Wed.Sep 18, 2019

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10 Recommendations for Making DevOps a Success

Dzone - DevOps

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Data Versioning and Pipelines in CD4ML

Martin Fowler

My colleagues continue their article on Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning by looking at the future, considering what further work needs to be done in Data Versioning and Data Pipelines. more….

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How to stack your test automation's deck

TechBeacon

Arranging the playing cards in a deck to be in one's favor is called "stacking the deck." Outside of card playing, people use the term more generally to mean arranging a situation to increase your chances of a favorable outcome.

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Kubernetes’s explosive growth has come with attention paid to security and stability

DXC

You may have noticed I write a lot about Kubernetes, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sponsored open-source container orchestration program. That’s because I have no choice in the matter. Just like Docker turned containers into the way to run server applications, Kubernetes quickly overcame its rivals and became the way to manage containers.

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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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IBN’s Success is Driven by Formulating the Right Test Validation Strategy

DevOps.com

Intent-Based Networking (IBN) is widely considered to be the next big innovation in networking industry. IBN is all about simplifying the process of implementing new upgrades and changes in any networking environment to ensure the results match the original intent. IBN can be considered a successor to software-defined networking (SDN) as it seeks to automate […].

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IoT Security Concerns

DevOps.com

The Internet of Things (IoT) is being hailed as the next step in our technological development. It’s hard to argue with that. The abilities it provides are as captivating as they are numerous: smart cars and homes, automatized agriculture, advancements in medicine that help with after-stroke recovery and the list goes on. However, while the […].

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Top tips to prepare for software engineering interviews

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

This is a blog is guest contribution from Pathrise.com. When you are looking for a job as an engineer, whether it is your first job out of school or a new role after years in the industry (or something in between!), interviewing is a hurdle you will have to overcome. Unfortunately, a lot of the job search, especially when it comes to interviewing, is shrouded in mystery.

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Nearly everyone in Ecuador is the victim of a data breach

CTOvision

A massive data breach exposed sensitive data of nearly every individual in Ecuador. The breach impacted an estimated 20 million people — for reference, Ecuador has a population of about 17 million. According to ZDNet, it exposed data on 6.7 million minors, as well as the country’s president and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was […].

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Has DevOps morphed into ITSM?

TechBeacon

The more that DevOps matures, the more it looks like IT service management (ITSM).

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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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QTP vs. Selenium: Differences Between Automation Testing Giants

Dzone - DevOps

It's about more than old vs. new. The market for software testing is mainly dominated by powerful and dynamic tools like Selenium , QTP, and many more. So, in this QTP versus Selenium article, we’ll be discussing the major differences between the two automation testing tools. You may also enjoy: A Comparison of Automated Testing Tools. But before we compare QTP and Selenium, let’s take a look at the topics we’ll be covering in this article.

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Legacy Systems Prove to be Digital Transformation Headwind

DevOps.com

In a survey of 450 digital transformation leaders, a sizable 73% of respondents said that, through digital innovation, they have made significant or better improvements to the end-user experience. Twenty-two percent report much more significant results than that, they self-reported as having transformed or completely revolutionized end-user experience.

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Intuitive Universal Control Plane for Service Mesh Based on Envoy

Dzone - DevOps

A universal control! I had the opportunity to meet with Marco Palladino , CTO and Co-founder, Kong on a recent trip to San Francisco to discuss their decision to open source their universal service mesh, Kuma.

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Some of the Best Practices to Adopt for DevOps in the Cloud

Kovair - DevOps

Technology is moving at an alarming speed. The most audacious innovations are happening in the field of DevOps and Hybrid Cloud. Those businesses that plan. The post Some of the Best Practices to Adopt for DevOps in the Cloud appeared first on Kovair Blog.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Three Ways: A Principle-based DevOps Framework

Dzone - DevOps

Which path should you take? Answer: all of them. In our first two articles in the DevOps track of Educational Foundations , we: Dispelled some DevOps misconceptions and presented our own principle-based definition of DevOps. Presented the business case for DevOps, including the problems movements like Lean and Agile attempt to solve, as well as metrics from some of the latest research on high-performing DevOps organizations.

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Health IT in the Cloud: Why It’s Inevitable and What You Need to Know Now

Datica

Reflections from Datica Hosted Lunch + Learn. Recently, Datica had the pleasure of hosting a Lunch + Learn panel discussion on health IT in the cloud at Catalyst HTI, a healthcare innovation ecosystem bringing together relevant stakeholders with the healthcare industry to accelerate innovation and drive real, lasting change. The session, “Health IT in the Cloud: Why It’s Inevitable and What You Need to Know Now,” was moderated by Dave Levin, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Datica, and panelists inc

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Leadership Capital and Keys to Leading Effectively

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Leadership isn’t an unlimited resource, because time isn’t an unlimited resource. Learn how to be a more effective and efficient leader. Today’s post is by Mike Figliuolo, Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS. Do you work a 40 hour week or are you working 24/7? How much effort are you putting into your work? How much stress do you […].

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Embracing Cloud-Native and DevOps in Regulated Industries

Dzone - DevOps

Keeping the cloud and DevOps under lock and key. DevOps practices are helping companies build software that will function properly in a more automated world and this is what building cloud-native software is all about. While the cloud-native approach is becoming more critical and making life easier for everyone involved in software development, there are still industries that are laggards and kind of scared to move out of their legacy practices.

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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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7 Ways to Overcome Nearshore Outsourcing Challenges

UruIT

Become the best nearshore partners with these recommendations. It’s no secret that nearshoring is a valuable solution for many software companies—added value via expertise and talent, increased knowledge capacity, and it can be a budget-friendly situation—what’s not to like? Plus, in today’s rapidly globalizing economy, it just makes sense. But as with any workplace evolution, having nearshore partners can come with its own unique challenges.

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TechTalks With Tom Smith: Migrating to Microservices, Additional Considerations

Dzone - DevOps

Interviewer and author extraordinaire. To understand the current state of migrating legacy apps to microservices, we spoke to IT executives from 18 different companies. We asked, "What have I failed to ask you that you think we need to consider with regards to migrating to microservices?

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Episode 8: How to make your meetings more inclusive with Michael Donnely

TXI

How to make your meetings more inclusive with Michael Donnelly Guest Michael Donnelly: Founder and CEO of FWD Collective. Inclusion Card: Opinion Summary Today Ashley and Noel are joined by Michael Donnelly of the FWD collective to discuss the Opinion card, which limits the number of times a leader in the meeting can express an […]. The post Episode 8: How to make your meetings more inclusive with Michael Donnely appeared first on Table XI.

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How Scrum’s core is useful and incorporates the essence of Agile

Net Objectives

This post continues my series on getting back to the original Scrum I posted a few days ago. Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland captured several key concepts of what The New New Product Development Game (TNNPDG) suggested how product development teams should work. I believe these core roles, practices, events and rules are the core … Continue reading "How Scrum’s core is useful and incorporates the essence of Agile".

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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 Dangerous Business of Exfiltrating Spies – Part Two

The Cipher Brief

When someone decides to spy on their own country for the U.S., they know they’re taking a risk. But when news broke recently that the U.S. had extracted a high-level Russian official in 2017 with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, it highlighted not only the value of human intelligence, but also the ongoing risks that a spy faces if they choose to defect.

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How Can CIOs Use AI To Help The Company Get More Customers?

The Accidental Successful CIO

The key is to find ways to use automated assistants Image Credit: PROO’Reilly Conferences. Let’s face it: our companies are not in business just to keep the IT department up and running. Rather, it’s really the other way around. The IT department exists to help the company stay up and be successful using the importance of information technology.

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Buy your toothpaste when you get there

Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

When you’re heading into a new situation, it’s easy to overpack. The first time I went to Europe I packed my favorite heavy, long-sleeved flannel shirt, even though the trip was in the middle of summer. When I started a new coding project, I’d download a whole bunch of libraries just in case. When I needed to learn a new programming language, I’d buy a bunch of books on it just in case.

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The Bridge

Net Objectives

Intent Separate a varying Entity from its varying Behavior, so that the two can vary independently. Another way to state the intent is, the Bridge is one variation using another variation in a varying way. Example One common use of the Bridge is in data access frameworks. The varying Entities would be elements of the … Continue reading "The Bridge".

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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What Not To Do When You Design Your Business Card

Women on Business

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Companies still unprepared for GDPR rule changes and potential EU data breaches

CTOvision

Enterprises across the world are still struggling to comply with the new rules enshrined in the GDPR that came into effect more than a year ago. The regulation had global implications, forcing companies in the US, China and Japan to comply with new, sometimes arcane, rules previously unseen on this scale. A new study commissioned by […].

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Caching and Connection Handling in.NET: An Aspect-Oriented Programming Tutorial

Toptal

We reduce boilerplate with common OOP patterns, but often, the code overhead of using patterns is almost the same—if not bigger—than if we’d used boilerplate code in the first place. In aspect-oriented programming tutorial, we implement two functions (aspects) that allow for generic database connection management and caching. These allow us to mark methods that, when called, will automatically have the required functionally present in through IL weaving.