Thu.Jul 06, 2023

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Digital Transformation Delivers Business Benefits

CIO

Virtually every organization worth its salt is involved in digital transformation, and those efforts are starting to pay dividends, according to F5’s 2023 State of Application Strategy Report. When respondents to F5’s survey of more than 1,000 IT leaders were asked to list the benefits of digital transformation, IT operational efficiency topped the list (cited by 66% of respondents), followed by business operational efficiency (49%), better alignment of IT with business outcomes (47%), employee

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How AI Transforms DevOps Infrastructure

DevOps.com

AI can help manage cloud resources for DevOps by predicting future needs based on usage trends and automatically adjusting resources to optimize cost and performance.

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What is Oracle’s generative AI strategy?

CIO

While Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, and IBM have already released their generative AI offerings, rival Oracle has so far been largely quiet about its own strategy. Instead of launching a competing offering in a rush, the company is quietly preparing a three-tier approach. “Our tier strategy resembles a three-layer cake and each of these layers targets different enterprise customers depending on their needs,” said Karan Batta, vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

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To Help Your Team Grow, Give Them Space to Struggle

Harvard Business Review

When you see an employee struggling with a task you could do easily, it’s only natural to want to step in and help. But from the other side, this can feel more like micromanagement than support. And when leaders over-function by keeping too much work for themselves, they allow those around them to under-function. We all know how important it is to delegate — both to help employees grow and to create a more collaborative, empowered, productive team.

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Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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Need for Speed Drives Security-as-a-Service

CIO

Organizations face new challenges associated with protecting distributed assets against cyberattack in the hybrid IT model that most companies will deploy for the foreseeable future. Threats are emerging at a speed that makes it difficult for internal security practitioners to keep pace. There are zero-day attacks that exploit vulnerabilities before security teams are even aware of them.

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How PwC and SAP are doing right by helping clients unlock ESG value

CIO

Achieving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) targets can increase a company’s worth beyond the feel-good. When it’s done right, it can increase company valuation with investors, open windows to subsidies, gain favorable supplier ratings with customers, and make companies attract and retain talent. There is always a complex balance when implementing ESG goals between incentives and penalties to bring about change.

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Error'd: Hugops

The Daily WTF

Hugops to Feedly who seem to have run into a snag this week. Feeder Brent N. fretted "Seems feedly's update isn't going well, with only 21 of 3 hours left to go." Emil L. snarked "Shopping for a washing machine with the Swedish firm Elgiganten. Still waiting for Kim to inform me about that not so hidden field among the product details" I suspect this could be an unexpected outcome of a monolingual member in a polyglot team.

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Hybrid IT is Here to Stay

CIO

The hybrid IT architecture is here to stay, according to F5’s 2023 State of Application Strategy Report , and that has profound implications for how enterprises should be thinking about modernizing, deploying, and securing applications. Data collected from more than 1,000 survey respondents indicates that IT leaders have come to realize there is simply no one environment that works best for all applications.

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Threads: Twitter Killer or Ad-Infested Hellscape?

DevOps.com

In this week’s #TheLongView: Meta launches its much-leaked Threads microblogging app. A spinoff from Instagram, it’s already reached 30 million signups at the time of writing. How is Meta’s DevOps team making it scale?

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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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Cost and Complexity Drive Multicloud Networking

CIO

Traditional networking is boring. But multicloud networking is hot, according to the more than 1,000 global IT leaders surveyed for F5’s 2023 State of Application Strategy report. When asked to identify the most exciting technologies of 2023, multicloud networking was cited by 42% of survey respondents. That’s higher than trendy topics like AIOps and edge computing, and a close third to Zero Trust and IT/OT convergence, which each came in at 44%.

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Driving Exceptional Support: Unleashing Support Power with Honeycomb

Honeycomb

In technical support, ensuring customer satisfaction and quickly resolving issues are of utmost importance. At Honeycomb, we embrace a comprehensive approach by using our own platform—not only for engineering purposes, but to also empower our support team. By utilizing Honeycomb, our support engineers can monitor, troubleshoot, and investigate customer issues with great efficiency.

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Review of IntelliJ Aqua: A New IDE for Test Automation

Dzone - DevOps

IntelliJ Aqua is the IDE launched by JetBrains that is oriented towards test automation and incorporates several tools and options that help QA automation develop them. It is currently in the free preview phase, so I have decided to try this version of IntelliJ in order to draw my own conclusions and see how useful or necessary (perhaps essential?) it is for our daily work as automation QAs.

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Revolutionizing Telecommunications with Intent-Based Quality on Demand APIs

CableLabs

In today’s digitally connected world, where everyone expects high-speed and reliable connections for their data-intensive activities, quality of service (QoS) plays the starring role. Think of QoS as the traffic cop of the digital highway, ensuring that data gets where it needs to go smoothly and quickly. For service providers, QoS is more than just traffic management.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’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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2F Authentication with Google Authenticator in Spring Boot

InnovationM

In today’s digital world, security is a major concern, and 2-factor authentication (2FA) is one way to increase security. 2FA adds an extra layer of protection to your account by requiring users to provide two forms of authentication to access it. This usually includes something the user knows (such as a password) and something they have (such as a physical device).

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The Heat is On: Climate Change, Record-Breaking Temperatures, and the Tech Industry’s Response

DevOps.com

The Heat is On: Climate Change, Record-Breaking Temperatures, and the Tech Industry’s Response July’s Sizzling Start The Fourth of July 2023 was not just a day of fireworks and barbecues, but also the hottest day on Earth in as many as 125,000 years. The global average temperature reached 17.

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How AI Can Help Your Business

Invid Group

How AI Can Help Your Business BY: INVID Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changing technology that is reshaping numerous sectors of the global economy. AI has established itself across various industries, from manufacturing to retail to healthcare. It has shown to be particularly useful in assisting organizations in improving operations, streamlining procedures, and spurring growth.

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The Future is CNAPP: Why I Joined Aqua

Aqua Security

Why did I join Aqua? Coming from Microsoft Defender, I have witnessed the CNAPP market mature. I’ve seen players of all shapes emerge, and I’ve seen customers come to understand why they need dedicated cloud security.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Microservices Security in a Nutshell

Dzone - DevOps

Microservices architectures have gained popularity due to their scalability, agility, and flexibility. However, with these architectures' increased distribution and complexity, ensuring robust security measures becomes paramount. The security of microservices extends beyond traditional approaches, requiring a comprehensive strategy to protect against evolving threats and vulnerabilities.

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Let the Urgency of Your Customers’ Needs Guide Your Sales Strategy

Harvard Business Review

When companies are creating profiles of possible target customers, there is a dimension they often overlook: the urgency of the need for the offering. This article provides a process for segmenting prospective customers in this fashion and creating a sales strategy.

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Cloud Orchestration and its Impact on DevOps Teams

DevOps.com

Cloud orchestration enables organizations and DevOps teams to more easily monitor, control and optimize their cloud environments.

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If you hate Jira, talk to your administrator

Modus Create

We often hear variations of the “I hate Jira” refrain, but why? I know I don’t hate it. I know many entities that would easily be considered members of humanity who don’t hate it. I even know a significant number of humans not in the Atlassian profession who like Jira a lot or, dare we say, love it. So one day when someone said to me, “if you hate Jira, talk to your administrator,” it stopped me dead in my tracks.

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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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How TestOps Enhances DevOps and Software Development

DevOps.com

By properly setting up TestOps, companies can make their DevOps processes more efficient, transparent and bug-free.

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Unlock the Power of Software Heritage Archive

Dzone - DevOps

Recently I took the role of an ambassador for Software Heritage (SWH), a remarkable universal source code archive. I was surprised to discover that many of my colleagues and fellow software developers were unaware of SWH’s existence. After visiting the SWH website, they weren’t quite sure what it was about and why it is important. I decided to write this article for them and for those who still don’t know about source code archiving and the importance of software persistence.

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What are the biggest challenges your team faces when it comes to managing their time?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: What are the biggest challenges your team faces when it comes to managing their time? Too many meetings 23.69% Too much email 11.85% Lack of clear priorities 18.42% Too much work to do 26.31% Failure to delegate effectively 6.14% Inability to say “no” 7.45% Something else 6.14% It’s your job to prioritize. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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Using Consumption-based IT to Enable Customer Obsession

Dell EMC

Red River is helping customers improve business outcomes and preserve security by using a consumption-based cloud strategy.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo

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Meet Ankit Garg, Our July Confluent Champion

Confluent

Meet Senior Software Engineer Ankit Garg. Find out about all the interesting projects he’s working on—and how Confluent provides him with opportunities for growth.

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IT Leaders: Uncover the Secrets to Winning the Analytics & AI Race

Dataiku

Like many organizations, multinational insurance company Aviva has a lot of IT assets, processes, and support teams to manage, and they are always looking for ways to streamline their operations and improve efficiency — and do so at a rapid pace. To address these challenges, Aviva (in conjunction with Wipro) created the Digital Operations Management engine, which uses various tools and techniques to analyze and optimize its IT operations at speed.

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Using Inversion as a Mental Model for Product Management

Abhishek Tiwari

In the world of product management, the ability to think critically and anticipate potential problems is essential for success. One mental model that can greatly aid product managers in this regard is inversion. Inversion, a concept popularized by the German mathematician Carl Jacobi, involves thinking about a problem in reverse order or considering the opposite of what is desired.