Fri.Mar 08, 2019

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#BalanceforBetter – Building a Better Future Together

Accenture

Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day , and this has made me reflect on my career, my journey as a wife, mother, friend, Agilist and more. In my path there have been highs and lows, opportunities and obstacles that forced me to course correct – and I am humbled and excited about the future. I recently sat down with my colleague, Roxi Ozolins, to discuss my personal and professional journey, the challenges and achievements that have brought me to where I am today.

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ITIL V4 Foundation Embraces the Agile Manifesto with Teamwork as a Core Value

DevOps.com

The Feb. 28 release of the ITIL Foundation ITIL 4 Edition book is proof positive that other service management frameworks have impressed the folks who brought the latest iteration of ITIL to fruition. ITIL V4 proves to be significantly different than previous generations of ITIL and embraces many of the core values found in frameworks […]. The post ITIL V4 Foundation Embraces the Agile Manifesto with Teamwork as a Core Value appeared first on DevOps.com.

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What's wrong with your value stream mapping 

TechBeacon

Over the last few decades, DevOps and agile have reached a noteworthy level of recognition: Some 80% of firms have adopted the principles of one or both at some level.

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Drones of the future will be smart (and maybe dangerous)

DXC

Drones have been around for a few years now, but the truth is their usefulness largely has been limited to providing visual information to users in the form of photos and video captured by their onboard digital cameras. That’s great if you’re a photographer, need to inspect an inaccessible piece of equipment or some farm […].

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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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CircleCI welcomes our newest ERG, CircleSHEi

CircleCI

Happy International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month from everyone at CircleCI! We recently launched a framework for employee resource groups (ERGs) to serve the richly diverse interests within our organization. Today we want to share our newest ERG, CircleSHEi, tell you about how this group came together, and share some notes from the kickoff mixer we enjoyed together this week.

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Reasons Why You Should Begin Embracing the Cloud

Cabot Solutions

Cloud computing has brought about a huge and massive change in every sphere of business and service This article proves exactly why we need to follow cloud

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One Year of Show & Tell

Algolia

When I joined Algolia, we were 25. We had a weekly meeting of the whole company, in which everyone could speak up and share what they did during the week. The communication was smooth, and everyone knew what everyone else was working on. Four years later, we are 350. It has become more difficult – even in the engineering team – to share knowledge among team members.

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How witnessing exclusion in Manila inspired me to become an Architect of Positive Futures

Capgemini

I had the opportunity to witness deprivation firsthand in 2012 while working as a volunteer for Life Project 4 Youth in Manila, Philippines. As part of the social work project, I worked closely with a group of young adults (mostly street children), recovering addicts, and former convicts, most of whom lived in extreme poverty with family income of less than $2 a day.

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Samanage Celebrates International Women’s Day 2019

Samanage

Trends of Women in Tech. While women make up roughly half of the total US workforce, the number of women in the tech industry and in technology roles is significantly less than that. Interestingly, if you travel back in time to the ’80s, you’ll see a significant drop in the number of women in computing related fields. Turns out all those computer games and pop culture geek movies had a significant impact on young girls wanting to learn about computers and technology.

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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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A Game Changer for Containers | cgroups

Linux Academy

Containers are only increasing in popularity. Here at Linux Academy, we’ve seen an over 30% increase in demand for container-related courses. Containers help simplify building applications by providing a way to package up the software and all the necessary dependencies and components. This consistency speeds up the development and deployment process to keep up with trends and shift your focus toward adding value to your end users as opposed to maintaining disparate systems.

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5 Female Tech Trailblazers Who Are Changing The Industry

BrainStation Technology

The technology space needs more female leaders. Recent data revealed that women account for less than 20 percent of technology jobs in the US – a shockingly low percentage considering females make up more than 50 percent of the total workforce. The solution, however, isn’t as simple as just hiring more women. We’ve rounded up five incredible female tech leaders who are championing diversity and using their voices to tackle the gender gap from within the industry.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 8th, 2019

High Scalability

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: A highly simplified diagram of serverless. ( @jbesw ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. It has 40 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more. 5% : France's new digital tax revolution; $15 trillion : AI contribution to global GDP by 2030; 70% : better response time using HTTP keep-alive in lambda; 115 million :

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Meet Oracle Modern Business Experience Speaker Jaret Balter

Apps Associates

A little bit about me So, I am presenting a session at Oracle Modern Business Experience but before I get into that, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I earned my Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies from the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, Massachusetts. I decided the legal career path wasn’t … Continue reading "Meet Oracle Modern Business Experience Speaker Jaret Balter".

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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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Channel Scoop – March 8, 2019

Palo Alto Networks

Congratulations to our 2019 Channel Chiefs! Karl Soderlund and Anar Desai have been recognized on the prestigious 2019 CRN Channel Chiefs list. Karl and Anar were selected as top channel executives in the industry based on their professional achievements, standing in the industry, dedication to the channel partner community, and strategies for driving growth and innovation.

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Calling all Innovators, Pioneers and Trail Blazers

Beyond B2B

Software AG is coming to a city near you! We’re hosting a five-city User Group series so that our customers can meet our R&D team, hear product updates and customer stories, and take advantage of free product training and certifications in their own “backyard.”.

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Tanya Janca at RSA on better AppSec: Play nice with DevOps

Synopsys

The DevOps and security relationship is often tense—but does it have to be? At RSA 2019, Tanya Janca explained how teams can play nice, and why they ought to. Play nice. Communicate. Cooperate. If you really want to make the “Sec” part of DevSecOps work effectively, those “soft” interpersonal skills are just as important as […].

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RSAC 2019: As Vulnerability Disclosure Matures, New Challenges Rise Up

Symantec

Despite broader adoption, vulnerability disclosure remains messy, muddying what ought to be a best practice

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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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Happy International Women’s Day!

Sailpoint

Today we celebrate women, their achievements and their impact. To the incredible women at SailPoint and all of the women in our lives, Happy International Women’s Day! Watch the video below to get to know some of the women on the #SailPointCrew! The post Happy International Women’s Day! appeared first on SailPoint.

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RSAC 2019: DNC Security Boss Bob Lord and Symantec CTO Hugh Thompson Talk Security

Symantec

Bob Lord says that organizations risk further confusing their employees, who are often at a loss as to how to protect their devices from attack

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Infrastructure as Code: The Key Offering of AWS DevOps

Daffodil Software

AWS was the first to offer Infrastructure as Code (IaC) via AWS CloudFormation as a part of AWS DevOps. It enables developers and systems administrators to easily create and manage a collection of related AWS resources. They can provision and update them in an orderly and predictable way. Developers can use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create their own templates.

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Hitachi Vantara and Connected Mainframe at SHARE 2019

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

SHARE 2019 is next week from March 10 – 15 in Phoenix, Arizona and should be very interesting this year because of all the enhancements that have become available in the z14 mainframe since July of 2017. The Motley Fool Reported that IBM Is enjoying the strongest mainframe cycle in Years. They reported that strong sales of mainframe systems have helped IBM report three consecutive quarters of revenue growth.

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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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Four short links: 8 March 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Ethics and Skepticism, Corporate Open Source, Detecting Fake Text, and DNA Computation. Round Up: Ethics and Skepticism -- There are a whole lot of different ways to misunderstand or be duped by data. This is my round up of good links that illustrate some of the most common problems with relying on data. Real-world examples. (via Elizabeth Goodman ). oss-contributors -- Adobe's s/w for measuring companies' contributions to GitHub, released as open source natch.

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RSAC 2019: The Greatest Adversary to Election Security: Social Media

Symantec

How do we fight against misinformation in the arena of public opinion?

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International Women's Day at O'Reilly

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

At O’Reilly, we seek to foster a culture that creates opportunity, rewards and recognizes accomplishments, and treats everyone with respect. On this International Women’s Day, I want to call out the simple truth that actions speak louder than words. That respect and doing the right thing always matter regardless of gender, and that treating people with respect and equality are the constant responsibility of everyone.

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Error'd: No Matter Where You Go.an Error is There

The Daily WTF

Michael P. wrote, "Only two minutes and a couple of blocks from my destination, Waze decided I should take a 2-hour, 80-mile detour." . "Thanks, Fry's, but I don't think I'll be needing a raincheck if you run out of those specials," Todd C. writes. . "I was digging around in the settings for the Outlook Web app and, well, it's good to see that even Microsoft has trouble with dates sometimes," John W. writes. .

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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 state-sponsored attackers took colleges to school

Darktrace

Universities should embrace cyber AI to protect valuable research and IP, without impacting on the interconnectivity that we’ve come to expect on campus.

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Connecting to an Actian X (Ingres) Database from PHP via JDBC

Actian

We have documented the best way to connect from PHP to an Ingres database via ODBC in an Actian Knowledge Base article called Ingres ODBC with PHP and in a previous post, Connecting to Actian X (Ingres) with PHP and NGINX. Sometimes, however, due to limitations, users may need to use JDBC instead of ODBC to connect. This post shows how this can be done, although no native support exists to connect through JDBC using PHP.

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Refactoring Applied to TDD

Net Objectives

“Refactoring” refers to the discipline of improving the design of existing code without changing its behavior. It is usually thought of as a way to deal with old legacy code that is functional but poorly designed and thus hard to work with. Since TDD focuses on driving new behavior from tests, how would refactoring play … Continue reading "Refactoring Applied to TDD".