High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

With the enormous attack surface of cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP, why aren't there more security problems? Data breaches and cyber attacks occur daily. How do you explain the unreasonable effectiveness of cloud security? Google has an ebook on their security approach; Microsoft has some web pages. Both are the equivalent of that person who is disgustingly healthy and you ask them how they do it and they say "I don't know.

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The Daily WTF

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Roman K. once helped to maintain a company website that served a large customer base mainly within the United Kingdom. Each customer was itself a business offering a range of services. The website displayed these businesses on a map so that potential customers could find them. This was done by geocoding the business' addresses to get their longitude and latitude coordinates, then creating points on the map at those locations.

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Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

This is an interview with Daniel Vacanti, Co-founder and CEO at ActionableAgile. Daniel, along with Pradeep Singh, who presented the experience report, Ultimate Kanban: Scaling Agile Without Frameworks at Ultimate Software. We discuss flow and how paying attention to the amount the work you have in progress can lead to dramatic improvements in what you are able to deliver.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Read Jareth’s tips on how small and medium businesses can protect themselves from hackers on Security Boulevard : As a small enterprise owner, it’s easy to fall into the trap of assuming that cybercriminals won’t target you. After all, why would anyone waste their time going after your business when there are much juicier fish […].

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

What we do when we are unhappy is what makes all the difference Image Credit: stefan klocek. Having the CIO job sure seems like it should be something that would make you happy. I’m willing to guess that since you’ve worked so hard to get this position most days you are at least fairly happy with the idea of going to work to deal with things related to the importance of information technology.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

ScaleUP USA has developed a free “Artificial Intelligence for Government” program to help the government employees and contractors learn foundational skills around Artificial Intelligence and the unique challenges faced in using it in the government. The program is focused on beginners in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Reinforcement Learning (RL) with minimal technical […].

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Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Last month we talked about TDD example in software development ( part 1 ) and TDD first cycle ( part 2 ). In this new TDD and primitive obsession article, we will focus on removing duplication and reinforcing the constructors of our entities, something key to have a robust system. TDD: primitive obsession. Here comes an interesting DDD concept – the use of ValueObjects and the removal of Primitive Obsession from the head.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The US State Department confirmed it suffered a data breach that exposed employee data; the breach affected the State Department’s unclassified email system. It’s not like the agency suddenly decided to tell the public about the breach; the incident only came to light after Politico got hold of a Sept. 7 “Sensitive but Unclassified” notice about […].

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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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Dell EMC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

OpenManage Enterprise v3.0 includes virtual identity management and migration, increased scalability, RESTful API support, improved reporting features and centralized management for PowerEdge servers Last week, Dell EMC launched OpenManage Enterprise v3.0, the fully supported, one-to-many systems management console that facilitates unified management for Dell EMC PowerEdge modular infrastructure, rack and tower servers.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Read Robert McMillan’s article about how hackers use social engineering to steal company secrets on Wall Street Journal: Often it begins with an innocuous-seeming email from an internet domain that closely resembles the victims. The message may appear to come from the company’s chief executive or another senior executive. “Are you at your desk?

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Professor Beekums

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Cryptocurrencies have had a lot of ups and downs. A lot of questions have been asked about whether they’re actually viable or not. These conversations have been focused on the technical problems such as slow transactions, preventing the 51% attack, bugs in smart contracts, etc. Yet, solving technical problems won’t have as much of an effect as other factors.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Unknown hackers broke into Newegg web servers and stole customer credit cards in a month-long data breach at online retailer Newegg, between August 14 and September 18. Hackers injected 15 lines of card skimming code on the online retailer’s payments page which remained for more than a month between August 14 and September 18, Yonathan […].

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Let’s face it — today’s networks are complex. The physical topology continues to expand with relentless traffic growth, and a constant stream of new technologies like SDN, Clos architectures, and cloud interconnects make it even harder to understand how services traverse the network between application infrastructure and users or customers. Even simple questions like “where will this traffic exit my network?

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Corelight was founded by the creators of the open-source Bro project. Bro data is 100x richer than netflow data, 100x smaller than traditional packet capture (PCAP), and, anecdotally, provides 20x faster Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR). Corelight makes Bro enterprise ready. Corelight also makes deploying sensors easy. For an overview of Corelight and how […].

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TechTalk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

With unlimited product installations, free technical support, all for one flat-fee, it’s easy to spot the customer benefits of GFI Unlimited. But did you know, GFI Unlimited offers partners an innovative way to sell software, away from the usual constraints of managing different licenses for different products? We caught up with Johannes Kamleitner, SVP & […].

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Toptal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In K-12 education, end-of-year student tests drive crucial decisions for teachers and policymakers. But these assessments are profoundly flawed ways of measuring student growth and achievement. This article explores the ways in which technology can improve such assessments, as well as the K-12 classroom experience as a whole.

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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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Arcserve

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Russian election meddling. North Korean hacking. Malicious malware pointed at nuclear programs. Cyber-warfare once seemed like science fiction, though it’s now becoming the modern battlefront. We’ve seen all the scary headlines, but how do we know what’s hype, what’s a genuine threat, and how to defend ourselves (and our clients) from the digital wars of.

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ProtectWise

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Visit 401TRG for the latest threat research from ProtectWise. 401TRG (Threat Research Group) is the Threat Research & Analysis Team at ProtectWise, a cloud-powered Network Detection & Response (NDR) platform. Using our experience and background in incident response and network forensics in both the public and private sectors, we study ProtectWise's extensive network-oriented datasets.

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Net Objectives

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Essential SAFe was intended for large orgs adopting SAFe at the program level. But many mid-scale companies have adopted it as well. Mostly they’ve done this because of: its Holistic view SAFe’s product management role Using WSJF to prioritize work How to manage shared services Using Kanban for product management Program increment planning event Good … Continue reading "Essential SAFe for Mid-Scale Companies – #SAFeSummit 12".

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The Cipher Brief

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

“The concept of plausible denial had an undeniable flavor of wishful thinking about it”, wrote CIA veteran William Hood in his book on Soviet military intelligence (GRU) [1] officer and CIA spy, Pyotr S. Popov. Hood might just as well have been commenting on the risk calculus of Russian President Vladimir Putin when he authorized (as he surely must have) the March 2018 attempt to kill GRU defector Sergei Skripal.

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Net Objectives

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Essential SAFe was intended for large orgs adopting SAFe at the program level. But many mid-scale companies have adopted it as well. Mostly they’ve done this because of: its Holistic view SAFe’s product management role Using WSJF to prioritize work How to manage shared services Using Kanban for product management Program increment planning event Good … Continue reading "Essential SAFe for Mid-Scale Companies – #SAFeSummit 12".

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Recruiting top-class talent is challenging in itself and doing it on a low budget can be quite a daunting task! Startups and mid-sized companies that typically operate on a shoestring (small) budget (before they catch the eye of the big VCs and make it to the big league) are commonly faced with the predicament of how to recruit the right candidate with their limited budget.

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Hacker Earth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Recruiting top-class talent is challenging in itself and doing it on a low budget can be quite a daunting task! Startups and mid-sized companies that typically operate on a shoestring (small) budget (before they catch the eye of the big VCs and make it to the big league) are commonly faced with the predicament of how to recruit the right candidate with their limited budget.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

A hotel jam-packed with people isn’t always a profitable hotel. The hallmark of a successful hospitality business is the revenue. Hotels employ various revenue management techniques and strategies aimed at increasing the bottom line. Compared to airlines, revenue management in hotels evolves slowly. Seventy-one percent of hotel businesses worldwide are looking for smarter and more efficient ways to do business, according to Global Hotel Business Index 2018.

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Hacker Earth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Recruiting top-class talent is challenging in itself and doing it on a low budget can be quite a daunting task! Startups and mid-sized companies that typically operate on a shoestring (small) budget (before they catch the eye of the big VCs and make it to the big league) are commonly faced with the predicament of how to recruit the right candidate with their limited budget.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

If you look at the Apple’s revenue break-up, you will come across a comparatively small segment called “other services”. This small segment of other services, including itunes, App store, Apple pay, etc., generated $8.5 billion for Apple in 2017 and over $110 billion since 2008. What appeared to be yet another mp3 player in the market had a solid business model behind it in the form of itunes.

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