Mon.Jul 20, 2020

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Dissecting the Transformer

Dataiku

We saw how attention works and how it improved neural machine translation systems (see the previous blog post ), we are going to unveil the secrets behind the power of the most famous NLP models nowadays (a.k.a BERT and friends), the Transformer. In this second part, we are going to dive into the details of this architecture with the aim of getting a solid understanding of how its different components operate and interact.

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Perforce Software Acquires Methodics, Expanding DevOps Portfolio

DevOps.com

Perforce Continues to Grow Platform Already Used by Top Semiconductor Companies MINNEAPOLIS, SAN FRANCISCO, and SANTA MONICA, July 20, 2020 – Perforce Software, Inc. (“Perforce”), a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along the development lifecycle, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”) and Francisco Partners, today […].

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How to Help Your Team Navigate Their Concerns About Culture Change

Let's Grow Leaders

When you’re working hard on culture change, it’s natural for your team to feel skeptical. After all, you’ve been thinking about this for a while. You’re committed to engagement and making a difference. You may wonder why your team isn’t breathing a […]. The post How to Help Your Team Navigate Their Concerns About Culture Change appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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About the Agile Alliance Board 2020 Nomination Process

Agile Alliance

The Agile Alliance Board of Directors has received many questions over the nominations process for new Board Members. We would like to share some of the changes we introduced over the past year. A little background and history Agile Alliance Board members are elected for a 3 year term, with the option to put themselves … Continued.

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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.

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Revisiting 2020 Cloud Predictions in Light of COVID-19

DevOps.com

Back when the technology industry made its cloud predictions for 2020, no one forecasted the impending impact of COVID-19. Across the board, the pandemic has changed the way consumers have digital experiences, and made businesses realize their legacy IT infrastructure may not be up to keeping pace with new demands. So how does that change […].

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Managing Digital Risk in a New Age of Internet of Things

CTOvision

Read Arthur Fontaine explain how companies should manage digital risks associated with the Internet of Things on RSA Blog : Digital transformation is valuable and essential, but it creates digital […].

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Unusual but benign: How Antigena Email deals with unthreatening emails from a new contact

Darktrace

Effective email security relies not just on catching targeted attacks, but also not interfering with legitimate emails. This blog looks at the case of an ‘unusual but benign’ email that Antigena let through, allowing business to continue as usual.

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Beijing unveils plan for blockchain-based government

CTOvision

The local government of Beijing released on Thursday a blueprint of its plan to implement a blockchain-based programmable government. Why it matters: This is the first time China’s capital city has […].

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Trends Predicted in 2020 to Shape Autonomous Digital Enterprises

Dzone - DevOps

The DevOps market had generated two and half billion dollars profit in 2017, and it is estimated that it would make a profit of nearly $7 billion dollars by 2022. By the above statistics, one can identify the growth of the technological trend of the present era. According to Statista, a German online market portal, the DevOps Market had grown into a 3.5 billion dollar industry by 2018.

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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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Minimize Cloud Wastage in Today’s Hybrid World

CTOvision

Read Debjani Chaudhury explain how companies can minimize cloud wastage on Enterprise Talk : The cloud remains the most strategic resource for all businesses, offering greater organizational adaptability, agility, improved […].

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Single Sign-On (SSO): Ensuring More Secure Logins

Kaseya

Passwords are no longer enough to secure logins to all of our software and systems. According to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report , 29 percent of security breaches involved stolen credentials. Those credentials are either stolen outright via a phishing scam, for example, or purchased on the Dark Web. If you don’t think any of your employees’ credentials are ‘out there’ on the Dark Web, think again!

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What your team can learn from traffic mega-surges like Amazon Prime Day

TechBeacon

This year's Amazon Prime Day may be delayed (reportedly until August or September), but when it does arrive, it is certain to bring with it the usual flood of web traffic from hungry shoppers looking for killer deals.

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Let us Code for an Aatmanirbhar Bharat!

CEO Insider

India has a very vibrant tech and start up ecosystem, which has done India proud nationally as well as globally. Our youngsters have excelled in providing tech solutions across sectors. The Covid-19 Pandemic has also brought about a big disruption, which is being tackled through the use of technology to aid our day to day lives. We all […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Let us Code for an Aatmanirbhar Bharat!

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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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Adoption of AI and Blockchain at HHS: Interview with Jose Arrieta, US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)

CTOvision

Read Kathleen Walch’s article in Forbes about adoption of AI and Blockchain at HHS. Many governments worldwide are looking at using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other cognitive technologies as part […].

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Measuring and Monitoring a Stream Processing Cloud Service: Inside Confluent Cloud ksqlDB

Confluent

While preparing for the launch of Confluent Cloud ksqlDB, the ksqlDB Team built a system of metrics and monitoring that enabled insight into the experience of operating ksqlDB, the associated […].

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INSPIRE 20 Podcast: Anjuan Simmons, Help Scout

TechBeacon

An actor on a popular 1960s television show found out that a woman on the show wasn't being paid as much as the male actors. Since he was one of the most beloved stars on the show, he had a lot of influence.

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Binding Arguments with Bind

David Walsh

One of my favorite and most essential Function method is bind , a function we added to MooTools when it wasn’t featured in the JavaScript language itself. We often think of using bind to simply bind a method’s call to its host object, but did you know you can also bind arguments with the host object? You’ve probably done something like this: this.

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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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INSPIRE 20 Podcast: Anjuan Simmons, Help Scout

TechBeacon

An actor on a popular 1960s television show found out that a woman on the show wasn't being paid as much as the male actors. Since he was one of the most beloved stars on the show, he had a lot of influence.

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Pluralsight video tips: Customizing your learning journey

Gitprime

Learn how to set a goal, use a path and create custom learning channels to improve your technology skill development, with three short Pluralsight walkthrough videos.

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Wazi VTP Test Recording Streamlines Mainframe Testing

DevOps.com

Mainframe developers have an easier time testing with the Wazi Virtual Testing Platform Working with test data is tricky. If you’re a developer working in a distributed environment, things are difficult enough. It seems as though you’re forever replenishing test data on a database in your local system or one that’s dedicated to you out […]. The post Wazi VTP Test Recording Streamlines Mainframe Testing appeared first on DevOps.com.

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FlexDeploy 5.3.0.4 has been Released

Flexagon

FlexDeploy 5.3.0.4 has been released and includes enhancements, usability improvements, and bug fixes. Here are a few highlights: Salesforce improvements for adding Unit Test columns on Project Packages tab New plugin for the RPA tool Automation Anywhere New blueprint for Oracle BI and enhancements to blueprints for Oracle Integration Cloud and Java UX improvements for.

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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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5 Cisco IOS Commands Every Network Admin Should Know

Gitprime

The 5 Cisco router commands shown in this article are some of the most useful commands that every Cisco network administrator should know. Learn them now!

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The Hokey Pokey of Continuous Testing

Dzone - DevOps

Testing what you’ve developed before the big, red “go live” button is pressed isn’t a new concept. It’s been a crucial part of software development for a long time, and a practice that development teams employ everywhere. When and how often that pre-deployment testing should occur is a more recent topic of discussion, with the “shift-left” label and plenty of proof points to back up its benefits.

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Who is the Best Coach in the World?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

A critical part of effective leadership and success means the understanding of including all stakeholders and total collaboration in your leadership model. Today’s post is by Antonio Garrido, author of The 21st Century Ride Along (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Ask a bunch of top executives who they believe is the best coach in the world, and they will likely reel off the names of ‘the usual suspects’ – you know, the ones that pay millions a year to their SEO-agency in order to occupy that cheris

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Building Highly Effective DevOps Teams

Dzone - DevOps

When it started to get traction as a concept, almost 10 years ago, DevOps was primarily used to push rapid changes to web environments with minimal impact for the users. That might still be true today but DevOps as a concept evolved. A lot. We now rely on DevOps models to move at high velocity, adapting and developing at speeds that are light years away from anything we’ve seen before.

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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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5 Best Practices for Remote Accounting Teams in 2020

Docuphase

Your work environment likely looks a lot different this year compared to 2019, as we all try to adjust to the Covid-19 world. Many accountants are working from home, which presents new challenges and opportunities. The following accounting best practices recognize that people aren’t going to be at their best, adapt to the remote working environment, and balance productivity requirements with the health and well-being of the workforce.

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EU probe asks if Apple, Amazon, and other giants are stifling the Internet of Things

CTOvision

The European Union’s antitrust watchdog is investigating whether Apple, Google, Amazon, or other companies are building monopolies with their digital assistants and smart home products. EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager […].

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5 Best Practices for Remote Accounting Teams in 2020

Docuphase

Your work environment likely looks a lot different this year compared to 2019, as we all try to adjust to the Covid-19 world. Many accountants are working from home, which presents new challenges and opportunities. The following accounting best practices recognize that people aren’t going to be at their best, adapt to the remote working environment, and balance productivity requirements with the health and well-being of the workforce.

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