Mon.Feb 18, 2019

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The Internet Has A New Problem: Repeating Random Numbers!

CTOvision

Digital Certificates are a foundational building block of the Internet. They are used to verify the identity of e-commerce sites, the authenticity of software and encrypt data. Not surprisingly, cyberattackers try to create fake Certificates or get the Private Keys for real ones to steal data or intercept communications. No one really worried about the […].

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Celebrate Failure

Career Advancement

“I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.” ~Thomas Edison~. Trevor wanted his people to be pillars of innovation and creativity. When he came to me for coaching around innovation, he mentioned how fearful his team was in taking risks and possibly touching failure. I asked him, “What are you doing to celebrate failures?

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Deploying into Azure App Service using Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline

DevOps.com

This article demonstrates how to deploy an application into Azure App Service using Azure DevOps (VSTS) continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. In this article, you’ll create a sample environment to: New build based on code commit to your Azure DevOps Repo. Automatically deploy your app into Azure. Prerequisites: Azure Portal Account, Azure subscription and Azure […].

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Your Mini Guide on How to Launch Your Own Online Jewelry Store

Women on Business

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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 Chat: Serverless and Abstraction with Nimbella’s Anshu Agarwal

DevOps.com

Anshu Agarwal has a tremendous record of working in startups that had successful exits. Now for the first time, along with her co-founders, she is actually founding the startup herself. Nimbella is a serverless platform that is cloud-agnostic and makes developing and deploying applications easy. Whether in a public cloud, private data center or both, […].

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Vulnerability Scanning – Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

As we continue down the path to successfully securing our infrastructure, we come to vulnerability scanning. This is not to be confused with penetration testing (pentesting), which may include vulnerability scanning, but then also attempts to exploit identified vulnerabilities. A vulnerability scan simply scans for security flaws in systems and devices known as vulnerabilities and reports them.

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Key Technological Drivers of Change in Transportation

Altexsoft

As the transportation industry becomes increasingly digitalized, we decided to share the most important technological drivers of change in three core branches of transportation: trucking, air freight, and maritime shipments.

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Atoms vs. Bits - Making Matters

Mills Scofield

Students working on projects in the Brown Design Workshop. We live in a world infatuated with bits (tech). We value, encourage, praise bit-making over atom-making. Creating with atoms doesn’t have the cache or import it once did, and we’ve lost something precious by doing so. Our hands * were not made (just) for typing, they were made to be sources of input to our brains to learn about our world – and learn by creating.

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Remote learning when it is really remote

Enterprise.nxt

Internet access is ubiquitous—except where it isn't. However, even in places where electricity or Internet connectivity are spotty, new e-learning innovations can help people get an education.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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5 Software Development Trends to Watch Out in 2019

Daffodil Software

Taking a look back in 2018, there have been significant technological advances in the IT industry. Software technologies such as Blockchain, IoT, AI etc. have remained a hot topic in the past couple of years. However, these technologies are still evolving with much better use cases in 2019. According to a report by Gartner , the software industry is forecasted to experience an 8.3 percent growth in 2019.

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Black Innovators Who Made a Huge Impact on Technology

Symantec

SyBER Lead Le Var S. Shares 6 Important African Americans You Should Know.

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Best app monetisation ways for every iPhone app developer

Xicom

There is every possibility that one hires an iPhone app development company to get a successful app built for your brand or your company. There are so many advantages of having a dedicated app for a business so that you are able to reach your potential customers or users. It also means that the business is more profitable and productive at the same time revenue from the app will flow adding to the profit of the business.

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How to Secure Your Email if Your Data is Hacked

Arcserve

There are some classic signs that your email has been hacked, but many won’t be apparent to you until someone gets in touch to point them out. Oftentimes, a hacker will use your account to send spam emails or phishing messages to your contact list. The only way you might notice an email data security. Read more » The post How to Secure Your Email if Your Data is Hacked appeared first on StorageCraft Technology Corporation.

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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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Tips to Make Your Life More Vue-tiful ??

Algolia

Big news! We’re proud to announce our second major release of Vue InstantSearch. We’ve added a lot of helpful optimizations and new features. We’ll keep this short and focus on our favorites. Let’s go ahead and jump into it. New Vue Widgets! I love having new toys to play with, don’t you? Vue InstantSearch 2 comes with a slew of new components that will make your search awesome.

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Four short links: 18 February 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Reproducibility, Funding Open Source, Mining Pastebin, and Engineering Handbook. Qresp -- a simple tool to facilitate scientific data reproducibility by making available, in a distributed manner, all data and procedures presented in scientific papers, together with metadata to render them searchable and discoverable. (via UChicago News ). The Complicated Business of Open Source Funding (Vice) -- a good history and literature review, in the modern context.

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No Progression Is Regression. And What Is Regression?

Dell EMC

Despite all of its advantages, globalization has an inherent disadvantage: It is increasing competitive pressure and forcing companies to continually become better and more efficient – at an ever-faster pace. Companies marketing their products and services on the international stage aren’t the only ones that are affected; globalization also means that foreign competitors are showing interest in entering into our domestic market.

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The hidden costs and risks of free puppies (and open source)

Synopsys

SCA tools are an essential part of your AppSec toolkit, because free and open source software—just like free puppies—comes with hidden costs and risks. This entry in our BSIMM Monthly Insights series was contributed by guest author Stacy Monroe with Principal. The hidden costs and risks of free puppies I was recently reminded of a […].

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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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Hype vs. Reality: Are Low-Code Platforms the Right Approach?

Progress

Low-code platforms have gained tremendous popularity, but the fact of the matter is that solving the app development challenge is not as easy as offloading it to business users. Low-code application development platforms are at the peak of the hype cycle. Just recently Seimens bought Mendix for a staggering $730 million in cash. Meanwhile, its nearest competitor OutSystems raised $360 million around the same time last year.

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Control: For the User, by the User, of the User

LaunchDarkly

Originally published on The New Stack on January 30th, 2019. Feature Management creates a new kind of feedback loop for product development. We can see how the changes we make affect user behavior and business results. We can analyze behavior data to get a better sense of what works for users, and what doesn’t. Ultimately this gives us more confidence in the decisions we make as we build our products and lend a better likelihood that they will be successful.

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Capgemini Attends The Fort Hood Mega Career Fair, 2019

Capgemini

Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, sprawling across nearly 215,000 acres and home to 217,000 people, is one of the largest Army bases in the United States. Every six months they hold the Mega Career Fair, which attracts up to 5,000 active duty and retired soldiers, Veterans, and their dependents. Demonstrating Capgemini’s commitment to their Veterans Employee Resource Group (VERG) and to the military and Veteran community at large, Capgemini’s Lydia Snyder, Janie Jones, and Paul Dailey participated in

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Figuring Out the Test You Missed is Job One

Net Objectives

Let’s say you write a method in C# that takes, as its parameter, one of the nine players on a baseball team. If you decide to make that parameter an integer (1 is the pitcher, 2 is the catcher, and so forth), then the code will still compile if a number greater than 9, or … Continue reading "Figuring Out the Test You Missed is Job One".

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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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Principles and practices in cross functional teams

Marcusoft

This post is work in progress - I’ll finish it tomorrow. I have been involved in many organisational changes that turns the organisation sideways. From functional departments to cross-functional teams, from projects and completing activities to continious delivery and focus on reaching effects. Just about always this creates some initial confusion around where decisions gets made and how the old ways fits into the new.

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Atoms vs. Bits - Making Matters

Mills Scofield

Students working on projects in the Brown Design Workshop. We live in a world infatuated with bits (tech). We value, encourage, praise bit-making over atom-making. Creating with atoms doesn’t have the cache or import it once did, and we’ve lost something precious by doing so. Our hands * were not made (just) for typing, they were made to be sources of input to our brains to learn about our world – and learn by creating.

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IO Improvement: Making Your Computer Perform Better Than New

Strategy Driven

Over the last few decades, computers have just about taken over the world. These machines are used in business, for people’s personal lives, and to handle loads of background jobs which most people are blissfully unaware of. While they are invaluable, though, they can also cause their fair share of mischief. Degradation, where a machine becomes slower over time, is a big part of this.

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Using Slack Slash Commands to Send Data from Slack into Google Sheets

David Walsh

Since I work from home, most of my daily work interactions happen through Slack. It’s my equivalent to the water cooler. A place to hang out and discuss ideas with friends. I’m part of a book recommendations channel. People share books all the time, but they disappear quickly, lost in a sea of messages. I needed a way to log the books people recommended.

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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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Promotional Products – Beating the “Fake News”

Strategy Driven

Watch the news these days there are many versions of the “truth”. And it’s not just in the worlds of politics and current affairs that people find it difficult to know what to believe anymore. The business digital world makes finding the “truth” more difficult than ever for consumers as an ever growing avalanche of data can act to conceal the facts rather make them easier to find.

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The Three-Month Itch

The Daily WTF

It was March 2016, and Ian was in need of a job. Fairly early into his search, he was lucky to find a tiny startup in need of someone with Python architecture and design skills. By "tiny," we mean that there were only three other developers working for Jack, the founder. Ian interviewed with Jack directly. After a technical test, he learned more about the company's pet project: a nearly-finished prototype of an iOS app.