OverOps

DECEMBER 12, 2018

There has long been a divide between development and operations teams. But recently, there has been a movement to break down these metaphorical walls and build bridges of shared accountability between the two functions. With the emergence of roles like DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), we are seeing the introduction of a more collaborative approach to delivering reliable software. 2018 Dev vs.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 12, 2018

What do you think when you hear the word “fintech”? It’s been around for almost five decades, yet it has only just been officially recognized as part of the English language. In the Merriam Webster dictionary, the word is defined as: “Products and companies that employ newly developed digital and online technologies in the banking […].

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OverOps

DECEMBER 12, 2018

There has long been a divide between development and operations teams. But recently, there has been a movement to break down these metaphorical walls and build bridges of shared accountability between the two functions. With the emergence of roles like DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), we are seeing the introduction of a more collaborative approach to delivering reliable software. 2018 Dev vs.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Google+ may be a punchline in the social network world, but there’s something seriously wrong with it. For the second time in as many months, Google has announced that Google+ has been hit with another data leak, and this one is way worse than the last. According to a blog post, some 52.5 million users are […].

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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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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The popularity and success of DevOps means it’s now an increasingly common feature in IT job descriptions. One of the most important roles within DevOps, however, is the Security Engineer or DevSecOps Engineer. This deeply rewarding career requires a specific technical skill set, current knowledge of cybersecurity trends and a decent amount of experience.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 12, 2018

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2018

If you have data you very likely have entity resolution challenges. Entity resolution is the task of figuring out who is who and what is what in your data. It encompasses finding duplicates, correlating, disambiguation and understanding the relationships between people, objects and key metadata. Entity resolution is a key part of many workflows including […].

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TechBeacon

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Every 10 years or so, another promising new programming methodology comes along that offers a new and sometimes better way to model systems, structure code, and meet the asynchronous and throughput demands our clients and stakeholders expect.

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Toptal

DECEMBER 12, 2018

As project managers, we are sometimes tasked with taking over a project in progress. In this guide, we will outline how to execute a seamless project takeover. Use the included checklist for your upcoming projects.

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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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CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A sextortion scam that doubles its chances of success by planting ransomware on the computing device of its target victims has emerged, and as is often the case the attackers want to be paid in bitcoin. According to researchers at cybersecurity firm Proofpoint, the sextortion campaign, which is mostly targeting residents of the United States, is […].

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Toptal

DECEMBER 12, 2018

F# is a strongly typed, multi-paradigm programming language with imperative, functional, and object-oriented programming methods. In the first part of our F# tutorial series, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Shanglun Wang demonstrates how to get started and create a simple app using nothing but F#.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We have written quite a bit about the Insider Threat and know it is a topic with many views. Here is another: The possibility that a breach or a cyber attack could be down to an employee or former employee is growing all the time. It could be a malicious attack from a disgruntled member of […].

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 12, 2018

When it comes to storing metrics and events, a time series database provides a number of benefits that general purposes databases don’t, including high velocity, range scans over large chunks of data, efficient data eviction and compression. But time series isn’t just about the database; it’s also about the ecosystem of tools built around it. […].

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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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CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A cyber espionage group is deploying a new type of trojan malware against telecommunications, information technology, and government organisations. Dubbed Seedworm, the group has been operating since at least 2017, and although it predominantly looks to infiltrate organisations in the Middle East, organisations based in Europe and North America have also been targets.

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TechBeacon

DECEMBER 12, 2018

If you believe shadow IT is no big deal, or that it will go away on its own, you'd best stop that magical thinking. The implications for IT operations, and IT in general, are too dire to continue doing nothing about it. And shadow IT, those projects that take place outside of IT's direct control—often, without its awareness— will not ease up anytime soon.

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CloudZero

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A little over a month ago, Jeremy Daly introduced the concept of the #serverless bubble coming out of #ServerlessNYC. In his tweet he said “if you’re in it, a serverless solution seems intuitive. If you’re not, the paradigm shift can seem overwhelming (& unapproachable).”.

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The Daily WTF

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Brian B stumbled across a bit of code to generate UUIDs. Seeing that tag-line, I was worried that they invented their own UUID generator. The good news, is that they just use java.util.UUID. The bad news is that they don’t understand how if statements work. public class UuidGenerator implements IdentifierGenerator { @Value("${spring.profiles.active}") private String profile; @Resource private Map map; @Override public Serializable generate(SessionImplementor session, Object object) throw

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Aqua Security

DECEMBER 12, 2018

On Monday, “day 0” of this year’s KubeCon / CloudNativeCon , we held our first KubeSec Enterprise Summit event, co-located with KubeCon under the auspices of the CNCF. Aqua hosted the event together with our partners Red Hat and AWS. The event was over- subscribed, and we had to make special allowance for late registrants, bringing our Seattle Convention Center hall to capacity with standing room only and more than 280 participants – most of whom were there for the entire 9 to 5 schedule!

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Dell EMC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

For the past 25 years, I’ve been lucky enough to work in the technology solutions industry and witness some truly exciting business trends. One of the most prominent in recent years has been the rise of data. Just under a third of all internet users come from EMEA, each one contributing to the quintillions of bytes of data created every minute. However, more than half of businesses aren’t making use of that data.

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TechTalk

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Patch Central December 2018 – Microsoft Patch Tuesday ‘Tis the season – for decking the halls, ringing the sleigh bells, playing reindeer games, and all the other traditions that come with the month of December in many parts of the world. While others are busy shopping ‘til they drop and wrapping packages to put […].

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Dell EMC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Discover how implementing automated IT service delivery can help organizations to realize significant business benefits as they work towards transforming their IT infrastructure. In the last of a series of blogs inspired by influential research published by industry analyst ESG, we explore the impact that implementing automated IT service delivery can have on an organization’s ability to achieve IT Transformation.

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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.

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Render as Comic, Notebook to Production, Population Visualization, and Location Privacy. Comixify -- render video as comics. How to Grow Neat Software Architecture out of Jupyter Notebooks -- everyone's coding in notebooks as a sweet step up from the basic one-command REPL loop. Here's some good advice on how to grow these projects without creating a spaghetti monster.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Surely you’ve noticed that most conference calls, video conferences, e-mail threads and virtually any other form of virtual communications pretty much stink. Why is that and what can we do about it? Dr. Nick Morgan has the answers. In this recorded interview with Nick , I asked him to share some of the fascinating research he gathered and conducted for his new book, Can You Hear Me?

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Planbox

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Many businesses are eager to follow in the footsteps of companies that are thriving as a result of digital transformation, such as Uber, Netflix, and Airbnb. But changing the way your business processes run, and doing a complete overhaul of them in general, is no small feat. There are many pitfalls that can hinder such a task. Thankfully, these pitfalls can be avoided along the way.

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Firemon

DECEMBER 12, 2018

As a big American football fan, I have always been amazed at the amount of preparation the teams and the National Football League (NFL) go through to handle all their challenges every season. There are so many things that have to be considered…especially security! There’s physical security to ensure there are no firearms or other contraband entering the stadium.

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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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Marcusoft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

When I introduce agile I do that through a nice little quandrat originally from the This is Lean book by Pär Åhlström and Niclas Modig , and visualized by Håkan Forss. I’ve wrote about it here. This post will only focus on the top left triangle - where we focus on maximizing resource utilization. But I’ve noticed that personal stories sticks better and I have used a story about my dentist to show an example of a setting that focuses heavily on the resource utilization.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2018

What you really want is for the members of your IT department to be engaged Image Credit: Ged Carroll. When you have new people join your department, they generally do so with a great deal of excitement – they understand the importance of information technology. There are a lot of things that they want to accomplish and they are looking forward to learning many new things.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2018

As the new year approaches, most of the organizations, before closing their finances, are looking at managers across teams to collaborate and share the most optimized recruiting budget for the coming year. Here is a 6-step guide to creating the most detailed recruiting budget sheet for your organization. Also attached is a sample sheet for your reference.

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