Tue.Aug 20, 2019

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5 ways to manage serverless secrets, ranked best to worst

TechBeacon

Serverless applications (sometimes called "lambdas" or "functions") frequently need to authenticate to an upstream service or API. This authentication might include credentials that talk to a database or an API key to issue a third-party request.

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The Importance of Strong Employee Development Programs

Perficient

Employee attrition is a serious issue in IT and software development. Rising salaries and increasing demand are giving experienced and qualified IT workers more options to choose from, so companies are forced to explore non-traditional ways to overco.

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Three rules for turning DevOps into DevSecOps

CircleCI

Why DevSecOps? There’s a general idea that the faster our development and deployment methods get, the more prone they might be to security issues. And as we get to a point where development is agile, fast, and functional, we start questioning ourselves: Is this all secure? And more importantly, what will it take to improve the security of our projects?

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Blueprint For Innovation: What It Takes To Build A Culture Of Positive Change At Growth-stage Companies

CEO Insider

Most of the businesses considered to be the most successful today, like Amazon, Apple, and Google steal the spotlight when it comes to innovation. In fact, some believe innovation is reserved for these technology giants. But many growth stage companies find themselves in a unique position to harness innovation as well. Growth companies aren’t bogged […].

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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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The Barriers to Robotic Process Automation, Part 1

DevOps.com

It sounds alluring enough: Intelligent bots step up and do the menial tasks humans would rather (probably) not be doing–or employers would rather they not, in order to slash costs. But streamlining business processes with robotic process automation (RPA) isn’t as easy as setting and forgetting a software bot as if it was an automated […]. The post The Barriers to Robotic Process Automation, Part 1 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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2 Easy Types of Employee Recognition You Can Start Using in Your Organization

CO2 Business Leadership

By: Thomas Schlick Hey, who doesn’t like a little recognition? You work hard, do your best, and it just seems natural that your boss or a peer would acknowledge what you’ve done. Well, just like anyone else, I can promise your employees enjoy a “job well done!” here and there, and it can make a world of a difference! This blog is a follow-up to a previous post on Regrettable Turnover – the departure of key employees who feel under-appreciated.

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Avoid the Potholes Along Your Migration Journey from Netezza

Actian

With certain models of Netezza reaching end-of-life, you may be considering your options for a new, modern data warehouse. But don’t make migration an afterthought. Migrations of terabytes of data, thousands of tables and views, specialized code and data types, and other proprietary elements do not happen overnight. Given the dependencies and complexities involved with data warehouse migrations, it’s no wonder that, according to Gartner’s Adam Ronthal, over 60% of these projects fail to achieve

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Bringing 5G-Enabled Digital Services to Life Calls for Cloud-Native Operations

DevOps.com

Spotify, Netflix, IoT connectivity and cloud storage are a few examples of the digital services providing new options for fun and function to consumers and businesses alike, while representing a growing boon for communications service providers (CSPs). Gartner predicts by 2020, nearly one quarter (23%) of CSPs’ large enterprise business communication revenues will be driven […].

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Unicorns or Data Architects?

Dataiku

Data architects have a tendency to feel like unicorns: somehow they can manipulate data storage and computation structures like putty and also keep business objectives in mind.

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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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DevOps Institute Opens ‘2020 Upskilling: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report’ Survey

DevOps.com

The second annual survey and resulting report are designed to help companies better understand both the current and future state of DevOps skilling and cross-skilling across the global IT community. Boca Raton, FL – August 20, 2019 – DevOps Institute, a global member-based association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, today announced the launch […].

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Electric Geek Transportation Systems

Coding Horror

I've never thought of myself as a "car person" The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the first new car I ever bought) was the quirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then we bought a VW station wagon in 2011 and a Honda minivan in 2012 for family transportation duties. That's it. Not exactly the stuff The Stig's dreams are made of.

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Comment on The Smart Side of Rewards and Recognition by Elaine Fallon

QAspire

Thanks for a really great visual Tanmay, so easy to follow and cathes the eye, keeps the attention…

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A fresh, new look for the CMD+CTRL Cyber Range: Part 2

Security Innovation

We recently launched a host of new features and improvements in our CMD+CTRL Cyber Range - new metrics, new player report cards, new hints - all with the aim of providing an experience that you’ll remember. Over the next few weeks, we’ll dive into these new features to give you an idea of what to expect. This week we’re detailing seamless event switching and tracking your performance over multiple events.

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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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Why Security and Compliance are Paramount in the Cloud

Nutanix

Ok, you’ve decided to move to the cloud. You heard there’s a bunch of cool stuff you can do at a fraction of your current IT spend.

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27 Top Productivity Tools for Nonprofits

TechSoup

Whether you're working solo or with a team at your nonprofit, there are many kinds of resources that can help push you to achieve your overall goals. Productivity tools are types of software — often available via a mobile app — that help you stay organized, streamline workflows, and ultimately, get more done at your organization. And while there are hundreds, even thousands, of tools to choose from, we narrowed it down to 27 notable solutions that might help you in the day-to-day operations at y

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Common Traits of the Best Online Courses

Women on Business

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Reason #4 to Migrate to MongoDB Atlas: Tracking and Monitoring

Datavail

Tracking and Monitoring are our reason #4 for migrating to MongoDB Atlas. You get instant visibility into your database operations and the hardware that it needs to run. Having this information is vital for getting more out of your database performance, avoiding problems before they come up, and improving user experience. Real-time Database Insights.

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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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Why your SAST tool needs to understand your web framework

Synopsys

Web frameworks can introduce security issues into web applications. Mitigate this risk with a static analysis tool that understands the frameworks you use. The post Why your SAST tool needs to understand your web framework appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Beyond the Basic Transformation: How Business and Workforce Evolves

Dell EMC

Workforce Transformation is a theme discussed across all organizations. Companies must transform with technology, even if technology is not what they do. Even companies that have consistently demonstrated excellence in delivering technology-based solutions are at-risk, as the underlying architectures that they have built their businesses on change. The competitive pace of change creates internal pressure to adapt systems and processes.

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Coded Smorgasbord: Unstrung Manager

The Daily WTF

Deon was on a contract-to-hire job. In the beginning, it sounded like a good job. Then he looked at the C# codebase. It didn’t take him long to decide that this wasn’t going to be a job he’d work at full time. Still, he’d be happy to continue contracting, because it was quite obvious that it would be a lot of billable hours. How many is “a lot”? Well, let’s talk about their StringManager class.

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Catchpoint Expands Network Monitoring Service Reach

DevOps.com

Catchpoint has expanded the number of locations worldwide from which it is gathering telemetry data for its networking monitoring service to more than 825 sites. Drit Suljoti, chief product officer for Catchpoint, said as applications continue to become more distributed, the worlds of DevOps and network operations (NetOps) converge. DevOps teams need more visibility into […].

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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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Teradata Earns Spot (Again x2!) on Constellation ShortList for Hybrid Cloud

Teradata

Teradata is named yet again to the Constellation ShortList™ for “Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Relational Database Management Systems." Read more!

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What a Small Canadian Company is Doing for Consumer AR

IDC

For the past few years I’ve been covering the Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) market and over the years I’ve seen some impressive demos. For VR headsets these usually revolved around some sort of game or other-worldly experience — the kind of stuff that’s always fun and exciting for users. But when it came to AR headsets, the demos were always somewhat dull in comparison.

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AI-Driven Demand Staffing For Fulfillment Centers

DataRobot

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Super Saturday—let’s talk numbers. In 2018, 165 million people shopped over Black Friday weekend from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday. Sales on Black Friday totaled over $24 billion. On Cyber Monday, consumers spent $7.9 billion online, a third of which came from mobile devices. Despite these massive numbers, this year’s forecasts for Super Saturday on December 22nd have it surpassing Black Friday with a total of $26 billion.* Clearly, as online shopping continues to gro

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Is Your Healthcare Organization Prepared for Windows 7 End of Life?

Kaseya

According to a report by Forescout , “About 71 percent of medical devices will be running unsupported Windows operating systems (OS) by January 14, 2020”, foreshadowing the sorry state of cybersecurity in the healthcare industry. The HIPAA Security Rule 45 C.F.R. § 164.308 (a)(5)(ii)(B) specifically requires updated patches on all systems – which will cease for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008/R2 post January 2020, unless you pay for Extended Security Updates (ESU).

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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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The Six Factors You Should Obsess Over When Building a Marketplace Business

Battery Ventures

Consumer marketplace companies are hot—just look at all the ink being spilled on the recent IPOs of Uber and Lyft and the expected, upcoming listing of Airbnb. But we see plenty of other types of marketplace companies—online hubs where buyers and sellers meet—in industries beyond ride sharing and lodging. Our recently launched Battery Marketplace Index highlights large, public marketplaces in areas ranging from e-commerce to travel to real-estate to childcare, and we think there’s plenty of room

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Software as a Service

DevOps.com

The post Software as a Service appeared first on DevOps.com.

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”What is everyone working on?”

Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

When you’ve got a team of smart people, it’s easy for everyone to go in different directions. That’s the power of brilliant engineers, but it’s also a challenge for tech leaders. Combine smart people with remote locations, spread across many timezones, collaborating through different systems, and you’ve got a recipe for manager stress. That’s why Will and Macgill created Humble Dot.