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The circle of fairness

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Incremental App Migration from VMs to Kubernetes: Planning and Tactics

Daniel Bryant

Part 2: Incremental App Migration from VMs to Kubernetes?—?Planning and Tactics One of the core goals when modernising software systems is to decouple applications from the underlying infrastructure on which they are running. This can provide many benefits, including: workload portability, integration with cloud AI/ML services, reducing costs, and improving/delegating specific aspects of security.

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Protecting Your Hybrid Cloud (part 1)

Edgewise

Hybrid cloud is quickly becoming the default strategy for enterprises striving for increased scalability, agility, and cost savings. Sixty-seven percent of IT professionals say their enterprise currently has a hybrid cloud deployment, and analysts predict that spending on hybrid cloud will increase from $40 billion USD in 2017 to over $100 billion USD in 2023.

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Artificial Intelligence Is Improving How Companies Do Business

CTOvision

People communicate mostly through natural language—not equations or Excel spreadsheets or structured daily reports. This has historically posed a challenge for marketers because while the words we use are full of consumer insights, they have been generally inscrutable to analytical tools. This is, of course, changing. With natural language processing and machine-learning software, companies can […].

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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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Building Your First Telegram Bot: A Step by Step Guide

Toptal

Chatbots are revolutionizing the way people interact with technology. In recent years, their simplicity and low cost have helped drive adoption across various fields and industries. In this article, Toptal Natural Language Processing Developer Ali Abdel Aal demonstrates how you can create and deploy a Telegram chatbot in a matter of hours.

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Facebook open-sources DLRM, a deep learning recommendation model

CTOvision

Facebook today announced the open source release of Deep Learning Recommendation Model (DLRM), a state-of-the-art AI model for serving up personalized results in production environments. DLRM can be found on GitHub, and implementations of the model are available for Facebook’s PyTorch, Facebook’s distributed learning framework Caffe2, and Glow C++. Recommendation engines decide a lot of what […].

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A Journey Into SRE

Algolia

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) design and manage efficient processes and operations, and they keep a company’s infrastructure in healthy working order. . Here at Algolia, our team has grown from 4 to 10 in less than two years, a growth rate similar to the company as a whole. The team has grown not only in number but in how we work together and create sound operational processes. .

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30 essential container technology tools and resources

TechBeacon

Containers let you freeze and restart an exact copy of a system that you plan to deploy, including the operating system and configuration files. This makes debugging easy and testing a snap, and it even changes the way that deploys and rollbacks happen in IT operations.

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The Power of Integrated Data and Analytics

Teradata

Integrated data and analytics has a proven track record of helping organize operations, enhance customer experience and improve revenue and market growth.

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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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Andrew Ng on Jumping Into Artificial Intelligence: Five Considerations For Creating An AI Company

CTOvision

The advice from Andrew Ng, former founder of Google Brain, former chief scientist at Baidu and founder and chief executive of Landing AI, on artificial intelligence (AI) is to just jump in. “It is a big journey, but jumping in is not hard,” says Ng. And indeed, in the past few years we’ve seen many […].

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Avoid these five all-too-common cloud migration mistakes

DXC

I’m on the cloud. You’re on the cloud. We’re all on the cloud. But, as we move more and more of our IT — lock, stock, and two smoking servers — to the cloud, you should make sure you know what you’re getting into. Yes, the cloud can be a real help, but there are […].

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Real Hands-On Labs at Linux Academy

Linux Academy

Because we know that our learners appreciate every opportunity to prepare for their certification exams, as well as careers, we built a scenario-based resource we call Hands-On Labs. These live deployments are supplemental to the videos, and allow you to follow along with the material, building and creating as you go. If you’re looking to master your skills through practice and educate yourself beyond video content, our labs are for you.

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The Role Your Website Plays in Attracting the Right Type of Employee

Women on Business

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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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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DevSecOps Survey Finds Failure to Communicate

DevOps.com

While it’s generally agreed that shifting more cybersecurity responsibility onto the shoulders of developers is a good idea, a failure to communicate across application development and cybersecurity teams has contributed to little progress in achieving DevSecOps. A survey of 1,310 IT decision-makers conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Trend Micro […].

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The state of AI in 2019: Breakthroughs in machine learning, natural language processing, games, and knowledge graphs

CTOvision

AI is one of the most rapidly growing domains today. Keeping track and taking stock of AI requires not just constant attention, but also the ability to dissect and evaluate across a number of dimensions. This is exactly what Air Street Capital and RAAIS founder Nathan Benaich and AI angel investor, and UCL IIPP Visiting […].

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IBM and DBmaestro announce on a global partnership on DevOps and Cloud Solutions

DevOps.com

IBM and DBmaestro Team Up to Deliver Database Automation Capabilities to Enterprise Customers Worldwide IBM selects DBmaestro’s DevOps platform as a Complementary Offering to IBM UrbanCode Velocity Customers Boston, MA– July 7, 2019: DBmaestro, a global DevOps leader in database automation, today announced a worldwide partnership with IBM, offering database release automation capabilities designed to […].

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Microsoft’s July 2019 Patch Tuesday: What You Need to Know

Tenable

Microsoft’s July 2019 Security Updates were released on July 9, with nearly 80 vulnerabilities patched in this update, 15 of which are critical. CVE-2019-0865 | SymCrypt Denial of Service Vulnerability. A denial of service vulnerability was identified in SymCrypt, the cryptographic library used to handle cryptographic functions on Windows. Using a specially crafted digital signature, an attacker could exploit this flaw by embedding the signature in a message or as part of a secure connection re

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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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Application Performance Management for DataOps

DevOps.com

Over the years, application performance management (APM) tools have been utilized typically to measure and monitor the performance of software such as web applications. They do so by tracking such things as request response times and error messages, thus providing relevant data to be analyzed by the DevOps team, which then can make the appropriate […].

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Join Synopsys at codenomi-con and Black Hat USA 2019

Synopsys

Black Hat USA 2019 is in Las Vegas, Aug. 7–8. Visit us for a chance to win a Nintendo Switch, and join us at codenomi-con at the Skyfall Lounge on Aug. 6. The post Join Synopsys at codenomi-con and Black Hat USA 2019 appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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The benefits of having a Product Discovery Phase with your dev team

UruIT

How a Product Discovery phase can help your business. In the software development industry, it’s really common that clients approach development agencies like ours with a product they want to create. However, sometimes these ideas involve a huge product or sometimes a smaller one, but it still has some undefined aspects; for example uncertainties about its potential users, its functionalities, monetization strategy, etc. which can make the estimation process difficult.

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IBM Closes $34B Red Hat Acquisition

DevOps.com

Following the official closing of IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat today, leaders from both companies reiterated Red Hat will continue to operate independently of IBM but will leverage IBM resources to advance the hybrid cloud computing ambitions of the newly combined entity. Arvind Krishna, senior vice president for cloud and cognitive software at […].

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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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IDC: For 1 in 4 companies, half of all AI projects fail

CTOvision

Despite enterprises’ best efforts, painless AI deployments appear destined to remain elusive for all but the most dogged adopters. A recent study conducted by analysts at International Data Corporation (IDC) found that of the organizations already using AI, only 25% have developed an “enterprise-wide” AI strategy, and it found that among those in the process […].

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Three Tips for Breaking into the Cybersecurity Industry

Palo Alto Networks

Suchi Saxena is Senior Director, Business Strategy and Operations at Palo Alto Networks. With a background in management and business operations, she took on her first role in the cybersecurity industry earlier this year. Below she shares more about what she has learned so far, and what she recommends to those looking to break into the industry. There’s a perception that you have to have a significant amount of cybersecurity experience and know-how to get into this industry.

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The benefits of having a Product Discovery Phase with your dev team

UruIT

How a Product Discovery phase can help your business. In the software development industry, it’s really common that clients approach development agencies like ours with a product they want to create. However, sometimes these ideas involve a huge product or sometimes a smaller one, but it still has some undefined aspects; for example uncertainties about its potential users, its functionalities, monetization strategy, etc. which can make the estimation process difficult.

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Three Tips for Breaking into the Cybersecurity Industry

Palo Alto Networks

Suchi Saxena is Senior Director, Business Strategy and Operations at Palo Alto Networks. With a background in management and business operations, she took on her first role in the cybersecurity industry earlier this year. Below she shares more about what she has learned so far, and what she recommends to those looking to break into the industry. There’s a perception that you have to have a significant amount of cybersecurity experience and know-how to get into this industry.

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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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The Bernoulli Principle: Epidemiological Models for Identity

Sailpoint

Smallpox is one of the deadliest diseases in all of human history. If you contracted Smallpox in the 18th century, you would have a one in three chance of dying within sixteen days. In the 20th century alone, Smallpox killed over 500 million people. Fortunately, it’s also the only infectious disease among humans that has been successfully eradicated.

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When your own tools attack: The top 5 offenders

TechBeacon

Earlier this year, a group of cyber criminals started attacking companies using a hodgepodge of techniques, leaving behind references to the movie The Matrix , and encrypting critical enterprise systems with ransomware.

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What the Five Levels of Vehicle Autonomy Tell us About Adoption of Infrastructure Automation Tools

ParkMyCloud

On our first day as Turbonomic employees, our team had some great discussions with CTO Charles Crouchman about Turbonomic, ParkMyCloud, and the market for infrastructure automation tools. Charles explained his vision of the future of infrastructure automation, which parallels the automation trajectory that cars and other vehicles have been following for decades.