Github

MARCH 11, 2020

Even if you’ve never heard the term “innersource” to describe how teams build their software, you’ll probably still recognize some of the principles behind it. They’re powering code at the world’s most influential companies, and they might even be important practices on your team. Innersource isn’t a novel concept. Instead, it describes how the processes and principles developers have used for decades to build large-scale open source software (think Git, Linux, or Python) can apply to closed sou

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MARCH 12, 2020

Nearly every client I work with asks me this question at some point. The Scrum Guide offers very limited guidance, suggesting 3-9 people per team (exclusive of ScrumMaster and Product Owner), without giving reasons or context for those numbers. There isn’t one, universally correct answer for optimal team size, but there are a number of factors and tradeoffs worth considering when figuring out what will work best for your team.

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Firemon

MARCH 10, 2020

Digital transformation can be a nebulous term, but for FireMon customers , it typically means shifting workloads to the cloud and streamlining business processes. . This transformation should emanate from the inside out and is not simply adding transformational technology at the edge or remotely. Strategic initiatives around digital transformation should contribute to as many of the below areas as possible : .

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 10, 2020

There are great Scrum Masters and lousy Scrum Masters. There are also great and lousy managers, developers, testers, salespeople, and neighbors. People are people – no matter what their profession or role in life. Scrum Masters are people too. And just like every profession, most people grow and improve with time and experience. Some grow … Continued.

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TechSoup

MARCH 11, 2020

In the NGO sector, many are concerned with how to include those who are marginalized and excluded from the world of digital innovation. In fact, certain organizations seek to bridge the digital divide with regard to gender by working with women all over the world to ensure that they have access to better tools, education, and opportunities.

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Erik Bernhardsson

MARCH 9, 2020

Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I've found that neither malice nor stupidity is the most common reason when you don't understand why something is in a certain way. Instead, the root cause is probably just that they didn't have time yet.

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Martin Fowler

MARCH 13, 2020

As the Covid-19 outbreak continues to spread, we at ThoughtWorks continue to react. In China we're slowly restarting our office work, with some significant protective measures. Elsewhere it's all about a rapid shift to more remote work and plans to respond to the economic impact.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 8, 2020

Kubernetes and Docker are two of the most commonly heard buzzwords in modern DevOps conversations. Docker is a tool that enables you to containerize and run your applications, and Kubernetes provides you with a platform to orchestrate or manage these containers—since managing thousands of containers manually using the Docker CLI would be a practical nightmare. […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 9, 2020

This week we’ve received so many calls from leaders trying to figure out remote working contingency plans and from managers faced with implementing these new work from home policies. If you’re also trying to make the best of a new work-from-home scene, perhaps […]. The post How to Lead a Team That Suddenly Has to Work From Home appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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TechBeacon

MARCH 13, 2020

Just when the CISO and IT security team think they've locked down the network perimeter, they discover that it has shifted again. Two decades ago, mobile workforces punched holes in it when employees began demanding the ability to connect their laptops and phones to the corporate network while working remotely.

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CTOvision

MARCH 11, 2020

Among the many reasons JAWS was such good fiction is how realistic Mayor Vaughn’s character was. The stubborn politician refused to listen to reason or facts. If he would have taken action he could have avoided disaster. Here is a short clip that makes this point: Lesson for you: Don’t be like the […].

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DevOps.com

MARCH 13, 2020

For the inaugural O’Reilly survey on serverless architecture adoption, we were pleasantly surprised at the high level of response: More than 1,500 respondents from a wide range of locations, companies and industries participated. The high response rate tells us that serverless is garnering significant mindshare in the community. Below we examine three of the most […].

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David Walsh

MARCH 9, 2020

With the coronavirus spreading and employers telling employees work from home if possible, there are scores of people getting their first taste of working remotely. Depending on your experience and discipline levels, this could be a welcomed change or a complete culture shock. The amount of freedom your find yourself in can be similar the leaving high school — no one telling you what to do, where to go, etc — but don’t let that freedom cost you your job.

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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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TechBeacon

MARCH 11, 2020

Passwords continue to be a massive security headache, so the time has never been better for applications to adopt strong authentication. And with continued efforts to push industry standards for strong web authentication, developers have a clear path forward.

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Tenable

MARCH 10, 2020

Critical unpatched “wormable” remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3), dubbed EternalDarkness, disclosed by Microsoft. Background. On March 10, Microsoft published ADV200005 , an advisory for a critical RCE vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3). Details about this vulnerability were originally disclosed accidentally in another security vendor’s blog for March’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 9, 2020

A survey of 415 IT executives published today shows IT teams are struggling to keep up as the number of platforms that need to be managed continues to expand rapidly. Conducted by Propeller Insights on behalf of Volterra, a provider of a distributed computing platform, the survey finds 97% are planning to distribute workloads across […]. The post Survey Finds IT More Challenging to Manage Than Ever appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 10, 2020

The year 2020 has arrived, and its arrival brings a lot of innovations and transformations in the Information and Technology (IT) sector and especially to DevOps technologies. The study conducted by experts at Grand View Research says that the DevOps market is anticipated to be worth 12.85 billion USD by 2025. You may also like: DevOps Adoption Practices.

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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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TechBeacon

MARCH 9, 2020

Organizations are in a race to understand their risk from regulations for the protection and use of personal data, which are on the rise worldwide. With the GDPR in Europe, the CCPA in California, KVKK in Turkey, and several other regulatory actions being enacted around the world, corporations now face serious fiscal consequences and reputational damage that might follow a potential data breach.

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CTOvision

MARCH 11, 2020

Investing in technology is top of mind for small business owners — with 44% saying they plan to invest in resources related to the Internet of Things, or IoT-connected devices, for their business in 2020, according to new research from the latest CNBC SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey. That’s more than twice the number who say […].

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DevOps.com

MARCH 10, 2020

If you are anything like me, and curious about how new enterprise tools will transform our relationship with work and business-technology, then you are probably reading a lot about artificial intelligence. There’s likely no other topic that’s been written about in more depth in recent years, yet much of it is unrealistic or poorly reasoned […].

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Synopsys

MARCH 10, 2020

IAST, a new generation of application security testing that bridges the gaps between SAST, DAST, and pen testing, seems to have been made for DevSecOps. The post How does IAST fit into DevSecOps? appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2020

I am always surprised by the impact that just one person can have on a team or an organization. In particular, the speed which that effect takes place. I have seen examples in multinational enterprises, where the appointment of a new CEO resulted in a change of atmosphere within a few weeks. This phenomenon happened not just to the people working closely with the CEO, but also with people who had never even met the new CEO.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MARCH 8, 2020

Does your Daily Scrum suffer from ’storytelling' or 'problem solving’ symptoms, as well as Sprint Goal amnesia? Does your Daily Scrum Therapy take longer than 15 minutes, but still no relevant information is being shared? The authors prescribe a cure with an Agile Game especially designed to improve your Daily Scrum: The Daily Stand-up Game. By Raluca Mitan, Rade Zivanovic.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 10, 2020

Tens of thousands of people and hundreds of cybersecurity vendors descended on San Francisco at the end of April. While the RSA Conference was the primary draw, there are a number of peripheral events that go on throughout the week as well, such as the Cloud Security Alliance Summit, the CIO/CISO Interchange, BSides San Francisco […]. The post Better Apps and Better Security When You Shift Left appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

MARCH 13, 2020

Nearly every client I work with asks me this question at some point. The Scrum Guide offers very limited guidance, suggesting 3-9 people per team (exclusive of ScrumMaster and Product Owner), without giving reasons or context for those numbers. There isn’t one, universally correct answer for optimal team size, but there are a number of factors and tradeoffs worth considering when figuring out what will work best for your team.

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CTOvision

MARCH 10, 2020

Read James Bourne explain the skills gap in the Internet of Things space and how to address it on IoT News : If you look at various technologies, from cloud computing to development, the agreed theme is one of a skills gap. Too many openings; not enough skilled candidates to take them up. The Internet of […].

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Tenable

MARCH 12, 2020

Malware and phishing campaigns use global interest in the novel coronavirus to capitalize on fear and uncertainty around the pandemic. Background. In December 2019, reports of an outbreak of a new virus and disease, dubbed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO), began to emerge. COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus , which has captured global attention and is now considered a pandemic.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 12, 2020

As part of its mission to advance the human elements of DevOps, DevOps Institute has released its 2020 Upskilling: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report. The year-over-year data builds on the inaugural 2019 project but it’s more insightful and more regional than last year. DevOps Institute is grateful to the 1,300 respondents this past year who took […].

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