Fri.Jan 04, 2019

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Security and Speed: Why DevOps and Security Need to Play Nicely

DevOps.com

It isn’t news that DevOps and IT security teams often struggle to align their departments and maintain a coherent balance between keeping a business secure and developing new applications to maintain customer interest. While security processes are a necessity, they can be deemed by DevOps teams to be manual and cumbersome, blocking the agility that […].

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Tips for a Successful and Smooth Launch

Women on Business

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The 4 Keys to Effective Continuous Testing

DevOps.com

In the digital era, products no longer can win on capabilities alone. Speed to market and buyer experience now matter just as much to customers as the extent to which a product meets a pressing need or outperforms competitive offerings. Against this backdrop, software developers find themselves under increasing pressure, left with no choice but […].

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How DevOps Should Use DBaaS (Database-as-a-Service) To Optimize Their Application Development

High Scalability

This post was written by Wendy Dessler of The Blog Frog. Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is quickly gaining in popularity across the tech world. These software platform solutions helps users easily manage their database operations without having to really understand any of the abstractions. This allows developers, DBA’s and DevOps engineers to quickly automate their backups, create new SQL and NoSQL clusters, and monitor the performance of their databases for their application without requir

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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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Using Workflow Software to Overcome Government Budget Cuts

Docuphase

If you work within a government-funded organization, you know how rigid the budget can be. When budget cuts come down from the top – whether that’s the federal government, your state, or elsewhere – you find yourself scrambling to find ways to get the job done with limited resources.

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5 benefits of benchmarking IT service and support

TechBeacon

Many organizations have started to add benchmarking as a mandatory line item in their annual budgets and outsourcing contracts. Several factors are driving this trend.

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Error'd: All Aboard the System Bus

The Daily WTF

"The classic ' If transportation had evolved at the same pace as computers. ' comparison is no longer merely academic as this TTC streetcar proudly displays it's nearing 32K RAM," Carlos writes. . "I guess if it's good enough for the people of ${city:capatilized}." writes Philip J. . Greg wrote, "I'd consider amending to my birth certificate if it'd appease this form." . "Either this preview image is a mistake, or I have a serious misunderst

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Hot HR discussion topics in 2018 and HR trends for 2019 #HRBLOG

Rapid BI

So what have been the challenging topics for HR professionals in 2018 and what will business demand of HR in 2019 and beyond? Many of my followers know that I am active on LinkedIn. Over the past 2 years, I have been recording the themes and topics that HR professionals discuss. As a way […]. The post Hot HR discussion topics in 2018 and HR trends for 2019 #HRBLOG appeared first on RapidBI.

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Four short links: 4 January 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

State of the World, NLP Toolkit, Fair AI, and Upgrade Your Soldering Iron. Bruce Sterling's State of the World -- this year's guest, James Bridle. It's quite clear that many things being currently constructed, from large-scale capitalist enterprises to social media timelines to microinteractions on smartphone apps, are specifically designed as attacks on our ability to think clearly and act autonomously: "the race to the bottom of the brain stem," as Tristan Harris puts it.

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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 benefits of benchmarking IT service and support

TechBeacon

Many organizations have started to add benchmarking as a mandatory line item in their annual budgets and outsourcing contracts. Several factors are driving this trend.

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Member of the Band – Senior Back End Engineer Oscar David Rodríguez Young

Gorilla Logic

Much like a pod of whales or a pack of wolves, did you know that a group of gorillas is called a band? In this blog series, we’re going to introduce you to members of our band – engineers, technical recruiters, PMs, designers, and more who make up the most important asset in Gorilla Logic…our talent! Are you Gorilla material? Join the band today!

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How to handle eventual consistency?

BeautifulCode

Eventual consistency is a consistency model used in distributed computing to achieve high availability that informally guarantees that, if no new updates are made to a given data item, eventually all accesses to that item will return the last updated value.

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HPI Event: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Software Engineering

Seerene

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Döllner When we evolve the matter of intelligence, we also expand the possibility of reaching beyond our human limits. Jürgen Döllner, professor for Computer Graphics Systems at the Hasso-Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany recently spoke of the potential for Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform the structure, code analysis and perhaps finally code production of software development.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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4 Things Buyers are Looking for in 2in1 PCs

IDC

It seems that 2in1 PCs are having a bit of a resurgence these days as every major PC manufacturer offers a variety of screen sizes, features, materials, and product lines with the ability to use the device both as a notebook PC as well as a tablet. Though it may not seem like it, there has been a lot of innovation in the 2in1 market in these past few years.

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Always Bee Tracing

Honeycomb

Go deep into your data with Honeycomb Deep Dive: Always Bee Tracing. Click here for tickets. What to Expect. Join the Honeycomb team for an afternoon centered around tracing. We’ll kick off the day with an overview on tracing concepts and successful use cases. We will then get hands-on with sample code and real data. We’ll work with an example app: adding (and iterating on!

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Why I’m So Into Scaled Learning

Net Objectives

Live training always sounds great, and sometimes it is. But except when has your teams work together, or the materials requires a lot of interaction, it’s often not the best way to do things. Consider the following: 1. most of concentrated training is not retained and the concentrated delivery prevents you from trying things in … Continue reading "Why I’m So Into Scaled Learning".

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KanbanStats III: throughput

Marcusoft

Lead time is awesome to track and try to improve. In fact, it’s something that will guide you to a lot of improvements and should be front-and-center of your process metrics. But that says very little about how much that gets done per time unit. Doing one thing in a day, fast and with quality, and then nothing for the rest of the month means that no other things gets done.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Django Admin Interface

The Crazy Programmer

Here you will learn about working with django admin interface. . Prerequiests: It is necessary to learn about models first before working with Django admin panel. You can learn about models here. What is admin.py File in Django? We’ve created an app and a model in previous articles. But we haven’t stored anything yet to our database. Django’s admin interface will help us to add, edit and delete the data from the database using the models.

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KanbanStats II: filter the process chart

Marcusoft

This is the second post in my series where I show how you can get make powerful visualizations of process data. As before, my goal here is that you can dump your process data into one tab of my sheet and then the dashboard will make all the other calculations. In the first post , I talked at some length about other goals of this tool and some of the principles I built these ideas on.

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Business Politics Landscape – Cultural Shaping of an Organization’s Business Politics Landscape

Strategy Driven

All organizations are political to some degree with their culture defining the predominant, acceptable political practices – the organization’s political landscape. This unique landscape represents where political activity takes place and the sources of power exerted, shaped by established activity controls and triggers respectively. Hi there! Gain access to this article with a StrategyDriven Insights Library – Total Access subscription or buy access to the article itself.

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Refactoring to Observer Pattern

BeautifulCode

Refactoring to Observer Pattern

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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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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 4th, 2019

High Scalability

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Solar system? Nope, the beauty is in your head— neural art. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. Need cloud? Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (34 almost 5 star reviews). 45% : learned scheduler improves average job completion time; 61% : apps share data with Facebook; 45,037,125 : people who watched Bird Box on Netflix in first week; 32,368 : color images collected by the Curiosity rover on Mars between August 2012 and November 2018

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KanbanStats: Simplify process stats - get started

Marcusoft

I have been coaching agile teams for about 15 years now. One thing that I often help teams that I coach is to tap their process of some valuable data. It turns out that many of the tools that we are using have a lot of data in them that we seldom look at and even more seldom act on. Most of these tools (like JIRA or Team Foundation server) obviously have ways of looking that this data too, but I’ve found that it’s either really hard to understand the visualizations or that the reports that you c

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You Too Can Animate: SVG Line Animation

Tandem

Animations are pleasing to look at and bolster the usability of an application. Animations can provide important feedback and make users more patient. Animation makes interacting with a technology more fun and visually pleasing yet all too often, sites are static and feel inhuman. The focus of this post is not to make a case for adding animation to your next project, but to demonstrate how little the cost of doing so can be.

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