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Putting Privacy And Safety At The Heart Of The Internet Of Things Revolution

CTOvision

Read why Ondrej Vlcek says that privacy and safety should be at the heart of the Internet of Things revolution on Forbes : Volkswagen marked the beginning of June with […].

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10 companies killing it at DevOps in 2020

TechBeacon

Five years ago, I wrote about 10 companies that were killing it with DevOps. Today, all of those enterprises—including Amazon, Walmart, and Netflix—remain household names, not just for consumers, but in the tech community, too.

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Considering Hybrid Cloud? Focus on the Why

DevOps.com

So much of business—and life in general—comes down to semantics. We articulate goals and measure success using a variety of terms. Some serve to clarify; others confuse. Consider the term “hybrid cloud”—a Google search yields 5.96 million results. So, yes, hybrid cloud is a hot topic, but what exactly do we mean by it? The […]. The post Considering Hybrid Cloud?

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What Employees are Yearning For in Remote One-on-Ones

Let's Grow Leaders

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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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Instana Applies DevOps to APM Agent Management

DevOps.com

Instana has announced it has become the first provider of an application management platform (APM) to enable IT teams to automate the deployment of agent software to monitor IT environments using any Git repository of their choice. Jim Hirschauer, director of product management and sales enablement for Instana, said agent software used to instrument an […].

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CNCF Provides Jaeger Distributed Tracing Update

DevOps.com

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has made available a report detailing the progress being made around the open source Jaeger distributed tracing software. Among other things, the report notes there are now more than 300 organizations contributing to the project. Jaeger is designed to provide a framework for monitoring microservices-based applications in a way […].

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IP Australia and NRL trial blockchain to combat counterfeits

CTOvision

IP Australia has teamed up with the National Rugby League (NRL) to trial a new digital app designed to eliminate counterfeiting. Under the trial, two of the NRL’s official online merchandise […].

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Elyra reaches 1.0.0

DevOps.com

By Luciano Resende, Open Source AI Platform Architect, CODAIT, IBM Elyra is an open source project that extends the JupyterLab user interface to simplify the development of data science and AI models. Elyra is proud to announce its 1.0.0 release. If this is the first time you are hearing about Elyra, check out our announcement blog for more details […].

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Toyota’s AI Bets Go Beyond Automotive

CTOvision

Read Kathleen Walch’s article in Forbes about why Toyota bets big on AI. Vehicle manufacturers know that they need to invent in autonomous technologies if they want to continue to remain relevant. […].

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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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The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Emotional intelligence is no longer a ‘nice to have’ in the workplace, but a ‘must have’ to be effective in the modern workplace. Today’s post is by Asha Tarry. Emotional intelligence skills are those important soft skills that are now reaching the desk of more and more leaders. It used to be targeted as a set of skills that belonged to customer-driven and service industries.

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Internet of Things Security Hurdles Still Holding Industry Back

CTOvision

Read why Brian Buntz says that Internet of Things security issues are holding the IoT industry back on IoT World Today : Only a minority of consumers trust the brands […].

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Scrum in HR Webinar

scruminc

Scrum in HR: A Better Way To Engage, Equip & Empower People. This free webinar explores how and why Scrum helps Human Resource professionals tackle some of their most pressing challenges. . When: Aug 27, 2020, 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada). Register Now. Save Your Spot for the Webinar Now. Scrum in HR: People Practices that Engage, Equip & Empower.

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Considering Hybrid Cloud? Focus on the Why

CTOvision

Read why James Young says that companies should consider all the factors before choosing hybrid cloud adoption on DevOps: So much of business—and life in general—comes down to semantics. We […].

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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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Simplify Hybrid Cloud with Dell EMC PowerEdge + VMware

Dell EMC

With the explosive growth of data fueling today’s global environment, businesses’ ability to readily adapt is becoming more and more critical for survival, and IT managers are under enormous pressure to deliver applications and services that innovate and transform the business. Regardless of the size of an organization, cloud computing is a fundamental business enabler that powers everything from email and collaboration tools to mission-critical systems.

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4 Ways Snapshots Can Save You From Ransomware

Arcserve

Ransomware is insidious. One click on a link, one download of what looks like a legitimate attachment, and your systems are toast. And it’s getting harder and harder to spot social engineering ploys like phishing these days. According to DarkReading, modern ransomware operators are changing their tactics, using advanced nation-state actors’ attacks as a model.

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Zero-Day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in vBulletin Disclosed

Tenable

Researcher identifies a zero-day vulnerability that bypasses a fix for CVE-2019-16759, a previously disclosed remote code execution vulnerability in vBulletin. Attacks have already been observed in the wild. Update August 10, 2020 : The Solutions section has been updated to reflect the availability of patches to address this vulnerability. Please note the vulnerability still does not have a CVE identifier associated with it.

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Palo Alto Networks a Leader in Forrester Enterprise Firewalls Report

Palo Alto Networks

We created the first Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) more than a decade ago and have continued to keep our customers ahead of fast-evolving threats in the years since then. More recently, we disrupted the market again with our announcement of the world’s first Machine Learning-Powered NGFW. With increasing attack surfaces that include hybrid clouds, remote workers, IoT devices and more, it’s all the more important that we provide customers with deep visibility and protection from the threats of

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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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Improving our video encodes for legacy devices

Netflix Tech

by Mariana Afonso , Anush Moorthy , Liwei Guo , Lishan Zhu , Anne Aaron Netflix has been one of the pioneers of streaming video-on-demand content?—?we announced our intention to stream video over 13 years ago, in January 2007?—?and have only increased both our device and content reach since then. Given the global nature of the service and Netflix’s commitment to creating a service that members enjoy, it is not surprising that we support a wide variety of streaming devices, from set-top-boxes and

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Cyber and Physical Security Convergence: Aligning to CIP in Energy

IDC

Learn how IT-OT convergence initiatives are combating the concern of security threats within the energy sector with IDC's Andrew Meyers.

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Why Do CD Efforts Fail to Scale? Here Are Three Challenges to Address for CD Success

Dzone - DevOps

With DevOps and Agile adoption on the rise and automation levels reaching all-time highs, many organizations still struggle to scale continuous delivery across their enterprise applications and continue to face an all too familiar scenario. The development team releases an application to operations where it then fails in pre-prod due to a missing piece of middleware that was not updated, or a covert database configuration change that was made.

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15 great resources for modernizing your legacy applications

TechBeacon

It is said that every journey begins with the first step, and in the case of legacy application modernization, the all-important first step is knowing just where an organization wants to go on that arduous journey.

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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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Deploy a Strapi and React Blog on Netlify

Netlify

Have you ever wondered how a React blog could work while consuming a Strapi API? Strapi is a 100% Javascript, fully customizable, and developer-first open-source headless CMS. Using Strapi, building self-hosted, customizable, and performant content APIs is more approachable than ever before. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to deploy a React blog on Netlify that fetches content from a Strapi instance, which will be deployed on Heroku , which is a cloud platform where you can host a Strapi serv

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How To Develop a Group Chat App Like YouStar: Cost, Features and Business Model

Xicom

Undoubtedly, messaging apps have revolutionized the way we communicate and have become an integral part of everyone’s life. Right from group chatting to expanding your business to the next level, messaging apps are playing a significant role. So whether you are planning to develop a group chat app like YouStar or want to be the next Whatsapp application or impressed with a chatting app like a telegram, your primary concern is “what exactly will it cost you to develop an app in 2020?”.

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How Staff Augmentation Can Reduce Costs For Your Company and Tips On Managing Them Successfully

Cabot Solutions

In this article we discuss how staff augmentation can reduce costs for your company and tips on managing a virtual team successfully

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CodeSOD: The Concatenator

The Daily WTF

In English, there's much debate over the "Oxford Comma": in a list of items, do you put a comma between the penultimate item and the "and" before the final one? For example: "The conference featured bad programmers, Remy and TheDailyWTF readers" versus "The conference featured bad programmers, Remy, and the TheDailyWTF readers." I'd like to introduce a subtly different one: "the concatenator's comma", or if we want to be generic "the concat

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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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Government Has a DevOps Lesson for Private Sector

DevOps.com

The missions of government organizations and DevOps are well-aligned, according to F5 system engineer Scott Van Kalken, who works with many organizations at various levels of government around Australia. That’s because government organizations provide services to the community, and DevOps is about providing services to a community of users. He sees more use of DevOps […].

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Security teams struggle to keep pace with cloud threats

CTOvision

Misconfiguration, unauthorised access and account hijacking are the most pressing of a number of threats to public cloud environments, which are now reaching a level where security operations are finding […].

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Accelerate Test Execution With Self-Healing Mechanism

Dzone - DevOps

In recent years, the testing community has witnessed a steady rise in automation testing. Although it has proved significant advantages compared to manual testing, flakiness in locating objects for WebUI testing is still a constant problem that restrains the transition to automated testing for teams. Testers have to spend unnecessary time and effort to manually update the object locators whenever they make new changes to the application.

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