Thu.Sep 06, 2018

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What’s the Impact of DevOps on Business Continuity?

OTS Solutions

What is the Impact of DevOps on Business Continuity? The IT sector has benefitted a lot from DevOps innovation. DevOps Development involves creating a single system of systems that incorporate cultural and technical philosophies that regard software development. The idea is to enhance the speed of support services and applications. DevOps aims at bringing ten new changes daily.

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Why You Should Hire Your Own Scrum Masters

scruminc

Why You Should Hire Your Own Scrum Masters. And How to Know a Good Scrum Master When You See One. by Sean Hafferty | September 6, 2018 | Blog. True business agility is no longer something that’s nice for an organization to have. It’s a core competency that will separate you from your competitors. Yet outsourcing Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches is still a tactic being used by companies large and small.

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Design with Difficult Data

A List Apart

You’ve been asked to design a profile screen for a mobile or web app. It will need to include an avatar, a name, a job title, and a location. You fire up Sketch or Figma. Maybe you pull out your drafting pencil or head straight to markup and CSS. What’s your go-to fake name? Regardless of your choice in tools, you’re probably going to end up with some placeholder data.

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The Leadership Skill No One Talks About

Let's Grow Leaders

The Secret to Transform Your Culture or Results is One Often-Ignored Leadership Skill “I’m so frustrated,” Martin, the Senior Vice President of a rapidly-growing communication hardware company serving the United States, leaned back in his chair and blew a heavy sigh past […]. The post The Leadership Skill No One Talks About appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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FarmBot (Part 1): Unboxing and building the tracks

Xebia

The Xebia TechLab has a new friend: FarmBot. Next to 3D-printers, VR installations and IoT devices he will feel really at home. Last week the FarmBot Genesis Kit finally arrived, so we got started building! In this blog post we give a first impression of the project. Next posts we will keep you up to […]. The post FarmBot (Part 1): Unboxing and building the tracks appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Public Speaking Workshop: open to all this October

Scott Berkun

For years now I’ve been quietly teaching public speaking workshops in-house at corporations and organizations and doing private speaker coaching. Every year I offer this workshop to anyone who wants to take it and the next offering comes up next month. Here are all the details: This one day experience will boost your confidence in speaking to groups of all sizes and in many different situations, from speaking at events. to work meetings to pitching ideas to coworkers and friends.

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Prototype with Ease – An InVision Studio Tutorial

Toptal

Follow this tutorial to create an interactive prototype with slick animated transitions in minutes using InVision Studio, the exciting new free interface design tool.

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DevOps influencers to follow this year

Apiumhub

Every subject has experts and influencers. People who inspire us and motivate us. Today, let’s talk about DevOps. Even Though you may find thousands of influencers on the internet, it is hard to know who is truly worth following. So, our DevOps team came up with the list of top 22 DevOps influencers we believe make a difference in software development industry.

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How to Choose a Data Science and AI Consulting Company

Altexsoft

Data science and artificial intelligence are hot media topics. An expert talking about the capabilities of predictive analytics for business on a morning TV show is far from unusual. Articles covering AI or data science in Facebook and LinkedIn appear regularly, if not daily. Due to a surfeit of information about AI and big data on the Internet, companies can assume that data analysis is the solution for most of their data-related issues.

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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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What Story Does Your Org Chat Tell?

CO2 Business Leadership

By: Gary Cohen While it’s important to have one basic org chart—to be posted on the intranet, hung up and shared at meetings, constantly maintained by HR, and published with every new employee hire—you can learn a lot from more sophisticated org charts. Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach.

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30 network security Twitter feeds to follow

TechTalk

Twitter is where information is updated within seconds, especially in the information technology industry. Every day, tweets are sent out at up to 240 characters to share news and personal views as they happen. We have rounded up the top 30 sysadmin twitter accounts that you need to follow based on the number of followers […].

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A word from our coaches

Agile42

We have asked coaches Richard Dolman, Daniel Lynn, Jakob Verner, Dave Sharrock and Andrea Tomasini to sit down for a short video where they tell us about the coaching culture at agile42. As Daniel puts it “From day one you're both expected and welcome to join into any conversation going on in the company.” We are happy to have built an environment where coaches have autonomy and can grow professionally.

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The Grand Solution for Hospitality Staffing

Agile Engine

If you’ve never seen The Grand Budapest Hotel , you’re missing out on a true masterpiece. Directed by Wes Anderson, the movie revolves around the adventures of a hotel concierge in a weirdly beautiful setting of the 1930’s Central Europe. Quirky and entertaining, it features an ensemble cast of Bill Murray, Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Owen Wilson, Edward Norton, and others.

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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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CodeSOD: Not a Not Bad Approach

The Daily WTF

In terms of elegance, I think the bitmask has a unique beauty. The compactness of your expression, the simple power of bitwise operators, and the way you can see the underlying implementation of numbers laid bare just speaks to me. Of course, bitmasks can be a bit opaque, and you may have to spend some time thinking about what foo &= 0xFF0000 is actually doing, but there’s also something alluring about it.

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Twilio: the Ultimate Communication Tool

David Walsh

My favorite part of the mobile revolution was the explosion of communication tools. I grew up chatting on AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, and other desktop messaging tools, so when mobile phones took on text messaging, I was hyped for a new generation of mobile communication possibilities. Today we get push notifications and have dedicated communication apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc — wow, life has changed!

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Can work and home DISC styles be different?

The Recovering Engineer

One of the questions that Kevin and I get asked frequently is, “Can I have a different style at work than I have at home?” The answer is a qualified yes, and it gets to the idea of having a natural style compared to an environmental style. Our natural style is the internal piece of us. It reflects how we perceive, interpret, and prefer to interact with the world.

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Get Ship Shape with The PowerEdge XR2 at SMM 2018

Dell EMC

Are you creating solutions for the maritime or offshore industry outside of the traditional data centre? Do you need to comply with industry-specific certifications, such as Marine IEC60945 or DNV GL standards? Do your customers need to access applications and data anytime, anywhere? Maybe your solutions are operating in the ship’s engine room with the challenge of limited space, oily conditions and extreme temperatures?

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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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Malware Analysis using Osquery Part 2

AlienVault

In the first part of this series, we saw how you can use Osquery to analyze and extract valuable information about malware’s behavior. In that post, we followed the activity of the known Emotet loader, popular for distributing banking trojans. Using Osquery, we were able to discover how it infects a system using a malicious Microsoft Office document and how it extracts and executes the payload.

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See What It’s Like to Have It All (In One Place)

Honeycomb

Here at the Hive, we know that there’s nothing like getting your hands on something to see what using it to solve a problem is really like. In July, we launched the Gatekeeper tour , which walks you through the process of solving a real outage we experienced, using Honeycomb. That’s why we’re excited to launch a new place for you to play: the Tracing Tour at [link].

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3 Takeaways for Manufacturing and Retail Organizations from Nutanix’s SAP HANA on HCI Certification

Nutanix

Nutanix recently announced that Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS running on the native AHV hypervisor is the first hyperconverged infrastructure to be certified to run production SAP HANA.

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New eBook: Building the Perfect Enterprise DevOps Stack

OverOps

A guide to building the perfect stack for enterprise DevOps teams. Download eBook. Every team approaches software tooling differently, but overall we see similar frameworks across most enterprise DevOps teams. Tooling follows the the product from creation to delivery to success (ideally) and back to creation of new releases and products. NEW EBOOK Building the Perfect Enterprise DevOps Stack [link] pic.twitter.com/VrdSSWR2Rz. — OverOps (@overopshq) September 6, 2018.

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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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AML: Past, Present and Future – Part III

Cloudera

This is the third installment in a 3 part series. The first installment provides a short background on anti-money laundering. The second installment examines common AML problems faced by financial institutions today. In this installment, we introduce an approach that carries AML well into the future. Part III: The future is now. Given what we know about current anti-money laundering systems, if we wanted to build one from scratch today, we might come up with the following requirements.

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BW on HANA vs. BW4/HANA: What’s the Difference?

Protera

SAP BW on HANA and BW4/HANA are different application suites running on the same database. SAP BW on HANA uses SAP’s legacy BW software, but moves it to the HANA database. BW/4HANA uses a reengineered software suite designed to fully harness the power of the HANA database. SAP BW on HANA provides dramatic ROI with real-time reporting and accelerated analytics, without requiring companies to commit to a complete system transformation.

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Targetprocess and Net Objectives Announce Strategic Partnership

Net Objectives

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sep 6 2018. Targetprocess and Net Objectives Announce Strategic Partnership. Collaboration Integrates Lean-Agile Practices into a Visual Workflow Management Platform to Improve Value Delivery of Mid-Sized Enterprises. BUFFALO, N.Y. - September 6, 2018 - Targetprocess , provider of a visual management platform for Agile teams and organizations, and business/software development consulting/training organization Net Objectives , today announced a strategic partnership enabling

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TeamForge Replication with Git LFS S3 backend

CollabNet VersionOne

Let’s talk a bit about Git LFS (Large File Storage) in context of Git replication with TeamForge. What is Git LFS? As you can read on Git LFS Project page : Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server. What is important here is that the file contents of large files are stored outside the Git repository, on the remote server, the Git LFS Server.

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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.