Sat.Jul 20, 2019 - Fri.Jul 26, 2019

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Fish Heads and The Value of Great Leadership: An Unforgettable Lesson

Terry Starbucker

“Terry, don’t you see? A fish stinks from its head down”. It was three months into my maiden voyage as a cable TV executive, at age 27. I was in the middle of going over a laundry list of problems with my boss that had been vexing me for weeks. They were all coming from one particular region, and because of these problems the region’s financial performance was lagging all the others.

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The Magic of Small User Stories

Agile Alliance

I often run into teams that likes big User Stories. Why spend time writing, planning, and estimating a bunch of small stories when you can write, plan, and estimate just one big story? Bigger stories mean better efficiency, right? Not necessarily. Why smaller stories? Focus: Small stories keep us focused and help us see that … Continued.

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DevOps at the Speed of Business: 5 Tips for Success

DevOps.com

It’s an exciting time to be an engineer. With companies today moving faster than ever, engineering teams are developing and deploying new code daily, continuously improving and advancing the business. But while the pace of modern development creates new opportunities for engineering teams, it introduces new challenges as well—in particular, making sure new code releases […].

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Clouds and containers are not all about what’s new and hot

DXC

This past Spring at London’s OpenInfra Days UK 2019, Mark Shuttleworth, executive chairman at Canonical and creator of Ubuntu Linux, said in a keynote, “I believe OpenStack is important. It’s become trendy to say: ‘I’m skipping OpenStack and going straight to Kubernetes.’ It’s like skipping salad and going straight to steam – they both solve […].

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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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Open source security: 4 metrics that matter to app sec teams

TechBeacon

Open-source software components are incorporated into almost every major development effort, but the security of those components continue to be a problem. The annual Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report published by Synopsys found that more than 96% of codebases scanned in 2018 had open-source components. In 2019 that jumped to more than 99%.

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Why Did DevOps Become So Popular? 3 Theories

DevOps.com

DevOps has now been a thing for a solid decade. As we look back at the history of DevOps, it’s worth asking: Where did DevOps come from, and why did it take off when it did? In honor of the 10-year anniversary of DevOps, I’d like to explore these questions. A Brief History of DevOps […]. The post Why Did DevOps Become So Popular? 3 Theories appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Which JS Frameworks Will Spark a Front-end Revolution in 2020?

Toptal

Are Vue.js, React, and Angular actually delivering a good developer and user experience, or are they used simply because they're the current de facto standard? Discover some exciting approaches to web development.

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Best CEOs In The World 2019: 100 Most Influential Chief Executives

CEO Insider

Unsurprisingly, Walmart CEO Douglas McMillon came first in the CEOWORLD magazine’s global ranking of the best chief executives across all industries for 2019. He is followed by Royal Dutch Shell’s global chief executive Ben van Beurden, and ArcelorMittal Chairman and CEO Lakshmi Mittal. Saudi Aramco CEO Amin H. Nasser to the No. 4 spot. The […].

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The Best Way to Empower Employees as Customer Advocates

Let's Grow Leaders

You want to empower your employees as customer advocates, but it’s tricky. No one understands your customer’s needs and frustrations better than your employees. When your customers are frustrated, your employees are too. But let’s be real. What’s best for the customer […]. The post The Best Way to Empower Employees as Customer Advocates appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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ASF Moves OpenWhisk Serverless Computing Forward

DevOps.com

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced today that the OpenWhisk serverless computing framework has now become a high-level open source project. Matt Rutkowski, CTO for serverless technologies and advocacy for IBM, said with this announcement, organizations looking to implement an open source serverless computing framework on-premises or in a public cloud now can have confidence […].

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Don’t Use Kubernetes Until You’ve Asked This Question

Linux Academy

If you run Kubernetes in production, you must be incredibly intelligent. That’s not a compliment; it’s a requirement. — Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) April 25, 2019. Kubernetes technology has skyrocketed in popularity for the last few years. More and more organizations are using it to power their infrastructure, and as a result, there’s an influx of individuals learning how to use the technology in order to get a new job, upskill for an existing job, or simply to stay up-to-date with the latest tech.

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How IT can keep pace with digital transformation

TechBeacon

In traditional business, advancements largely depend on the speed of IT deployments. IT receives the requirements, engineers build to the specifications, and multiple processes come together, packaged as a project, to deliver systems and services that run the business for users.

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A Deep Look At JSON vs. XML, Part 2: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Both

Toptal

Nearly all computer applications rely on either JSON or XML. Today, JSON has overtaken XML, but is it better? In part 1 of this series on JSON vs. XML, we take a closer look at the history of the web to uncover the original purpose of XML and JSON and analyze how JSON became the popular choice.

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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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How IoT Security Risks Derailing Robotics

DevOps.com

Driven by advances in technologies such as artificial intelligence and deep learning, the mobile robots market is projected to grow to $54.1 billion by 2023 from $18.7 billion last year, according to Markets and Markets. But for robotics to progress, security for the internet of things (IoT) needs to be addressed fast, before the reputation […].

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AI Ethics: Building Trust by Following Ethical Practices (Part 2)

DataRobot

In our first blog post on the topic of AI Ethics, we covered the promise that artificial intelligence (AI) holds to improve the speed, accuracy, and operations of businesses across a range of industries. With the potential of AI, it’s hard to believe that businesses are hesitating to move forward with AI projects, but fear holds people back. They fear making mistakes that could damage their company’s reputation or doing something illegal or unethical.

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Ransomware: Why cities have become such a big target for cyberattacks – and why it’ll get worse

CTOvision

Read Danny Palmer’s article on why ransomware affects cities and why it will continue to be so on ZDNet : Ransomware once seemed to be on the decline, but it’s now gained a new lease of life — and additional notoriety — after crooks identified a lucrative new set of targets for their file-encrypting malware. Once […].

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How to secure your cloud infrastructure: The 3 planes of OpSec

TechBeacon

While more and more enterprises are moving workloads to the cloud, securing cloud environments continues to be a challenge. Many continue to focus on the application layer. However, the infrastructure layer that spans the public cloud or the company's private data centers is equally, if not more, important.

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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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Digital Transformations Fall Short, Survey Claims

DevOps.com

What is the nature of digital transformation? Is it a permanent shift in the digitization of business processes, or a race to a known destination? Should organizational investments in data analytics, continuous software development, business processes, culture, machine learning and shifting enterprise technology from a perspective of ownership and control to consumption be judged from […].

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Beyond Snapchat: The Less Glamorous, B2B Side of LA Tech

Battery Ventures

When many people think of the tech scene in LA—centered on “Silicon Beach”—they probably think of consumer-tech stalwarts: Snapchat, gaming giant Electronic Arts or even Dollar Shave Club*, the startup made famous by its funny, viral videos. What’s less appreciated is the recent growth of business-focused technology in the broader Los Angeles area. According to Pitchbook, investment in B2B software companies in the LA region soared to $2.76 billion in 2018, up from just $1.64 billion in 2013.

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How to Foster Innovative Thinking at Your Company

CEO Insider

Innovation has a good reputation in the corporate world. It might mean something different to every executive you talk to, but surely everyone wants it. Innovative ideas, an innovative culture, a history of innovation — these are all intangible assets that any business leader would love to have. Executives aren’t alone. Nearly all of today’s […].

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Are you really going to save money by moving to the cloud?

DXC

The number one reason most people move to the cloud is to save money. But, will you really? Sure you’re guaranteed to reduce your Capital Expenditure (CAPEX). But, if you’re not careful all you’ll end up doing is replacing your CAPEX expenses with cloud service Operating Expense (OPEX). So, before you sign the dotted line […].

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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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3 Reasons Why Ephemeral Access is Best for DevOps

DevOps.com

Recently, we worked with a customer, MOST Digital, whose developers were struggling with a common workflow challenge we hear from many companies. The company is in the software robotics automation space—it essentially makes little robots that automate all sorts of business processes for a company, such as HR report filing or routine emails. MOST Digital […].

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Tech Breakthroughs Don’t Happen in a Vacuum: Why Open Innovation is Critical in the Data Era

Dell EMC

In 2003, Dr. Henry Chesbrough published a paper that challenged organizations to drive new technology breakthroughs outside of their own four walls, and in collaboration with customers and partners for an outside view. The approach, open innovation, follows a framework and process that encourages technologists to share ideas to solve actual challenges.

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Data breach fallout haunts companies long after the fact

CTOvision

Read Cliff Stanton explain how data breaches continue to affect companies even after they happen on Helpnet Security : Data breaches have become a priority in most business’ cybersecurity agenda. The series of breaches that companies experienced in 2018 emphasized what security experts have warned about – that threats are ever-present and persistent.

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A Deep Look at JSON vs. XML, Part 3: XML and the Future of JSON

Toptal

In Part 1 and 2, we took a closer look at the evolution of the web, how XML and JSON arose, and the differences between the two standards. In this final part of our series on JSON vs. XML, Toptal Freelance Full-stack Developer Seva Safris looks at XML as a data interchange format and how well it supports complex requirements. And finally, he will discuss the future of JSON as well as explore solutions that bring the strengths of XML to JSON.

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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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How Serverless Is Impacting the IT Landscape

DevOps.com

Although most users will never realize it, with every digital data entry and exchange servers are consuming substantial quantities of energy to file, store and sustain that data’s availability. While the average consumer or office worker doesn’t consider the economic or environmental impact they have, IT and C-Suite teams are awakening to the problem and […].

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DevSecOps: How to Keep Control and Security Tight throughout Development Communication

Kovair - DevOps

The way that companies create applications is constantly evolving and changing, and the most recent stage of this process is called DevOps. Here different parts. The post DevSecOps: How to Keep Control and Security Tight throughout Development Communication appeared first on Kovair Blog.

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How businesses can reduce the financial impact of data breaches

CTOvision

Read Lance Whitney explain how businesses can reduce the financial impact of data breaches on the Tech Republic : Data breaches can be costly for an organization in terms of lost or stolen data, customer mistrust, legal investigations, and recovery efforts. As a result, the sheer financial costs of a data breach can severely weaken […].

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