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Why AI as a service is poised to take off

CIO

Remember when software as a service (SaaS) was the future of computing?

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Coping with Covid-19

Martin Fowler

The Covid-19 outbreak is getting more serious. With offices in China, we've already been affected and have taken various measures across our global business. Here's what we've learned so far about what we need to do to handle this crisis.

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Reflections of an Undercover Scrum Master

Agile Alliance

Our latest conversation is with Dane Weber. Dane took a two-year break from his job as a Scrum Master to join a development team. His perspectives as both a developer and Scrum Master are insightful. During his time as a developer, Dane gained an appreciation for just how much there is to know and master. … Continued.

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Kr00k Wi-Fi flaw exposes a billion devices to hackers

The Parallax

SAN FRANCISCO—Encryption is great for protecting data in transit, unless that data is encrypted in all zeroes. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what a newly revealed Wi-Fi chip vulnerability does, according to ESET researchers, who disclosed the flaw yesterday at the RSA Conference here. The vulnerability puts more than 1 billion consumer devices at risk, including Apple iPhones, iPads, and Macs, Amazon Echoes and Kindles, Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets, Raspberry Pi 3s, older Google Ne

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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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Predicting How People Will Cope With Change

Change Starts Here

An organization that had undergone years of tremendous growth realized that they had outgrown their purchasing spending rules. Too many people had authority to spend large amounts without approval or coordination. Spending was out of control, and the purchasing department decided it would rein it in by changing the spending rules.

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5 Reasons Your Team Just Doesn’t Get It

Let's Grow Leaders

When your team just doesn’t get it, you’ve got a chance to level up It’s a lament we’ve heard from many leaders—usually accompanied by frustrated pacing or a discouraged slouch with their head in their hands: “I don’t know what else to […]. The post 5 Reasons Your Team Just Doesn’t Get It appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Don’t Do Agile and DevOps by the Book

DevOps.com

In software development, we talk a lot about the importance of Agile and DevOps. Agile aims for rapid releases, positively encourages involvement from customers and other stakeholders and splits work into smaller iterations, releasing as soon as possible. DevOps extends it by introducing cross-functional team collaboration and automation, enabling teams to always have a stable […].

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Introducing Confluent Developer

Confluent

Today, I am pleased to announce the launch of Confluent Developer, the one and only portal for everything you need to get started with Apache Kafka®, Confluent Platform, and Confluent […].

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EU switches to Signal: One rule for elites, another for plebs

TechBeacon

The EU’s European Commission (EC) wants its staff to stop using untrustworthy messaging apps, such as WhatsApp. Instead, they’re instructed to move to the open-source Signal app.

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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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JFrog Delivers on Hybrid Cloud Promise for DevOps

DevOps.com

JFrog announced the availability of what it claims to be the first available hybrid DevOps platform capable of spanning multiple clouds. Dror Bereznitsky, chief product officer for JFrog, said the JFrog Platform integrates a range of DevOps tools within the context of the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform that the company previously developed, with the […].

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4 hybrid cloud obstacles to overcome this year

TechBeacon

With both multicloud and hybrid cloud infrastructure approaches on the rise, many businesses—particularly those handling sensitive information, such as those in healthcare and finance—are pulling back from fully public cloud-borne operations in favor of a hybrid cloud approach.

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The Future is Now: Ready or not, the robots are coming to a retail space near you.

CEO Insider

For decades, we’ve been bombarded with futuristic television shows like “The Jetsons” and sci-fi movies like “The Terminator” or “I, Robot”, that depict robots infiltrating our daily lives. While hopefully we’ll never have to fight evil robots trying to take over the world, the retail world is readying for a technologic takeover. If you follow […].

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Dell Technologies Joins Sheltered Harbor Alliance Partner Program as the First Solution Provider

Dell EMC

If you’re in the data business, and even if you’re not, you know that high-profile cyberattacks in the recent past have resulted in the public leak of huge amounts of stolen data, including employee and customer personal information, corporate intellectual property, and even unreleased films and scripts. In 2015, in response to the increased frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks on the financial sector, a not-for-profit, industry-led initiative was launched.

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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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Cross-Cultural Design

A List Apart

When I first traveled to Japan as an exchange student in 2001, I lived in northern Kyoto, a block from the Kitayama subway station. My first time using the train to get to my university was almost a disaster, even though it was only two subway stops away. I thought I had everything I needed to successfully make the trip. I double- and triple-checked that I had the correct change in one pocket and a computer printout of where I was supposed to go in the other.

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Rackn Extends Reach of IT-as-Code Framework

DevOps.com

Rackn announced the Digital Rebar platform it created to automate the provisioning of bare-metal infrastructure now can be applied simultaneously across multiple physical sites. Company CEO Rob Hirschfeld said Digital Rebar 4.3 makes it possible to manage IT infrastructure as code across highly distributed computing environments. Previously, IT organizations would have needed additional versions of […].

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Improve Your Ongoing Cloud Transformation With DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

There are basically two major hurdles every organization faces when moving to the cloud: transforming their apps or solutions to fully benefit from cloud computing and adopting a better approach for true cloud transformation. The former is a hurdle that most — if not all — organizations focus on. Transforming existing apps for cloud computing isn’t always straightforward.

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Datical Continues Investment in Liquibase with New Capabilities

DevOps.com

The Most Requested Feature for Liquibase: Targeted Rollback is Now Available AUSTIN, Texas – Feb. 27, 2020 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, today announced the release of Targeted Rollback capabilities for Liquibase, the rapidly growing open-source tool that helps application developers track, version and deploy database schema changes quickly and safely.

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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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Stork, Part 4: Implementing Statements and Wrapping Up

Toptal

The development of our lightweight programming language created in C++ is nearing completion and we can finally see it in action. In the final part of our Stork series, Toptal Full-stack Developer Jakisa Tomic explains how to implement statements, tuples, and modules.

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Adaptive Change Management: A DevOps Approach to Change Management

Dzone - DevOps

Change management is another example of an ITIL -based process which can be significantly improved by the application of DevOps practices. Change management is often implemented in ways which fly in the face of key principles of DevOps. Traditional implementations put multiple layers of approval in place for every change, inserting significant bureaucracy and gates which almost guarantee longer release cycles and delays in getting value to the customer.

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Sauce Labs Deepens Investment in OSS Community; Establishes New Open Source Program Office

DevOps.com

New department to drive significant increase in support for open source initiatives SAN FRANCISCO – February 27, 2020 – Sauce Labs Inc., the leading provider of continuous testing solutions that deliver digital confidence, today announced the formation of its first-ever Open Source Program Office, further strengthening its already significant investment in the broader open source community.

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Inc. 5000 Series DC Metro Recognizes AgileEngine as a Regional Leader

Agile Engine

AgileEngine is closing the February of 2020 with exciting news from the Inc. magazine. The 2020 Inc. 5000 is still in the works, but in the meantime, the renowned business magazine has published a new rating highlighting local businesses. Named the Inc. 5000 Series, the rating zooms in the business scene of California, DC, Texas, Florida, and the US Midwest.

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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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Wanted: Ambassadors For Good Design

Scott Berkun

Most designers agree the world would be a better place if more people understood good design. But since designers are always in the minority, outnumbered by managers, marketers, programmers and more, who is going to show them the way? Enter the design ambassador. Design ambassadors already exist, they just don’t go by that name. They’re the ones who know how to talk about the value of good design in ways most folks can understand.

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Automation and integration thwarts misconfiguration, staff burnout

Firemon

Keeping pace with the rapid growth of the hybrid cloud growth is difficult for security professionals when everything ’s done manually. . FireMon’s State of Hybrid Cloud Security Survey found most respondents still don’t have the benefits of automation that can help security policy keep up with cloud-first strategies. Nearly two-thirds (65.4 percent) said they use manual processes in their hybrid environment.

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Castles in the Cloud: How to Take Your Business Kingdom Off-Prem with Confidence

DevOps.com

Cloud transformation requires migrating all or part of an organization’s virtual assets off-premises, typically to a public cloud. This enables greater efficiency and cost savings, among other benefits, but it brings heightened risk as well. At the same time, many organizations moving to the cloud don’t fully understand the implications in terms of security.

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2019 Ransomware Recap—Inside the Biggest Attacks

Arcserve

Ransomware took an unfortunate big leap forward in 2019. A SonicWall report lists a total of 151.9 million ransomware attacks through Q3 last year. That’s a staggering number, but the interesting thing is that it’s a five percent year-over-year decrease. To some degree, cybercriminals are shifting focus. Rather than going after small ransoms on thousands.

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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.

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Rapid Strategy Development at Your Nonprofit

TechSoup

As a nonprofit leader, you want clarity. You want to know what you want to accomplish and the best way to accomplish it. What's more, you want to make an impact when you get there. To do that, you need a strategy.

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Security Perimeters

DevOps.com

The post Security Perimeters appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How much does it cost to develop an app like GOQii?

Xicom

Do you want to earn big with your own healthcare mobile app? Do you want to have your own mobile app like GOQii ? Do you want to know the features and prices of the app like GOQii? Then you have landed at the right place. This blog clears all your doubts related to a healthcare mobile app development. Also later we will mention some tips to find the trusted app development firms in Dubai.