Wed.Aug 28, 2019

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Organizational Open Space for Unleashing Innovation

Agile Alliance

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Agile QA at Scale: Software Testing Strategies for Enterprise Teams

DevOps.com

Change is hard; it’s a universal truth not many people would disagree with. When you’re forcing (or strongly encouraging) change in a group of people, it’s especially hard. Even if that group is small, there’s bound to be miscommunication, disagreement and other friction points that make the change hard to implement. Now, multiply those difficulties […].

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Want secure code by default? Minimize your framework's risky parts

TechBeacon

It's tiring when you have to constantly remind developers to follow secure practices, and this often burns out security teams. Developers just want to get the job done, so they often write insecure code that just works.

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Top 3 Takeaways from the State of DevOps 2019 Report

LaunchDarkly

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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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The Elite Future Leader of 2030: An Insight into the New Leadership DNA

CEO Insider

The Financial Services Environment: The leadership skills and managerial practices of many financial services professionals have been subject to ever-increasing levels of scrutiny, rules and a demand for a shift in approach, ever since the global financial crisis took place more than a decade ago. During the past two years, however, the convergence of a […].

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3 frameworks that make UI testing more resilient

TechBeacon

One of the biggest problems with test automation on any platform or operating system is synchronizing test automation interactions with the user interface (UI). It's challenging to know when the UI is ready for the next automated click.

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Monitoring Jenkins Using Instana

Dzone - DevOps

What is Jenkins? From the Jenkins website : "Jenkins is a self-contained, open-source automation server which can be used to automate all sorts of tasks related to building, testing, and delivering or deploying software." Jenkins is a popular automated Continuous Integration (CI) tool that helps facilitate Continuous Deployment (CD) although it does not perform the deployment action natively ( see Kubernetes ).

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Shift-Left Testing, Continuous Integration and the Mainframe

DevOps.com

“Mainframe” is one of the oldest terms in tech. “Shift-left” is much newer. You may not think, then, that mainframes and shift-left testing have much in common. But you’d be wrong. Shifting testing to the left can deliver tremendous benefits, even in the context of mainframe applications. Let us explain. What Is Shift-Left Testing? Shift-left […].

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DevSecOps for a Dollar or Less

Dzone - DevOps

Anyone who grew up with siblings knows the phrase, "There is a wall here!!!!!" Of course, there wasn't a physical wall, but an imaginary border that separated you and protected your space. In software development, walls aren't helpful. We don't need to protect our space (although sometimes we might feel like it). We need to break down the walls.

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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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SparkPost Introduces New Recipient Validation Capabilities for Improved Email Deliverability

DevOps.com

SparkPost protects email sending reputation by automatically culling bad addresses SAN FRANCISCO, August 27, 2019 – SparkPost (www.sparkpost.com), the #1 email delivery and analytics service, today announced the next generation of its SparkPost Recipient Validation service, its email validation solution that uses sending data from its footprint of trillions of emails.

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How to Maximize the Value of Streaming Telemetry for Network Monitoring and Analytics

Kentik

Streaming telemetry is no longer an unfamiliar term in the network monitoring realm. In fact, interest in streaming telemetry is increasing over recent years, while SNMP (Simple Network Management Protoco) is falling, according to Google Trends: What is Streaming Telemetry? Streaming telemetry, also called streaming network telemetry, aims to modernize the collection of network and device metrics to keep up with the scale of next-generation networks, and provide new ways to access the huge varie

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Software Delivery Management is a Game Changer!

DevOps.com

Editor’s Note: This article is a first in a series of blogs about Software Delivery Management written by Shawn Ahmed, vice president of product marketing. We truly live in exciting times … software has transformed every part of our existence. I remember the world just 20-30 years ago it seems so analog compared to now. The pace of […]. The post Software Delivery Management is a Game Changer!

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Episode 69: Teaching and Learning with Sandi Metz

TXI

Teaching and Learning with Sandi Metz Guest Sandi Metz:: Author of Practical Object-Oriented Development in Ruby and 99 Bottles of OOP. sandimetz.com Summary Today on the show we have Sandi Metz, author of Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby and co-author of 99 bottles of OOP. I’ve literally been trying to get Sandi as a […]. The post Episode 69: Teaching and Learning with Sandi Metz appeared first on Table XI.

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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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The Benefits of Software Delivery Management

DevOps.com

Editor’s Note: This blog post is the second in a series about Software Delivery Management written by Shawn Ahmed, vice president of product marketing. In a prior job as an engineering manager, I spent a lot of time identifying and trying to remove bottlenecks and inefficiencies that got in the way of value delivery. I wanted […]. The post The Benefits of Software Delivery Management appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Episode 5: How to use Improv to boost creativity at work with Jessie Shternshus

TXI

How to use Improv to boost creativity at work with Jessie Shternshus Guest Jessie Shternshus: Founder and Owner of the Improv Effect. Summary In the Inclusion Meeting Card deck, the Angel's Advocate card is a role that is given to a person who uses it to encourage other ideas in the meeting. In the spirit […]. The post Episode 5: How to use Improv to boost creativity at work with Jessie Shternshus appeared first on Table XI.

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How Often Do You Update Your Data Connections?

Actian

Modern IT environments have many connections between individual systems. Operational workflows, application-to-database links, data warehouse feeds, analytics/reporting tools and published APIs are just some examples of these data connections. They’re required to enable data to flow smoothly throughout your organization to drive business process effectiveness and informed decision-making.

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The Story Behind Software Delivery Management

DevOps.com

Software Delivery Management is finally here and we’re all part of making history to launch CloudBees into this emerging category. I know each keynote during a conference is important, but sitting in the audience during DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 in San Francisco was truly a defining and pivotal moment for our company. Shawn Ahmed, […].

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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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Survey’s surprise finding: Only half of organizations believe they can stop cyber attacks

DXC

If they are being honest with you, any CISO will tell you that they are well aware of the fact that their organization can be breached. None, at least none that I know, would contend that they are impenetrable when it comes to cyber-attack. Not with a straight face, anyway. But how many of those […].

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After Persistent Cyber Engagement Comes Gates, Guards and Guns

The Cipher Brief

This unique national-security focused expert insight can’t be generated for free. We invite you to support this kind of quality content by becoming a Cipher Brief Level I Member. Joining this high-level, security-focused community is only $10/month (for an annual $120/yr membership). It’s a great and inexpensive way to stay ahead of the national and global security issues that impact you the most.

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The Essential IT Asset Management Checklist

Samanage

As one of the 34 practices outlined in ITIL 4, IT asset management (ITAM) is one of the most practical undertakings your IT department can carry out this year. While asset management involves simply taking inventory of hardware and software assets and using this data to help make decisions, it can seem like a daunting task if this is a new or evolving task for your IT department.

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Is Data the New Crude Oil?

Dell EMC

Let’s drill down into the metaphor. Moor Insights & Strategy argues that an optimally tuned infrastructure is key to deriving all the rich benefits that go along with effective data management and analytics. They claim that data is the new crude oil and intelligence is the new gasoline, fueling business wins. If we break down this metaphor, it becomes clear that servers play a pivotal role in data management and analytics.

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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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CIOs Start To Become Leaders In Their Firms

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to get ready to be leaders when it comes to big challenges Image Credit: Rvs1966. The role of the CIO in the company has been an ever evolving position. The people with the CIO job first started out as simply being caretakers for the IT equipment that the company had purchased because of the importance of information technology. This role evolved into more of a strategic partner role for the person in the CIO position who was called on to help the company do a better job of being compe

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3 Ways To Harm Your Online Marketing Campaign Before It Gets Going

Strategy Driven

It’s often seen that social media marketing opens up a massive amount of marketing potential. That is true to an extent. Now customers potentially hold your miniature-billboard in their pockets, and throughout many social media timelines may see the product you are offering. However, while this sounds easy, it’s important to understand what you are now competing against.

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How HackerEarth helped Siemens Technology evaluate candidates using cut off scores

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

One of our privileged customers, Siemens Technology, had a request for a feature to be implemented on HackerEarth. The team at Siemens Technology wanted a robust mechanism to quickly screen candidates based on assessments. This led to the creation of the recommended cut-off scores feature in HackerEarth Assessment. . The problem . In employment testing, cut-off scores are used to filter candidates who did not earn the required score on a specific test to be considered proficient.

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Why Online Tutoring Is the New Effective Way to Make Money at Home

Strategy Driven

When we think of someone working two jobs, we often picture people working in retail or the food service industry, or someone who is trying to break into acting and doing another job on the side. While these are all real-world examples, the reality of job juggling is a lot different than we assume. In fact, in the US there are about 13 million double-job holders that are working multiple jobs to make ends meet.

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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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How HackerEarth helped Siemens Technology evaluate candidates using cut off scores

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

One of our privileged customers, Siemens Technology, had a request for a feature to be implemented on HackerEarth. The team at Siemens Technology wanted a robust mechanism to quickly screen candidates based on assessments. This led to the creation of the recommended cut-off scores feature in HackerEarth Assessment. . The problem . In employment testing, cut-off scores are used to filter candidates who did not earn the required score on a specific test to be considered proficient.

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Eastern Europe becomes the pioneer for woman in tech

InfoBest

While women are woefully under-represented in most tech industries across the US and Western Europe, Romania and Bulgaria have become a pioneer in gender equality. But what makes these former communist countries the leading model for gender equality in the worldwide tech industry? Let’s take a dive into the Romanian tech culture in order to understand how this country managed to become a pioneer for woman in technology roles.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Generate Corporate Strategy?

CTOvision

Read Daniel Shapiro explain how you can automate your corporate strategy using artificial intelligence on Forbes : In this article, I’m going to tell you about automating corporate strategies using artificial intelligence, and look at some recent progress in automatically generating strategies in the face of uncertainty. Every day, progress in artificial intelligence is addressing tasks […].