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Poorly Tested App Crashes the Iowa Caucus

Trigent

We may not know who won the Iowa caucus - but we certainly know that a poorly tested smartphone app lost. This Monday, the Iowa caucus has nearly been rendered meaningless due to the Democratic party’s inability to reliably report and tally the results. While there have been reports that the overall caucus process and the management were deficient, the smartphone app that was used for reporting the results failed miserably.

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DevSecOps: A Renewed Commitment to Secure Delivery, Part 1

DevOps.com

Security has never been as high a priority than it is today, as companies fear they’ll be the next headline, the next victim of a data breach. Executives also worry about applications meeting the high standards of compliance–either with global regulations such as GDPR, state-oriented privacy laws or the many specific ones covering finance, health […].

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Leadership Strategies from the Nature with Dr. Kathleen Allen

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Episode 37. What can nature teach us about how to get the most from our organizations? In this episode, Marcus welcomes Dr. Kathleen Allen to discuss changing our perspectives of assigning roles within teams and organizations to what she calls leading a “living systems”. Dr. Allen is the president of her consulting firm, Allen and Associates, and has written many articles and contributed to a variety of books, including The Transforming Leader: New Approaches to Leadership for the Twenty-first C

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Using Value Stream Mapping to Eliminate Waste

Xebia

You perceive your time to market for new features to be slow and want to speed up You experience that things are slow, and it’s hard to finish anything within an iteration. You’ve tried to deliver smaller increments, but it is still a struggle to complete these in a reasonable amount of time. One of […]. The post Using Value Stream Mapping to Eliminate Waste appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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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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Scrum and Micro-Retrospectives

Agile Alliance

One of the twelve principles behind the Agile Manifesto says: “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly”. Agile is all about adjustments here and there, learning, fine tuning and responding to change. It’s really hard to adjust and fine tune effectively if we … Continued.

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How to Begin Programming on Linux Platform

The Crazy Programmer

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last decade, you know that Linux has pretty much taken over the enterprise business world. From web servers, frameworks, clouds, containers, AI, and so much more, Linux powers it all. Because of this, businesses need programmers who can develop both for and on the Linux platform. If you’re not already savvy enough to transition back and forth between macOS or Windows to Linux, it’s time you learned.

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Episode 2: How to get your recruiting metrics right in 2020 ft. The Crown

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Welcome to the second episode of #NetflixandHire where we learn some great ways on how you can get your recruiting metrics right! For this, we’ve chosen a TV show we LOVE and we can all learn from— The Crown. Why? Because Queen Elizabeth sums it right— “In an increasingly complex world, we all need certainty.”. Source: Pop Culture Times. The show delivers an important message on how, as a leader, you are responsible not only for the well-being of yourself but everyone else around you, and that i

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What Organizations Look For in a Change Management Professional: 2020

Change Starts Here

Two years ago, I did a small research project to answer the question: What do organizations look for in a change management professional? To learn the answer, I searched LinkedIn for jobs with the keywords “change management,” within a worldwide search area.

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How to Promote the Best Leaders

Let's Grow Leaders

To promote the best first-time leaders, focus on more than results Your decisions about who you put in management and leadership roles are some of the most important leadership decisions you’ll ever make. It’s a decision about who you will trust with […]. The post How to Promote the Best Leaders 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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Difference between Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

The Crazy Programmer

In this article we are going to see the difference between two important terms in emerging computer science. We are talking about machine learning and artificial intelligence. Some of you may feel that these two terms are similar, aren’t they ? Not your fault actually these two terms are used interchangeably from time to time. But they aren’t the same and we will see all the differences between them in this article.

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How to Successfully Adopt Mobile DevOps Practices

DevOps.com

Mobile DevOps is more than simply adopting a new set of tools and practices. It also comes with the need to adopt a completely different mindset, in the form of a cultural-organizational change. The approach is based on the Agile methodology, but takes its practices further— not only by getting other teams more involved, but […]. The post How to Successfully Adopt Mobile DevOps Practices appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Do Your Homework: 7 AWS Certified Solutions Architect Exam Tips

Toptal

Cloud architects with the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate qualification are in high demand, with good reason—the AWS exam sets the bar high. What's the best way to prepare for it?

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Cognilytica Releases Report on Global AI Trends

CTOvision

[Global AI Trends & Forecast 2020 Report] Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to gain traction worldwide in a range of applications and usage scenarios. However, AI is still in the early part of the “early majority” phase with many organizations sitting on the sidelines waiting for do-or-die reasons to implement AI. In reality, global adoption of […].

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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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Matters of Life and Death: Cyber Security and Medical Devices

Symantec

Concerns about the vulnerabilities of medical devices to cyber attacks are spurring a new focus on the need to protect patient safety, data and hospital systems

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Is Agile Methodology Right for Your Project?

DevOps.com

I’ve read a few articles of late that have declared the end of Agile development. They are interesting reads for the most part, and they make some interesting arguments, but I see none of them as compelling. I do, however hope that this is the beginning of applying “Right Tool for the Job” to how […]. The post Is Agile Methodology Right for Your Project?

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The top 5 DevOps trends: What being mainstream means to your team

TechBeacon

The past year was a landmark in terms of DevOps adoption. According DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), 2019 saw the pool of "elite" performers in DevOps practices triple.

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Data Preparation and Labeling for AI 2020

CTOvision

Garbage in is garbage out in computing, and it is especially the case with regards to machine learning data. In this report, Cognilytica evaluates the requirements for data preparation solutions that aim to clean, augment, and otherwise enhance data for machine learning purposes, data engineering solutions that aim to give organizations a way to move […].

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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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How to Disagree with Your Boss

Let's Grow Leaders

You see it differently. You’re concerned about a missed opportunity or a strategic mistake. Stay silent and you miss a chance to build your credibility and reputation. But disagree without tact or grace and you can permanently damage your career. In […]. The post How to Disagree with Your Boss appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. You see it differently.

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Survey Sees Little Progress in Drive to Shift Testing Left

DevOps.com

It looks like the drive to shift testing left toward developers to accelerate the development and deployment of applications has stalled. A survey of 102 IT professionals involved in application testing published by Perforce, a provider of testing tools, finds only 18% of organizations test applications solely within their development feature teams.

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How to create a successful digital transformation road map

TechBeacon

Digital transformations have refreshed many businesses and drastically changed business models. Getting there, though, is about more than technology.

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Building a Materialized Cache with ksqlDB

Confluent

When a company becomes overreliant on a centralized database, a world of bad things start to happen. Queries become slow, taxing an overburdened execution engine. Engineering decisions come to 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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Geopolitical Tensions May Increase Risk of Destructive Attacks

Symantec

Organizations should exercise heightened vigilance as political tensions in the Middle East may increase risk of attacks by Iranian-sponsored groups.

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How Integration Can Keep Up with Digital Demands

DevOps.com

Integration holds the key to accelerating innovation, but in many organizations, business systems and application integrations haven’t kept up with the demands of digital. Data still exists in a siloed blend of on-premises systems and unconnected cloud applications, and IoT has added another layer of complexity into the mix. Understanding the three trends below, and […].

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How to build your cloud app-migration factory

TechBeacon

Many enterprises face the daunting prospect of migrating hundreds—or thousands—of applications to the cloud. It's no wonder that a lot of them are tempted to take a piecemeal, ad hoc approach.

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Migrating to cloud: solving the big data problem

CTOvision

Read Alberto Pan’s article about how to solve the big data problem by migrating to cloud on Information Age : For many organizations, cloud computing is now a fact of life. Over the years, it’s established a reputation as the key to achieving maximum agility, flexibility, and scalability. The benefits of cloud technologies like big […].

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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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Stork: How to Make a Programming Language in C++

Toptal

Did you ever consider creating your very own programming language, either as a result of necessity or professional curiosity? In part one of our series, Toptal Full-stack Developer Jakisa Tomic takes the first steps toward creating a lightweight scripting language written in C++.

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Stellus Launches Next Generation NAS Platform

DevOps.com

Stellus Technologies launched a network-attached storage (NAS) system capable of processing unstructured data at 10 times the speed of existing systems. Based on a software-defined file system written on top of a key-value store, the Stellus Data Platform can be acquired either as an appliance or in the form of a virtual image that IT […]. The post Stellus Launches Next Generation NAS Platform appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How to test when you know a bug won't be fixed

TechBeacon

When you're writing automated tests and run up against a defect or unexpected behavior, it can feel like hitting a brick wall—as if all your testing is screeching to a halt.

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