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DevOps'ing DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

There’s no faster way to kill a conversation among a non-technical crowd than to begin discussing DevOps. For many, DevOps is that “technical thing” that IT teams do to automate testing. Or, to paraphrase an actual conversation I once had with a client: “Doesn’t DevOps use that guy Jenkins to monitor something called technical debt so that we can have a cleaner Git, which somehow allows our Kubernetes to Docker?

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Chicken Soup for the SLO

DevOps.com

Since time immemorial, humans have struggled to communicate. From myth to the modern era, our most memorable stories often involve individuals or groups seeking to be understood in order to avoid conflict. Be it the biblical allegory of Babel to the more recent Star Trek: The Next Generation episode of “Darmok,” a deep fascination with […]. The post Chicken Soup for the SLO appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Leveraging FlexDeploy Project Package Features

Dzone - DevOps

For a long time software development processes have been using packages. A package, for all intents and purposes, is a container file. Much like a zip file, they contain other files such as binaries, source code, scripts, and also a manifest that tells users what this project package means. Some common usages of packages are to make it easier to reuse and share code or to deploy code dependencies to different projects.

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Happy Workers are Profitable Organizations’ #1 Secret & the Relationship-Cube™ Model Provides 4-Simple Yet Critical Elements to Sustained Success!

CEO Insider

Global talent acquisition and management firm Korn Ferry has recently revealed what many of us in the talent development and leadership space have known for quite a while. “Happy” members of your organization are your greatest asset, while “nomads” (job-hoppers who frequently move within the company or between companies) do more harm than good to […].

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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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COVID-19 and Poor Software Quality: What You Need to Know

Dzone - DevOps

The Consortium for Information and Software Quality (CISQ) recently released a report about the cost of poor quality software (CPSQ) in the US in 2020. Reading between the lines, we can see how the COVID-19 crisis contributed to making this problem even worse. This past January, CISQ released The Cost of Poor Quality Software in the US: A 2020 Report and presented a webinar covering the key findings.

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Restarts and GitOps Don't Fix Everything

Dzone - DevOps

GitOps, ChatOps, MLOps, BugattiOps. With the exception of the last one I just made up, every iteration of automating and streamlining operational procedures has been advertised as the cure-all solution to every ailment, including resolving incidents. While declarative infrastructure, programmatic deployments, and repeatable automation are desirable, they aren’t capable of resolving or preventing incidents in every major infrastructure.

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Life as Art

DevOps.com

The post Life as Art appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How To Create Software Architecture Culture In Your Team

Dzone - DevOps

There are some qualities that differentiate average from high performing software development companies and attitude towards the software architecture culture is one of them. Software Architecture Culture. The culture is better and the results are much better in teams where software developers and architects pay particular attention to software architecture quality.

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CodeSOD: Are You Active Enough?

The Daily WTF

Cornelius was working with some code where the objects might be "active" or "inactive" His code needed to do something different , depending on whether the objects were "active" or not, but fortunately, there was a handy-dandy IsActive method. Weirdly , that method required a bool parameter, but also returned a bool. Since there wasn't any useful documentation, Cornelius checked the C++ code. bool SomeActivatedClass::IsActive(bool& active) { active = true; return

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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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Addressing Concerns About Being a DevOps Engineer

Dzone - DevOps

In the experience of leading a DevOps team, some team members have the concern about being a DevOps engineer: Concern #1: Is it better to be a developer because writing programs looks more competitive? However, we seem to be just doing the integration of various tools.

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How to make your CFO happy: A 301% ROI

Beyond B2B

As a CFO, key performance indicators play a crucial role in my daily job. And there is one KPI that really stands out when it comes to assessing the value of an invest ment: ROI – return on investment.

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What Is Resilience Engineering? A Lightning Talk With Background Information

Dzone - DevOps

Building and maintaining event-driven, highly scalable, and quickly adaptable systems are a pain in the neck. Resilience engineering embraces this complexity and helps you manage it. In the TEQnation lightning talk below, I will explain what resilience engineering is, why every software person should know about it, and how you can start practicing it.

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Perforce Documents Record Growth as Gaming and Production Studios Adapt to New Ways of Working

DevOps.com

Strong growth in 2020 continues in 2021 as gaming and virtual production studios meet increased customer demand with highly efficient, increasingly distributed work and collaboration techniques that are now part of the new normal. Minneapolis, MN, June 7, 2021 — Perforce Software, (“Perforce”), a provider of DevOps solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along […].

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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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Financial Crimes: Three Things You Need to Catch a Clever Criminal

Teradata

Financial crimes are here to stay. But fighting fraudsters isn’t just a matter of investing more money in analytics. Find out what your organization needs to catch a clever criminal.

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Usability improvements for collaborative Deploy Previews

Netlify

It’s only been a couple weeks since we launched collaborative Deploy Previews , but there’s already more to talk about! The developer community shared some excellent feedback for improving the Reviewer experience and we’ve got new updates to make getting feedback from Reviewers easier and more accessible. As a quick recap, collaborative Deploy Previews enable project reviewers to comment, screen record, and annotate within a preview, while all feedback gets posted in the GitHub pull reques

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Improve Patient Experience with Salesforce Health Cloud

Trigent

The modern healthcare systems are undergoing a period of transition migrating from reactive to proactive models. Just like other sectors, the healthcare sector has also become equally demanding and patients are no longer hesitating to switch to better healthcare systems if their expectations are not met. As the leading CRM solution in the world, Salesforce offers cloud solutions for several industries including healthcare to manage diverse needs.

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Scully Template Project with Angular 12 and Netlify

Netlify

Coding is hard, let me try to make it a bit easier by giving you some code. I created a template project using Angular 12 , Scully static site generator, and threw in a sprinkling of Netlify setup to help easily deploy to a CDN. What can I say except you’re welcome™?. Now that song will be stuck in my head and your head all day (does that make us friends?

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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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Top tips for building a great tech team

CEO Tech Tips

One of the hardest things about growing a business for a CEO is growing the tech team of the right people at the right time. Following are top tips for a CEO to build and keep a great tech team for the success of the business. Hire a fulltime CTO to have the right focus on building the tech culture, team, processes, and technology. Focus on solving one problem at a time, this will keep the team agile, so they can respond faster to customer and market feedback.

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Why You May Need Street Furniture For Your Business

Strategy Driven

The benefits of street furniture for business environments are countless, being a necessity from both a practical and aesthetic perspective. From timber bollards to control access of vehicles to cycle shelters to offer a secure place for bicycles, the addition of street furniture on your commercial grounds can go a long way when it comes to both security and convenience for visitors.

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Top tips for building a great tech team

CEO Tech Tips

One of the hardest things about growing a business for a CEO is growing the tech team of the right people at the right time. Following are top tips for a CEO to build and keep a great tech team for the success of the business. Hire a fulltime CTO to have the right focus on building the tech culture, team, processes, and technology. Focus on solving one problem at a time, this will keep the team agile, so they can respond faster to customer and market feedback.

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Data Flow

The Programmer's Paradox

I like to write this post every few years. People generally skim over it, and then ignore what I am saying. So I’ll probably end up writing it a few dozen more times, then give up completely. There is one major trick to keeping everything sane while building a big system: Forget about the code. Just ignore it. The problem isn’t the code, it isn’t ever the code.

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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.

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Australia’s New Cyber and Critical Tech Strategy, Key to Diplomacy

Palo Alto Networks

On 21 April 2021, the Australian Government launched its International Cyber and Critical Tech Engagement Strategy , which aims to create a safe, secure and prosperous world enabled by cyberspace and critical technology. The new Strategy builds on the 2017 International Cyber Engagement Strategy to incorporate critical technology into Australia’s diplomatic engagement.