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Drive Innovation in Software Development: How to Choose Between Incremental and Fundamental Change

OverOps

Business success is driven by making the right choices so that desirable products or services can be delivered to customers with intended profit margin and customer satisfaction. [The following is a guest post from Derek D’Alessandro, a catalyst of successful technological change in areas such as DevOps, Agile and more.]. Appropriate technology choices drive long-term success by creating a sustainable quality level, cost structure and by defining the delivered product capabilities.

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The Best Way to Prepare for a Successful 2019

Let's Grow Leaders

How will you prepare for a successful 2019? It’s tricky, right? Because you just don’t know what’s going to happen. Or do you? I’ve got some predictions… ? The truth is, you can’t always choose what you show up to, but you […]. The post The Best Way to Prepare for a Successful 2019 appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The hype around driverless cars came crashing down in 2018

CTOvision

Big players in autonomous driving like Uber, Tesla, and Waymo had a disappointing 2018, but several startups with a “minimum viable product” made good progress. As 2018 dawned, expectations for self-driving vehicles were sky-high. Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car company, was testing fully driverless cars and preparing for a commercial launch in the Phoenix area.

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Questions for the New Year

Edge Perspectives

As we enter the New Year, it’s an opportunity to step back and reflect in an increasingly hectic world. In an earlier post , I suggested we need to find time to reflect in a world increasingly dominated by flows – it’s a healthy form of friction that can actually enhance our ability to generate more insight from flows. Embrace the New Year as an invitation to reflect.

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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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Hybrid cloud technologies become table stakes in IaaS market

CTOvision

Read Alan R. Earls’ articles about how IaaS providers will increase stakes in hybrid cloud on Tech Target : AWS, Azure, and Google made hybrid cloud technologies the main point of focus in 2018. Their strategies, however, were unique — and look to remain that way in 2019, as all three providers continue their efforts to […].

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The big three in 2019: Apple, Google and Microsoft’s upcoming hardware year

CTOvision

While 2018 was a year of iterative updates, Apple, Google and Microsoft all released some of their best products yet, even if they weren’t as innovative as some would like. While many flagships went without any upgrades – we didn’t even see a new MacBook or Surface Book – devices like the MacBook Air and […].

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DevOps 2019

DevOps.com

The post DevOps 2019 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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3D Printing: The Next Big Thing in the Internet of Things

CTOvision

Read Swamini Kulkarni’s article about how the Internet of Things can help in 3D printing on RFID Journal : Since the beginning of time, mankind has been focused on how to reduce human labor and how to upgrade life activities by developing survival tools. No wonder that today, every industry across the globe craves for […].

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Looking Back at 2018

QAspire

This blog has been my online home for over 12 years, even before I got onto Facebook and Twitter. The blog has evolved along with me. It is a platform for me to learn, think clearly and share whatever I learn through posts and sketchnotes. This blog has had an amazing journey so far. Hundreds of posts, tens of thousands of readers each month and plenty of social sharing just encourages me further to continue this journey.

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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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SaaS In Blockchain

CTOvision

Read Neeraj Sabharwal’s article about software as a service in blockchain technology on Forbes : I know that most of you have probably heard initial coin offerings and cryptocurrencies. But what about enterprise blockchain? ICOs have made a significant impact — both in a positive sense and in a negative one — across several industries thanks to […].

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Four short links: 31 December 2018

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Schema Crawler, Open Source Bug Bounties, Essential C, and AI Poker. SchemaCrawler -- Free database schema discovery and comprehension tool. Make sense of the databases you inherit. EU To Fund Bug Bounties for Open Source Projects (ZD Net) -- this is good, but insufficient. See Katie Moussouris. Essential C -- a sweet little summary of C, an even terser K&R.

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Lozanov on learning "double plane"

Rapid BI

Double plane learning - In a learning environment, Loznov stresses the importance of both suggestive and de-suggestive techniques suggestions are of two types: the direct & indirect. The post Lozanov on learning "double plane" appeared first on RapidBI.

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Best of TechBeacon 2018: Security shifts left

TechBeacon

Enterprise security is about a lot more than malware, hackers, and data breaches. Much of what goes into managing enterprise cyber risk is also about secure development practices, regulatory compliance, and the ability to harness emerging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning methodologies to bolster security.

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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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5 Security Issues that Will Ruin Your Sleep in 2019 – and What to Do About Them

Arcserve

In 2019, the world will mark the 75th anniversary of the invention of the Rubik’s Cube and the 50th anniversary of Woodstock – but chances are also good that it will be the year your organization is hit by one of the daily insidious cyberattacks. Verizon reports that in the 12-month period ending in March. Read more » The post 5 Security Issues that Will Ruin Your Sleep in 2019 – and What to Do About Them appeared first on StorageCraft Technology Corporation.

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I'll be Gone, You'll be Gone

The Agile Manager

The Financial Times recently ran a long article describing the breakdown of governance over the Crossrail development , the first new underground railway in London in over a century. Good governance is usually only appreciable by its absence, but the Crossrail case allows a before / after contrast between the presence of good and, after the sacking of a key board member, the presence of bad.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Johnathan Nightingale has seen first-hand how powerful a solid management structure can be for growing organizations. “We grow so fast,” Nightingale says of tech companies, “and we’re often run by founders who have not themselves experienced great management.

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FLEX is not another framework

Net Objectives

FLEX is based on a different mindset than current frameworks. Most frameworks have a set structure within which you can add practices. People want to know what to do and frameworks provide this. But the pervading idea is that at the beginning people must just adopt the framework.

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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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The Top Tech Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2019

UruIT

Find out 8 insightful conferences for CTOs that you should attend in 2019. Never stop learning —it’s a reliable piece of career advice that’s applicable no matter what field you work in. As a CTO of UruIT, a nearshore development agency , I’ve seen first-hand how being a lifelong learner can lead to exciting opportunities for me and for my company. In my experience, attending conferences with my peers is a crucial way to continue learning and achieving important goals.

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The Next Chasm To Cross

Net Objectives

There is no question that Agile at scale has crossed the chasm. I would say that even the late majority is now involved. But where are the innovators and early adopters now?

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Best of…: 2018: The Wizard Algorithm

The Daily WTF

NIH syndrome causes untold suffering in the world, but for just a few pennies a day, you can help. Or maybe not, but not-invented-here meets password requirements in this story from June. --Remy. Password requirements can be complicated. Some minimum and maximum number of characters, alpha and numeric characters, special characters, upper and lower case, change frequency, uniqueness over the last n passwords and different rules for different systems.

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