Tue.Dec 11, 2018

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Why Hiring Top Web Developers is a Good Idea

DevOps.com

Web developers are a great addition to every organization. Having your own web developers to help you create web applications and websites can be invaluable to companies of every size. If you happen to be a software development team, they are indispensable members of your team. Because web developers are in such high demand, hiring […]. The post Why Hiring Top Web Developers is a Good Idea appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Yes, Cross-functional Teams — but Real Ones!

Agile Alliance

If you start with Agile, one of the first things you typically do is come up with a team. And yes of course, the team will be cross-functional. But what’s actually meant by cross-functionality? People in software understand this to mean different kinds of developers (e.g. back-end and front-end experts) and testers working together on … Continued.

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The Smartest Way to Ensure Your Leadership Message Sticks

Let's Grow Leaders

Taking your management team out of the field for a leadership offsite or kick-off meeting can be an incredible way to provide clarity around your leadership message, to get everyone focused on what matters most, and to encourage the sharing of best practices. […]. The post The Smartest Way to Ensure Your Leadership Message Sticks appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Selling the Investment to Pay Down Technical Debt – The Code Christmas Tree

Agile Alliance

Sharing our experience in making code complexity and unit coverage visible in the hallway adjoining our team room and the conversations that happened around it. Not only did it help to focus the team on the high debt areas of the application, but its red (bad) and green (good) coloring combined with its high-foot-traffic location … Continued.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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4 Data Security Mistakes Most Businesses Make

The Crazy Programmer

Being competitive in the 21 st century requires a business to stay on the cutting edge of technology. For years, companies all over the world have used customer data to make important decisions about the direction they should take. The main thing you need to be concerned with when collecting and storing data is keeping it out of the hands of cyber-criminals.

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The Value of ‘DevOps Engineer’ as a Title

DevOps.com

Now that DevOps is proliferating in the enterprise (many companies including Disney, Nike and Walmart, for example, are all on the adoption train) the term is starting to creep up more and more in job titles. This is challenging organizations to consider the significance of DevOps Engineer as a role and the value of having […]. The post The Value of ‘DevOps Engineer’ as a Title appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Sprint Backlog

Agile Alliance

A sprint backlog is the subset of product backlog that a team targets to deliver during a sprint to accomplish the sprint goal and progress toward an outcome.

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Understanding Pillar 1 of AWS’ Well-Architected Framework

DevOps.com

AWS’ Well-Architected Framework provides a wealth of incredibly valuable best practices and guidelines structured around five distinct pillars that more cloud-native organizations would do well to heed. The first of these pillars, Operational Excellence, recommends a number of particularly valuable techniques. However, successfully adopting the design principles and practices within Pillar No. 1 requires a […].

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How to Get Consulting Clients – An Interview with Steve Blank

Toptal

Consultants often struggle to find new, solid clients. We asked Steve Blank, the founder of the Lean Startup movement (and someone who has helped hundreds of companies get a better product to market faster and worked with dozens of consultants along the way) how consultants can attract clients. Steve's advice is a bit counter-intuitive. But it's something that Toptal's best consultants have already been doing for years.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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Workplace AI: Emerging technologies, ethical questions

CTOvision

Read why Maria Korolov says that there are some ethical questions in using artificial intelligence at the workplace on CIO : AI is making quick inroads into the workplace. Equally capable of whipping up informed predictions in a flash and completing specific tasks on a scale that humans can’t match, artificial intelligence is being applied […].

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Web Design Tricks to Improve Engagement

Women on Business

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Key factors for major agile transformation success

TechBeacon

Skeptics in the agile community don't believe that large-scale agile transformations are possible. But I can tell you from my experience at many large companies that the naysayers are flat-out wrong.

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A Favorite Topic: What’s the Difference between Machine Learning and AI?

CTOvision

We report quite a bit on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and how they relate (see, for example, Not All Machine Learning Is Artificial Intelligence). But opinions vary on this. Some view that alhough AI and machine learning are nearly similar but there is inherent difference between them. Taylor Donovan Barnett explains his views on the […].

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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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Three Reasons We Love Xamarin

UruIT

And why it could be the best solution for your company. In the last couple of years, we’ve noticed a trend in companies searching for a cross-platform solution for mobile apps. The main reasons are reduced time to market and maintenance costs. We’ve found that Xamarin fits the bill in these areas and has some major advantages for our developers. Here are the top three reasons we love working with Xamarin : Cross-platform development of native apps saves time and money.

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We Pretty Much Agree: AI is not here to take jobs, just to make work more meaningful

CTOvision

Many AI naysayers warn about the loss of jobs once AI takes over workplace. However, Praveen Kanyadi of Tech Radar says that AI could make jobs much more interesting. We tend to agree of course. Here are Praveen’s views: Many fear that AI is taking away jobs, but this notion is misguided. Recent trends show that […].

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Yotascale Appoints New Chief Revenue Officer

Yotascale

Veteran Business Builder Mike Hoffman to Spearhead Aggressive Growth. Strategy, Maximize Revenue Production. MENLO PARK, Calif. – Dec. 11, 2018 – Yotascale, a leader in Autonomous Cloud Operations, today announced the appointment of Mike Hoffman as chief revenue officer. In this new role, Hoffman will work to align all revenue-generating functions within the organization, including sales, marketing and revenue management.

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Machine learning adoption thwarted by lack of human skills

CTOvision

We’ve all heard the dire predictions about robots coming to steal our jobs. As technologies such as machine learning, AI and automation advance by the day, workplaces everywhere are being transformed; naturally, some people fear that they will become redundant — depending on their job, some may be right. In this age of AI and […].

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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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Machine Learning in iOS

VironIT

Fifty years ago, machine learning was still the stuff of science fiction. Today it’s an essential part of our lives, helping us do everything from finding photos to driving cars. Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence where computers “learn” without being explicitly programmed. Instead of coding an algorithm, machine learning tools enable computers […].

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Microsoft Wants to Stop AI’s ‘Race to the Bottom’

CTOvision

AI is here and many companies are embracing it wholeheartedly but some companies like Microsoft want a regulator in place to oversee AI and its uses particularly in the field of facial recognition tech like Amazon’s Rekognition which could be misused by authorities as well as hackers to snoop on individuals. It has stepped up its call […].

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Instana Extends Leading Kubernetes Monitoring Solution to Better Serve Developer Community

DevOps.com

Company’s Latest Release Provides Quickest and Easiest Developer Visibility of Kubernetes Application and System Performance Seattle at KubeCon – December 11, 2018 – Instana, the first APM solution provider to monitor kubernetes at the application layer, today announced further enhancements to the company’s automatic application monitoring solution for containerized applications.

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How to Incorporate DevOps Release Management Tools into Your IT Processes

Flexagon

The transition to DevOps doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time for companies to adopt DevOps practices throughout their organization and integrate new tools. DevOps tools like release management need to work with your current systems, fitting into your IT ecosystem to improve processes and business outcomes. DevOps release management tools can be both incredibly beneficial.

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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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How to optimize your cloud spend in a multi-cloud world

TechBeacon

Affordability is second only to agility on the list of reasons enterprises consume cloud services. Even with pay-as-you-go pricing, however, you're probably spending too much.

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Société Générale Chooses PowerEdge to Drive Their Automation Strategy with IAAS

Dell EMC

When you walk into a Société Générale banking center, you enter a bright, open space, furnished with modern designs and an abundance of natural light. Customers sip coffee and enjoy beautiful views while meeting with their private or corporate bankers. Employees enjoy a modern work environment with accessible meeting spaces, interior offices and shared amenities.

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Datadog and Aqua Security Partner to Provide Seamless Visibility into Container-Based Application Security

DevOps.com

Aqua integrates with Datadog to give DevOps teams real-time security metrics and events Seattle, WA –December 11, 2018 – KubeCon/CloudNativeCon – Aqua Security, the leading platform provider for securing container-based and cloud native applications, today announced the integration of its platform with Datadog’s cloud monitoring and analytics platform.

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Symantec and Fortinet: Two Leaders Come Together to Do What Leaders Do - Lead

Symantec

Teaming up on endpoint-firewall collaboration to help customers better battle growing security threats

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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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Choose Your Own Adventure: Which AI Business Model Is Right For You?

Battery Ventures

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing every aspect of work and life, as nonstop news headlines make clear. Yet one aspect of the AI disruption remains relatively unexamined: the right business model for AI companies. It’s a commonly held belief that successful AI startups, like cloud / SaaS companies before them, share a common business model. Like AI, cloud software’s business model initially puzzled customers and investors.

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CodeSOD: Strongly Unrecommended

The Daily WTF

Asynchronous programming is hard. Because it’s so difficult, developers are constantly trying to find ways to make it simpler, whether it’s promises or callbacks, or the async/await pattern. It gets more difficult when you need to deal with handling exceptions- when a task fails, trying to recover from that failure in a separate thread is an extra special challenge.

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High Scalability

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