Wed.Dec 05, 2018

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Bots: ‘Like a CLI on Steroids’

DevOps.com

Overheard in a Palo Alto coffee shop: “… so, we tokenize the utterances, lemmatize the tokens, vectorize with StarSpace embedding, and run the featurized input through the neural net. The softmax activation layer tells us what the user intent was.” “Sorry, you what the what and then what?” “Or, you can say the user types […].

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Advantages and Disadvantages of DBMS

The Crazy Programmer

In this article you will know about advantages and disadvantages of DBMS. Database management system is an efficient way to create, manage and update databases and also is a prolific replacement of the old file systems which were earlier used to store and retrieve records. The DBMS facilitates the users to work with large amount of databases with much ease and efficiency but it is very important to know the advantages and disadvantages of the same before we start working with it.

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OKRs: The Ultimate Guide That Explains Everything You Need To Know

Luis Goncalves

OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) is a recent leadership foundation that helps organisations set, communicate, and measure their goals. Primary function of OKRs is to connect an individual´s personal objectives with the team and the company in a hierarchical way. The main goal of OKRs is for every member of the organisation – from the key stakeholders and leaders down to the team members – understand the objectives of the company through a set of defined, specific and measurable actions.

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Increase Your Agile Knowledge with Customized, Hand-Picked Information from Our Resident Content Curator

Agile Alliance

At Agile Alliance, we pride ourselves on the wealth of high-quality, in-depth Agile-related resources we offer you. But we also realize that sometimes too much of a good thing can be overwhelming. In order to help combat that issue, we’re proud to begin offering curated monthly emails on subjects of interest to you. We’ve identified … Continued.

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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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Indicators To Watch: 7 warning signs of an insider threat

CTOvision

Read Dan Swinhoe list seven signs which should warn you about an insider threat to your organization on CSO Online : Employees conducting attacks on their own employees – known as insider threats – are becoming increasingly common and costly. According to a CA report, over 50 percent of organizations suffered an insider threat-based attack […].

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How QA and application security are one in the DevOps age

TechBeacon

Every year, Micro Focus surveys hundreds of executives from a variety of industries and dozens of countries to determine the greatest challenges in maintaining software quality for the World Quality Report. In 2018, the survey took the pulse of 1,700 executives across 10 industries in 32 countries.

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120+ live online training courses opened for January and February

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Get hands-on training in Kubernetes, machine learning, blockchain, Python, management, and many other topics. Learn new topics and refine your skills with more than 120 new live online training courses we opened up for January and February on our online learning platform. Artificial intelligence and machine learning. Getting Started with Chatbot Development with the Microsoft Bot Framework , January 7-8.

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Breaking Down Data Silos in Your Organization

DevOps.com

Today’s organizations can finally use advanced technologies to unlock the true value of all of their data. This enables them to make better decisions, serve up better customer experiences, accelerate innovation and respond to crises faster—even preventing them from occurring in the first place. Even so, many organizations are unable to do this because their […].

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Marriott’s breach response is so bad, security experts are filling in the gaps — at their own expense

CTOvision

There are lessons here for all of us: Last Friday, Marriott sent out millions of emails warning of a massive data breach — some 500 million guest reservations had been stolen from its Starwood database. One problem: the email sender’s domain didn’t look like it came from Marriott at all. Marriott sent its notification email from “email-marriott.com,” […].

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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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What Are the Secret Ingredients for a Brilliant PPC Campaign?

Women on Business

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Hacking The Cloud: Kubernetes’ first major security hole discovered

CTOvision

Kubernetes has become the most popular cloud container orchestration system by far, so it was only a matter of time until its first major security hole was discovered. And the bug, CVE-2018-1002105, aka the Kubernetes privilege escalation flaw, is a doozy. It’s a CVSS 9.8 critical security hole. With a specially crafted network request, any user […].

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CIOs Are Discovering That Humans Are Important Too

The Accidental Successful CIO

It turns out that humans are an important part of every IT department Image Credit: Black Knights. As the person with the CIO job, you have a very important question that you have to find the answer to. What is more important to your IT department: people or technology. We spend a great deal of time thinking and learning about technology because we understand the importance of information technology.

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SMEs: Small in Business, But Need To Get Big on Cybersecurity

CTOvision

Maybe at this point this is stating the obvious. But interesting that this still has to be said. Small and medium businesses need to take more action regarding cybersecurity. Read why Pankit Desai says that small and medium enterprises have to shore up their cybersecurity on Entrepreneur : Cyber insecurity is no longer just a […].

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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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How ShiftLeft Uses PostgreSQL Extension TimescaleDB

High Scalability

This article is written by Preetam Jinka , Senior Infrastructure Engineer at ShiftLeft. Originially published as Time Series at ShiftLeft. Time series are a major component of the ShiftLeft runtime experience. This is true for many other products and organizations too, but each case involves different characteristics and requirements. This post describes the requirements that we have to work with, how we use TimescaleDB to store and retrieve time series data, and the tooling we’ve develope

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IoT in the Age of Everything Connected

Symantec

New challenges in securing industrial environments due to increased IOT device connectivity and automation

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What If Leadership Matters In Cybersecurity: Hackers are not main cause of health data breaches

CTOvision

Most health information data breaches in the U.S. in recent years haven’t been the work of hackers but instead have been due to mistakes or security lapses inside healthcare organizations, a new study suggests. Researchers examined data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on 1,138 health data breaches affecting a total of […].

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Solving the IT Challenges that Keep You Up at Night

Dell EMC

“I need a system that I can afford and help me achieve my productivity goals at the same time” “I want the ability to increase compute and storage on demand” “I want to keep it simple – for my customers and employees” With the constant evolution of technology, these IT tasks can be daunting and can easily keep any business owner up at night, especially if they’re just starting out.

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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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Slalom reimagines how teams build software and technology with launch of Slalom Build

DevOps.com

Slalom reimagines how teams build software and technology with launch of Slalom Build New York and two other cities to join seven existing North American Build Center locations to deploy “Build as a Service,” a new category for cloud-native software and product engineering SEATTLE, December, 5, 2018 – Slalom Consulting, the $1.4 billion purpose-driven consulting […].

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Must-have Features of iPhone app development in Weather app

Xicom

Weather apps are being developed more and more by the iPhone app development companies all around the world and there is one thing, rather a feature that is common among all the weather check apps developed by any iPhone developer. Did you know that there are some features that are not common in all the apps but they make the app special and thus more downloads of the app happens.

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How to configure—and harden—your managed Kubernetes services

TechBeacon

Sujit D'Mello, principal consultant with Microsoft, cowrote this article.

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5 New Year Resolutions to Improve Your Workplace in 2019

Docuphase

Before you know it, it’s going to be 2019! As 2018 comes to a close, are you wondering what you might see in the new year? How can you work towards improving your workplace? What kinds of new technologies will be available to you? How can you make your workplace more appealing to tech-savvy Millennials?

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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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InfluxData Video Series: ‘Time to Awesome’ with Mike Herring

DevOps.com

InfluxData firmly believes an awesome experience is fundamental in developing and curating its developer community. After all, the company’s platform is designed for developers, said CMO Mike Herring, and so delivering a great experience is in the company’s DNA. “We want them to have an awesome experience from the first download to the first interaction […].

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11 milestones in AR and VR in 2018

Agile Engine

Do you ever feel like the hype is strong for VR and AR? Both the news and market forecasts demonstrate quite a bit of inflated expectations for virtual and augmented reality. Take Superdata, for example. In early 2017, the analytics company projected a $4.9 billion revenue in consumer VR by the end of the year. Fast forward a year, and the actual figure quoted by the same company proved to be $2.2 billion.

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Pixm Emerges from Stealth as the Industry’s First Endpoint-based Anti-Phishing Solution

DevOps.com

Pixm’s Computer Vision Technology Stops Phishing Attacks In Real-time Regardless of Location, Device or Source BOSTON & NEW YORK, December 5, 2018 – Pixm, the industry’s first endpoint-based anti-phishing solution, emerged from stealth today with next-gen spear-phishing protection in the company’s flagship solution. Through advanced computer vision technology, Pixm shuts down phishing attacks at the […].

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Four short links: 5 December 2018

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NLP for Code, Monolith vs. Modular, Automatic Gender Recognition, and Budget Simulator. code2vec -- a dedicated website for demonstrating the principles shown in the paper code2vec: Learning Distributed Representations of Code. An interesting start to using a productive NLP technique on code. Monolithic or Modular -- When monolithic adherents look at a modular project, they may think that it’s low quality or abandoned simply because commit count is low and rare, new features are not being added,

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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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Predicting The Next Big Wave of DevOps Cultural Transformation

CloudZero

We read with interest a recent article from CloudBees published in The New Stack: How Culture Will Make or Break Cloud Native DevOps and have seen some highly differing views on where the adoption of DevOps is.

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InfluxData Video Series: ‘Time to Awesome’ with Mark Herring

DevOps.com

InfluxData firmly believes an awesome experience is fundamental in developing and curating its developer community. After all, the company’s platform is designed for developers, said CMO Mark Herring, and so delivering a great experience is in the company’s DNA. “We want them to have an awesome experience from the first download to the first interaction […].

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Securing the Internet of Things: Part 1

QBurst

We are in the booming phase of the Internet of Things (IoT) and, with it, beginning to be aware of the security risks it is vulnerable to. These historical IoT security hacks should give us some perspective: Between 2006–2010, attackers created the Stuxnet virus, designed to damage Iranian centrifuges by targeting their SCADA systems. In […]. The post Securing the Internet of Things: Part 1 appeared first on QBurst - Blog.