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EventStorming cheat sheet

Xebia

EventStorming is the smartest approach to collaborate beyond silo boundaries. The power of EventStorming comes from a diverse multi-disciplined group of people who, together, have a lot of wisdom and knowledge. While it originally was invented for a workshop to model domain-driven design aggregates, it now has a broader spectrum. From gaining a big-picture problem […].

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Game On: Gamification for the Win

DevOps.com

Staying competitive in today’s fast-moving digital economy is easier said than done. Operating in a digital environment requires a significant shift in company culture and an agile software environment that accelerates time to value. Creating a DevOps environment helps companies keep pace, but it requires a workforce that is empowered, excited and motivated.

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5 ways to shift your app sec team's focus to the supply chain

TechBeacon

On April 12, 2017, four computers at utility-software firm Piriform, previously compromised, quietly reached out to the Internet and downloaded and installed a remote-access Trojan known as ShadowPad.

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Security best-practices for CI/CD

CircleCI

CI/CD pipelines are at the core of daily operations for many businesses today. These processes, when set up correctly, help to keep the delivery process consistent by automating many manual tasks and providing visibility into how the software is being worked on. CI/CD is also the place in your technology stack where your infrastructure has access to many different resources, from development and production environment to analytics keys and code signing credentials.

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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 Talk With Your Boss When You Totally Disagree

Let's Grow Leaders

Talk with your boss when you disagree—you might be surprised at the results I was seething. The CEO had just asked my team to do something that I felt lacked integrity, was unprincipled, manipulative, and put our clients in a bad position. […]. The post How to Talk With Your Boss When You Totally Disagree appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to Implement a Successful DevOps Strategy at Your Organization

OverOps

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How to Improve Your Workplace for Female Leaders

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Making the workplace better for all employees is a constant work, but how can you make it better for the female leaders of your business. Today’s post is by Alexandra Levit, author of Humanity Works (CLICK HERE to get your copy). I recently met a psychologist who studies gender dynamics in the workplace, and she […]. This is only the beginning of the thought.

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Why Personal Core Values are Vital to the Success of Your Journey and Business

CEO Insider

Go Beyond Crafting a Mission Statement and Actually Live Out Your Beliefs: Years ago, I launched upon a journey from being a typical “Type A” CEO to becoming a more dedicated father, a more effective leader, and an overall better human being. During this pilgrimage of self-discovery, I came to the bitter realization that, while […].

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UX Myths – Prototyping, User Testing, and UX Deliverables

Toptal

Prototyping, user testing, and UX deliverables are important to the design process, but there are some UX myths that can put these processes at risk of being devalued by clients.

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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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Status update and reading list – July 2019

Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

I’m reading a few books right now, so I thought I’d share in case you were looking for new ideas. The Fearless Organization – Amy Edmondson – A primer on Psychological Safety, why you need it, and how to get it. The Fifth Discipline and the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook – Peter Senge. How to create an organization that continually learns.

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5 Challenges That QA Testing Teams in DevOps Face

Kovair - DevOps

Quality assurance is progressive discipline and it has always been, especially in the area of online software testing, development and testing. With the advancements in. The post 5 Challenges That QA Testing Teams in DevOps Face appeared first on Kovair Blog.

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Learning From Experience & A Trip To The Moon: An Interview

Experience to Lead

The team at Vantage Leadership recently interviewed our founder, Dick Richardson, to discuss the release of our new book Apollo Leadership Lessons: Powerful Business Insights for Executives. In July of 2019 we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. We wanted to share the insights from the Apollo mission in a way that [ ] The post Learning From Experience & A Trip To The Moon: An Interview appeared first on Experience to Lead.

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DevOps Deeper Dive: BMC Software Bets on AIOps Transformation

DevOps.com

As BMC tests the AIOps waters, the company seeks to find a balance in serving both the DevOps and ITIL populations It’s clear in the enterprise IT space that artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to play a significant role in IT operations, a phenomenon known as AIOps. Often with this level of IT disruption, new […]. The post DevOps Deeper Dive: BMC Software Bets on AIOps Transformation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Cloud Security is Overwhelming. AI and Machine Learning Can Help

Symantec

Learn how AI and machine learning can play a key role in enhancing the capabilities of your security staff

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Qualities Patterns Share: Proper Coupling

Net Objectives

Coupling exists when one part of the system is impacted by changes to another part. Where there is too much coupling, changes to a system can be difficult, time-consuming, and often destructive. That said, coupling is also necessary. When objects collaborate with each other then they must interact, and this always creates some form of … Continue reading "Qualities Patterns Share: Proper Coupling".

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Why You Need ML Ops for Successful Innovation

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

Today there are 275 unicorns, private companies with over $1 billion in valuation, around the world. These companies are changing the way we do business, requiring everyone to adopt a more accelerated pace of innovation to create hyper-personalized customer experiences—all built upon a more effective use of data and technology. To keep up and maintain a competitive advantage, you need to ensure your technology investments are delivering the most value possible for your company.

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Four questions to ask when scoping out an AI and ML use case

DXC

While many companies are interested in applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help their businesses transform and innovate, few have an appetite for a lengthy project or a large initial investment. But when companies can see meaningful value in six to eight weeks, they are more likely to expand their usage of […].

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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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Cloudera Update: Open source route seeks to keep big data alive

CTOvision

Cloudera has had a busy 2019. The vendor started off the year by merging with its primary rival Hortonworks to create a new Hadoop big data juggernaut. However, in the ensuing months, the newly merged company has faced challenges as revenue has come under pressure and the Hadoop market overall has shown signs of weakness. […].

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Optional Chaining

David Walsh

For all of the improvements that the JavaScript language has added over the past few years, like the spread operator , default argument values, and arrow functions , there are still a few features I’d love to see implemented. On such feature is optional chaining. Optional chaining allows developers to reference object properties which may or may not exist without trigger an error.

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Join The Cloud Security Alliance DC Chapter for our Fall 2019 Cruise

CTOvision

Join us on Sept 26th to hear from an all-star security panel from Gartner, NIST, Capital One, and Freddie Mac for our inaugural fall boat cruise. The DC Metro Area Chapter (CSA-DC) of the Cloud Security Alliance is pleased to invite you to our meetup! This is a fantastic opportunity to network with DC Metro […].

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This Process is Nuts

The Daily WTF

A great man once said "I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry." As pleasing of a sight as that was, what if the squirrels weren't merry? Grady had an unpleasant experience with bushy-tailed rodents at a former job. Before starting at the Fintech firm as a data scientist, he was assured the Business Intelligence department was very advanced and run by an expert.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Instant Azure Sandbox Environments

Linux Academy

At Linux Academy, we’re huge advocates for hands-on training. We believe this is the best method for learning and doesn’t require extra time, money, or an additional subscription. We supply the security configurations to connect to real environments, you focus on the training. To us, providing a place where a learner can quickly and easily access the tools they need for learning is essential.

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For IoT, think about creating a minimum viable ecosystem

CTOvision

There is a ton of talk in the hardware world these days about creating a minimum viable product (MVP) that you can show to customers or investors before investing big money — and time — into a final device. The idea is that you’ll learn a lot through the creation process and even more from […].

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Instant Azure Sandbox Environments

Linux Academy

At Linux Academy, we’re huge advocates for hands-on training. We believe this is the best method for learning and doesn’t require extra time, money, or an additional subscription. We supply the security configurations to connect to real environments, you focus on the training. To us, providing a place where a learner can quickly and easily access the tools they need for learning is essential.

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Blockchain is finally becoming the next-gen database of choice

CTOvision

Read why Will Martino says that blockchain is likely to become the most popular database on Venture Beat : When I think of why we need a blockchain, I think of one guy. There was a dev we had hired to build a few important parts of our product for us. A few years previously, […].

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Critical Vulnerabilities Dubbed URGENT/11 Place Devices Running VxWorks at Risk of RCE Attacks

Tenable

Eleven vulnerabilities, including RCEs, denials of service, information leaks and logical flaws, were recently disclosed, impacting the RTOS VxWorks. Background. The Armis Research Team has released an advisory for URGENT/11 , which contains six critical RCE and five additional vulnerabilities in VxWorks , a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) found in over 2 billion devices, including critical industrial, medical and enterprise hardware.

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Apple to buy majority of Intel’s modem chip business for $1 billion

CTOvision

Apple Inc said on Thursday it would buy the majority of Intel Corp’s smartphone modem business for $1 billion, months after the chipmaker announced plans to exit the 5G modem chip business. Apple will hold over 17,000 wireless technology patents and take on about 2,200 Intel employees after the completion of the deal, the iPhone maker […].

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ELK to AWS: Managing Logs with Less Hassle

Toptal

The ELK stack boasts a range of impressive capabilities, but in some scenarios, it can be difficult to configure and maintain. In this article, Toptal DevOps Engineer Fabrice Triboix explains why he decided to shift to a serverless solution that requires less maintenance and allows for superior scaling.

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