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5 Challenges While Adopting DevOps and How to Overcome Them

Kovair - DevOps

DevOps, by far, has emerged as common practice for many development companies around the world. The methodology has become famous quickly; thanks to the vast.

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To boost your test automation success, treat it like a business

TechBeacon

Automation is cool. You simply choose the best tool, create test scripts for your smoke test suite and regression test suite, and click the "run" button. Then you get to sit back and watch stuff zip around the screen. The benefit: Testers get to spend time doing exploratory testing or partake in other valuable testing pursuits because their routine testing now takes minutes, right?

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How to Lead When Your Team Can’t See the Obvious

Let's Grow Leaders

It seems so obvious—until it isn’t. Bonaire is a desert island in the south Caribbean that’s known for fantastic coral reefs, flamingos, sea salt production, and donkeys. Coral, flamingos, and salt occur naturally in Bonaire. Donkeys—not so much. In the 1600s Spaniards […]. The post How to Lead When Your Team Can’t See the Obvious appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Truth About Email/Web Security

Symantec

As new threats unfold in 2020, you’ll need both the right strategy and the right set of tools as part of a comprehensive, multi-layered to security

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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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How Java Developers Can Prepare for Apache Spark

Perficient

Java has been the go-to coding language for decades, but as advancements in big data processing continue to emerge, Java developers are forced to learn new skills and explore additional programming languages. That is especially true when developers s.

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How Java Developers Can Prepare for Apache Spark

Perficient

Java has been the go-to coding language for decades, but as advancements in big data processing continue to emerge, Java developers are forced to learn new skills and explore additional programming languages. That is especially true when developers s.

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SIM swapping: Still stupidly simple (so shun SMS)

TechBeacon

Cellular provider employees continue to let criminals steal your phone number, say researchers. That’s despite years of publicity about SIM swapping and port-out attacks.

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How To Determine The Need For Custom Software For Your Organization?

Sunflower Lab

Yash Patel Yash Patel is a co-founder and CTO of Sunflower Lab. A dynamic entrepreneur well versed with the full spectrum of proven business practices and leading-edge technologies, he likes to spend quality time with his family and have fun with friends and colleagues – When he’s free! Unique problem-solving capabilities, he has extensive knowledge and sound experience across multiple business domains and project management disciplines such as resource management, strategy and planning, solutio

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Utilities: Sparking Change in 2020

Beyond B2B

Utilities are the backbone of modern life. Whether it is turning on lights when you flip a switch or getting water when you turn a tap, utilities provide the gateway to health, education, entertainment and security.

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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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Humans not Heroes: Leadership for the 21st Century

CEO Insider

Our workplaces are becoming increasingly dehumanized. This may be, in part, down to a deeply ingrained belief that pressure ignites performance. Many organizations are so focused on rewarding productivity and output that they have become obsessed with profit over people. We are so busy ‘doing’ that many of us have no time to care for […].

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Getting Cloud Smart: Security for Hybrid and Public Federal Clouds

Palo Alto Networks

Cloud first has been the official U.S. federal government strategy since the early 2000s. Since then, agencies have been adopting cloud for many of the same reasons as their commercial counterparts. However, when it comes to securing hybrid and public federal clouds, agencies have historically relied upon an abundance of people and point products. This is problematic at cloud scale – more people and dozens of point products simply do not work. .

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Benefits of Adopting a DevOps Culture

Kovair - DevOps

The word DevOps is a mixture of software development and information-technology operations.

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How conscious companies can thread IoT’s security and privacy needles

The Parallax

Could the secret to building Internet-connected devices that balance utility, safety, security, and privacy reside in the offices of Forcite, an upstart motorcycle helmet maker in Australia? The Forcite MK1 helmet, currently in development in Sydney and expected to ship to its early crowd-funding supporters this March, is the latest attempt to thread the peculiar needle of adding Internet-driven safety features to motorcycle gear. .

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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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Four short links: 17 January 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

cursedfs — Make a disk image formatted with both ext2 and FAT at once. Silliness! cats — Here, placed side-by-side for comparison, are GNU’s implementation of cat, Plan 9’s implementation, Busybox’s implementation, and NetBSD’s implementation, Seventh Edition Unix (1979), Tenth Edition Unix (1989), and 4.3BSD. There’s a lot to learn from the differences!

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Junk-food for the Manager’s Soul

Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

In the second week of my new job, I’m feeling some strong urges. The urge to make a big impact. To be seen as a high-performer. To take action, make big moves, and leave my mark. The urge to impress. But satisfying this urge will bring the opposite of what I really want. To trust my team, and be trusted by them. Because every uninformed would be about just one thing: satisfying my needs.

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Software Supply Chain Attacks: How to Disrupt Attackers

DevOps.com

Supply chain attacks—compromising an organization via insecure components in its software supply chain—are a growing concern for organizations. Throughout the past three years, an increasing number of open source software package repositories have been found to contain malware, making it clear that all installation and update pathways for software and library code must have security […].

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Behind the Broadcom-Accenture Deal of Cyber Security Services (CSS)

Symantec

Focusing on the Future

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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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Is A Career In Education The Right Choice For You?

Strategy Driven

If you are thinking about making a career change then you might consider whether you should explore the education sector. There are lots of benefits to this career path. For instance, you will be able to impart what could be a vast level of knowledge onto the younger generation. Alternatively, you might be keen to embrace those long summer holidays where you will be able to start your vacation early and finish later.

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K-12 HR Leader Tips for Better Collaboration & Succession Planning – Part 2: HR & Curriculum

PowerSchool

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7 Effective Strategies for Managing Customer Data

Strategy Driven

Data is one of the most valuable assets in any organization. Product development, marketing, and pricing, among others, are all influenced by the data the business has. With this, to effectively manage customer data and extract the most value out of it, take note of the strategies listed in this article. Use a Customer Data Platform. A customer data platform or CDP is one of the most important tools for organizations.

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Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: Elasticity, Fault Tolerance, and Other Advanced Concepts

Confluent

Now that we’ve learned about the processing layer of Apache Kafka® by looking at streams and tables, as well as the architecture of distributed processing with the Kafka Streams API […].

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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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Employee Spotlight: Mark Richman

Linux Academy

Mark Richman, AWS Training Architect. “Taking courses is great, doing Hands-On Labs is even better. But the best thing you can do is build something for someone else to use.” If you’re here to fully understand Mark Richman in his entirety, you’re going to need to keep digging. Just as he’s spent his life building, engineering, and wrestling with what is presented to him, so too does he easily maneuver more invasive questioning.

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Che: A Revolutionary IDE for the Mainframe

DevOps.com

Tools such as the green screens of ISPF and the Eclipse desktop IDE, enhanced with proprietary plug-ins, have served mainframe application developers well over the years and, for those comfortable with them, will continue to do so. However, changes in the broader world of development are creating the conditions for a revolution in mainframe tooling. […].

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U.S. Healthcare Data Breach Cost $4 Billion in 2019. 2020 Won’t Be Any Better

CTOvision

Read why George V. Hulme says that healthcare data breach could be worse in 2020 than in 2019 on Security Boulevard : New research estimates, after all the breach data, is tallied, that by the end of 2019, healthcare-related data breaches will cost the industry $4 billion, and respondents to a recent survey expect those […].

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Write Once, Deploy Everywhere: When to Go Native?

Toptal

Writing multiple native applications for different mobile platforms can be a daunting task, but taking a non-native approach comes with pitfalls of its own. In this article, Toptal Mobile Developer Joel Frank outlines the concept of Write Once, Deploy Everywhere (WODE) and explains how to choose the right development path for your project.

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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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AI is Broadening its Reach in Healthcare

DataRobot

AI has made great impacts on organizations across all industries and around the world. As AI adoption increases, more use cases are beginning to emerge, especially within the healthcare industry. Looking over the past decade, we can see how many healthcare organizations have been transformed with regard to the way they use data. And, as healthcare groups continue to leverage AI throughout their teams and departments, they’ll need to focus on monitoring and management to prevent misuse and ensure

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LaunchDarkly Raises $54 Million for Rapid Expansion of Feature Management Platform

DevOps.com

Oakland, Calif – January 16, 2020 – LaunchDarkly, the feature management platform software teams use to build better software faster, announced today $54 million in additional funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners from their Century Fund for growth-stage companies, with participation from Threshold Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Uncork Capital, Vertex Ventures and Bloomberg Beta.

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Cyber attackers turn to business disruption as primary attack objective

CTOvision

Over the course of 2019, 36% of the incidents that CrowdStrike investigated were most often caused by ransomware, destructive malware or denial of service attacks, revealing that business disruption was often the main attack objective of cybercriminals. Another notable finding in the new CrowdStrike Services Report shows a large increase in dwell time to an […].

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