Tue.Jul 21, 2020

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Employability Should Be Top of Mind in Agile Education

Agile Alliance

In this interview I had the pleasure of talking to Juan Garbajosa, Deputy Vice Rector at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain. Juan has also been involved in organizing the XP Conference in Europe for many years and is the chair of its steering committee. During his tenure in academia, he has been a … Continued.

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observIQ Lauches Open Source Log Agent Project

DevOps.com

Blue Medora, after selling its core monitoring integration platform to VMware, today changed its name to observIQ and launched an open source agent project that will serve as the foundation of a log management tool to be delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. Company CTO Mike Kelly said the observIQ agent, which is written in […].

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Counting on AI: The right time for researchers to embrace Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

While Artificial General Intelligence, or “singularity” as they call it, may be decades away, we have already reached a point where AI can significantly augment our intelligence and help us […].

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APIs: The Secret Sauce for Low-Code Platforms?

DevOps.com

As companies become increasingly talent-strapped, APIs are helping spur a low-code movement to help them remain competitive Low-code platforms have the potential to alter how software is built and delivered. By focusing on visual flows and drag-and-drop UIs, low-code platforms dramatically lower the barrier to software development. Yet, anyone with a toe in the no-code […].

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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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The One Thing That Defines a Culture of Change

Change Starts Here

The topic for this quarter’s #changeblogchallenge is Change Culture. I started writing a list of the things that would describe an organization where change would be easier than most. Where change would be faster, smoother, and cause less disruption and pain. In other words, an organization with a culture of change.

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Master the Skills of Spies, Investigators and Journalists in this 23 July OODA Training Event

CTOvision

OODA is pleased to offer this unique online training event with OODA Expert Jen Hoar. OODA Network Members receive 50% off (if you are not a member yet, take […].

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Puppet Brings Orchestration to IT Automation

DevOps.com

Puppet today unveiled its summer release of Puppet Enterprise that promises to make it easier for DevOps teams to construct automated workflows within a Puppet console. DevOps teams can now mix and match thousands of declarative state-based modules available on Puppet Forge repository to compose and orchestrate workflows. At the same time, Puppet has added […].

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3 Types Of AI Hardware

CTOvision

As AI chips become more pervasive, three primary approaches are moving to the forefront. Bradley Geden, director of product marketing at Synopsys, looks at how to take advantage of repeatability, […].

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State of Software Delivery Management Report 2020

DevOps.com

Accelerated Strategies Group conducted the State of Software Delivery Management 2020, surveying software delivery practitioners and key industry leaders to assess the current state of software delivery management (SDM) and examine the impact of SDM adoption as a capability. The primary research, commissioned by CloudBees, was published on Tuesday, July 21.

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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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Weird AI illustrates why algorithms still need people

CTOvision

Read why Ben Dickson says that artificial intelligence algorithms still need people on The Next Web: These days, it can be very hard to determine where to draw the boundaries […].

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Sysadmin Day Giveaway! Win a Plutonium Prize Case of Futuristic Gear!

Kaseya

Hey folks! Sysadmin Appreciation Day is right around the corner. This year, we are celebrating sysadmins the world over by conducting an incredibly exciting Back to the Future of IT contest. The first half of 2020 has been filled with challenges and uncertainty. However, we’re here to take you back to the new normal with our very own sysadmin time machine.

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How AI Helps Digital Enterprises Streamline Operations

CTOvision

Read Jia Wertz explain how artificial intelligence is helping tech companies streamline operations on Forbes : Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how enterprises analyze and process information. It is also […].

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Tips for Starting with Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

David Walsh

One of the most rewarding experiences of my life, both financially and logically, has been buying and managing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum. Like learning any other new tech, I made rookie mistakes along the way, but learned some best practices along the way. Check out these tips for starting with cryptocurrencies! You Don’t Need to Buy a Whole Coin!

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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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New Expanded HCI Options Deliver Flexibility and Choice

Dell EMC

Dell EMC Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack family Microsoft’s partner conference – Microsoft Inspire – is taking place this week. While it will look a little different this year, we are looking forward to virtually networking and discussing what’s coming in the year ahead. This year, Dell Technologies is announcing several new expanded platform options for the Microsoft Azure Stack portfolio that further simplify and automate management as well as provide flexibility and choice.

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AI and Machine Learning Critical to Tackling Cyber Threats Says NTT

CTOvision

Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools are becoming increasingly critical in detecting and combatting cyber threats. This is according to Stefaan Hinderyckx, senior vice-president, Security – Europe at […].

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Preventing Security Misconfigurations: Change Management and Compliance

Firemon

It’s an enormous and unending daily challenge to make sure that changes to firewall policies are not just executed quickly and efficiently, but changes don’t decrease the security of your network. Changes – such as those made for an internal client requesting access – if not executed perfectly can lead to slowdowns, outages, or even open up potential for hackers to exploit these mistakes in the form of breaches.

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Legacy Architecture Modernisation With Strategic Domain-Driven Design

Strategic Tech

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. I’ve seen some organisations deliver hugely impressive modernisation programmes. A lot of modernisation efforts, though, are shallow and buzz-word driven or carried out by expensive consultancies with flashy Powerpoint decks.

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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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10 Best Practices to Secure PostgreSQL AWS RDS/Aurora

Datavail

AWS supports PostgreSQL versions 9.4 through 12 on RDS and 9.6 through 11 on Aurora. Many organizations are migrating to PostgreSQL RDS or Aurora in order to take advantage of availability, scalability, performance, etc. and are doing it as either a heterogeneous or a homogeneous migration. Security and Compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer: AWS is responsible for security “OF” the cloud.

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Why Build your Own Practice Management System (PMS)?

Daffodil Software

The COVID-19 pandemic is driving the healthcare system to the limit. The rapid rise in the demand for healthcare facilities and providers has burdened the system, making it unable to operate with absolute efficiency.

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Scaled Agile – Why? When? How?

Modus Create

Agile at Scale, or Scaled Agile, is all the rage! But, what exactly is it? When and who should implement Scaled Agile? Who shouldn’t? What does success look like? Scaled Agile is a way for organizations with many teams to plan, coordinate, and track work on large initiatives. In this blog post, we’ll review why, when, and how organizations should consider adopting Scaled Agile.

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Data Privacy, Security, and Compliance for Apache Kafka

Confluent

Why data privacy for Apache Kafka®? As companies seek to leverage all forms of data for competitive advantage, there is a growing regulatory and reputational risk that calls for the […].

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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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AI, Protests, and Justice

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Largely on the impetus of the Black Lives Matter movement, the public’s response to the murder of George Floyd, and the subsequent demonstrations, we’ve seen increased concern about the use of facial identification in policing. First, in a highly publicized wave of announcements, IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon have announced that they will not sell face recognition technology to police forces.

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Applitools Adds AI Auto-Maintenance and Smart Assist to End-to-End Testing Platform

DevOps.com

Dev teams running automated functional, cross-browser, and cross-device tests reduce maintenance time by up to 90 percent and radically improve test efficiency yielding faster, higher quality releases SAN MATEO, Calif., July 21, 2020 — Applitools ([link] provider of a next generation test automation platform through Visual AI and Ultrafast Grid, today announced new AI capabilities […].

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Webinar Recap: Gain a Competitive Advantage with DevOps

Flexagon

The following is a summary of the information covered in the webinar: Gain a Competitive Advantage with DevOps, which can be accessed here. What is DevOps? DevOps is a set of practices that marries software development, operations, and quality assurance (QA) to achieve a shorter software delivery life cycle (SDLC) and higher quality releases with. The post Webinar Recap: Gain a Competitive Advantage with DevOps appeared first on Flexagon.

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Bringing Unconstrained Flexibility to Cloud Native Security

Aqua Security

In the four short years since we launched Aqua and started our cloud native journey, we have all experienced dramatic change. During this time, we brought several new products to market. We witnessed the rise of Docker, then its decline. We recognized the growing popularity of Kubernetes and pivoted our capabilities to match. As cloud native expanded beyond containers to include serverless and VM security – we were there.

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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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Repo Actions

DevOps.com

The post Repo Actions appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Unexpected new world war. This time, trade.

CEO Insider

The leading positions in CEOWORLD magazine’s Top 10 Most Valuable Brands ranking (2019) are held by Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Samsung. I have no doubt that the next ranking will confirm the domination of these companies, with several more probably being added to the list, e.g. facebook. What all these companies have in common […].

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The Question You Need to Ask to Focus and Engage Your Team

Next Level Blog

Gary Burnison , the CEO of recruiting and leadership development firm Korn-Ferry writes a weekly email every week which I subscribe to. Not surprisingly, a lot of his notes the past several months have focused on leading during the pandemic. This past week, Gary offered a pointed metaphor to describe where he thinks we collectively are in the process.