Tue.Jan 14, 2020

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Two practices for managing a program in product-mode orgs

Martin Fowler

Luiza and James move on to talking about what they've learned to help programs work. The first two are to invest time at beginning of the program and deliberately choose an appropriate leadership style. moreā€¦.

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The best software QA and testing conferences of 2020

TechBeacon

Some may see testing as a fairly boring and static set of practices, but leaders in this space know it is a vibrant discipline that is constantly improving every year, thanks to exciting new techniques made possible by better automation tools and artificial intelligence. More than ever, software quality drives business growth. Attending conferences is the best way to keep your skills and knowledge about these trends up to date and connect with your peers in the larger testing community.

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How to Use DevOps for Compliance

DevOps.com

Picture this: Youā€™ve been working in an organization’s IT department for a couple of years and tasks have become quite a routine. Some documentation here and there, code reviews, end-user training, routine meetings with the developers and so on. You can do literally everything with your eyes closed. Then, all of a sudden, the company […].

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Five Highly Anticipated Blockchain Trends You Should Know In 2020

CTOvision

Read Venkatesan Ellappan list five highly anticipated blockchain trends for 2020 on Inc24 : Blockchain, since its inception, has been one of the most demanded and talked about technology among all the new age technologies the industry has been working with. Its vast application has opened up opportunities for organizations to implement it in their […].

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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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Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: Topics, Partitions, and Storage Fundamentals

Confluent

Part 1 of this series discussed the basic elements of an event streaming platform: events, streams, and tables. We also introduced the stream-table duality and learned why it is a […].

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Do Your SOC Metrics Incentivize Bad Behavior?

Palo Alto Networks

The following post on SOC metrics is adapted from the book, ā€œElements of Security Operations,ā€ a guide to building and optimizing effective and scalable security operations. Download a free copy today. Some metrics that security operations centers (SOCs) widely use to evaluate their performance have the potential to drive poor behavior. One example is mean time to resolution (MTTR).

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AMD vs. Intel: Which CPU is likely to be faster this year?

CTOvision

Read Gordon Mah Ung compare AMD and Intel on PC Mag : This year weā€™ll see an historic fight for laptops, as AMDā€™s first truly competitive mobile CPU seeks to dethrone Intelā€™s decades-long dominance. Although full details of AMDā€™s mobile Ryzen 4000 chips arenā€™t knownā€”and Intel has two more cards to play this year in […].

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DevOps and Developer Trends to Consider in 2020

Dzone - DevOps

Here's what the new year will bring in DevOps. In 2019, our industry has seen great steps forward in the world of DevOps and engineering technology. A proliferation of enhancements and innovations have hit the developer market to increase speed, productivity, and automation. New research from more than 30 million workflows revealed the importance of continuous integration for high performing teams.

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Automate your Nuxt.js app deployment

CircleCI

DevOps practices that include continuous integration and continuous deployment are an essential part of modern-day software development. Vue.js developers building server-side rendered applications with Nuxt.js should be taking advantage of these modern processes to deploy their applications. This article will show Vue.js developers using Nuxt.js how to build, test, and deploy their applications to GitHub Pages using CircleCI.

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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. Itā€™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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It's time for IT Ops and security tools to finally converge

TechBeacon

When an organization detects a security event, the response typically involves several specialists. The security team usually kicks things off, but other parties invariably join in. Especially during a large-scale incident, IT operations, product engineering, support, and others often join the remediation team.

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Why Is QA so Important in Executing a DevOps Implementation Strategy?

DevOps.com

In a rapidly growing global digital landscape, enterprises are facing many challenges. These include changing customer behavior and the need to be in line with the latest technology trends. To address these challenges and to stay up the competition curve, enterprises are adopting a slew of strategies. These comprise expanding the capacity of processes, quick […].

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The Rise of the Mobile App

Kaseya

Mobile apps have become a daily staple of our lives. Do you have to order food? You have an app for that. Do you want to travel? You have an app for that. Do you want to switch on your light? Well, you have an app for that as well. The number of smartphone users worldwide has surpassed three billion in 2020. People today spend an average of 3 hours, 35 minutes per day on mobile devices with 90 percent of this time being spent on mobile apps than mobile websites. .

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Why big data may help you sleep better at night

CTOvision

There are two technologies that Sleep Number’s launching at CES this year. Two years ago, we launched our 360 platform, which is a fully integrated heating and cooling temperature bed that allows us to really optimize the comfort of each individual. This is our Climate 360 smart bed–it has the ability to warm the feet, […].

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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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Debunking the Common Misconceptions Related To DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

Dispel some of the myths about DevOps. Any business today aims at achieving faster time to market with quality products or services. This is needed to stay competitive as rivals can threaten to lure away customers by offering better user experience. Hence, to stay competitive and achieve ROI, businesses are increasingly looking at embracing DevOps. The main objective of the development team is to rapidly create software with new features to address the changing market dynamics and customer prefe

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The Internet of Things Is Changing the World

CTOvision

Read why Irving Wladawsky-Berger explain how the Internet of Things promises to bring many benefits, including a new generation of smart, connected products on Wall Street Journal : The Internet of Things has been a long time coming. Ubiquitous or pervasive computing, which is computing happening anytime and anywhere, dates to the 1990s, when devices […].

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Remedy and Transformation

DevOps.com

The post Remedy and Transformation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Moving security operations to the cloud

CTOvision

Read Jon Oltsik explain how to move your security operations to the cloud on CSO Online : Itā€™s also important to remember that these security operations challenges are exacerbated by the ongoing cybersecurity skills shortage as there just arenā€™t enough skilled bodies to throw at problems. Looking to get off this security operations treadmill, many organizations […].

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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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Cypress vs. Selenium WebDriver: Better, Or Just Different? [Video]

Dzone - DevOps

A video comparison of Selenium Webdriver and Cypress.io. ā€œIs Cypress better than Selenium WebDriver? I get asked this a lot. Frankly, the easiest path of a ā€˜this vs. thatā€™ talk is to try and find out which is "best." But I will not take that path. Instead, I will try and explain how Cypress is different from Selenium WebDriver.ā€ ā€” Gil Tayar, Sr.

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Serverless: A simple overview

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Get a basic understanding of serverless, then go deeper with recommended resources. Serverless is a trend in computing that decouples the execution of code, such as in web applications, from the need to maintain servers to run that code. The operational overhead to create, provision, and care for applications running on servers (in the traditional sense) is significant.

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Testing for Fragmentation: A Risk-Based Approach for Targeted, Effective Testing

Dzone - DevOps

Learn more about the benefits of testing based on risk. Whenever the subject of fragmentation comes up in the context of mobile app testing, the focus is mainly on knowing what to test, and where. While the former relies on knowing your app, its functionality, and expected behavior, the latter revolves around market research and insights about the devices your customers commonly use.

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Article: Book Review: Developer, Advocate!

InfoQ Culture Methods

Developer, Advocate! is a set of interviews with prominent technologists, covering what drives their interest and enthusiasm in the industry. The brevity of each interview provides direct information and insight that can be read separately at any time, in any order, enabling those with busy schedules to read, put down, repeat. By Erik Costlow, Geertjan Wielenga, Jennifer Reif.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

ā€œReimagined: Building Products with Generative AIā€ 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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CSP Reinvention Proves Tricky

Beyond B2B

The Internet of Things has been thrown into focus for communications service providers (CSPs), thanks to the relentless rise of new types of connected devices.

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Four short links: 15 January 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Performance Degradation and Restoration During Sleep Deprivation (NCBI) — These results suggest that the brain adapts to chronic sleep restriction. In mild to moderate sleep restriction, this adaptation is sufficient to stabilize performance, although at a reduced level. These adaptive changes are hypothesized to restrict brain operational capacity and to persist for several days after normal sleep duration is restored, delaying recovery.

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Understanding the potential, challenges and use cases for real-world evidence

DXC

by Jared Kimble Efforts to properly understand and deploy real-world evidence (RWE) are under way across the life sciences industry. Regulatory authorities and companies are assessing how best to make use of RWE and how to deal with some of the challenges that arise when managing large amounts of dispersed data. During the Drug Information […].

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5 predictions for tech M&A in 2020

Synopsys

Are you involved in M&A transactions where software is a major part of the deal? Here are our predictions for tech M&A trends to watch out for in 2020. The post 5 predictions for tech M&A in 2020 appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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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 youā€™ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzingā€™s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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How ā€˜smart machinery accessā€™ boosts heavy equipment health and safety

DXC

The concept of creating a ā€œsmart factoryā€ by integrating IoT devices, digital twin technology, advanced data analytics and automation of the complete product lifecycle is gaining widespread acceptance. But what about extending digitization beyond the production line and its immediate environment to include heavy machinery, bulldozers, overhead gantry cranes, oversized trucks, forklifts, oilfield pieces, wheel […].

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Agile2020 and the Emerging Economies Initiative

Agile Alliance

At Agile2019, word was just starting to spread that I was going to be the 2020 conference chair and Rafael Prikladnicki shared with me more about the Emerging Economies Initiative that Angie Doyle chairs. Immediately this resonated with me and his passion for this initiative was inescapable. After that initial conversation, I talked this through … Continued.

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OverOps for.NET: A New Way to Identify, Prevent and Resolve Code-Level Errors in.NET Applications

OverOps

New OverOps support for.NET enables enterprises to prevent rapid code changes from impacting the customer experience. After working with engineering teams of the leading companies in Java technology and receiving multiple requests to support more languages, we are excited to announce that we are expanding our support to the.NET ecosystem. Engineering teams building and delivering.NET Core and.NET Framework apps will now be able to leverage the power of OverOps to proactively identify, prevent, a