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Security Tech and the Human Element

Edgewise

Coming off the tails of RSA Conference 2019, the avalanche of information accrued from the exhibit halls, talks, trainings, and the infamous “hallway track” is overwhelming. There is no way to escape the “latest and greatest,” whether referring to tools and technologies or the people and processes used to manage those technologies. The week is meant for sharing ideas and connecting with industry peers, but the reality of the conference is such that much of the conversation centers on technology—

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The Surprising Way to Focus Your Team on Fundamentals

Let's Grow Leaders

Why focus on the fundamentals? When I was defending my master’s thesis over 25 years ago, one particularly snotty professor (who had never actually worked in an organization outside of academia) leaned back in his chair and smirked, “It strikes me that […]. The post The Surprising Way to Focus Your Team on Fundamentals appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Sustaining Change Beyond Implementation

Change Starts Here

At the Ten Ways Change Gets Stuck webinar earlier this week, I polled the audience to see which of the ten ways they felt were most likely hindering their current change initiative. The top result: A whopping 63% of webinar attendees said Focus on Implementation was holding them back. Focus on Implementation means you’re checking […].

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Retrospectives should be a natural and continuous process

Xebia

As a Xebian my typical day is spent working on one of the projects we do for our clients. And for those projects that I do together with other Xebians I end every day with a fifteen minute chat; discussing what we have done that day, sharing our observations, learning lessons and adjusting our plans […]. The post Retrospectives should be a natural and continuous process appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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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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Deploy Microservices to a Kubernetes cluster with Helm plugin

Flexagon

In one of my previous posts I described how FlexDeploy can automate building and deploying microservices with Docker containers. One of the most popular deployment platforms in containers world is Kubernetes. The deployment of a microservice to a K8s cluster might become challenging as it is related to creating a number of various K8s resources. Read more.

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Exploring the Reasons for Design Thinking Criticism

Toptal

Design thinking has become both a buzzword and a useful business tool. It has been hailed as revolutionary while also called a failed experiment as evidenced by increasing criticism.

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DevOps: Embracing the Telco Cloud

DevOps.com

Ongoing developments in technology have led businesses to look to the cloud for greater flexibility, scalability and processing power. The telecoms industry is no different. Under growing pressure to meet the demands of the internet of things (IoT) and 5G, service providers are increasingly adopting cloud and virtualization technologies such as network functions virtualization (NFV) […].

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The next CEO of Stack Overflow

Joel on Software

Big news! We’re looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I’m stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the role of Chairman of the Board. Stack Overflow has been around for more than a decade. As I look back, it’s really amazing how far it has come. Only six months after we had launched Stack Overflow, my co-founder Jeff Atwood and I were invited to speak at a Microsoft conference for developers in Las Vegas.

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Buying Office Furniture? Do Not Make These Mistakes

Women on Business

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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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Accounting Best Practices Ignored: 10 Ways Entrepreneurs Waste Money on Accounting and Stifle Growth

Toptal

In this article, Toptal Finance Expert Scott Hoover runs through a useful list of the top ten most common mistakes he encounters with respect to the accounting practice in small businesses. By avoiding these mistakes, entrepreneurs can ensure they stop wasting money and stifling the growth prospects of their company.

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Gartner Names Container Security Among Top 10 Security Projects for 2019

Aqua Security

In their recent research note, “ Top 10 Security Projects for 2019 ”*, Gartner analysts highlighted ten initiatives that Security and Risk Management leaders should implement or improve in 2019. Container security is on this list.

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Top Ten Ways Not To Sink the Kubernetes Ship

Linux Academy

As organizations increase their use of Kubernetes in public and Hybrid cloud architectures, it is important not to let a maiden voyage end like a Titanic catastrophe. To ensure ongoing security site reliability engineers must work hand-in-hand with the CISO’s (Chief Information Security Officer) office to implement Kubernetes security. The following is a list of some useful considerations when deploying Kubernetes clusters.

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Predicting Taxi Fares in New York Using Machine Learning in Real-Time

Dataiku

Do you remember the days before Uber, Lyft, or Gett? Standing in the street trying to hail a taxi waiting for the moment a free cab might drive by and spot you? These days that world seems so far away. And you might often wonder: how do these apps work? After all, that set price is not a random guess.

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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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Why Automation is a Security Pro’s Best Friend

Firemon

“Do more with less.”. Most IT professionals probably can’t recall a time when this edict wasn’t in full force. FireMon’s 2019 State of Hybrid Cloud Security survey found security professionals still live this daily as they attempt to effectively safeguard data and applications in their hybrid clouds. And it’s only getting worse with the trend toward multi-cloud environments made up of various Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) insta

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Managing mortgage risk in an uncertain world

Cloudera

Picture the scene: a hopeful homebuyer sits in the almost deserted lobby of a high street bank, waiting for the appointment she booked with the mortgage consultant a week ago – a week ago! It annoys her that she has had to come to a branch she has not visited for years, all because she could not work out how to apply for a home loan on the bank’s website.

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Cloud providers step up security tools: Are they up to the job?

TechBeacon

Data breaches have become a recurring nightmare for enterprises and consumers alike. And the security outlook isn't likely to improve anytime soon, with at least one industry report forecasting a range of new cyberattack vectors in 2019.

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The 4 Aspects of Enterprise Computing

DevOps.com

The post The 4 Aspects of Enterprise Computing appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Breaching the Interview in Cybersecurity | Hacking into Cybersecurity

Linux Academy

Welcome back to our Hacking into Cybersecurity series. In our first installment, we discussed how certifications could help you land your dream position. Those certifications will only get your foot in the door, though. You still have to nail the job interview to land that perfect position. So, what should you do to prepare for the interview? There’s a long list of items that go into being prepared for an interview: Arrive on time.

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ASUS ShadowHammer backdoor: Was China to blame?

TechBeacon

ASUS laptops infected by the “ShadowHammer” malware were targeted by the People’s Republic of China. At least, that’s the implication of a Kaspersky Lab researcher.

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AIOps and our Robot Kubernetes Kops

Linux Academy

While Machine Learning is just a subset of true Artificial Intelligence vendors of infrastructure automation have coined a new buzz acronym, AIOps. On the heals of the still wet DevOps movement we are introduced to the new era of DevOps that reaches beyond pipeline automation and into the realm of pipeline evolution. The popularity of agile development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery has brought levels of automation that rival anything preciously known.

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Cultivate Disruptive Potential in Your Product Concept [“Define Your Product” Series]

Praxent

Define your product before you build it. This article outlines three ways to turn your product idea into a strategy for digital innovation. This is the first article in a design-thinking series titled “Define Your Product.”. Read the next article in the series, “How to Identify & Test a Product’s Value (Before Investing Thousands).”. Read the final article and learn how to refine value proposition and product-need definition through user research: “3 Keys to Practical User Research for New

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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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6 Lessons for Women in Tech

Teradata

Today, we share insights from a diverse group of women at Teradata and their advice to other women entering roles in technology.

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Chatting with machines: Strange things 60 billion bot logs say about human nature

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Lauren Kunze discusses lessons learned from an analysis of interactions between humans and chatbots. Continue reading Chatting with machines: Strange things 60 billion bot logs say about human nature.

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iPaaS is Your Fast Path to Innovation!

Beyond B2B

For companies who want to compete more effectively in today’s disruptor economy, the key is not just new ideas. Most people aren’t short on ideas. The challenge is bringing those innovative ideas to life.

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Data warehousing is not a use case

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Google BigQuery co-creator Jordan Tigani shares his vision for where cloud-scale data analytics is heading. Continue reading Data warehousing is not a use case.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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The Blanking Blank

The Daily WTF

Since the dawn of software development, people have endlessly been searching for a way to modularize their applications efficiently. From the “do one thing and do it well (and also everything is text)” protocols of Unix-style command line tools, through to modern microservices, the key idea has always been to have simple, easy to understand components which interface in simple, easy to understand ways.

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Protect secrets with restricted contexts

CircleCI

From the European Union GDPR data privacy standards to seemingly endless press coverage of data leaks, security is top of mind like never before. Security is such a crucial consideration in software development that an entirely new word, DevSecOps, now exists to represent security’s significance throughout every stage of an integrated software creation and delivery pipeline.

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An Australian perspective on HIMSS 2019 …

DXC

Pulse Series: As part of the 21st Century Series on Australian Healthcare, David Pare, CTO for DXC Healthcare and Life Sciences in Australia and New Zealand, will focus on news, start-ups and developments within the industry — what’s happening, what’s being done to drive innovation, and what’s new or newsworthy. Despite the 15 years I […].