Thu.Nov 21, 2019

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Why Integrated Infrastructure Is the Key to IT Success

DevOps.com

At first glance, your IT infrastructure might seem like your house’s basement. It supports everything, but you don’t pay much attention to it or spend much time or energy trying to make it beautiful. Instead, you treat it as a generic component and lavish your attention on other parts of your IT landscape (or your […]. The post Why Integrated Infrastructure Is the Key to IT Success appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Non-functional Requirements: Examples, Types, How to Approach

Altexsoft

Imagine that you’re buying a motorcycle. What would it be? Is it supposed to reach a maximum speed of 170 miles per hour and not to fall apart? Should it hold at least two adults with an ability to expand the seating space? And let’s not forget about the security systems. While these requirements don’t directly describe the functions of the vehicle – delivering a person from point A to point B – they are still important to satisfy the driver.

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How Machine Learning Enhances Performance Engineering and Testing

Perficient

As enterprise software platforms expand in complexity and importance, performance anomalies have become a serious threat that can result in millions of dollars in losses. Faced with this challenge, performance engineering experts have begun utilizing.

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Kafka Streams and ksqlDB Compared – How to Choose

Confluent

ksqlDB is a new kind of database purpose-built for stream processing apps, allowing users to build stream processing applications against data in Apache Kafka® and enhancing developer productivity. ksqlDB simplifies […].

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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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Designing a Future of Innovative UX, Without UI

DevOps.com

The long-fabled future of a world without traditional human-to-computer interactions is no longer science fiction. It’s a reality. Consumers all across the globe are wearing computers on the wrists, talking to artificial intelligence to check the weather and monitoring body functions through micro-devices. This is just the tip of the iceberg of what is possible […].

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Android camera app bug could affect 'hundreds of millions of phones'

TechBeacon

A vulnerability discovered in the Android open-source camera app might appear in countless phones and tablets. It has serious privacy implications.

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How Machine Learning Enhances Performance Engineering and Testing

Perficient

As enterprise software platforms expand in complexity and importance, performance anomalies have become a serious threat that can result in millions of dollars in losses. Faced with this challenge, performance engineering experts have begun utilizing.

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When is the last time you took a vacation?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: When is the last time you took a vacation? Last week: 14% Last month: 30% Last quarter: 18% 6 months ago: 14% Vacation? What’s that?: 24% Time to take a break. The 24% of you who can’t recall your last vacation are at risk for a lot of issues. Burnout, job dissatisfaction, family stress, and physical issues can all result from working too long without a break.

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3 barriers to cloud agility

Gitprime

If you want to prevent cloud catastrophe, you need to understand the three barriers to cloud agility (that aren’t always so obvious) and how to address them before they happen.

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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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Colocation Brings the Cloud and Edge to the Data

Digital Realty

The pressures of digital transformation (DX) cause an imperative shift that’s forcing businesses to retool how they operate.

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iQuate Powers SAP Charge to the Cloud

Hypergrid

As enterprises look to continue their cloud transformation initiatives into 2020 and beyond, it is clear that new migration candidates beyond either simple rehosting or more complex rearchitecting are now within easy reach. New tooling and migration services enable the acceleration of mission-critical services such as SAP to the cloud. These services and tools provide a deeper understanding of how these systems and services work together in the modern enterprise, and the impacts of these changes

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Article: Q&A on the Book Rebooting AI

InfoQ Culture Methods

The book Rebooting AI explains why a different approach other than deep learning is needed to unlock the potential of AI. Authors Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis propose that AI programs will have to have a large body of knowledge about the world in general, represented symbolically. Some of the basic elements of that knowledge should be built in. By Ben Linders, Gary Marcus, Ernest Davis.

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The Corporate Vitality Index

CEO Insider

Today’s leading businesses are facing many near-term challenges in an uncertain economic and political environment. More than ever, though, they also need to focus on the long term, because the keys to success in the next decade will be different from today’s. Business leaders need to reinvent their companies for the future while ensuring strong […].

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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iQuate Powers SAP Charge to the Cloud

CloudSphere

As enterprises look to continue their cloud transformation initiatives into 2020 and beyond, it is clear that new migration candidates beyond either simple rehosting or more complex rearchitecting are now within easy reach. New tooling and migration services enable the acceleration of mission-critical services such as SAP to the cloud. These services and tools provide a deeper understanding of how these systems and services work together in the modern enterprise, and the impacts of these changes

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Why the retrospective prime directive is paramount

Marcusoft

I’m about to run a few retrospectives with a group of people with little to no experience of agile previously. In doing my preparations I went back to the core and start of retrospectives, why we do them, their purpose and meaning, etc. Before long I stumble onto something that I have had some issues with; the Retrospective Prime Directive. But as I read it and was thinking about how to introduce the whole concept to retrospectives to my friends I realize that without the Retrospective Prime dir

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Giving Back Together

Actian

I once read, “One of the greatest gifts you can give is your time.”. Although I am fairly certain I read this on a coffee cup or tumbler in a craft store, its words still rang true. So, this week, while I was visiting our Round Rock office, I was excited by the opportunity to give back to the community where our largest employee base resides. We were fortunate enough to be able to.

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Not Just for Public Companies: Five Ways SOX Can Help High-Growth Startups

Battery Ventures

SOX compliance may seem like a dry topic, but this crucial step on the road to going public can be transformational for high-growth companies — if they approach it in the right spirit. First, some background. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) established new requirements for public companies designed to surface errors in financial reporting that could distort financial statements and hurt investors in a public company.

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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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Python 2 Will Die Soon – Know Why? | End of Python 2 in Jan 2020

The Crazy Programmer

Back late in 2006, when Python 3.0 came into introduction, the volunteers and officials felt the need that users should migrate from the old version (Python 2) to the newer version. Since they did not want to hurt Python programmers, so they decided to end Python 2.0 in 2015. They officially announced this news late back in 2008 that sunset of Python 2 would take place in 2015. “But thanks to Python lovers!

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Poor security, not just password reuse, to blame for Disney+ breach

The Parallax

“All it takes is faith and trust, oh! and something I forgot: dust,” Peter Pan tells Wendy, John, and Michael in Disney’s 1953 adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s novel. But after a widespread breach of the entertainment company’s new Disney+ accounts , at least one cybersecurity research company is indicating that its new streaming service needs more than a magical concoction to fly among those it’d qualify as reasonably secure.

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Hybrid Cloud Fuels a Flexible Future, as 73% of Enterprises Move Apps Back on Prem: 2019 ECI Report Findings

Nutanix

Ten years ago, Nutanix set out to create a company that enables any enterprise to harness the power of the cloud for all of its workloads, whether those services run in on-premise data centers or in the public cloud.

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The complete picture: Lagom and Play in action (Java)

Xebia

If you ever came across Lightbend, the driving force behind Scala, Akka, you might also have heard about Lagom and Play. Lagom and Play fall into the category of reactive microservices. I’ll not go into detail about this, there are plenty of resources out there (e.g. here and on a broader perspective, here). The most […]. The post The complete picture: Lagom and Play in action (Java) appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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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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How to Build a Private Cloud in 4 Steps

Nutanix

As more businesses migrate over to a private cloud, you might be asking yourself: How exactly can I build my own private cloud?

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How Digital Marketing Can Help You Get Sales

Strategy Driven

If you boil marketing down to its crux, it is simply the art of finding potential customers and explaining to them why they might find your product or service valuable. There are two components to this: the location of leads and then the skill of convincing explanation. If you consider the first point for any length of time, you will realize that in the modern climate you will find more leads online than at any other location.

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Customers Weigh In: Tips for Your First Day on Nutanix

Nutanix

Cher said it best: If you could turn back time, you’d likely want to spare others (and yourself!) from pain. And when it comes to the datacenter, chances are you wish you could’ve saved yourself and your team from the pain of legacy infrastructure years go.

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Why You Need To Create A Cloud-native API Developer Portal

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

In early 2019, TIBCO released the fully cloud-native version of TIBCO Cloud Mashery , which provides first-class support for cloud-native deployment in public clouds, private clouds, on-premises environments, and at the edge. This unlocked the opportunity for API-led digital businesses to evolve to cloud-native architectural platforms, such as Kubernetes.

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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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What’s Driving Where You Run Your IT Applications and Services

Nutanix

Supply chain functions are similar to IT applications, workloads, and services—each with their own set of attributes. These attributes can help determine where to place and run these IT applications.

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Recognition and Appreciation: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share posts about recognition and appreciation. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! The December Frontline Festival will be your […]. The post Recognition and Appreciation: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Evaluating Technology Companies’ Market Share in Times of Change

Nutanix

Evaluating technology companies’ market share is a complex business; technology moves fast and old metrics must constantly be reevaluated.