Tue.Jul 11, 2023

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7 IT consultant tricks CIOs should never fall for

CIO

Consultants aren’t always held in the highest regard. The 90% who are bad, the old joke goes, ruin it for the rest of us. Knowing the 90%’s tricks of the trade is the canny CIO’s first line of defense. Here are seven of the most pernicious consulting misdeeds you will encounter as an IT leader. 1. Fixing anecdotes Bad stuff happens in even the best-run IT organization.

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Fearing the Wrong Thing

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

There’s a lot of angst about software developers “losing their jobs” to AI, being replaced by a more intelligent version of ChatGPT, GitHub’s Copilot, Google’s Codey, or something similar. Matt Welsh has been talking and writing about the end of programming as such. He’s asking whether large language models eliminate programming as we know it, and he’s excited that the answer is “yes”: eventually, if not in the immediate future.

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One weird trick to accelerate your organization’s generative AI strategy

CIO

Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Ignoring the potential of generative AI to increase productivity is a surefire way to fall behind as an individual, a team, and an organization. You should put it to work as an “eager intern” or “autonomous agent” (or both) ASAP. But positioning yourself, your team, and your organization to get ahead requires some strategic thinking.

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Microsoft’s July 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 130 CVEs (CVE-2023-36884)

Tenable

Microsoft’s July 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 130 CVEs (CVE-2023-36884) Microsoft addresses 130 CVEs including five that were exploited in the wild as zero-day vulnerabilities and guidance on the malicious use of Microsoft signed drivers. 9 Critical 121 Important 0 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft patched 130 CVEs in its July Patch Tuesday release, with nine rated as critical and 121 rated as 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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How Investec marries foundational and pioneering tech forces

CIO

As CIO of Anglo-South African international banking and wealth management group, Investec, Shabhana Thaver has a multi-purpose approach to tech trends. On the one hand, there are foundational forces, which protect the existing business and include talent, information security and modernization. Then, on the other, there are pioneering forces, which drive business growth and include information, interaction and computation.

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ESM Efficiency: How Balfour Beatty delivered a better digital employee experience for 21,000 users

CIO

Balfour Beatty finances, develops, builds, and maintains vital infrastructure projects – such as airports, hospitals, schools, and office buildings – on three continents. The company was responsible for Britain’s largest road project, the £1.5 billion A14 improvement, and built the $429 million North Metro Commuter Rail Line in Denver, Colorado. It’s an enormous operation and, given the size and scope of Balfour Beatty’s business, delivering services to its 24,500+ global employees is complex.

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Theoretical Models Part 6 –Understanding the Social Identity and Cultural Affirmation Model

Perficient

In the realm of disability studies, the Social Identity and Cultural Affirmation Model of Disability has gained recognition as a powerful framework that acknowledges the significance of social and cultural factors in shaping the experiences of individuals with disabilities. This model recognizes disability as a social construct influenced by identity, culture, and societal attitudes.

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New world, new CIO: How emerging realities are shaping the CIO’s job

CIO

In a relatively brief time span, technologies like cloud, edge computing, artificial intelligence, and IoT have taken center stage, and new innovative technologies keep emerging. We’re now navigating a technological landscape that’s growing exponentially more complex and rapidly changing, one that increasingly exceeds the ability of human intelligence to keep pace.

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GraalVM Features and Future

Dzone - DevOps

GraalVM, as the name suggests, represents the Holy Grail of modern cloud-native development by boosting the performance of Java applications and, at the same time, making highly efficient and seamless polyglot programming a reality. But what exactly lies behind these claims? In this article, we will look into the platform’s evolution and prospects to understand why you will benefit from integrating the technology in production.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Pragmatic Innovation in Software Development

Apiumhub

Innovation and pragmatism are two contrasting approaches in software development, each with its own merits and considerations. Let’s explore pragmatic innovation more in-depth in this article. Software innovation Innovation refers to the pursuit of novel ideas, creative solutions, and cutting-edge technologies in software development. It involves pushing the boundaries, exploring new possibilities, and challenging conventional practices.

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July 2023 Patch Tuesday

Ivanti

This month is going to be a painful one, with: Multiple zero-day exploits being resolved by Microsoft , Some operational changes for Kerberos and Netlogon vulnerability resolutions , and A large lineup of third-party updates releasing on and after July’s Patch Tuesday – including Oracle's quarterly CPU and Java updates. Kerberos and Netlogon Vulnerability Changes July is going to be a big month from an operational perspective.

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Tricentis Acquires Waldo to Further Advance Mobile Testing

DevOps.com

Tricentis has acquired Waldo to expand the scope of the automated testing capabilities it provides for mobile applications.

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INTERSECT Network Security Summit 2023: Where Insight Meets Innovation

Palo Alto Networks

Modern Network Security Is Crucial With digital transformation accelerating, protecting the modern network has never been more important. From connected enterprises, to the internet of things (IoT) and the critical infrastructures supporting the world, today’s network is the lifeline of the global organization. To keep pace, modern enterprises must turn to Zero Trust as the way forward, to see and secure users, apps and data anywhere — from headquarters to branch offices, from data centers to th

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Inaugural DOCSIS 4.0 Interop Event Sets Stage for Interoperability Testing

CableLabs

Consumers are demanding increasingly immersive, interactive media experiences that require faster speeds, lower latency, increased network reliability and enhanced security. The future of the cable industry relies on interoperability to deliver what consumers need. That’s the goal of the industry’s full-court press toward 10G deployment, and it starts with DOCSIS® 4.0 compliance.

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Finance NLP releases new demo apps and fix documentation

John Snow Labs

Version 1.16.0 of Finance NLP releases new demo apps for Question Answering and Summarization tasks and fixes documentation for many models. New demo apps We release new demo apps for Question Answering and for Summarization , showing examples using the latest models of the library. New Flan T5 based models for Question Answering: New Flan T5 based models for Summarization: Now, interested users can check the capabilities of the newest models that were recently released in our demonstration apps

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Roadie Adds Scorecard Tool to Backstage SaaS Platform

DevOps.com

Roadie today made generally available a tool that automatically tracks and reports how software development teams are performing against engineering standards defined by a DevOps team. The Tech Insights tool is an addition to Roadie’s implementation of the open source Backstage developer portal and is delivered via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.

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An Introduction to BentoML: A Unified AI Application Framework

Dzone - DevOps

Navigating the journey from building machine learning (ML) models to deploying them in production can often be a rocky road. It’s an essential yet complex process where data scientists and engineers must bridge their knowledge gap. Data scientists, adept at creating models, might stumble when it comes to production deployment. On the other hand, engineers may struggle with the continuous iteration of ML models, leading to inefficient, error-prone operations.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Key Insights From the Stack Overflow 2023 Developer Survey

DevOps.com

Stack Overflow's 2023 developer survey reveals insights into programming language and tooling preferences and the use of AI in the development workflow. Here's what these trends could mean for DevOps.

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5 Factors That Make for a Great Employee Experience

Harvard Business Review

Decades of business strategy have urged leaders to concentrate the bulk of their business efforts on the customer experience. While prioritizing customers over employees can drive short-term revenue growth, it will cost companies in long-term employee retention and engagement. The author and colleagues conducted a new study of thousands of employees and executives from around the world and across multiple industries.

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BigPanda Extends AIOps Platform to Embrace Generative AI

DevOps.com

BigPanda added generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to analyze incidents surfaced by its AI for IT operations (AIOps) platform.

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The State of Globalization in 2023

Harvard Business Review

Plummeting flows of trade, capital, and people at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic prompted a wave of speculation about the end of globalization, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brought even more predictions of a retreat toward national self-sufficiency. But, according to research for the latest DHL Global Connectedness Index, international flows show no signs of a sustained downturn.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Introducing the Netlify Drop ChatGPT Plugin

Netlify

Generate and deploy websites to Netlify seamlessly with just a ChatGPT prompt using the Netlify Drop ChatGPT plugin. Try it now!

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To Get Better Customer Data, Build Feedback Loops into Your Products

Harvard Business Review

Thanks to the increasing availability of AI, including machine learning algorithms, deliberately creating customer data feedback loops is now possible for most products and services. This means that as a firm gathers more customer data, it can feed that data into machine learning algorithms to improve its product or service, thereby attracting more customers, generating even more customer data.

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Platform Engineering: Building Your Developer Portal With Backstage (Part 1)

Dzone - DevOps

In my previous article , we looked at platform engineering: what it is, how it became a thing, platform engineering vs. DevOps, and how it could help improve security. Today, let's get hands-on and build a developer portal from scratch!

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Don’t Let Developer Experience Break Your Business

DevOps.com

These four tips will help ensure the developer experience is not your Achilles heel in fueling business performance.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Embracing Competition for Business Success

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Overcoming attitudes about competition and turf is a key to innovation. Here are some ways to ignite a bold future. Today’s guest post is by Scott Cochrane, author of Your Creative Mind: How to Disrupt Your Thinking, Abandon Your Comfort Zone, and Develop Bold New Strategies (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Last weekend I was out for a mountain ride on my adventure motorcycle.

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CodeSOD: Yearly Updates

The Daily WTF

C. Wiles has the "joy" of working on a SAS application for a large health insurance company. This snippet was extracted some time ago, but the application continues to live on. It has one job: pad the month part of dates to two digits. Let's see how it's done. %macro yearmonth ; if year_month = '2010-1' then year_month = '2010-01' ; else if year_month = '2010-2' then year_month = '2010-02' ; else if year_month = '2010-3' then year_month = &

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Just-released GPT-4 Code Interpreter is a Big Deal, Part 2

Crafty CTO

I think everyone on the podcast was in danger of hyperventilating. Many interesting facts and hacks came to light. The show notes are a novella and worth reading as swyx recaps exhaustively and does a useful executive summary.

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