Mon.Dec 09, 2019

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Article: How Structure, Process, and Rules Make People Free

InfoQ Culture Methods

There is a widespread belief that rules, structure and processes inhibit freedom and that organizations that want to build a culture of autonomy and performance need to avoid them like the plague. In this article, we want to debunk that myth. Nurturing a culture of freedom and responsibility at scale is an organizational design problem By Stephen Bungay, Antoine Merour.

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Top 5 Software Testing Trends to Review From 2019

Dzone - DevOps

A look back at DevOps in 2019. Over the period of 2019, a massive wave of new approaches and innovations came to software testing landscape at an exponential way. Along with those new introductions is the continuation of technological improvement, evolution, and reinvention. As we are heading into 2020, let’s review the top software testing trends and the achievements we have obtained in test automation after one year.

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2020 Tech Trend: Teams, not superstars, are the high performers

DXC

Developing high-performing teams will be the focus of many enterprises in 2020. Companies will confront the fallacy that pace is what unlocks the company’s full potential and recognize that how the company organizes its people and information flow is what determines performance. Organizing for a dynamic and complex environment requires a much different structure than […].

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DevOps Tools for the Monitoring Ecosystem

DevOps.com

DevOps is a cultural and process transformation—the goal of it is to achieve a higher rate of change and quality of software. There are categories of tools to help facilitate this transformation through automation and increased measurement and visibility. You can’t have or observe progress without measurement, and throughout your transformation you need to maintain […].

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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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Stop Emailing When You Should Have a Meeting

Let's Grow Leaders

Have a meeting for more bandwidth and speed Recently we were delivering a leadership development program when Annia, a senior leader in the firm, raised her hand and addressed the room: “I’ve noticed that many of us quickly send an email rather […]. The post Stop Emailing When You Should Have a Meeting appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Can We Do Without DevOps?

DevOps.com

Recently, DevOps has received so much hype and every respectable company sees it as its duty to have a DevOps team on and running. It is considered to be so beneficial to any company that a non-technician scrolling down posts at any tech website would think of it as a universal remedy for all the […]. The post Can We Do Without DevOps? appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Rise of the Internet of Things (IoT)

CTOvision

Read Darren Anstee take a look at how the Internet of Things will fare in 2020 on Tech Radar : They are already here. And they might already have outnumbered us. Their proliferation is breath-taking, with an estimated population reaching 125 billion in the next 10 years. IoT devices are the poster boys of a […].

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Deserialized Double Dirty

Coalfire

Recently I was able to fully root a NetApp OnCommand Performance Manager appliance using a Java Deserialization vulnerability and Dirty COW.

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Mobile Testing: Real devices vs Simulators/Emulators

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 2 minutes In the testing world we always have lots of possibilities when making a test on an application or web page, but referring to the mobile testing we have 3 different tools. . Real Devices. Simulators. Emulators. But what are these? Real Device: this is a device that you can actually touch (hardware), such as Apple, Samsung, Huawei, LG, and Sony products.

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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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Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8c and 7c processors will power cheaper ARM laptops

CTOvision

Qualcomm has had big ambitions for ARM-powered Windows laptops for years. At its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, the chipmaker revealed its biggest play yet: the Snapdragon 8c and the Snapdragon 7c, two new processors that are designed to create a new lineup of ARM chips for Windows laptops. The 8c is positioned as a replacement for […].

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New Cortex XDR 2.0 Features Increase Flexibility

Palo Alto Networks

Cortex XDR 2.0, a significant evolution of the industry’s most comprehensive platform for threat prevention, detection, investigation and response, is now available for use. In addition to the major feature upgrades that we previewed on Nov. 13 , we are announcing several additional innovations that enable flexible customization of Cortex XDR, ensuring workflows that match the needs of your security analysts.

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How Walmart And Others Are Riding A Blockchain Wave To Supply Chain Paradise

CTOvision

Blockchain technology as a potential solution has been applied to all of the large ecosystems that have issues with real-time data access, partners privacy, traceability and auditability. The supply chain ecosystem is no exception to that, as typical product recalls cost $8 million per year and this number can be reduced with the improved track-and-trace […].

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Today’s Successful Leader Values Data, but Is Not Driven by It

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Though data is an important part of every organization, not accounting for people when you make decisions and relying strictly on data is not the way. Today’s post is by Sara Canaday, author of Leadership Unchained (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Every day we generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. This information has led to some tremendous breakthroughs with the potential to improve thousands of lives.

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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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Automatizing a Postman test with JMeter

Apiumhub

Automatizing a Postman test with JMeter. Noawadays, one of the most used tools to do functional testing against an API is Postman. Even though these can be automatized via command line with Newman, the most common use of this tool is to create manual tests during an API’s development. When our server scales or we simply want to automatize our tests in a pipeline , Postman can prove quite challenging to use for our testing needs, specially if we also want to measure performance.

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Low-risk releases: Creating value through continuous delivery

Gitprime

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is all about delivering more value to customers—faster. If you’re ready to capitalize on this, here’s what you need to do.

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Will Flash Penetrate Secondary Storage Environments?

IDC

When the first All-Flash Arrays (AFAs) were introduced back in 2011, many enterprises, analysts and established enterprise storage vendors felt that these types of systems would be too expensive for widespread use in the enterprise. But by 2019, AFAs were generating almost 80% of primary external storage revenues , and the revenue streams for Hybrid Flash Arrays (HFAs) and HDD-only arrays was on the decline.

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Article: How Structure, Process, and Rules Make People Free

InfoQ Culture Methods

There is a widespread belief that rules, structure and processes inhibit freedom and that organizations that want to build a culture of autonomy and performance need to avoid them like the plague. In this article, we want to debunk that myth. Nurturing a culture of freedom and responsibility at scale is an organizational design problem By Stephen Bungay, Antoine Merour.

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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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5G and new Business Models to Transform CSPs

Beyond B2B

Almost everyone is a user of communications. Whether it is a mobile phone, a fixed broadband service, radio or cable TV, you rely on your communications service provider (CSP) to give you reliable connections.

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A Digital Christmas Carol on Cloud Transformation

iTexico

A Digital Christmas Carol on Cloud Transformation. It is a snowy Christmas Eve. Droosh is frustrated, overwhelmed, and about to explode. His non-profit oriented to business industry is going through challenging times: not running as smoothly and end-of-the-year results going at warning levels. The ghost of an old business partner, Marty, presents himself and warns Droosh about the upcoming visit of three ghosts.

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Heavy 2020 spending in Northern Europe

CEO Insider

Europe’s largest economy, and the fourth largest in the world, Germany, has been in a zero-growth situation for most of the year. This, despite that the country’s unemployment rate is at a historical low and The European Central Bank is supporting the economy with an extreme quantitative monetary policy. Further, a growing number of average […].

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Data Analytics: How to Know the Right Business Questions to Ask

Teradata

Identifying and focusing on priority analytic use cases within your organization will ensure you are asking the right business questions. Find out more.

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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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Low-risk releases: 5 steps to building a leading DevOps practice

Gitprime

With the constant change in the tech landscape, DevOps has taken off. Here are 5 steps to embrace the methodology effectively.

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CodeSOD: An Endpoint's Plugin

The Daily WTF

Heidi is doing some support work and maintenance on a application owned by a government agency. Currently, the work environment is a bit of a bureaucratic nightmare where you can’t do even the mildest code change without going through four hundred layers of paperwork, signoff, and consensus building. This isn’t just normal government stuff- it’s coming straight as a reaction to the previous work done on this project.

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Data Analytics: How to Know the Right Business Questions to Ask

Teradata

Identifying and focusing on priority analytic use cases within your organization will ensure you are asking the right business questions. Find out more.

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Expand Your Recruitment Pool

Strategy Driven

Want to hire the perfect employee? The more candidates you have to choose from, the better your chances are of finding that ideal candidate. There are lots of ways to expand your pool of candidates. Here are just several ways to encourage more applicants so that you’re more likely to hire the right person for the job. Advertise employee perks, not just demands.

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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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How to Lose a Launch

LaunchDarkly

Building resilient systems in the face of inevitable failure. Heidi Waterhouse, a Senior Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, spoke at last month’s Test in Production Meetup in Berlin, Germany on how to build software in such a way so as to avoid disaster. Failure is inevitable. All our systems fail, everything is flawed, humanity is doomed to imperfection.

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2 days in the life of a DDD Foundations trainee

Xebia

“Once we start judging, we stop learning.” I’ve always been a big supporter of continuous learning, and as a social scientist I know how easily we get trapped in cognitive bias and heuristics. That’s why I’m convinced that it’s crucial to continuously challenge your own perspectives, opinions and judgements. That is why I decided to […]. The post 2 days in the life of a DDD Foundations trainee appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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8 Emerging Trends In Big Data Management And Analytics To Watch In 2020

CTOvision

The total amount of digital data created worldwide is expected to more than quadruple to 175 zettabytes by 2025 from 40 zettabytes this year, fueled in part by the exploding number of data-generating edge devices and sensors, according to market researcher IDC. In keeping with Gartner’s “three Vs” (volume, variety and velocity) definition of big […].