Tue.Sep 05, 2023

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The 10 Laws of Testing

Dzone - DevOps

Words we as developers should live by: “Quality comes not from inspection, but from the improvement of the production process.” — W. Edwards Deming Axiom: “Tests are code.” Too many organizations treat anything that isn’t coded as disposable. It is obvious that testing is indispensable, yet time and time again we find teams who treat test automation and related material as second-class citizens.

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6 signs an IT manager is struggling — and how to help

CIO

IT managers increasingly find themselves oversubscribed, challenged, and in many cases floundering, and it’s little wonder why. Pressured to do more with less, faster, in flatter organizational structures, IT middle managers serve as a company catchall, with too much time spent on lower-value tasks such as administrative work and planning rather than high-value work such as actually managing and executing plans, according to a recent survey from McKinsey.

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Async PHP – A Deep Dive into Asynchronous Programming

The Crazy Programmer

In the world of programming languages and web development, both – responsiveness and performance are the key. What do the users of websites expect, after all? They expect web apps and websites to load as fast as possible and respond to their interactions swiftly. The reality is that achieving that kind of performance level can be a disaster, especially when you face things like resource-intensive tasks (API calls, file I/O operations, database queries, etc.).

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Estée Lauder applies AI, AR for cosmetics accessibility

CIO

How can we help visually impaired individuals use our products and feel more self-reliant and confident? That’s the question The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) set out to answer in 2022 with the help of AI and augmented reality (AR). The result is the Voice-enabled Makeup Assistant (VMA), now fully launched in the UK and US, and soon to debut worldwide.

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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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When Your Vacation Wasn’t Exactly Relaxing

Harvard Business Review

Time off doesn’t always go as planned. So, what can you do when you come back to work more exhausted than when you left — especially when everyone assumes you’re well rested and raring to go but you feel just as depleted (or more) than before? The author recommends five strategies: 1) Take inventory of your health and energy; 2) Ease back into work; 3) Reflect on the positives; reframe and learn from the negatives; 4) Use the fresh start effect to set up new routines; and 5) Clarify what you nee

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The Challenges of Networking as an Executive

Harvard Business Review

Networking is critical for senior executives who are making job and career transitions, but it’s hard to find advice on how best to manage the process. In this article, the authors — who have decades of experience working with executives during periods of transition — identify six networking hurdles that executives often encounter, and they provide guidance on how to get over them.

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3 hard truths about the multi?cloud journey

CIO

Businesses are getting smarter, faster and more resilient in the cloud. But it doesn’t come easy. On the Futurum Tech Webcast, Chief Analyst Daniel Newman for Futurum Research (an analyst firm focused on technology, digital innovation and market disruption) talks with VMware leaders about the surprising challenges of multi-cloud. Here are three takeaways from their conversations. 1.

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A new community for Lacework customers

Lacework

Modern cybersecurity takes a village. This week, Lacework takes a huge step to connect experts, curate knowledge, and make sure we’re all doing cybersecurity better, together. Lacework is launching its brand new customer community where customers, Lacework employees (a.k.a.

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Orro: Delivering a sustainable future enabled by the cloud

CIO

In Australia, Orro is synonymous with ironclad software-defined infrastructure and sovereign cloud services that enable new ways of working, from fully managed cloud-native applications that accelerate the pace of business, to advanced collaboration tools that deliver on the promise of remote work. It is a pedigree that aligns well with the company’s ambitious call to action: “Security Connected Everything™.

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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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John Snow Labs Announces Program for the 2023 NLP Summit, the World’s Largest Gathering on Applied Natural Language Processing

John Snow Labs

Topics Covered Include Large Language Models, Semantic Search, ChatBots, Responsible AI, and the Real-World Projects that Put Them to Work John Snow Labs , the healthcare AI and NLP company and developer of the Spark NLP library, today announced the agenda for its annual NLP Summit, taking place virtually October 3-5. In its fourth year, the event is the world’s largest gathering of the artificial intelligence (AI) community that explores today’s cutting edge use cases, advancements, and challen

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How to get the most out of this transformative moment for business technology

CIO

We are living through a unique moment where two transformative technologies for business are converging. On one side, there is the awesome power of the cloud, which allows businesses to break down silos so their teams can access the data they need to innovate faster and in a more secure environment. On the other side is generative business AI, which can do everything from generating content and code to automating time-consuming tasks and discovering new insights.

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Getting Started With the IBM App Connect Public API

Dzone - DevOps

If you are looking to create App Connect resources programmatically or provide your own monitoring and administration capabilities, this article offers an introduction to using the public API, with a worked example using Bash for those looking to get started.

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Controlling cloud chaos: How to realign IT with the business

CIO

The cloud is undoubtedly transformative for both IT and businesses, but the business has often been left out of the process when it comes to cloud technology decisions. In a traditional environment, everyone must collaborate on building servers, storage, and networking equipment. For instance, if IT requires more processing or storage, the team needs to initiate a capital expenditure to purchase additional hardware.

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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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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, SPECTRUM and more!

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Driving Software Innovation: Apiumhub’s Successful Cases with Leading Companies

Apiumhub

In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, the partnership between Apiumhub and industry leaders like Nestlé , Bitpanda , Mango , Inditex , Mercadona , and Etnia serves as a good example of the potential of technological partnerships. Apiumhub´s successful cases with leading companies have led to groundbreaking projects that have transformed processes, improved user experiences, and elevated business performance.

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Elevating User Satisfaction: FlexDeploy UX Improvements

Flexagon

The significance of UX (user experience) in a web application cannot be overstated. A well-designed UX ensures that users can easily navigate, interact, and derive value from the application, leading to higher user satisfaction, increased engagement, and ultimately, the success of the product. Since FlexDeploy 6.0 we have been steadily converting components of FlexDeploy to a more modern look and feel.

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Creating a Custom Starter With Spring Boot 3

Dzone - DevOps

Starters are an integral part of the Spring Boot application. In addition to dependency versioning, they provide the ability to describe the configuration for a particular functionality. They gained their popularity due to the development of microservice architecture. When we have dozens or hundreds of services within one application, some of the functionality is not duplicated.

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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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Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Reference Architectures

DevOps.com

IDPs have been the talk of the town. But what does an IDP actually look like? Bill Doerrfeld explains.

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Design and Deployment Considerations for Deploying Apache Kafka on AWS

Confluent

Want to run Kafka on AWS? Our full tutorial provides expert recommendations on how to deploy, monitor, and manage Kafka clusters on AWS.

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Ethics of Telemetry Collection for Employee Experience Improvement

Ivanti

Data collection has become an increasingly essential tool for businesses, allowing them to gather insights about their customers and employees. But it also raises the question of ethics: what data should be collected, how should it be used and who should have access to it? In this article, we'll explore the ethical implications of collecting employee experience data through telemetry.

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Compass Tech Summit: A Remarkable 5-In-1 Tech Conference

Apiumhub

Do you like technology events? Are you passionate about learning and connecting with other professionals? If the answer is yes, then you should check out the Compass Tech Summit. Compass Tech Summit is an inclusive and professional conference that takes place on October 5-6 at the Hungarian Railway Museum in Budapest, Hungary. This year, the conference will bring together under one roof several conferences, including Reinforce, Stretch, Crunch, Amuse, and Impact.

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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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If You Want Culture Change, Create New Stories

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Eccles professor Jay Barney on research about retooling culture.

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CodeSOD: The Administrator Hack

The Daily WTF

A decade ago, Adam was doing support on a classic ASP application. This was an internal application which tracked sales accounts, employee reviews, and general HR information. Now, the company had a real HR system, but some of their internal processes predated the HR system, thus they had a custom application that did things the HR system already did, but they already owned the application and didn't want to retrain people.

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Data as a Product: How to Increase the Efficiency of Using Data and Become Data Driven

Dataiku

In 1776, an instrument maker from the University of Glasgow named James Watt developed a steam engine that was four times more efficient than its predecessor. The engine used one-fourth as much coal to do the same amount of work. Some thought that the demand for coal would drop but the opposite happened.

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One-Click Deploying EMQX MQTT Broker on Azure Using Terraform

Dzone - DevOps

MQTT is a lightweight messaging protocol used in the Internet of Things (IoT) to enable communication between devices. As a popular open-source MQTT broker, EMQX provides high scalability, reliability, and security for MQTT messaging. By using Terraform, a widespread Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, you can automate the deployment of EMQX MQTT Broker on Azure, making it easy to set up and manage your MQTT infrastructure.

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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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CyRC Vulnerability Advisory: CVE-2023-2453 Local File Inclusion in Forum Infusion and CVE-2023-4480 Arbitrary File Read in Fusion File Manager

Synopsys

Synopsys researcher discovers vulnerabilities CVE-2023-2453, CVE-2023-4480 in PHPFusion.

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Implementing an Arc Flash Electrical Safety Program

Perficient

Despite many federal and state regulations aimed at improving the safety of utilities workers in the United States, there are several fatalities and many more injuries every year resulting from arc flash incidents on the job. Thankfully, advancements in worker safety technology have been helping organizations to reduce the occurrence and the risk of these incidents – but employee education, change management, and updated engineering standards are essential to successful implementation.

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Megaport ONE Beta Is Available Now. Here’s How You Can Use It

Megaport

In 2013, the networking landscape looked pretty different to how it looks today. Cloud interconnection, edge computing, and distributed security weren’t much more than hypothetical conversations; rather, it was all about how to just get to the cloud. Megaport was registered as a company in June 2013, becoming one of the world’s first SDN-based elastic interconnection platforms and helping.

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