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How to Navigate App Modernization Strategies for the Cloud

DevOps.com

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations continuously seek ways to innovate and enhance customer experiences while optimizing efficiency. One of the most transformative strategies is modernizing applications for the cloud. App modernization isn’t just a technology upgrade. It’s a holistic business transformation.

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Fail Like a Pro – How to Plan for and Recover from Failure

Perficient

Success and failure – just like hot and cold, light and darkness, love and hate, or good and evil – these represent the ends of a familiar spectrum. Countless philosophical works have pondered these seemingly opposing concepts. My favorite view for all such opposites is that you cannot understand one without the other. They are more complementary than they are contradictory.

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Fail Fast Without All the Annoying Technical Debt

Dataiku

A company recently told me that their AI initiative was very successful. After three years, it had zero project failures and their team of seven data scientists put two AI use cases into production each year. Is that failure rate too low?

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How to Create a Generative AI Use Policy

TechSoup

Generative AI is a form of artificial intelligence that creates content — such as a piece of writing, audio, or an image — in response to some kind of instructions that you provide. If you've ever used ChatGPT, Google Bard, or Bing Chat, you've used a tool based on this sort of technology. It's useful for all sorts of things — from creating pieces of content to generating summaries of information — and it's only going to become more prevalent over time.

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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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DevOps Halloween: Tricks and Treats

DevOps.com

In the spirit of Halloween, let’s explore the tricks and treats of DevOps choices to ensure your team ends up with a bag full of treats rather than some nasty tricks.

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The Day the Enterprise Stood Still

Planbox

Unifying the PMO and Innovation Team through ISO 56001 to Move the Business Forward. The business universe is ever-expanding, and any organization not moving forward risks being sucked into the black hole of stagnation. Oh, the horror! Indeed, in this age of relentless change, the last thing any enterprise wants is a free-falling portfolio of innovative projects.

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Musk says Twitter subscribers will get early access to xAI’s chatbot, Grok

TechCrunch

Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is creating its own version of ChatGPT. That appears to be the case, at least, from Musk’s tweets on X late Friday evening teasing the AI model xAI has been quietly developing. Called Grok — a name xAI trademarked recently — the model answers questions conversationally, possibly drawing on a […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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How Value Stream Management is fueling success at Boeing, Tyson, and Verizon

CIO

In today’s digitally transforming world, time is of the essence. Whether you’re looking to deliver a new product release, fix an issue, or enhance a service, the longer you make customers wait, the worse for your business. As you seek to boost agility and speed your organization’s digital transformation, there are some proven principles you can apply.

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Headless Component: a pattern for composing React UIs

Martin Fowler

As React UI controls become more sophisticated, complex logic can get intertwined with the visual representation. This makes it hard to reason about the behavior of the component, hard to test it, and necessary to build similar components that need a different look. Juntao Qiu tackles this by using a Headless Component , which extracts all non-visual logic and state management, separating the brain of a component from its looks.

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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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Meet the Agile2024 Program Team – Semira Allen

Agile Alliance

Agile2024 is set for July 22-26 in Dallas! Behind every successful conference lies a team of dedicated individuals who work tirelessly to curate an unforgettable experience. We're going to share a short Q&A with each of those people here – this time with Semira. The post Meet the Agile2024 Program Team – Semira Allen first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Lawmakers say Costco’s decision to continue selling banned China surveillance tech is ‘puzzling’

TechCrunch

Two U.S. lawmakers have asked retail giant Costco why it continues to sell surveillance equipment made by Lorex, despite warnings of cybersecurity risks and links to human rights abuses. The bipartisan letter dated October 31, sent by Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ, 4th) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), said Costco’s continued sale of Lorex products is […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Beyond DevSecOps: Why fintech companies need to consider DevSecRegOps

CIO

It’s no secret that banks and fintech companies must meet compliance and regulatory standards that are much stricter than what traditional tech companies are forced to comply with. The question becomes: How do you meet strict regulatory and compliance standards while keeping up with the rapid pace of innovation in technology? As the vice president of enterprise architecture and technology strategy at Discover Financial Services, I think about this question often as we work to design our tech sta

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Current thoughts on social media

Martin Fowler

It's now been a year since The Muskover, what does my use of social media look like now, both as a reader and a writer?

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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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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations

Xebia

Is InnerSource written weird? You will find a few related hits in Google if you search for "Inner Source", but back in the early days, no related hits where found. So, it was decided to call it InnerSource to get better reach! What is InnerSource? InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes.

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Ford snaps up EV power startup to boost its charging tech

TechCrunch

Ford is buying and burying Auto Motive Power, or “AMP” for short, to bolster its charging, battery management and power conversion tech. The secretive energy startup once claimed to power “most of the world’s top electric OEMs,” though as far as we can tell it never disclosed its customers publicly. Following the deal, Los Angeles-based […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO

As an infrastructure and security practitioner with nearly 30 years of experience, I’ve witnessed periods of rapid change in the technology landscape. However, I have seen a lot of things stay practically the same. Historically, our jobs as infrastructure and security professionals have involved installing the “plumbing” that ensures organizations remain connected through traditional networking and security practices.

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Insightful Analysis: What Sets Our C-Suite Evaluation Process Apart

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Purpose: Defining the objectives and goals of our C-Suite evaluation process. Defining the objectives and goals of our C-Suite evaluation process is a crucial step in ensuring its effectiveness. As a consulting professional who works with top executives in the world’s largest companies, we understand that every organization has unique needs and challenges.

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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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Get alerts from GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

Xebia

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps (GHAzDo) builds on top of the functionality for GitHub Advanced Security and is giving you extra security tools to embed into your developer way of working. It’s a great way to get started with security in your Azure Pipelines and Azure repos and I’ve written about it before in this blogpost. Loading the alerts from the API’s Before starting with the Advanced Security API’s you’ll need to get the ID for the repository you are working with.

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A researcher critical of X under Elon Musk will fight for his account in court

TechCrunch

A Berlin-based software developer is fighting back after X suspended his account, claiming that research he conducted on the platform violated the company’s terms of service. Following Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of the platform, Travis Brown‘s research figured heavily in reporting that painted X, formerly Twitter, in an unflattering light.

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Want AI? Here’s how to get your data and infrastructure AI-ready

CIO

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping our world. In business, this puts CIOs in one of the most pivotal organizational roles today. CIOs are responsible for much more than IT infrastructure; they must drive the adoption of innovative technology and partner closely with their data scientists and engineers to make AI a reality–all while keeping costs down and being cyber-resilient.

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Healthcare Leadership: An Inside Look at Executive Search Processes

N2Growth Blog

The Importance of Healthcare Leadership in Executive Search Processes Effective leadership is imperative in the healthcare industry, where the well-being of individuals rests in capable hands. The role of healthcare leadership cannot be underestimated, as it shapes the direction and success of organizations, drives innovation, and ensures the delivery of high-quality care.

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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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10 Ways to Prove You’re a Strategic Thinker

Harvard Business Review

To get ahead in the business world, it’s not enough to think stategically. You also have to effectively communicate those ideas. There are several ways to do this, including elevating the conversation to focus on the big picture and broader context, being forward-looking in your comments, anticipating the effects of potential decisions, connecting disparate concepts, simplifying complex issues, using metaphors and analogies, stimultating dialogue with questions, showing you are informed, activel

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Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future

TechCrunch

Consumers are hungry for a new way of social networking, where trust and safety are paramount and power isn’t centralized with a Big Tech CEO in charge… or at least that’s what Mozilla believes. The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO

Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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Professional Search: Strategies for Success

N2Growth Blog

Empowering Executive Excellence through Tailored Development The business environment is ever-evolving, with senior executives at the helm steering the organizational ship toward success. The ascent to the organizational pinnacle is not a one-size-fits-all journey but a tailored venture, morphing around each leader’s unique abilities and aspirations.

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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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Looney Tunables Vulnerability Exploited by Kinsing

Aqua Security

Researchers from Aqua Nautilus have successfully intercepted Kinsing's experimental incursions into cloud environments. Utilizing a rudimentary yet typical PHPUnit vulnerability exploit attack, a component of Kinsing's ongoing campaign, we have uncovered the threat actor's manual efforts to manipulate the Looney Tunables vulnerability ( CVE-2023-4911 ).

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Apple CEO Tim Cook says AI is a fundamental technology, confirms investments in generative AI

TechCrunch

Apple CEO Tim Cook pushed back a bit at the notion that the company was behind in AI on yesterday’s Q4 earnings call with investors, as he highlighted technology developments that Apple had made recently that “would not be possible without AI.” Specifically, the exec pointed to new iOS 17 features like Personal Voice and […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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The rise of the chief transformation officer

CIO

Like so many IT leaders, Richard Wiedenbeck wears multiple hats. Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt. In his chief transformation officer (CTO) capacity, the current mission is to spearhead an enterprise transformation effort that takes aim at operational efficiency.