Wed.Aug 14, 2019

article thumbnail

Why Integration Tests won’t save you… or your software

Xebia

Did the title tease you? Great, job is done! Today I will tell you my story about Integration Tests; it came after another knowledge share lunch with my pal Kenny. By this definition an Integration Test is (…) the phase in software testing in which individual software modules are combined and tested as a group. Integration testing is conducted to […].

Testing 100
article thumbnail

How reference architectures create new possibilities for DevSecOps

TechBeacon

Adding security controls into a DevOps pipeline is a challenge on a good day. Often, the security organization might request to add functionality such as static analysis and security testing (SAST) scanners, open-source software scanners, and other tool sets—possibly with little or no understanding of the delivery process.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

If You’re Only Transmitting You’re Not Influencing

Next Level Blog

As I’ve written here before , effective leadership communications involves two distinct activities – transmitting and receiving. You can think of it like a two-way radio or a smartphone. They only work when they both transmit and receive. For your leadership communications to be inspirational and influential, you need to do both as well. Too many people in leadership roles overemphasize the transmission and underemphasize the reception.

article thumbnail

An action plan for upskilling your workforce

DXC

I’ve written a few times in the Workplace of the Future blog about the importance to enterprises of investing in upskilling their employees. Helping your current workers gain new skills is a great way to bridge the talent gap that makes it so hard for digital transformation efforts to take off. But upskilling requires a […].

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Best Countries For Entrepreneurship, 2019

CEO Insider

As the home of Silicon Valley and global success stories from Google to Apple, the United States tops the global ranking of the best countries to be an entrepreneur. With a highly-skilled workforce, competitiveness and openness for business, as well as having easy access to capital for entrepreneurs, the U.S. rates highly across the board. […].

98

More Trending

article thumbnail

How to Prepare for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 End of Life

Kaseya

Time is running out for support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008/R2. End of life for these operating systems is January 14, 2020. Has your organization begun preparing for the Windows 7 end of life? If not, it is crucial to start planning now for how your organization will handle the devices running this operating system (OS). In 2017, the infamous WannaCry ransomware attack infected 200,000 computers globally, causing a total of $4 billion in damages.

Windows 78
article thumbnail

What are the Benefits of Cloud Computing in Healthcare?

Datica

Digital transformation initiatives continue to push the envelope and deliver immense benefits to stakeholders in the healthcare industry. Healthcare providers are using digital solutions to make better treatment decisions for improved patient outcomes, reduced operational costs, and better patient data management. Increasingly, cloud technology serves as the underlying framework that supports and enables these digital transformation initiatives. ## Increased Global Spending on Cloud.

article thumbnail

Kaseya Forges Strategic Partnerships for Career Opportunities and Community Engagement

Kaseya

In recent years, a dynamic shift in the skills students require to be career-ready has led to colleges and universities looking for ways to better prepare students for the workforce. Building deeper relationships with companies has become an essential component of career readiness. Over the past several years, Kaseya has been an acknowledged leader in fostering such partnerships, working with local universities and community organizations to prepare students for a challenging, fast-moving, highl

article thumbnail

Unpeeling the Onion Doesn’t Have to Make You Cry

Cutter Consortium

Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Hillel Glazer believes that to answer the question, “How do we know we’re performing well?” organizations can work backwards — unpeeling the onion — to add the most visible and readily accessible attributes that would lead them from their center (the core of the.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

How to Transition to Become a DevOps Engineer

DevOps.com

You’ve either heard the buzzword or you’ve seen the extensive list of rewarding aspects that come with being a DevOps engineer. Whatever the reason you’re here, this guide should help with taking the right steps toward becoming a DevOps engineer, whether this is your first job after graduating or an opportunity to reskill leveraging your […]. The post How to Transition to Become a DevOps Engineer appeared first on DevOps.com.

DevOps 55
article thumbnail

Systems always seek their real goal

Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

The system will seek its goal above all else, even if it’s not actually what you want. Even if it’s not what anyone wants. If you want to improve education, and set a goal of 20% more dollars spent per student, then the education system will spend 20% more dollars per student. But that does not mean education is improved. If you want to improve software, and you set a goal of less than one defect per 10,000 lines of code, the development process (a system) will not have less than 1 error p

System 45
article thumbnail

Entity extraction for threat intelligence collection

AlienVault

Introduction This research project is part of my Master’s program at the University of San Francisco, where I collaborated with the AT&T Alien Labs team. I would like to share a new approach to automate the extraction of key details from cybersecurity documents. The goal is to extract entities such as country of origin, industry targeted, and malware name.

Malware 40
article thumbnail

Episode 3: Storytelling and How to know your audience with Audrey Boyle

TXI

Storytelling and How to know your audience With Audrey Boyle Guest Audrey Boyle: Comedian: Mom Funnies and college professor who teaches “Personal Branding and Social Media Marketing” at Forbes Business School. Inclusion Card: Rabbit Hole, Tangent Summary In this episode of Meetings Done Right, Audrey Boyle helps us discuss tangents. Sometimes tangents are helpful, because […].

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Computer Vision is Building the Future

DevOps.com

Developing an accurate, regulated and purpose-driven facial recognition software is the challenge of computer vision engineering. It is also the future of how people do their everyday tasks: from unlocking a phone to signing into a bank app or logging the time they get to the office. Facial recognition amazes more and more with its […]. The post Computer Vision is Building the Future appeared first on DevOps.com.

Banking 46
article thumbnail

8 Tips for Women Who Want to Break Into Tech without Experience

Women on Business

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

45
article thumbnail

CIOs Need To Get Better At Detecting B.S.

The Accidental Successful CIO

In the digital era, lies and misinformation travel faster than ever. Image Credit: throgers. I think that we can all agree that one of the most important parts of the CIO job is the ability to take in and process a large amount of information in order to understand the importance of information technology. It is our responsibility to determine what is important and what we can ignore.

Travel 27
article thumbnail

Enforce Security Through Policy-as-Code

Lacework

Automation is key for so many reasons; it can help to speed up the security workflow, from alerting, to ticketing, to task assignment and remediation, it can help to combat threats in real-time and even enable you to impose policy as code. Companies that embrace the DevOps movement invest a lot in automation, and for [.]. Read More. The post Enforce Security Through Policy-as-Code appeared first on Lacework.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Current Marketing Strategies that will Help Improve Customer Service

Strategy Driven

Typically, most owners of large businesses will have a marketing department and a customer service team, each with its own lists of responsibilities. But in order to truly make a big business and enterprise succeed, these two entities should mesh their services, at least some of the time. For examples on how business owners can elevate their corporate customer service with the help of some top-notch marketing services, please consider the following examples: Follow Up with Customers.

article thumbnail

3 Coding Events to Inspire the Next Generation

TechSoup

Coding is an increasingly important skill and a great way for young people to develop their creativity, problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills. Here are three coding events engaging youth in Europe, the U.S., and beyond and inspiring the next generation!

article thumbnail

Blue Eyes Technology

The Crazy Programmer

article thumbnail

What are the Security Risks of Multi-Cloud Computing?

Nutanix

As if there weren’t enough security risks in the realm of traditional IT, the cloud presents some unique vulnerabilities. “The cloud,” although a deceptively singular phrase, is many things and comes in many forms.

Cloud 20
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Mini Tutorial – A Guide to Font Combinations

Toptal

Effective font combinations are a hallmark of good design. It’s vital that designers master this skill if they want to create exceptional designs that set them apart from their contemporaries.

21
article thumbnail

DoD Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS) Conference 18-21 August 2019

CTOvision

The DoDIIS conference is always a great way to learn the technology needs of the Defense Intelligence Agency and many key partners and customers. This year, like in years past, will see plenary sessions where attendees can hear directly from leaders responsible for critical government functions articulate their goals and visions. Breakout sessions will dive […].

article thumbnail

CloudBees Advances Continuous Delivery

DevOps.com

At the DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 conference, CloudBees released an update to the continuous delivery (CD) platform it gained via its acquisition of Electric Cloud, signaling the company’s commitment to investing in a platform that’s employed widely in the enterprise. CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey said the rechristened CloudBees Flow builds on the application […].

article thumbnail

Top 3 Benefits of End-User Computing (EUC)

Nutanix

The top three benefits of end-user computing (EUC) that drive business value around virtual desktops.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

16 phishing scams that consumers need to be aware of in 2019

CTOvision

Scams are as old as human society. There has, and likely always will be, an element of humanity that will try to take advantage of us all. The game of the phishing scam plays out every day in many forms. The digitization of our world only adds more ways the fraudster can use to trick […].

Games 17
article thumbnail

Creating Your First GraphQL API

Toptal

GraphQL is a domain-specific language for data query and manipulation by Facebook. It is meant to replace the de facto REST standard in API creation. In this article, Toptal Freelance GraphQL Developer Ioram Gordadze creates a GraphQL API from scratch, summarizing problems new GraphQL developers face. He also teaches us to rethink the standard methods used in REST APIs in a more GraphQL-friendly manner.

article thumbnail

CloudBees Harnesses Additional Cloud Bursting

DevOps.com

At the DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 conference, CloudBees announced that the latest version of its CloudBees Accelerator platform now supports cloud bursting to all three of the major public cloud service providers. CloudBees Accelerator makes it possible to distribute the build, quality assurance and testing cycles across a large cluster of inexpensive servers. […].