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Dev-Docker-Production: the new DTAP?

SIG

How replacing dedicated test/acceptance servers by a Docker-based “Playground” increased flexibility and efficiency. By Thomas Kraus Tl;dr At SIG, we needed more flexibility and ease-of-use from our test/acceptance environments. Therefore we have started replacing our application-specific test/acceptance servers by a simple, yet flexible Docker-based cluster.

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Scrum: Get Your Requirements Straight Before Coding

scruminc

Much of the early history of Scrum was written on Jeff Sutherland's Scrum Blog almost 20 years ago. This may still be accessible at jeffsutherland.org/scrum but needs to be brought forward to scruminc.com so history is not lost. This 2003 blog post was cited by Jim Coplien's 2008 presentation on the history of Scrum as organizational patterns , also worth reading.

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Boost Your SQL: The SQL Server Maintenance Solution Supports Dell EMC Data Protection

Dell EMC

Need a simple, free solution that allows you to switch easily from SQL server native backups to Data Domain Boost? You’ve found it: Dell EMC and Ola Hallengren have partnered to add support for our leading de-duplication offering, DD Boost, to Ola Hallengren’s award-winning SQL Server Maintenance Solution. Our technology and Hallengren’s scripts are designed for mission-critical environments and advanced backup scenarios, leveraging the latest features in SQL server.

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“I Dig the Great Minds Idea”

Agile Alliance

That's something that David Hussman said to me a few years ago. He loved jamming with people on new ideas, and I had the honor of being in a number of those conversations with him over the years. It was then that I would observe him being in his element. He would be jamming on … Continued.

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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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Let’s Stop Talking About the Lack of Technical Talent, Corporate America: It’s Time to Close the Large Tech Skills Gap with Veterans

General Leadership

Originally published by Guest Author, Karen Ross, at sharpdecisions.com. No Longer Desperate for Work, Veterans Seek More Meaningful Careers. For veterans, underemployment is the new unemployment. With the U.S. Labor Department announcing earlier this month that veteran unemployment has hit a historic low, veterans groups, advocates and veterans themselves are sounding a new alarm: underemployment.

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Google Duplex and the Problem with the Turing Test

CTOvision

The recent demonstration of Google Duplex by CEO Sundar Pichai has grabbed the world’s attention. The demo shows a pre-recorded, and supposedly realtime, interaction between an experimental Google voice assistant, called Google Duplex, interacting with a receptionist at a hair salon and having a back-and-forth conversation to book an appointment. Other demos linked on the Google […].

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Choosing a team structure to achieve top efficiency

Lead on Purpose

Whether you are a small startup or an international corporation, HR management and organization presents an equally important matter. Choosing a proper team structure for your hierarchy and management isn’t as simple as it seems.

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Google’s China foray, Smart city technology, Arm’s roadmap to take on Intel, Blockchain tech is not easy to implement and why Europe’s startups are struggling

CTOvision

Google’s Brin Cops to Plan to Reclaim Lost Decade in China Even as the Google employees are protesting against it working on stripped down and censored Chrome browser for China, Sunder Pichai sees the opportunity to cash out on the lost decade in the Chinese cyber world. But all is not well in the Alphabet […].

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What You Must Know About AWS Security

Prisma Clud

Businesses and institutions are rapidly deploying their networks on the infrastructure of third-party cloud providers. In the first quarter of 2018, the cloud infrastructure services industry grew by 51%. It’s … Continue reading "What You Must Know About AWS Security". The post What You Must Know About AWS Security appeared first on RedLock.

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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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Five Questions to Ask When You Take on the Top Job

Next Level Blog

When I wrote The Next Level , I included a case study about Amy, a fictional high performer who had recently been promoted to the executive ranks. She was fictional, but as they say about some TV dramas, her situation was “ripped from the headlines.” (Her story has resonated with readers and clients so much that I’ve left it in the upcoming 3 rd edition of The Next Level.

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Tips and tools for analysing big data

Apiumhub

The key to efficient, integrous data analysis is a team-based intelligent analytical approach. This means coordination between departments and teams through the implementation of agile methodologies. As Apiumhub explains, agile means: “flexibility, adaptability, continuous improvement and rapid feedback.” This interactive approach leads to incremental evolution, and though we are talking about analysing big data, can be applied in any team or to any project.

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Dev-Docker-Production: the new DTAP?

SIG

How replacing dedicated test/acceptance servers by a Docker-based “Playground” increased flexibility and efficiency. By Thomas Kraus Tl;dr At SIG, we needed more flexibility and ease-of-use from our test/acceptance environments. Therefore we have started replacing our application-specific test/acceptance servers by a simple, yet flexible Docker-based cluster.

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Leaky Fun For the Whole Family

The Daily WTF

Those of us that had the luxury of learning to program in C or other non-auto-gc'd langauges, learned early on the habit of writing the allocation and deallocation of a block of memory at the same time, and only then filling in the code in between afterward. This prevented those nasty I-forgot-to-free-it memory leaks. Of course, that doesn't guarantee that memory can't ever leak; it just eliminates the more obvious sources of leakage.

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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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Open Multiple Firefox Tabs from Command Line

David Walsh

Now that I work on Firefox Developer Tools, I’m really starting to learn some of the tricks of building, debugging, and launching Firefox. Once I start using Firefox at a developer level each day, the more I become amazed at how configurable and easy to work with Firefox is. p>. Since a good portion of my day is spent working on the Firefox DevTools debugger inside a browser in what we call “launchpad”, I need shortcuts to make launching and setting up Firefox for development

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How the Best Wealth Managers Use Predictive Analytics

Coforge

Over the past five or so years, personal wealth management has morphed into a new industry. In part, this transformation has resulted from new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and robo-advisors becoming mainstream resources. In part, it has happened because client demographics have begun to shift younger. The two trends go hand in hand.

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Healthcare beware: Crypto-mining, malware, and IoT attacks

Darktrace

As threat actors are continually employing novel methods to compromise a network, a growing number of healthcare companies are now having to play catch-up in a fast-evolving threat landscape.

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Join our Webinar: Net New Machine Data Beyond Log Files with OverOps and #Splunk

OverOps

Net New Machine Data Provides Granular Insight into Splunk. Splunk helps organizations understand where things go wrong in applications, how to optimize the customer experience and to identify the fingerprints of fraud by investigating machine data—the digital exhaust created by the systems, technologies and infrastructure powering modern 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.