OverOps

JANUARY 24, 2019

One of the main challenges QA, DevOps and SREs face is knowing when a release is good to go. More often than not, we release not because we think it’s ready, but because it’s time and we have to. We face a dual problem; one part is Coverage : our testing is only as good as our coverage, which is never 100%. In complex systems it’s very hard to foresee all the different code and infra combinations, especially with the release of a new feature.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 24, 2019

Experts weigh in on GraphQL, machine learning, React, micro-frontends, and other trends that will shape web development. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus’ saying that “change is the only constant in life” resonates strongly with web developers. We asked our community of experts for their take on the tools and trends that will usher in the greatest changes for the web development world in the coming months.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2019

These poor leadership practices are common but limit your influence. You’re working hard to be a great leader. You focus on results and relationships. You try to show up with confidence and humility. But despite your effort, you’re still struggling. Could one […]. The post 5 Poor Leadership Practices You Need to Stop appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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OTS Solutions

JANUARY 24, 2019

Things You Should Know Before Buying CRM Software. Customer relationship management (CRM) software, is one of the most powerful tools that a business can use to succeed. By utilizing the right CRM, you can get to know your customers better, predict what they want, and keep track of all of the various pieces of your business more effectively. While a good CRM can be powerful, choosing the wrong one could set you back significantly.

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Xebia

JANUARY 24, 2019

There are 2 systems in any company that are critical: the payroll system, and the CI/CD system. Why? You may ask… If the payroll system doesn’t work, people will leave the company and the company (may) face legal problems; the CI/CD system is the gateway to production. If it is down and there is a […]. The post Build and secure containers to support your CI/CD pipeline appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Github

JANUARY 24, 2019

In our 2018 Octoverse report, we noticed machine learning and data science were popular topics on GitHub. tensorflow/tensorflow was one of the most contributed to projects, pytorch/pytorch was one of the fastest growing projects, and Python was the third most popular language on GitHub. We decided to dig a little deeper into the state of machine learning and data science on GitHub.

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Toptal

JANUARY 24, 2019

Discord is a popular real-time messaging platform with robust support for programmable bots. Bots are ubiquitous on Discord and provide a wide range of services, including moderation assistance, games, music, internet searches, payment processing, and more. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer and Chatbot Developer Randall Schmidt will start by discussing the Discord UI and APIs for bots before moving on to a Discord bot tutorial.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 24, 2019

Google is moving to address a chronic shortage of cloud skills necessary to advance DevOps. Specifically, Google plans to add Professional Cloud Developer (GA), Professional Cloud Network Engineer (Beta), Professional Cloud Security Engineer (Beta) and G Suite certifications (GA) alongside Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Data Engineer and Associate Cloud Engineer certifications that already exist.

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Toptal

JANUARY 24, 2019

Designers who approach minimalist design as being easy are often surprised at the amount of effort, time, and skill required to create a product that can achieve its aims while remaining truly minimalist.

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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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DevOps.com

JANUARY 24, 2019

Moving to the cloud is becoming a must for many companies if they want to grow beyond their current footprint and be more innovative. But for many companies—especially those in the SMB space—their transition to the cloud is hindered by a lack of knowledge and experience, which often results in difficult migrations that sometimes just […]. The post DevOps Chat: Cloud Migration with nClouds’ JT Giri appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Toptal

JANUARY 24, 2019

While selling one’s company can seem like a daunting and difficult task, there exists a proven model and framework that drives valuation to maximum levels and leads to deals successfully getting done. This post is a guide for those contemplating a sale, as to what are the primary and secondary valuation drivers in a sale and how the process is conducted.

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TechBeacon

JANUARY 24, 2019

You just finished automating your regression test suite. Or perhaps you now have 4,731 behavior-driven "test scripts" that you run on each deployment. Hooray! T-shirts for everyone!

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Toptal

JANUARY 24, 2019

An expanding array of artificial technology options presents enterprise executives with a daunting challenge: where to start? Toptal executives share perspective on the distinction between AI and Data Science, and why the latter serves as the best starting point for most companies.

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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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Flexagon

JANUARY 24, 2019

This blog is the second in the FlexDeploy Loves OIC blog series: FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Series Overview FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Manage integrations with connections FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Manage connection property replacement FlexDeploy Loves OIC: CI/CD with integrations FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Manage connections, lookups and libraries FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Automated testing of integrations Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).

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TechBeacon

JANUARY 24, 2019

Yes, ransomware is still a thing. The latest nasty doing the rounds is Phobos—a variant of Dharma and CrySiS.

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The Citus Data

JANUARY 24, 2019

Today, I’m very excited to announce the next chapter in our company’s journey: Microsoft has acquired Citus Data. When we founded Citus Data eight years ago, the world was different. Clouds and big data were newfangled. The common perception was that relational databases were, by design, scale up only—limiting their ability to handle cloud scale applications and big data workloads.

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Stackery

JANUARY 24, 2019

The Principles define chaos engineering as: The discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production. The high-level steps for implementing chaos experiments involve: defining your application’s steady state, hypothesizing the steady state in both the control and experimental groups, injecting realistic failures, observing the results, and making changes to your code base/infrastructure as nece

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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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Dell EMC

JANUARY 24, 2019

Every few years a new-hype technology becomes the shining star. It sucks all the oxygen out of the room and becomes the headline darling for a while. The list of technologies that move the needle forward on managing the business better or help to grow a business are impressive. They provide great gains, but sometimes have a shelf life. This might be due to an eventual lack of impressive results.

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Apiumhub

JANUARY 24, 2019

In this article, we will briefly introduce the feature flag pattern in java to allow uploading features to production that are not yet finalized. It is very common to see projects that use the Feature Branch mechanism in order to have all the development of an isolated feature and once it is finalized, it can be integrated into the release flow and be able to generate a version.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 24, 2019

SmartBear Announces TestComplete 14.0 with Native BDD Support, Making Test Automation Easier and Faster for All Users, Regardless of Technical Expertise SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Jan. 24, 2019 — SmartBear, the innovator behind the industry’s highest impact tools to build, test, and monitor great software, announced TestComplete 14.0, which features native support for Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), […].

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Perficient

JANUARY 24, 2019

We depend on large scale systems. Google, Facebook, and Amazon are just a few examples of data centers made up of thousands of machines running complex software applications. Making sure they run smoothly requires high availability, responsiveness, and close monitoring—a task that's become even more critical in recent years. With the processing for.

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Megaport

JANUARY 24, 2019

Why our recent expansion with vXchnge will make a difference for North American enterprises. North America’s fastest growing cities will rely on the cloud to power businesses. Cisco predicts that by 2021, North America will generate the most cloud traffic out of the world’s regions with 7.7 Zettabytes produced. Thinking about the next-generation technologies that have become embedded in the business strategies of today – like Machine Learning, AI, IoT – it’s no wonder cloud computing is top of m

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Hypergrid

JANUARY 24, 2019

If you’re like most (not you CES people, of course) you are likely slowly shaking off that holiday haze and getting back into the swing of things at work. If that sounds like you then you may have missed that HyperGrid was named a Visionary in Gartner’s inaugural Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Cloud Management Platforms released last week. What a way to kick things off in 2019!

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 24, 2019

As part of an effort to attract more DevOps teams, Split is making available a free managed feature-flag service for up to five users within an organization. Based on the same commercial managed service Split provides today, company president Trevor Stuart said the free service provides those five users with unlimited feature-flagging and unlimited usage […].

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Symantec

JANUARY 24, 2019

If a file is digitally signed, and you trust the signer, then you can probably trust the executable. But what happens when something goes wrong?

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 24, 2019

This is a guest story by Zach Watson from DePalma. Collaboration is hard. To do it well, you have to balance the requirements of the project, navigate the egos of each contributor, and uphold quality standards for the work. This process is even more challenging when you’re working on complex projects like product development. Particularly, in many organizations, getting designers and developers to collaborate is an ongoing battle.

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Praxent

JANUARY 24, 2019

Clutch published its list of the nation’s top UX agencies, basing their assessment on each company’s client feedback, market presence and quality of work. According to Clutch, these are businesses who go above and beyond to prove their expertise and commitment to delivery. 24 companies in Texas made the list of over 460 nationwide. We’re proud to be one of those companies!

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IDC

JANUARY 24, 2019

While it would be an exaggeration to say that the last few years have been a golden age for technology companies, there’s no denying that things have been remarkably calm considering some of the seismic shifts taking place in the way that many organizations consume IT resources. That may be about to change, as a new market landscape begins to emerge at the same time as the global economy shows signs of losing steam.

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