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Bliki: OutcomeOverOutput

Martin Fowler

Imagine a team writing software for a shopping website. If we look at the team's output, we might consider how many new features they produced in the last quarter, or a cross-functional measure such as a reduction in page load time. An outcome measure, however, would consider measure increased sales revenue, or reduced number of support calls for the product.

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Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play

Agile Alliance

Innovation Games will be indispensable for anyone who wants to drive more successful, customer-focused product development: product and R&D managers, CTOs and development leaders, marketers, and senior business executives alike.

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Cybersecurity: What Programming Language Is Better for Your Career?

DevOps.com

As a novice developer, you may be thinking about learning a programming language and starting a fantastic career. In fact, this question on Reddit inspired the whole article: The thing is, programming languages represent certain philosophies of its authors and tailored to certain types of problems, i.e., there is no such thing as “the […].

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Interview: How to Drive Engagement in Organizations

Change Starts Here

In this episode, Tracy Reznik, Director with Jabian Consulting, shares six elements that drive engagement in organizations. Listen in to learn why engagement is crucial for implementing change, and what you can do to boost engagement for your change initiative.

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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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The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things

DevOps.com

Ever since Mark Zuckerburg uttered the phrase “move fast and break things,” it has become the motto of many development teams. Companies wanting to be the next unicorn decided this must be the way to operate. The race was on to release more, ship faster, never stop. If moving slowly and methodically wasn’t working, doing […]. The post The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things appeared first on DevOps.com.

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A President’s Day Look at Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Since we’re headed into President’s Day weekend, I thought I’d take this opportunity to author a two-part series in which I’ll examine the leadership characteristics of the two Presidents for which the holiday is celebrated; George Washington , and Abraham Lincoln. In today’s post, I begin by taking a brief look at the life of George Washington in an attempt to quickly offer some leadership tips that you can apply to your role as a C-level executive… First, a

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Scientist, a novel software QA method

Xebia

This article describes a situation we found ourselves in during refactoring an existing application running in production, the implementation of a novel QA method dubbed “Scientist”, and advantages and drawbacks of this new approach. A future blog post will detail the architecture of a serverless implementation for this new QA method. Introduction One of the […].

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9 Free Tools to Automate Your Incident Response Process

Altexsoft

This is a guest article by Gilad David Maayan from AgileSEO. With the rise of big data, organizations are collecting and storing more data than ever before. This data can provide valuable insights into customer needs and assist in creating innovative products. Unfortunately, this also makes data valuable to hackers, seeking to infiltrate systems and exfiltrate information.

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Microsoft’s February 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 99 CVEs Including Internet Explorer Zero-Day (CVE-2020-0674)

Tenable

Microsoft smashes the CVE count with security patches for 99 CVEs, 12 of which are rated as critical. Microsoft addresses a staggering 99 CVEs in the February 2020 Patch Tuesday release. This update contains 17 remote code execution flaws and 12 vulnerabilities rated as critical. This month’s updates include patches for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office Service and Web Apps, Windows Malicious

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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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Survey: Internal IT Teams Embrace ‘DevOps Inspired’ Processes

DevOps.com

The “2020 State of Application Services” survey published today by F5 Networks suggests more IT organizations than ever are adopting some elements of DevOps principles to manage an increasingly diverse application portfolio. Based on a global survey of 2,600 IT professionals, the report finds 63% of organizations still place primary responsibility for application services within […].

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Three Reasons IOTA will Elevate Blockchain

Beyond B2B

Commonly referred to as blockchain, distributed ledger technology (DLT) is about to live up to the hype.

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Teradici Brings Virtual Desktops to Azure Stack

DevOps.com

Teradici announced today it has made its Cloud Access Software (CAS) available on Microsoft Azure Stack, the version of the cloud operating system that Microsoft makes available for on-premises servers. Ziad Lammam, vice president of product management for Teradici, said the availability of CAS on Azure Stack makes it possible to employ the PC-over-IP (PCoIP) […].

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Hackathon Time in Minsk

Exadel

Our Exadel Digital Marketing Technology practice together with Exadel’s internal JavaScript community group worked together to produce an in-house extended “hackathon” last December. We had a variety of reasons behind this: Our employees wanted something fun to do that would also allow competition with their colleagues on something not related to a specific client.

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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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Empower Your Business with Powered Services

Kaseya

Selling complex solutions is hard. It’s even more difficult when your potential customers aren’t very familiar with the nuances and details of what you have to offer. It transforms a pitch about benefits and haggling over pricing into an impromptu educational session. But MSPs consistently face this as they try to win new business from law firms and nonprofits and medical practices and other businesses that don’t live and breathe IT on a daily basis.

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Seamless SIEM – Part 1: Osquery Event Log Aggregation and Confluent Platform

Confluent

Osquery (developed by Facebook) is an open source tool used to gather audit log events from an operating system (OS). What’s unique about osquery is that it uses basic SQL […].

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How Quicken Loans built guardrails for speed and certainty

TechBeacon

Is ITIL still relevant in the age of digital transformation? Yes, but today's IT organizations must fit it in with agile, value stream mapping, and the whole DevOps movement.

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SIAM

DevOps.com

The post SIAM appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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How to train your bots: 5 RPA fails to avoid

TechBeacon

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” —Thomas A. Edison.

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Sauce Labs Appoints Justin Dolly as Chief Security Officer

DevOps.com

Industry Veteran to Develop and Enforce Strong Security Footprint for Continuous Testing Leader SAN FRANCISCO – February 11, 2020 – Sauce Labs Inc., provider of the world’s most comprehensive and trusted continuous testing cloud, today announced the appointment of Justin Dolly as chief security officer. A security industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience, Dolly will […].

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Dell Technologies and Splunk: Enabling AI and Analytics Together

Dell EMC

I’m a Business Development lead with the Dell Technologies Unstructured Data Solutions (UDS) team. In this role I drive go-to-market and enablement for enterprise data center storage offerings with many of our partners in the Data Analytics and AI Solutions space. One of our key partners in this area is Splunk and I’ve been working with them for quite a while now.

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7 Ways to Get Azure Credits

ParkMyCloud

Azure credits are a perk offered by Microsoft that help you save money on your cloud bill. Like a gift card for a retail store, credits are applied to your account to help cover costs until they are exhausted or expire. In a sense, these credits act as a spending limit because any usage of resources or products that are not free will be deducted from the credit amount.

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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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Top 6 Website Trends to Move you Ahead in the Competition, 2020

Xicom

Over the past years, various changes have been witnessed in the field of website development. And that is the reason why the latest website designs have always been in the eyes of novice specialists or professionals who wish to offer an innovative product to their customers. Thus, 2020 website design trends are what all the experts need to know. Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low tide appears.

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Making The Days Count: My Journey to DataRobot

DataRobot

I’m starting the decade with a new adventure as DataRobot’s President and COO.

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IT Revolution Announces First Round of Speakers for DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2020

DevOps.com

IT transformation trailblazers, Jonathan Smart, Dominica Degrandis, Manuel Pais and more, to share experience reports on leadership, culture, DataOps, next-gen ops and more during immersive three-day event PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — IT Revolution, the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the first round of speakers for DevOps Enterprise Summit London ([link] […].

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Protect the Power of the Cloud: Data Protection for VMware Cloud

Dell EMC

As predictions roll in for trends in technology this year, it is no surprise that data protection, security and automation are rising in importance for organizations worldwide. As more organizations move applications and data to the cloud, solid and reliable recovery is becoming a differentiator. For our customers, Dell EMC is a trusted data protection partner, providing comprehensive coverage, rapid recovery and powerful architecture, resulting in reduced infrastructure costs and simply powerfu

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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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Instana Releases First Commercial Continuous Profiler for Production Java Applications

DevOps.com

Company Leverages Acquisition of StackImpact to Create Integrated APM and Profiling Solution that is Always On Capturing Profiles in Real Time Chicago, IL – February 11, 2020 – Instana, the leader in automated application performance management solutions for microservice applications, has broken through another performance management and optimization barrier with the introduction of the first […].

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3 reasons DevSecOps is getting so much attention

Synopsys

Interest in DevSecOps is on the rise. What’s driving this interest? And how can teams use this knowledge to modernize their application security programs? The post 3 reasons DevSecOps is getting so much attention appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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NetWorker Enhancements and Additions

Dell EMC

In Dell EMC’s most recent NetWorker release, valuable enhancements and additions are now available to our global customers, and a host of resources are ready to help you get started on your upgrade plan. Why upgrade now? Don’t miss out on the latest new features and functionalities. Start benefiting now from recent fixes and patches, protect your system from cyber threats, enjoy improved performance, get cloud-ready, and protect your data.

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