Fri.Feb 08, 2019

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CXOs Overestimating DevOps and Continuous Testing Maturity

DevOps.com

More work is needed to achieve continuous testing, Forrester report shows Forrester recently completed an interesting new research project exploring what separates DevOps leaders from DevOps laggards. After analyzing data collected from 603 global enterprise respondents responsible for their firms’ DevOps strategies, Forrester learned that firms with the most mature DevOps practices do several key […].

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How to Hire for Values and Retain 87% of Your Employees

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Picture this. You have shortlisted 2 stellar candidates running for a position in your company. On paper, both have a great deal of relevant experience, solid education, and some praiseful references to back things up. One of them will soon become an A+ player introducing all sorts of initiatives making a tangible impact on the company’s bottom line.

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Making the Turn: 10 Warning Signs You aren’t Shifting from Founder to Leader

N2Growth Blog

By Thomas Brattle Gannett and Dr. Greg Giuliano. You came up with an awesome idea. Your singular focus has been to make it real. You started a company. You got funding. Maybe you’re looking for Series B or C funding now. Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. Congratulations! You’re ready to scale or go public. You’ve gotten this far. What could go wrong?

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Fail Fast: How Shifting Security Left Speeds Development

DevOps.com

How DevSecOps can help organizations increase security, move faster and save money With developers under constant pressure to create more software in less time, the last thing you need is for your code to fail at the end of the development lifecycle. No developer wants to create inoperable or insecure code. We know that most […]. The post Fail Fast: How Shifting Security Left Speeds Development appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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 useful Postgres extension: pg_stat_statements

The Citus Data

Extensions are capable of extending, changing, and advancing the behavior of Postgres. How? By hooking into low level Postgres API hooks. The open source Citus database that scales out Postgres horizontally is itself implemented as a PostgreSQL extension , which allows Citus to stay current with Postgres releases without lagging behind like other Postgres forks.

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5 Steps to Prep for Successful K-12 Teacher Evaluations

PowerSchool

There are many ways to approach the K-12 teacher evaluation process. This continuous, year-long evaluation cycle often includes goal setting, mid-year reviews, end-of-year reviews, and informal conversations in between. But ultimately, these evaluations must be valuable to teachers, beneficial to students, and efficient for busy evaluators like you.

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3 ways to put predictive analytics to work in IT Ops

TechBeacon

Predictive analytics can benefit your IT team in many ways, but one that's particularly attractive is the ability to monitor the health or status of an application so that you can predict and respond to application outages.

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Challenge Accepted: An Adventure in Linux Part 2

Linux Academy

Day One- I already cheated. I am 24 hours into the first day of the challenge, and I may have already cheated. Jason’s challenge says to: “ Explore the curated AppCenter and the bundled software to get all of your working and playing done. For email, for music, for coding, for gaming, for whatever.”. I did this and then gave up after I couldn’t find Slack.

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Friday Fun: 2019 Samanage Celebrity Doppelgängers

Samanage

It’s National Doppelganger week! In the past three years since our last doppelgänger post , the Samanage team has grown substantially. Here’s another round of “Hey! Aren’t you from…. ?” with some new, yet still familiar faces. Samanage: Andrew Reinhardt, Manager, Web Development. Doppelganger: Ben Wyatt (Parks & Rec). He is the Yoda of all things web development a t Samanage.

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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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Error'd: Quite Powerful Errors Indeed

The Daily WTF

"I was considering this recorder for my son, but I think 120W might be a bit over the top," writes Peter B. . "Yep, looks like the test works to me," writes Stefan S. . Lincoln K. wrote, "Hertz may have Ultimate Choice(tm) but apparently not Ultimate QA." . "Consider a situation where seven electric vehicle chargers were installed and they were working ok, but monitoring wasn't working so great.

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Reasons why every IoT development company is using.NET?

Xicom

We have been speculating that more and more Internet of Things companies are coming on the scene and the best thing is that they are using.NET as the foundational framework of the most of the IoT mobile apps being created these days. We see that IoT has such a bright future and it is still taking baby steps into the competitive world of apps. Most of the business entrepreneurs or owners are thinking of unique and exceptionally creative ways to tempt the people and win over the hearts of the mobi

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AI reveals 2018’s biggest cyber-threats: Part two — to err is human

Darktrace

In the second installment of a two-part series, Darktrace’s Max Heinemeyer analyzes the rise of deceptive attacks and insider threats that Darktrace AI detected in 2018.

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Make Your Life Easier: Expand the Use of Item Templates on Oracle SCM to Improve Efficiency

Apps Associates

What if I told you there was a way to make the most out of using those Oracle templates for all those attributes you manage in Oracle SCM. Let me show you how you can get the most out of them that will reduce manual error and improve efficiency. One of the fundamental setups in … Continue reading "Make Your Life Easier: Expand the Use of Item Templates on Oracle SCM to Improve Efficiency".

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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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Four short links: 8 February 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Data Explorer, PDP-1 in FPGA, Google's Fuzzer, and Preventing Neophilia. Blazer -- Explore your data with SQL. Easily create charts and dashboards, and share them with your team. FPG-1 -- PDP-1 FPGA implementation in Verilog, with CRT, Teletype, and Console. The PDP-1 was groundbreaking: serial number 0 was delivered to the BBN offices where Licklider would see it as a way forward to his timesharing vision.

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Tests are Reactive: They Pass or They Fail

Net Objectives

A test reacts to everything currently in scope that it does not control. Ideally, that should be only one thing. Everything else in scope must be controlled by the test, or it may react to the wrong thing and give misleading results. For example, if a production entity uses a service call as part of … Continue reading "Tests are Reactive: They Pass or They Fail".

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The Accidental Successful CIO Podcast Now Available!

The Accidental Successful CIO

Good news! The Accidental Successful CIO blog is now being supported by a brand new podcast called (what else) “The Accidental Successful CIO” This new podcast is available on the Anchor podcasting service (just purchased by Spotify!). If you don’t have time to read the latest The Accidental Successful CIO updates, then listen to them!

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Scrumtisch February 2019

Agile42

Dear friends, here's the schedule for the next Scrumtisch in Berlin: Date: 28th of February, 2019 Time: 18:30 Place: agile42, Gruenberger Str. 54, 10245 Berlin If you would like to attend, please send a message to scrumtisch@agile42.com, or register at the Scrum User Group on Xing. We are looking forward to meeting you and seeing you again!

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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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Girl Scouts join global push to 'plant a seed' for women in tech

Enterprise.nxt

A new cybersecurity program teaches girls online safety, while giving them tech confidence.

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5 Steps to Prep for Successful K-12 Teacher Evaluations

PowerSchool

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Four Ways to Overhaul Your Company Website

Strategy Driven

If your company’s been around for a while, it’s likely that your website has been, too. If that’s the case, you may well find that design trends, features and styles have moved on from the point at which you dusted off your finished site. The web design world moves fast – and consumer attention moves faster. If customers arrive on your website to the impression that you’ve not updated it for a number of years, they’ll instantly judge you for it.

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Join our Webinar: How OverOps Stops Bad Releases From Being Promoted to Production

OverOps

How OverOps Stops Bad Releases From Being Promoted to Production. A key challenge in maintaining and accelerating the speed of software delivery is balancing rate of change and reliability. With teams of dozens to hundreds of engineers introducing changes at a high frequency, the ability to identify issues that will have a severe impact early on becomes a critical requirement.

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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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6 Qualities of a Good Boss

Strategy Driven

It is easy to distinguish what makes a bad boss, but describing what makes a good one can be difficult, with many bosses being mediocre. Why is it important that you be a good boss, though? Lack of employee satisfaction may force good workers to leave and provide a bad reputation for both your company and you, as the boss. Online forums and discussions make it extremely easy for businesses to be bad-mouthed and can damage the perception of potential new employees and customers.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 8th, 2019

High Scalability

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Change is always changing. What will the next 5 years look like? Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. It has 35 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you forever. 16,000 : Chrome bugs found with ClusterFuzz; $2,000,000 : for Apple iOS remote jailbreak; $1 million : think twice when profiting from a bug; 0 : clicks to over t

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Ethical Viewpoints & Environmental Investments: Helping Your Business Profit Emotionally (Without Wasting Profit)

Strategy Driven

For every business leader out there, it can feel like stepping into the unknown from time to time, whether we believe we are making wise investments or not. Sometimes we forge a path all of our own, but sometimes we go with the grain. As far as the modern industries are concerned, money is tight, yet we are still expected to comply with numerous rules and regulations.

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Suite on HANA Migration Guide

Protera

Suite on HANA isn’t just a step on the way to S/4HANA — it’s also an important journey in itself, and one that can provide excellent ROI with the proper planning and follow-through. Our Suite on HANA migration guide can help illuminate your path. Define the Case for Suite on HANA Migration. Defining your business case is key to getting maximum value, as is tracking ROI and success in your Suite on HANA migration.

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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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Successful Hardware Strategies for a Software-Dominated World

Dell EMC

Over the last couple of years, we have witnessed a massive transformation in the telecom industry with a shift away from proprietary, expensive IT equipment in favour of standard, cost-efficient computing blocks. Software and Cloud rule Thanks to these open standards, multiple virtual machines and multiple operating systems could be managed on a single, physical IT platform, which enabled software virtualisation.