Tue.Aug 11, 2020

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Distributed Systems Pattern: Write-Ahead Log

Martin Fowler

In the latest part of his collection of Patterns of Distributed Systems, Unmesh faces the problem of a server failing in the middle of a complex update. A write-ahead log first saves and replicates the data for expected update in an append-only log, so if a failure occurs, we can recover the correct state.

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Is Custom Web App Development Popular During COVID-19?

The Crazy Programmer

It is clear that when people come together, they can achieve anything. And that can’t be more evident than it is today. It’s a time when people have combined efforts, a year where the great nations of the world have embraced friendships. After all, we’re all fighting the coronavirus as one. But who or what is to thank for all of that? Yes, technology.

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Distributed Systems Pattern: Quorum

Martin Fowler

Distributed systems may get partitioned, when the nodes in the cluster no longer talk to all the others. Unmesh explains that, because of this, we need a quorum of nodes within a partition to accept a change.

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What Is The Artificial Intelligence Revolution And Why Does It Matter To Your Business?

CTOvision

Read Bernard Marr explain what is Artificial Intelligence revolution and how it can affect your business on Forbes : As a species, humanity has witnessed three previous industrial revolutions: first […].

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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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DevOps and Security in a Cloud-Native World

DevOps.com

DevOps teams have naturally embraced microservices and modern application delivery workflows. But, they may get pushback from risk-averse leadership or feel slowed by security teams who struggle to keep pace. Development teams that play a greater role in guiding their organization’s cloud transformations will ultimately come out ahead. These are some of the takeaways from […].

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Cloud security and data privacy essentials, and why they matter

TechBeacon

When the rush to the cloud began, the value proposition was a prime attraction. Organizations could save money on capital expenses, because hardware and the people to maintain and support it were furnished by the cloud service provider.

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OpenAI’s latest breakthrough is astonishingly powerful, but still fighting its flaws

CTOvision

The program itself is called GPT-3 and it’s the work of San Francisco-based AI lab OpenAI, an outfit that was founded with the ambitious (some say delusional) goal of steering […].

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9 open-source service meshes compared

TechBeacon

Which service mesh is best for your organization? In recent years, the number of Kubernetes service meshes has rapidly increased, making that a tricky question to answer.

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Teradata Vantage: Born for Cloud Before Cloud Was Born

Teradata

Teradata Workload Management enables Vantage to be fully optimized for cloud & hybrid deployments & to efficiently deliver the lowest cost for enterprise analytics.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Healthcare Increasingly Embracing DevOps

DevOps.com

Speed and efficiency rank high as reasons why among respondents to a survey of healthcare organizations that have adopted DevOps While the novel coronavirus pandemic has hurt many industries, few have faced the immediate difficulties that the healthcare industry has had to manage. While trying to deliver care during one of the most significant healthcare […].

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Article: Q&A on the Book The Improv Mindset

InfoQ Culture Methods

The book The Improv Mindset by Bruce and Gail Montgomery provides the framework, activities, case stories, and data to help you apply improv in a business context. They show how you can deal with uncertainty by changing how your brain responds to change, as well as provide methods to systematically improve individual, team, and organization performance by leveraging the core principles of improv.

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Government: Keeping communities safe

Beyond B2B

Integration technology that can make data flow between government department silos lends a helping hand in keeping your community safe.

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What is the Difference Between Performance and Security Monitoring?

Lacework

There are many important discussions taking place regarding how performance monitoring works, and although security monitoring shares a lot of common themes, it also differs in some crucial aspects. I thought it would be worthwhile for us to look at some of those differences. Performance Monitoring Let’s start with understanding what performance monitoring entails at [.].

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Teleconference Horror

The Daily WTF

In the spring of 2020, with very little warning, every school in the United States shut down due to the ongoing global pandemic. Classrooms had to move to virtual meeting software like Zoom, which was never intended to be used as the primary means of educating grade schoolers. The teachers did wonderfully with such little notice, and most kids finished out the year with at least a little more knowledge than they started.

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Microsoft’s August 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 120 CVEs (CVE-2020-1337)

Tenable

Microsoft patched 120 CVEs in August, marking the sixth month in a row of addressing over 100 CVEs. Microsoft, for the sixth month in a row, patched over 100 CVEs in the August 2020 Patch Tuesday release, including 17 CVEs rated critical. For the first time in three months, this update includes patches for two vulnerabilities that were observed being actively exploited in the wild.

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The Most Affordable Cities to Start or Continue Your Developer Career

Coding Dojo

The high cost of living in “tech superstar” cities like San Francisco, Seattle, and San Jose is nothing new. It … Read more >>. The post The Most Affordable Cities to Start or Continue Your Developer Career appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Step Up Your Marketing Attribution With Game Theory

Dataiku

Find out where your best leads come from. It’s no secret that marketing today relies heavily on data analytics and data science. Endless applications have been wildly studied and successfully applied in this regard, ranging from customer segmentation and targeting to building recommender systems and predicting churn. In this blogpost, we are going to address yet another interesting application of data science in marketing, which is marketing attribution.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Streaming Heterogeneous Databases with Kafka Connect – The Easy Way

Confluent

Building a Cloud ETL Pipeline on Confluent Cloud shows you how to build and deploy a data pipeline entirely in the cloud. However, not all databases can be in the […].

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Dell Technologies Helps Keep Businesses and Innovation Engines Running

Dell EMC

Over the past few months, we’ve seen great resolve from our customers and partners as we all work together to overcome a new set of challenges every day. I’m in awe of our customers and partners around the world as they continue to innovate while adapting to the ever-changing landscape. It’s our honor to support your journey by delivering the technology needed for business-critical operations while helping you preserve capital and manage cash flow.

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Four short links: 11 Aug 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

ImmuDB — lightweight, high-speed immutable database for systems and applications. Open Source and easy to integrate into any existing application. Latest version provides multitenancy. Smart Mask — (CNN) Japanese startup Donut Robotics […] created a smart mask — a high-tech upgrade to standard face coverings, designed to make communication and social distancing easier.

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CNN vs RNN: What's the Difference?

Daffodil Software

Machine Learning is one of the proficient technologies that we have for pattern recognition, data mining, statistical analysis on large volumes of data. It’s enabling machines to recognize intricate patterns and make intelligent decisions, without human intervention. In order to achieve this, the ML technology is accompanied by neural networks.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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AI and machine learning: Powering the next-gen enterprise

CTOvision

Read Eric Knorr’s article about how artificial intelligence and machine learning are powering future companies on CIO : By now most of us understand that, in our current era, artificial […].

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Nonprofit Strategies for Managing Different Generations in Remote Work

TechSoup

The effects of the pandemic on nonprofit work are extensive, as it's threatened staff and client safety, strained financial resources, and shifted the necessity to using new and different services, to name a few. When these challenges arise, so do conversations about how to keep nonprofit staff connected and engaged in order to continue executing nonprofit missions in the online workspace.

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Putting the stack in JAMstack

Stackery

Serverless + JAMstack is where web app architectures are going. Stackery is focused on helping developers leverage the power of AWS managed services. Our secure delivery platform is used to ship Lambda functions, HTTP Gateways, Aurora database clusters, and many more services which you can view usage of in Anna’s blog on the topic. Recently, I noticed an emerging workload running on our platform: the JAMstack.

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How AI is reinventing the onboarding process for HR

CTOvision

Read how artificial intelligence is making it easier for human resources departments on Tech HQ: Seamless hiring and onboarding is central to stability in an otherwise tumultuous job market. While, […].

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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CircleCI Adds to Salesforce CI/CD Orbs Collection

DevOps.com

CircleCI today announced it has extended its CI/CD support for DevOps teams building applications that extend the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform from Salesforce. Company CEO Jim Rose said interest in building applications that complement the Salesforce platform is rising sharply in the wake of the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Why Leaders Mess Up When Communicating Change

Change Starts Here

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Nutanix Brings HCI Platform to AWS

DevOps.com

Nutanix today announced that Nutanix Clusters are now available on bare-metal instances of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Manoj Agarwal, senior vice president of engineering for Nutanix, said Nutanix Clusters on AWS will provide IT organizations with access to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) capabilities based on Nutanix virtual […].

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