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Who Should Manage App Development Costs?

ParkMyCloud

We speak to enterprises large and small about cloud cost optimization, and one of the more dominant themes we have been hearing lately is: who should manage app development costs? Cloud Operations teams (ITOps, DevOps, FinOps, Cloud Center of Excellence , etc.) that are responsible for the management, governance and optimization of an enterprise’s cloud resources need to get the Application owners or the lines of business owners to be responsible for cost.

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Branching Patterns: Comparing Feature Branching and Continuous Integration

Martin Fowler

Feature Branching appears to be the most common branching strategy in the industry at the moment, but there is a vocal group of practitioners who argue that Continuous Integration is usually a superior approach. more….

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How to Implement a Cost-Effective, Enterprise-Class BDR Solution for Your Small Business

Arcserve

IDC reports that nearly 1.8 zettabytes of data will be generated worldwide per year by 2025. Far too often that data goes un-protected. It gets worse: Ponemon Institute reports that 61% of businesses don’t have an incident response plan. Despite persistent threats of ransomware, hardware failure, or user error, many businesses are unprepared. Some of.

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Agile Alliance Conference Updates

Agile Alliance

What happens when you can’t hold a physical conference event? Conference organizers put in incredible amounts of work to invite speakers, review submissions, shape a program, and mold the experience-to-be for attendees. This, of course, is happening alongside all sorts of logistics planning: food and beverage orders, room sizes, audio/visual needs, flows of traffic to … Continued.

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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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Integrate Google Lighthouse into your CICD pipeline

Xebia

Do you want to increase the quality and most likely the conversion rate of your web pages? In this blog post, I provide the steps on how to integrate Google Lighthouse into a CICD pipeline. Read on. When you develop a web application performance and accessibility are key requirements. Since many have walked the same […]. The post Integrate Google Lighthouse into your CICD pipeline appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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4 Ways to Stop Frustrating Misunderstandings

Let's Grow Leaders

Frustrating misunderstandings aren’t inevitable I was sitting in the car outside our house, waiting for our son to join me on a trip to the grocery store. After waiting for a while, I called his cell phone. “Are you coming?” “Where are […]. The post 4 Ways to Stop Frustrating Misunderstandings appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Agile for Non-Software Teams

Agile Alliance

Business agility does not mean using the same processes and practices as your software and IT teams. In fact, the specific practices don't matter. Agile is a way of thinking and making choices that can benefit marketing, HR, finance, all parts of the business.

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DevOps Trends for 2020 and Beyond

DevOps.com

Since the ideation of DevOps, technologists have made great strides to benefit from it. Despite advancements and the success that teams have seen within pockets, many of its core challenges are still prevalent: scaling across the enterprise due to manual processes, poor visibility between dev and ops teams, and tool sprawl that hurts agility. Luckily, […].

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Metagility: Managing Agile Development for Competitive Advantage

Agile Alliance

Metagility: Managing Agile Development for Competitive Advantage is the first book to provide a comprehensive approach for managing a new and highly effective breed of agility from the executive level on down.

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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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What stops a successful person from becoming a great leader?

CEO Insider

As a culture, we confuse leadership and success – whether in business, politics, associations, or universities. It’s true; business leaders are visibly at the pinnacle of their organization, having a level of achievement that is commensurate with financial and professional success. However, there are also more narrowly defined successes associated with leadership, such as diligently […].

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Birds, Nerds and Turds – The Agile Retrospective Game

Agile Alliance

Actually it’s a game, a playing card game, a pack made up of 52 cards. Some Birds, some Nerds and some are yes Turds, you got it! And yes is a physical product, an actual pack of cards!

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Latest Version of Open Source IPFS Improves Performance

DevOps.com

The team behind the open source InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) announced this week that a significantly faster version of the peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol is now generally available. IPFS is a distributed file system that makes use of a global namespace to connect all computing devices. The fundamental difference between IPFS and other distributed file systems […].

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8.6M PII leaked from UK city's CCTV DB; Neology denies responsibility

TechBeacon

An English city somehow forgot to password-protect a huge PII trove. And this isn’t just any old database—it’s what the Brits call automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR), which reads car license plates and can follow people’s journeys across the city.

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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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Coronavirus Impact: Enterprises Must Focus on What Works

DevOps.com

As the economic slowdown continues, CIOs, CFOs and enterprise technology teams continue to grapple with frozen budgets and how their enterprise will keep their operations functioning as they attempt to move forward with crucial digital transformation efforts, and possibly shelve those initiatives deemed less critical. How are CIOs deciding what projects get postponed?

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Engineering Inclusivity with Rich Archbold

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Episode 43. How do we build inclusive organizations that actually value diversity? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus talks with Rich Archbold, vice president of engineering at Intercom.io, about developing an inclusion and diversity plan for his company. According to Archbold, organizations must learn to be inclusive of the people they already have before they can become diverse.

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Kong Brings Collaboration to Designing APIs

DevOps.com

Kong has launched an open source tool for designing application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to make it easier for teams of developers to collaboratively edit an API specification that can be stored in a Git repository. Based on the open source Insomnia API management platform the company gained last year by acquiring Floating Keyboard Software […].

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4 Telltale Signs Your Business Is Ripe for a Cybersecurity Attack (and How to Respond)

CTOvision

Read Eric ‘ERock’ Christopher list five signs about the risks to small and medium businesses and how to deal with them on Entrepreneur : We live in a time when […].

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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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Software Development Management Drives Business Value

DevOps.com

How much business value does your software group generate for your organization? That’s the existential question an international corporation’s software leader poses, kicking off the 2017 book “The Business Value of Software.” It’s also a topic we’ve all likely wrestled with from time to time. It’s the essence of the value we personally bring to […].

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Cyber-Criminals Increasingly Using Official reCAPTCHA Walls in Phishing Attacks

CTOvision

New research from Barracuda Networks has revealed that cyber-criminals are increasingly using official reCAPTCHA walls to disguise malicious content from email security systems and trick unsuspecting users. reCAPTCHA walls are typically […].

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How to Get Your Digital Data Game on with DataOps

DevOps.com

As a new mindset, methodology and practice within data management, DataOps focuses on improving the communication, integration and automation of data flows to simply and successfully help developers, IT and the business create real-time data experiences and reduce the risk of project failure. DataOps enables developers and organizations to better adapt to fast changing business […].

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Data Breaches: How to Respond to a Tipoff of a Problem

CTOvision

What should an enterprise do when someone reaches out and claims to have the company’s data or information about a breach? There’s no rule book for a response, and such an […].

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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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5 ways to scale your app sec program

TechBeacon

With 300 banks, including 90 of the top 100 institutions, using its software, the financial services firm Finastra has made securing its applications a top priority.

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How to Lead Your Business Through Anxiety

CEO Insider

If you’re like most business leaders, you had a lot of issues on your mind at the start of 2020. Also like most leaders, I’m guessing, weathering a global pandemic probably wasn’t one of them. A year ago, few could have predicted that the global grip of COVID-19 was imminent; indeed, to say that we’re in a […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article How to Lead Your Business Through Anxiety are those of the author Rhett Power alone and not the CEOWORLD magazine.

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Part Two: Reverse Engineering and Patching with Ghidra

Coalfire

In the first installment of our three-part blog series we learned how to root the Flashforge Finder 3D printer and acquire its firmware. In this post, we will delve into reverse engineering and patching the software using the new open source NSA tool Ghidra, which rivals its expensive competitors such as IDA Pro in value and ease of use.

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How VPR Helped Prioritize the Most Dangerous CVEs in 2019

Tenable

How do VPR and CVSS compare when assessing the most dangerous CVEs in 2019? Let’s find out. Two weeks ago, we kicked off a blog series on vulnerability priority rating (VPR), with a post focused on the characteristics of VPR that differentiate it from CVSS. In this post, we will demonstrate how VPR can be used to target the most dangerous vulnerabilities that exist in your network.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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The State of the Change Profession – 2020 Pandemic

Change Starts Here

People have been asking me what I’m seeing in the industry as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

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WordPress E-Learning Plugin Vulnerabilities Range from Cheating to Remote Code Execution

Tenable

Several flaws in popular WordPress E-Learning plugins LearnPress, LearnDash and LifterLMS could allow for cheating, students gaining teacher privileges and exposure of sensitive personal information. Background. On April 29, 2020, Check Point researchers Omri Herscovici and Sagi Tzadik published research into three popular WordPress learning management system (LMS) plugins: LifterLMS , LearnDash and LearnPress.

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One Identity Allies With HashiCorp to Advance DevSecOps

DevOps.com

One Identity, a provider of identity management software, has aligned with HashiCorp to make it easier for DevOps teams to implement best DevSecOps practices. Tyler Reese, a senior product manager for One Identity, said via a plugin for HashiCorp Vault developers can now securely manage, monitor, record and audit privileged and administrative access to their […].

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