Fri.Jul 07, 2023

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Key skills tech leaders need to secure a board seat

CIO

Rona Bunn is CIO for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), where she facilitates digital orchestration and leads information technology, data, and digital experience. A two-time Technology All-Star award recipient from Women of Color in STEM, Bunn previously served as CIO at the US Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration.

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Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of SRE With AI-Engineered Tools

DevOps.com

In my blog Rapid Strategic SRE Assessments Accelerate IT Transformations published last year, I classified site reliability engineering (SRE) into nine pillars of SRE practices—a comprehensive framework that covers the full scope of SRE practices. This nine pillars SRE framework is consistent with the SRE blueprint published by the DevOps Institute.

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13 go-to podcasts that inspire IT industry leaders today

CIO

In today’s ever-changing technology landscape, it’s important for IT leaders of every stripe to not only keep abreast of current events and trends affecting the industry, but also know about focus areas and challenges of their upper management peers since the tech function is increasingly viewed as a strategic business partner to the C-suite. One of the best ways for CIOs and IT leaders to absorb information is by tuning in to tech and leadership podcasts.

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Why Leaders Need to Be Wrong

Let's Grow Leaders

So many leaders feel the need to be right to demonstrate competence or to feel like they have all the answers, but in most leadership positions this doesn’t fly anymore and leaders need to be wrong from time to time. The people you’re leading who are closer to the work will inherently know more about it than the leader, so the question is, can you learn?

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Private 5G networks are sparking innovation at the edge

CIO

For the enterprise, planning edge strategies and reaping their rewards is often a complex and challenging process, with myriad applications to deploy, a proliferation of hardware devices to manage, multiple data types and sources to integrate, and significant security risks to avoid. A crucial component to simplifying the edge experience is the network itself.

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ITIL certification guide: Costs, requirements, levels, and paths

CIO

The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) offers best practices for delivering IT services using a systematic approach to IT service management (ITSM). ITIL certification is near the top of almost every list of must-have IT certifications, and for good reason. As an IT management framework, ITIL can help businesses manage risk, strengthen customer relations, establish cost-effective practices, and build a stable IT environment that allows for growth, scale, and change.

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How to Keep Your IT Infrastructure Invisible

DevOps.com

IT infrastructure is critical. IT infrastructure enables businesses to run—from day-to-day operational execution to visionary strategic innovation and everything in between.

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How To Determine The Cost Of Cloud Computing (2023 UPDATE)

CloudZero

It came as a pleasant surprise. CloudZero recently discovered over $1.7 million in annualized savings. And, all from our own infrastructure. Otherwise, we would have spent $1.7 million for cloud resources we didn't actually need.

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How Managers Can Dismantle “Benevolent Marginalization”

Harvard Business Review

While there is a growing recognition of the significance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, many firms fail to break down the subtle barriers obstructing progress because they engage in patronizing behavior that the authors call “benevolent marginalization.” Drawing on insights from a decade of research on benevolent discrimination experienced by women and individuals with disabilities in the workplace, the authors propose three key strategies to help discard such protectioni

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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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Kubernetes: Advantages and Disadvantages

Dzone - DevOps

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It has gained popularity among developers and enterprises for its ability to provide a scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure for deploying modern applications. In this response, we will explore the advantages and disadvantages of using Kubernetes for deploying an application.

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What Is Responsible Computing?

Harvard Business Review

For businesses, technology has a variety of interconnected impacts including unintended consequences, data risks, and appropriateness of technological uses, as well as broader environmental concerns. The authors offer a systemic Responsible Computing Framework that integrates environmental challenges including energy consumption and emissions with many other social and governance aspects.

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Partitioning Historical Data Into Daily Parquet Files in Azure Data Lake Using Azure Data Factory and Azure Notebook

Dzone - DevOps

When working with historical data, it is often necessary to partition the data into daily files based on a key column for efficient storage and querying. Azure Data Factory (ADF) provides a powerful data integration service, while Azure Notebook offers an interactive environment for data exploration and analysis. In this article, we will guide you through the process of partitioning historical data into daily Parquet files using Azure Data Factory and an Azure Notebook.

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BusinessWire: New SaaS SFTP Service for Cloud Storage from Thorn Technologies

Thorn Tech

SFTP Gateway is now available as a SaaS SFTP service for cloud storage. After an initial soft launch, the new SaaS SFTP solution from Thorn Technologies was announced in a press release on July 6.

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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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Unleashing Business Innovation Through the Power of Kubernetes

Dzone - DevOps

In the dynamic landscape of the digital economy, businesses are perpetually seeking the latest technologies to stay one step ahead of their competitors. Harnessing the power of innovation is a paramount business strategy. In this context, Kubernetes, an open-source platform, has emerged as a groundbreaking tool, revolutionizing the way businesses manage, scale, and deploy applications.

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Recruitment Services for IT Consulting Company

TurnKey Labs

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the growing demand for skilled tech workers far outweighs the available supply, prompting a prolific labor shortage that’s disrupting the tech sector worldwide. As an IT consulting company, you’re in the thick of this crisis. That’s where this post comes in, offering a lifeline.

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Patterns To Make Synchronous Communication in Microservices Resilient

Dzone - DevOps

Microservices have become a popular architectural approach for building large-scale, complex systems. While asynchronous communication is often preferred in microservices, there are cases where synchronous communication is necessary. However, relying on synchronous communication introduces challenges related to resilience. This blog post will explore patterns that help make synchronous communication in microservices more resilient, ensuring system stability and fault tolerance.

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Datacenter Dilemma: Balancing Capacity Demand With Environmental Responsibility 

IDC

New research from IDC projects datacenter energy consumption and carbon emissions to assess the industry's progress toward net-zero goals.

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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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How to reduce incident tickets and improve IT team efficiency

xmatters

In IT environments, incidents happen all the time and it’s impossible to prevent all of them. Regardless of the available software solutions or the level of technical training of both users and developers, no organization is immune to incidents. The increased dependence on IT infrastructure to provide core services means that any disruption in IT services can cause any organization significant financial and reputational harm.

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Theoretical Models of Disabilities: Part 3 – Understanding the Biopsychosocial Model

Perficient

In our previous blog post, we explored the medical model and social of disabilities and their limitations in fully capturing the complex nature of the disability. Today, we delve into another prominent theoretical framework called the biopsychosocial model. Developed by George L. Engel ,, this holistic approach recognizes that disability is not solely determined by medical factors but is influenced by a multitude of biological, psychological, and social factors.

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Really, OpenAI?

Crafty CTO

In a conversation with a venture partner yesterday, I was talking up the value that ChatGPT can bring to knowledge workers. He responded that their firm had a policy against putting any confidential data into ChatGPT. My reaction was, that applies to the free version and / or the old days, that with the advent of paid subscriptions, OpenAI no longer trained their models using inputs from subscribers.

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What is a Deputy CTO and How to Become One

CTO Academy

Learn what is a Deputy CTO, what the path to becoming one looks like and how to best prepare for a job interview. The post What is a Deputy CTO and How to Become One appeared first on CTO Academy.

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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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Evolving DORA Metrics: Discussing Emerging Trends and Advancements in DORA Metrics, Such as Incorporating Security and Quality Metrics Into the Assessment Framework

Dzone - DevOps

In the fast-paced world of software development, DevSecOps principles have emerged as a crucial approach for organizations to streamline their software delivery processes, improve collaboration between teams, and achieve faster time-to-market. In this context, the DevSecOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics have become essential tools for measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of DevSecOps implementations.

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DIGITAL INNOVATION, ACCEPTING LIMITATIONS & IN-PERSON COMMUNICATION: A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID HALM (PART TWO)

Clint Padgett – Project Success

Episode Information: Clint continues his conversation with his friend and colleague, David Halm. During their chat, David discusses the importance of leaders who listen to their teams, accept their limitations, and prioritize tasks accordingly. Plus, David and Clint talk about their involvement in the Olympic Games in 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, and their current planning session for Paris 2024.

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CI/CD Pipeline With CircleCI for React Native

Dzone - DevOps

The CI/CD is a process that automates the build, test, and deployment. Different CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) tools are available such as Jenkins, Circle CI, and GitHub actions. React Native is a leading component-based mobile application framework that uses JavaScript (or typescript) to build native-like mobile applications which can be published to the Apple store and Android store.

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Season 2 - Trailer

Tenable

June 30 · 1m One year ago, Alice Mitnick hacked one of the world’s largest food conglomerates. Then she was caught – by a man she knows only as John Doe. Hack the truth on July 14. The Hacker Chronicles Season 2: Digital Nomad. Presented by Tenable. Starring Michael C. Hall as John Doe. And Chloe Taylor as Alice. Coming July 14th – wherever you listen to podcasts.

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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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Table Headings through Rich Text in Sitecore

Perficient

Sitecore makes it easy to add tables, which is similar to inserting a table in Microsoft Word. You just need to click on the “insert table” button and select the desired size. However, it’s important to consider accessibility when creating tables. Tables, despite their general suitability for screen readers, require specifying the location of table headings to ensure accessibility.

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The Hacker Chronicles Season 1 Recap

Tenable

July 7 · 26m Don’t have time to binge Season 1 again? No problem. Here’s everything you need to know… at least the unredacted parts. The Hacker Chronicles Season 2: Digital Nomad. Presented by Tenable. Starring Michael C. Hall as John Doe. And Chloe Taylor as Alice. Coming July 14th – wherever you listen to podcasts.

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International day of Yoga celebration event at Chennai

Perficient

On a gloomy Tuesday morning, when the city is slowly recovering from previous night’s monsoon rains, bunch of Perficient employees marched amongst the city traffic and reached office just to attend the wonderful yoga session organized before working on their deliverables for the day. Yes, its International Day of Yoga – June 21st 2023 and the session was arranged by our energetic GDC Chennai HR team and our Yoga instructor for the day is Ms.