Wed.Aug 07, 2019

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Helping Developers Win in the Shift-Left Revolution

DevOps.com

The shift-left revolution is upon us. Just because it’s a cliche, doesn’t mean it’s not true. As software development organizations continue to implement DevOps culture, processes, and tools, developers are adopting the practice of testing and ensuring the security of their applications as early as possible in the DevOps pipeline. This is quite a change […].

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Trust in leadership is critical to enterprise success

DXC

Digital transformation requires organizations to be agile, adaptable, flexible, and scalable. It requires a strategic vision and a collective mindset that is focused on innovation, teamwork, and problem-solving. But without strong trust among employees in an organization’s leaders, the elements that drive digital transformation can become corroded and ineffective.

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How to hire a software developer in a candidate-driven market

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

We recently concluded our successful webinar with Google’s Senior Technical Recruiter, Amy Miller , where we were introduced to the tips and tricks of successfully recruiting in-demand technical talent for your organization. . Hiring is difficult in today’s candidate-driven market. It becomes even tougher when it comes to hiring for technical roles.

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Enhancing Native Kubernetes Security

Lacework

By 2022, 75% of enterprises (a sharp rise from 30% in 2019) are expected to run containerized applications globally. The visible benefits of automating container orchestration with Kubernetes is a key force behind this rapid adoption. Unfortunately, this also increases risks as a compromise in Kubernetes can potentially impair the entire containerized environment.

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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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The Ten Stories Great Leaders Tell

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Leadership isn’t just about standing up and speaking, it’s about weaving a story so compelling to bring everyone along the journey with you. Today’s post is by Paul Smith, thoughtLEADERS principal and author of the new book The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell. (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Good leaders ask, “How do I […]. This is only the beginning of the thought.

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4 essential open-source tools for cloud management

TechBeacon

The cloud has pushed open source in a different direction. As a result, open source is no longer the only value option. Cloud computing gives you the ability to leverage both open-source and closed-source technology on demand, which turns the ROI model for open source on its head.

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The Importance Of Rhetoric In Inspirational Leadership

CEO Insider

Charismatic leaders demonstrate that rhetoric is a key aspect of their approach to leadership and of their success as leaders. Communication that contains specific content references and rhetorical devices, and uses specific non-verbal behaviours in its delivery, has the capacity to profoundly influence a person’s evaluation of the leader. Specifically, rhetoric can be both a […].

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Article: The Challenges in Integrating Cross-Boundary Teams

InfoQ Culture Methods

Cross-boundary teams are the hub of innovation. However, creating and nurturing a cross-functional team for innovation is a challenging task. It needs a deep understanding of the nature of knowledge, diversity and interactions within a team. Managers and team leaders can infer valuable information from a deeper understanding of the contextual and knowledge level challenges in such teams.

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Fujitsu: State of Digital Transformation Is…Mixed

DevOps.com

According to the Fujitsu Future Insights Global Digital Transformation Survey Report 2019, nearly 90% of companies in a recent survey are already deep into their digital transformation efforts. While the survey did find broad movement toward digital transformation, there existed wide differences in the progress of transformation across industries. If digital transformation progress were a […].

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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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Partner Spotlight: The Migration Company

Megaport

“The Migration Company’s partnership with Megaport accelerates our time to value for our customers and continues to strengthen our 40% faster migration service offering. Connecting our customers’ data centres to the cloud is now a 60 second process which represents efficiency in cloud connectivity lead times, cost savings and reduction in overall migration timelines.” – Roux Visser.

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Principles Systems and Tools – What Shingo Can Teach Us About DevOps

DevOps.com

In my last post, The Power of a Game: What I Learned from Facilitating the Phoenix Project Simulation, we explored how DevOps and Agile practices are built on underlying Lean principles that go back decades to a time before the Toyota Production System. When you look into the history of Lean, it is almost impossible […]. The post Principles Systems and Tools – What Shingo Can Teach Us About DevOps appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Being Liquid Is Not Enough; Companies Must Also be Non-Viscous

Data Virtualization

Everything changes so fast, knowing how to adapt is no longer an option but a necessity. Companies now operate in a market that not only moves at an impressive speed, but also changes shape with the same speed. These changes.

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Grow Your Business the Way Diamonds Grow, Before It’s Too Late

Women on Business

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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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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Force-Multiply Your Tech Investments — Go Serverless

Mentormate

Wide interest in serverless computing — that is, Function as a Service or FaaS — has been trending among the tech community for some time now, and for good reason. At its most basic, it allows organizations to get functionality (and software) into production at a faster rate than the more traditional cloud-based models. Delivering that functionality to users and figuring out if it resonates with them is the key to long-term success.

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Single sign-on still open to attack: An inside look

TechBeacon

While single sign-on (SSO) technologies have matured significantly, some specific implementations still have security issues. Micro Focus Fortify security researchers revealed two vulnerabilities at Black Hat in Las Vegas this week that were fixed by Microsoft in July.

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How to Protect Yourself in the Cloud: Tips and Best Practices

Symantec

Data breaches are attracting a lot of attention lately.

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What Does Your Workplace Say About Your IT Department?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Does your IT office make people want to come to work? Image Credit: Jesús Corrius. One of the most challenging jobs that the person in the CIO position has to deal with is trying to recruit the best workers. In addition to the importance of information technology, there are a number of different things that can cause a young person just out of college to decide to either join your IT department or not, but one of the most obvious is what they think of your work environment.

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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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How to Be a Financially Conscious Site Reliability Engineer

CloudZero

Site reliability engineers (SREs) are the glue between “Dev” and “Ops,” ensuring that software engineering expertise is applied to operations challenges. SREs naturally focus on making systems more reliable, efficient, and scalable. If you’re an SRE yourself, you’re already deeply familiar with these ideas.

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The Next Frontier – Invisible Licensing for your ROBO and VDI environments

Nutanix

Nutanix is introducing new consumption models for specific use cases to provide another option to capacity-based (CBL) and appliance licensing, giving you the flexibility to bring different Nutanix software together in a way that is simple to plan, price, and purchase. The two new use cases are virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and remote office/branch office (ROBO) deployments.

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SaaS vs PaaS vs IaaS: Overview and Comparison

Daffodil Software

In 2019, the public cloud services market was expected to reach around 214.3 billion U.S. dollars in size and by 2022 market revenue was forecast to exceed 331.2 billion U.S. dollars. | Statista. Public cloud services are gaining a lot of traction. Startups, SMEs, and enterprises are recognizing the benefits of cloud and thus, are migrating to the most relevant service provider to improve ROI, efficiency, and time-to-market.

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Avoiding Bad Practices in iOS and Android Design

Toptal

In an era of cross-platform mobile development, it is crucial to understand the specifics of different operating systems and hardware. In this article, Mobile Developer Martin Doychev lists a number of bad practices employed while creating apps for iOS and Android and explains what you should and shouldn’t do.

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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.

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Cyber-attacks on the financial industry are skyrocketing, but what’s the real reason?

CTOvision

Over the past couple years, we’ve all heard of varying degrees of cyber-attacks being carried out on political campaigns, cities and towns, hospitals, and – perhaps not surprisingly – financial institutions. What I find the most interesting about these incidents is two-fold: that organizations are still leveraging traditional or outdated cybersecurity approaches in an era […].

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Twilio Adds DevOps Tool to Invoke Communications Services

DevOps.com

At its annual SIGNAL conference, Twilio today launched an initiative intended to make it easier to embed a variety of communication services within an application in the context of a DevOps process. Quinton Wall, senior director of developer marketing at Twilio, said the open source Twilio Command Line Interface (CLI) tool, now available in beta, […].

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It’s not just Equifax: Here’s every major security breach and data hack so far

CTOvision

Data breaches are scary. Scariest of all is that they can come at any time, to any of the financial institutions you trust. Hackers take advantage of loopholes in institutions’ servers and security protections to steal your most personal and sensitive information — credit and debit card numbers, Social Security data, your birth date and […].

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CRN Recognizes 8 Dell Technologies Leaders in 2019 Top 100 Executives List

Dell EMC

Every year, CRN presents its Top 100 list, which recognizes the key players who are setting the pace for the IT industry. At Dell Technologies, our purpose is to drive human progress, through greater access to better technology, for people with big ideas around the world. And this is something pursued in collaboration with our extensive network of partners, which is why having 8 leaders recognized by CRN this year is worth celebrating!

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Why do so many wireless routers lack basic security protections?

CTOvision

Despite increased attention on cybersecurity in the enterprise and at home, many popular wireless routers still lack basic security protections, according to a new report from Consumer Reports’ Digital Lab initiative. The Digital Lab studied 29 routers (20 traditional and nine mesh) and evaluated them for about 60 different security and privacy practices, as well […].

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Can the Next Wave of Technology Actually Bring Us Closer?

Battery Ventures

Our future depends on each of us feeling heard, seen, and loved. This may sound strangely emotional coming from someone in technology, but there are decades of research to support the idea that love and support, real connection, and the ability to feel authentic and empowered are human needs that allow us to become our best selves. And right now, despite an explosion in social-media and other types of digital-communication technologies, we’re experiencing a well-documented loneliness epidemic

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Good Bots Vs. Bad Bots: What’s The Impact On Your Business?

CTOvision

Roughly half of today’s internet traffic is non-human (i.e., generated by bots). While some are good—like those that crawl websites for web indexing, content aggregation, and market or pricing intelligence—others are “bad.” These bad bots (roughly 26% of internet traffic) disrupt service, steal data and perform fraudulent activities. And they target all channels, including websites APIs […].