Mon.Sep 23, 2019

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Evolving Regional Evacuation

Netflix Tech

Niosha Behnam | Demand Engineering @ Netflix At Netflix we prioritize innovation and velocity in pursuit of the best experience for our 150+ million global customers. This means that our microservices constantly evolve and change, but what doesn’t change is our responsibility to provide a highly available service that delivers 100+ million hours of daily streaming to our subscribers.

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Upping IT Skills: IT Pros Cite Significant Challenges

DevOps.com

Anyone who works within enterprise technology learns very quickly that if they want to stay relevant to the workforce, they’ll need to continuously learn new skills. But it’s certainly hard keeping up with new skill training while also keeping pace with day-to-day work demands. This is probably why a survey earlier this year from IT […]. The post Upping IT Skills: IT Pros Cite Significant Challenges appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Use experience-level agreements to elevate IT service satisfaction

TechBeacon

Imagine that you and a friend go to a beautiful restaurant and the server comes over—not with a menu, a glass of water, and a cheery welcome, but with a service-level agreement (SLA) containing 25 key performance indicators (KPIs) that the restaurant intends to meet over the course of the next hour.

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How to Prepare for a Better Development Discussion (Free Tool)

Let's Grow Leaders

Development discussions always go better when your employee comes prepared to engage in conversation. We’ve designed this guide to help your team members think more deeply about their development goals and key actions. Give it to them in advance and ask them […]. The post How to Prepare for a Better Development Discussion (Free Tool) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Application Security Risk Report 2019: 6 takeaways for your app sec team

TechBeacon

Automated testing tools are allowing researchers to look for more types of security flaws in more software products than ever before, which has resulted in a sharp increase in the number of bugs reported to the National Vulnerability Database.

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Objective VS Goals: Every Executive Should Know the Difference

Evolution4all

I’ve published many blog posts on the topic of alignment and execution but I never touched in a topic that I have been getting a lot of questions, let’s discuss two interchangeable words in the game of scaling businesses – objective vs goals. THE ULTIMATE OKR GUIDE. Do you want to know more about OKRs? We wrote a white paper that summarises everything that you need to know in order to start using OKRs in your company!

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The Top 7 AI Adoption Challenges (& Their Solutions)

Dataiku

AI adoption requires a lot of cross-team engagement and collaboration, but the Return on Investment (ROI) is clear; according to PwC , AI has the potential to contribute $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030.

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Best Practices for Effective Cloud Migration

Dzone - DevOps

If you don't migrate soon, you'll be left in the cold. Introduction. Transformation in technology happens about every five years. Yesterday’s invention is an obsolete tomorrow. Today, the majority of customers are getting out of data centers and moving towards cloud services. Many CIOs see the cloud as a key platform for succeeding with their digital transformation.

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Here's How Deepfakes Can Harm Your Enterprise — and What to Do About Them

Symantec

Deepfake attacks may be inevitable, but enterprises can take measures to protect against them or at least, mitigate their impact

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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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Article: Q&A on the Book Level Up Agile With Toyota Kata

InfoQ Culture Methods

In the book Level Up Agile With Toyota Kata, Jesper Boeg explores how to apply Toyota Kata to drive improvement in organizations that are using or striving to use agile ways of working. He shares his experience from combining agile with Toyota Kata to enable organizations to keep improving towards their goals. By Ben Linders, Jesper Boeg.

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The Hard Truth about Digital Transformation

Beyond B2B

Proactive transformation is a mammoth effort; it strains so many aspects of a city or society - or a company.

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Start with GraphQL today by converting your Swagger schema

Xebia

Swagger-to-graphql allows you to generate a GraphQL schema given a Swagger (OpenAPI) schema. It avoids the need to code a GraphQL schema so you can get started with GraphQL quickly. It can run in your datacenter using NodeJS, but it also runs in the browser for experimentation. That means you can try it online with […]. The post Start with GraphQL today by converting your Swagger schema appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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The 5 Pitfalls of Legacy Database Environments

Nutanix

Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, PostgreSQL, MySQL are essential components for success but too many are still running on legacy IT infrastructure.

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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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Sevian Corrective Action Program

Strategy Driven

Accelerate your organization’s performance improvements with the Sevian Corrective Action Program. Get your copy today!

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Serving Food From the Cloud

Toptal

The restaurant industry is infamous for its failure rate. The most common reason for failure is location. Cloud kitchens do away with this obstacle, allowing restaurants to operate without having a central hip location.

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How to Make the Most of Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019

Confluent

Kafka Summit San Francisco is just one week away. Conferences can be busy affairs, so here are some tips on getting the most out of your time there. Plan. Go and check out the schedule. Spend a bit of time familiarising yourself with what sessions you want to get to, and mark them on your calendar. How do you pick which sessions to attend? My advice: diversify!

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4 Ways That Nonprofits Can Get More Social Media Engagement

TechSoup

An increasing number of nonprofits small and large are diving into social media each year. And though many do so successfully, some do not receive the results they expected.

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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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Putting blockchain technology to good use

CTOvision

Read Cliff Saran explain how you can put the blockchain technology to good use on Computer Weekly : By 2025, public blockchain will provide a core interoperable foundation for global decentralised identity management, according to Gartner research. In the Gartner 2019 CIO Agenda survey, 60% of CIOs said they expected some level of adoption of blockchain […].

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DevOps Chat: Data Protection in the Cloud With Druva

DevOps.com

As any CIO knows, a data management architecture is essential to caring for one of the organization’s most valuable assets: data. Data management sounds simple but it’s not. Backup and recovery, disaster recovery, data retention, governance and e-discovery are all parts of any effective data protection strategy. As businesses move and grow their presence in […].

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More Hidden App Malware Found on Google Play with over 2.1 Million Downloads

Symantec

Malicious apps hide themselves after installation and aggressively display full-screen advertisements.

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Is South Korea poised to be a leader in AI?

CTOvision

Read Kathleen Walch’s article about the state of AI in South Korea: Asia is aggressively pursuing artificial intelligence. Across the whole region, companies with an AI-focus are raising more money than ever before, with many Asian companies largely leading the way. In particular, while China has been making waves with some of the most eyebrow-raising investments […].

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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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Working with ESP32 Audio Sampling

Toptal

The successor of the revolutionary ESP8266, the ESP32 is a next-generation microcontroller. Find out how to sample its analog-to-digital converter (ADC) from a timer interrupt using the Arduino IDE.

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Cloudflare has a new plan to fight bots — and climate change

CTOvision

Cloudflare is ratcheting up its fight against bots with a new “fight mode,” which it says will frustrate and disincentivize bot operators from their malicious activity. Bots are notorious for scraping websites and abusing developer access to download gobs of user data. All too often bots try to game the system by scraping concert or airline […].

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Introducing Dell EMC PowerProtect DD Series Appliances, the Next Generation of Data Domain, Setting a New Bar for Data Protection in a Modern Digital Economy

Dell EMC

It’s not often that a product has the longevity to successfully span decades in any market. Then again, Data Domain was never just any product. Data Domain spearheaded one of the most disruptive technology shifts in IT by leading backup from tape to disk-based systems. And along the way, it helped create the Purpose Built Backup Appliance market. Since IDC has been tracking this category, Dell EMC has been the revenue leader.

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Choosing a cloud provider: Is bigger always better?

CTOvision

When choosing a cloud services provider (CSP) should you go with a hyperscaler like AWS, Azure or GCP or select a smaller CSP or a hosting provider instead? That question was tackled by a panel of experts at the Computing Cloud & Infrastructure Live summit last week. The general consensus was that it makes more sense […].

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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CVE-2019-1367: Critical Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability Exploited In The Wild

Tenable

Zero-day memory corruption vulnerability in Internet Explorer has been observed in attacks in the wild. Background. On September 23, Microsoft released an out-of-band patch for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that has been exploited in the wild. Analysis. CVE-2019-1367 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Internet Explorer’s scripting engine in the way that objects in memory are handled.

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Why 5G Can Be More Secure Than 4G

CTOvision

Read Andy Purdy’s article about why 5G is more secure than 4G on Forbes : For a technical subject, the rollout of 5G has captured the imaginations of pundits, politicians and others who sometimes incorrectly characterize it either as a race to some kind of technological finish line or as a looming threat to national […].

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Top 10 free database tools for sys admins 2019 Update

TechTalk

This article lists 10 of the best free tools for managing, comparing, administering and developing databases. I’m confident that you’ll find a gem or two amongst this list.

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