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Core technologies and tools for AI, big data, and cloud computing

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Highlights and use cases from companies that are building the technologies needed to sustain their use of analytics and machine learning. Profiles of IT executives suggest that many are planning to spend significantly in cloud computing and AI over the next year. This concurs with survey results we plan to release over the next few months. In a forthcoming survey, “Evolving Data Infrastructure,” we found strong interest in machine learning (ML) among respondents across geographic regions.

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Building a query suggestion UX like Google’s

Algolia

Last year was a big year for us here at Algolia. We hired scores of incredible people and released some incredible new features. One of the earliest was query suggestions, released in February. It harnesses our analytics API to create dynamic suggestions ranked by popularity. Its ease of implementation allows our users to, in a matter of hours, create a UX that consumers, “spoiled” by Google, have come to expect.

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Red Hat Tightens CloudForms Integration with Ansible

DevOps.com

Red Hat has tightened integration between CloudForms, its tool for managing IT infrastructure on-premises and in the cloud, and the its Ansible framework for automating IT operations. Pete Cruz, product marketing manager for management for Red Hat, said version 4.7 of Red Hat CloudForms and Ansible together promise to make it easier to manage multiple […].

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Top 10 Ways Internet of Things and Blockchain Strengthen Supply Chains

CTOvision

Read Louis Columbus list the top 10 ways in which combining Internet of Things and Blockchain technology could strengthen enterprise supply chain on Business2Community : Combining blockchain’s distributed ledger framework with the Internet of Things’ (IoT) proven real-time monitoring and tracking capability is redefining supply chains. Blockchain shows potential for increasing the speed, scale, and […].

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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 Disillusionment? 4 Behaviors to Get Your Team to the Other Side

DevOps.com

For most teams, the adoption of DevOps and an agile mindset involves many twists and turns on the path to maturity. It’s not uncommon for teams to experience a “trough of disillusionment” period as: Initial euphoria and “us-against-the-world” team mentality ushered in by adoption of new work patterns wanes with time. Client demands and pressures […].

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Death of the Release: The Move to Continuous Delivery and Experimentation

DevOps.com

As we move from continuous delivery to continuous experimentation, we also must develop new practices As software development processes have evolved, we have mostly said goodbye to the idea of defined product versions. Many modern product delivery teams are taking this a step further—even the concept of a “product release” is starting to fade. Instead, […].

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Working with Google Sheets and Apps Script

Toptal

It’s easy to start working with a spreadsheet, but it also takes time to master your skills to use all the powerful features it provides. When you start feeling comfortable with formulas, functions, pivot tables, etc., there is still one more level which allows you to achieve even more—custom extensions. In this article, I’m going to focus on extending Google Spreadsheets with a Google Apps Script that validates European Union VAT IDs via API calls.

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Open Mainframe Project Advances Modern Mainframe with Production Ready Zowe 1.0

DevOps.com

Less than 6 months after launch, this new Zowe release provides mainframes with new, intuitive, cloud-like interfaces SAN FRANCISCO, February 11, 2019 – The Open Mainframe Project (OMP) announced today that Zowe, an open source software framework for the mainframe that strengthens integration with modern enterprise applications, is now production ready less than six months after launching.

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How to transform IT while running the business

TechBeacon

Analysts contend that IT has split into two different organizations, each operating at a different speed. The one that runs critical business operations is slow, cautious, and deliberate. The other, which often operates within the business units, wants to quickly iterate and fail fast. But there should only be one core function—IT—that delivers all of the technology services that support the business.

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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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5G Readiness Lags — Here’s What to Do Now

CTOvision

Read why David E. Nowoswiat says that we still a far way away from 5G readiness and what we need to do on Enterprise Tech : The coming of 5G was one of the main themes at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Computerworld went so far as to say CES 2019 was “all about 5G,” […].

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Building a Cross-platform In-app Messaging Orchestration Service

Netflix Tech

George Abraham , Devika Chawla , Chris Beaumont , and Daniel Huang. Thoughtful, relevant, and timely messaging is an integral part of a customer’s Netflix experience. The Netflix Messaging Engineering team builds the platform and the messages to communicate with Netflix customers. Messages in the Netflix App In-app messages at Netflix fall broadly into two channels?

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How Facebook Has Changed Computing

CTOvision

Over the past 15 years, Facebook has changed the way we keep in touch with friends, how we feud with family members, how we think about privacy, and how we consume Russian propaganda—not always for the better. But Facebook also changed computing. From Netflix to Uber to Walmart’s website, many of the apps and services […].

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7 Things to Consider Before You Hire a Content Writer

Women on Business

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Why The Next Evolution Of Global Health Care Will Be Blockchain-Based

CTOvision

Read why Chrissa McFarlane says that the blockchain’s distributed ledger technology can improve security, efficiency, and the coordination of health care systems as an answer to aging legacy infrastructures on Forbes : Health care systems are cornerstones of all modern societies since they provide vital services. As they grow, however, many become less efficient and secure, […].

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The Incredible Possibilities on the Other Side of Uncertainty

Symantec

When we overcome our fear, we open the door to new opportunities. Stacy O. shares her personal adoption journey and how her family's choice to dive into the unknown was the best decision they ever made.

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IBM Blockchain Platform now live in Melbourne

CTOvision

IBM has made its blockchain platform available out of the IBM data center in Melbourne, allowing customers to run their applications on the company’s cloud and abide by data sovereignty requirements. The platform will also be available via the data center in Sydney by the end of March, with the head of the blockchain and consulting […].

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Skytap Announces Upcoming General Availability of First Self-Service, Public Cloud Capabilities for IBM i

DevOps.com

Skytap Cloud support for IBM i and integration with IBM PowerHA will deliver a comprehensive public cloud solution for AIX, IBM i, and Linux applications running on IBM Power Systems SEATTLE – February 11, 2019 – Ahead of IBM Think, Skytap, a global, purpose-built public cloud provider, today announced that its support for the IBM i operating systemwill be […].

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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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Symantec Mobile Threat Defense: Leveraging MTD to Protect Against Hacked Routers

Symantec

New technology protects mobile users from DNS hijacking attacks and gives greater visibility into what’s happening on your network router

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FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Automated testing

Flexagon

This blog is the fourth in the FlexDeploy Loves OIC blog series, stay tuned for subsequent entries in the series. FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Series Overview FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Manage integrations with connections FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Manage connection property replacement FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Continuous Integration FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Automated testing FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Continuous Delivery with.

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Security Awareness Training | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

Welcome back to the blog series dedicated to helping you secure your infrastructure in 2019. You’re here, that means you’re interested in what you can do to better secure your environment and that’s awesome! Let’s start off with the topic that I believe provides the best Return On Investment (ROI)—security awareness training. Get the most bang for your buck.

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Debug your CircleCI environments using the Rookout orb

CircleCI

Our goal at Rookout , the rapid debugging solution, is to help developers debug quickly and effectively, even in places where it would otherwise be hard. Dynamically created staging or testing environments can have a different configuration each time they are created, which leads to unpredictable results and bugs that are impossible to reproduce. Debugging such environments is sometimes just as hard and frustrating as debugging in production.

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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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Introducing Cloud Playground: Even More Hands-On Training Features

Linux Academy

I’m happy to announce that Cloud Playground is now available on Linux Academy! Seven years ago we launched our first Cloud Servers interface providing the ability for Linux Academy students to spin up virtual machines on demand as part of their membership. Since our Training Architects use the same toolset as our students when building courses, Cloud Servers helped reduce the barrier of entry for students while learning and reduced the need for corporate customers to require downloads or t

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How Technology is Revolutionizing Healthcare and Helping Save Lives

Dell EMC

Did you know that while we humans are 99.9 percent identical at the genome level, it is the 0.1 percent variation that explains many of our individual traits, including our susceptibility to diseases?[i] “Rare” disease Did you also know that what is termed “rare disease” is actually not so rare, as modern medical discoveries continue to reveal novel conditions that limit people’s everyday lives and were previously undiagnosed and untreated?

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Script & Style Show on iTunes!

David Walsh

Last year Todd Gardner of TrackJS and I debuted our YouTube web show (podcast): The Script & Style Show. It was an amazing first year of guests, including Chris Coyier, Kyle Simpson, Jason Laster, Max Lynch, Dylan Schiemann, and more! And the show will only get better! I’m happy to announce a few new places you can find the Script & Style show: Script & Style on iTunes Script & Style on Spotify Script & Style Website Script & Style on YouTube.

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Cloud Compliance Management: A Data-Driven Approach to Managing Risks in the Cloud

Hypergrid

Risk management is a cyclically executed process that contains a series of co-ordinated actions and tasks that that are meant to oversee and control risks. In a cloud ecosystem, risk management has a much wider definition than traditional IT, you need a ecosystem wide framework for risk management. There is no doubt that the cloud is a resilient and secure place to run your workloads.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Changing the game with decisive action

Lead on Purpose

You have created the vision for your products; you’ve built trust among your teams; you’re working hard to motivate team members to do great things; and you’re working to develop your teams with insight and direction.

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CodeSOD: The Double Bind Printer

The Daily WTF

Printer jams are an unavoidable circumstance. Paper might not seem sticky, but static electricity and humidity can to horrible things, and all the protections in the world can't stop them. Printers are also objectively terrible , and always have been. Years ago, when Coyne T was a fresh-faced youth, he supported an aging COBOL-based warehouse system.

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Scale Is the Secret When IT Comes to the Edge

IDC

My colleagues and I spend a great deal of time thinking about the Edge, and how it will influence developments in the IT industry over then next few years. Several of my colleagues just published a great IDC Market Perspective , making it clear that we believe the edge represents a new frontier in the convergence of infrastructure such as computing and data to deliver much faster time to value.