Wed.Nov 06, 2019

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Becoming a Data Company: A Tale of Two Trends

DevOps.com

Data is back, baby! Well, that seems like an odd statement. It never quite left. Nevertheless, Google’s recent acquisition of Looker and Salesforce’s acquisition of Tableau seems to highlight this mindset in magnified ways. With eyes set on new leaps in data science and artificial intelligence, it’s easy to understand how our views on data […].

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Three Ways to Raise Your Decision-Making Confidence

Next Level Blog

When you’re the leader, you have to keep things moving. To avoid being the bottleneck that slows your team’s work to a crawl, you need to make decisions on a timely basis. In a fast-paced environment, it can be hard to gather all the information you’d like to have when making important decisions. That can definitely affect your confidence in making the tough calls.

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Who is a QA Tester in the Future?

Dzone - DevOps

How does testing change in the future? To automate or not to automate: that is a never-ending debate. Let's face it: a fast-growing amount of data in software testing and programming leaves no choice but to replace manual practices with more efficient automated solutions. Although it's still not always clear which situations are best suited for automation, the tools are becoming refined and more accurate with each year, while the role of QA automation tester is dropping.

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Diversity and Inclusion: What It Is and Why It Matters

Agile Alliance

Join our conversation with the Agile community about diversity and inclusion. Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) has become increasingly important to the Agile community over the past several years. Indeed, part of Agile Alliance’s mission for many years now has been to ‘create a global and inclusive community’. So just what is D&I? Diversity refers to … Continued.

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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 Most Misunderstood Aspect Of Great Leadership

N2Growth Blog

I was recently asked what I consider to be the most misunderstood aspect of great leadership; in other words, what makes great leaders great? What immediately came to mind is not only misunderstood, but it also happens to be the most often overlooked element of leadership, and the one which also affords leaders the greatest opportunity for personal, professional, and enterprise growth.

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Implementing Message Queue in Kubernetes

DevOps.com

The adoption of Kubernetes as enterprises’ tool of choice is increasing very rapidly. Consequently, the architectural consideration and operational requirements to support production environments have gained increasing attention. A major challenge to consider when planning a scalable microservices architecture (MSA) that is orchestrated by Kubernetes is how to manage the heavy traffic of messages in […].

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8 Tips for More Secure Mobile Computing

CTOvision

Security professionals often talk about the importance of enlisting users as allies in the battle for better security. When it comes to mobile security, that alliance must be a working reality rather than a managerial dream — namely because these handheld machines are typically employee-owned, thus placing their use and precise configuration out of the […].

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Introducing Confluent Cloud on Microsoft Azure

Confluent

Today, we are proud to make Confluent Cloud available to companies leveraging the Microsoft Azure ecosystem of services, in addition to the previous rollouts on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and […].

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With a Laser, Researchers Say They Can Hack Alexa, Google Home or Siri

CTOvision

Since voice-controlled digital assistants were introduced a few years ago, security experts have fretted that systems like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa were a privacy threat and could be easily hacked. But the risk presented by a cleverly pointed light was probably not on anyone’s radar. Researchers in Japan and at the University of Michigan said Monday […].

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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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Using Open Source for Better DevOps Outcomes

DevOps.com

Many insurers have jumped on the DevOps bandwagon in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their systems and systems implementations. Very few insurers, however, spend much time thinking about the open source software community as a way to improve their DevOps approach–and the skills of their developers–and in that regard they’re missing a […].

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DevSecOps Executive Insights

Dzone - DevOps

Here's how the industry feels about DevSecOps. To understand the current and future state of DevSecOps, I gathered insights from 29 IT professionals in 27 companies. Here’s who shared their thoughts: Anne Baker , V.P. of Product Management & Marketing, Adaptiva. Steven Aiello , Solutions Principal, AHEAD. Gadi Naor , Co-founder & CTO, Alcide.

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DevOps at a Distance

DevOps.com

How do you successfully follow DevOps practices when the two parts of your team are 5,000 miles (8,000km) and two time zones apart? Airwallex is a global fintech founded in Melbourne, Australia just four years ago. It is Australia’s fastest-growth tech unicorn with a valuation of over $1 billion thanks in part to investments from […]. The post DevOps at a Distance appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Applying CI/CD to Java Apps Using Spring Boot

Dzone - DevOps

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) is a critical aspect of modern software development that brings efficiency, reliability, and speed to the development lifecycle. CI/CD enables developers to automate the building, testing, and deployment of software, ensuring that changes are integrated smoothly and consistently. In the context of Spring Boot-based Java applications, CI/CD becomes even more crucial.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Dealing with risk when using agile to develop software

WorkingMouse

Risk, it is everywhere and no matter how hard you try, it is impossible to escape. To deal with the inevitable risk that comes with the software development process, we must find ways to identify, mitigate and accurately allocate time to risk.

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Turnover: “It’s not me, it’s you”

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Episode 28. ?Turnover is a huge problem in our industry. There are many reasons people choose to leave their jobs and in this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus dissects the top reasons software professional decide to seek other employment and ways to prevent future turnover from occurring. Show Notes. Technology and software have the highest turnover rate of all industries.

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Five Ways to Train Security Champions in Cross-Functional DevOps Teams

Security Innovation

As organizations seek to better embed security into DevOps and Agile software development, they’re going to need to find better ways of scaling security knowledge across cross-functional teams.

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DevOps Chat: Continuous Delivery at Airbnb

DevOps.com

Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Airbnb is rapidly moving from a monolith Ruby on Rails application to a distributed SOA/Kubernetes architecture in Kubernetes. The new architecture uses self-service codified pipelines and easy webhook integrations, scale adoption and collaboration across the company. Even though continuous integration isn’t new to Airbnb, every team now needs to be able […].

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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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Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure Platform Optimized to run Epic Operational Database and Cogito Databases

Nutanix

Nutanix is currently the #1 deployed HCI solution within the Epic community, with over 20 mutual customers ranging from small hospitals to those with more than 20,000 concurrent users.

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Understanding Software Containers and their Orchestration

Daffodil Software

The modern approach to software development needs more focus on application than infrastructure. This has lead to the introduction of new technologies and platforms that can help in the auto-management of infrastructure. One of the popular approaches that has gained grounds in this concern is software containers.

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More Proof That The Government Should Always Prefer Commercial Off The Shelf Software

CTOvision

You no doubt have heard of the Defense Science Board (DSB). Since its establishment in 1956 it has helped the Department of Defense and entire national security community wrap its head around ways to optimize science and technology in service to critical national issues. Every year they conduct studies on a wide range of issues. […].

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Cover design vote: How Design Makes The World (first round)

Scott Berkun

My next book, which teaches just about everyone how to understand good design , is on the home stretch (release May 2020). Which means it’s time to get your feedback on cover design directions (I’m working with PageTwo Books ). If you haven’t been following along (join the list), Here are the book’s goals: To teach anyone to see people, places and things more like our best designers do.

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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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Tracee: Tracing Containers with eBPF

Aqua Security

T his week at Velocity Berlin, I’ll be giving a talk called A Beginner’s Guide to eBPF. To coincide with it, we’re opening up a new Aqua Security open source project called Tracee , which uses eBPF to trace events in containers. This isn’t something that most developers need to do on a day-to-day basis, but for those of us interested in the details of implementing container security, this can be a helpful tool.

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How Automating IT Processes Saves Time and Reduces Costs

Kaseya

Reducing IT costs has invariably been a major concern for IT departments in small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Even while grappling with budget constraints and having fewer resources at their disposal, they must always strive to add value to the business. Kaseya’s 2019 State of IT Operations Survey Report revealed ‘Reducing IT Costs’ as the second-highest priority among the respondents.

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JavaScript waitForTime

David Walsh

I write a lot of tests for new features within Firefox DevTools. We have hundreds of “mochitests” which open the browser and perform synthetic actions like clicking, typing, and other user actions. I’ve previously written about waitForever which essentially halts following actions without locking the browser. Another utility I enjoy is waitForTime , an async JavaScript function that I can await to give breathing time between two tasks.

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How Ancestry used AI to optimize its microservices apps

TechBeacon

IT has been transformed over the past decade. Microservices and DevOps have accelerated time-to-value for code, and cloud computing has made infrastructure almost completely programmable. Everyone is scrambling to adapt as efficiently as possible to this new landscape.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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California DMV Data Breach Exposed Thousands Of Drivers’ Social Security Information

CTOvision

The California Department of Motor Vehicles said Tuesday that a data breach improperly shared social security information of more than 3,000 drivers with seven governmental agencies. According to the DMV, the data breach happened over the past four years, and the information could have been used in criminal, tax or child support investigations. The DMV said it […].

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The Next Generation of Network Security Is Cloud-Delivered

Palo Alto Networks

By Nir Zuk, Palo Alto Networks founder and CTO. Applications moving to the cloud and increased user mobility are changing the way networking and network security services must be delivered. The future of network security is in the cloud, and this new model is known as a “secure access service edge,” or SASE (pronounced “sassy”). Palo Alto Networks founder and CTO Nir Zuk has been driving this change for the past few years with the Prisma Access product, the industry’s most comprehensive SASE.

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The Next Generation of Network Security Is Cloud-Delivered

CTOvision

Read why Nir Zuk says that the next generation of network security will be cloud-delivered on Palo Alto Blog : In a cloud-driven world, security needs to be unified, consistent and delivered from the cloud that it’s chartered to protect. This statement transcends my entire career in security, which has required constant evolution to keep […].

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