Wed.Jun 05, 2019

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Kubernetes heralds the cloud-native era

TechBeacon

If you haven't been paying attention to the world of enterprise IT infrastructure, you may have missed the sudden rise of Kubernetes to a position of absolute domination.

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Robotic Process Automation: Introduction, Benefits, and Applications

Daffodil Software

Robotic Process Automation market is expected to have a revenue of $1.5 billion worldwide in 2019. Forecasts predict continued growth in the coming years with the market value set to reach three billion by 2022. - Statista.

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[Video] Continuous Reliability: An Agile Process to Deliver Higher Quality Applications

OverOps

Our favorite VP Solution Engineering Eric Mizell gave a talk at DevNexus this year, and we think he rocked it , so naturally we have to share with all of you. (S kip to the bottom to watch right away.). In this session, Eric covers the concept of Continuous Reliability, from what it is and what makes it hard to achieve, to actionable steps you can take to introduce it to your own workflow.

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Freshly (un)retired, Gary McGraw takes on machine-learning security (Q&A)

The Parallax

Tucked away in Building 43 of Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., hangs a large but otherwise unassuming mirror that, like Nietzsche’s monsters, will gaze back into you. Among its many features, the Artemis mirror can change your hair color, gamify your hygiene routines, and potentially help you figure out whether your eyesight is getting worse.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Science Fiction Gadgets You Can Get Today

CTOvision

Technology is advancing pretty fast, at times influenced by the exciting world of Science Fiction. This video captures 10 of the tech developments first seen in SciFi that are available now. A key point of this, if you want to know what is in our future, watch more SciFi!

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UX Research Techniques and Their Applications

Toptal

UX research techniques and their applications will result in better designs that avoid costly mistakes such as cost overruns, guesswork, following best practices, and reliance on industry knowledge.

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RHEL8: Upgraded Security and Performance

Linux Academy

RHEL 8: Upgraded Security and Performance. By now most of you have heard the buzz that Red Hat released the newest version, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8). Because RHEL 8 distribution is live externally, we also made sure to include it in our Linux Academy Cloud Playground , so you can start training with it immediately. There’s not much we aren’t excited about with this release.

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Everything You Need to Know About Refs in React

Modus Create

The React API is fairly simple , even though it has been growing bigger. With recent features such as Context and Hooks, the whole ecosystem has become more complete. Yet, some concepts are usually a source of struggle for beginners and even experienced developers. One of them is the Refs API. Short for “reference”, refs are a way to access underlying DOM elements in a React component.

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Digital Companies and the Valuation of Intangible Assets

Toptal

The move to a digital economy has coincided with a higher proportion of enterprise value - 84% of the S&P 500 - being derived from intangible assets, such as patents and software. Yet, accounting rules have not caught up with this shift and current disclosure practices can paint an incomplete picture for investors.

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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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Twitterbots: Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign

Symantec

Internet Research Agency archive reveals a vast, coordinated campaign that was incredibly successful at pushing out and amplifying its messages.

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Make Your App Profitable—Leverage Mobile Analytics

Toptal

Building a mobile app isn't cheap—and the harsh reality is that most apps fail. Find out how to leverage fundamental analytics metrics to make sure your app actually turns a profit.

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Facial Recognition Under Fire in the U.S. Congress

Dataiku

The age of unsupervised tech deployment may be coming to an end. While Amazon stakeholders recently voted not to impede the sale of facial recognition tech over privacy concerns, the U.S. House of Representatives is stepping in to evaluate antitrust and civil liberties governance in the age of tech giants.

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CIOs Want To Know: What’s Coming Next In Technology?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs would like to be able to predict the coming wave of technologies Image Credit: Evelina Ander. If a the person with the CIO job could have a super power, what would be the best one to have? The ability to fly and avoid all of those lines at the airport? The ability to see through walls and find the people that you are looking to talk with? These would all be great to have, but perhaps there is another super power that would top them all.

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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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Quantum Computing for Everyone

CTOvision

We have been tracking quantum computing for decades now. But seems like the more we study the behinder we get! Quantum computing is a beautiful fusion of quantum physics and computer science, incorporating some of the most stunning ideas from twentieth-century physics into an entirely new way of thinking about computation. In Quantum Computing for […].

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Looking to Scale? Put These 3 Things on Your To-Don’t List

CEO Insider

CEOWORLD magazine. Looking to Scale? Put These 3 Things on Your To-Don’t List. It’s every entrepreneur’s dream to scale his or her business, and for good reason. If you can scale effectively, you can tap into a vast amount of potential that would remain out of reach if you were limited to mere growth. Scaling starts at the end. Once you envision the next decade or more and […].

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Why Workload Security Is Not Just for IT Anymore

DevOps.com

Once upon a time, workload security (which means making sure an application and its environment are configured and deployed securely) was something that developers didn’t have to think much about. Developers’ only real security responsibility was to write secure code. After they passed the code off for building, testing and deploying, it was someone else’s […].

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Succinct Update on Quantum Computing

CTOvision

The video below is a very succinct, easy to understand explanation of quantum computing by physicist Shohina Ghose: We really liked her clear articulation of what is different about quantum computing. A quantum computer isn’t just a more powerful version of the computers we use today; it’s something else entirely, based on emerging scientific understanding […].

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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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Pre-Commit Job Workflow in Azure DevOps

DevOps.com

Many organizations use a combination of open so Many organizations use a combination of open source and commercial tools and Azure DevOps (formerly called VSTS) and an application lifecycle management (ALM) tool that includes features such as Azure pipelines. This article talks about how to achieve an end-to-end DevOps setup in Azure Pre-requisites: Subscription Project […].

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No computer experience? No problem. Meet African Refugee & Coding Dojo Graduate Yamin Hakizimana

Coding Dojo

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out. … Read more >>. The post No computer experience? No problem. Meet African Refugee & Coding Dojo Graduate Yamin Hakizimana appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Maintainer spotlight: Sean Griffin

Github

With the launch of GitHub Sponsors , open source maintainers and developers can apply to receive funding from the community that depends on their work. Through sponsorship, open source maintainers have the freedom, financial security, and autonomy to continue the work they’re passionate about to further build and strengthen the open source community.

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Film, Pixel, Point

Dell EMC

The following is a guest post from Glenn Gainor, President and Director Innovation Studios, Sony Entertainment & Technology. Let me take you on a journey and start off by telling you that I’ve never publicly shared this story… until now. Some 20 years ago, on a film called “Happy Texas,” I had a problem the night before shooting. It seemed like everything was in order – we had the cameras on the truck, we had the grip and electric equipment loaded; the crew was ready—I had personally spoken

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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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Race against the IndyCar pros with fan app from DXC and Team Penske

DXC

It’s one thing to play a race car simulation game or to watch an IndyCar Series race on television. But what if you could enter your own car in a simulation and compete against professional drivers in an actual race in real time? That’s the exciting concept behind a new fan engagement app that was […].

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How Algolia Helped Us Improve UX, Dump Legacy Code and 4x Engagement

Algolia

When I stumbled across Algolia years ago, I knew it was going to be incredible for my business, MyCreativeShop.com. As a small business owner, increasing efficiency is very important to me. I knew that Algolia could take work off my plate and do it better than we ever could. I could talk at length about the technical problems Algolia has helped us solve, but the most exciting part has been the ease of optimizing our site for search engines.

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Without Security Visibility and Analysis, BlueKeep Keeps on Keeping On

Lacework

BlueKeep, a severe security vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708) that affects the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) service in Windows XP, Windows Vista, and other older Windows OS versions, is spreading rapidly, due in part to its ability to be remotely exploitable. While this has the structure of a classic attack, it’s also unique because its wicked efficiency essentially [.].

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The Benefits of Creating a Business Plan

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Creating a business plan is the most fundamental first step in building a business, and the importance of it cannot be underscored enough. You may ask why do I need a business plan? Why can’t I just launch my business and get to market? The importance of a business plan cannot be understated. First you have […].

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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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How Florida International University Identifies and Helps At-Risk Students using Machine Learning

DataRobot

How can schools leverage data to ensure that every student has access to the educational resources they need? We spoke with two faculty members at Florida International University (FIU) to learn how they address this issue to successfully help at-risk students overcome obstacles in their academic careers.

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Host Intrusion Detection for Compliance in AWS and Multicloud Environments

Lacework

To be compliant, an organization must ensure continuous awareness of every action that might affect configurations. These are not a one-size-fits-all type of occurrence, either; they happen at the application, ID, workload, and host layers of the cloud. This is where organizational and user data is being transacted, and because of the AWS Shared Responsibility [.].

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Managing Oracle EBS: A Day in the Trenches

Datavail

Oracle E-Business Suite is a highly valuable tool in your arsenal, but the software can also be described as volatile and finicky. Trying to get Oracle EBS to work properly and give you some peace of mind can sometimes feel like trying to corral a herd of screaming toddlers. Managers and directors know firsthand just how much of a challenge it can be just to keep Oracle EBS up and running.