Wed.Jan 30, 2019

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Why Root Cause Analysis is Important for IT Ops (And How to Do It)

OverOps

Common practice used to be throwing issues over the fence and expecting someone else to figure it out. But root cause analysis (RCA) should be standard across all tech teams. In this post, we’ll take a look at RCA from an operational perspective. Over the last twenty years, the way companies do business and the way they build applications has changed dramatically.

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Going from a Value Stream Map to Value Stream Optimisation

Xebia

Read this blog if you already have a Value Stream Map (VSM) and you are wondering how to reap its benefits using a structured process. If you need to know why and how you should make a VSM, please read the article ‘How to create a Value Stream Map’ written by my colleague Michiel Sens. Don’t […]. The post Going from a Value Stream Map to Value Stream Optimisation appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Edge Computing: Saving the Cloud from Ephemeral Data

DevOps.com

Edge computing is rapidly gaining momentum. Last week’s Linux Foundation news on the launch of LF Edge is one more sign of accelerating growth at the edge. What’s driving this sudden intense interest? It’s more than just the sheer number of edge devices or mounting concerns around interoperability and security. Pushing compute resources closer to […].

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Enterprise digital transformation leaves data security behind

CTOvision

Read why Charlie Osborne says that implementing modern systems could have a sinister cybersecurity side-effect for enterprises on ZDNet : The rush to embrace new technologies in the name of business modernization, supply chain efficiency, visibility, and cost savings is leading to an increased risk of data compromise, researchers claim. The 2019 Thales Data Threat Report, […].

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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 Role and Responsibilities of the Modern CFO – A Function in Transition

Toptal

Over the last few decades, the role of the CFO has undergone a profound shift. The historical tasks of the finance function such as books and records, financial reporting, and statutory compliance continue to be important but are now taken for granted by CEOs. The CFO of today and tomorrow must be able to take financial data and use it to influence operational decision making and strategy.

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Salt Security Unveils Platform to Secure APIs

DevOps.com

Salt Security, fresh off raising an additional $10 million in funding, announced a platform that promises to advance the state of DevSecOps by making it possible to detect when application programming interfaces (APIs) are being probed by cybercriminals looking for weaknesses to exploit. Salt Security CEO Roey Eliyahu said the Salt Security API Protection Platform employs […].

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Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them

CTOvision

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and […].

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What Are the Limits of the Scrum Framework?

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Frequently in workshops, I get asked, “Where shouldn’t we use Scrum?” The short answer is there are lots of instances where the Scrum framework doesn’t fit. However, to give a more complete and effective answer to this question, first we need to have an idea of why and when Scrum does work and what the key conditions are for success. We can then show examples of where it isn’t a good fit.

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Just Go Away! 4 Server Technologies to Ditch in 2019

Dell EMC

It’s that time of year again. Another year gone by, which means prepare to be bombarded with bold predictions of technology-related innovations and trends that will come your way in 2019. And for every new amazing technology you’re introduced to, there’s many others that just need to go away. Like now. For good. If you want to move forward, you must be willing to shed the old.

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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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How Freaked Out Should You Be About The Apple FaceTime Eavesdropping Bug?

CTOvision

Read why Tony Bradley thinks Apple’s FaceTime bug is very frightening on Forbes : Ok, everybody. Breathe. It’s going to be OK. Yes. The Facetime eavesdropping bug actually works. I recreated it just like everyone else in the world who has read the article. However, the reaction from the media and even from some cybersecurity professionals […].

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Relocating Your Business

Women on Business

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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Discover Card Users Affected by Data Breach, New Credit Cards Issued

CTOvision

A data breach incident impacting Discover cards has potentially provided attackers with access to an undisclosed amount of customer information, although anything from account numbers and expiration dates to security codes might have been stolen. Although these types of data breaches are not uncommon for financial institutions, this is only the second time a data breach […].

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Open Data Science and Machine Learning for Business with Cloudera Data Science Workbench on HDP

Cloudera

It’s official – Cloudera and Hortonworks have merged , and today I’m excited to announce the availability of Cloudera Data Science Workbench (CDSW) for Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). Trusted by large data science teams across hundreds of enterprises —. Western Union and IQVIA to name just a couple — CDSW is now also ready to help Hortonworks customers accelerate the delivery of new data products through secure, collaborative data science at scale.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’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 state of DevSecOps: 5 best practices from the front lines

TechBeacon

Ladies and gentlemen, citizens of the Internet, could this be the year when DevSecOps finally catches on everywhere?

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Digital Realty Named Colocation Partner for NVIDIA DGX Systems

Digital Realty

Today’s announcement of the NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center gives organizations a template for utilizing NVIDIA’s extensive AI and data science capabilities inside of a Digital Realty data center.

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How containers, microservices help maintain legacy apps

TechBeacon

We’ve all heard the term "legacy." It strikes fear in the hearts of millennial developers who have no experience with systems over 15 years old—er, make that five years old. However, most enterprises can't eliminate the old systems entirely, at least not right away. And so, these legacy monsters that dwell in the data centers are a part of our past, present, and future.

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FlexDeploy Loves Oracle E-Business Suite: DevOps Best Practices

Flexagon

In this blog series, I will introduce FlexDeploy’s DevOps solution for Oracle E-Business Suite, walking through several use cases and deployment models. Using the crawling/walking/running metaphor, we will explore how FlexDeploy can support escalating DevOps maturity requirements. The challenges are real, but why should ERP teams be left in the cold?

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Temporal Obfuscation

The Daily WTF

We've all been inflicted with completely overdesigned overly generalized systems created by architects managers who didn't know how to scope things, or when to stop. We've all encountered premature optimization , and the subtle horrors that can spawn therefrom. For that matter, we've all inherited code that was written by individuals cow-orkers who didn't understand that this is not good variable naming policy.

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Mac Dark Mode from Command Line

David Walsh

One of the best professional decisions I ever made was switching to a dark text editor theme. I suffered from horrible headaches for years, partially caused by late night coding sessions with blindingly bright computer screens. Recently Apple implemented a dark OS theme which helps my eyes, and thinking in a command line state of mind, I was wondering if there was a way to change dark or light mode via command line…and I found out how!

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5 Ways to Promote Professional Learning + Development for Teachers

PowerSchool

Offering plenty of high-quality professional learning and development opportunities makes teachers happier and drives student performance because — like any professionals — teachers thrive in an environment that prioritizes their own career development. . But it can be difficult to build a culture of growth and development for teachers, who spend much of their days concentrating on growth and development of their pupils.

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Dell EMC’s Cloud Snapshot Manager – Breaking Cloud Silos for Better Data Protection

Dell EMC

The explosive growth of public cloud computing is transforming enterprise IT infrastructure. Organizations are finding it difficult to manage workloads and the proliferation of snapshots with the native tools offered by most infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud providers. What is Cloud Snapshot Manager? Cloud Snapshot Manager is a SaaS solution that makes it easy to protect workloads in public cloud environments – without requiring any installation or infrastructure.

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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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AWS Cost Explorer? Expect More From Your Cost Management Tools

Hypergrid

AWS provides a free cost tool that can visualize the AWS cost and usage data (CUR), that is Cost Explorer. The CUR file has details on every AWS resource and is exposed to any third party tool as an API. So given that AWS already comes with a tool for cost visibility, why do you need to spend more on another tool for cost management. AWS Trusted Advisor is available as part of a paid support plan (3-10% of your AWS spend) and provides recommendations on cost optimization.

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Growing and Glowing Through Women in Agile

Accenture

As likely the largest concentration of female agilists within one company, we are proud to announce our support of and participation in the Women in Agile (WIA) movement. We’re officially partnering with the WIA organization to support their presence at more events and creating an Agile Amped podcast series focused on women in the workplace. This month, Accenture | SolutionsIQ met for our annual employee gathering near Atlanta, Georgia, where we held our company’s first official WIA session.

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Electric Cloud Unveils ElectricAccelerator 11.0, the Build and Test Acceleration Platform that Saved Customers 2 Million Developer Hours in One Month

DevOps.com

New plug-and-play support for Android Open Source Project, accelerated embedded Linux builds based on the Yocto project, and cloud bursting for AWS and Kubernetes help businesses shrink development cycles and improve software quality SAN JOSE, Calif.,?January 30, 2019 —?Electric Cloud ([link] the leader in Adaptive Release Orchestration and Continuous Delivery, today announced ElectricAccelerator® 11.0, the leading build and test acceleration platform for software delivery.

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2019 Predictions: CSP Vertical Integration Marches On

Datica

The inevitable march to the cloud continues and accelerates in 2019. The cloud is now being operationalized for enterprises. By that I mean, enterprises are now putting operational cloud roadmaps into effect instead of just strategic initiatives related to the cloud. Both net new and legacy applications are on that cloud roadmap, though larger enterprises will take years to fully implement the roadmap.

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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 you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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FluencyByDesign Game is a Bootleg Copy of Agile Fluency Game

James Shore

30 Jan 2019. James Shore/Blog. The real game. The bootleg copy. I was shocked and disappointed to learn yesterday that Steve Holyer has made an unauthorized copy of The Agile Fluency * Game called "The FluencyByDesign * Simulation." I created this game with Arlo Belshee in 2012 and spent five years playtesting and refining it. Steve Holyer replaced our name, trademark, and branding with his own and sold copies of his version for thousands of euros. * "Agile Fluency" is a trademark of James Shore

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Four short links: 30 January 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

No Code, Enterprise Sales, Deep-Learning the Brain, and Computer Architecture. The Rise of No Code -- As creating things on the internet becomes more accessible, more people will become makers. It’s no longer limited to the >1% of engineers who can code, resulting in an explosion of ideas from all kinds of people. We see “no code” projects on Product Hunt often.

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Most demanded ecommerce services 2019

Apiumhub

It is already 2019, wow! Every year trends and customer’s preference change, companies come up with new ideas and solutions , technology evolves faster and faster. And it is time to discuss the most demanded ecommerce services to be ready to rock this year! Most demanded ecommerce services 2019. Digital health services are on the rise. With this trend of #healthylife #healthylifestyle, #healthyfood people pay more attention to their health.