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An Exercise Program for the Fat Web

Coding Horror

When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30. Websites have gotten a lot … fatter. While I think it's irrational to pine for the bad old days of HTML 1.0 websites , there are some legitimate concerns here.

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How AI is Transforming Testing Today

DevOps.com

Currently, there is much debate about how artificial intelligence (AI) will transform our lives. One of the technology’s key benefits lies in its power to transform traditional approaches to app development and software testing. Gartner identified AI-driven development as one of its top three strategic technology trends for 2019. Digital transformation is dependent on better-quality […].

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How I came back from burnout by learning to lean on my team

CircleCI

There are never enough days in a week. Tomorrow always brings with it more tasks, more options, and more places to make wrong decisions. Whether you’re a founder trying to find market fit or an Individual Contributor getting paged in the middle of the night, work keeps coming. Early on in my career, I tried to work through this fact. I was a green agency developer with a big bad case of Imposter Syndrome.

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How to Hold a Better Mid-Year Performance Review

Let's Grow Leaders

Tempted to skip the mid-year review this year, particularly with your high-performers? Read this first. Mid-Year Performance Reviews are the Half-Time Huddle of Business. Imagine you’re coaching your son’s football team. They’re up by 7. What do you say at half-time? “Well, […]. The post How to Hold a Better Mid-Year Performance Review appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Edge computing in hybrid cloud: 3 approaches

TechBeacon

Hybrid computing in general has a great deal in common with hybrid computing that leverages edge computing. But you need different partitioning approaches for data and processing when you've decided to keep the processing of data as close to the source of your data as possible.

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Are Your Development Processes Truly Agile?

DevOps.com

Many organizations are making a move to agile-powered environments, but agile development is more than a name. How do you determine if your organization is truly agile? The evaluation starts with the Agile Manifesto. If you’re following the principles laid out in the manifesto, that’s a good sign that you’re on an agile journey. For […]. The post Are Your Development Processes Truly Agile?

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AI Trends Interview of Bob Gourley and David Bray Focuses on AI Benefits and Risks To Business

CTOvision

AI Trends published an interview of Bob Gourley and David Bray at: Risk Management of AI and Algorithms for Organizations, Societies and Our Digital Future The dialog from the interview captured insights into opportunities and risk for businesses. It starts off: Two technology entrepreneurs and thought leaders, Bob Gourley and Dr. David Bray, recently spoke […].

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GitLab Updates Advance Its CI/CD Platform

DevOps.com

GitLab has expanded the capabilities of its continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform to include tighter integration with collaboration platforms from Slack and Mattermost along with the ability to support Docker containers running on Windows. Version 11.11 of GitLab adds a caching dependency proxy for Docker images to the Premium edition of GitLab along with the […].

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Daily Ethical Design

A List Apart

Suddenly, I realized that the people next to me might be severely impacted by my work. I was having a quick lunch in the airport. A group of flight attendants sat down at the table next to me and started to prepare for their flight. For a while now, our design team had been working on futuristic concepts for the operations control center of these flight attendants’ airline, pushing ourselves to come up with innovative solutions enabled by the newest technologies.

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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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From Sabotage to Solidarity: 5 Actions Women Can Take in the Workplace

CEO Insider

CEOWORLD magazine. From Sabotage to Solidarity: 5 Actions Women Can Take in the Workplace. Hostility between working women is trending. A study of one thousand professionals on leadership qualities found women consistently rate female colleagues lower than their male colleagues on workplace competencies. Women tend to judge men on their performance, but judge each other on appearance, life choices, and demeanor as well.

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Performance Testing Tutorial Part 1: Getting Started with the Basics

Gorilla Logic

Within this performance testing tutorial, I will discuss how to build a framework to test all your services and publish the results in a clear dashboard. As a project grows, we build tons of services, interfaces, pages, and other features. After it reaches a certain size, though, we may start to have problems with the load times, users might start to complain about the site getting stuck in some areas, and we may start to lose users.

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Build a Custom Full Page Slider with CSS and JavaScript

Toptal

There are a number of ways of implementing animated full-screen layouts with a large degree of human interaction, and many developers would resort to a JavaScript plugin to save time. In this article, Toptal JavaScript Developer Stefan Vitasovic demonstrates how you can do it using nothing but CSS and JavaScript, without including a bloated library or plugin in your project.

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Seeking strategic niches in the cloud

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

While the market and many vendors continue to focus on public cloud infrastructure as the end-all, be-all of the future of computing, other companies are finding selective niches in vital areas that may have even more long term advantage.

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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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Five Steps to Creating a Multi-Cloud Optimization Strategy

Digital Realty

Chances are you are using multiple clouds with a mix of different service types and delivery models if you’re involved in business technology today.

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Pivotal Software Embraces OpenJDK

DevOps.com

Pivotal Software has officially thrown its weight behind OpenJDK, the open source version of the standard edition of Java, by adding support for OpenJDK to the Pivotal Spring Runtime on its Spring framework. At the same time, Pivotal announced it is extending its commercial support for open source Apache Tomcat servers in addition to providing […].

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Automating Video Marketing with ML

Cabot Solutions

Machine Learning is one of the biggest breakthroughs that transformed the way people do business In this article we look at automating video marketing with ML

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Python Automation Testing: innerText vs textContent – All You Need to Know

Modus Create

This is part of the Python Automation Testing blog series. You can review the code from this article on the Python Automation Git repo. Some time ago, I had to write some tests for an Ionic app. While writing them I found something strange happening on the element text assertions. Some of them were failing even though they seemed ok! In the following article, I’ll tell the story of what happened and why it is very important to “read the manual” Get the Element Text.

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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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Datical Announces Issuance of Patent for Database Change Management Simulator

DevOps.com

Database Release Automation Leader’s New Patent Proactively Prevents Application Downtime and Security Vulnerabilities Related to Bad Database Changes AUSTIN, Texas – May 30, 2019 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, today announced the issuance of United States Patent number 10,268,709 for its Database Change Management Simulator.

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ANGA 10 Gigabit and Beyond: Powering the Future of Cable

CableLabs

For the 15th consecutive year, thousands of network operators, service providers and vendors from around the globe will gather in Cologne, Germany, for ANGA COM Exhibition and Conference , June 4–6, 2019. Widely known as Europe’s leading business platform for broadband operators and content providers, ANGA COM is organized by ANGA Services GmBH, which represents the interests of more than 200 companies in the German broadband industry that provide service to more than 40 million customers.

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Cockroach Labs Launches Broad Multi-Cloud Database Partnership Program

DevOps.com

Distributed SQL Database Provider partners include AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure NEW YORK, MAY 30, 2019 ? Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB, the leading enterprise-grade distributed SQL database, today announced one of the broadest public cloud partnership programs to date. Cockroach Labs now has partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, […].

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Examine your iPaaS Provider with this Checklist

Beyond B2B

Data is the new value-creator in countless organizations. In fact, it’s the competitive edge being used by industry leaders around the globe to differentiate their businesses.

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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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Tips for Choosing IT Asset Management Software to Fit Your Needs

Samanage

Finding the Best Asset Management Software for Your Needs. If you’ve ever walked a few blocks in shoes a size too small, you know just how important the right fit can be. That’s why you’ll only buy a pair that fits well. It’s important to take the same approach with business tools. The organization’s performance depends on them, so they need to be the right fit.

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Careers in Tech: New Changes Means New Training

Linux Academy

We want to support you in your mission to learn and grow, whether you are a young professional looking to break into the tech industry or a seasoned manager leading a team of cloud professionals. We always love to hear how our work has been changing the lives of our customers! Recently, we had the pleasure of speaking with Emmett Stewart, Head of Service Operations (includes NOC and the corporate IT service desk) at a SaaS company.

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Happy birthday, GDPR. You're awful; you're great

TechBeacon

The General Data Protection Regulation is one year old this month. The data-protection and -privacy regs cover most of Europe—the EU, EEA, and much of EFTA.

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3 Easy Ways to Turn Data into Actionable Answers

Teradata

Rob Armstrong explains three critical ways to get better answers from your data.

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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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4 Ways Lacework Detects Confluence Attacks

Lacework

Last week we blogged about attacks exploiting a Confluence vulnerability (CVE-2019-3396). You may be wondering how Lacework detects these attacks? In this blog, we answer that question! If you recall, CVE-2019-3396 is an unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. It’s exploited with a specially crafted HTTP POST request to a vulnerable Confluence Server.

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Servant Leader

DevOps.com

The post Servant Leader appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Are Your DBAs Performing Complete Oracle EBS Health Checks?

Datavail

Oracle E-Business Suite is so complex and multifaceted that it can sometimes feel like a living, breathing organism. And like any other organism, Oracle EBS needs regular health checks to verify that it’s running in peak condition. Unfortunately, there’s no such thing as a “self-cleaning” database. Nearly all Oracle deployments will degrade in performance over time, simply due to the intricacy of Oracle EBS and the realities of storing data on a physical medium.