Tue.Aug 13, 2019

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Scrum by Example – Team Friction Inspires Working Agreements

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

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Be an Employee Influencer

Strategy Driven

I have read that 85 percent of us are unlikely to make big changes in our lives without some kind of outside influence. That means that only 15 percent of people unilaterally decide to make changes and then follow through and do it on their own. Translation: Most of us need someone we trust to influence us either by their words or their actions. Effective leadership is really about influence.

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Leadership Drives Digital Transformation Success

DevOps.com

When it comes to near-term survival, organizations know they are fighting for their digital existence. Still, despite 80% of organizations moving forward with their digital transformation efforts, very few have experienced the heights of success they hoped. In Digital Transformation: Coming from Behind, we reported consultancy McKinsey & Company found less than one-third of digital […].

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Minimizing Switching Costs in Software Development

Professor Beekums

I’ve written previously about the dangers of high switching costs in software development. Being dependant on a third party is a huge risk. You are vulnerable to the whims of another company, including astronomical price increases. However, reliance on vendors is inevitable as they can significantly accelerate product development. Photo by Steve Johnson $500 a month for a third party SAAS sounds like a lot, but it is a lot cheaper than months of in house development.

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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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Increase Code Maintainability with React Integration Testing

Toptal

Integration tests provide a lot of value considering the time and effort required for testing. React integration tests improve code maintainability, yet they don’t slow down development. In this article, Toptal Software Developer Anton Rublev demonstrates how you can harness the power of react-testing-library to create superior code without wasting time.

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The Power of Prioritization in Data Management

Teradata

Find out how the early architectural decisions surrounding the Teradata Database are still making a critical contribution to performance today. Read more!

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Why Dropping Your Prices Is A Recipe For Disaster

CEO Insider

Can you recall a business you knew that seemed on the surface to be doing well and then ‘bang’, it failed? How about the one you thought was doing well as it grew and grew in multiple locations and then disappeared; known as growing, growing, growing, gone. Often the growth strategy or the survival strategy […].

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Cloud & Container Security: Three Great Talks and Tools from Black Hat 2019

Lacework

Last week thousands of security professionals descended upon Las Vegas for Hacker Summer Camp (despite warnings of swarming locusts!). Lacework Labs was there to take in all the sights and sounds. It was exciting to see such an emphasis on cloud and container security. There was much discussion on Kubernetes, containers, DevSecOps, and cloud provider [.].

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Zero-trust in a cloud-native world: Best practices emerge

TechBeacon

"Zero-trust" is a security model that requires strict access controls, not trusting anything by default for any person, application, or service—even if it resides inside a network perimeter.

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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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Security Teams Are Having an Automation Awakening

Palo Alto Networks

This piece was originally published August 7 on the Demisto blog. For the third annual report on the state of SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response), we at Demisto commissioned a study with 552 security practitioners. Our aim was to find out specific challenges at each stage of the incident response lifecycle, how current product capabilities help overcome these challenges, and what capabilities are missing within security products today.

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Principles Patterns Follow: Open-Closed

Net Objectives

The “Open-Closed Principle” was coined in 1988 by Bertrand Meyer, based on an idea put forth earlier by Ivar Jacobsen. It states, “Software entities (such as classes, modules, functions) should be open for extension, but closed to modification.” What does this mean? It means that one aspect of strong design is that it allows new … Continue reading "Principles Patterns Follow: Open-Closed".

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CWP Integration with EventBridge Amplifies Cyber Security Resources

Symantec

How to gain better security and visibility into your cloud infrastructure

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OverOps Integrates AI Code Analyzer With CI/CD Platforms

DevOps.com

At the DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 conference, OverOps announced it has integrated its namesake tools for analyzing Java and Microsoft.NET code at runtime with a variety of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms, including Jenkins, JetBrains TeamCity, Atlassian Bamboo and Pivotal Concourse. Eric Mizell, vice president of solution engineering for OverOps, noted that […].

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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How Design Thinking Can Transform Your Company

Planbox

Successful business practices in today’s world revolve around the consumer, and trends show that customers seek meaningful experiences with the companies they frequent. Even on social media, consumers show more interest in businesses with a personality than those that interact with followers like a robot. Our previous blog on the 5 Things Most Innovative Companies Have in Common reveals that focusing on the personal preferences of your employees and customers creates a healthier business within

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Benefits of Software Development with Serverless Architecture

Daffodil Software

Modern software development involves a lot of complexities. Thus, programmers are burdened with performance, security, user privacy, scalability concerns and are in need of an approach that can help them focus on applications than infrastructure.

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A New VMworld Perspective

Nutanix

There he was up on the big stage at VMworld 2006 general session: my creation, VirtualMan, animated by @JerryChen speaking live with VMware COO, Carl Eschenbach.

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Speak Up and Take Risks: Featuring the Perspectives of Symantec Women in APJ – Part Two

Symantec

A collective of successful Symantec women in APJ share their advice to the younger female generation entering the workforce.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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A New VMworld Perspective

Nutanix

There he was up on the big stage at VMworld 2006 general session: my creation, VirtualMan, animated by @JerryChen speaking live with VMware COO, Carl Eschenbach.

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Progressive Web Apps are Taking Over the Mobile Web

DevOps.com

Consumers now spend most of their time on their mobiles, that’s no secret. And with 4G networks now the norm in both developed and developing markets, people have every reason to expect their mobile experiences will be as good as PC-based ones. But they aren’t for the most part. Mobile web is 49% of all […]. The post Progressive Web Apps are Taking Over the Mobile Web appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How Automation Improves Multi-Cloud Security & Compliance

Nutanix

Automation allows for you to quickly assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in real-time. The best tools also provide remediation functions to resolve issues.

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Does Your Small Business Need a Blog – Why Blogging Should Be Your Next Marketing Strategy

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].

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Top 10 Reasons to Attend Kafka Summit

Confluent

Yes, the other definition of event sourcing. 1. Keynotes from leading technologists. At Kafka Summit SF, you’ll get to hear incredible keynotes from leading technologists, including Jay Kreps and Neha Narkhede , original co-creators of Apache Kafka ®. In the past, we’ve featured Chris D’Agostino, James Watters, Martin Kleppmann, and Martin Fowler. This time around, we’re delighted to have Devendra Tagare , Engineering Manager of Streaming Platforms from Lyft and Chris Kasten , VP of Walmart Clou

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The Definitive Guide to Achieve AWS Cloud Certification

Linux Academy

Getting AWS certified can be a daunting task, but luckily we’re in your corner and we’re going to help you pass. We offer tons of AWS content for the different exams, but this month the Cloud Practitioner will be our focus. Read more to find out whether this certification is right for you, topics covered, and get study tips to increase your odds of passing.

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How Product Managers Can Take Back Control with Feature Flags

DevOps.com

Product managers live in a high-speed world and are always focused on releasing the most impactful features in the shortest amount of time. Since users have grown accustomed to regular UI updates and bug fixes completed in near real time, this frenetic pace at which product managers work will only increase. The process of pushing […]. The post How Product Managers Can Take Back Control with Feature Flags appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Step Away from the Keyboard: Physical Marketing Ideas to Grow Your Business

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].

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Inside DeepMind’s epic mission to solve science’s trickiest problem

CTOvision

Demis Hassabis – former child chess prodigy, recipient of a double first at the University of Cambridge, five times World Mind Sports Olympiad champion, MIT and Harvard alumnus, games designer, teenage entrepreneur, and co-founder of the artificial intelligence startup DeepMind – is dressed in a yellow helmet, a hi-viz jacket and worker’s boots. Raising his […].

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Algolia Honored to Be Named Again to the Inc. 5000

Algolia

Today, we are humbled to have Algolia (#448) be named to the Inc 5000 fastest-growing private companies list for the second consecutive year. This recognition is a meaningful milestone to reflect on the three components that I believe has made this possible. First, this is really a testament to the modern consumer and a sign of our times. Today, consumers have all the “power” and are calling the shots as they search for and buy more products online; as they consume more content via their mobile

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Why Policymakers Need To See The Hope, Not The Fear Of AI

CTOvision

Read why Ulrik Juul Christensen says that policymakers need not fear artificial intelligence on Forbes : While fear can drive a desire among some policymakers to limit artificial intelligence (AI), the hope and promise of this advanced technology — including to create new jobs — cannot be overlooked. To capitalize on that potential, education must […].