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Fear Factor: The Biggest Reason Managers Lead With Fear

Let's Grow Leaders

Most leaders know better. Leading with fear and intimidation is so old school. So why do so many managers slip back into destructive behaviors? Mark’s Story Mark, a senior executive at a Fortune 50, slams his fist on his desk as he […]. The post Fear Factor: The Biggest Reason Managers Lead With Fear appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Are You Ready For Big Data?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to understand what they are going to do with big data Image Credit: Merrill College of Journalism Press Releases. All CIOs have heard about big data by now: the Tsunami of data that is washing over every company and the struggle that they have to collect it, store it, and then process it in order to create actionable information. As a CIO, when we think about big data we are faced with a number of questions having to do with the importance of information technology that we have not had

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Strangler Pattern: How to Deal With Legacy Code During the Container Revolution

OverOps

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on April 26, 2018. It has since been updated to reflect advancements in the industry. When we say “technical debt”, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? Is it the accumulation of code in an outdated system that’s seen changes from tens, or even hundreds, of developers over the years? Is it a codebase with poorly-written methods following convoluted logic and hard-to-follow patches for production issues?

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Bridging Gaps: The Importance of DevOps Communication

Toptal

DevOps is an oft-misunderstood buzzword, seen as a trendy must-have in the form of technologies, tools, and staff to acquire. But it's much more, yet much simpler, than that.

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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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Kubernetes Adoption: Are You Ready?

DevOps.com

Enterprises are rapidly embracing a cloud-first strategy and microservices play a pivotal role in this journey. But enterprises are achieving various levels of success, measured by many factors includingmaturity of DevOps in the enterprise, ability to identify the right candidates for microservices, selecting the appropriate container management platform, adequate tooling and, finally, cultural shift in […].

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How Do You Define Unfair Bias in AI?

DataRobot

Art is subjective and everyone has their own opinion about it. When I saw the expressionist painting Blue Poles , by Jackson Pollock, I was reminded of the famous quote by Rudyard Kipling, “It’s clever, but is it Art?” Pollock’s piece looks like paint messily spilled onto a drop sheet protecting the floor. The debate of what constitutes art has a long history that will probably never be settled, there is no definitive definition of art.

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Wayfx Deploys Lightning-fast Headless WordPress to Netlify

Netlify

When one of the world’s largest keto brands, Perfect Keto, wanted to redo their WordPress site, speed was key. But with WordPress, how fast can a site really get? Come to find out—lightning-fast. Partnering with the web agency Wayfx, Perfect Keto adopted a Headless WordPress architecture for their new website. They decided to throw out their previous solution in favor of WP Engine and Netlify, and are now delivering pages excitingly fast.

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Building a GraphQL Server with Laravel

Toptal

GraphQL is a query language for APIs and can be used to query data from a server while also allowing clients to specify exactly what data is needed. Toptal Freelance Developer Christopher Moore explains how to create a GraphQL server using the Laravel Framework along with walking through some examples including querying relationships, mutations, and authentication.

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Throttling Pods in Kubernetes

Linux Academy

If you’ve been learning about Kubernetes, chances are you’re familiar with the concept of pods. Pods are an essential component in Kubernetes. That’s why the “ Pod of Minerva ” (an interactive guide used in this Certified Kubernetes Administrator course), is standing for the guide to the pod. The Pod. Pods are scheduled to machines or VMs, in which the scheduler (the control plane component) attempts to fit the pod on a VM, given it has enough CPU and memory to sust

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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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The State of Low-Code Development

DevOps.com

As enterprises continue to play catch-up when it comes to meeting their internal demand for new software services and applications, more enterprises—but still, only a minority—are turning to low-code development platforms to try to fill the gap. Low-code development platform provider OutSystems released its sixth annual “State of Application Development Report.” The report is based […].

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How agile coaches measure high performance at Spotify

TechBeacon

When I first joined Spotify as an agile coach at the beginning of 2017, one of the challenges we faced was how to understand whether our teams were high-performing. How should we measure that, understand it, and analyze it?

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Adobe Aims to Build Developer Ecosystem

DevOps.com

Adobe today outlined an approach to building a developer ecosystem that revolves around open source code, application programming interfaces (APIs) and DevOps processes. Matt Asay, head of developer ecosystem for Adobe, said in the last few years Adobe has increased its reliance on open source code to deliver offerings such as Adobe Experience Manager, a […].

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What Are You Doing To Help Your Team Succeed?

CEO Insider

CEOWORLD magazine. What Are You Doing To Help Your Team Succeed? My quest to create 99 Millionaires – When most CEOs talk about helping their teams succeed, they’re talking about the company’s success. You almost never hear about business leaders helping employees reach personal goals and achieve true financial stability. Long ago, I heard a quote by Zig Ziglar that’s guided me through most of my […].

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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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How to Speak for Your Work

Next Level Blog

A lot of us grew up with the idea that if you just do good work, it will speak for itself. That’s not true in large organizations full of busy people all focused on their own agendas. If you’re a leader in that kind of place, the work doesn’t speak for itself; you have to speak for the work. How do you do that without coming off as an annoying braggart?

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Top Mobile Application Development Trends That Will Dominate in 2019

Xicom

The businesses which want to build a mobile app have to choose between Android app development and iOS app development as Android and iOS are the most popular platforms for smartphones for which we build mobile apps. This shift from accessing internet on desktops and laptops to browsing on smartphone is revolutionary in many ways. One it created the market for mobile apps and secondly it brought billions of people using smartphones on the forefront of businesses which can target them.

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Joe Gagnon’s High-Performance Life Inspires High-Performance Results for Clients of Sparkcentral

CEO Insider

CEOWORLD magazine. Joe Gagnon’s High-Performance Life Inspires High-Performance Results for Clients of Sparkcentral. Joe Gagnon is the CEO of Sparkcentral, a messaging customer service platform founded in 2012. Based in Hasselt, Belgium and San Francisco, CA – with clients sprinkled throughout North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia – the company is in a prime position to accomplish its stated mission: to change how customer service […].

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How to Prepare for the Future of Work

BrainStation Technology

There’s been a lot of talk about a looming robot uprising. But it’s not the science fiction kind, where man and machine are battling it out with the help of Terminator cyborgs. Instead, it’s the career kind, where jobs around the world are increasingly at risk of a technological takeover. One 2017 study from McKinsey Global Institute looked at hundreds of occupations across nearly 50 countries — and found roughly one-fifth of the global workforce, or around 800 million workers, will lose their j

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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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Connected healthcare: Why mobility matters to the clinician

DXC

by Dr. Shainal Nathoo Technology experts will often talk about the benefits of mobility in healthcare, but to understand why mobility matters and how it might improve both workflow and clinical benefits for patients, it’s vital to get a user’s perspective. As a clinician, my view of mobility is influenced by my own experiences in […].

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Meet the Women of the Dell Technologies Partner Program: Patty Scire

Dell EMC

This is one in our series, Meet the Women of the Dell Technologies Partner Program, which provides insight into what drives the inspiring women of the Dell Technologies channel. Missed the first posts? Read them all here. Meet Patty Scire – Senior Director, NA Strategy and Programs What recent accomplishments are you most proud of? Last year I took a new role in leading the combined Channel Strategy and Channel Programs organization in North America.

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Put OWASP Top 10 Proactive Controls to work

TechBeacon

It has always been important for developers to write secure code, but with the wider adoption of DevOps, agile, continuous integration, and continuous delivery, it's more important than ever.

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America’s Top 100 Best Value Colleges And Universities For 2019

CEO Insider

CEOWORLD magazine. America’s Top 100 Best Value Colleges And Universities For 2019. The Brigham Young University (BYU) has been ranked No. 1 on the list of the 300 best-value colleges and universities in the United States for 2019, according to a new study out by the Forbes magazine, while the University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) placed […].

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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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Weekly Update 5-20-2019

Linux Academy

Last week was all about our container related courses, which you won’t want to miss, so make sure to go take a look at those previous announcements. You can find them on last weeks episode of Weekly Update. This week, we’re diving into brand new DevOps courses. Red Hat Enterprise 8. On May 7th, Red Hat released Enterprise 8. This is huge as Enterprise 8 adds multiple new features: Web console.

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Storage Class Memory Demo - Faster than All-Flash, Part 3

Infinidat

Storage Class Memory Demo - Faster than All-Flash, Part 3. Drew Schlussel. Wed, 05/15/2019 - 8:00am. The first two posts in this series were about why InfiniBox is faster than all-flash arrays. This post is about an InfiniBox being faster than itself. Thoroughly confused? Read on! InfiniBox systems are guaranteed SCM ready, and our engineering team was looking for a cool way to demonstrate this capability.

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Tealium Raises $55 Million in Series F Funding

DevOps.com

New investment to accelerate global expansion and product innovation Funding solidifies Tealium as the industry’s most comprehensive customer data orchestration solution SAN DIEGO, May 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Tealium, the trusted leader in real-time customer data orchestration, has closed $55 million in Series F funding led by Silver Lake Waterman, Silver Lake’s late-stage growth capital fund, with participation from ABN AMRO Digital […].

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Break Free from the High Cost of Legacy

Beyond B2B

Escape from the high costs of legacy technology while liberating your existing applications for maximum impact.

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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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SecureAge Integrates Artificial Intelligence Powered APEX Anti-Malware Engine in VirusTotal

DevOps.com

SecureAge’s APEX engine uses machine learning to recognize zero-day and mutated threats that are traditionally undetectable (NEW YORK) (May 14, 2019) — SecureAge Technology, an data security and encryption solution provider for enterprise businesses and end users, today announced the integration of its APEX anti-malware engine into VirusTotal, a Chronicle product, and free online service […].

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The top 10 cyber hygiene issues that lead to a breach: Part one — A perimeter in ruins

Darktrace

Improving a company’s cyber hygiene is a continual responsibility, the nature of which perpetually changes as the business evolves.

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5 Things to Know Before Heading to the APP2P Spring Conference & Expo

Docuphase

As Florida residents and AP Automation specialists, our team is getting excited about heading to Orlando for APP2P’s Spring Conference & Expo in May!