Wed.Aug 30, 2023

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Feature-Based Pricing: A Guide To Per Feature Pricing in SaaS

CloudZero

The best pricing strategy for your SaaS business will depend on your specific business model, target market, and competition. You’ll also want to test different pricing strategies to see which one works best for you.

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CIOs are worried about the informal rise of generative AI in the enterprise

CIO

In my previous column in May, when I wrote about generative AI uses and the cybersecurity risks they could pose , CISOs noted that their organizations hadn’t deployed many (if any) generative AI-based solutions at scale. What a difference a few months makes. Now, generative AI use has infiltrated the enterprise with tools and platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT / DALL-E, Anthropic’s Claude.ai, Stable Diffusion, and others in ways both expected and unexpected.

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Protecting Yourself Against Fraudulent Recruiters & Hiring Scams

N2Growth Blog

Today’s competitive job market can be rife with job offers and opportunities but also with scams. According to the Better Business Bureau, recruitment scams result in $2 billion in direct losses annually, with the first quarter of 2023 alone seeing a 250% increase compared to the previous year. Given the high stakes, jobseekers must diligently differentiate legitimate and fraudulent offers.

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The portfolio approach to digital transformation: 4 keys to success

CIO

Corporate projects are classically evaluated on standard matrices such as return on investment (ROI), break-even period, and capital invested. But as organizations look to quickly leverage the power of emerging digital technologies for business growth, such an approach is falling short on expectations. “Digital initiatives are innovative and although it’s fair to have an anticipation of ROI, having an iron-clad approach to specific monetary returns from each IT project won’t let some of the big

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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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CVE-2023-2868: Barracuda and FBI Recommend Replacing Email Security Gateway (ESG) Devices Immediately

Tenable

CVE-2023-2868: Barracuda and FBI Recommend Replacing Email Security Gateway (ESG) Devices Immediately Since October 2022, attackers have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Barracuda Email Security Gateway devices, and both the vendor and the FBI urge customers to replace these devices immediately Background On May 19, Barracuda published an incident report that detailed an investigation into a zero-day vulnerability in its Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances: CVE Description CVSSv3

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Google Adds App Modernization Tools to Generative AI Platform

DevOps.com

Google this week added automated refactoring capabilities to the generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools it makes available to write code on Google Cloud.

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??Calculating Sampling’s Impact on SLOs and More

Honeycomb

What do mall food courts and Honeycomb have in common? We both love sampling! Not only do we recommend it to many of our customers, we do it ourselves. But once Refinery (our tail-based sampling proxy) is set up, what comes next? Since sampling is inherently lossy, it’s good to be sure the organization’s most important measurements aren’t negatively affected.

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Gremlin Adds Detected Risk Tool to Chaos Engineering Service

DevOps.com

Gremlin's risk detection capability in its chaos engineering service automatically identifies issues that could cause outages along with recommendations to resolve them.

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Unpinnable Actions: How Malicious Code Can Sneak into Your GitHub Actions Workflows

Prisma Clud

In today’s post, we look at action pinning, one of the profound mitigations against supply chain attacks in the GitHub Actions ecosystem. It turns out, though, that action pinning comes with a downside — a pitfall we call "unpinnable actions" that allows attackers to execute code in GitHub Actions workflows. As we discussed in the previous blog post, Third-Party GitHub Actions: Effects of an Opt-Out Permission Model , the permissive nature of GitHub Actions workflows is prevalent throughout the

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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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Tenable Nessus Expands Attack Surface Coverage with Web Application Scanning

Tenable

Web applications can be an Achilles’ heel for even the most mature security organizations. For small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as the security consultants and pen testers who support them, unsecured web apps can be a pathway to a data breach that can bring an organization to its knees. Here’s how Tenable Nessus can help. When Tenable Nessus was launched in 1998, the attack surface consisted of only traditional IT devices — desktops, workstations, network equipment, etc.

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Accenture and Aqua Partner to Empower Cloud Security

Aqua Security

Eight years ago, Amir Jerbi and I founded Aqua Security with the aspiration of creating a better approach to securing modern cloud applications. While our journey initially focused on securing Docker technology, digital transformation and a changing threat landscape drove us to innovate further and eventually pioneer a new category known as CNAPP (Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms).

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Empowering the Members of Your Team

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

For you to get the most out of the members of your high performing team, you need to empower them. For you to get the most out of the members of your high performing team, you need to empower them. Remember, on a high performing team, those team members are typically very self-motivated, and they like being self-directed. You need to understand how letting go of your agenda, creating space for them to flourish, and then accepting that there are different ways of doing things is going to bring ou

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CDF Report: Steady Growth in Number of Jenkins Jobs Run

DevOps.com

The Jenkins Project reported that pipeline usage grew 79%, with total workloads running in the CI/CD platform growing 45%.

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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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Unpacking BIOS Security Built into OptiPlex, Latitude and Precision

Dell EMC

Dell and Intel cyber experts address the burning questions we hear around BIOS security.

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VS Code for Mainframe: The Enterprise Developer Tipping Point

DevOps.com

With the free and open Code4z extension pack, VS Code is mainframe-ready and it's a great tool for mainframe developers.

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How Global Companies Can Create a Consistent Customer Experience

Harvard Business Review

Building a global company is easier, but also more nuanced and complex, than ever before. In the past, companies could limit expansion in a more controlled fashion to just one market at a time. In the digital age, global growth is far more continuous and incremental in nature. But with this new approach comes risk: If your customers in one market receive less value than those in another, they perceive your offering differently.

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Introducing Confluent Platform 7.5

Confluent

Confluent Platform 7.5 brings SSO for Control Center, simplified interface with Confluent using v3 of the REST proxy API, and bidirectional Cluster Linking.

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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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Convert COBOL Easily? Yes, Please!

DevOps.com

IBM's preview of an AI tool to convert COBOL to Java has Don MacVittie cheering.

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How to Give — and Receive — Critical Feedback

Harvard Business Review

Executive coach and organizational consultant Ben Dattner says giving good feedback is about how you deliver it.

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Join the Excitement at Current 2023: Unmissable Keynotes and 5 Must-Attend Sessions

Confluent

Get a sneak peak into what awaits you at Current 2023—featuring captivating keynotes, must-attend sessions, networking opportunities, and much more.

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CodeSOD: I Feel Asleep

The Daily WTF

When your program needs to pause, there are several options. The first is a pure busy loop- usually a bad idea, but frequently more efficient for very short delays than other options. The "standard" is to sleep your program- just tell the OS scheduler to let other programs run and to wake you up after some interval. In multithreaded programs, you'll frequently sleep one thread while waiting on others.

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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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Strategies for Removing Waste from the Definition of Done

scruminc

Strategies for Removing Waste from the Definition of Done A lean DoD is a powerful tool that can ensure quality, boost productivity, and facilitate faster delivery. by Andrew Robbins | August 30 , 2023 | Blog Leaning out the Definition of Done (DoD) involves the application of Lean principles to identify and remove waste. Each step in the DoD must be scrutinized for its value.

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Top Use Cases for Generative AI in Banking, FSI, & Insurance

Dataiku

Here's the scoop on Generative AI, according to a June 2023 Dataiku + Databricks survey of 400 senior AI professionals. A whopping 64% of organizations across all industries will “Likely” or “Very Likely” use it over the next year. Plus, 45% of respondents said they are already experimenting with Generative AI. This includes large language models (LLMs) , the tech behind ChatGPT.

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Embracing the Uncharted: The Power of Formulating Vision Without Preconceptions

CEO Insider

Life is complex, and not everyone has a predefined purpose. Most people struggle to identify their goals for the next month. And that’s okay! As a society we have created perception cages of what defines success, what defines happiness and fulfillment, what is normal and what’s not, and so on. This oversimplification of the human […] The post Embracing the Uncharted: The Power of Formulating Vision Without Preconceptions appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Measuring Your Long-Term Strategy’s Short-Term Success

Harvard Business Review

Major strategy shifts need time to play out, but how long is too long?

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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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??Calculating Sampling’s Impact on SLOs and More

Honeycomb

What do mall food courts and Honeycomb have in common? We both love sampling! Not only do we recommend it to many of our customers, we do it ourselves. But once Refinery (our tail-based sampling proxy) is set up, what comes next? Since sampling is inherently lossy, it’s good to be sure the organization’s most important measurements aren’t negatively affected.

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Evaluating Robustness and Bias in Healthcare Named Entity Recognition Models

John Snow Labs

In this blog post, we will explore the evaluation of robustness and bias in healthcare Named Entity Recognition (NER) models. We introduce the significance of evaluating these aspects in healthcare NER models and discuss LangTest, an open-source Python tool for evaluation. The article covers implementation details of the med7 and ner posology models and demonstrates their usage.

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IBM i 7.5 for PHP: Exploring Db2 Services

Zend

Get an overview of IBM i 7.5 for PHP -- including details on the new and improved Db2 services -- as well as other features, benefits, and considerations for teams deploying PHP on IBM i.

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