Thu.May 21, 2020

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An Active Learning Reproduction Exercise: From Overview to Findings

Dataiku

In this article, we try to reproduce the results from the 2019 paper “Diverse Mini-Batch Active Learning” and share our findings.

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Branching Patterns: Collaboration Branch and Team Integration Branch

Martin Fowler

With this update, I finish off my todo list of branching patterns with Collaboration Branch (A branch created for a developer to share work with other members of the team without formal integration.) and Team Integration Branch (Allow a sub-team to integrate with each other, before integrating with mainline.). more….

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What is Quality Assurance(QA)? Process, Issues, Guide

Openxcell

Regardless of how rapidly and efficiently a venture is finished, partners won’t be upbeat if the nature of the item or administration doesn’t live up to their desires. All in one, by what means can a director track the nature of their task and ensure it meets the prerequisites of partners? So, the secret here is Quality Affirmation. As we know, these days with digitalization, Apps are more towards cloud-based solutions to any specific problem-solving.

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Leaders Share about Resiliency and Change: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

At this moment of unprecedented change and strain. With double-digit unemployment and everyone on a fast-pivot to do the best they can, with what they have, from where they are, resiliency has become a vital, universal conversation. So think month we’ve invited […]. The post Leaders Share about Resiliency and Change: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Spyse ? Cybersecurity Search Engine for Quick Recon

The Crazy Programmer

Spyse is a relatively new service in cybersecurity, but their innovative approaches have gained the attention of many pentesters and cybersecurity specialists. The service itself is a cybersecurity search engine which can be used for gathering mass technical data from the internet. The special thing about Spyse, is that they have one of the largest databases of its kind: hosting all the technical internet data that specialists might need for finding vulnerabilities, gathering competitor data, or

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Modern Web Scraping with Python and Selenium

Toptal

Web scraping has been around since the early days of the World Wide Web, but scraping modern sites that heavily rely on new technologies is anything but straightforward. In this article, Toptal Software Developer Neal Barnett demonstrates how you can use Python and Selenium to scrape sites that employ a lot of JavaScript, iframes, and certificates.

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Mercedes software leaks via Git and Google dork

TechBeacon

Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler left 580 repos open on the Internet—naked and unprotected. A Swiss researcher discovered the trove with a simple dork—a crafted Google search term.

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Why Incorporate CI/CD Pipeline in Your SDLC?

Dzone - DevOps

The software development community, like the human species, has undergone certain evolutionary changes to find out what’s most suitable for them. For starters, the challenges and limitations of the traditional Waterfall methodology pushed the developers to learn from their grueling experiences and move on to the much efficient Agile model. Not only did Agile save teams from major development pitfalls, but it also helped in achieving immense business value.

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Break/Fix vs. Managed Services: All You Need to Know

Kaseya

IT service providers have come a long way over the past couple of decades. With the rapid rise in the adoption of technology came personal computers, which brought with them their own maintenance problems and issues. When machines broke, businesses would dial up IT service providers who would come to your office location and fix the machines. They would also be available to fix networking issues and other IT problems.

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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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Prerequisites for evolutionary architectures

CircleCI

Designing software that is flexible and changeable is arguably the most important architectural property. I often get other software architects saying “What about performance?” or “What about security?”. I’m not saying these other properties are not important to consider early on. They are. However, if we optimise our architecture for change (evolvability), when we discover a performance issue or a security vulnerability we can change our system to help address it.

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Four Tips For Startup Entrepreneurs In The Post-COVID19 Era To Reframe Rejection Into Constructive Engagement

CEO Insider

As outside general corporate counsel to well over a hundred startups in all stages of growth in my legal career, across the innovation ecosystem in Silicon Valley and beyond, I am often asked by startup founders and entrepreneurs to help them with capital raising and introductions to venture capitalists, business angels, and family offices. After […].

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Site Reliability Engineering 101: DevOps Versus SRE

DevOps.com

Consider the following scenario. An Independent Software Provider (ISV) developed a financial application for a global investment firm that serves global conglomerates, leading central banks, asset managers, brokerage firms and governmental bodies. The development strategy for the application encompassed a thought through DevOps plan with cutting-edge agile tools.

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Why marketing security to your organization matters?and how to do it right

TechBeacon

What if we told you that as a security professional, a portion of your responsibility is marketing? You would likely tell us we are crazy. But both of us have experienced "aha" moments in our careers as security professionals, when we realized that part of being a successful security person is knowing how to market ideas to the organization.

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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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Puppet Adds CIS Benchmark Compliance Service

DevOps.com

Puppet this week announced it has added a service that makes it easier to achieve compliance with benchmarks defined by the Center for Internet Security (CIS). Yasmin Rajabi, global services strategy manager at Puppet, said the CIS Service offering from Puppet extends the ability to manage infrastructure as code into the realm of compliance. Via […].

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Digital twin technology: The key to airport innovation

DXC

Airports face a number of challenges — aging infrastructure, fluctuating demand, sophisticated security needs and, now, an unexpected global health crisis — and legacy technologies are incapable of addressing them. In other words, we cannot expect to build tomorrow’s airport using yesterday’s solutions. We need radical innovation and that calls for new technologies.

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The Edge is More than a Place

Dell EMC

Edge is going through a sea change today. Evolving technology ecosystems and new wave of applications in computer vision, Edge analytics, telco virtual radio access networks and autonomous vehicles require real time analytics. IT work at home and data privacy regulations are all driving the new paradigm. The outcome of these changes is an explosion of data produced outside the cloud and core data center.

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How to Operationalize Enterprise Analytics in the Telco Industry

Teradata

Operationalizing world class analytics into day-to-day processes can help solve some of the greatest challenges in the telecommunications industry. Find out more.

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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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Accelerate Innovation with Near-Instant Database Cloning

Dell EMC

The demand for database cloning is growing exponentially as more and more companies invest in DevOps to bring new products and features to market faster. As a result, software developers, database admins, quality assurance, data scientists, analysts and operations teams all need fast access to production data copies of critical enterprise databases.

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Sharing strengthens all: the Capgemini Data and Analytics Consortium

Capgemini

Realizing your potential in the experience economy is paramount for the retail industry. Finding ways to leverage data to make every experience personal, convenient, and positive should be a top priority across every vertical. The biggest challenge is the roundabout nature of today’s customer journey. Multitudes of touchpoints, channels, and devices intertwine, creating a difficult path for retailers to track when trying to collect and analyze behavioral data.

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FLEXWORK

Palo Alto Networks

Reimagining the Workplace – From Employer Choice to Employee Choice. It’s been a little over two months since we introduced mandatory work from home for Palo Alto Networks employees. Our mission is enabling our customers to work securely no matter where they are, and we are well equipped with the tools, technology and security to make this work. Now, as localities weigh reopening and, as importantly, as we listen to the feedback and concerns of our employees, we recognize that the next phase can

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Webinar Recap: DevOps for the Oracle Ecosystem

Flexagon

The following is a summary of the information covered in the webinar: DevOps for the Oracle Ecosystem, which can be accessed here. The Purpose of DevOps DevOps, in the most basic sense, is an intersection of people, process, and technology used to develop, deliver, and maintain software solutions. Three critical DevOps processes include build automation, The post Webinar Recap: DevOps for the Oracle Ecosystem appeared first on Flexagon.

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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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13 Bits of Advice for New Programmers

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 4 minutes 13 Bits of Advice for New Programmers when they feel overwhelmed by all the things they need to learn. Relax, take a breath, and read this blog post. The other day I asked this question on Twitter: What is the one tip you would give another programmer? — Victor Velazquez (@zazvick) March 5, 2020. New programmers can feel overwhelmed by all the new things they need to learn.

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Webinar Recap: DevOps for the Oracle Ecosystem

Flexagon

The following is a summary of the information covered in the webinar: DevOps for the Oracle Ecosystem, which can be accessed here. The Purpose of DevOps DevOps, in the most basic sense, is an intersection of people, process, and technology used to develop, deliver, and maintain software solutions. Three critical DevOps processes include build automation, The post Webinar Recap: DevOps for the Oracle Ecosystem appeared first on Flexagon.

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Driving Online Connection with the Google Ad Grant

TechSoup

Are you ready to get started with the Google Ad Grant ? Google Ad Grants is run through the Google for Nonprofits program and offers up to $10,000 per month of in-kind Google advertising dollars to qualifying nonprofits. When managed correctly, this grant provides nonprofits with a way to leverage the power of digital advertising and search engine marketing for good.

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Dell EMC PowerProtect DD Series Appliances: Expanded Capacity and Performance with DDOS 7.2

Dell EMC

Since the successful introduction of PowerProtect DD Series Appliances to the market last September, our engineers have been hard at work improving our software. We are pleased to announce some new features and higher levels of performance coming to the product line today. This spring we have been working on a number of improvements to PowerProtect DD that we can’t wait to share with you, so let’s get to it!

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Counter Threat Unit Researchers Publish Threat Group Definitions

SecureWorks

Counter Threat Unit Researchers Publish Threat Group Definitions The goals of sharing these profiles are to provide insight into CTU characterizations, encourage feedback, and promote discussions within the security community. The goals of sharing these profiles are to provide insight into CTU characterizations, encourage feedback, and promote discussions within the security community.

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Baker?s Half Dozen ? Episode 13

Dell EMC

This episode is a special milestone for us. We have reached episode 13 – a true baker’s dozen! And, fittingly, in this episode we discuss bread machines. We also talk about the popularity of esports, what qualifies as a cloud solution, and we might even speak a bit of Swahili! If you’ve got questions about this episode, or a question you’d like Matt to answer in the next episode, tweet Matt using #BakersHalfDozen.

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The Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) Market at a Glance

IDC

External data is available about a broad variety of data domains and categories. Explore the Data-as-a-service (DaaS) landscape with IDC's Lynne Schneider.

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