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The Changing Role of APM in a Microservices World

DevOps.com

Microservices usage has skyrocketed. Fully 91 percent of organizations are using or have plans to use microservices and 92 percent expect to grow their use of microservices in the coming year. It is no longer if but when: 86 percent of organizations expect microservices to be the default within five years. With the growing use […]. The post The Changing Role of APM in a Microservices World appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Agile Q&A: What Do Business Analysts Do on an Agile Team?

Agile Alliance

I have the opportunity to talk to business analysts quite a bit, and the conversation usually turns to the topic of Agile. More often than not, the question that comes up is “there isn’t a business analyst role mentioned in Scrum. Does that mean that there is no place for business analysts?” The short answer … Continued.

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My Internship at HackerEarth

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Work Environment: I have always dreamt of working for an organization where loads of responsibilities are placed on their employees. And HackerEarth does just that! Obviously, you get hired because of your skills, but founders and managers expect much more. Opportunities for learning and growth are plenty, as often, you work outside your job description.

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How to Help Your Team Recover After a Downsizing

Let's Grow Leaders

Being a manager in the midst of downsizing is hard enough. There’s the initial shock, the communication, the “I wonder if I’m impacted too” angst, and of course, the really painful decisions involved in selecting who will go. What’s equally difficult is […]. The post How to Help Your Team Recover After a Downsizing appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Is Your Organization ‘Fit for the Future’?

DevOps.com

Takeaways from a recent conference suggest more work is needed in DevOps adoption among organizations This was a question explored by CIO Platform Nederland and the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) in a recent event I attended, hosted by Transavia. Many organizations have already embarked or are about to embark upon Agile transformation initiatives, driven […].

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Artificial Intelligence Has A Problem With Bias, Here’s How To Tackle It

CTOvision

Read Bernard Marr explain how we can tackle the inherent bias that artificial intelligence has on Forbes : One of the problems in society that AI decision-making was meant to solve, was bias. After all, aren’t computers less likely to have inherent views on, for example, race, gender, and sexuality? Well, that was true back in the […].

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Evolution of 5G and the Impact on Data Center Infrastructure

Digital Realty

As the future of 5G gets closer and closer to becoming a reality, we’re standing at the precipice of entering the next technological revolution just over a decade after the last one.

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The state of AI in 2019

CTOvision

Read the state of artificial intelligence in 2019 according to James Vincent of Verge : It’s a common psychological phenomenon: repeat any word enough times, and it eventually loses all meaning, disintegrating like soggy tissue into phonetic nothingness. For many of us, the phrase “artificial intelligence” fell apart in this way a long time ago. […].

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What Kind of DevOps Software Does Your Business Need?

Flexagon

DevOps is a rapidly-growing approach to software management, development, and release. Adoption has nearly doubled year-over-year from 2017 to 2018 and Google searches for “DevOps” has more than quadrupled in the last five years. As more companies start researching and implementing DevOps, there’s an increasing focus on the software and tools needed to enable the.

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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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Big Data 2019: Cloud redefines the database and Machine Learning runs it

CTOvision

Read why Tony Baer says that machine learning will redefine how companies use big data on ZDNet : In the predictions game, it’s time for us to bat clean-up once more. Following Big on Data bro Andrew Brust’s roundup of AI-related predictions from a cross section of industry executives, now it’s our turn. We’ll focus […].

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How companies are building sustainable AI and ML initiatives

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A recent survey investigated how companies are approaching their AI and ML practices, and measured the sophistication of their efforts. In 2017, we published “ How Companies Are Putting AI to Work Through Deep Learning ,” a report based on a survey we ran aiming to help leaders better understand how organizations are applying AI through deep learning.

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IT leaders grapple with workforce skills gap as they deploy AI and digital technology

CTOvision

CIOs and leaders in digital technology are predicting significant growth in their use of artificial intelligence (AI), automation and the internet of things (IoT) in their businesses over the next two years. But they face challenges scaling the technology across their organizations as they grapple with a workforce and university and school leavers who lack the […].

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Containers Training Courses | New January Releases

Linux Academy

Containers allow you to package your code, helping you and your team move fast, deploy software efficiently, and operate at an unprecedented scale. Get your team on the path to faster cloud transformation through containers! Our courses come with engaging features like interactive diagrams, hands-on labs in live cloud environments, customizable flashcards, study groups, direct access to our expert Training Architects, downloadable course videos, and more.

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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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Amazon Web Services continues open-source push with code behind SageMaker Neo

CTOvision

Amazon Web Services has decided to release the code behind one of its key machine-learning services as an open-source project, as it continues to push back against critics who find its relationship with open-source software out of balance. SageMaker Neo, which lets customers run machine-learning training models across multiple operating environments, was introduced last November at […].

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New Hands-On Training Content Releases | January 2019 Recap

Linux Academy

Thanks for starting off 2019 with us as we released so many new hands-on training content featuring high-quality Courses, Hands-On Labs, and Interactive Diagrams! We put our students’ futures first and create our training content based on what they want to learn. We’re proud to deliver training that’s focused on our students’ success. Check out what we launched in January and let us know which Course you’re taking first with #ReleaseTheTraining!

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DevOps trends to watch: Teams, value streams and 'NewOps'

TechBeacon

Most IT and business leaders understand that DevOps done right can help them improve profitability and market responsiveness. But many are still trying out to figure out how to scale DevOps pilots across organizations.

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Why TypeScript is a better option than JavaScript when it comes to functional programming?

Wolk Software Engineering

In this post, I would like to discuss the importance of static types in functional programming languages and why TypeScript is a better option than JavaScript when it comes to functional programming due to the lack of a static type system in JavaScript. Life without types in a functional programming code base. Please try to put your mind on a hypothetical situation so we can showcase the value of static types.

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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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Coding with Confidence – CloudBees + Honeycomb

Honeycomb

DevOps, Observability, Continuous Delivery, Test in Production, Chaos Engineering, and Software Ownership are all major themes in software development today, but why? In an ideal world, we get everything right the first time, nothing breaks, no one DDOS’ us, and the weather report is “ Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.” Reality of course is different – and better, to be honest.

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Why bosses should allow more schedule flexibility

Apiumhub

Two of the biggest reasons people disengage at work are a) policies with arbitrary and often antiquated, strict and unnecessarily punitive time requirements and b) micro-management. A current workplace trend towards greater schedule flexibility in how, and where, and when work gets one, is gaining in popularity. While some jobs, such as customer-facing front-line workers in the foodservice industry have legitimate reasons for strict time management, there are dozens of examples of the benefits t

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The best predictive analytics and machine-learning conferences of 2019

TechBeacon

The great shift that has transformed application development has begun remolding IT operations. To keep pace with digital transformation, IT Ops is changing how it manages its ecosystem, turning to artificial intelligence (AI), analytics, and machine learning.

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What’s Free At Linux Academy February 2019

Linux Academy

We support others in their mission to learn and grow and are adding new ways for our students to learn what they need to succeed. By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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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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FlexDeploy Loves Oracle E-Business Suite: Series Overview

Flexagon

In 2019, DevOps is not just some passing trend. IT organizations are buying in because they are asked to manage an increasing number of business applications in complex heterogeneous environments. As the breadth and complexity rises, the demand for innovation and the ability to execute faster is escalating. DevOps provides a platform for IT staff.

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Extending Zero Trust into IaaS

Edgewise

Any organization making use of cloud resources knows that shared responsibility is the name of the game when it comes to security. Both Amazon’s Shared Responsibility Model and Microsoft’s “ Shared Responsibilities for Cloud Computing ” are fairly explicit that the service provider and the customer have a role to play in ensuring assets are protected.

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How to Choose and Integrate Payment Gateway: Online Payments, Transaction Processing, and Payment Gateways Providers

Altexsoft

Whether you are an eCommerce platform owner or just maintaining your online presence, you want to offer your customers a safe, quick, and easy-to-use payment system. The chosen payment solution has to satisfy both the needs of your customers and your business. So, it has to be protected from fraud , support a variety of payment methods, be convenient to use, and compatible with your platform.

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Moving Beyond Traditional EDR

Symantec

New times and new threats require a new approach in the way that organizations respond to threats

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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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Developing team member skills

Lead on Purpose

As you progress on the journey of building great teams, you create the vision, build a strong foundation of trust and motivate your team to reach beyond what they thought they were capable of doing.

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Win on Test Day with K-12 Predictive Analytics

PowerSchool

Imagine knowing months before test day that your students will excel on state assessments. Advanced insight enables educators to validate teaching practices during the school year and adjust in time to benefit current students. Predictive analytics makes this kind of valuable foresight your K-12 district’s daily reality. Using the vast data already collected by many districts, modeling sheds light on the most effective educational approach to take with each individual student, answering question

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Unlock Business Value with Workday Prism Analytics

Accenture

Accenture’s Colin Anderson shares how to create operational excellence and drive better business decisions with Workday Prism Analytics. Read his blog.