Tue.Sep 24, 2019

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Seven key enablers for continuous testing

TechBeacon

You're not doing continuous testing unless you're doing testing that occurs before, during, and after each software change is made. That's long been a goal for many testers.

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Scrum Anti-Patterns: Micromanagement

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

A design pattern is a description of a solution to a recurring problem. It outlines the elements that are necessary to solve the challenge without prompting the reader to address the issue in a specific way. Unfortunately, we also regularly see recurring patterns of ineffective behaviour. These are called Anti-Patterns. The following is an exploration of one of the most common Anti-Patterns: Micromanagement.

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How AI and Microservices Create a Reliable Enterprise of the Future

DevOps.com

The Rise of Microservices Enterprise adoption of microservices is continuing to rise. Its popularity is so strong that 86% of development professionals internationally expect microservices to become the default application architecture within the next five years. Looking out even longer, nearly all professionals see microservices becoming their company’s default application architecture.

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Quality pattern 1: Treat your acceptance criteria as tests

Xebia

This is the first blog in the series after my last week’s introduction to the five quality patterns in Agile development, to deliver the right software with great quality. This blog is about a pattern that I think is absolutely necessary for a team to accelerate, deliver with quality and keep on doing this over […]. The post Quality pattern 1: Treat your acceptance criteria as tests appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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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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DevSecOps Becomes a Higher Cloud-Native Priority

DevOps.com

At the Cloud Native Security Summit, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) today revealed the results of a survey of 600 senior IT leaders that finds organizations are looking at DevSecOps as a way to address the complexities of managing and securing cloud-native applications. According to the survey results, 43% of respondents said their biggest challenge with […].

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Lightning Cross-Training for Organizational Development

Agile Alliance

At Agile2018, we trialled what we called ‘Agile Circuit training’. It was intended to be a high-energy Friday morning session (i.e. after the Thursday night party) where people got sound bites on multiple topics and left the session with practical takeaways. Troy was asked to participate in this as a speaker for one those topics… … Continued.

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The Good, The Bad and The Testable: How to Give Your Experiment the Best Foundation

DevOps.com

Whether you’re constructing a house, a new business or a mobile app, a solid foundation is critical. It gives you a strong base from which to build, and it can have massive implications on the life of your project further down the road. The same goes for the experimentation process. Before ever beginning a software […]. The post The Good, The Bad and The Testable: How to Give Your Experiment the Best Foundation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Scrum Anti-Patterns: Micromanagement

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

A design pattern is a description of a solution to a recurring problem. It outlines the elements that are necessary to solve the challenge without prompting the reader to address the issue in a specific way. Unfortunately, we also regularly see recurring patterns of ineffective behaviour. These are called Anti-Patterns. The following is an exploration of one of the most common Anti-Patterns: Micromanagement.

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The Secret to Trade Policy Success

CEO Insider

University teaching is again in session. As in past summer and fall semesters I teach international business at both Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and at Kent University in Canterbury, U.K. With students I note three different categories of sentiments, quite telling of voting tendencies. Two virtually equal blocs boast firmly established perspectives with little […].

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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 to Do It Right: Become a High Performance Organization

Cutter Consortium

Shed light on a critical aspect of the quality-performance connection that is too often overlooked. Would your organization benefit from business executives who foster overall operational stability, while at the same time use a wide array of options for handli.

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5 Best Practices for Implementing Continuous Integration

Flexagon

Continuous integration, or CI, is the practice of integrating code from multiple developers into a central location frequently, ideally several times per day or any time a developer commits a change. Each check-in is then verified by an automated build, allowing teams to detect problems early. This represents a change from the traditional build process.

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The Trade-Offs of Using low-code Platforms

Xebia

Hardly a day goes by without someone asking whether low-code tools like Outsystems or Mendix are suitable for developing their applications in, or if they can use a tool like Tosca or Katalon to automate their tests in. The answer, as always, is “it depends” :-). Whether a tool is fit for purpose or not […]. The post The Trade-Offs of Using low-code Platforms appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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JavaScript Tic Tac Toe Game

The Crazy Programmer

In this tutorial, I will tell you how to build a basic tic tac toe game using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Most of the people know that when we were kids we used to play this game on paper. We played it many times till we win. Those who don’t know about this game let me give you little overview. In this game there are two players, the player who makes three of their marks in row and column or one of the two diagonals wins the game.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Complete Cloud Compliance for Amazon RDS and Amazon ElastiCache

Datica

Many cloud environments today are a constellation of managed services, enabling developers to deploy, manage and scale cloud infrastructure at will. While tremendously beneficial, securing this infrastructure has also now become the developer’s responsibility—completely changing how compliance is implemented, measured, monitored, and managed. Developers often must reinvent the wheel of mapping compliance controls in totality to a new managed service.

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Organisational Dysfunctions Mirrored as Architectural Complexity

Strategic Tech

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[Video] Jenkins Build Scoring: A Formula for Blocking SEV1s from Production

OverOps

Our favorite VP Product Chen Harel gave an outstanding talk this year at Jenkins World so, naturally, we want to share it with all of you! (Skip to the bottom to watch right away.). During his session, Chen addresses the issues that most of us are facing that lead us to Sev1 Situation Rooms and poses the question – if, given the right data, we can actually prevent those issues from ever happening at all (in production).

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5 Considerations Before Building Your Own Cloud Security Tool

Palo Alto Networks

By Jonathan Bregman, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Prisma Cloud. Engineers love to build, and when it comes to cloud security, some DevOps teams try to cobble together their own solution from a combination of cloud-provided and disparate open source products. Before you invest too much time and too many resources into a DIY security project, here are some things to consider. 1.

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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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DevOps Tools You Need to Stay Ahead

Kovair - DevOps

Prior to understanding the best tools of the trade, it is important to know what DevOps means. The conventional separation of software development and IT. The post DevOps Tools You Need to Stay Ahead appeared first on Kovair Blog.

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How to Monitor Your Online Reputation

Women on Business

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Agile Documentation: Balancing Speed and Knowledge Retention

Toptal

The various documents, artifacts, and the processes that generate documentation are some of the main symbols of the Waterfall model. Borrowing from Lean, Agile considers a lot of documentation as “waste” that needs to be eradicated in order to streamline the development lifecycle.

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Google’s quantum bet on the future of AI—and what it means for humanity

CTOvision

As Google develops more powerful AI and proliferates it across the tech world, Katrina Brooker takes a look at its real-world ethical ramifications on Fast Company : The human brain is a funny thing. Certain memories can stick with us forever: the birth of a child, a car crash, an election day. But we only […].

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Confessions of a Web Developer XVII

David Walsh

It’s been quite a while since I’ve gotten a few things off of my chest and since I’m always full of peeves and annoyances I thought it was time to unleash: Firefox’s DevTools are outstanding right now. From the improvements we’ve made to the debugger, to responsive design mode, inactive CSS, and more, I haven’t needed Chrome for development in years.

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Explainable AI: Bringing trust to business AI adoption

CTOvision

Read Maria Korolov’s article on why its important to bring trust into artificial intelligence adoption on CIO : When it comes to making use of AI and machine learning, trust in results is key. Many organizations, in particular those in regulated industries, can be hesitant to leverage AI systems thanks to what is known as […].

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DOES19 London: Effective Team Management Foments New Ways of Working

DevOps.com

In the IT space it feels like we collectively begin asking and ruminating on the same question all at once, chewing on all the possible answers and outcomes. Recently, one such question has begun popping up with more and more frequency: “How can we help teams, and especially product teams, be more effective?” While more […]. The post DOES19 London: Effective Team Management Foments New Ways of Working appeared first on DevOps.com.

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A Long View On How Big Data And AI Have Transformed Business Culture

CTOvision

Read Randy Bean explain how big data and artificial intelligence have transformed business culture on Forbes : As my colleagues and I attend 3 major data and technology industry events in New York City this coming week – ML Ops, Finovate, and the granddaddy of them all, Strata Data Conference – it is interesting to […].

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Modus Becomes an Official InVision Partner

Modus Create

Modus Create and InVision are proud to announce a strategic partnership enabling Modus to advise InVision’s clients on successful approaches to design and product development best practices. This new offering will cover a wide range of topics, including implementing and sustaining design systems, evangelizing the value of design, and methods to improve collaboration between designers and developers.

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4th Annual AI World Conference and Expo 23-25 Oct in Boston

CTOvision

CTOvision and the due diligence consultancy OODA LLC will be sponsoring AI World 2019, the largest independent business event focused on the state of the practice of AI in the enterprise. Register with our discount code (see below) for deep savings. Now in its fourth year, AI World Conference and Expo has become the industry’s largest independent […].

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Critical Zero-Day Pre-authentication Remote Code Execution Exploit Published for 5.x Versions of vBulletin

Tenable

New critical zero-day pre-auth RCE exploit code published on Full Disclosure mailing list for 5.x versions of vBulletin. Background. A preauthentication remote code execution (RCE) zero-day exploit was recently disclosed anonymously for vBulletin 5.x. This zero-day does not seem to have followed ethical disclosure procedures and we have not yet seen a response from vBulletin on this vulnerability.