Tue.Aug 22, 2023

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How to Set Up a Software Centre of Excellence?

TurnKey Labs

Imagine a hub of software genius within your company. A place where innovation isn’t just a buzzword – it’s a daily reality. Welcome to the world of the Software Center of Excellence (CoE). Setting up a CoE is more than just gathering experts. It’s about strategy, location, collaboration, and measuring success.

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3 key roles for driving digital success

CIO

If digital transformation is a journey, when does it end? This is a question I am asked often by IT leaders who prefer slowing down the pace of transformation and technology innovation. Others who believe the term digital transformation is watered down take a more cynical tack, viewing it as a phrase leaders use to garner support for technology investments and vendors use to sell their newest capabilities.

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Strategic Directions supporting the people

Martin Fowler

Having a robust digital talent strategy is a competitive advantage in today’s fiercely competitive market. This enables businesses to have the right talent and have the right competencies to meet current and future demand to meet business goals or to stay on track for digital transformation aspirations. Sarah Taraporewalla continues her article on how to create an integrated business and technology strategy by looking at questions raised by two strategic directions that support people : c

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Lenovo’s Arthur Hu on the CIO’s customer-centric imperative

CIO

Arthur Hu ranks among the few IT leaders who wear the hats of both CIO and CTO. As the CIO of Lenovo and the chief technology and delivery officer of the company’s solutions and services group, Hu says the dual role lends him “the unique advantage of guiding our teams in developing cutting-edge technology solutions and marrying them with current trends to ensure we are at the forefront of delivering the best possible solutions for our client’s current and emerging needs.

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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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Bottlenecks of Scaleups #05: Resilience and Observability

Martin Fowler

Here is a new article in the bottlenecks of scaleups series, looking at resilience and observability. Startups tend to only address resilience when their systems are already down, often taking a very reactive approach. For a scaleup, excessive system downtime represents a significant bottleneck to the organization, both from the effort expended on restoring function and also from the impact of customer dissatisfaction.

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Making Sitecore Sites More Accessible and Screen Reader Friendly

Perficient

Aria labels provide alternate text to adaptive technology tools such as screen readers. This helps website visitors navigate the site more accurately. One use case for aria-labels is on html anchor tags. Sitecore does not a way to manage this text by default. Follow along and I’ll show you how to modify the various link dialogs and give content authors the ability to manage this text.

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Behavioral Design: Shaping the Landscape of Digital Health

Mentormate

The broad domain of digital health includes diverse segments, from mobile health (mHealth) to digital therapeutics , health information technology, wearable devices, and telehealth services. It leverages technology to improve health and wellness. Its applications include electronic health records (EHRs) for better patient data management, telemedicine services for remote patient care, mobile health applications for self-monitoring and disease management, wearable devices for tracking health and

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Solving Healthcare Challenges with Digital Health Platforms

Perficient

To meet clinical, business, and evolving consumer needs, healthcare and life sciences organizations are focused on care delivery that enables innovation in patient engagement, data and analytics, and virtual care. According to Gartner’s 2022 Industry Cloud Survey , about 40% of IT leaders say they have started to adopt industry cloud platforms, with another 15% in pilots; another 15% are considering deployment by 2026.

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Elevate Cybersecurity with PRISMA IDs

Prisma Clud

In the cybersecurity maze, finding and addressing vulnerabilities is like chasing shadows. Every point of weakness opens a door to potential threats. While many organizations rely on the CVE system to identify and track these threats, the CVE system can leave you exposed. Why? Because vulnerabilities slip through the cracks. Let's explore how. Not All Vulnerabilities Have a CVE ID Full Disclosure Vulnerabilities need to go through a responsible disclosure process, which begins with security rese

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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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How to Be Someone’s Best Boss Ever

Next Level Blog

Very few of us wake up in the morning with the goal of making someone else’s day more difficult. On the other hand, I doubt many of us wake up with the goal of making someone else’s day great. My guess is most of us wake up with the goal of taking care of whatever is on the to-do list for the day and then get on with our business. That’s kind of a shame because that extra intention of making someone else’s day great is a force multiplier.

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VMware Preps Generative AI Assistants to Automate IT Workflows

DevOps.com

VMware previewed what will become a suite of intelligent assistants that use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the management of a wide range of IT tasks.

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How Companies Should Prepare for Repeated Debt-Ceiling Standoffs

Harvard Business Review

Since a major realignment of the U.S.’s two-party political system is unlikely, we can expect partisan conflict and the subsequent debt-ceiling standoffs to continue for the foreseeable future. Corporate managers must not regard debt-ceiling crises as just political gimmicks, as they repeatedly and predictably affect firm profitability, growth prospects, and uncertainty.

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Navigating the Storm: Overcoming Teamwork Challenges Together

Agile42

Teamwork is an indispensable element for achieving success in any organization. However, the path to effective collaboration is not without its challenges. From conflicts and communication breakdowns to poor management and a lack of trust, teams often face numerous obstacles that can hinder progress and the realization of business goals. But don’t worry, because in every challenge lies an opportunity for growth and improvement.

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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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New Technology Is Overwhelming Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

Technology has long been used to boost seller productivity, but sales leaders are telling us that efficiency gains have become slower and more expensive. This is because technology intended to help sell frequently makes the salesperson’s job more cumbersome. Sales organizations’ tendency to run most tasks through the sales rep requires an increasing number of complex systems to support.

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Traffic Management and Network Resiliency With Istio Service Mesh

Dzone - DevOps

Virtual services and destination rules help DevOps engineers and cloud architects apply granular routing rules and direct traffic around the mesh. Besides, they provide features to ensure and test network resiliency, so that applications operate reliably. In this article, we will explore both the features of Istio: traffic routing and network resilience testing.

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VMware Looks to Streamline Multi-Cloud Computing Management

DevOps.com

VMware integrated its console for managing cloud instances with its VMware Cloud Foundation to streamline on-premises deployment of its software.

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Powering Renewable Energy with Data Streaming

Confluent

How real-time data streaming is powering peer-to-peer trading of renewable energy with ever-increasing data volumes.

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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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VMware Looks to GitOps to Drive Edge Computing

DevOps.com

VMware today unveiled an orchestration tool, dubbed VMware Edge, that promises to simplify the management of edge computing services at scale.

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Planbox Achieves Cyber Essentials Certification for 2023

Planbox

Kington, United Kingdom — Planbox, the pioneering agile innovation management platform, announced today its third consecutive achievement of the Cyber Essentials certification, a key recognition overseen by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre. Cyber Essentials equips organizations with a formidable defense against the vast majority of prevalent cyber threats.

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GSAS Talk: Pragmatic Approach to Architecture Metrics – Part 2

Apiumhub

Continuing from Part 1 , this article delves deeper into the insights of the talk “Pragmatic Approach to Architecture Metrics” presented by Sonya Natanzon and Vlad Khononov at the Global Software Architecture Summit last year. This second part of architecture metrics focuses on the concepts of integration strength within software development and modularity.

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AI: A Game-Changer for SRE Work-Sharing and Technical Debt

DevOps.com

AI-engineered tools can be used to improve the SRE work-sharing and technical debt pillar of DevOps practice.

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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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Dell, VMware and NVIDIA Bring AI to Your Data

Dell EMC

VMware Explore announcement expands Dell Technologies broad range of solutions for generative AI.

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Navigating Silicon Valley’s Vibrant Healthcare Tech Landscape

TurnKey Labs

In the heart of the world’s innovation hub, Silicon Valley, lies a burgeoning nexus between technology and healthcare. A place renowned for shaping the digital landscape, it is now forging a new frontier: pioneering healthcare technology.

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CodeSOD: Functionally Null

The Daily WTF

Starting in Java 8, Java introduced support for lambdas. Under the hood, they're a soup of anonymous classes, generics (and the associated type erasure), but they at least look like (and mostly behave like) lambdas. Functional programming came to Java a decade ago. Ich 's predecessor saw this new tool and decided that they needed to use it everywhere. public final class Account2BankConnection implements Function { @Override public BankConnection apply ( final Account account) { final Iba

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An Introduction to ETL Testing

Perficient

ETL testing is a type of testing technique that requires human participation in order to test the extraction, transformation, and loading of data as it is transferred from source to target according to the given business requirements. Take a look at the block below, where an ETL tool is being used to transfer data from Source to Target. Data accuracy and data completeness can be tested via ETL testing.

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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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Cloudflare CAPTCHA Hell

Crafty CTO

I run Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi device on our home network, eliminating most ads and trackers for every member of the household. Recently, though, I’ve experienced an increasing number of cases where I get CAPTCHA challenges when I shouldn’t. Sometimes I have to go through multiple challenges, and occasionally run into infinite CAPTCHA loops where I’m unable to get through at all.

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What Is SlackOps? How Can It Be Used by DevOps?

Dzone - DevOps

In today's fast-paced software development landscape, the need for efficient communication and collaboration has become paramount. As organizations strive to achieve seamless integration and delivery of software, DevOps has emerged as a key methodology. However, managing communication channels effectively within a DevOps environment can still prove challenging.To address this challenge, the concept of SlackOps has gained popularity.

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CVE-2023-38035: Ivanti Sentry API Authentication Bypass Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

CVE-2023-38035: Ivanti Sentry API Authentication Bypass Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild For the third time in a month, Ivanti discloses a zero-day vulnerability in one of its products that has been exploited in the wild Background On August 21, Ivanti published an advisory for a critical vulnerability in Ivanti Sentry , formerly known as MobileIron Sentry, a secure mobile gateway that is part of Ivanti’s unified endpoint management (UEM) platform.