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Distributed Systems Pattern: Segmented Log

Martin Fowler

A single log file can grow and become a performance bottleneck while its read at the startup. Older logs are cleaned up periodically and doing cleanup operations on a single huge file is difficult to implement. A Segmented Log splits the logfile into smaller files.

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What Is The Artificial Intelligence Revolution And Why Does It Matter To Your Business?

CTOvision

Read Bernard Marr explain what is Artificial Intelligence revolution and how it can affect your business on Forbes : As a species, humanity has witnessed three previous industrial revolutions: first […].

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Top Reasons Your Business Needs a Content Management System (CMS)

The Crazy Programmer

The use of a content management system – CMS – for powering your site is one of the best investments you can make for your digital presence – and for your business. Something you need to understand is that making an investment is a must. When it comes to spreading your brand message and communicating with customers, your website is your most valuable asset.

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Try This Powerful, Simple Technique to Improve Your Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

One of the best ways to improve your leadership is to reflect on how it feels to be led. I’ve had some amazing bosses over the years who taught me a great deal through their words. But mostly by their actions. I’m […]. The post Try This Powerful, Simple Technique to Improve Your Leadership appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Distributed Systems Pattern: Write-Ahead Log

Martin Fowler

In the latest part of his collection of Patterns of Distributed Systems, Unmesh faces the problem of a server failing in the middle of a complex update. A write-ahead log first saves and replicates the data for expected update in an append-only log, so if a failure occurs, we can recover the correct state.

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Is Custom Web App Development Popular During COVID-19?

The Crazy Programmer

It is clear that when people come together, they can achieve anything. And that can’t be more evident than it is today. It’s a time when people have combined efforts, a year where the great nations of the world have embraced friendships. After all, we’re all fighting the coronavirus as one. But who or what is to thank for all of that? Yes, technology.

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Amazon Bracket Launched: Enables exploration of quantum computing with AWS

CTOvision

Friends Bill Vass and Jeff Barr have just posted another video, this one on the occasion of the launch of Amazon Braket. Amazon Braket enables uses to explore the power […].

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Distributed Systems Pattern: Quorum

Martin Fowler

Distributed systems may get partitioned, when the nodes in the cluster no longer talk to all the others. Unmesh explains that, because of this, we need a quorum of nodes within a partition to accept a change.

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16 great digital transformation resources for IT pros

TechBeacon

There is little doubt that a growing number of organizations are expressing interest in digital transformation, if they haven't already started the journey. And the pandemic is accelerating the shift.

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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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DevOps and Security in a Cloud-Native World

DevOps.com

DevOps teams have naturally embraced microservices and modern application delivery workflows. But, they may get pushback from risk-averse leadership or feel slowed by security teams who struggle to keep pace. Development teams that play a greater role in guiding their organization’s cloud transformations will ultimately come out ahead. These are some of the takeaways from […].

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Maximizing data privacy: Making sensitive data secure by default

CTOvision

Read Ayal Yogev explain how companies can maximize data security by making sensitive data secure by default on Help Net Security : Consider the case of contact tracing, which has […].

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Your Leadership Promise – Interview with Jason Hewlett

Let's Grow Leaders

What is it you give to your team and customers that’s uniquely you? In this episode, master showman Jason Hewlett shares what it means to keep the promise to your team, but more importantly, to yourself. That promise might not be […]. The post Your Leadership Promise – Interview with Jason Hewlett appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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10 companies killing it at DevOps in 2020

TechBeacon

Five years ago, I wrote about 10 companies that were killing it with DevOps. Today, all of those enterprises—including Amazon, Walmart, and Netflix—remain household names, not just for consumers, but in the tech community, too.

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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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FaaS: Evolving to a Truly Serverless Paradigm

DevOps.com

FaaS helps alleviate some of the administration and management issues related to serverless Creating distributed applications demands a thorough understanding of cloud infrastructures and architectures. Engineers must address complex operational issues, including provisioning, configuration and how their code will behave over a distributed architecture.

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Artificial intelligence: Companies employing skilling initiatives and AI get most tech value, finds Microsoft

CTOvision

New research by Microsoft India has revealed that organizations combining the skilling initiatives with artificial intelligence are the ones that have been generating the most value from the technology. The […].

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Why DevOps Should be Responsible for Development Environments

Dzone - DevOps

Let’s discuss an extremely common anti-pattern I’ve noticed with teams that are relatively new to containers/cloud-native/Kubernetes, etc. More so than when building traditional monoliths, cloud-native applications can be incredibly complex and, as a result, need a relatively sophisticated development environment. Unfortunately, this need often isn’t evident at the beginning of the cloud-native journey.

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Cloud security and data privacy essentials, and why they matter

TechBeacon

When the rush to the cloud began, the value proposition was a prime attraction. Organizations could save money on capital expenses, because hardware and the people to maintain and support it were furnished by the cloud service provider.

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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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Considering Hybrid Cloud? Focus on the Why

DevOps.com

So much of business—and life in general—comes down to semantics. We articulate goals and measure success using a variety of terms. Some serve to clarify; others confuse. Consider the term “hybrid cloud”—a Google search yields 5.96 million results. So, yes, hybrid cloud is a hot topic, but what exactly do we mean by it? The […]. The post Considering Hybrid Cloud?

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Putting Privacy And Safety At The Heart Of The Internet Of Things Revolution

CTOvision

Read why Ondrej Vlcek says that privacy and safety should be at the heart of the Internet of Things revolution on Forbes : Volkswagen marked the beginning of June with […].

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The Power of MSP Community

Kaseya

Normally, our images of community consist of shared tables for meals, after-work drinks at the local watering hole, conferences full of lanyard-wearing networkers and meetups with our peers. Thanks to COVID-19, those are increasingly distant memories for the MSP community and others as social distancing has us limiting our contact with others and avoiding just those sorts of situations.

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9 open-source service meshes compared

TechBeacon

Which service mesh is best for your organization? In recent years, the number of Kubernetes service meshes has rapidly increased, making that a tricky question to answer.

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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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Pushing Beyond Agility: The Kanban Maturity Model

DevOps.com

Kanban is not a novel idea. It is a well-practiced and known method for organizations to increase productivity and efficiency, reduce the lead time of processes and improve delivery flow. However, historically Kanban has been frequently misunderstood. Many people think that Kanban is just a whiteboard with stickies in columns of to-do, doing, and done. […].

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OpenAI’s latest breakthrough is astonishingly powerful, but still fighting its flaws

CTOvision

The program itself is called GPT-3 and it’s the work of San Francisco-based AI lab OpenAI, an outfit that was founded with the ambitious (some say delusional) goal of steering […].

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Retrospective Antipatterns

Agile Alliance

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CVE-2019-0230: Apache Struts Potential Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Tenable

Apache published two security bulletins to address a potential remote code execution vulnerability and a denial of service vulnerability. Public proof of concept code is available. Background. On August 13, Apache published security bulletins to address two vulnerabilities in Apache Struts version 2. Apache Struts is an open source model-view-controller (MVC) framework used to create Java web applications.

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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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Instana Applies DevOps to APM Agent Management

DevOps.com

Instana has announced it has become the first provider of an application management platform (APM) to enable IT teams to automate the deployment of agent software to monitor IT environments using any Git repository of their choice. Jim Hirschauer, director of product management and sales enablement for Instana, said agent software used to instrument an […].

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Narendra Modi: The Man of the Moment

CEO Insider

“If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.” —Narendra Modi Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a man of all moments. He is a gifted communicator and an expert in getting […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Narendra Modi: The Man of the Moment are those of the author Professor M.S.

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The Principles of Chaos Engineering

Dzone - DevOps

Resilience is something those who use Kubernetes to run apps and microservices in containers aim for. When a system is resilient, it can handle losing a portion of its microservices and components without the entire system becoming inaccessible. Resilience is achieved by integrating loosely coupled microservices. When a system is resilient, microservices can be updated or taken down without having to bring the entire system down.