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What It Really Takes to Build Compliant Apps

DevOps.com

If you search online for “software compliance,” you’ll be met with a seemingly endless lineup of blog posts, how-tos and explainer articles promising to tell you everything you need to know about writing and deploying software in a compliance-friendly manner. Some of those are good resources, especially the ones that delve into meeting specific compliance […].

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Five Important Practices For A CIO To Go Digital Transformation

OTS Solutions

5 Reasons Why a CIO Needs to Go Digital Transformation. Digital transformation offers your company new ventures and opportunities you never imagined. Your company can add revenue streams while keeping up with customer demands. While there are many benefits to go digital, so few leaders are hesitant from giving it a shot. Leaders have a problem coming up with a cohesive model that will lead to massive progress.

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Frontline Festival: Best of 2018 Edition

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month we are celebrating each blogger’s favorite post of the year (as identified by them). It’s always so much fun to see what emerges as the very best, and which topics rise to […]. The post Frontline Festival: Best of 2018 Edition appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Common Problems New Computer Programmers May Experience

The Crazy Programmer

Choosing the right career path can be extremely challenging. For people who love figuring out the complexities of computer code, a career as a programmer is a great option. With over 300,000 existing computer programming positions. on the American job market, there is no denying this field is the wave of the future. Having success as a computer programmer will require you to work hard and practice coding on a daily basis.

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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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Agile for Humanity Tuscon Meetup Webinar Series

Agile Alliance

The Agile For Humanity Tucson launched its webinar series in September 2018 and continues to work toward building an Agile community in the Tucson, Arizona area. On the 2nd or 3rd Saturday of each month at 10:00 AM MST, we begin with networking followed by presentations from speakers in different areas. The goal is to … Continued.

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The Time for Time Series Data

DevOps.com

More than four years ago, we launched InfluxDB, an open source time series platform. In the years since, time series technology has become increasingly popular; according to DB-Engines, over the last 24 months time series has been the fastest growing database category. This popularity is fueled by the “sensorification” of the physical world (i.e., IoT) […].

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Discover the Benefits of Android Clean Architecture

Toptal

It’s easy to get entangled in spaghetti code, fuzzy responsibilities, and opaque architecture. It is just as easy to write crisp, clear code that is just as easy to write, maintain, and update with a little forethought. Join Toptal Android Developer Tomasz Czura as he guides you through the process and the reasoning behind creating clean architecture on Android.

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Taming Data with JavaScript

A List Apart

I love data. I also love JavaScript. Yet, data and client-side JavaScript are often considered mutually exclusive. The industry typically sees data processing and aggregation as a back-end function, while JavaScript is just for displaying the pre-aggregated data. Bandwidth and processing time are seen as huge bottlenecks for dealing with data on the client side.

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Design with Precision – An Adobe XD Review

Toptal

Great features and seamless integration with the Adobe ecosystem makes Adobe XD a powerful design tool that competes with industry favorites like Sketch and Figma.

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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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A List Apart - Untitled Article

A List Apart

I love data. I also love JavaScript. Yet, data and client-side JavaScript are often considered mutually exclusive. The industry typically sees data processing and aggregation as a back-end function, while JavaScript is just for displaying the pre-aggregated data. Bandwidth and processing time are seen as huge bottlenecks for dealing with data on the client side.

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Evaluating the Nature of Business Ethics in Practice

Toptal

Using the 2016 Wells Fargo Banking Scandal as an example, this article dissects the situation according to the principles of the three classic ethical theorists: Plato, Kant, and Mill. It then offers some suggestions on how to improve ethics in business.

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The Limiting Factors of Microservices Also Apply to FaaS

DevOps.com

In enterprise development and deployment, the pattern is easy to detect. A big monolithic application is targeted for re-architecting as a microservices architecture. People excited about microservices get together and break up the design to make it far less monolithic and far more loosely coupled. If your organization is lucky, it is at this stage […].

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The state of application security: DevOps, testing inspire confidence

TechBeacon

Companies continue to have a paradoxical relationship with security: More than half of business decision makers—52%—have increased concerns about application security, but 64% still have considerable confidence in their current security efforts, according to a recent study conducted by BizTechInsights for Micro Focus.

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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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Trends in data, machine learning, and AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Ben Lorica looks ahead at what we can expect in 2019 in the big data landscape. For the end-of-year holiday episode of the Data Show , I turned the tables on Data Show host Ben Lorica to talk about trends in big data, machine learning, and AI, and what to look for in 2019. Lorica also showcased some highlights from our upcoming Strata Data and Artificial Intelligence conferences.

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Why Centralizing Files in Your Business is Crucial (and How to Do It)

Women on Business

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Bake Off – We’re Up For The Challenge

InfoBest

From time to time we like to detach from the daily routine, and take on a new challenge. And what could have been better than a cooking and backing contest to practice our culinary skills just before the holidays. Everyone knows that food brings people together and there is nothing wrong with having a delicious meal with your colleagues. The fun part is that we also cooked and baked for the event.

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Meet the New Members of the Dell EMC PowerEdge Server Portfolio

Dell EMC

The launch of five new Dell EMC PowerEdge servers presents fantastic opportunities for your business – see how you can use them to help your customers solve their IT challenges… Are you up to speed with this month’s launch of the new exciting Dell EMC PowerEdge servers? The five new servers have all been purpose-designed to help meet organizations’ specific workload needs while also enabling IT Transformation – and there’s something to suit every typical customer segment.

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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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A Vicious Cycle

DevOps.com

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What do Data Domain customers have to say about Data Domain?

Dell EMC

Better together may be a cliché, but there is no better term for the pairing of a Data Domain appliance and the customer who owns it. The Data Domain appliances portfolio, both physical and virtual, have helped many businesses modernize their IT environments while providing best of breed deduplication and protection storage. Below are a few stories that are a testament to the Data Domain portfolio and all it has to offer.

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Heuristic Thinking, Choice Modelling and Compromise Effect

Federico Cargnelutti

UX design focuses on the user flow and how easy it is for the user to accomplish a desired goal. For this reason, whenever I create a UI, I take into account three things: heuristic thinking, choice modelling and compromise effect. Let’s take the Gmail and Amazon sign-in pages as an example to show you how these concepts might apply to real-life.

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Representative Line: Explicitly True

The Daily WTF

Part of Python’s appeal is its rich class library. The old XKCD about import antigravity sometimes doesn’t feel that far off. Combined with a few third-party libraries, like NumPy, you can do a lot with very little code. Of course, that feels a bit like magic. As Python gurus like to say, “Explicit is better than implicit”. One of Mark ’s co-workers took this perhaps a bit too far, when they started adding this import to every file: from __builtin__ import True.

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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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Intercom’s Director of Engineering on Becoming a Manager of Managers

Gitprime

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Talk with any engineering manager who regrets leaving coding and you’ll understand that management is not for everyone. In fact, Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom, believes that managing others is a life’s work.

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Symantec and Demisto: Responding at Scale with the Right Information at the Right Time

Symantec

Improving response by integrating security information from Symantec's products into Demisto's orchestration, automation, and response

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How Does Honeycomb Compare to Metrics, Log Management, and APM Tools?

Honeycomb

At Honeycomb, we are frequently asked how we compare to what else is out there. Do these other tools offer observability? Do I need them all? What’s important? Metrics? Logs? What’s the best way to monitor application performance? We’ve found that Honeycomb is complementary to other tools in some cases and in others, can help you reduce your usage or replace them entirely.

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How Digital Transformation is Changing the Workplace

Arcserve

As more companies relentlessly drive toward digital transformation as a way to be more competitive, technology and business leaders must decide how best to embrace these technology changes while making sure security doesn’t fall behind. By the end of this year, businesses worldwide are expected to have spent $1.1 trillion on digital transformation technology and.

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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 Atlassian Built A $20 Billion Business

Battery Ventures

There are plenty of tried-and-true strategies for software companies seeking to scale their businesses. But what if a company wants to grow in a more non-traditional way? That’s been the path forged by Atlassian, the maker of ubiquitous software tools like Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket. The company—which was founded in Australia and went public three years ago—has honed a high-velocity, low-friction sales model that eschews traditional salespeople.

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Four short links: 20 December 2018

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Misinformation Research, AI UI, Facebook's Value, and Python Governance. Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy -- We argue that scaling up computer security arguments to the level of the state, so that the entire polity is treated as an information system with associated attack surfaces and threat models, provides the best immediate way to understand these attacks and how to mitigate them.

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Reasons why Scala language climbs the ranks of popularity

Apiumhub

Scala is considered to be a complex, but very efficient and demanded language. And in today’s article, I would like to show you some facts about Scala language popularity, benefits of using it and list down some useful Scala blogs, where you can regularly find useful information with theory and practical examples. Scala Language. Well, first of all, let’s make it clear, what is Scala?