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3 Ways the Threat Landscape Is Changing

Palo Alto Networks

Recent innovations in how we work (including AI and ML technologies) are spurring rapid transformation in the world of cybersecurity. Our new e-book, Secure From Every Angle, details the latest trends in cybersecurity and how organizations can stay ahead. Cybersecurity has always been a cat-and-mouse game. Malicious actors persistently discover new methods to target and exploit organizations, while defenders continuously innovate to counteract and address these threats.

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Inside Walmart’s generative AI journey

CIO

“Our people make the difference” — a common catchphrase of Walmart founder Sam Walton — still guides the company’s path forward as it ventures into the future with generative AI. The multinational retail company positions itself as a “people-led, tech-powered” one, and sitting squarely at that intersection is generative AI, the power of which most leaders believe is fully realized when the strengths of people and technology are combined.

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Retrieving files from AWS Glue Job Bookmarks

Xebia

AWS Glue is a service to implement ETL pipelines that can process large amounts of data. Glue has a feature called job bookmarks that keep track of which data is already processed and which data still needs to be processed by a job. For example, in the case of an S3 bucket as a data source, it keeps a list of what files are processed to prevent the re-processing of unchanged data in a bucket.

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5 modern challenges in data integration and how CIOs can overcome them

CIO

By the time you finish reading this post, an additional 27.3 million terabytes of data will be generated by humans over the web and across devices. That’s just one of the many ways to define the uncontrollable volume of data and the challenge it poses for enterprises if they don’t adhere to advanced integration tech. As well as why data in silos is a threat that demands a separate discussion.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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AWS Glue ETL Pipeline Tips

Xebia

AWS Glue is a service to implement ETL pipelines that can process large amounts of data. Glue has a feature called job bookmarks that keep track of which data is already processed and which data still needs to be processed by a job. For example, in the case of an S3 bucket as a data source, it keeps a list of what files are processed to prevent the re-processing of unchanged data in a bucket.

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It’s Time to Rethink Traditional Career Trajectories

Harvard Business Review

As a society, we are gradually beginning to reframe the midlife crisis — and indeed any life transition — as a period of transformation and rebirth. Crisis then becomes chrysalis, where the best is yet to come. Applying this lens to our careers can yield insights and new opportunities, especially when the world seems upside-down. The ability to see unexpected and unwanted change from a place of hope rather than fear, and as an opportunity to learn and grow rather than to resist or deny, is calle

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Introducing the Netlify Composable Web Platform

Netlify

Announcing the Netlify Composable Web Platform — the foundation for companies looking to modernize their web architecture to ship faster, reduce risk, and drive higher revenue.

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What to Do If You Feel Like You’ve Lost Your Intuition

Harvard Business Review

It can be disconcerting to feel that your intuition isn’t working the way it should. What happens when, as a leader, you feel your intuition is suddenly failing you? In this article, the authors outline five strategies to help you get back in touch with your gut instinct: 1) Lean on your team. 2) Create space in your day to be quiet and reflect. 3) Stop multitasking. 4) Practice small decisions. 5) Don’t worry about perfection.

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Exploited SSH Servers Offered in the Dark web as Proxy Pools

Aqua Security

Aqua Nautilus researchers have shed brighter light on a long-standing threat to SSH in the context of the cloud. More specifically, the threat actor harnessed our SSH server to be a slave proxy and pass traffic through it. In this blog, we will explain this threat, demonstrate how attackers exploit SSH, what actions they take upon gaining initial access, and the implications of these attacks on organizations and businesses.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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3 Ways to Successfully Manage Large-Scale R&D Projects

Harvard Business Review

Managing extended R&D projects comes with its unique challenges, with even the popular agile method struggling in such contexts. Drawing from a recent significant build at Lattice, an HR software startup, three key factors emerge as essential for success in managing large projects. First, securing executive commitment ensures risk acceptance and a flexible budgeting approach.

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New Citus Technical README for distributed PostgreSQL

The Citus Data

Want to dive right in? Check out this brand new Citus Technical README on our GitHub repo for the open source Citus database extension. This README is a bit of a deep dive into the Citus concepts, the use cases and design principles, how Citus uses the PostgreSQL extension hooks to distribute Postgres, and more. Who should check out this new Citus Technical Readme?

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Survey Surfaces Benefits of Applying AI to FinOps

DevOps.com

Organizations that have infused AI into FinOps workflows to reduce IT costs are 53% more likely to report cost savings of more than 20%.

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To Sell an Unconventional Product, Tell a Compelling Story

Harvard Business Review

Selling original or quirky products is often an uphill battle. But research that involved an analysis of quirky products sold by some 7,000 craft entrepreneurs on Etsy suggests that effective storytelling that helps people relate to such offerings can turn them into successes. This article shares three storytelling techniques that work.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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Fine-Tuning Creativity with Precision AI-Ready Workstations

Dell EMC

Generative AI is reshaping tech and fine-tuning on workstations is the buzz among creators and developers.

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Netlify Unfurls Composable Jamstack Framework for Web Apps

DevOps.com

Netlify today launched a composable framework that promises to make it simpler to build web applications spanning multiple backend services.

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The State of Kubernetes: Self-Managed vs. Managed Platforms

Dzone - DevOps

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Kubernetes in the Enterprise Trend Report. For more: Read the Report Kubernetes celebrates its ninth year since the initial release this year, a significant milestone for a project that has revolutionized the container orchestration space. During the time span, Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for managing containers at scale.

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Preparing for the Shift to Platform Engineering

DevOps.com

Organizations must proactively navigate newly emerging trends within platform engineering to remain competitive.

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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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Why Avatars Are A Game-Changing Innovation Strategy

Planbox

This article originally appeared on Forbes. Innovation is more than a checklist. It’s a vibrant journey, bursting with collaboration, strokes of genius and a collage of viewpoints. If you’re itching to sprinkle something fresh into this mix, it’s time to bring in the wild card: avatars. They’re more than a mere digital face swap; using avatars turbocharges your online personas.

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Multi-Tenant Database Strategies for Mixed Workloads and Real-Time SLAs

DevOps.com

Multi-tenancy is not a new concept. As more applications demand more data, multi-tenancy is now a core function at the database layer.

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Meet Dell’s Newest Workstation, Featuring 96 Cores

Dell EMC

New Precision powers GenAI workloads with AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO.

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How to Build a Data Platform for Self-Service, Ad-Hoc Analytics

DevOps.com

To fulfill the promise of self-service, ad-hoc data analytics across huge datasets, teams need to work in real-time. Apache Druid can help.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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Which form of recognition do you find the most valuable?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: Which form of recognition do you find the most valuable? Praise in front of a group 16.85% A personal one-on-one thank you 32.63% A handwritten thank you note 13.64% Cold, hard cash 25.93% Additional time off 5.88% A personalized gift 2.13% Something else 2.94% Make it personal or pony up. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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Fixing Issues from Code to Cloud in One Place

Prisma Clud

Having pivoted away from traditional monolithic application models, today’s DevOps teams routinely leverage technologies like containers and serverless architectures to build microservices-based applications distributed across vast ecosystems. Following up on our recent blog post where we touched on code-to-cloud remediation as part of new features in the Prisma Cloud Darwin release , we'd like to delve deeper into remediation.

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CVE-2023-3823: Overview and Mitigation Steps for PHP Applications

Zend

CVE-2023-3823 is a high severity vulnerability that relates to the use of libxml in PHP-based applications. Get an overview of the libxml vulnerability — and how to mitigate it — in this blog.

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Analysts: Use Dataiku to Minimize Friction in Your Work

Dataiku

At Dataiku, we talk a lot about how analytics and IT leaders can remove friction from their MLOps processes in order to save ML engineers’ time, increase efficiency, and avoid duplicate work. But it’s not just these stakeholders that have friction points that lead to lost time, lower levels of efficiency, or a lack of reusability.

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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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CISA and NSA Release Top 10 Cybersecurity Misconfigurations: How Tenable Can Help

Tenable

The NSA and CISA have released a joint cybersecurity advisory discussing the top 10 most common cybersecurity misconfigurations, and outlining ways to mitigate them. Read this blog to learn more and see how Tenable technologies can help discover, prevent and remediate these misconfigurations. Background On October 5, 2023 the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) published a joint cybersecurity advisory to highlight the most common cyberse

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Error'd: Self Driving Level NaN

The Daily WTF

This week, Harry Altman teaches us how to make sure that autoautomobiles don't crash into your house. It's not immediately obvious, and the answer to the puzzle borders on philosophical. But first, an anonymous reader wrote "I found this in a practice exam for an Azure Certification, !(Azure Service Bus) story." I believe him. Lorem ipsumwise, Jan concluded "I guess this is what you don't call breaking but already broken news?

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Allstacks | Release Roundup September-October 2023

Allstacks

Fall is in full swing and we’re excited to share what the team has been working on over the past few weeks. Updates include the option to create custom, auto-syncing dashboard templates, create custom portfolio columns, and the ability to filter dashboards by both people and tags. We’ve also shipped several brand new features in beta that you can take advantage of by speaking with your account team to request access.

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