Mon.Aug 05, 2019

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The SRE Pressure Cooker: Balancing Velocity Against Risk

DevOps.com

Delivering fast, reliable digital services today is a lot like Olympian alpine skiing. These services must deftly maneuver a series of perilous passages en route to end users, all while maintaining the astounding speed we now take for granted. In an SRE’s world, those passages are today’s increasingly complex and interconnected internet infrastructure through which […].

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What is so Hard About Listening and How Can Leaders Get Better at it?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Leadership Skills That Inspire Incredible results author Fred Halstead explores the barriers to listening leaders face. Today’s post is by Fred Halstead, author of Leadership Skills Inspire Incredible Results (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Strange, isn’t it—how we can listen to some people and not so much to most people. My job is dependent […].

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How do you bundle a cloud native application?

DXC

On servers, we use packages like DEB and RPM to bundle software applications. With the rise of containers, we use Docker and CoreOS rkt to move and “install” our programs. But, now that we’re moving on to cloud native computing, how do you “bundle” a cloud native application? That’s a darn good question. A cloud […].

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Changing The Culture Of Healthcare Through Leadership

CEO Insider

Working in healthcare, one notices quickly that the industry is dangerously siloed. Physicians live in a service world wherein if they do less, they make less. Hospitals need to keep beds full in order to keep revenue flowing. Rewards in this system are based on what and how much you do, not on the positive […].

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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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Are You Making This Tragic Accountability Mistake?

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever noticed that lack of accountability is contagious? If you know your boss is paying close attention to your results (and how you achieve them), you’re more likely to be absolutely certain that your team is doing the right thing, at […]. The post Are You Making This Tragic Accountability Mistake? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Back to square one: The Capital One breach proved we must rethink cloud security

Darktrace

The path forward is to use artificial intelligence to understand how users behave within a company’s perimeter walls.

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Considering Cloud Migration? First, Read This Checklist.

Actian

Most modern companies have fully embraced the cloud as the preferred place to host the applications that their businesses use. Many new applications are “cloud-native” or are designed specifically for operating in the cloud, while many of the legacy applications that your company uses today may have been designed to run on hardware in your company’s data center, i.e., on-premise.

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The surprising effect of traffic and bathrooms

Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

“Sorry I’m late, traffic was nuts,” Sean said as he ducked into your team meeting. Irritated, you look up and nod, continuing with the department update. “Sheesh, he so unmotivated, he doesn’t even care.” you think. Finishing the meeting, you stop for a bio-break on the way to your bosses all-hands meeting, and find it’s closed for maintenance. You walk two flights of stairs to use another restroom and arrive at the meeting eight minutes late, where your boss glares at you.

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Looking at Failed IPOs in the Age of the Unicorn

Toptal

For many years, the IPO market appeared dormant. 2019, however, is bucking the trend with a large number of high-profile tech companies going live on stock exchanges. Not all of these IPOs have been successes. What is the process and what determines success (or lack thereof)?

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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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Ask the experts: What’s the best way to prevent ransomware attacks?

Synopsys

We asked some experts how to prevent ransomware attacks. They explained how to defend against ransomware attacks, and how to recover if all else fails. The post Ask the experts: What’s the best way to prevent ransomware attacks? appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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5 Tech Support Factors to Look for When Choosing a VM Solution

Tenable

In my experience running Technical Support for Tenable, I’ve gained valuable insight into what makes a strong vendor/customer relationship. Here are my five tips for making the most of Technical Support. . As November approaches, marking two years since I joined Tenable, I’m reflecting on what I’ve learned as our Technical Support organization has grown to become a leader in the Vulnerability Management space.

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Mapping Mondays – Agile, Lean and Six Sigma

Cory Foy

Happy Mapping Monday! Today’s #mappingmondays video covers one of Simon Wardley’s Doctrines – “Use Appropriate Methods” It’s a quick dive into how and when to use different methods. As always, the links in the video are below, and a full transcript is included below the video. And If you’re interested in finding out how to […].

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The Numbers Behind Increasing Special Education Enrollment

PowerSchool

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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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How Virtual Desktops Benefit Your Organization

Nutanix

Virtual desktops are rapidly replacing physical desktops and laptops in many work environments. These virtual workspaces may be delivered by virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) running in your data center, or desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) solutions in the cloud.

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PowerSchool and Microsoft: Using Data to Identify At-Risk Students and Make Informed Decisions

PowerSchool

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Stopping Violent Extremism

The Cipher Brief

This is Cipher Brief Level I Member Only content. It can be accessed via login or by signing up to become a Cipher Brief Member. Joining this high-level, security-focused community is only $10/month (for an annual $120/yr membership). What a great and inexpensive way to Feed Your Need to Know… The post Stopping Violent Extremism appeared first on The Cipher Brief.

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Nutanix AOS 5.11 is Here!

Nutanix

The Nutanix AOS releases together enhance the core AOS storage performance, capacity, data protection, and more. Read some of the key updates & highlights!

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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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The Complete Guide to UX Research Methods

Toptal

UX research provides invaluable insight into product users and what they need and value. Not only will research reduce the risk of a miscalculated guess, it will uncover new opportunities for innovation.

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Blockchain Marks the Next Step in the Internet’s Evolution

CTOvision

Read Irving Wladawsky-Berger’s article about how blockchain tech will be a catalyst for Internet evolution on the Wall Street Journal : “Blockchain matters because no business operates in isolation,” says “Blockchain for Business,” a recent book by Jai Arun, Jerry Cuomo, and Nitin Gaur. “By implementing business processes that leverage the collective knowledge of the […].

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The Dart Language: When Java and C# Aren't Sharp Enough

Toptal

Five years after Dart 1.0, Google's rewritten open-source language is attracting increasing numbers of developers. What do C# and Java developers need to know to get started with it?

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Learning and Strategy

Edge Perspectives

Scalable learning will be the key to institutional success as we move deeper into an exponentially changing world. But to really scale learning, we’re going to need to adopt a very different approach to strategy – the “zoom out, zoom in” approach. This post will explore why these two approaches are so tightly connected. Scalable learning                       

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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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Why Wearables at Work are Increasing

IDC

Earlier this summer, my friend’s daughter began a new job, her first one right out of college. Amidst all the usual starting-a-new-job hubbub of picking health insurance and setting up her direct deposit, she was also faced with getting her hardware – laptop, tablet, and smartphone – selected and set up. It’s a task many of us are usually faced with, and don’t spend too much time thinking about.

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DataRobot at the 2019 Comcast PHLAI Conference

DataRobot

Comcast’s third annual PHLAI Conference - taking place on August 15th at the Comcast Technology Center in Philadelphia - will be focused around using artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve the customer experience. As the industry leader in machine learning, with hundreds of use cases focusing on improving the customer experience across all industries, DataRobot was invited to present at the conference, with a session led by Gourab De, DataRobot’s VP of Data Science.

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then on Objects

David Walsh

Promises were a revelation in JavaScript development, allowing us to enjoy async processing and avoid callback hell. Many new APIs like Battery API , Cache API , and others use the promise API. One fact you may not know is that you can add a then method to any object to make it Promise-like! Let’s create a generic object with a then method that accepts a resolve function as its argument: j = { then: resolve => fetch("/").then(resolve) }.

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How to architect a digital business platform.

Cutter Consortium

Organizations are modernizing their products offerings to include connected products. They’re using technology to connect their products to cloud environments. They’re instrumenting their products with sensors that feed real-time data to a machine-learning model in the cloud. These sensors are comparing current operation of products to best operation of them and feed back instructions on how to use the products better.

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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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Here’s How Amazon Is Dominating the Internet of Things

CTOvision

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a rapidly growing market that’s on track to be worth $745 billion this year, and is projected to surpass $1 trillion in 2022, according to the analysts at IDC. An ever-increasing array of devices, services, and industrial equipment — think jet engines, manufacturing equipment, farming equipment, and more — […].

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DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019: Sacha Labourey Q&A

DevOps.com

CloudBees has been active on the acquisition front, picking up Electric Cloud and Rollout in recent months: Are we going to be talking about other deals by the time DevOps World Lisbon rolls around in December? “We’re always actively looking at deals that make sense. To be truthful, we’ve set the bar pretty high at […]. The post DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019: Sacha Labourey Q&A appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Intel integrates new FPGA into HPE servers for computing-intensive markets

CTOvision

Intel on Monday announced a new FPGA programmable accelerator card (PAC), designed for accelerating compute-intensive workloads like AI inferencing, big data and streaming analytics, network security and image transcoding. It’s bringing the new card, the PAC D5005, to market with Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 server.