The Daily WTF
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
In our industry, we all know that managers cause problems when they try to, well, manage. This invariably causes us to get frustrated. Sometimes when we rebel and try to force them to do the right thing, we are the ones that pay for it with our jobs. Sometimes, they get impatient at our mortal lack of $Deity-level skills to make the magic happen fast enough for them, and we pay for that with our jobs as well.
General Leadership
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” Helen Keller. Whether we’re at work or at home, to varying degrees, those around us don’t value or see events, situations or issues the we do or in the ways we prefer they would. Chris R. Stricklin, writes in his most recent published Forbes piece, “ Seven Lessons On Building Elite Teams For Disruptive Innovation ,” that the first lesson in building elite teams is to “demand diversity of thought.”.
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CTOvision
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
We enjoyed seeing Forbes write on how IoT is contributing to safety in cities and airports: Preventing bad things from happening—whether intentional or accidental—has become a shared responsibility for all of us. “If you see something, say something” has become a mantra many of us are familiar with. Public buildings and private business locations have been […].
Toptal
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Writing an application is only part of the story. In order for it to be of value, it needs deploying somewhere it can scale; it has to run with high availability, have backups, and so on. Deployment and infrastructure management isn’t a simple process. And Terraform does nothing to hide the complexity. However, it does make your infrastructure declarative and reproducible, like your code.
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CTOvision
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
CTOvision analysts have seen 100’s of collaboration tools and 100’s of solutions that build collaboration into workflow, and have seen so many claim to be the future of human brain to brain connectivity that it pays to be skeptical here. But ever since we saw the demo video of Spatial we have been thinking about […].
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CTOvision
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Read Joanne Phoenix explain how the Internet of Things are simplifying businesses for small and medium enterprises on Minute Hack: As Industry 4.0 – or the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) – thrives, the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to revolutionize the world as we know it by strengthening the connection of the physical and digital […].
Women on Business
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
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CTOvision
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Imagine a super powerful computer processing teraflops of data in zero gravity. What was until now a figment of imagination or perhaps a scene from a sci-fi movie is soon becoming a reality. HPE’s Spaceborne Computer, the first commercial off-the-shelf computer which was launched into orbit last year and can process teraflops of data in […].
Symantec
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Cass Averill, Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Program Manager, reflects on the 2018 Out & Equal Workplace Summit and why this year's theme of belonging meant so much to him.
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.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
The U.S. economist Nouriel Roubini recently declared that blockchain is just a big lie, stating it is “one of the most overhyped technologies ever” Roubini further declared that blockchain was unlikely to remove the need for intermediaries in financial transactions and is unlikely to replace some of the existing systems used by banks. Is this […].
Symantec
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Symantec acquires innovative technology to protect Microsoft Active Directory from malicious use by attackers
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Blockchain plus AR plus gaming sounds like a win to us! IBM has filed a new patent with the aim of instilling trust in augmented reality (AR) applications when users visit real-world locations. The patent application, no. 20180311572, was published by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last week. IBM’s document describes a solution which […].
David Walsh
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Down on my hands and knees, I crawl around, bleeding out. I’m resigned to my fate. A kind stranger, a new friend, rushes over to me and kneels to help, reviving me at a time that didn’t require it. Just as I’m revived, the kind stranger says “Get up and win” I get up and I win. I’ve always loved video games and many of my best childhood memories involve video games, whether it was opening my first Nintendo 64 at Christmas, gaming after pasta parties befor
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Nathan Magnuson
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
I’m told that one quote preachers try to live by is, “If it’s foggy in the pulpit, it’s cloudy in the pew.” In other words, as the leader and communicator, if you’re unclear about any part of your message, it’s a sure bet everyone else is as well. You don’t have to be a preacher to risk setting unclear expectations.
Dell EMC
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
I’m excited to share that this week at VMworld Europe, Dell EMC is previewing our latest PowerMax technology combined with another industry leader, VMware. This first of its kind technology preview continues to demonstrate Dell EMC’s commitment to storage innovation for virtual environments and the tight collaboration between Dell EMC and VMware. Our proven track record of providing next-generation technology helps our customers tackle their most demanding and mission-critical applications of to
Lead on Purpose
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
For most organizations, individuals starting a new job have 90 days to prove themselves. What happens during this critical time can make or break your career. Your goal is to get as rapidly as possible to the break-even point.
Dell EMC
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
As high-performance computing systems incorporate higher-wattage processors, liquid cooling is gaining momentum. The annual Supercomputing (SC18) conference is always a great showcase for leading-edge technologies for high-performance computing, and that will certainly be the case this year as SC18 gets underway in Dallas next week. One of these technologies in the spotlight will be liquid cooling, which is emerging as one of the keys to even-more-powerful HPC systems.
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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.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Probabilistic Model Checker, Notebooks to Docs, AWS 12-Factor Apps, and AI Physicist. Stormchecker -- A modern model checker for probabilistic systems. Test your models of your distributed system. MonoCorpus -- a note-taking app for software and machine learning engineers meant to encourage learning, sharing, and easier development. Increase documentation for yourself and your team without slowing your velocity.
Cloudera
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Corporate volunteering is on the rise. However, only half of companies encourage their employees to participate in skills-based volunteering – defined as employees applying their abilities and specialized talents to challenges facing their communities. As the Program Manager for Cloudera Cares, Cloudera’s employee giving and volunteering program at the Cloudera Foundation, I believe that we can have more impact if we offer employees opportunities for skills-based volunteering.
TechTalk
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Third Party Patch Roundup – October 2018 This is the time of year when we begin the parade of holidays that will take us through to the New Year. As I write this, Halloween is upon us here in the U.S., and the front yards in my suburban neighborhood are decorated with ghosts and goblins […].
Arcserve
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Back in the day, around 15+ years ago, a method of disaster recovery called tape backup was used to protect the average SMB’s data. Just as it sounds, physical tapes held data and were stored offsite and brought back for extraction if an organization experienced a breach or lost their data. Everything old seems to. Read more » The post The Ancient Practice of Tape Backups — Still Relevant?
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StubHub
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
By George Loyer , Director of Technical Operations Like any e-commerce provider, we at StubHub?—? Stubbers , as we’re called inside the building?—?know that nothing ever stands still. We bring over 100 million unique visitors to the site every year and sell one ticket every 1.3 seconds (on average) across 48 countries and languages. But if we don’t keep improving the experience, and bringing fans back again and again and again, then we’ve gone static.
Symantec
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
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Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Financing a business can be a big obstacle for new startups and established companies alike. It isn’t always easy or even possible to obtain funding through the usual channels, especially if you have no track record to show lenders or investors, and without the money required, it can mean that the business simply cannot succeed. However, there are some ways to obtain the money you need, and if you want to start or grow your business and need funds to do it, you can look at these options to see i
LogicMonitor
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Algorithmic IT Operations (or AIOps) has great potential to improve the state of complex enterprise monitoring. The addition of dependency data, load correlation, anomaly detection, and other systems will improve the efficacy of today's monitoring systems substantially. However, true Artificial Intelligence may have less to contribute than other aspects of AIOps.
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Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
As pivotal as it is to be systematic and strategic with everything that you do in business, you also have to be open to a spot of risk-taking from time to time. To ready yourself for when that time comes for you, you need to know a few very important things. Here’s are three things that you, as a business owner, need to know about the taking of risks: 1.
Stacks on Stacks
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
They don’t teach it in coding boot camps, but everyone talks about it. Every decent hacking sequence in a movie involves screenshots of it. You see the stickers on mysterious black laptops at meetups, and XKCD can’t stop talking up about it. Linux, it seems, is the shibboleth of the true nerd. But if you’re in your first two years of development, you really shouldn’t waste your time on it.
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