Wed.Mar 27, 2019

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The New AI Overseer Role in DevOps

DevOps.com

Robot overlords are the stuff of science fiction fantasy. Today, with more teams implementing artificial intelligence (AI), DevOps teams need a hard, continuous look at reality. An AI overseer watching apps at work could make the difference between sadness and euphoria in your efforts. We’re seeing AI misses more and more often. Facebook recently admitted […].

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Agile Q&A: Why do Organizations Adopt Agile?

Agile Alliance

Explore the main reasons organizations adopt Agile and why your organization's rationale for adopting Agile may impact the implementation's success.

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Sustaining machine learning in the enterprise

O'Reilly Media - Data

Drawing insights from recent surveys, Ben Lorica analyzes important trends in machine learning. Continue reading Sustaining machine learning in the enterprise.

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Launch Your First Hands-On Lab For Free

Linux Academy

All free Community Edition members of Linux Academy receive 35 Gems upon signing up. If you’re not familiar with Gems , they are Linux Academy’s official currency and can be used to either consume Hands-On Labs on our platform (labs are free and unlimited for paid members) or to purchase swag from our official store. Hands-On Labs is a key feature when it comes to learning practical skills.

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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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Adobe Strategy Revolves Around DevOps

DevOps.com

At the Adobe Summit 2019 conference this week, Adobe detailed that its Adobe Experience Cloud customer experience ecosystem is reliant on a set of best DevOps processes that is wrapped around a modern microservices architecture and layered on top of big data platform deployed on the Azure cloud. Adobe last year acquired Magento, provider of […].

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Modern Workers Demand Modern Technology

DevOps.com

Companies today must think of their employees as customers and employ technology, including mobile apps, that employees want to use. I have always been a bit of a technophile. Many years ago, in another life, when I worked in technology sales, I was one of the first sales engineers on my team to buy a […]. The post Modern Workers Demand Modern Technology appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Elfin: Relentless Espionage Group Targets Multiple Organizations in Saudi Arabia and U.S.

Symantec

Although heavily focused on the Middle East, Elfin (aka APT33) has also targeted a range of organizations in the U.S. including a number of major corporations.

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3 security threats businesses need to prepare for by 2021

CTOvision

Read Alison DeNisco Rayome list three top cybersecurity threats that businesses should prepare for on the Tech Republic : To stay secure in the modern connected world, businesses must keep track of all emerging cybersecurity threats and assess the potential business impacts of when not if, they will experience a breach or incident, according to […].

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You Can’t Live Without Marketplaces—So We’re Introducing the Battery Marketplace Index

Battery Ventures

Can you imagine life today without online, consumer marketplaces? For most people, at least those living in cities and suburbs, the answer is probably no. Think about it: We order food through Doordash, book trips through Expedia, browse entertainment on Netflix and, of course, get around town with Uber and Lyft. Twenty years ago, the only widely used Internet marketplaces—online hubs matching buyers and sellers of a particular product or service—were probably eBay and Craigslist.

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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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6 Ways Women Leaders Can up Their Management Skills

Women on Business

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A Project Manager's Guide to Digital Transformation

Toptal

89% of organizations adopted or have plans to adopt a digital-first strategy in 2018. Digital transformation requires both a cultural shift and a restructuring of products and services around new digital capabilities. Project managers are some of the most important people on the tactical level during a digital transformation.

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61% of CIOs believe employees leak data maliciously

CTOvision

There is a perception gap between IT leaders and employees over the likelihood of insider breaches. It is a major challenge for businesses: insider data breaches are viewed as frequent and damaging occurrences, of concern to 95% of IT leaders, yet the vectors for those breaches – employees – are either unaware of, or unwilling […].

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6 Examples of Digital Transformation at Adobe Summit Keynote

DevOps.com

We’re attending Adobe Summit 2019 to research the intersection of DevOps and marketing. Follow along for more stories. In a recent article, we described how DevOps is transforming retail from brick and mortar into an omnichannel “brick and click.” At Adobe Summit, we garnered more insights, discovering how other institutions are implementing an innovative convergence […].

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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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Millions of Android users beware: Alibaba’s UC Browser can be used to deliver malware

CTOvision

UC Browser, a hugely popular mobile browser from Alibaba-owned UCWeb, has a design flaw that allows attackers to swap out downloads from the company’s servers with files from any server on the internet, according to researchers at Russian security firm Dr. Web. The company has raised an alarm over the mobile browser because it can download […].

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Securing AWS App Mesh With Aqua

Aqua Security

We’re excited to be launch partners for AWS App Mesh , officially announced today at the Santa Clara AWS Summit. Aqua provides fine-grained protection to microservices-based applications that use AWS App Mesh, by ensuring that the microservices infrastructure conforms to the organization’s security policy, and by providing visibility and control over App Mesh network traffic.

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Ransomware Behind Norsk Hydro Attack Takes On Wiper-Like Capabilities

CTOvision

LockerGoga, the malware that took down Norsk Hydro last week, has taken the industrial world by storm, as researchers race to uncover more about the mysterious ransomware that crippled several of the aluminum maker’s plants. Questions still remain about how the malware first infects the system it targets, who is behind the attacks – and what […].

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Highlights from the Strata Data Conference in San Francisco 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Watch highlights from expert talks covering AI, machine learning, data analytics, and more. People from across the data world are coming together in San Francisco for the Strata Data Conference. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event. The journey to the data-driven enterprise from the edge to AI. Amy O'Connor explains how Cloudera applies an "edge to AI" approach to collect, process, and analyze data.

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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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CodeSOD: This Is Your Brain on PL/SQL

The Daily WTF

The realest of real WTFs, the reigning champion for all eternity is and forever will be Oracle. Today, we’re going to take a look at a little code in PL/SQL. PL/SQL is a weird language, a blend of SQL and, well, a P rocedural L anguage, with a side of OO slapped on. The syntax does an excellent job giving you the feeling that it was designed in the 1970s, and each new feature or change to the language continues that tradition.

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CYBERFORCE Hero Profile: Unlocking Customer Value

Palo Alto Networks

. This is the third in a series of blogs featuring a Palo Alto Networks CYBERFORCE engineer and the business challenges they tackle. CYBERFORCE recognizes the best-of-the-best from the NextWave Partner Community; proven partner engineers who put the customer first, are trusted for their security expertise, and focus on preventing successful cyberattacks.

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A tester's guide to leveraging Kubernetes

TechBeacon

With the advent of agile and DevOps, organizations are moving from specialized roles to cross-functional teams—and that means cross-functional sharing of the specialized tools used in each silo.

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7 Ways to Get the Value You Deserve From Coaching

Accenture

One of the most challenging experiences of any transformation is working with a coach. Whether the goal is weight loss or improving business agility , the coaching experience can be a mixed bag of success. Some experiences are fantastic and productive; others have missed expectations and personal chemistry clashes that leave people hating the idea of ever getting coached again.

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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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Set Branch Alias with Git

David Walsh

Version control systems can be difficult to use, especially when you don’t use a UI app. Just think about main branch or revision names: svn uses “trunk”, git uses “master”, and mercurial (hg) uses “tip” I need to switch between mercurial and git frequently, so I end up reversing command and branch names constantly.

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The Future of Extended Reality

CableLabs

The Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) has become one of the most influential and innovative film festivals in the United States. It might seem strange that CableLabs, a core technology company, was invited to participate in the festival’s creative conversations about the future of narrative media. Technology and the arts have always fed off of each other, but every once in a while, a generational disruption defines a new paradigm for both of them.

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Designed for the Cloud: SharePoint Server 2019

Datavail

Microsoft has announced several versions of SharePoint, the application that provides data storage, collaboration and document management. There was SharePoint 2001, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. Now, the application is getting even better with the announcement of SharePoint Server 2019. People have been waiting with ill-disguised excitement for this entirely new generation of SharePoint.

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Cloud-Native Security Innovator Alcide to Support Amazon Web Services App Mesh

DevOps.com

Provides In- and Out-of-Mesh Micro Segmentation for Services Running on AWS App Mesh Tel Aviv – March 27, 2019 – Alcide, a cloud-native security leader empowering DevSecOps with code-to-production security, to discover, manage and enforce security policies through microservices firewall for workloads running in Kubernetes, today announced that it is part of a select number […].

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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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Are self-organizing agile teams realistic?

TechBeacon

Self-organizing teams are touted in agile circles, but they seem to operate much more smoothly in theory than in reality.

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Carbonite Closes Acquisition of Webroot

DevOps.com

Transaction combines data backup and recovery technology with cybersecurity platform to deliver complete data protection for customers and their endpoints March 26, 2019 04:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time BOSTON & BROOMFIELD, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Carbonite, Inc. (NASDAQ: CARB), a leading cloud-based data protection provider, today closed its previously announced acquisition of Webroot Inc.

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Introducing Cloudera Edge Management and Cloudera Flow Management

Cloudera

Cloudera’s vision of delivering Edge to AI solutions using the Enterprise Data Cloud will enable enterprises to transform dramatically. In today’s digitally connected enterprises, data originates from the edge, streams into the data center, lands in an Enterprise Data Cloud for downstream processing including Machine Learning and then serves back to the edge for real-time prediction and action.