Tue.May 07, 2019

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Network Teams: Keys to Cloud Migration Success

Kentik

As enterprises integrate their networks with their public cloud strategies, several best practices for network teams are emerging. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research recently found that the following strategies can improve the chances of a successful cloud networking initiative. Be a Team Player. Network infrastructure professionals should focus on building good relationships with the other teams that are key players in the cloud because the cloud can create internal conflicts.

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5 You’re Probably F**king Up Your Microservices

OverOps

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on May 5, 2016. It has since been updated to reflect advancements in the industry. It seems like everyone is into microservices these days, and monolith architectures are slowly fading into obscurity. Trends come and go, of course, and the attention they get is often exaggerated and doesn’t reflect what’s really going on.

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When Passive-Aggressive Leaders Sabotage Change

Change Starts Here

It happens to every change agent eventually. Leaders agree on a charted course for change in meetings, and then once they go back to their teams they do something completely different. From the perspective of the change agent, this behavior appears to be passive-aggressive. Leaders agree out loud and then quietly sabotage the very thing […].

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EventStorming tools, what is in my flight case!

Xebia

Whenever I give or facilitate an EventStorming training or workshop people always ask me, what is inside your suitcase? What are the essential items I need to do a successful EventStorming? Most importantly what do I need to buy! So in this post, I will give you the EventStorming tools that are in my flight […]. The post EventStorming tools, what is in my flight case!

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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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E-Business Suite Post Clone Refresh – It’s Magic with FlexDeploy!

Flexagon

Cloning is an important part of managing an Oracle E-Business Suite implementation. It allows the syncing of recent and relevant data into the non-production environments. The cloning process isn’t without its drawbacks however. In its purest form, the clone takes an exact copy of the Production database and overlays a non-prod environment. With this process, Read more.

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Autonomous Networks: The Future We Need Now

DevOps.com

Automation has become a necessity for managing systems in today’s age of dynamic and agile cloud-based environments. Operators are looking to optimize with efficiency and minimalism—to do more with less—as the goal. This same line of thinking should be applied to managing the network or system infrastructure. While network operators face the same challenges as […].

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The 7 Secrets to High Employee Engagement

CEO Insider

CEOWORLD magazine. The 7 Secrets to High Employee Engagement. Business leaders talk a lot about employee engagement, but how often do they get it right? It’s a goal that all companies aspire to but few actually achieve. The problem isn’t a lack of effort. Companies devote plenty of time and resources to employee engagement, but those programs often come off as irrelevant or inauthentic. […].

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Logz.io Unveils Azure Open Source ELK Monitoring Solution

DevOps.com

Needless to say, DevOps as a practice is largely fueled by open source. The growth and popularity of open source tools such as Elasticsearch, Kubernetes and others are driven largely by the increased flexibility, innovation and familiarity of options. While this isn’t news for developers (65% of which are active open source contributors), leading cloud […].

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How to create and lead high-performing agile teams: 8 secrets

TechBeacon

At Vaco we are often asked about the keys for setting up and building solid agile teams. While the recipe isn't too complex or challenging, you can't imagine the facial expressions we receive from IT and other leaders when we explain some of them.

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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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How To Reskill Your Workforce For AI (Artificial Intelligence)

CTOvision

Read Tom Taulli explain how you can reskill your employees to work with artificial intelligence on Forbes : AI is considered the most disruptive technology, according to Gartner’s 2019 CIO Survey (it includes over 3,000 CIOs from 89 countries). So yes, this is big reason why there has been a major increase in adoption and […].

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How to Manage a Design Diva (and Not Be One)

Toptal

The design diva is a disruptive personality type and a destructive force on a design team. How do we deal with this personality trait, and more importantly, how do we avoid becoming one ourselves?

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Learn Azure by Doing with New Azure Training!

Linux Academy

Ready to solidify your Azure skills by doing? We’re excited to announce our completely new Azure courses that meet 100% of exam objectives and include Hands-On Labs, Interactive Diagrams, flash cards, study groups, practice exams, downloadable course videos, and more! You’ll be tested in a hands-on way in the exams, so practicing in our Hands-On Labs is crucial to your success.

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ReactiveUI and the MVVM Pattern in WPF Applications

Toptal

Wikipedia describes Reactive Programming as “an asynchronous programming paradigm concerned with data streams and the propagation of change,” but what is it really? In this article, Toptal Freelance WPF Developer Denis Jesus Gonzalez Sanchez demonstrates a WPF app using ReactiveUI with the MVVM pattern and uses it to access a REST API.

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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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How to Understand a DataRobot Model [eBook]

DataRobot

As more and more companies rely on AI , people are questioning whether or not AI can be trusted. Business reputations are damaged when inscrutable black box AI systems make mistakes or make biased decisions. To avoid these issues, organizations are seeking out ways to apply best practices of AI governance to ensure that AIs are following business rules and making sensible and trustworthy decisions.

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Treasury Is the Most Underrated Team in Your Company

Toptal

Your company’s treasury team is a powerful function with the ability to influence all the levers of shareholder returns. Yet, often these teams are structured, staffed, and incentivized poorly.

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What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know About Instagram's New Donation Stickers

TechSoup

Recently, some big news was announced at the recent Facebook Developer Conference: You can now raise funds for your organization on Instagram Stories using the Instagram donation sticker.

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With RHEL 8, Red Hat Adds More Automation to IT Ops

DevOps.com

At the Red Hat Summit 2019 conference, Red Hat today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, which includes among other things a Smart Management add-on designed to make it easier to manage RHEL 8 across hybrid cloud computing environments. In addition, RHEL 8 includes Application Streams, a set of utilities […].

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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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Learn Azure by Doing with New Azure Training!

Linux Academy

Ready to solidify your Azure skills by doing? We’re excited to announce our completely new Azure courses that meet 100% of exam objectives and include Hands-On Labs, Interactive Diagrams, flash cards, study groups, practice exams, downloadable course videos, and more! You’ll be tested in a hands-on way in the exams, so practicing in our Hands-On Labs is crucial to your success.

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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Throws the Doors Open Ahead of Build

CTOvision

Microsoft hasn’t always had a reputation for being “open,” but CEO Satya Nadella and the rest of his executive team would like you to think that its approach to software has changed. Not only that it has changed, but that Microsoft has evolved its strategy during a time when some of its top competitors are […].

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5 Ways Wireless Technology Will Evolve in 2019

DevOps.com

2019 will be a transformative year for the wireless world, with landmark developments in 5G, cloud computing and hardware. From stadiums and retail buildings to airports and even street corners, there’s no place that won’t be affected by the rapid evolution of wireless technology. And if you’re not up on the edge, you’re sleeping on […]. The post 5 Ways Wireless Technology Will Evolve in 2019 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Eye on A.I.— Facebook and Google’s Fierce and Nerdy Rivalry Over A.I. Software

CTOvision

Read Jonathan Vanian take a look at the healthy rivalry between Facebook and Google in the field of artificial intelligence on Fortune : Facebook and Google aren’t merely competing for dominance in online advertising. They’re also battling over artificial intelligence. At the core of their fight is the underlying software for creating neural networks, the software […].

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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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What you should know about web application firewall testing

TechBeacon

If you already have end-to-end tests, UI tests, or other tests that behave like real end users, consider adding a web application firewall (WAF) to those tests starting early in your development lifecycle. It won't take much time, and you'll get a lot of extra security and other benefits.

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Word’s new AI editor will improve your writing

CTOvision

If you write in Microsoft Word Online, you’ll soon have an AI-powered editor at your side. As the company announced today, Word will soon get a new feature called “Ideas” that will offer writers all kinds of help with their documents. If writing is a struggle for you, the most important feature of Ideas is surely […].

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Type Conversion with JavaScript Arrays

David Walsh

JavaScript’s loose nature allows developers to employ amazing tricks to do just about anything you’d like. I’ve detailed how you can filter falsy values in arrays using a filter(Boolean) trick, but reader David Hibshman shared another trick for typecasting array values the same way. To typecast an array of elements, you can use map and the desired return type: ["1", "9", "-9", "0.003", "yes"].map(Number); // ["1", "9", "-9", "0.003", "yes"].map(Number); I love this trick but yo

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Mozilla highlights AI bias and ‘addiction by design’ tech in internet health report

CTOvision

Mozilla today released the 2019 Internet Health Report, an analysis that brings together insights from 200 experts to examine issues central to the future of the internet. This year’s report chose to focus primarily on injustice perpetuated by artificial intelligence; what NYU’s Natasha Dow Schu?ll calls “addiction by design” tech, like social media apps and […].

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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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IT Superheroes Can Boldly Conquer Software-Defined Data Centers with PowerEdge Servers and VMware

Dell EMC

Increasing pressure to shift IT to a competitive advantage is driving many companies to modernize their data centers with software-defined solutions, including hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). IT must support new and dynamic workloads, often with limited resources. Do more with less. It’s the mantra of our world, it seems. And, IT administrators must play many roles for a multitude of constituents within their company.

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APN Advanced Tier Partner Tricentis to Present on AWS Cloud Load Testing at SAP Sapphire

DevOps.com

Tricentis, the cloud’s #1 Continuous Testing Platform, announced today they will be presenting their Cloud Load Testing solution at the AWS booth at SAP SAPPHIRE NOW on Wednesday, May 8, 5:30 PM. This strategic new offering is now available on the AWS Solution Space. “Modern SAP applications, powered by S/4HANA and Fiori 2.0, involve many highly-distributed […].

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CISO-as-a-Service: When your enterprise needs cybersecurity expertise on demand

CTOvision

Your business operates in a world where there is an incredibly high demand for cybersecurity talent. Now with unemployment at a 50 year low there are no indications that anything can be done to dramatically increase the pool of cybersecurity talent. Enterprise grade cybersecurity requires enterprise grade experience. How do you get that in today’s […].