Tue.May 26, 2020

article thumbnail

NLP In Under 5 Minutes

Dataiku

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is all the rage right now. Once a relatively niche topic, in the past few years landmark new models and applications have brought NLP to the center-stage of real-world enterprise data science and AI.

article thumbnail

Putting BDD in Practice Using Scala

Dzone - DevOps

This article aims to give a brief explanation of what BDD is and how it can be used to fill the information gap between stakeholders and development teams, ensuring everyone (technical or not) is involved in the project’s progress. The first time I had contact with this approach to software development was a few years ago during a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and, I must warn you, I've never applied it in production.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Threat Modeling: Brainstorm threats

Martin Fowler

New installment in “A Guide to Threat Modelling for Developers” Jim looks at how to come up with threats to a system, introducing STRIDE, a simple framework to help teams think about threats. more….

System 305
article thumbnail

DataOps and DevOps: A Match Made in Heaven

DevOps.com

The adoption of IT technologies has increased exponentially over the last few decades. Nowadays, the need to create quality web applications while simultaneously managing their extensive data effectively is a major concern for any organization. As such, there have been continuous efforts to come up with better approaches to software development, data analysis and data […].

DevOps 145
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Introducing Edge Handlers in Preview

Netlify

As adoption of the Jamstack model has become more widespread, so have the needs of a traditional CDN shifted. Today, content is expected to be fast, highly customizable, and up to date within a fraction of a second. Strictly static CDNs, which store static assets and serve them indistinguishably for every request, are insufficient to handle the more dynamic, personalized nature of modern content.

Examples 141

More Trending

article thumbnail

You are what you Git: how your VCS branching model affects your delivery cadence

CircleCI

The path of a software engineer is one of constant learning. We learn things from concepts and processes to languages and tools. Once we have seen them work, we add them to our arsenal and make them our praxis. Before joining CircleCI, my years of experience led me to believe that I was an engineer with a firm understanding of the technical aspects of the craft, as well as what is considered good practice.

article thumbnail

Kovair?s DevSecOps: ISO 27005 Risk Assessment and Process Workflows, extending NG-Firewalls and more!

Kovair - DevOps

Extended Detection and Response Capabilities Are Emerging to Improve Detection Accuracy and Security Productivity – according to Gartner. But what about Risk Management and Process.

Firewall 126
article thumbnail

Data-Driven Software Engineering: How to Avoid Common Problems

Dzone - DevOps

In today's digital world, data is constantly being generated, evaluated, and updated. It also plays an important role in the work of software engineers by providing accurate, actionable feedback that helps engineers understand where and how to make improvements to a product or process. Data also helps IT leaders visualize how work is being done, the quality and quantity of output, and how they can improve the lives of staff.

article thumbnail

GitLab Releases Massive Update to CI/CD Platform

DevOps.com

GitLab has updated its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with a raft of capabilities spanning everything from value stream management to cybersecurity. In addition, GitLab announced it is making generally available Gitaly Clusters, which enable DevOps teams to create a warm replica of a Git repository. Brendan O’Leary, senior developer evangelist at GitLab, said with […].

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Automated Acceptance Testing With Robot Framework

Dzone - DevOps

Robot Framework is an open source test automation framework. It is keyword driven and therefore very suitable to describe and automate acceptance tests. In this post, we will introduce Robot Framework and dive into the basic concepts. 1. Introduction. Robot Framework knows its origin at Nokia Networks, but has been open sourced since 2008. It is a framework for creating automated acceptance tests.

Testing 113
article thumbnail

Building a Clickstream Dashboard Application with ksqlDB and Elasticsearch

Confluent

Using a powerful, event-driven application can help you unlock insights contained in the event streams of your business. Before we get into the technology, let’s go over some questions you […].

article thumbnail

DevOps Your Skill: Code Coverage

Dzone - DevOps

Without a doubt, one of the aspects a developer should pay more attention to is trying to always generate understandable, maintainable, and clear code — in short, to generate clean code. During the development of code (modules, libraries) it is important to integrate objective tools that measure the status of the code and provide the information to know its quality and thus be able to detect and prevent problems: duplicate functions, excessively complex methods, code low quality, non-standard co

DevOps 116
article thumbnail

COVID-19 Response: SaaS Supports Digital Transformation

IDC

COVID-19 is forcing companies to re-evaluate their technology and processes. Explore how SaaS and cloud software is supporting digital transformation with IDC.

Cloud 122
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

CTO.ai Launches SlackOps Tool for DevOps

DevOps.com

CTO.ai has launched SlackOps, a platform for managing DevOps workflows in real-time via the Slack communications and collaboration service. Company CEO Kyle Campbell said many DevOps teams are embracing Slack to share updates with one another. SlackOps takes that preference for DevOps a step further to enable complex DevOps processes, also known as ChatOps, to […].

DevOps 116
article thumbnail

DevOps Your Skill: Integration Tests

Dzone - DevOps

Integration tests ensure that the components of an application is running properly at a level that includes the auxiliary infrastructure of the application, such as the voice user interface, the backend, and the integration with external systems. Integration tests evaluate the components of an application at a higher level than unit tests. Unit tests are used to test isolated software components, such as individual class methods.

Testing 111
article thumbnail

Surviving Through the New Normal

DevOps.com

As enterprises move from the first phase of the pandemic to the reopening phase, they’re going to have to determine what tech investments going forward will provide the most value in the their new normal. Emad Georgy, founder and CTO at consulting firm Georgy Technology Leadership, said that while overall tech spending will remain down, […]. The post Surviving Through the New Normal appeared first on DevOps.com.

article thumbnail

3 Ways to Continue Using ASK CLI 1.x With the New ASK CLI 2.x

Dzone - DevOps

At the time of this writing, the ASK CLI 2.6.0 has just been released. Along with it comes a fair bit of breaking changes the extend of which can be seen in this migration guide. This has caused a fair bit of challenge in the community especially for developers who have multiple skills prior to ASK CLI 2.x being introduced. A lot of automation tools would also have to be rewritten and some even have no viable workarounds when using 2.x.

Tools 111
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

OTT TV Apps: Know Which Platform Works Best for your Business

Daffodil Software

The tremendous rise in the demand for audio and video content streaming, has made Over-the-Top (OTT) apps an unavoidable part of entertainment businesses. It’s not just the entertainment industry that’s making the most of OTT apps, other industries, such as education, gaming, health & fitness, etc. are realizing the benefits of streaming audio/video content over the internet, rather than the traditional broadcasting mediums (like satellite).

Video 105
article thumbnail

Improve Your Database Security with Transparent Data Encryption

Datavail

If you don’t have encryption, but you want another layer of security for your database, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a relatively simple way to encrypt your data at rest. It will protect you against any attack where someone gains access to your media such as a backup of your database. Without the right encryption tools, the thief won’t be able to make use of the information stored in the database.

Data 98
article thumbnail

Some ?What If?? Questions You Should Be Asking Right Now

Next Level Blog

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post that made the case that we’re all at the beginning of Phase 2 in our response to the global pandemic. To recap, Phase 1 lasted for about 8 weeks, depending on where in the world you live and, for large organizations at least, was about quickly reinventing how work was going to get done with many people working from home.

article thumbnail

Accounting Automation: Expectations vs. Reality

Docuphase

What is accounting automation? Automation, AI, and machine learning are shaping how organizations are getting work done, and are the driving forces behind efficient processing and company growth. Through automation technology, professionals are able to focus on higher-value activities by eliminating the mundane, manual tasks that make up a significant portion of the workday.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Delivering Innovation in the Data Era with ECS 3.5

Dell EMC

The data decade is in full swing and it appears to be living up to the name. Data growth continues to accelerate at a breakneck pace and the increased digitization of our daily lives only has a compounding effect on the rate of data creation. IDC’s projections bear this out: “within the next four years, the global economy will finally reach ‘digital supremacy,’ with more than half of GDP driven by products and services from digitally transformed enterprises.

Data 92
article thumbnail

FlexDeploy 5.3.0.2 Now Available

Flexagon

FlexDeploy 5.3.0.2 has been released and includes enhancements to platform features, plugins, usability improvements, and bug fixes. Here are a few highlights: New Blueprint for Terraform with discovery of modules from Terraform Registry New Tricentis Tosca plugin for functional test automation New ApexSec plugin for Oracle APEX security analysis automation.

Windows 78
article thumbnail

Coronavirus impact on startups scene in Barcelona

Apiumhub

Today I would like to talk about COVID-19 impact on startups scene in Barcelona as this situation literally changes the way we live and work and many startups go bankrupt because their business models were not ready for online business, while others are booming. So, let’s see what kind of businesses are on the rise and what to expect in the future. .

article thumbnail

Simply a Better SAP World with FlexDeploy

Flexagon

FlexDeploy now provides a solution for migrating SAP change requests with our 5.3 release. It comes with full stack of CI/CD, DevOps features, and built-in integrations with many systems and third-party tools. Today’s SAP customizations, database changes and data migrations face several challenges: Slower Delivery No Visibility Error-prone Inconsistent environments and client instances Lot of.

DevOps 78
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Crisis Management – The Board Of Directors Role

CEO Insider

The board of directors provides leadership, guidance, and governance to companies and non-profits. The CEO or Executive Director leads the organization and manages day to day operations. In a moment of crisis such as the extreme challenges facing organizations word wide during the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of the board and its relationship with the […].

article thumbnail

FlexDeploy 5.3.0.2 Now Available

Flexagon

FlexDeploy 5.3.0.2 has been released and includes enhancements to platform features, plugins, usability improvements, and bug fixes. Here are a few highlights: New Blueprint for Terraform with discovery of modules from Terraform Registry New Tricentis Tosca plugin for functional test automation New ApexSec plugin for Oracle APEX security analysis automation.

Windows 78
article thumbnail

CloudBees Extends SDM Service Reach

DevOps.com

CloudBees has extended the integrations embedded within its software delivery management (SDM) platform to add support for additional services provided by Google. Moritz Plassnig, senior vice president cloud and general manager for SDM at CloudBees, said these integrations with Google Cloud Build and Tekton pipelines are being provided as part of a long-standing alliance between […].