminishing returns.

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Microsoft Viva pilot programs: Overhaul your employee experience while mitigating risk

Perficient

Most senior leadership today is at least partially focused on ensuring that their organizations culture, productivity, and employee engagement are keeping pace with the competition. Microsoft Viva has emerged as a cost-effective and tightly-integrated suite of tools that allows companies to provide pointed solutions for many employee experience challenges.

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AI-Guided Remediation: Unify Teams and Speed Vulnerability Resolution

Aqua Security

The Urgent Need for Rapid Remediation The window of vulnerability after the discovery of a security issue has never been more critical than it is with cloud native applications. Why is that? Cloud apps move fast. With modern CI/CD processes, code can be pushed to production multiple times per day. This means that security gaps stemming from vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other issues can be opened equally as fast.

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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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DOCSIS 4.0 Interop·Labs Event Draws Excellent Participation

CableLabs

For the first time since we published the DOCSIS® 4.0 specifications in 2020, the DOCSIS community recently came together for an Interop•Labs event. With Kyrio support, CableLabs hosted the interop July 17–21 at our headquarters in Louisville, Colorado. The event was a success on multiple fronts, and I was particularly excited by the strong turnout from suppliers and operators.

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Top 5 Ways Virtual Reality is Improving Healthcare Outcomes

Daffodil Software

In the not-so-distant past, virtual reality (VR) was mainly associated with gaming and entertainment. However, today, VR has become a driving force in the healthcare industry, along with other significant healthcare technology trends.

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Bits

TechBeacon

After more than eight years of delivering news and views in the enterprise-tech space, TechBeacon will be sunsetting for the indefinite time being. For those last eight years, despite changing ownership twice and weathering a variety of other changes, TechBeacon has continued to go strong — publishing content that we are proud and pleased to stand behind.

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Automatic Instrumentation for OpenTelemetry Go

Honeycomb

The OpenTelemetry Go project now supports automatic instrumentation via eBPF ! This is a big milestone for the project and makes it significantly easier to generate data from your Go apps: The agent is a drop-in for any running application, meaning you don’t need to redeploy to get data The agent automatically detects libraries you’re using and instruments them The agent supports net/http, gRPC, gin, and MUX instrumentation today The automatic instrumentation agent is still in s/alpha/beta today

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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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The Ultimate Guide To Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Pricing

CloudZero

Google Cloud released Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as a commercial version of native Kubernetes (K8s). GKE promises a user-friendly, reliable, and cost-effective service. Yet, calculating GKE costs can be daunting, including how to understand what you're paying for and how to maximize your return on investment.

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How Do I Run My Go Applications in a Serverless Way - Part 2

Dzone - DevOps

The first part of this series introduced you to the AWS Lambda Go API Proxy , and how its framework/package-specific adapter implementations (for gorilla/mux , echo and net/http ) allows you to run existing Go applications as AWS Lambda functions fronted by Amazon API Gateway. If you haven't already, I encourage you to take a look at it in order to get a basic understanding of the AWS Lambda Go API Proxy.

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The Art of Mental Toughness: How Extraordinary Individuals Thrive in the Face of Adversity

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Explore the transformative journey towards enduring discomfort and uncertainty. Discover the techniques extraordinary individuals use to develop mental resilience. Embrace voluntary hardship and self-accountability to unlock your hidden potential for success. Today’s guest post is by Polina Marinova Pompliano, author of HIDDEN GENIUS: The Secret Ways Of Thinking That Power The World’s Most Successful People (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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Investing in a Robust Cybersecurity Workforce

Palo Alto Networks

As the world’s cybersecurity leader, Palo Alto Networks prioritizes cybersecurity awareness and education so individuals of all ages and backgrounds have the tools to stay safe online. Palo Alto Networks commends the recently released National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy and welcomes the opportunity to work with the Office of the National Cyber Director to implement its vision.

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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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Can Business Transform Primary Health Care Across Africa?

Harvard Business Review

Pan-African health care company mPharma aims to transform community pharmacies into health care centers across the continent.

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Building a Serverless Application on AWS With AWS SAM

Dzone - DevOps

Welcome to this step-by-step guide on building a serverless application on AWS using AWS SAM ( Serverless Application Model ). In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of defining and managing AWS resources, such as AWS Lambda functions, SQS queues, and SNS topics, using SAM template model code. Additionally, we'll set up an event trigger for the Lambda function using the SQS queue , create a new IAM role with the necessary permissions, and deploy the SAM application to AWS.

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#ClouderaLife Employee Spotlight: Shallan Miller

Cloudera

In this Employee Spotlight, we sat down with Shallan Miller and talked about all things event marketing, her path back to this role after the Covid-19 pandemic and her perspective on the importance of cultivating resilience, communication skills, and keeping an open mind. Meet Shallan Miller Shallan is a Senior Marketing Events Manager at Cloudera.

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Lights, Camera, Dell PowerScale + Marvel Studios

Dell EMC

Discover how Dell PowerScale helped Marvel streamline their storage footprint and manage their data faster for movie production.

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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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Sniffing Out SharpHound on its Hunt for Domain Admin

SecureWorks

Type: Blogs Sniffing Out SharpHound on its Hunt for Domain Admin The Secureworks Taegis XDR Tactic Graphs searches for telemetry that can identify the presence of malicious tools used to gain domain administrator access. The Secureworks Taegis XDR Tactic Graphs searches for telemetry that can identify the presence of malicious tools used to gain domain administrator access.

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How Companies Can Adapt to More Government Intervention

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with HBS professor Willy Shih about a new era of industrial policy.

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How do cybersecurity professionals influence industry standards? A Q&A with CIS Benchmark contributors

Lacework

When it comes to creating standards for cybersecurity, several of our team members at Lacework aren’t just bystanders — they have a direct hand in shaping those guidelines.