Accenture
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
On a recent Slack conversation with my colleagues, we were discussing Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) and alternate prioritization models. It reminded me of a previous job in which my team was tasked with prioritizing a bunch of architectural initiatives. In that instance, we had a lot of trouble expressing the results of our work in the tabular form of an Excel spreadsheet.
Daniel Bryant
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
No code is ever truly proven or tested until it’s running in production. This is particularly true of today’s cloud-native systems; these applications are rapidly evolving, continuously deployed, and have multiple layers of dependencies. As we’ve argued previously , this means that traditional testing strategies such as mocks, staging environments, and integration testing are not sufficient for testing cloud-native applications.
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CTOvision
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Read why Scott Bordoni says that maintaining cybersecurity is important for any business – big or small on IT Pro Portal : Technology over the past few decades has become an increasingly integral aspect of the workplace. From email correspondence and financial transactions to professional networking and collaborative work documents, businesses rely on technology to be […].
Toptal
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Robotic Process Automation has become a top priority for many companies in the last two years. Project Managers will increasingly have to manage projects developing software used not only by humans but also by bots. This article covers the opportunities and challenges for Project Managers brought forth by Robotic Process Automation.
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.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Facebook has had a harrowing 2018. First the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal and then the issue of selling personal user information to Chinese smartphone companies for profit. And now, the recent data breach which could have affected millions of its users. When a business experiences a security breach, there are a lot of steps […].
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CTOvision
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
While the hype around ransomware attacks has died down, it still construes a significant risk to small and medium businesses, especially those who don’t afford high-quality anti-virus solutions and other tools. Ransomware continues to be the leading cyberattack method experienced by small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) according to new research from Datto Inc.
Dell EMC
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Dell EMC brings homes three HPCwire awards — for workforce diversity, data analytics and HPC in life sciences. In any business, it’s always gratifying when people in your field take the time to recognize you for some of the good things you are doing. That was the case this week at the SC18 supercomputing conference in Dallas when HPCwire named Dell EMC as the recipient of three awards.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched a resource to raise awareness about the vital role cybersecurity plays for the 32+ million small businesses in the US. This effort was part of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) in October, which has been recognized every month since 2003. The NCSAM was established with the collaboration […].
Women on Business
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
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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.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Microsoft has patched a zero-day escalation of privilege bug in Windows after Kaspersky Lab researchers noticed multiple cyber-espionage groups exploiting it. The zero-day, tracked as CVE-2018-8589, impacts the Windows Win32k component. Microsoft classified the issue as an “elevation of privilege” vulnerability and says that before an attacker could use this zero-day to gain elevated privileges, they’ll […].
Zadara
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Enhance Your AWS Environment with These Ten Enterprise-Grade Features If EFS completely addresses all of your cloud file storage needs, stop reading, go to your AWS portal, and order it. You’re still reading, aren’t you? Thought so. Before we go further, let me be clear: EFS is very good at what it was designed to […]. The post EFS: Great, but is Being “Elastic” Enough?
Honeycomb
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
This guest blog post is by Or Weis, Co-Founder and CEO of Rookout, the Rapid Debugging Company. He’s a low-level engineer and a CybSec Expert. You probably know that Honeycomb is the most flexible observability tool around. Its powerful high-cardinality search makes working with real raw data quick and easy. But as you may have learned through hard experience, fetching those dots can still be quite a challenge.
Altexsoft
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Without knowing it, you’ve probably already used the apps made with Flutter. Whether you shopped on Alibaba, ran an ad campaign on Google Ads, or used a digital coupon, you’ve likely witnessed the results of Flutter’s still short history. The product has remained beta for a long time. Now, with its Release Preview 2 version, it finally stepped on the finish line before the initial 1.0 release.
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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.
Toptal
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Technology is a democratizing force, and improving global access to tech education is a priority for organizations like Mozilla, IBM, and the United Nations. With its inaugural Scholarship for Women being awarded to a worthy candidate in Ghana this year, Toptal is proud to join the growing worldwide effort to help talented individuals and communities gain access to the tools and resources they need.
The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Everyone already knows about WebMD Image Credit: Peter Morville. In this modern age in which we are living, what do you do when you start to feel not so good? If you are like most of us, you think about the symptoms that you are experiencing and then, because you understand the importance of information technology, you go online to try to figure out if what you are dealing with is serious.
Dell EMC
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Service providers everywhere are challenged by growing CAPEX and OPEX for existing network infrastructure, long time to market for new or updated services, price and margin erosion in existing businesses models and slowing innovation to capture new revenue opportunities. To address these challenges, service providers globally are looking to transform their datacenters from proprietary and rigid architectures to a disaggregated model with open architectures which allows them to increase infrastru
Symantec
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
10 little things you can do at home to create a more sustainable holiday
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LaunchDarkly
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Last month, the night before Halloween, we cohosted a special Test in Production session with Honeycomb.io. We asked speakers to bring their best horror stories of operational outages and other scary events. Marc Devens, Director of Product at BrandVerge, shared two stories. First he spoke about what happened when Appeagle—a company that provides price management software for 3rd party sellers on Amazon, eBay and Walmart—was caught up in a major pricing error.
The Daily WTF
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Today’s anonymous submitter is an experienced Python developer. Their team is significantly less experienced. In the interests of training, someone suggested, “Perhaps we should buy books for everyone.” Our submitter was handed a stack of possible books, and asked to pick the best one to help the team mature. One book spent some time discussing types, and the conversion between them.
Dell EMC
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
The modern data center never stops. Your infrastructure needs to deliver around the clock, but your staff has limits. If you have followed the IT industry for any length of time, you are familiar with our love of obfuscation. Every discovery must be protected with a code name. Once it’s released to the public, the product name is inevitably shortened to a 3 or 4 letter acronym.
Symantec
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Mack T., PMO Director for Symantec's Consumer Business Unit, shares his observations on the changing attitudes towards Veterans over the years.
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O'Reilly Media - Ideas
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
ML Risk, IGF Session, Feature Engineering, and Solving Snake. Managing Risk in Machine Learning Projects (Ben Lorica) -- Considerations for a world where ML models are becoming mission critical. Transcripts of 2018 IGF -- Internet Governance Forum session transcripts. Featuretools -- open source Python framework for automated feature engineering. Solving Snake -- fun exploration of different algorithms you might use to play the Snake game.
Cloudera
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
We’re excited to release Federated Learning , the latest report and prototype from Cloudera Fast Forward Labs. Federated learning makes it possible to build machine learning systems without direct access to training data. The data remains in its original location, which helps to ensure privacy and reduces communication costs. This article is about the business case for federated learning.
TechTalk
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
November 2018 – Microsoft Patch Tuesday As we head into November, many of us in the U.S. are getting our first taste this year of colder weather. Even here in Texas, temperatures dropped slightly below freezing last night. But cold or hot, rain or shine (or snow), the security update show must go on. […].
Planbox
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
The term, “open innovation,” was coined by Professor Henry Chesbrough. Chesbrough states that open innovation “assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as they look to advance their technology.”. OI differs from traditional internal corporate innovation strategies such as redirecting resources or crowdsourcing ideas.
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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.
Aviatrix
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Security in AWS is governed by a shared responsibility model where both vendor and subscriber have various operational responsibilities. AWS assumes responsibility for the underlying infrastructure, hardware, virtualization layer, facilities, and staff while the subscriber organization – that’s you – is responsible for securing and controlling outbound VPC traffic destined for the Internet.
Net Objectives
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
At a conference years ago Don Reinertsen & I were watching from the back of the room together & sometimes making comments between us about the presentations. At one point it was clear that there was a pattern of “this or that.” Don made a funny observation “these folks have been around 1s & 0s … Continue reading "Stop the binary thinking".
The Cipher Brief
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
This brief is part of The Cipher Brief’s 2018 Annual Threat Report. . Bottom Line: There are three prominent technological security concerns for the United States with a growing Chinese strategic competitor to the east: Beijing’s push toward cyber and electronic warfare, its development of counter-space capabilities that threaten U.S. space infrastructure and the race between the U.S. and China for superiority in artificial intelligence.
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