Tue.Jan 08, 2019

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9 Pillars of Continuous Security Best Practices

DevOps.com

Without proper consideration given to security best practices, the continuous delivery of software changes facilitated by DevOps is risky. On the other hand, DevOps provides an opportunity to reduce security risks if security is integrated into the continuous delivery pipeline according to best practices. This blog enumerates best practices for security across nine pillars of […].

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7 data trends on our radar

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

From infrastructure to tools to training, Ben Lorica looks at what’s ahead for data. Whether you’re a business leader or a practitioner, here are key data trends to watch and explore in the months ahead. Increasing focus on building data culture, organization, and training. In a recent O’Reilly survey , we found that the skills gap remains one of the key challenges holding back the adoption of machine learning.

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Types of Queues in Data Structure

The Crazy Programmer

Queue is an important structure for storing and retrieving data and hence is used extensively among all the data structures. Queue, just like any queue (queues for bus or tickets etc.) follows a FIFO mechanism for data retrieval which means the data which gets into the queue first will be the first one to be taken out from it, the second one would be the second to be retrieved and so on.

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The Danger When a Leader is Always Right

Let's Grow Leaders

When a leader is always right, they’re not effective. If you had been with me early in my career, you would have seen my growing frustration. My first job out of grad school was teaching and I had a class of students who […]. The post The Danger When a Leader is Always Right 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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Influence Requires Trust: Three Ways to Be More Trustworthy

Change Starts Here

Trust is a necessary prerequisite of influence because it is the foundation of healthy relationships. Put simply, people are more likely to be influenced by someone they trust. On the other hand, the absence of trust creates resistance to change by creating doubt, uncertainty, and fear. In my Fundamentals of Influencing Change at Work course, […].

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Strength in Numbers – An Overview of Data-driven Design

Toptal

Data-driven UI design is both art and science. Understanding how to collect and analyze data and implement designs based on it is an important skill for beginner and expert designers alike.

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DevOps and Agile: Your New Year’s Resolution

DevOps.com

Don’t apply Agile principles to DevOps. That’s not how it works. We in the west often celebrate the new year with a promise to do more or less of something in the coming year. While these promises are often broken, they can occasionally be transformational. And it’s time your organization had a transformational one: More […]. The post DevOps and Agile: Your New Year’s Resolution appeared first on DevOps.com.

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DevOps for Oracle Apps: 10 E-Business Suite Development Tips

Flexagon

The most effective development processes are tailored to the company and product IT teams are working with. The most effective teams develop standardized processes that help reduce errors and speed up the software delivery lifecycle, while increasing efficiency for their specific product. DevOps spans people, process, and technology, and can be integrated into every IT.

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Always-on Development: Why Continuous Delivery Relies on Security by Design

DevOps.com

How continuous delivery can help organizations in their application security efforts The old model of developing secure applications followed a structured, siloed, step-by-step process—build, check, release. Organizations’ desire for speed has forced development teams to ramp up their release cycles by any means necessary, even if it means bypassing incremental scanning for flaws that could […].

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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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How to Craft a Successful Go to Market Strategy

Toptal

As a venture investor, Natasha Ketabchi spends most of her day evaluating tech startups as potential investments. In early-stage investments, Natasha finds that the three things that matter most are team, product, and sales and marketing approach—including their go to market strategy. In this article, Natasha lifts the veil on what venture investors look for in a solid GTM plan.

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The Dual-Use Dilemma Of Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

Read why Jayshree Pandya says that there will always be the risk of dual-use of artificial intelligence on Forbes : The rapid progress and development in artificial intelligence (AI) is prompting desperate speculation about its dual use applications and security risks. From autonomous weapons systems (AWS) to facial recognition technology to decision-making algorithms, each emerging application […].

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The best cloud and IT Ops conferences of 2019

TechBeacon

Maintaining and transforming data center operations is a tough job. Whether you've got public, private, or hybrid cloud infrastructure and services, each case presents unique challenges.

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Finland’s grand AI experiment

CTOvision

Jaana Partanen is not your typical AI programming geek. Until a year ago, the 59-year-old dentist from the Finnish town of Mikkeli had no idea what to make of terms like “machine learning” or “neural networks.” Now, Partanen spends her evenings learning the basics of coding and she is thinking about how to apply artificial intelligence to […].

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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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CSS (Under)Performance

The Daily WTF

Ah, WordPress. If you hadn't heard of it by reputation, it sounds pretty good: one platform where you can build a blog, an e-commerce site, an app, or some combination of all of the above. Their site is slick, and their marketing copy sounds impressive: "Beautiful designs, powerful features, and the freedom to build anything you want. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time." With WordPress, the hype insists, anyone can build a website without having to know anything ab

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Long way before AI systems take over humans jobs: Study

CTOvision

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have a long way to go before they can take over tasks and jobs traditionally performed by people, say scientists who highlighted the severe limitations of deep learning computer networks. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the US conducted various experiments which showed that it is easy to […].

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With test automation, it's not the tool that matters

TechBeacon

People often ask me about the best tool or language to learn when they are starting out or trying to advance their career in test automation. Should they learn Java? Do they need training in Selenium? What about tools such as Cucumber and SpecFlow?

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Intel details Nervana, a neural network chip for inference-based workloads

CTOvision

At a press event at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show, Intel announced the Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP-I), an AI chip for inference-based workloads that fits into a GPU-like form factor. It wasn’t an unexpected reveal — Intel announced it was working on a new generation of inference chip way back in 2017 — but […].

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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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Slow MySQL Start Time in GTID mode? Binary Log File Size May Be The Issue

High Scalability

Have you been experiencing slow MySQL startup times in GTID mode? We recently ran into this issue on one of our MySQL hosting deployments and set out to solve the problem. In this blog, we break down the issue that could be slowing down your MySQL restart times, how to debug for your deployment, and what you can do to decrease your start time and improve your understanding of GTID-based replication.

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Can Businesses Capitalize On The Promise Of AI?

CTOvision

Artificial Intelligence holds great promise for businesses but can they really capitalize on it? Read Rob Mason’s article about it on Forbes : Regardless of industry or company size, artificial intelligence (AI) is touted as the next big thing — a high-tech superhero that will automate routine business processes, hyper-personalize customer experiences and foster more […].

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The best cloud and IT Ops conferences of 2019

TechBeacon

Maintaining and transforming data center operations is a tough job. Whether you've got public, private, or hybrid cloud infrastructure and services, each case presents unique challenges.

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IBM Earns Record 9,100 Patents in 2018, Tops U.S. Patent List

DevOps.com

IBM’s inventions include use of AI to help people converse, protect the earth’s lakes and combat voice phishing ARMONK, N.Y. – 8 Jan 2019: IBM (NYSE: IBM) inventors received a record 9,100 patents in 2018, marking the company’s 26th consecutive year of U.S. patent leadership. IBM led the industry in the number of artificial intelligence […].

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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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With test automation, it's not the tool that matters

TechBeacon

People often ask me about the best tool or language to learn when they are starting out or trying to advance their career in test automation. Should they learn Java? Do they need training in Selenium? What about tools such as Cucumber and SpecFlow?

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Large Car Magnets for Business Advertising

Women on Business

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Accountant job offer in Barcelona

Apiumhub

We are looking for an Accountant to be part of Apiumhub Team. The accountant will operate in a high-energy growth environment, and take on increasing levels of responsibility. He or she is a highly organized person who learns quickly, embraces technology and works effectively in fast-paced environments. The accountant will ensure an accurate accounting process in the company and requires the following skills: .

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MySQL High Availability Framework Explained – Part II

High Scalability

In Part I, we introduced a High Availability (HA) framework for MySQL hosting and discussed various components and their functionality. Now in Part II, we will discuss the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication and the related configuration settings that help us ensure redundancy and consistency of the data in our HA setup. Make sure to check back in for Part III where we will review various failure scenarios that could arise and the way the framework responds and recovers from these condi

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – January 2019

Symantec

This month the vendor has patched 49 vulnerabilities, 7 of which are rated Critical.

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May 1st in Nashville, Tennessee: Scaling Agile Delivery (Talk)

James Shore

08 Jan 2019. James Shore/Calendar. I’ll be at the deliver:Agile conference in Nashville from April 29th to May 1st. On the final day, I’ll be talking about scaling Agile from a technical perspective: When multiple teams work on the same product or set of products, how can those teams work together effectively? How do we create a sustainable codebase, minimize cross-team dependencies, and divide up the work?

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How do we attract new IT talent to IBM i?

Zend

What would it take to attract and keep IT professionals to the IBM i platform? The post How do we attract new IT talent to IBM i? appeared first on The Zend Blog.