Wed.Jan 15, 2020

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On Pair Programming

Martin Fowler

At ThoughtWorks, we regularly use Pair Programming. We find it's a rarely used practice, in part due to lack of knowledge in how to do it well and because its benefits are not immediately obvious. Birgitta Böckeler and Nina Siessegger put together an excellent conference talk where they pulled together the techniques we've learned, the benefits we've found, and the challenges we've faced.

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How to adapt ITIL to DevOps with continual service transition

TechBeacon

If you work in a large organization with a traditional, sequential release process such as ITIL, the idea of a continuous flow of change may sound unfamiliar. That's been the case at several organizations with which I've consulted recently, so I use the term "continual service transition" as an easier way to explain continuous delivery (CD) to people familiar with ITIL—and you can too.

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Reinforcement learning for the real world

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Roger Magoulas recently sat down with Edward Jezierski, reinforcement learning AI principal program manager at Microsoft, to talk about reinforcement learning (RL). They discuss why RL’s role in AI is so important, challenges of applying RL in a business environment, and how to approach ethical and responsible use questions. Here are some highlights from their conversation: Reinforcement learning is different than simply trying to detect something in an image or extract something from a da

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China – The First Artificial Intelligence Superpower

CTOvision

China is on its way to becoming the first global superpower for Artificial Intelligence. The People’s Republic of China has the most ambitious AI strategy of all nations and provides the most resources worldwide for its implementation. China combines a gigantic amount of data with talent, companies, research and capital to build the world’s leading AI ecosystem. […].

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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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Identifying and Tackling Today’s 4 Biggest Workplace Challenges

IDC

For decades, technology advancements have changed the way we work, and organizations have adapted. In today’s fast-paced digital world, work transformation – the “ future of work ”- is a major disruptive force, and organizations are having a hard time keeping up. Traditional work models aren’t nimble enough, adaptive, nor scalable. In the new work experience, human workers operate side by side with “digital coworkers,” enabling human workers to focus on higher-value acti

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Why your approach to security architecture needs to change

TechBeacon

Organizations have a lot to worry about these days. With security breaches on the rise and organizations subject to ever greater scrutiny and reputational risk, would you be surprised to learn that most of your efforts may not be as impactful as advertised?

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Being a Leader Through Conflict Management

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Jon Wortmann, thoughtLEADERS Principal, sat down with Jim and Jan of The Leadership Podcast to discuss Conflict Management. In continuation of our new collaboration with The Leadership Podcast, Jon delves into conflict management in this short form “chalk talk.” These chalk talk series are bitesize sessions on a common (but challenging) leadership issue.

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Why Mobile Needs Its Own DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

Developing for mobile has unique challenges, and therefore, it requires an approach that differs from traditional DevOps methods. Here are some of the four main reasons why developing for mobile is different — compared to developing web applications — and some of the ways in which incorporating a unique set of practices — collectively referred to as Mobile DevOps — can help app companies tackle these specific challenges: 1.

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DevOps Chat: Security Graph SDK Powers Better Policies, with vArmour

DevOps.com

The increasing breadth and complexity of the environments we manage are nothing short of breathtaking. Understanding the security risks and applying policies across the cloud, multi-cloud, private clouds and a plethora of software technologies is a challenge faced by every enterprise. vArmour recently announced version 5 of the vArmour Application Controller, which opens more significant […].

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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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Agile Performance Chains, Metrics, & Continuous Improvement

Accenture

When you mention metrics-driven coaching to an agile coach, you will often get an initial reaction that “Metrics are evil.” Often, a valid reason underlies this reaction. Many of these coaches have had experiences where metrics were used to evaluate, manipulate and control individuals and teams, rather than for self-managed growth and improvement programs.

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Identifying and Tackling Today’s 4 Biggest Workplace Challenges

IDC

For decades, technology advancements have changed the way we work, and organizations have adapted. In today’s fast-paced digital world, work transformation – the “ future of work ”- is a major disruptive force, and organizations are having a hard time keeping up. Traditional work models aren’t nimble enough, adaptive, nor scalable. In the new work experience, human workers operate side by side with “digital coworkers,” enabling human workers to focus on higher-value acti

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – January 2020

Symantec

This month the vendor has patched 49 vulnerabilities, 8 of which are rated Critical.

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Things to consider before spending on multi-cloud

DXC

The concept of multi-cloud is simple. You’re running multiple business processes using more than one cloud. This isn’t the same thing as hybrid cloud. With that model, you’re coordinating business processes across multiple clouds. So, for example, if your office program is Office 365, but you’re running line of business programs on Amazon Web Services, […].

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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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Here’s how to regulate artificial intelligence properly

CTOvision

Read R. David Edelman article on regulations for artificial intelligence on Washington Post : From Brussels to Beijing, the Élysée to the Oval Office, leaders around the world are calling for bold regulations to govern artificial intelligence (AI). To hear some of them, it may seem as if the machine learning tools that make up […].

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Your SaaS Security Checklist

Palo Alto Networks

Moving data and applications to the cloud is a natural evolution for businesses. Adopting new technologies that save money, bandwidth and resources is a smart choice, allowing companies and their employees to focus on what’s important. Gartner estimates that software-as-a-service (SaaS) revenues will grow to $151.1 billion by 2022. Organizations making the journey to the cloud should consider the benefits of SaaS, but also how to maintain SaaS security.

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White House encourages hands-off approach to AI regulation

CTOvision

While experts worry about AI technologies like intrusive surveillance and autonomous weaponry, the US government is advocating a hands-off approach to AI’s regulation. The White House today unveiled 10 principles that federal agencies should consider when devising laws and rules for the use of artificial intelligence in the private sector, but stressed that a key concern […].

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You’ve Got to Leave the Launchpad If You Want to Get to the Moon

Next Level Blog

What do you want to accomplish this year? When you step back and look at your list are there any goals that scare you or just seem like a huge stretch? I’ve got a few of those myself this year. They’re based on some ideas that have been somewhere on the radar screen of my brain the past few years. They were there kind of nibbling at my attention but staying busy doing what I’ve been doing kept me from paying much attention to them.

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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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From the AI arms race to adversarial AI

CTOvision

Read Michal P?chou?ek’s article on challenges faced by the artificial intelligence on Tech Radar : The AI arms race is on, and it’s a cat and mouse game we see every day in our threat intelligence work. As new technology evolves, our lives become more convenient, but cybercriminals see new opportunities to attack users. Whether […].

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A brief glimpse into the future: 2020 healthcare trends

DXC

by Michael Dahlweid, M.D., Ph.D. In an industry that’s above all about improving health and well-being, the future of how we innovate, work and implement breakthrough technologies inevitably starts and finishes with a human-centric approach. Before I delve into what this means from a healthcare perspective, first let’s consider the broader trends that DXC Technology […].

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5 Characteristics of a DevOps Organization

Dzone - DevOps

As consultant (or a new member in a devops team), what are your telltale signs of a “DevOps” organization? Do share them in comments section. Below are my top 5. Product based teams over component teams: Autonomous and cross skilled teams are key to deliver and maintain products. An organization structure which is based on knowledge silos (such as dev, qa, ops) is bound to create multiple handovers and thereby increase waste and risk of things going wrong.

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Stopped in its tracks: How Antigena neutralizes zero-day ransomware

Darktrace

Cyber AI is taking back the advantage over an ever-evolving adversary, saving time, money, resources, and – perhaps most critically – reputation.

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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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Hire Executive Coach

CO2 Business Leadership

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? It’s usually not because their boards recommended it. In fact, 79 percent of the time, it is CEOs themselves who seek out coaching. But why do leaders, especially iconic ones, want coaching? It all goes back to what Alfred Adler shared perfectly decades ago, “All problems are interpersonal relationship problems.

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5 Characteristics of a DevOps Organization

Dzone - DevOps

A "DevOps organization" signifies a cultural shift in the software development and IT industry , fostering collaboration between development (Dev) and operations (Ops) teams to streamline the entire development lifecycle. By promoting automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery ( CI/CD ), DevOps accelerates software release cycles, reduces errors, and encourages a shared responsibility for development and operations tasks.

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Why Hire Executive Coaches?

CO2 Business Leadership

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? It’s usually not because their boards recommended it. In fact, 79 percent of the time, it is CEOs themselves who seek out coaching. But why do leaders, especially iconic ones, want coaching? It all goes back to what Alfred Adler shared perfectly decades ago, “All problems are interpersonal relationship problems.

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iQuate Sponsors Microsoft Ignite the Tour London

CloudSphere

iQuate accelerates migration to Microsoft Azure with Automated Discovery and Application Dependency Mapping . London, UK. Jan 15, 2020 – iQuate, a Microsoft Gold Partner and leader in agentless discovery and service mapping for cloud migration, today announced they are sponsoring and attending Microsoft Ignite The Tour London (Jan 16/17), showcasing iQCloud to Microsoft customers and partners. iQCloud accelerates migration to Azure with automated discovery and application dependency mapping for

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’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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Why Hire an Executive Coach?

CO2 Business Leadership

By: Gary Cohen Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? It’s usually not because their boards recommended it. In fact, 79 percent of the time, it is CEOs themselves who seek out coaching. But why do leaders, especially iconic ones, want coaching? It all goes back to what Alfred Adler shared perfectly decades ago, “All problems are interpersonal relationship problems.

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Ultimate Guide to Hire and Manage Dedicated Developers

Radixweb

As a trend, hiring dedicated developers is a fast-growing one, keeping in pace with the rising needs of enterprises from all sectors to develop software applications for growth. So where do you start?

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Why Hire an Executive Coach?

CO2 Business Leadership

By: Gary Cohen. Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? It’s usually not because their boards recommended it. In fact, 79 percent of the time, it is CEOs themselves who seek out coaching. . But why do leaders, especially iconic ones, want coaching? It all goes back to what Alfred Adler shared perfectly decades ago, “All problems are interpersonal relationship problems.”.