TechBeacon
JANUARY 29, 2020
Software testing is all about validating whether an application works as expected. You use many different types of testing to get there, such as unit testing, integration testing, functional testing, sanity testing, smoke testing, or regression testing, but all of these fall into one of two categories: positive testing and negative testing.
Xebia
JANUARY 29, 2020
Nowadays, there is an increasing interest and mentioning of socio-technical engineering, socio-technical systems. And although the words do not strike as odd on its own I personally have struggled quite a bit with the different meanings of the terms and understanding the field of socio-technical systems. So in this article, I will provide a layman’s […].
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
InfoQ Culture Methods
JANUARY 29, 2020
Test automation is crucial in the DevOps world and vitally important even if not taking a DevOps approach and good test automation requires careful thought and design from the architecture onward. Tests need to be fully automated, and that automation needs to be stable, no test cases should fail for reasons other than issues in the system(s) under test.
Agile Alliance
JANUARY 29, 2020
Sustainable development has always been in the Agile Principles, and, though this was mainly focused on creating a consistent pace of value delivery by not pushing humans too quickly, it also applies to the larger picture of how we work to benefit the ecosystem we deliver to. In other words, building great solutions while not … Continued.
Advertisement
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.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 29, 2020
Chef today announced that the Chef Habitat automation framework for building and deploying applications can now be used in on-premises IT environments. Mike Krasnow, a senior product manager for Chef, said version 1.5 of Habitat makes it possible to now store applications packages and their dependencies locally in addition to the cloud. In addition, pre-built […].
CTO Universe brings together the best content for CTOs from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 29, 2020
Across industry verticals, enterprise cloud adoption has increased significantly. Enterprises are leveraging cloud models to transform applications, infrastructure and operations. According to a survey by LogicMonitor, 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by 2020. This, however, is also giving rise to concerns across areas such as security, cost management, compliance, governance, lack […].
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 29, 2020
Breaking Unit Testing Down. Introduction and History of Unit Testing [Part 1] by Leah Grantz — We all know we should be incorporating unit testing into our development processes, but do you know the history of this concept? We take a look into the history of test automation to get a look at where this all got started. Unit Testing Guidelines: What to Test and What Not to Test by Anton Angelov — Unit testing can often take on a rather broad connotation.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 29, 2020
Authors of numerous articles and videos have covered all the bells and whistles built into iOS 13, the latest major iteration of Apple’s mobile operating system. Rather than diving into all of these perks, though, I will focus on the changes for app developers. As it often happens, Apple introduced many proprietary applications that successfully […].
Zayo
JANUARY 29, 2020
We had the opportunity to sit down with Zayo’s Chris Parra , vice president of the 5G group, to ask him our top 10 questions about 5G. Chris shares his insight on the current state of the industry, the key role of fiber, progress on densification and his perspective on the future. 1. How would you assess the progress the industry is making in terms of its 5G rollouts?
Advertisement
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
Gitprime
JANUARY 29, 2020
React is more popular than ever. If your team has been considering the framework, here are six benefits (and a few drawbacks).
Kaseya
JANUARY 29, 2020
The fact that most MSPs consider remote monitoring and management (RMM) as the application most important to them is of little surprise. MSPs, irrespective of their size, cannot function without an RMM tool. They also use professional software automation (PSA) software extensively for service delivery, billing, ticketing, and customer management. .
CTOvision
JANUARY 29, 2020
5G is here — but it’s also not here. And it is still coming. This can be a little confusing. Every U.S. carrier has launched some form of 5G network, and many European carriers have as well, but what exactly is it? And why should we care? It might still be several years before 5G is fully […].
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
JANUARY 29, 2020
John Fisher, thoughtLEADERS Principal, sat down with Jim and Jan of The Leadership Podcast to discuss Negotiation. In continuation of our new collaboration with The Leadership Podcast, John discusses another perspective on negotiation in this short form “chalk talk.” These chalk talk series are bitesize sessions on a common (but challenging) leadership issue.
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.
CTOvision
JANUARY 29, 2020
Read Dominic Wellington list three reasons why multi-cloud is here to stay on Diginomica : I’ve worked in IT long enough to spot cycles. And like me, ideas will come and go. It’s like synthpop. Everyone fell out of love with it when the 80s were done, and now it’s back, stronger than ever and spawning […].
Battery Ventures
JANUARY 29, 2020
Written by Udi Ledergor. It’s something Americans do about 80 times a day according to a 2016 study. Yet more so than walking into an important meeting half an hour late, or swapping detailed salary information with colleagues, swearing in the workplace is still seen as taboo. In fact, a 2015 survey found that 81% of employers believed swearing at work “brings an employee’s professionalism into question.”.
CTOvision
JANUARY 29, 2020
At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, “tech for good” was one of the key themes on the agenda. Big Tech — companies like Microsoft and Google — used their airtime to call for more regulation, particularly in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). It’s a broad term that applies to a set of […].
Rapid BI
JANUARY 29, 2020
Living at the dawn of the second decade of the 21st century may be a pretty challenging experience. That’s because of the complexity that affects the modern lifestyle. It can also be dreadful. Workplace anxiety is a quite striking symptom of such an unpleasant experience and one that has major consequences on both individuals and […]. The post What is Workplace Anxiety and How to Overcome It appeared first on RapidBI.
Advertisement
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.
Synopsys
JANUARY 29, 2020
The downward trend in organizations passing PCI DSS interim security testing is worrying. PCI DSS compliance requires security every day, not once a year. The post PCI DSS compliance isn’t security, but security can boost compliance appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.
The Daily WTF
JANUARY 29, 2020
Pierre is a contractor who supports a variety of companies helping them manage data-science and analytics applications. Code, in these contexts, is written to answer specific questions, driven more by mathematics than program design. That’s a polite way of saying that the vast majority of the code is unreadable nonsense that no one can explain. One of Pierre’s clients has decided to migrate to that fancy new thing they’ve been hearing about, “the cloud”, and thus they have to move all of their a
CEO Insider
JANUARY 29, 2020
Though the future of the UK and the EU is anything but clear at this time, the economic growth of the UK is surprisingly positive, but with a number of votes and further negotiations to go through, the future of the UK economy is looking anything but certain. In this article, we will be looking […].
Capgemini
JANUARY 29, 2020
My last blog post presented four priorities companies should embrace as they work to build excellent customer experiences – for their clients and employees. It covered the importance of the real-world experience even as we all push digital boundaries, the need to perfect the last mile, the reality that customers are not the same the world over, and it emphasized that all those considerations apply equally to your employees.
Advertisement
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.
Praxent
JANUARY 29, 2020
Ignore Your Policyholders for Prospects’ Sake: 3 Key Opportunities Your Insurance Site is Missing. To say that insurance products are complicated is an understatement. If you’re in the insurance business, you know complication is one reason why supporting your policyholders is such hard work. And if you’re in charge of your insurance brand’s website , you must constantly listen to your policyholders to improve their digital experience.
Capgemini
JANUARY 29, 2020
It’s no longer enough to drive marketing and technology strategies concurrently. Instead, they must converge to meet the demands of the changing landscape. This new reality has CMOs moving away from their traditional roles and placing technology at the center of their efforts. CMOs increasingly recognize that their roles in a dynamic and evolving business environment include transformation, especially as business rivals focus on competition.
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 29, 2020
“Friction makes doing simple things difficult and difficult things impossible.” – Stephen Bungay. For all the right reasons, most mature A gile organizations put great emphasis on customer journeys, but what about your developer journeys? Do your developers have a smooth experience to deliver value?
Radixweb
JANUARY 29, 2020
Solving the puzzle of Work-Life balance can be hard, but not with Radixweb. Have a glimpse of how easily Radixweb helps to maintain the Work-Life balance.
Advertisement
“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.
Next Level Blog
JANUARY 29, 2020
Asking for help is often the one simple act standing between us and success. That’s a quote from Dr. Wayne Baker in his new book, All You Have to Do is Ask: How to Master the Most Important Skill for Success. Wayne is a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and an expert on building and strengthening connections. When I read his book, I found myself nodding my head a lot because his research and experience support the basic ideas I teach about effective networking.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
JANUARY 29, 2020
Towards a Human-like Open-Domain Chatbot — Google’s paper on making a chatbot that can have a vaguely plausible conversation on any subject. (via Google’s AI Blog ). fast.ai’s Coding Style — interesting to see how different they are from historic coding standards, but they justify those differences (and aren’t dogmatic about the code they accept).
Rapid BI
JANUARY 29, 2020
The post Work Laptop Virus and Security appeared first on RapidBI.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
117 
Let's personalize your content