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Cloud Economics: How to Overcome Human Biases to Save Money

ParkMyCloud

It’s important for cloud customers to understand cloud economics. Cloud costs are dynamic – and hopefully, optimized. However, that’s not always the case. Since optimizing cloud infrastructure is a “technological problem”, there are a number of human biases at play that are not always accounted for. . What is Cloud Economics? . Some articles you’ll find jump directly to the idea that “cloud economics” is a synonym for “saving money”.

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The Myth of the Blameless Retrospective

Dzone - DevOps

I love the idea of the blameless retrospective. What's not to like? Getting all the members of a team together to blamelessly review work done at the end of a production cycle or in response to a crisis is a great idea. There's a great benefit in having a fearless, uninhibited, blame-free examination of a problem in order to improve. You get more information and you get better ideas.

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Why negative testing matters: How to avoid your next fail

TechBeacon

Software testing is all about validating whether an application works as expected. You use many different types of testing to get there, such as unit testing, integration testing, functional testing, sanity testing, smoke testing, or regression testing, but all of these fall into one of two categories: positive testing and negative testing.

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Article: Using OKRs to Build Autonomous Impact Teams

InfoQ Culture Methods

To focus on outcomes rather than outputs, Meilleurs Agents uses the Objective and Key Results framework to align the whole company on what they want to achieve. Christopher Parola and Nicolas Baron gave a presentation at FlowCon France 2019 where they showed how they implemented the OKR method and turned their product and tech teams into impact teams.

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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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Implementing DevOps Goes Beyond Technology

DevOps.com

The implementation of DevOps is primarily toward a change of process. All you need is to break down the feed store and bring in the competing individual inducements to acquire the actual benefits from DevOps. Regarding the change of process, it will either be embraced by those who are making the change and succeed, or […]. The post Implementing DevOps Goes Beyond Technology appeared first on DevOps.com.

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4 reasons why AIOps is the future of IT operations

TechBeacon

IT organizations that identify and understand patterns in vast, diverse sets of data are best equipped to find, fix, and prevent performance problems. But when digital transformation outpaces IT performance management, hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure creates complexity—and that comes with a hefty price tag. That's where artificial intelligence in IT operations (AIOps) comes into the picture.

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20 Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Follow In 2020

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Machine Learning (ML) is emerging as one of the hottest fields today. It has penetrated into numerous aspects of our everyday life—be it Siri or Alexa, Facebook/Instagram friend suggestions, Gmail spam filters, traffic congestion predictions, customer support chatbots, and much more. The Machine Learning market is ever-growing, predicted to scale up at a CAGR of 43.8% from 2019 to 2025, reaching up to an estimated evaluation of USD 96.7 billion by the end of 2025.

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Sustainability and Agile

Agile Alliance

Sustainable development has always been in the Agile Principles, and, though this was mainly focused on creating a consistent pace of value delivery by not pushing humans too quickly, it also applies to the larger picture of how we work to benefit the ecosystem we deliver to. In other words, building great solutions while not … Continued.

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How to Transition Into a New Team With Confidence and Grace

Let's Grow Leaders

Laura had a strong track record of success in her previous role and had earned the respect of her peers. But now, just a few weeks after her transition into a new team, she called us in exasperation. “My manager said he selected […]. The post How to Transition Into a New Team With Confidence and Grace 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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Test automation tools: Top trends and challenges for 2020

TechBeacon

Test automation tools have been steadily evolving—a trend that shows no sign of slowing down in the coming year. Several key advances to watch for over the next 12 months should make life easier for test automation engineers, consultants and tool vendors say, while others to watch out for are only likely to add confusion.

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20 Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Follow In 2020

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Machine Learning (ML) is emerging as one of the hottest fields today. It has penetrated into numerous aspects of our everyday life—be it Siri or Alexa, Facebook/Instagram friend suggestions, Gmail spam filters, traffic congestion predictions, customer support chatbots, and much more. The Machine Learning market is ever-growing, predicted to scale up at a CAGR of 43.8% from 2019 to 2025, reaching up to an estimated evaluation of USD 96.7 billion by the end of 2025.

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IBM Cloud Annotations Tool eases the process of AI data labeling

DevOps.com

A new automated labeling tool in the open source Cloud Annotations project makes it easier for developers to label data without having to manually draw… Faced with the daunting task of hand labeling thousands of images, developers are looking for an easier way to train their object detection models. Currently, it takes 200-500 samples of […]. The post IBM Cloud Annotations Tool eases the process of AI data labeling appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Leading in a Caustic Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

How do you lead well when the culture around you is negative, apathetic, or abusive? In this episode David discusses how you can lead and create a positive experience for your team – and even have a chance at transforming a […]. The post Leading in a Caustic Culture appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. How do you lead well when the culture around you is negative, apathetic, or abusive?

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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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AI-Driven Predictions for Super Bowl LIV: A Touchdown for Sports Analytics

DataRobot

In Super Bowl LIV this Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs will face the San Francisco 49ers in Miami, Florida. This will be the first Super Bowl appearance for the Chiefs in 50 years. After a loss in 2013, the 49ers are looking to secure their sixth Super Bowl ring, which would tie them with the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers for the league record.

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Amazon Ring: One spyware app to rule them all, says EFF

TechBeacon

Ring, the video doorbell company owned by Amazon, is under fire yet again this week. This time, it stands accused of silently sending customers’ PII to third-party data companies, including Google and Facebook.

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Cloudera: Extract Benefit From All Your Data And Work Across Clouds

CTOvision

We have tracked Cloudera from the very beginning and have watched as it has continually innovated in ways that help both enterprises and the open source community deliver more value. They started off on a mission to make Hadoop safe for the enterprise and then built upon that solid foundation to create full spectrum solutions […].

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How to Get the Most Out of Tough Feedback

Let's Grow Leaders

You’re working hard, but then a team member, customer, or colleague gives you some harsh criticism. Should you take it in? Ignore it? In this episode, you’ll get specific tools you can use to get the most out of tough feedback […]. The post How to Get the Most Out of Tough Feedback appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. You’re working hard, but then a team member, customer, or colleague gives you some harsh criticism.

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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 Risks and Potential Impacts Associated with Open Source

DevOps.com

Open source software (OSS) is built by communities of developers who contribute their knowledge and time to OSS projects they find appealing. That code can then be used by individuals, communities and organizations in their software products—the only obligation they have is to play under the rules of the license with which the OSS project […].

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White-Box vs Black-Box Models: Balancing Interpretability and Accuracy

Dataiku

Data scientists and business leaders building or using machine learning models and AI systems face a serious challenge today -- how to balance interpretability and accuracy stemming from the difference between black-box and white-box models.

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Outsourcing Testing in a DevOps World

Trigent

Software products today are being developed for a unified experience. Applications are created to perform and deliver a seamless experience on multiple types of devices, operating on various platforms.

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How to Be Great at Recognition (Even if It’s Not in Your DNA)

Let's Grow Leaders

We had just finished talking about ways to be great at recognition as part of a Winning Well leadership development program with a fast-growing company. One of the senior leaders, “Joe” who happened to be sitting in on the session so he could […]. The post How to Be Great at Recognition (Even if It’s Not in Your DNA) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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The Battle for End-to-End DevOps Champion Is On

DevOps.com

This past week’s CollabNet/Xebia Labs merger brings another challenger to the “end-to-end” DevOps market. There is a huge prize waiting for the winner. But which of the challengers has the right stuff to win this battle? Will any of the current pack even be around at the end of the day? Who will be the […]. The post The Battle for End-to-End DevOps Champion Is On appeared first on DevOps.com.

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A layman’s introduction to socio-technical systems

Xebia

Nowadays, there is an increasing interest and mentioning of socio-technical engineering, socio-technical systems. And although the words do not strike as odd on its own I personally have struggled quite a bit with the different meanings of the terms and understanding the field of socio-technical systems. So in this article, I will provide a layman’s […].

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5 ways to create faster, more reliable UI tests

TechBeacon

Over the years and at many different companies, I've often witnessed the bad user-interface (UI) automation practice of making an entire automation flow, click, and assert as an end user would do it.

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Entel Ocean and DataRobot Team Up to Fight Forest Fires in Chile

DataRobot

Climate change and catastrophic weather phenomena dominated much of the global headlines in 2019, with devastating reports of earthquakes, hurricanes, and other powerful forces of nature destroying homes and lives. Some of the starkest images were those of raging wildfires that wiped out not only homes but also huge swathes of natural land, from Australia to California and dozens of other countries in between.

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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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Latest Chef Habitat Release Embraces On-Premises IT

DevOps.com

Chef today announced that the Chef Habitat automation framework for building and deploying applications can now be used in on-premises IT environments. Mike Krasnow, a senior product manager for Chef, said version 1.5 of Habitat makes it possible to now store applications packages and their dependencies locally in addition to the cloud. In addition, pre-built […].

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Data Privacy and Why it Matters to Our Customers

Teradata

People want control over their personal data, but are also willing to trade it away for convenience. When does the exploitation of our data become unethical? Read more!

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Software is the ultimate currency: Why containers and serverless should be your go-to

TechBeacon

All collaborations are transactional, which means that something has to act as the currency. It could be prestige, dollars, or respect. If you want to buy a vacuum cleaner from Target, for example, you can use your Target Red Card, Apple Pay, a bank debit or credit card, check, cash, or several other forms of payment. There are just as many ways for organizations to "buy" software components.