Xebia
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
In this blog, we will take a further look at these test cases and why it is important to automate these acceptance tests. Not just from a development team perspective, but also what this can bring to your business. The post Quality pattern 2: Automate your acceptance tests appeared first on Xebia Blog.
OverOps
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Below we outline common approaches to distributed tracing, the challenges these methods pose and how OverOps can help deliver greater insights when troubleshooting across microservices. The accelerated adoption of microservices and increasingly distributed systems brings the promise of greater speed, scalability and flexibility. But this shift to more modular architecture is not without its fair share of challenges – especially when it comes to troubleshooting.
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DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 16, 2020
Every 20 seconds, a million dollars is wasted on IT investments that don’t align with business strategy. How much is your business wasting? To align business, development and IT operations, your teams need to adopt a new BizOps approach. In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at BizOps and why it’s becoming so important. […]. The post Why BizOps Is Becoming Important and How It Can Help Your Teams appeared first on DevOps.com.
The Parallax
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO—The greatest trick stalkerware, one of the most dangerous forms of malware , ever played was convincing the world that it didn’t exist. Until recently, cybersecurity experts could overlook stalkerware because of the personal nature of how it spreads, its muddled legal status—and how it is detected. Part of the problem, cybersecurity experts at the Enigma Conference in San Francisco last month said, is that until recently, stalkerware has been hard to even define.
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.
The Crazy Programmer
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
95% of the 1.6 billion websites in the world rely on JavaScript to get the job done, but that doesn’t make it popular or well-liked. As a programming language, JavaScript is that ugly, smelly shopkeeper that insists you give them a kiss on the cheek every time you go do your shopping. You don’t want to, but if you want to get your supplies, you have to.
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Hacker Earth Developers Blog
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Welcome to the last episode of #NetflixandHire ! Over the last couple of episodes, we’ve learned that sometimes what you see is not what you get, why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, and why you need to think outside the box when it comes to tech screening and hiring. Doing this is a sure shot formula to reach those ambitious tech hiring goals you’ve set for yourself.
The Parallax
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
The technology that might become the future of facial recognition started with a bucket of household paint. Ingmar Bruder was researching organic photovoltaics—and how to make paint that could absorb sunlight and turn it into electricity—at German chemical giant BASF, when he hit upon an unexpected discovery. When he pointed infrared beams at various objects, they would reflect the beam back in different ways, depending on what they were made of.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Read Rob Toews explain what artificial intelligence means on Forbes : Years ago, Marvin Minsky coined the phrase “suitcase words” to refer to terms that have a multitude of different meanings packed into them. He gave as examples words like consciousness, morality and creativity. “Artificial intelligence” is a suitcase word. Commentators today use the phrase to […].
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Senior leaders share the most important leadership skills to master now As we work with senior leaders to build their leadership development programs, the conversation always turns to the most important leadership skills their frontline and middle-level leaders need. Inevitably, these veteran […]. The post 3 of the Most Important Leadership Skills Your Leaders Hope You Have appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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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.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Welcome to the last episode of #NetflixandHire ! Over the last couple of episodes, we’ve learned that sometimes what you see is not what you get, why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, and why you need to think outside the box when it comes to tech screening and hiring. Doing this is a sure shot formula to reach those ambitious tech hiring goals you’ve set for yourself.
TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Developing software that incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) can be unpredictable, and you need a unique set of knowledge and skills to code, test, and make sense of the data. What's more, tuning the system can take time, and the decisions AI-based software makes can sometimes be difficult to explain.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Despite more than $5 trillion having been spent on digital transformation efforts, survey after survey shows that successful digital transformations are far and few in-between. By many estimates, more than 50% of digital transformation efforts failed in recent years. While a recent survey conducted by Hanover Research and commissioned by AHEAD, the State of Enterprise […].
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
When you’re frustrated with a team member who seems to be doing everything but the work you hired them to do, it can feel tempting to bark “Just do your job.” Or perhaps you’ve got a team member who responds, “I […]. The post Why Just do Your Job Doesn’t Work appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. When you’re frustrated with a team member who seems to be doing everything but the work you hired them to do, it can feel tempting to bark “Jus
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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.
Confluent
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Less than six months ago, we announced support for Microsoft Azure in Confluent Cloud, which allows developers using Azure as a public cloud to build event streaming applications with Apache […].
TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
The world of test automation and quality assurance (QA) still undergoing a tremendous sea change wrought by the advancing maturity of DevOps in the enterprise. That's why as a QA professional you must remain on your toes if you are to stay on a solid career track.
Aqua Security
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
The Aqua Research team has identified a new attack vector that points to an evolution in attacks’ techniques and capabilities. In these attacks, the attackers focused on spreading into instances that were running in the cloud. The attackers deployed a clean Ubuntu container, mounted the host file system, which enabled them to execute code on the host, then downloaded a cryptomining binary file, stole data, and scanned IP ranges of various cloud providers.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
An Egress study has found that 97% of IT leaders are concerned that data will be exposed by their own employees, leading to insider breaches. This finding from Egress‘s Insider Data Breach Survey 2020, conducted by Opinion Matters, spelled a lack of reassurance for decision makers regarding insider breaches over the past 12 months. Also, 78% of […].
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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.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Complex passwords can save users from being hacked—any IT admin will tell you that. Plus, countless studies and articles on password security have been published about why password policies are vital to online security. Increasing the length of passwords, adding complexity to them and never reusing passwords more than once … these are three examples […].
TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
There are many ways to predict how buggy a codebase will be. Having lots of changes from one version of a program to the next is one predictor. So are code complexity and overreliance on dependencies. The best predictor of all, however, may be organizational complexity.
Confluent
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
The world is changing fast, and keeping up can be hard. Companies must evolve their IT to stay modern, providing services that are more and more sophisticated to their customers. […].
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Read Brandon Vigliarolo explains why there is a vast data skill gap in big data technology on the Tech Republic : A study from Accenture and data analytics firm Qlik has discovered a massive problem in the big data world: A skills gap that is costing companies billions of dollars. There is a huge amount of […].
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DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Veeam today announced the general availability of version 10 of the Veeam Availability Suite, which, among more than 150 enhancements, adds support for network-attached storage (NAS) systems, additional ransomware protection via an ability to create immutable backups in the cloud, an ability to recover multiple virtual machines simultaneously and a set of application programming interfaces […].
TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Behavior-driven development (BDD) practices can help your teams build better software by making them carefully specify the product’s behaviors using plain-language examples. And whether you're seeking better collaboration through "three amigos" meetings or wanting to automate better using a framework such as Cucumber, one language rests at the center of the BDD movement: Gherkin.
Kaseya
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
IT efficiency is a priority for businesses in competitive markets. One area of IT that can always benefit from increased efficiency and productivity is the helpdesk and support staff. But, how can we drive IT efficiency? According to a study by Zendesk , internal support teams receive an average of 492 tickets per month. And the average number of tickets a support person receives per month ranges from 135 to 157 for midsize businesses (those between 100 and 5,000 employees in this study).
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Read Joe McKendrick list seven business areas which could use artificial intelligence boost on ZDNet : Artificial intelligence has captured everyone’s imagination, but what can we expect from the technology? A recent survey of more than 550 executives from IBM finds plenty of support from the top — everyone wants to plunge full-force into AI […].
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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.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
In today’s world of cloud platforms and applications, typically delivered as SaaS (Software as a Service), it is critical for organizations to ensure efficient collaboration between software development and operations teams. The software development team codes the software application or platform, while the DevOps team streamlines and automates the entire production lifecycle, from development and […].
TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Developers love serverless applications. The technology offers programmers the ability to create custom functions without worrying about infrastructure, and speed deployment without having to wait for operations to deploy containers or virtual machines.
Confluent
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
We just released Confluent Platform 5.4, which is one of our most important releases to date in terms of the features we’ve delivered to help enterprises take Apache Kafka® and […].
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