Tue.Aug 21, 2018

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The Must Have Metrics Any DevOps and SRE Manager Should Measure

OverOps

DevOps and SREs have dashboards to monitor services and product performance, and now it’s time for us to understand how to measure these teams’ performance as well. One significant challenge every company faces these days is measurement. There’s a need to understand what’s happening at every level inside the company and product, from how customers are using the application, through to the quality and efficiency of the code, and down to the team’s performance.

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Culture — Make it an explicit element of digital transformation

Cutter Consortium

Organizations everywhere are looking to digitally transform. They’re considering new business models and they’re piloting new technologies. But to be successful, every digital transformation requires hitting cultural milestones, too. Cultural transformation is a necessary component to digital transformation, argues Frank Khan Sullivan in his recent Cutter Consortium Executive Update , “ A Culture Transformed ”.

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Schooling Flappy Bird: A Reinforcement Learning Tutorial

Toptal

Leveraging DeepMind's breakthrough AI approaches takes some work, but the results are astounding. In this article, Toptal Freelance Deep Learning Engineer Neven Pi?uljan guides us through the building blocks of reinforcement learning, training a neural network to play Flappy Bird using the PyTorch framework.

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How to Motivate Your Team – Stop Treating Them Like Family

Let's Grow Leaders

Thinking they’re a family doesn’t motivate your team. You’ve probably heard leaders say it and you might have even said it yourself when you were hoping to motivate your team. “I treat my team like family” or “We’re one big family here […]. The post How to Motivate Your Team – Stop Treating Them Like Family 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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C Program to Read File Line by Line

The Crazy Programmer

Here you will get C program to read file line by line. In below program we first open a demo file hello.txt with some text in read mode. Make sure the file is already present. Then we read the file character by character and display on screen. Program. #include<stdio.h> #include<conio.h> #include<stdlib.h> int main() { FILE *fp; char ch; fp = fopen("hello.txt","r"); if(fp == NULL) { printf("File not found. n"); } else { printf("File is opening. nn"); while((ch = fgetc(fp)

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A Spectrum of Possibilities: The Go-To UI Color Guide

Toptal

Color is the master key to compelling design communication, but UI designers must learn to wield its power. This guide simplifies color theory concepts and shows designers how to use color with precision.

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What is the Role of Stakeholders in SCRUM?

SCRUMstudy

The term stakeholder creates a lot of confusion in Scrum. Usually the term is confused with the responsibilities of a Product Owner. Let us now clear all the confusion around it. Best definition of stakeholders is that they have legitimate interest in the project and another important point to be noted is that stakeholders are not always product owners but product owners are always stakeholders.

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Meet PowerEdge MX, the First Platform Designed with Kinetic Infrastructure

Dell EMC

Process traditional and transformational workloads with Dell EMC’s newest innovation In today’s fast-moving world, companies must continuously evolve to stay competitive and relevant in their industry. They need to prepare for uncertainty, reacting quickly to sudden change. To meet these demands, innovative organizations are turning to data-fueled workloads such as AI and IoT to help them dynamically respond.

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10 Women Entrepreneurs Who Will Inspire You to Follow Your Dreams

Women on Business

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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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Facebook’s AI to make MRI results faster, China leading US in AI applications, Firefox’s AI driven Advance extension, 10 examples of AI helping us

CTOvision

How Facebook — yes, Facebook — might make MRIs faster Now that Google’s Deepmind AI has proven that it can detect up to 50 eye diseases which are comparable to human doctors, it is time for Facebook to take a leap into the AI in the health sector. Facebook has partnered with NYU’s medical school […].

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Corporate Tax Reform and the Future of Valuation – Part II

Toptal

In his first article on the effects of the new US corporate tax reform bill, Toptal Finance Expert Jacob Wright assessed one of the most important impacts of the reform: the changes to interest deductibility. In this follow-up article, he runs through some further thoughts related to the effects on capital expenditures, in addition to a more high-level assessment of what the optimal capital structure of the future will look like given these changes.

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Storage that Scales, Learns and Evolves – Infinidat at VMworld 2018

Infinidat

Storage that Scales, Learns and Evolves – Infinidat at VMworld 2018. Eric Klinefelter. Tue, 08/21/2018 - 8:38am. INFINIDAT returns to VMworld in Las Vegas (Booth #1250) this year with even more exciting things to see and learn about! It has been an incredible year since VMworld 2017, with a lot happening at INFINIDAT: Released version “R4” of our core storage OS, adding new functionality such as Synchronous Replication, Quality of Service, filesystem quotas, and more.

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Hibernate Mapping

InnovationM

Hibernate mappings are one of the key features of Hibernate. They establish the relationship between two database tables as attributes in your model. That allows you to easily navigate the associations in your model and Criteria queries. You can establish either unidirectional or bidirectional i.e you can either model them as an attribute on only one of the associated entities or on both.

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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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The Certified Agile Leadership program returns to South Africa in September

Agile42

The Certified Agile Leadership program returns to Johannesburg for the first time in 2018 with a public class on September 3-5 that can be booked online. The vision for this new program from the Scrum Alliance is to make the values and principles of Agile accessible to every leader, regardless of prior education and experience, by making known the why, what, and how of Agile in a pragmatic and experiential approach.

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Dell EMC Client Heroes Program Launches for FY19!

Dell EMC

The Dell EMC Client Heroes Program launched in Q2 after a successful pilot program across all regions in late FY18. The first of this series of events, co-funded by Intel, spanned across the Americas and focused on our Client Partner Community in Mexico City and Chicago respectively. Leveraging the same format as typical Heroes Exchange events, our goal is to bring up-to-date and relevant information about Dell EMC products, solutions and services directly to our Hero partner community.

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CodeSOD: Is This Terning Into a Date?

The Daily WTF

Bad date handling code is like litter: offensive, annoying, but omnipresent. Nobody is specifically responsible for it, nobody wants to clean it up, and we end up ignoring it. Murtaza K offers up a particularly malodorous example, though, that's worthy of note. It's got everything: string mangling, assumptions that ignore locale, bad ternaries, and it's completely unnecessary. string Stdt = String.Empty; string FromDt = stDtTime.ToShortDateString(); string [] varFromDate = FromDt.Spl

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Sponsored Post: NationBuilder, Twitch, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Etleap, Stream, Scalyr, MemSQL

High Scalability

Who's Hiring? NationBuilder — if you’re a systems engineer, SRE or DevOps focused developer and have been looking for a place where you can help other people while still working in tech? We can give that opportunity. Please apply here. Twitch's commerce team in San Francisco is looking to hire senior developers to keep up with rapidly increasing demand for our Subscriptions and Payment platform.

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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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Rethinking Security in Cloud Networking

Arista

Every CXO worries about security because the perimeter is changing; in fact, there are no walls for protection. The lines between cloud, workloads, applications, enterprise networks and hosts are blurring and the challenges are getting exponentially greater. The true security architect must rapidly address the reality of a more holistic network-wide security strategy.

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Smart Cloud Security: Recover from Cloud-based Ransomware Infections

Netskope

This is yet another post on ransomware – so we’ll keep this short. But, for cloud-first organizations, this post is an important one. Not only is ransomware hard to detect, but also hard to recover from. Recovery cost, whether or not the organization pays a ransom, is high as well. Often, organizations hit by ransomware have little recourse but to negotiate and pay the ransom and hope they can recover their mission-critical systems and data.

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The missing piece of Lean Portfolio Management

Net Objectives

I am often asked how to do Lean Portfolio Management. Let's consider what's needed to do this effectively. The real issue is when different programs require the same limited capabilities. How do you decide which one is more important? Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) is commonly used. But 'business value', a key component of WSJF, means different things to different groups.

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Feel confident and bold in this new summer look

Honeycomb

Welcome to a fresh new Honeycomb navigation. At the hive, we’ve been working on making navigating your Honeycomb environment simpler and more intuitive, and just deployed some changes that we hope you’ll agree have made progress toward that goal. And now, after weeks of deeply pondering UX questions, I get to do my favourite part of engineering, which is to ease you through the stages of accepting your new life in this parallel universe where Honeycomb has looked this way all along

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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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VironIT Supported The First Belarusian Round-The-World Flight

VironIT

Saturday, August 18, 2018 – Alexander Tsenter, the founder and owner of A-100 group of companies, and Andrey Borisevich, the head of SkyEagle Aviation Academy (USA), have kicked off the first Belarusian round-the-world flight on the tiny Cessna182T plane. This flight is expected to take about 100 hours in the air for a month. It […].

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Cyber Forecast Cloudy with a Chance of Persistent Authoritarianism

The Cipher Brief

The world’s malicious cyber actors — Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea – have spoiled cyber’s original, idealistic vision and instead use cyberspace to advance competitive interests to undermine Western laws and norms and pursue a clandestine means (cyber theft) to catch up with the West in technology, political influence, and wealth. Further, they are perfecting cyberspace as a tool for political control internally.

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Nutanix Expands Workplace Diversity with Apprenticeships and Returnships

Nutanix

The heartbeat of a company is its people. With greater diversity, comes greater opportunity too, as was famously said by Malcolm Forbes, the American entrepreneur, “think independently together,” and attack business challenges from a variety of valuable perspectives.

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3 Types of Cloud Migration Strategies

Protera

Migrating to the cloud is a complex process, that must be customized to address the technical, functional and operational needs of the organization. A successful migration strategy should address short-term aims, like decreasing hosting costs, as well as longer-term goals like better alignment between IT and business objectives. Here are the three main cloud migration strategies businesses use to meet those goals.

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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.