Sat.Nov 23, 2019 - Fri.Nov 29, 2019

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Burnout at work: what to do about it

Apiumhub

If you feel like your brain is constantly on fire with thoughts about work and you’re beginning to suspect there’s a better way to live, then I guess this article is for you! It’s normal to feel stressed at work from time to time. But for some people, the stress becomes all-consuming, leading to exhaustion, cynicism and hatred towards their job. And this is known as burnout – the topic of today’s article.

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Your Request to Improve is Denied!

Agile Alliance

Your Request to Improve is Denied! A few weeks back I was at the Agile Testing Days conference in Germany, and I had a great conversation with one of the attendees about what they learned. This included things like how to do automation, exploratory testing, driving transformation, and a number of other ways to improve … Continued.

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Decoding the Modern Enterprise Software Spaghetti

DevOps.com

Modern enterprise software architecture is growing increasingly complex. Organizations are jumping on the digital transformation bandwagon in growing numbers. They are striving to become more agile and continuously deliver new code, whether on-premises or to support cloud migration efforts. In the process, IT teams are amassing an ever-growing inventory of applications and databases, which generally […].

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Regain focus on strategic software delivery

Xebia

When leading an IT department you are faced with numerous challenges across the board. Whilst attracting and retaining IT talent is one of the biggest challenge, it is often paired with the challenge of understanding and displaying the value of the IT department towards the organisation. IT has moved from a necessity to be a […]. The post Regain focus on strategic software delivery appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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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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2020 Tech Trend: Companies get a better understanding of AI’s effects

DXC

In 2020, as AI makes inroads into professional services, companies will struggle with anticipating how AI can — or should — change their professions. AI is already changing the way contracts are interpreted, taxes are prepared and medical conditions are diagnosed. However, if the dominant strategy for deploying AI is for low-level problem solving, then […].

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Moving AI and ML from research into production

O'Reilly Media - Data

In this interview from O’Reilly Foo Camp 2019, Dean Wampler, head of evangelism at Anyscale.io, talks about moving AI and machine learning into real-time production environments. Highlights from the interview include: Facilitating the transition from research to production in a robust way introduces a number of complications, Wampler says, including governance, GDPR, and traceability rules.

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How to Build a Better Boss

Let's Grow Leaders

A better boss starts with a good relationship and great performance A listener to a recent episode of my Leadership without Losing Your Soul podcast asked a question about how she could tell her leader about the content she’d learned. Her heart […]. The post How to Build a Better Boss appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Travel Back To 1985 For A Guest Lecture By Commodore Grace Hopper on The Future of Computing

CTOvision

Thanks to the power of computing you can watch Commodore Grace Hopper delivering her landmark lecture at MIT Laboratory on 25 April 1985. The entire presentation is excellent and worth listening to. But my favorite line is right around 23 minutes in, when after describing the nature of technology innovation she says: “Probably the most […].

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The ABC of DevOps Implementation With Containerization and Docker

Dzone - DevOps

DevOps and Docker from A to Z. DevOps is all the rage in the IT industry. From Wikipedia , DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and information-technology operations (Ops), which aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. The primary reason for the popularity of DevOps is that it allows enterprises to develop and improve products at a quicker pace than traditional software development methods.

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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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Microsoft Edge browser gobbles up Google's privacy-fail cookies

TechBeacon

The new Edge browser from Microsoft now shares the same open-source rendering engine as Google Chrome. However, it doesn’t share la GOOG’s affinity for tracking cookies. It seems privacy is the new sweet treat.

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DevSecOps Adoption and the Web Security Myth

DevOps.com

As DevOps practices have become widespread in the tech community, many people have begun proclaiming the virtues of DevSecOps. As the name implies, DevSecOps is the addition of security into DevOps. Just as DevOps promises better-quality production in less time, DevSecOps promises better security with less time required to achieve and maintain it. DevSecOps has […].

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Software Acquisition and Practices in Government: Build or Buy?

CTOvision

This post is the next in our series focusing on building vs buying software for government uses. Also see our CTOvision Study on Build Vs Buy in Government and How Do Leaders In Government Decide GOTS or COTS? The issue of building or buying software for government uses is one of the oldest discussion topics […].

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Resources or People? Building a human first corporate culture

CEO Insider

Peter Drucker once stated that “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” I couldn’t agree more! As someone who has built a business and advises others on how to do the same, I have learned many valuable lessons about the importance of culture and how, whether good or bad, corporate culture has a direct impact on the […].

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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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Cloud-native DevOps gets real with new tools

TechBeacon

DevOps practitioners take heed: Cloud-native computing will be the overarching trend for enterprise application development in the 2020s.

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DevOps: Get the Basics Right to Avoid Costly Mistakes

DevOps.com

It is a truth of both agile and DevOps that speed is of the essence. This is a relative statement—some apps/portfolios/orgs envision speed completely differently than others—but if you are releasing more frequently than you were in the past, thanks to DevOps, that’s kind of the point. Yet, we see a whole selection of things […]. The post DevOps: Get the Basics Right to Avoid Costly Mistakes appeared first on DevOps.com.

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WebVR Part 3: Unlocking the Potential of WebAssembly and AssemblyScript

Toptal

What if you could incorporate clever features from other programming languages for your JavaScript project, without too much hassle? That is the general idea behind WebAssembly. In Part 3 of our WebVR series, Toptal Full-stack Developer Michael Cole introduces you to WebAssembly and AssemblyScript, outlining how they can be harnessed to create a browser-backend for web apps.

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Human Nature vs. AI: A False Dichotomy?

CTOvision

Read John McClurg explain how artificial intelligence is helping companies to bridge their cybersecurity gaps on Dark Reading : Nobel Prize-winning novelist Anatole France famously opined: “It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.” As a species, we’re innately designed with — as far as our awareness extends — the highest, most profound […].

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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How to match your IT workloads to the right cloud resource

TechBeacon

When it comes to managing a multi-cloud world, matching your workloads to the best cloud hosting platforms is one of the biggest challenges. Rational decision making often gives way to an emotional exercise, where beliefs, biases, and other human behaviors set the stage for a less-than-optimal hosting strategy.

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Many CIOs Left Out in the Cold, Survey Finds

DevOps.com

While many enterprises realize that the very success of their business depends upon how well they invest and execute in their technology deployments, a full quarter of CIOs don’t have direct access to their company’s board of directors. This was a finding from the recent “ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Survey.” The 2019 survey was conducted August […].

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Top 10 Automated Software Testing Tools

Dzone - DevOps

We are in an era of automation everywhere! Some time back, Bob Egan, the Chief Research Officer at Sepharim Research, talked about mobile security. He made a statement on Enterprise Mobility Trends 2016 : “The modern desktop is really not a desktop, but an experience that fits the moment.”. He also added saying that we are getting into a generation where there will be applications developed specifically for the work to be done easily and efficiently.

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Article: Lessons Learned in Performance Testing

InfoQ Culture Methods

Performance testing is a hard discipline to get right and many things can go wrong. The key is to pay attention to the details, understand the behavior, and avoid just producing fancy numbers. This article describes a few common problems seen frequently with performance testing and shares tips on how to make your performance testing routine better. By Ji?

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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7 essential skills for Machine Learning and AI developers on AWS

Gitprime

Machine learning and artificial intelligence developers are more in demand than ever. Get the 7 skills needed to make the biggest impact in this role, and see how you measure up.

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Untapping the Potential of DevOps, Part 1: Why Is It so Critical Today?

DevOps.com

Apps are making the world a simpler, faster place. Mortgages can be verified in minutes. Food shows up at doorsteps with a few clicks. A safe ride is just a pin-drop away. For consumers, having a smooth, flawless and enjoyable app experience is the status quo. However, what goes on behind the scenes to make […]. The post Untapping the Potential of DevOps, Part 1: Why Is It so Critical Today?

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Compliance as Code and Applied DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

Use complaince as code for faster deployments. Compliance as code is an important form of applied DevOps. This idea resonates with enterprises, who often use DevOps to deploy applications that have a specific purpose. For example, banks use DevOps to deploy applications to help improve compliance and insurance companies want applications that they can derive insights from.

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Conquering Hybrid Cloud with Replicated Event-Driven Architectures

Confluent

Potential advantages of hybrid cloud architectures include avoiding vendor lock-in, increasing system resilience, optimizing costs, and inducing price competition among cloud providers. Hybrid cloud architectures require the ability to securely […].

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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How to match your IT workloads to the right cloud

TechBeacon

When it comes to managing a multi-cloud world, matching your workloads to the best cloud hosting platforms is one of the biggest challenges. Rational decision making often gives way to an emotional exercise, where beliefs, biases, and other human behaviors set the stage for a less-than-optimal hosting strategy.

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Optimizing AWS Performance Over the Long Term

DevOps.com

Ask most folks how to optimize performance on AWS, and they’ll talk about things such as autoscaling and rightsizing. Those tools are certainly part of an effective AWS performance optimization strategy. On their own, however, they are not enough to guarantee performance and reliability over the long haul. That’s because tools and processes such as […].

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Making Blockchain Work for Your Business

Perficient

News of Blockchain's potential has reverberated throughout almost every industry this past decade, and the hype is justified.In Deloitte's 2019 Global Blockchain Survey, 53% of senior executives expressed that blockchain has become a critical priorit.