Wed.Feb 13, 2019

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Agile Q&A: How is Testing Incorporated into Agile Software Development?

Agile Alliance

When the topic turns to testing and Agile software development, I usually hear variations of the following two questions: We usually take six weeks to do systems testing after development is over. How could we possibly develop AND test something within two weeks? If developers are doing the testing, what do testers do? This post … Continued.

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Python Benefiting From Increase in DevOps Use

DevOps.com

DevOps and Python have developed a mutually beneficial relationship. In a recent survey released by the Python Software Foundation and software development company JetBrains, researchers found that more and more developers are using the program language for an array of versatile projects, including DevOps and machine learning. In fact, Python developers told the researchers that […].

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Microchip Implants: Big Brother in a Chip Coming Our Way?

Symantec

As more organizations begin wading into uncharted territory, society will be forced to examine a host of new privacy and security questions – without easy answers

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Cybersecurity and the Need for SSL Monitoring

CTOvision

Read why Kameerath Kareem says that SSL monitoring is a must for app security for every organization on DZone : The cybersecurity industry is constantly striving to stay well prepared and well ahead of new threats. Data protection was in the spotlight all through 2018. It’s a common practice for applications to collect user data like […].

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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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Exploring the History of Business Intelligence

Toptal

Business intelligence has been evolving for 150 years. The history of BI provides a fascinating look at how the adoption of computers played a critical role in the usage of BI tools and how mathematics became cool again in the 21st century.

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One in three enterprises can’t protect themselves from data breaches

CTOvision

One in three enterprise companies do not believe they have the capabilities required to fend off a cyberattack leading to a data breach, research suggests. According to a survey involving over 600 cybersecurity professionals in business conducted by Balbix on behalf of the Ponemon Institute, organizations are having severe difficulties in implementing modern security solutions to […].

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You cannot hack yourself secure

TechBeacon

Are hacking and penetration testing the great solution to your security woes? That's what you'll hear from security conference speakers, who focus more on these topics than any other discipline in cybersecurity. That heavy focus on hacking is misguided.

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Uber releases Ludwig, an open source AI ‘toolbox’ built on top of TensorFlow

CTOvision

Want to dive earnestly into artificial intelligence (AI) development, but find the programming piece of it intimidating? Not to worry — Uber has your back. The ride-hailing giant today debuted Ludwig, an open source “toolbox” built on top of Google’s TensorFlow framework that allows users to train and test AI models without having to write […].

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Why 2019 Will Be the Year for Shift-Left Mainframe Testing

DevOps.com

While 2018 was the year for planning and implementing shift-left methodologies in testing, mainframe and server testers were, for the most part, left behind. These legacy infrastructure experts were tied down to old-school testing tools. Mainframes kept functioning, but tools and testing practices often became bottlenecks, preventing performance testing teams from testing more quickly mid-cycle […].

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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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Identifying, Understanding & Combating Insider Threats

CTOvision

Read Ilan Paretsky’s article about how organizations can identify and combat insider threats on Dark Reading : Most, if not all, organizations are vigilant about safeguarding against threats that can penetrate endpoint systems via email, websites, and other known and unknown pathways. But what about threats that come from within your organization?

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6 Tips for Opening a Local Business

Women on Business

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10 cyber insurance selling points

CTOvision

Read Elana Ashanti Jefferson list top ten reasons why companies, small and big, should buy cyber insurance on Property Casualty 360 : In a move that reflects the growing urgency for companies, organizations and institutions worldwide to proactively face down and mitigate cybercrime, Beazley, a longtime cyber insurance market leader, announced recently that it has […].

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Should you use AI to make decisions about your software team?

TechBeacon

New technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) are changing the way software organizations measure development performance and allocate resources. But there is an open question as to whether you should use AI to measure developers' performance and make HR-related decisions.

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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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IBM AI fails to beat human debating champion

CTOvision

After suffering defeat to AI at Go and Dota 2, the battle between man and machine was starting to look a little one-sided. But a human has finally notched up a win against our future robot overlords. Champion debater Harish Natarajan triumphed in a live showdown against IBM’s Miss Debater AI at the company’s Think […].

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Using Curiosity To Find Your Best Self

Stackery

As Stackery’s Ecosystems Manager, a huge part of my work revolves around meeting new people and developing relationships with them for the good of our company. I love this work not only because I’m passionate about people and serverless, but also because it keeps my curiosity muscle strong. To be good at my job, I need to do right by my personal connection to curiosity and learning— but sometimes I get off-track.

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617M stolen account details from 500px, Dubsmash, MyFitnessPal, ShareThis, more, being sold

CTOvision

A dark web marketplace this week reportedly began selling stolen data linked to roughly 617 million user accounts from 16 different websites. The Register was first to report the incident, citing details provided by the seller, who has set up show on the Tor network-based site Dream Market cyber-souk. The affected online services consist of video messaging […].

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How to Stop Inspiring Your Team to Underperformance

Next Level Blog

Every so often I hear a phrase so well turned that I say to myself, “I wish I had thought of that.” That happened a few months ago when I was talking with a top executive of a Fortune 500 company to get his feedback on a colleague who was one of my executive coaching clients. This exec loved my client and compared him quite favorably to his predecessor who, the exec said, regularly “inspired his team to underperformance.”.

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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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Configure a Failover Cluster with Pacemaker

Linux Academy

High availability is a major buzzword in the IT industry and there are several reasons for this. As more and more business provide their services through the Internet, the need for these services to always be accessible has grown. Gone are the days when you would have to go to a physical storefront to purchase goods and services. Now, at any time of the day or night, you can purchase food, clothes, entertainment, or just about anything else you can think of and have it shipped to your front door

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FlexDeploy Loves E-Business Suite: Walking

Flexagon

In this blog article I will expand on the solution which was showcased in FlexDeploy for EBS: Crawling, and enable Continuous Delivery using FlexDeploy Pipelines and Releases. In the previous article I configured the workflows, topology, and project configuration, and performed basic adhoc build and deployments. FlexDeploy Loves Oracle E-Business Suite: Series Overview DevOps Best.

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Prepare for the rise of farm bots

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

To meet the challenge of producing more food with less everything, farm bots are going to be an essential part of the mix. In the film Interstellar , Christopher Nolan's time, space, and logic-bending tale of against-the-odds, post-apocalyptic survival, one the first signs that things are about take a turn for the weird is when a small fleet of autonomous tractors bereft of a functioning GPS nevertheless manage to drive themselves out of the cornfields to park next to a weatherbeaten farmhouse o

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InfluxData Secures $60 Million in Series D Funding to Bring the Value of Time Series to the Enterprise Mainstream

DevOps.com

Norwest leads round, emphasizing strong growth and market potential; former MongoDB CEO joins board of directors SAN FRANCISCO – February 13, 2019 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series database InfluxDB, has raised $60 million in Series D funding, led by Norwest Venture Partners and joined by Sorenson Capital and existing investors Sapphire Ventures, […].

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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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The New Features I Love About Oracle HCM Cloud 19A

Apps Associates

In this latest HCM blog, I am pleased to highlight a few of the new and improved features and functionality for Oracle HCM Cloud 19A. You will be excited to know that most of these new features are customer driven, customer focused, and customer supported. Here is a quick excerpt of the new features along … Continue reading "The New Features I Love About Oracle HCM Cloud 19A".

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The Industrialization of Cyber Crime and How to Stop it From the Ground Up

Symantec

Oxford sociologist Jonathan Lusthaus spent 7 years visiting cyber crime havens around the globe.

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Scrum by Example: Product Backlog Refinement in Action

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

In Scrum, Product Backlog Refinement is an essential meeting of the Product Owner and the Development Team to gain clarity and a shared understanding of what needs to be done through discussion and sharing of ideas. The following is a guide example of how to run an effective Product Backlog Refinement meeting. Dramatis Personae: Steve – a ScrumMaster and the hero of our story Paula – the Product Owner of Steve’s team Learning from their recent experience with bad User Stories, ScrumMaster Steve,

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Open source databases: A viable alternative for enterprise computing

Enterprise.nxt

Large enterprises spend about 35 percent of their IT budgets on database software and services. Today, enterprises looking for performance and savings are turning to open source. For much less money, major open source database tools such as PostgreSQL can provide as good or better data service and performance.

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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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Still in Love with Your Win7 Clients… Convert and Keep Them

Dell EMC

Is your organization still in love with your old Windows 7 PCs? Your loyalty is understandable — you’ve grown comfortable over the years and switching to Windows 10 means your organization has to learn a new operating system. Or perhaps some of your proprietary applications do not have guaranteed compatibility. And if your machines see relatively localized usage, the switch may not seem worth the effort.

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Winning the Battle of Patient Privacy vs Provider Access

Saviynt

I’m so excited to be here at HIMSS this week, and it’s not just because it’s in Florida in February! Healthcare is my passion, the vertical which focuses on preserving and transforming lives. It’s being driven by so many interesting technology breakthroughs and patient-centered initiatives right now! It’s a dynamic place to be. But the challenges are significant.

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Partnering for Perfection – Customizing Strategies for a Unique Age

Dell EMC

When it comes to implementing digital transformation, most companies naturally focus on the wealth of potential today’s emerging technologies offer them to expand their corporate reach. But for such a transformation to be truly successful and give organizations the greatest return on their investment, a solid strategy based upon their specific needs is the key to unlocking the power that lies in helping these solutions work together.