Wed.Aug 05, 2020

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Distributed Systems Pattern: High-Water Mark

Martin Fowler

Unmesh adds High-Water Mark to his collection of patterns. The high-water mark is an index into the log file that records the last log entry that is known to have successfully replicated to a Quorum of followers. The leader also passes on the high-water mark to its followers during its replication. All servers in the cluster should only transmit data to clients that reflects updates that are below the high-water mark. moreā€¦.

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How to Build Accessibility-First Design Culture

DevOps.com

When it comes to digital experiences, every one of us can recount a frustrating interaction with a website or app. For the 61 million American adults with disabilities, lack of website accessibility can transform a frustrating experience to one that inhibits essential activities such as working, shopping and socializing. To improve customer experiences and ensure […].

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Expanding the Future (of Dev Tooling) with AI

David Walsh

I’m writing to share some news that I’m genuinely excited about, not even just for me but for the rest of the developer community. Many of you know that I’ve been working with companies all over the world for nearly a decade, helping their developers learn JS and build excellence in their development team culture. I’ve always considered myself so fortunate and blessed to be able to engage with such a broad range of JS developers.

Tools 144
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Automation: The Human-Free Zone Approach to Software

DevOps.com

Humans hate repetitive manual tasks. We suck at themā€”we make mistakes, lose concentration, get bored. Throughout history, humans have instinctually developed automation to keep us away from the hazard-prone, tedious work of these tasks. In software, we use configuration management, deployment tools and lean/agile processes born out of factories and the automation principles established there […].

Software 142
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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. Itā€™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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How to Earn Interest with Bitcoin

David Walsh

When I was young I remember looking at my bank book and seeing nice interest payments for cash I had in the bank. Fast forward to today and banks are giving essentially nothing for interest — your money just sits there collecting dust. In an ideal world you could put it into the stock market but there always funds that you can’t put at risk.

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On Choosing a Deep Reinforcement Learning Library

Dataiku

As Deep Reinforcement Learning is becoming one of the most hyped strategies to achieve AGI (aka Artificial General Intelligence ) more and more libraries are developed. But choosing the best for your needs can be a daunting task.

Strategy 111
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What the Twitter hack reveals about spear phishing ā€“ and how to prevent it

Darktrace

Twitter has now confirmed spear phishing was the cause of last monthā€™s attack. This blog looks at the limitations in our current defenses against this well-known attack technique, and how a layered AI approach identifies and stops it.

How To 105
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Templates pose security threat for dynamic web, CMS servers

TechBeacon

Content management systems and other dynamic web applications that allow users to edit content can allow attackers to remotely execute code, if they can inject or edit the templates used to display content, according to two researchers presenting at the Black Hat Security conference today.

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Five Stages to Enterprise Recovery and How to Sell During a Crisis

IDC

COVID-19 has disrupted business operations across the board. Explore the 5 stages to enterprise recovery & how to sell in these conditions with IDC's Randy Perry.

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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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Should you adopt a shift-left approach to testing?

TechBeacon

In a competitive tech world, the pressure to stay on top of software releases is huge. You can't afford to slow them down.

Testing 124
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The Cost Analysis Of How To Develop An Online-Food Delivery App Like Deliveroo

Xicom

With the Coronavirus outbreak forcing many people to stay indoors, lots of individuals rely on food delivery apps while locked down and restaurants closed for dine-in options. However, this serendipity in food delivery business upsurge from $107.44 billion in 2019 to $111.32 billion in 2020 with an unexpected growth rate of 3.61% amid pandemic. But, the market is expected to regain its full potential and reach $ 154.34 billion in 2023 at a CAGR of 11.51%.

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Article: Retrospectives for Management Teams

InfoQ Culture Methods

Engaging top management in a recurring retrospective approach can result in long-term value in organizations. Retrospectives can help management teams to explore how they collaborate and cooperate. They can find out whether they should change something and decide on action points that propel the team forward and make them more effective. By Ben Linders, Kamil Puk.

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Design Pattern ā€“ Getting a Unique Id for Android Device

InnovationM

It sometimes becomes necessary to identify an Android Device depending on our use case or application requirements. There are some use cases where we might need device identification. For example, when you want to : 1-Identify an Android user to store games scores on a server 2-Track apps installation There are several types of methods that exist to uniquely identify an Android Device like.

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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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Back to Basics: 5 Crucial Components of Machine Learning

Daffodil Software

The human brain has got tremendous potential. On an everyday basis, it performs hundreds and thousands of tasks- recognizing faces, learning from experiences, memorizing facts, identifying objects, understanding words & languages, recognize intent & sentiments, and more. There are billions of neurons in the brain that network together to accomplish these tasks.

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Why Agile Isnā€™t Enough to Fix Your AppDev Backlog

Datavail

The agile software development methodology has surged in popularity in recent yearsā€”and for good reason. More than 40 percent of companies say that theyā€™re now using agile with their development and IT operations teams. Organizations that have adopted agile cite a wide range of benefits , most notably: greater project visibility, the ability to manage changing priorities, increased business/IT alignment, and faster time to market for deliverables.

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Using Konvoy to Patch your Cluster Infrastructure (Part 1)

d2iq

Recently we hit the infamous kmem bug in our internal Production Konvoy Cluster. We discovered that we were having this issue after users began reporting a particular CI Job was failing intermittently throughout the Cluster with the following error: From the Pod Logs: 2020-04-28T12:49:14.068308575Z time="2020-04-28T12:49:14.068177914Z" level=error msg="stream copy error: reading from a closed fifo" 2020-04-28T12:49:14.128018188Z time="2020-04-28T12:49:14.127915909Z" level=error msg="16997c1a5793

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EHR Interoperability: Challenges Involved and Overcoming Them

Daffodil Software

The COVID-19 pandemic has made healthcare providers realize the importance of digital solutions, more than ever. The providers are continuously struggling to reduce the burdens & risks associated with travel to clinics, hospitals, labs, or other healthcare organizations. Moreover, caregivers have to ensure the delivery of value-based care to patients in their home environments.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

ā€œReimagined: Building Products with Generative AIā€ 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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3 barriers to tech skill developmentā€”and how to break them

Gitprime

Technology skill development strategies level up an entire company, but often 3 barriers will stand in your way of success. Learn what they are and how to achieve greater impact from your tech skill development program.

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GitOps With OpenShift Applier

Dzone - DevOps

GitOps in short is a set of practices to use Git pull requests to manage infrastructure and application configurations. In this paradigm, git repositories are the source of truth. There are a lot of tools to implements a strategy GitOps strategy in an Openshift environment. We can talk about ArgoCD , FluxCD , Tekton , etc. In this article, I want to show how OpenShift Applier is a great allied in a GitOps strategy fo OpenShift.

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What Happens When Agile Goes Away?

Agile Alliance

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Architecting for Todayā€™s Hybrid Analytic Ecosystem

Teradata

A modern analytic ecosystem embraces a hybrid approach and leverages the right technologies to meet the needs at the right cost/value ratio. Read more.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure youā€™ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzingā€™s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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How Remote Work Impacts DevOps and Development

Dzone - DevOps

The new normal of remote work is here. While the option to work from home was available at many organizations before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, this way of working has become a forced reality in certain industries. Lockdown restrictions are starting to ease up, but many companies are still enforcing or allowing their teams to work from home full- or part-time.

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CodeSOD: A Private Code Review

The Daily WTF

Jessica has worked with some cunning developers in the past. To help cope with some of that ā€œcunningā€, theyā€™ve recently gone out searching for new developers. Now, there were some problems with their job description and salary offer, specifically, they were asking for developers who do too much and get paid too little. Which is how Jessica started working with Blair.

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Thawing the Frozen Middle to Create a Self-Organizing Transformation

Agile Alliance

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Nullable Output

James Shore

Every week in my Tuesday Lunch & Learn livestream , we choose a useful software development skill, define a challenge related to that skill, and solve the challenge live. This week, itā€™s nullable output. In previous episodes, weā€™ve talked about the Nullable Infrastructure Wrapper pattern. Itā€™s a way of testing infrastructure code without using mocks.

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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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How to Improve On-Call with Better Practices and Tools

Dzone - DevOps

In the era of reliability, where mere minutes of downtime or latency can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, 24x7 availability and on-call coverage to respond to incidents have become a requirement for the vast majority of organizations. But setting up an on-call system that drives effective incident response while minimizing the stress placed on engineers isnā€™t a trivial task.

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Harness Acquires Continuous Integration Pioneer Drone.io and Commits to Open Source

DevOps.com

Acquisition marks companyā€™s entrance into the open source software community and establishes Harness as the complete CI/CD platform for cloud and container-native teams SAN FRANCISCO ā€“ August 5, 2020 ā€“ Harness, the industryā€™s first Continuous Delivery-as-a-Serviceā„¢ platform, today announced that it has acquired self-service Continuous Integration firm Drone.io, the creator of the popular open-source project Drone.

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How DevSecOps done right makes application security easier

Synopsys

How do you integrate application security into DevOps? By enabling your developers to address security issues with automation, integration, and training. The post How DevSecOps done right makes application security easier appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.