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Article: Psychological Safety: Models and Experiences

InfoQ Culture Methods

This paper discusses psychological safety that refers to a climate in which people are comfortable being (and expressing) themselves. A proposed model (called S.A.F.E.T.Y.) is discussed briefly, and the article proposes a path to how we can use this model in agile adoptions related to teams and organizations. By Fabio Armani, Giulia Armani.

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ML Platform Meetup: Infra for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning

Netflix Tech

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? theme of the ML Platform meetup hosted at Netflix, Los Gatos on Sep 12, 2019. Contextual and Multi-armed Bandits enable faster and adaptive alternatives to traditional A/B Testing. They enable rapid learning and better decision-making for product rollouts. Broadly speaking, these approaches can be seen as a stepping stone to full-on Reinforcement Learning (RL) with closed-loop, on-policy evaluation and model objec

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Kubernetes security audits: What admins need to know—and do

TechBeacon

Kubernetes has come of age. Enterprise organizations across nearly all verticals, including those with strong security requirements, such as financial services, healthcare, government, and telecommunications, are deploying production applications to Kubernetes clusters.

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What to Do When You Feel Like a Fraud

Let's Grow Leaders

Do you ever feel like you don’t belong in the room – that you’ve somehow fooled everyone into thinking you’re better than you are. Any minute now they’ll find out and then you’re in trouble… Or maybe you have that internal voice […]. The post What to Do When You Feel Like a Fraud appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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What Does It Take to Become a Successful Businesswoman?

Women on Business

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Survey Suggests DevOps Drives Digital Business Transformation

DevOps.com

A survey published this week by New Relic, a provider of IT monitoring services, suggests there is a high correlation between organizations that have embarked on digital business transformation initiatives and adoption of best DevOps practices. Revealed at the Futurestack conference hosted by New Relic, the survey 750 global senior IT decision-makers of enterprises with […].

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A Conversation with Kenny Bass-Schwegler and Alberto Brandolini about the power of Event Storming

Agile Alliance

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DevOps Chat: CI/CD Scalability Lessons with CircleCI

DevOps.com

The software development tool needs of a two to three person team can be much different than those of a large enterprise. CI/CD is a common approach nearly all software teams establish. But what needs of a larger software organization do you adopt early on and which simply add more complexity than benefit? Rob Zuber, […]. The post DevOps Chat: CI/CD Scalability Lessons with CircleCI appeared first on DevOps.com.

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5 Tips for DevSecOps Education and Training

Dzone - DevOps

Thinking of a master DevSecOps plan. Whether it was the millions of users left vulnerable by Fortnite , or hackers gaining access to Dunkin’ customer accounts , 2019 has already seen some of the worst data breaches to date. To combat these types of attacks and vulnerabilities, organizations must be more cognizant of their security, and embrace a DevSecOps approach.

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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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Digital Accessibility Standards Checklist: Is Your Software Accessible Enough?

Praxent

Digital Accessibility Standards Checklist : Is Your Software Accessible Enough? We explain the basics of digital accessibility , plus provide a checklist to help ensure your teams are designing and developing software that complies with standards. Is your company’s website and legacy software accessible? The issue of digital accessibility has been brought to the forefront lately, due to the buzz surrounding a recent lawsuit against Domino’s Pizza.

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DevSecOps Explained in 5 Minutes

Dzone - DevOps

The history, tools, and metrics of DevSecOps. Where Did DevSecOps Come From? Traditionally, software development involved two separate siloed departments: development and operations. The developers were responsible for writing the code and the operatives were responsible for implementing and managing it. Back then, this software development process, which essentially followed the waterfall process , was simple and straightforward.

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SSL/TLS Decryption Can Help with GDPR Compliance

Palo Alto Networks

By John Harrison, Regional Product Marketing Manager, EMEA, and Fred Streefland, Regional Chief Security Officer. You might be surprised to learn that SSL decryption can be a valuable tool for protecting data in compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), when applied according to best practices. Responsible organizations everywhere want to protect their networks and the personal data their users entrust to them.

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Writing About DevOps [Prompts]

Dzone - DevOps

If you're having trouble thinking of DevOps writing topics, let us supply your aha moment. Ever struggle with what to write? No worries, we've got you covered. Here's a list of cloud prompts and article ideas to help cure even the worst cases of writer's block. So, take a moment, check out the prompts below, pick one (or more!), and get to writing. Also, please feel free to comment on this post to bounce around ideas, ask questions, or share which prompt(s) you're working on.

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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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ML Platform Meetup: Infra for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning

Netflix Tech

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? theme of the ML Platform meetup hosted at Netflix, Los Gatos on Sep 12, 2019. Contextual and Multi-armed Bandits enable faster and adaptive alternatives to traditional A/B Testing. They enable rapid learning and better decision-making for product rollouts. Broadly speaking, these approaches can be seen as a stepping stone to full-on Reinforcement Learning (RL) with closed-loop, on-policy evaluation and model objec

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What Do You Need to Know to Be a Software Test Engineer?

Dzone - DevOps

Here's what you need to know to score that test engineer position. When you're looking for a job as a software test engineer, you know you'll run a gauntlet of questions before you get a handshake and a new job. What do you need to know? When I want to know about software testing, I ask Angie Jones. Angie is the senior developer advocate here at Applitools.

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New News About the HITRUST Scoring Rubric and PRISMA Model

Coalfire

This is a high-level overview of the most significant changes about the updated HITRUST scoring rubric and PRISMA model that will affect all organizations using the HITRUST framework. It contains tips and guidance for how to prepare for upcoming HITRUST assessments. If you need a deeper dive into the changes, read the Coalfire Scoring and Rubrics White paper or contact us.

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Using DataConnect to Acquire, Prepare and Deliver Data to Avalanche

Actian

Actian recently announced the availability of Avalanche on the Azure platform, extending the capabilities already available on AWS. This announcement is exciting news for customers because it means greater flexibility and choice in selecting cloud operating environments as well as creating the opportunity for a multi-cloud deployment. Actian DataConnect enhances the capabilities of Avalanche with a scalable Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS) offering to help you manage connections from a

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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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Flash – Performance at what cost?

Nutanix

Flash is everywhere these days and everyone likes to throw out impressive performance numbers. If someone told you that flash is faster than a hard drive I am sure the thought that pops into your head is, “yeah… thanks for the info”.

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How to Boost Your Website Traffic Organically

Strategy Driven

The most important challenge, and usually the biggest, for any business, is to make sure they stand out from their competitors. This is especially true in the digital landscape today because consumers are constantly bombarded by content and different marketing messages from brands. You want to make sure that when people are searching for a service or product similar to what you offer or sell, they find you and not your competitors.

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Nutanix continues streak of Customer Support Excellence with a 2016 Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 90 Again!

Nutanix

We are thrilled to announce we have been awarded the Omega North Face Award for excellence in service delivery for the fourth year in a row. Our Net Promoter Score (NPS) – the gold standard for measuring customer loyalty – has a weighted average of 90 over these four years.

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How To Create An Effective Business Strategy

Strategy Driven

You wouldn’t make a cake without a recipe, you wouldn’t drive somewhere you’ve never been before without looking at the map, and you shouldn’t run a business without a strategy. Some people underestimate the importance of a business strategy and particularly writing it. Many think that they know where they want to go and what they want to achieve, and that’s enough, but is it?

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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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5 Mistakes Businesses Often Make

Women on Business

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3 Strategies To Build Brand Awareness

Strategy Driven

Brand awareness is crucial to any business, particularly when launching a new product or service. Think about it – customers aren’t going to buy from a company they don’t recognize or believe is trustworthy and credible. Hence why you must focus on brand awareness in your marketing campaigns and consider innovative ways to introduce customers to your products and services.

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Juice Squeezed: Is the Postseason Baseball Really Dead?

DataRobot

There have been anecdotal complaints that the postseason baseball is deader than its regular-season counterpart, so we used DataRobot to analyze 100k+ batted balls in 2019.

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When to migrate workloads in a hybrid IT environment

Digital Realty

By now, you probably don’t need to be convinced of the benefits of hybrid IT architectures. 58% of enterprises are already using a hybrid strategy. Flexibility and security with data capture, creation and processing is critical.

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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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PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 1 – Pros & Cons

High Scalability

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, ‘threads’ were a programming novelty rarely used and seldom trusted. In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forking a process for each connection to the database is the safest choice. It would be a shame if your database crashed, after all. Since then, a lot of water has flown under that bridge, but the PostgreSQL community has stuck by their original decision.

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Transformation in Action: The McLaren Digital Transformation Story

Dell EMC

Just over 50 years ago, Bruce McLaren and his newly formed racing team set out to design and build Formula F1 racing cars that would bear the McLaren name. Armed with an immense passion for racing and a willingness to push the boundaries, the McLaren team work tirelessly to perfect their racing ability and dominate the sport. With 20 World Championships and 182 Grand Prix victories, the McLaren name is synonymous with the winning spirit of auto racing.

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Is Your Nonprofit Prepared for a Disaster?

TechSoup

The only nonprofits prepared for a disaster are those that have already been through one. — Chris Schottland, executive director of United Saints Recovery Project.