Fri.Sep 06, 2019

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Serving and testing models in CD4ML

Martin Fowler

My colleagues continue their discussion of the technical components of Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning. This installment looks at model serving, testing, and quality. moreā€¦.

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Leading Friends and Former Peers

Let's Grow Leaders

My first formal leadership role where I would lead my friends and former peers didn’t go so well. When we ask a group of new leaders about their biggest problems, leading friends and former peers is always one of the most […]. The post Leading Friends and Former Peers appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. My first formal leadership role where I would lead my friends and former peers didn’t go so well.

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13 robotic process automation experts you should follow

TechBeacon

Robotic process automation (RPA) is a hot topic right now. Many organizations, primarily large ones, are using RPA to process data more quickly and to shorten the time spent by employees on repetitive tasks.

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DevOps Tools for Monitoring

Dzone - DevOps

What's in your walle- I mean, toolbox? DevOps has been a hot topic for many years, but it's still common for organizations to feel overwhelmed by the complexity of automating their entire infrastructure and to get hung up on which tools to use. An integrated set of DevOps tools for monitoring has the power to improve visibility and productivity, achieve higher-performing systems, and establish cross-functional collaboration.

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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. Itā€™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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CVE-2019-15846: Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution Flaw Disclosed for Exim

Tenable

CVE-2019-15846, a new unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in the Exim message transfer agent, has been patched in version 4.92.2. Users are encouraged to upgrade immediately. Background. Exim Internet Mailer is a message transfer agent (MTA) for Unix hosts used to manage mail routing services for an organization. Exim is reportedly the most used MTA in the world, and has over 5 million internet-facing hosts, according to Shodan.

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Article: Data Analytics in the World of Agility

InfoQ Culture Methods

Is it all about customer-centric business, or is there any data left? Can we integrate data analytics and customer empathy? This article explores how we can move towards a more customer-centric business and what information we require in order to understand the most valuable thing we have: our customer. By Almudena Rodriguez Pardo.

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How to Build Graal-Enabled JDK8 on CircleCI

Dzone - DevOps

The GraalVM compiler is a replacement to HotSpotā€™s server-side JIT compiler , widely known as the C2 compiler. It is written in Java with the goal of better performance compared to the C2 compiler. New changes, starting with Java 9, mean that we can now plug in our own hand-written C2 compiler into the JVM thanks to JVMCI. The researchers and engineers at Oracle Labs have created a variant of JDK8 with JVMCI enabled, which can be used to build the GraalVM compiler.

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Building good relationships are the key to everything you want

Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

When it comes to building high-performing teams, your relationship with your developers is more important than their technical skills. While technical skills are important, strong developerā€“manager relationships are the keys to everything you want. Healthy relationships among employees and leaders produce high levels of engagement, motivation, trust, and transparency.

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How to Build Graal-Enabled JDK8 on CircleCI

Dzone - DevOps

The GraalVM compiler is a replacement to HotSpotā€™s server-side JIT compiler , widely known as the C2 compiler. It is written in Java with the goal of better performance compared to the C2 compiler. New changes, starting with Java 9 , mean that we can now plug in our own hand-written C2 compiler into the JVM thanks to JVMCI. The researchers and engineers at Oracle Labs have created a variant of JDK8 with JVMCI enabled, which can be used to build the GraalVM compiler.

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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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Employee Spotlight: Rob Walsh

Actian

Each month, we will be featuring a different employee in our Employee Spotlight series. This series was born with the belief that your life experiences make you the unique person you are today and influence what you bring to the amazing culture here at Actian. We have chosen to feature those incredible individuals with a blog post dedicated to them.

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Workplace Wellbeingā€”A Strategy for Leadership

Strategy Driven

Workplace wellbeing should feature prominently in any successful organizationā€™s strategy. Creating an environment in which a well-managed and highly motivated workforce can flourish can elevate your organization to huge success. It can exceed in positive workplace outcomes such as high levels of corporate social responsibility. In our experience, a happy and engaged workforce delivers extra-role effort by the bucket-load.

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Vista Equity Partners Continues Its Mission to Empower Everybody with Technology by Sponsoring New Technology Lab in Denver

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

TIBCO was proud to be on hand for the opening of the Montebello Campusā€™ new Technology Lab in Denver last month, which was sponsored by our parent company, Vista Equity Partners. TIBCO and Vista share the mission of empowering everyone with technology. CEO of Vista, Robert Smith, has a personal connection to the area, having been born and raised in Denver where he attended Denver Public Schools (DPS) throughout high school, graduating from East High School.

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Business Risks and How to Prepare for Them

Strategy Driven

Business is a risky game and one threat that arises that you werenā€™t ready for can have a devastating impact. Risk management plays a big role in the finance department who are constantly assessing for risks that could impact the company’s cash flow or investments. However, there are a number of other risks that all departments have a view of that can cause big problems if not assessed and prepared for in advance.

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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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Thrip: Ambitious Attacks Against High Level Targets Continue

Symantec

Symantecā€™s Targeted Attack Analytics uncovers new attack campaigns in South East Asia.

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5 Reasons Customer Service is Important to Small Companies

Strategy Driven

As a small business owner, you may at times find yourself strapped budget-wise. Operating costs, marketing, and logistics may take priority over customer service but it should never be overlooked. Customer service is crucial ā€“ especially for small businesses looking to establish themselves in their respective industries. The following article will articulate 5 reasons why customer service is so important for small businesses.

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Back to School: The Changing Role of Data in Education

Dataiku

With summer officially over and fall setting in, the back-to-school excitement abounds. I sat down with Josh Hewitt , Director of Academics at Dataiku , and Diane Igoche , Curriculum Development Specialist at Dataiku, to understand how education and educators are adapting to the data and AI revolution.

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3 Reasons Why Your Kitchen Staff Are Underperforming

Strategy Driven

Customer wait time is one of the most important metrics in the restaurant industry. You could have everything right, but if the service times are too long, this will eventually play against your establishment. How good your kitchen staff are will have an effect on that, but you could also be making mistakes that are hindering workflow and making things more difficult for them.

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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 Donā€™t just meet

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Off the hook: How AI catches phishing emails even if we take the bait

Darktrace

By uniting email security with enterprise security, we can autonomously fight back against phishing attacks ā€” even those we fall for hook, line, and sinker.

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Why Complete Data is Key to a Winning ITSM + ITAM Strategy

Samanage

Are you taking a modern approach to the way your IT team manages its technology assets? With so many separate service desk and IT asset management (ITAM) solutions available on the market, it can be easy to have a disjointed or inaccurate picture of whatā€™s going on. This is less than ideal in todayā€™s IT environment. An ideal scenario is to fully integrate your IT asset management processes with the way your organization also delivers services to employees.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 6th, 2019

High Scalability

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Coolest or most coolest thing ever? Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd love your support on Patreon. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. And who doesn't these days? On Amazon it has 54 mostly 5 star reviews (125 on Goodreads ). They'll learn a lot and likely add you to their will.

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DevOps didnā€™t exist when I started as a developer: How this one principle changed my career

CircleCI

When asked to write a ā€œWhat is DevOps?ā€ post, I decided to take an approach that was different from the many others who have written on the subject. In this post, Iā€™m going to define DevOps based on my decades of experience working in tech. Iā€™ll traverse my professional timeline discussing how DevOps came into my life and expressing how it impacted me and my chosen career.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If youā€™re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache CassandraĀ®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether youā€™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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Sparking Real Partnerships

Dell EMC

Partnership is not a posture but a process ā€“ a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks. ā€” John F. Kennedy Real Partnerships, Real Marketing Here at Dell Technologies, it is our constant endeavor to build lasting relationships in everything that we do. This holds trues for our engagement with our partner community as well.

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Four short links: 6 September 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Code Reviews, Dogfooding, Deobfuscation, and Differential Privacy. How to Do a Code Review -- Google's guidelines. Encourage developers to solve the problem they know needs to be solved now, not the problem that the developer speculates might need to be solved in the future. The future problem should be solved once it arrives and you can see its actual shape and requirements in the physical universe.

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Where Do CS Grads Get Hired?

CodeSignal

This blog post is based on the thirteen episode of the data-driven recruiting podcast hosted by CodeSignal co-founders Sophia Baik and Tigran Sloyan. You can find and listen to this specific episode here or check out the video version embedded below. The best way to understand early technical hiring is by the numbers. With the utilization of LinkedIn data, we can determine where candidates went to school, and subsequently, where they are going to work.

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The FaƧade

Net Objectives

Intent Provide a unified interface to a set of interfaces in a subsystem. Facade defines a higher-level interface that makes the subsystem easier to use. (GoF) Example When planning a vacation, business trip, or other travel there are a lot of different aspects that have to be reserved, scheduled, and otherwise arranged for. Each of ā€¦ Continue reading "The FaƧade".

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

ā€œReimagined: Building Products with Generative AIā€ 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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[Webinar] Bring container security into OpenShift with Synopsys Operator

Synopsys

Modern applications contain over 50% open source components. Do you have an open source vulnerability management solution for your container environment? The post [Webinar] Bring container security into OpenShift with Synopsys Operator appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Employee Spotlight: Rob Walsh

Actian

Each month, we will be featuring a different employee in our Employee Spotlight series. This series was born with the belief that your life experiences make you the unique person you are today and influence what you bring to the amazing culture here at Actian. We have chosen to feature those incredible individuals with a blog post dedicated to them.

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MotionLayout ā€“ Create Animations in your Android app

Apiumhub

Introduction to MotionLayout. For a long time, Android developers have suffered hardships when trying to create animations in our apps. Native Android libraries didn’t make it easy to create simple animations, like the “swipe” when you delete an element from a list. This forces us to create a personalized view that will detect the user’s movement while we must use that “input” to progressively move the element accordingly and simultaneously apply the logic tha

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