Tue.Dec 04, 2018

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The One Thing You Need to do Before Promoting Code to Production

OverOps

Writing, building, compiling and deploying code might seem easier in an automated workflow, but we still need to make sure our code is, indeed, ready for a ‘promotion’. Moving towards a CI/CD workflow means that we’re adding automation to our process, which is great, but we need to make sure we keep the quality of the code intact. In other words, we need to know where we should add some breakpoints to check the automated process, and make sure everything is working as it should.

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Top 12 BI tools of 2019

CIO

With more and more data at our fingertips, it’s getting harder to focus on the information relevant to our problems and present it in an actionable way. That’s what business intelligence is all about.

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The One Thing You Need to do Before Promoting Code to Production

OverOps

Writing, building, compiling and deploying code might seem easier in an automated workflow, but we still need to make sure our code is, indeed, ready for a ‘promotion’. Moving towards a CI/CD workflow means that we’re adding automation to our process, which is great, but we need to make sure we keep the quality of the code intact. In other words, we need to know where we should add some breakpoints to check the automated process, and make sure everything is working as it should.

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Agile Alliance Announces Agile2019 Call for Speaker Submissions

Agile Alliance

Premier industry event now accepting session proposals for those who want to present ideas, experiences, and best practices in Agile software development PORTLAND, Ore., December 4, 2018 — Agile Alliance invites leaders in Agile development to answer the Call for Submissions for Agile2019, Agile Alliance's annual global conference that attracts Agile practitioners, academia, business, and … Continued.

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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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How to Develop People When You Don’t Have Time

Let's Grow Leaders

You can’t afford not to develop people – but it doesn’t require hours. Katrina paced back and forth as she described her problems with customer service and employee retention. “I can’t improve either one, but I don’t have time to develop people.” […]. The post How to Develop People When You Don’t Have Time appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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RxSwift and Animations in iOS

Toptal

iOS developers love the power of UIKit, and animating a UIView is usually fairly easy. However, if you want to chain animations together and set up dependencies between them, your code can quickly become difficult to read with many nested closures and indentation levels. In this article, I’ll explore how to apply the power of a reactive framework such as RxSwift to make that code look much cleaner as well as easier to read and follow.

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Mind the gap: AI and machine learning lag in adoption

CTOvision

Despite acknowledging that AI and machine learning are the harbinger of future technology, most businesses are lagging in AI adoption. A report by RELX Group found that companies are not investing enough for AI and machine learning technologies. More than 91 percent of senior executives polled understood that AI and machine learning were important but […].

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Agile UX: How to Incorporate UX and Product Design into Agile

Toptal

As UX strategy and design become increasingly important, the challenge of incorporating UX specialists into Agile methodologies becomes equally important. In this article, Toptal Freelance UX Designer Debbie Levitt explains how UX designers and creative teams can be effectively incorporated at all stages of Agile development.

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Creating the Conditions for Change: Three Perspectives to Consider

Change Starts Here

One of the primary ways we can influence change at work is to create the conditions for change to happen, independent of ourselves. Ideally, we want to create an environment so change is not only possible, but probable. We need to help people successfully navigate change. To create these conditions, we can look at change […].

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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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Design Talks: Research in Action with UX Researcher Caitria O'Neill

Toptal

On this week’s Design Talks we discuss research in action with Caitria O'Neill, a UX researcher at Airbnb. She studies people’s relationships with technology and how they behave with digital products.

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Benefits of Continuous Integration for Businesses and IT Teams

Flexagon

Software is a key competitive differentiator for companies across industries. The faster companies can get new enhancements and functionality to market, the wider their competitive edge. To achieve this lead, enterprise development teams need to optimize their workflow for efficiency, quality, and reliability. As such, development teams adopt continuous integration (CI) to speed up and.

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Survival Metrics: Getting to Grips with the Startup Burn Rate

Toptal

Burn rate is one of the simplest, yet most fundamental metrics that investors and startups focus on. It pertains to the total cash spend of the business per month, which demonstrates both growth progress and potential runway that the business has to survive. This article introduces the burn rate concept and the tactics that can be applied to optimize it.

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How to deliver security as code: 11 tips to get started

TechBeacon

Security as code and security by design are hot terms at conferences these days. But what do those phrases mean exactly, and how can you start adopting them in your organization?

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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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Even The Hype about artificial intelligence can bring policy benefits

CTOvision

Read why John Thornhill says AI and machine learning are overhyped but that is actually good for the technology such bubbles often the prelude to the deployment of disruptive technologies on Financial Times. Here are two seemingly contradictory but surprisingly consistent statements about artificial intelligence. First, AI is massively over-hyped. Second, this is a good thing.

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6 Steps to Build a Healthy Company Culture that Spurs Growth

Women on Business

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Baidu Leads AI Patent Applications In China With 2,368 Filings

CTOvision

Baidu, sometimes referred to as the Chinese equivalent of Google, has filed more artificial intelligence (AI) patent applications than any other company in China, according to a report by Patent Protection Association of China. The search engine company, which is valued at $191 billion, has filed 2,368 AI patent applications, according to the “Analysis on Artificial […].

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Agile UX: How to Incorporate UX and Product Design into Agile

Toptal

As UX strategy and design become increasingly important, the challenge of incorporating UX specialists into Agile methodologies becomes equally important. In this article, Toptal Freelance UX Designer Debbie Levitt explains how UX designers and creative teams can be effectively incorporated at all stages of Agile development.

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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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NVIDIA’s new AI turns videos of the real world into virtual landscapes

CTOvision

New Nvidia AI research project uses objects and scenery from within existing videos to build new interactive environments in realistic city landscapes. With the help of some clever machine learning techniques and a handy supercomputer, NVIDIA has used AI to chew on existing videos and use the objects. Neural networks — specifically generative models — will change […].

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DevOps Chat: Promoting Innovation at the RSA Conference

DevOps.com

RSA Conference is where the world comes to meet Security. For the last 14 years, the Innovation Sandbox Contest was where you could find out what the up and coming companies in security were up to. This year RSAC is doing something else in addition. The Launch Pad is where to come to if you […]. The post DevOps Chat: Promoting Innovation at the RSA Conference appeared first on DevOps.com.

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One Of The re:Invent Topics We Almost Missed: New Inferentia machine learning chip

CTOvision

There were an overwhelming number of announcements coming out of AWS re:invent this year. If you haven’t seen our summary list yet, see: Highlights From AWS re:Invent In hindsight we did not give enough attention to the very important announcement of Inferentia. Here is what Tech Crunch said about that: The machine learning chip market […].

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Survey reveals the opportunities and realities of microservices

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A new report explores how far companies have come with microservices. Fads come and go in the technology world—anyone remember AJAX ? When new, shiny things appear, architects often struggle to determine whether this is merely the latest fad or a genuine future direction. Microservices are evolving from fad to trend. Several years ago, many companies experimented with microservices but had doubts about the operational complexity and engineering maturity required to achieve success.

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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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6 Video Editing Apps for Your Phone

Apiumhub

Thanks to modern and highly portable technologies, many people feel like well-equipped filmmakers due to the video-shooting capabilities of phones. But, creating clips is about more than capturing content and immediately uploading it. Editing is a necessary aspect, too. Fortunately, numerous video editing apps are available on smartphones. Top 6 video editing apps. 1.

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Making Large Data Sets Easy like Sunday Morning with the New PowerEdge R740xd2

Dell EMC

When we think of large data sets, Monday morning spilled coffee, traffic congestion and unpredictable delays come to mind. Cars and trains represent data traveling over the network at a rate that creates budgetary, space and performance constraints in the data center. Now for a sharp contrast, let’s visit Sunday mornings and think of foamy lattes, croissants and an easy-going pace.

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Enterprise Kubernetes Security at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon

Aqua Security

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America is just around the corner, and looks like it is going to break attendance records, becoming the largest gathering of the Kubernetes and cloud native community ever! Such massive adoption by large organizations in their production deployments, brings with it security and compliance requirements. So much so, that we felt it’s worthy of its own co-located event – KubeSec Enterprise Summit 2018 – the very first security event dedicated to securing Kubernetes en

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Blue/Green Feature Flags: Combining Operational and Development Best Practices to Achieve Progressive Delivery

LaunchDarkly

Last week at re:Invent the AWS team announced some great improvements to their continuous delivery offerings for AWS Fargate and Amazon ECS. Notably, you can now use AWS CodeDeploy to configure blue/green deployments for these two services. We are excited to see AWS add this functionality as a first class part of their container service offering because it makes it easier than ever for AWS CodeDeploy users to achieve Progressive Delivery.

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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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Lights, Camera, Action! The new OEM PowerEdge R740xd2 Makes its Debut

Dell EMC

When we say that we listen to our customers, it’s not empty marketing hype. In fact, we generally do way more than listen – we follow through. Let me share a great example. A few months ago, a large OEM customer told the team that it needed a customized solution to bridge the gap between compute and storage. Unfortunately, none of our existing products fit the exact bill.

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Symantec’s CASB, DLP Solutions Receive “In Process” Designation from FedRAMP

Symantec

Serving as the next step in the government’s stringent security authorization process FedRAMP has become synonymous with security excellence

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Data Domain Cloud Tier. The Right Choice for Long Term Retention

Dell EMC

The Data Domain Family has been the number one choice when it comes to the Purpose Built Backup Appliance market. Data Domain provides best in class deduplication and scale for your data protection needs, including the ability to tier data to the cloud of your choice via Data Domain Cloud Tier. With Data Domain Cloud Tier you can send your data directly from the DD appliance to any of the validated and supported cloud object storage providers; public, private or hybrid for long-term retention ne

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