Mon.Sep 09, 2019

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The actual cost of lock-in and how to reduce it

Martin Fowler

Gregor completes his article by totting up the total cost of avoiding lock-in, and considering some examples of the decisions around lock-in. moreā€¦.

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The Barriers to Robotic Process Automation, Part 2

DevOps.com

Enterprises are rushing to embrace robotic process automation (RPA) but, as we covered in The Barriers to Robotic Process Automation, Part 1, they’re also hitting considerable challenges along the way. While we cited prominent barriers to the effective implementation of RPA in part one, here, we will provide practical ways organizations can overcome these barriers. […].

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Experiments Tracking and Model Deployment in CD4ML

Martin Fowler

The team tackles some more technical components of Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning. This time they look at Experiments Tracking and Model Deployment. moreā€¦.

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Learning How to Learn: A Paradigm Shift in Lifelong Education

Coding Dojo

The mindset of traditional educationā€”even through collegeā€”tends to adopt a one-way approach. The teacher teaches; the student consumes. Of course … Read more >>. The post Learning How to Learn: A Paradigm Shift in Lifelong Education appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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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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Great Leadership Trains

Career Advancement

ā€œBefore you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.ā€ ~Jack Welch Dianne had always felt like more of a wallflower than a leader. However, she had mastered her current role in her publishing company and really wanted to get promoted to a higher-level position. To get there, she knew she had to focus on growing her leadership skills.

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How DataOps Can Accelerate Your Data Journey

CTOvision

Read Mike Capone’s article about how data management can help you transform your business on Forbes : The potential for data to transform organizations is huge, but the ability to achieve this potential is continually threatened by the inherent vastness of data and the ever-increasing needs of data consumers. Many organizations are trying unsuccessfully to […].

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COBOL at 60: The legacy and future of the original business language

TechBeacon

Sixty years after COBOL's debut, programs written in the programming language are still quietly running some of the world's largest companies. The language has adapted to a changing IT landscape over the decades, and it has been constantly improved upon to incorporate innovations and support new standards, enabling enterprises to modernize while helping the language remain viable.

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Blockchain: hype vs reality

CTOvision

Read Stuart Burns take a look at the hype of blockchain technology on Computer Weekly : Industry experts believe blockchain is a technology that has the potential to affect the business of most IT professionals in the next five years. Analyst Gartner has forecast that by 2023, blockchain will support the global movement and tracking […].

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MSPs are the Holy Grail for Cybercriminals! Are You Protected?

Kaseya

Indiana Jones fans will likely remember the line from the “Last Crusade,” where Dr. Henry Jones tells his son, “The search for the holy grail is not about archeology. It’s a race against evil!” Just as Indy and his father were trying to stop the bad guys from getting their hands on the literal holy grail, MSPs are similarly tasked with stopping cybercriminals from gaining access to another holy grail—the data they house for clients.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If youā€™re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache CassandraĀ®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether youā€™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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The Bedrock of Digital Transformation

DevOps.com

Trends come and go. Iā€™m old enough to have been persuaded, twice, about the good sense of flared jeans. I had a space hopper. I had a Betamax video player. Fads and cool ideas are a constant white noise, vying for our attention. Some will stick, some wonā€™t. And thatā€™s true in technology. No-one admits […]. The post The Bedrock of Digital Transformation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Vantage: A Cloud-First Integrated Data & Analytics Platform

Teradata

There are a lot of misperceptions about Teradata. Learn more about what Teradata Vantage really is: a cloud-first integrated data and analytics platform.

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How to Improve Team Productivity in 3 Steps: Assess, Catch & Report

CO2 Business Leadership

By: John Sandahl Youā€™ve built a team with your direct reports. You meet fairly regularly, and the conversation is always polite and respectful but rarely inspired. The teamā€™s results are, similarly rarely inspired. But your company needs your team to pick up the pace and start generating more results. Sound familiar? Or perhaps you have a team thatā€™s shown high-performing results, but for some reason has lost its mojo.

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Expedia Partner Solutions for Travel Agencies: Expedia TAAP, Templates, and EPS Rapid API

Altexsoft

If youā€™re a mid-size OTA that wants to beef up its inventory, an OTA startup with a great idea that begs for implementation, or maybe an offline travel agency on the hunt for a way to increase agentsā€™ efficiency, the question is the same – where to source the travel data from. If youā€™d like to save time and the headache of making separate agreements with each inventory supplier, hereā€™s a way out – partner with a travel inventory aggregator – be it a global distribution system (

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics wonā€™t cut it in todayā€™s data-driven applications ā€“ not for your end users, your development team, or your business. Thatā€™s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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My EventStorming learning: use visual anchors before the discover of Bounded Contexts

Xebia

EventStorming is a visual collaboration technique, invented by Alberto Brandolini. This post will not go into the details of EventStorming, and you can find useful resources on the web. Instead, I will share learning from the many sessions that I facilitated! One of the forms of EventStorming is Big Picture. It aims to convey the knowledge across […].

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In the Age of Agile/DevOps Reviving Software Product Quality Assurance

Kovair - DevOps

Software product ā€˜Quality Assuranceā€™ or ā€˜Testingā€™, as the popular terminology goes, traditionally is one of the most unappreciated jobs. It takes place at the conclusion. The post In the Age of Agile/DevOps Reviving Software Product Quality Assurance appeared first on Kovair Blog.

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Article: Remote Meetings Reflect Distributed Team Culture

InfoQ Culture Methods

Are you having problems connecting with people in your distributed meetings? Do you feel like you and your remote colleagues donā€™t meet goals in your meetings? The problem may not be with the meetings. It might be the culture in which you run your meetings. By Mark Kilby.

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Donā€™t Listen To Customers ā€“ Why User Research Matters

Toptal

We shouldnā€™t listen to what customers say. Instead, we should focus on what they do. Deeper user research will allow us to find out the true needs, wants, and motivations of our customers.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Ask the experts: Whatā€™s the top cloud migration security risk?

Synopsys

We’ve gathered some expert opinions about the top cloud migration security risks that organizations should think about when moving to the cloud. The post Ask the experts: Whatā€™s the top cloud migration security risk? appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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3 Key Takeaways From the 2019 State of IT OperationsĀ Survey

Kaseya

Kaseya conducted its fifth annual IT Operations Survey this past June, aiming to delve into current IT operational state and trends affecting IT professionals in small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The results shed light on the various priorities and challenges of IT teams in 2019. Here, we’ll give you a sneak peek into the survey report. See how your peers are facing the challenges of today’s complex IT environments.

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The leaderā€™s blind-spot

Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

Manager, leaders, and consultants all suffer from the same blind spot. We may recommend others do things which weā€™ve not done ourselves. This may make us blind to how difficult something actually is. For example, in the past, Iā€™ve recommended that new people keep an ā€˜onboarding journalā€™ for the first month at the company. Now I find myself in the position of needing to take that very advice.

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To Save the DevOps World [Comic]

Dzone - DevOps

More From Daniel Stori. Programmer Levels [Comic]. My Adorable Useless Code [Comic].

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Data-centric architecture ā€“ the platform to focus on the most treasured asset

DXC

The value proposition of global systems integrators (GSIs) has changed remarkably in the last 10 years. By 2010, it was the waning days of the so-called ā€œyour mess for lessā€ (YMFL) business model. GSIs would essentially purchase and run a companyā€™s IT shop and deliver value through right-shoring (moving labor to low cost places), leveraging […].

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Mapping Mondays ā€“ Team Capabilities

Cory Foy

Happy Mapping Monday! Today’s #mappingmondays video covers how to use maps to help figure out where to grow your teams and their skillsets. As always, a full transcript is included below the video. And If youā€™re interested in finding out how to apply this to your organization, donā€™t hesitate to reach out via Twitter or […].

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How to Budget for an Agile Software Development Project

WorkingMouse

This article is a guide for product owners on how to set a budget for an Agile software development project. Agile delivery methods are proven to provide a better software market/people fit.

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How Cloud Empowers Digital Transformation

RapidValue

Cloud computing has established itself as a basic business tool and has gained importance in virtually every sector. An increasing number of business leaders are attaching much importance to the concept of cloud optimization. Cloud services and optimization have become a necessity. Cloud services are considered to form an increasingly major component of any organizationā€™s overall IT infrastructures.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP ā€“ your data ā€“ to build a defensible AI strategy fo

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Balancing Performance Tuning with Code Optimization

Perficient

The world's greatest racing drivers may be highly talented individuals, but without a talented team of mechanics and engineers keeping their vehicles in check, they can quickly fall behind the competition. When it comes to software, the same idea app.

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The Zero Trust Approach for the Cloud

CTOvision

Read Evin Safdia explain the zero-trust approach for cloud management on Palo Alto Networks blog : The term ā€œZero Trustā€ has been around for almost 10 years, but it has recently picked up momentum as businesses look to proactively protect their data and infrastructure. With the shift to the cloud, Zero Trust is now a […].

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Announcing the FaunaDB Add-on for Netlify

Netlify

Weā€™re excited to announce the FaunaDB Add-on for Netlify, which empowers users to create a fully-featured, globally-distributed data backend for their applications within seconds. Get started with the FaunaDB Add-on for Netlify-> This integration allows users to instantly add FaunaDB to any JAMstack project running on Netlify, and to manage the database instance via FaunaDB Console.