Wed.Jan 08, 2020

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Avoid These Common Pitfalls When Transitioning to CI/CD

Dzone - DevOps

Avoid these mistakes! If you have attended an industry event or conference lately, the talk inevitably drifts to development approaches. One thing you hear about a fair amount is the difficulties in the adoption of automated testing, continuous integration, continuous delivery CI/CD pipeline, agile testing, DevOps, test automation, behavior-driven development, and continuous testing among others.

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API Security in DevOps: Are We Too Comfortable?

DevOps.com

Postman performed its annual survey of developers, and as this survey and many other surveys have shown, developers are generally comfortable with the level of API security that their organization has implemented. This has been a consistent trend, with most developers being comfortable that they are protected. The problem is most organizations also put API […].

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Three Predictions for Cloud Native Platforms for 2020

Daniel Bryant

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE OF CLOUD Adopting GitOps, edge stacks, multi-cloud Adopting GitOps, Kubernetes edge stack, and multi-cloud It is the time of the year when everyone starts to make predictions. At Datawire, we have recently been very focused on the early access launch of the Ambassador Edge Stack , and also presenting several sessions at KubeCon in San Diego , but we were keen to take some time out to reflect on the key trends we see emerging within the cloud native space over the next twelv

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The state of IT operations: 10 trends to watch

TechBeacon

Information technology departments are evolving beyond just managing hardware and software and "keeping the lights on." IT decisions can have a significant impact across the business, affecting customers, employees, and even company culture. That's why IT pros need to keep pace with developing trends.

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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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Imperva Taps Infor COO Pam Murphy As New CEO After Data Breach

CTOvision

Imperva has named longtime Infor COO Pam Murphy to be its next CEO following a data breach and the sudden resignation of the company’s previous top executive. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based cybersecurity vendor said Murphy will replace Charles Goodman, who had served as Imperva’s interim CEO since October after ex-CEO Chris Hylen abruptly stepped down in […].

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DHS Warns of Potential Iranian Cyberattacks

CTOvision

Concerns about an Iranian cyber response to the recent American military strike in Baghdad grew this week with the US Department of Homeland Security urging organizations to be on heightened alert for denial-of-service and other more destructive attacks. In an alert Monday, the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned US organizations about Iran’s […].

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Infobesity

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 2 minutes Infobesity. The New Millennial sickness . We are all sick, sick because of infobesity; a new term that every millennial can identify with. But, can we get a cure? or are we going to get absorbed by the selfish-consumerism stereotype we have been classified on and do nothing about it? . In this blog post, I would like to share with you this new term that just blew my mind a few weeks ago when I was listening to a podcast of one of my favorite speakers, Rodrigo Chavez. .

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Unleashing Social Super Powers – Can I train my brain to be better at using System 2?

Xebia

Let me start with a short recap of my previous post. The reason we got to this point. I talked about the difference between being a true expert and relying on expert intuition. Sharing the struggles of a millennial social scientist that often gets asked if we can train our brain to be better at […]. The post Unleashing Social Super Powers – Can I train my brain to be better at using System 2?

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Role and Responsibilities of a DevOps Engineer

Kovair - DevOps

Who is a DevOps engineer? DevOps is a concept that helps to combine two important teams the software development and IT operations in software engineering.

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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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CVE-2019-17026: Zero-Day Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox Exploited in Targeted Attacks

Tenable

Mozilla releases patch to address Firefox flaw being used as part of targeted attacks. Background. On January 8, Mozilla Foundation released a security advisory to address a critical zero-day flaw in Mozilla Firefox, which has been exploited in targeted attacks. Analysis. CVE-2019-17026 is a type confusion vulnerability in IonMonkey , the JavaScript Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler for SpiderMonkey , Mozilla’s JavaScript engine.

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Your Security Strategy Should Scale and Evolve Alongside Your Business

CTOvision

Read Joseph Steinberg list some cybersecurity best practices infosec pros can integrate into their security strategy as their organizations develop on Security Intelligence : Cybersecurity is important to businesses of all sizes, and many of the information security issues that mom-and-pop shops face also challenge larger enterprises. However, the finer details of security strategy and […].

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How to Find and Connect with Your Fans

Next Level Blog

Life is better when you have fans – people who know and appreciate you, support you and can’t wait to see what you do next. It doesn’t matter if you’re not a rock star, Instagram influencer or a professional athlete. All of us need fans. Fanocracy. In a recent conversation with David Meerman Scott , co-author of the new book, Fanocracy: Turning Fans into Customers and Customers into Fans , I learned a lot about how to find and connect with your fans.

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Privileged Account Compromise and Insider Threat Detection

CTOvision

Read Kevin Franks explain what is privileged account compromise and how to detect insider threat on Security Boulevard : Making sure that the right people have the right access to systems and applications is one of the best ways to secure corporate data. That’s Identity and Access Management (IAM). A lot of security budget dollars […].

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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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CIOs Need To Get Ready For Continuously Learning Models

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to prepare for a world where models run everything Image Credit: Bander AlMutlaq. If you are the person with the CIO job, the rest of the company is looking at you for help in making your company more competitive. What this means is that the company needs to always be improving how they do things – they need to become quicker, better, and faster.

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Three Ways To Bridge The Cybersecurity Talent Gap

CTOvision

Read Francis Dinha list three ways to bridge the cybersecurity talent gap on Forbes : Cybersecurity is always changing. There are constantly new threats, new risks and new vulnerabilities. That’s part of why it’s so essential to hire talented cybersecurity experts: Your team has to keep up with the new innovations bad actors are developing […].

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4 Trends that Will Revolutionize Data Management & Analytics

Teradata

Kevin Lewis offers his predictions for the data management and analytic trends that will accelerate in 2020. Read more!

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Microservices Are (Not) the New Black!

Dzone - DevOps

Find out why microservices are not all they seem. The ultimate purpose of this article is to make people break out of the bubble surrounding microservices' adoption and their supposedly instantaneous healing effects for our legacy applications.

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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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3 Key Principles of Good Test Design

CodeSignal

This blog post is based on the twenty-fourth episode of the data-driven recruiting podcast hosted by CodeSignal co-founders Sophia Baik and Tigran Sloyan. You can find and listen to this specific episode here or check out the video version embedded below. Building a high-quality test is a tug of war – on the one hand you want to assess skills in a real way, on the other hand you have to deliver a great candidate experience.

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Delight the people who matter to your business

Capgemini

Corporate success was long defined by building the best product and getting the best price for it. Achievement meant focusing on what your company can do. But that is no longer our world. Companies must now market to people who are more demanding, which means prioritizing lifetime value over any individual transaction. That is one fundamental change.

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KitelyTech Proud to be Named on Clutch 1000

KitelyTech

Here at KitelyTech, we know it can be hard to cultivate an innovative small business culture while also producing high quality software solutions for the convenience of your staff and clients. That’s why we’re dedicated to helping your company succeed with state-of-the-art development technologies. In recognition of our continued success, we’ve been named a top custom software development partner by Clutch, an independent third-party review platform, and earned ourselves a spot on the Clutch 100

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Manufacturers must produce more affordable cars. Technology will help them do that.

Capgemini

Automakers need to strengthen their economic competitiveness. In recent months, news of layoffs at General Motors , Ford , Jaguar Land Rover , Nissan , and even Tesla have underscored that the industry needs to restructure the way it builds vehicles and the investments it needs to do so. In an email to employees announcing the 7% cut in fulltime employee headcount in January 2019, Tesla founder Elon Musk laid bare the stark reality facing his company – and why it needs to find cheaper ways to bu

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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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Interconnection Trends: AI Poised for the Mainstream

Megaport

Artificial Intelligence has been at the top of trend lists for a few years now – but it’s never quite managed to break into the mainstream. In 2018, a Gartner survey put AI adoption at around 4%, which climbed to 14% in 2019. So, there’s evidence of a positive trend in business leaders embracing the potential of artificial intelligence, but not enough to declare it mainstream yet.

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Four short links: 9 January 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Ten Simple Rules for Structuring Papers — Focus your paper on one central contribution, which you communicate in the title; write for flesh-and-blood human beings who do not know your work; stick to the context-content-conclusion (C-C-C) scheme; optimize your logical flow by avoiding zig-zag and using parallelism; tell a complete story in the abstract; get across why the paper matters in the introduction; communicate the results as a sequence of statements, supported by figures, that conne

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Interconnection Trends: AI Poised for the Mainstream

Megaport

Artificial Intelligence has been at the top of trend lists for a few years now – but it’s never quite managed to break into the mainstream. In 2018, a Gartner survey put AI adoption at around 4%, which climbed to 14% in 2019. So, there’s evidence of a positive trend in business leaders embracing the potential of artificial intelligence, but not enough to declare it mainstream yet.

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A Note from Instaclustr’s Canberra Office Amid the Devastating Australian Bushfires

Instaclustr

The destructive and frightening bushfires in South Eastern Australia have to date burned more than 15 million acres, taken the lives of civilians and first responders, and represent a huge loss for the entire country. In Canberra, where Instaclustr’s Australian office is located, the fires have—thankfully—not directly impacted the city, and forecasts remain positive.

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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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Gratitude, Above All

Nutanix

When we were invited to participate in the Canalys Channels Leadership Matrix in November 2019, we honestly were not sure what to expect. It is with the most profound appreciation that we realized that you have ranked us as a Champion, based on the 2019 Vendor Benchmark.

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A Note from Instaclustr’s Canberra Office Amid the Devastating Australian Bushfires

Instaclustr

The destructive and frightening bushfires in South Eastern Australia have to date burned more than 15 million acres, taken the lives of civilians and first responders, and represent a huge loss for the entire country. In Canberra, where Instaclustr’s Australian office is located, the fires have—thankfully—not directly impacted the city, and forecasts remain positive.

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Pipeline to the Cloud – Streaming On-Premises Data for Cloud Analytics

Confluent

This article show how you can offload data from on-premises transactional (OLTP) databases to cloud-based datastores, including Snowflake and Amazon S3 with Athena. I’m also going to take the opportunity […].

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