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Achieving Organizational Change Through Scaled DevOps

DevOps.com

The rapid pace of technological change has had a major impact on customer expectation, forcing IT decision-makers to adopt agile processes to ensure the continual delivery of innovation. This has led to the mass adoption of DevOps practices, with 77% of organizations indicating they rely on DevOps to deploy software, or plan to, in the near future. […].

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How to Encourage Your Team When Results are Disappointing

Let's Grow Leaders

What do you do when everyone gets an “A” for effort, but the results are disappointing? How do you encourage your team while building a recovery plan? 6 Ways to Encourage Your Team When Results Are Disappointing It’s easy to lead when […]. The post How to Encourage Your Team When Results are Disappointing appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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4 key challenges for next-gen security operations centers

TechBeacon

External challenges and internal inefficiencies are driving the need for a more integrated approach to security analytics and operations at many organizations.

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How do you make exit interviews count?

Strategy Driven

When an employee decides to move on, you should be seriously curious about the reasons why. Understanding why employees leave is gold dust in your hand – uncover a problem in the workplace you weren’t aware of, and you gain the insight to do something about it. It may be too late to save your impending leaver, but if you really listen and can avoid seeing employee exit feedback as criticism, then you have valuable information to prevent other employees following suit.

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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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Back to Black: Thoughts on VC Valuation in the Wake of WeWork

Battery Ventures

Is it better to invest in a fast-growing company, or a profitable one? One innovating on existing technology products, or bringing a technology approach to a traditional market? While the past few years have broken new ground on these questions, lately investors have lost sight of what makes a company worth a particular sum in the first place. A string of recent stumbles from newly public or nearly-public companies should serve as a wake-up call to bring investors back to reality.

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Top Leadership Blogs & Podcasts for 2020

Experience to Lead

An insightful leadership blog adds incredible value to your development as a leader, and even more so when it’s written by an expert who has encountered the challenges you’re facing. That said, you don’t have hours to search online for the blogs most relevant to your leadership challenges. As you look forward to 2020 and [.]. The post Top Leadership Blogs & Podcasts for 2020 appeared first on Experience to Lead.

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Women in Tech: Latin America’s Visionary Approach to Gender Equality

Perficient

Take a look at how women in technology and science have been changing the landscape of the software development industry, both in Colombia and the rest of Latin America.This article was originally published on Nov. 14th to celebrate Co.

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Introduction to Static Sites, Static Site Generators, and Jekyll

Dzone - DevOps

The modern web development (by “modern” we mean one that’s been taking place in the last ~5 years) seems to be heavily into dynamic content. As the internet progressed from simple HTML pages to dynamic web apps, the benefits of dynamic web technologies became ever so clear. Nowadays, web apps like YouTube, Google Maps, and Figma are gradually bridging the gap between web and native software (and technologies like WebAssembly are playing a huge part in this process).

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Women in Tech: Latin America’s Visionary Approach to Gender Equality

Perficient

To celebrate Colombian Women's Day, which was created to honor the Colombian Policarpa Salavarrieta ? who was an integral part of the revolution against the Spanish (and is currently featured on the Colombian peso), here's a look at.

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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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The 20 Best DevOps Podcasts

DevOps.com

Skip the whole “starting a podcast is easy, all you need is a computer and a mic” pitch. The truth is podcasting is hard and it takes considerable work to create something special. The low barrier of entry intrigue is a double-edged sword, making it harder for good podcasts to get noticed in the incessant […]. The post The 20 Best DevOps Podcasts appeared first on DevOps.com.

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GitHub Finally has Launched its Mobile App

The Crazy Programmer

Microsoft acquisition “GitHub” has news from their cosmos to give more than 40 million developers and contributors a reason to celebrate. Undoubtedly, 2018 has been a favorite year for developers with the expansion of the open-source community (GitHub), adding up approx. 10 million new users from around 70 countries and nearly 3 million organizations.

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What It Really Takes to Build a Reliable App

DevOps.com

What makes an app reliable? If you ask most IT professionals that question, their minds immediately go to uptime. That’s not surprising; after all, it’s fashionable for software and infrastructure vendors these days to boast about how many nines of uptime they guarantee. To be sure, uptime is one component of delivering a reliable application […].

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How To Combine DevOps Tools Together To Solve Our Problems

Dzone - DevOps

See what tools you should have for your DevOps lifecycle. DevOps Tools. Before going any further, let’s recap the different tools and where they fall in the DevOps lifecycle. DevOps tools.

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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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Unintended Consequences

DevOps.com

The post Unintended Consequences appeared first on DevOps.com.

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7 Arguments Against DevOps

Flexagon

Is DevOps a Bad Idea? Countless articles and blogs boast the many benefits of automating changes and processes through DevOps. However, adopting automation and full Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery can be an intimidating transition for organizations. Some IT leaders are hesitant to pull the trigger and make the switch. Thus, arguments against DevOps arise.

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ZombieLoad is back: Intel kept new bug secret for 6 months

TechBeacon

Intel is under fire this week , for allegedly misusing responsible-disclosure norms. Some of the researchers behind the ZombieLoad flaw, disclosed back in May 2019, say Intel forced them to downplay the seriousness of what they found.

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Tech skills of tomorrow: Machine learning

Gitprime

More content to make you smarter than yesterday.

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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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How Hospitality Brands are Using Chatbots

Altexsoft

This is a guest article by Larry Kim from MobileMonkey. Chatbots have become one of the most significant trends of today’s eCommerce industry — an AI (artificial intelligence) platform that allows businesses to simulate the behavior of humans within a conversational environment. Numerous brands have found different ways of integrating a conversational chatbot into their messaging platforms such as Facebook Messenger.

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Tech skills of tomorrow: Cloud computing

Gitprime

More content to make you smarter than yesterday.

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Improving Student Outcomes with a Well?Designed Teacher Evaluation System

PowerSchool

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Nutanix Deconstructed: What Our Subscription Evolution Means for Partners

Nutanix

If you love learning something new each and every day, then Nutanix is the right partner for you.

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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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Top High-Value AI Use Cases in Retail & CPG

Dataiku

From hyper-targeted marketing campaigns and customer journey optimization to transforming warehouse and store management, AI is empowering brands and retailers to understand their customers and their businesses better in order to deliver unique, differentiated, one-on-one experiences.

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Nutanix Deconstructed: What Our Subscription Evolution Means for Partners

Nutanix

If you love learning something new each and every day, then Nutanix is the right partner for you.

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The Data-Driven Case for CI: What 30 Million Workflows Reveal About DevOps in Practice

CircleCI

What does a high performing technology delivery team look like? How do you know if your team is doing well? While there have been many widely reported and shared surveys on technology delivery team behavior that define the metrics for high performers ( Puppet State of DevOps Report 2019 , 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps ), at CircleCI we are privileged to have the vantage point of being able to review truly massive amounts of data on how technology delivery teams are behaving in the wild.

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Fugue Open Sources Fregot to Support Developers Working with the Rego Policy Language

DevOps.com

Frederick, Md. – November 14, 2019 – Fugue, the company empowering engineers to build and operate secure cloud systems that are compliant with enterprise policies, today announced it has open sourced the Fugue Rego Toolkit (Fregot) to enhance the experience working with the Rego policy language. Fregot enables developers to easily evaluate Rego expressions, debug […].

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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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A CloudSploit Case Study: Trek10's Three AWS Cloud Security Concerns & One Solution

Aqua Security

With all the security breaches that occurred on AWS in 2017, be they caused by poorly managed Amazon S3 permissions to inadequate security group configurations, we have seen that no company or government agency is above making simple mistakes. This post will explain three areas of security we’ve noticed many AWS accounts struggle with and mismanage, and, the tool Trek10 has chosen to remediate these areas (here’s a hint - it’s with monitoring).

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Testim Adds SDK to AI-Based Testing Platform

DevOps.com

Testim this week launched a beta release of a software development kit (SDK) that will enable DevOps teams to build tests that leverage machine learning algorithms from within their integrated development environment (IDE). Company CEO Oren Rubin said the Testim Development Kit makes it possible to call capabilities such as the ability to record user […].

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DataRobot and Kx Partnership: Modernizing the Financial Markets with AI-Driven Forecasting

DataRobot

Competition throughout the financial markets is becoming more intense and top-line growth is becoming more challenging than ever to achieve. The high volume of market data makes searching for hidden patterns and developing forward-looking predictive models unruly, cumbersome, and slow using traditional methods and technologies. How can financial firms overcome these obstacles and remain competitive?