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DevOps Your Skill: Static Code Quality Analysis

Dzone - DevOps

Without a doubt, one of the aspects a developer should pay more attention to is trying to always generate understandable, maintainable, and clear code — in short, to generate clean code. During the development of code (modules, libraries), it is important to integrate objective tools that measure the status of the code and provide the information to know its quality and thus be able to detect and prevent problems: duplicate functions, excessively complex methods, code low quality, non-standard c

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Key Marketing AI Concepts (In Plain English!)

Dataiku

Today’s marketing teams have no shortage of business questions they want to solve, yet they run into all kinds of challenges when trying to make AI a reality. One of them is wanting to democratize the use of AI and data but unable to do so due to a lack of knowledge and transparency around how AI-based technology works.

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Threat Modeling: Grow your practise

Martin Fowler

Final installment in “A Guide to Threat Modelling for Developers” Feedback and continuous improvement is central to managing risk. Neither the systems we build nor the threats they face are simple, as I stressed at the start of this guide. And every team is different- with different skills, tools, constraints and personalities. There is no single way to threat model, this guide simply provides some basics to get you started.

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How To Disrupt the Disruption and Help Your Team Move Forward

Let's Grow Leaders

You wouldn’t have wished for this ridiculous, unprecedented disruption. But if you’re like many leaders I talk with, this stressful period has also been surprisingly energizing. Until it wasn’t. You’re proud of your team. They’ve been working round the clock on a […]. The post How To Disrupt the Disruption and Help Your Team Move Forward 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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Employer data goes AWOL under Covid-19 lockdowns

The Parallax

Covid-19-era data breaches go beyond unemployment insurance fraud, medical-research hacks, and other hot topics. And unfortunately for public organizations and private companies, the data loss — from theft or otherwise — is getting worse. That’s according to several studies published this month, including the Digital Guardian Data Trends Report , published today, which paints an increasingly dire picture for organizations.

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NOC: An MSP’s Guide to Network Operations Centers

Kaseya

Network operations center (NOC) services, in the context of modern-day IT managed services, typically involve the delivery of IT services that focus on endpoint monitoring and management. Endpoints, in this context, refer to servers and workstations (desktops and laptops) as well as network (SNMP) devices. A NOC services company is a third-party resource that delivers these IT services on behalf of the MSP.

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How Cloud-Based Training Can Better Enable Remote Workers

CTOvision

Read why Zvi Guterman says that providing cloud-based training to remote workers is very important on Infosec Magazine : Remote working has suddenly jumped to the top of the enterprise […].

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Best Practices to Secure Your Apache Kafka Deployment

Confluent

For many organizations, Apache Kafka® is the backbone and source of truth for data systems across the enterprise. Protecting your event streaming platform is critical for data security and often […].

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How to Pay a Ransom

CTOvision

Read Nicole Ferraro explain how you can negotiate with ransomware makers after your computer is infected with ransomware on Dark Reading : It’s Tuesday morning. You arrive at your desk […].

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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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Remember this: Chrome’s security flaws put Rust in the hotseat

TechBeacon

Remember when hackers didn’t target Web browsers? Remember when Internet-connected client code didn’t need to be hardened against “untrustworthy inputs”?

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Capacity Planning Done Right

Kentik

Kentik launched a completely redesigned user interface in February with many new capabilities. As part of that, we focused on leveraging AIOps techniques to drive software-guided workflows that enable specific and typically-tedious tasks. One task we wanted to help NetOps teams more easily manage is capacity planning. In this post, we highlight some of our latest platform capabilities to help with managing the capacity of various circuits and interfaces.

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6 Virtual DevOps Conferences You Can?t Afford to Miss in June 2020

DevOps.com

Conferences and events make up to a trillion-dollar industry and have been playing a major role in connecting people from different parts of the world and exchange ideas. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the first major tech conference that got canceled due to health and safety concerns was the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the annual […]. The post 6 Virtual DevOps Conferences You Can’t Afford to Miss in June 2020 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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A Look at the 5 Most Common Types of Cyberattacks

Tenable

Learn more about the key threat vectors you will need to combat with vulnerability assessment tools and cybersecurity best practices. The modern cybersecurity landscape is incredibly complex by any standard. Whether or not you are a cybersecurity professional, everyone can benefit from learning about the dangers you're most likely to face — and determine how security tactics like vulnerability assessment can help protect you. .

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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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Cloud security and data protection: What enterprises need to know

TechBeacon

Data security is rarely the first consideration when choosing a public cloud service provider. That's changing, though, because of the rise of tougher rules, regulations, and standards aimed at protecting consumer privacy. Without data security, there can be no privacy.

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EasyJet faces £18 billion class-action lawsuit over data breach

CTOvision

UK budget airline easyJet is facing an £18 billion class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of customers impacted by a recently-disclosed data breach. Made public on May 19, easyJet said that information […].

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Quality is the Answer

Dzone - DevOps

Introduction. Everyone knows that quality is a key component in software development, but there’s an equal and opposite feeling that there just isn’t time to do the kind of analysis and testing it requires. We prioritize feature development over backfilling tests—or writing them in the first place—and our agile ceremonies lack the rigor and process quality requires.

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How to Broadcast a Facebook Live Event in 7 Easy Steps

TechSoup

Since launching in 2015, Facebook Live has exploded in popularity. And now that you can use video conferencing software providers such as Zoom to broadcast live to Facebook, there are even more ways to reach your community.

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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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The Type Scale On a Design System

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 4 minutes Learn about one of the Design System’s principles: how a good Type Scale helps us to have a great User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX). Let’s talk a bit about Typography in a Design System. Typography is not just about fonts, styles, size, margins, space, scale, and color. Therefore, typography organizes information in an objective way and determines how this information is presented to the user.

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How to Broadcast a Facebook Live Event in 7 Easy Steps

TechSoup

Since launching in 2015, Facebook Live has exploded in popularity. And now that you can use video conferencing software providers such as Zoom to broadcast live to Facebook, there are even more ways to reach your community.

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AppDynamics Survey Sees Rush to Digital Transformation

DevOps.com

A survey of 1,000 IT professionals in organizations with annual revenue of at least $500 million conducted by AppDynamics, a unit of Cisco Systems, finds nearly three-quarters (74%) report digital transformation projects which typically would take more than a year to be approved are now being signed off on in a matter of weeks. The […]. The post AppDynamics Survey Sees Rush to Digital Transformation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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People Know Reusing Passwords Is Dumb, But Still Do It

CTOvision

Read Lindsey O’Donnell take a look at why people keep reusing dumb passwords even if they know the risks attached to it on Threat Post : Even seeing data breaches […].

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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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Complete Guide to Launch an Online Yoga Studio

Daffodil Software

Yoga, the ancient health discipline is gaining popularity and acceptance, globally. It’s attaining a significant space in the wellness industry. If we specifically talk about the United States, there are 55 million people who practice yoga. In fact, Yoga and Pilates are two of the fastest-growing disciplines to achieve holistic health.

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The Evolution of the Data Warehouse in the Big Data Era

Dell EMC

About 20 years ago, I started my journey into data warehousing and business analytics. Over all these years, it’s been interesting to see the evolution of big data and data warehousing, driven by the rise of artificial intelligence and widespread adoption of Hadoop. When I started in this work, the main business challenge was how to handle the explosion of data with ever-growing data sets and, most importantly, how to gain business intelligence in as close to real time as possible.

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Why and When You Should Consider Using PWAs

Gorilla Logic

Progressive web apps, or PWAs, are fully functional web applications that look and feel like native mobile apps to the end user. PWAs use an app-like UX to offer app-style gestures and navigation. PWAs have been optimized for mobile and use available web APIs to deliver features that are similar to the features a user would find in a traditional native app.

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Rethinking Weak Vs. Strong AI

CTOvision

Read Kathleen Walch’s article in Forbes about weak vs. strong AI. Artificial intelligence has a broad range of ways in which it can be applied?—?from chatbots to predictive analytics, from […].

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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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A new way to manage supply chain risk – Introducing the AICPA SOC for Supply Chain report

Coalfire

With the continuation of its System and Organization Controls (SOC) suite of services (SOC 2®, SOC for Cybersecurity, etc.), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has released a new report format that focuses on manufacturing and distribution supply chains. The AICPA’s SOC for Supply Chain framework helps these organizations communicate their processes and controls to support their supply chain risk management, as well as to detect, prevent, and respond to sup

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3 Reasons Why your Remote Workforce Is Vulnerable

CTOvision

Read Bob Erdman explain how your remote workforce is vulnerable to cyber attacks on Dark Reading : Countless organizations have rapidly pivoted from onsite offices to a fully remote workforce […].

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DevOps Institute Announces First Playbook to Ignite The DevOps Journey

DevOps.com

The DevOps Journey Playbook is the first of DevOps Institute’s new SKILup Playbook Library to share a dynamic collective body of knowledge that aligns thought leadership from industry experts with curated research and pragmatic guidance regardless of where you are on the journey BOCA RATON, Fla., May 28, 2020 — DevOps Institute, a global member-based association for […].

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