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Importance of DevSecOps in the Software Development Industry

Kovair - DevOps

In recent years, software development has changed a lot and is no longer limited to a few developers coding in a single environment. With the.

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7 tell-tale signs of fake DevOps

CIO

There’s no doubt that DevOps has helped many IT organizations achieve their goal of delivering applications and services faster and better than traditional software development processes. Unfortunately, while some IT leaders do a fine job of trumpeting DevOps’ benefits, their teams are headed in the wrong direction , embracing half-baked or completely wrong tools and practices.

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A peek into the future as Sam Altman sees it

TechCrunch

Late last week, in a rare sit-down before a small audience , this editor spent an hour with Sam Altman, the former president of Y Combinator and, since 2019, the CEO of OpenAI , the company he famously co-founded with Elon Musk and numerous others in 2015 to develop artificial intelligence for the “benefit of humanity.” The crowd wanted to learn more about his plans for OpenAI, which has taken the world by storm in the last six weeks owing to the public release of its ChatGPT languag

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. That is largely due to the 80-year-old hotel chain’s tight partnership with Amazon Web Services, says Choice CIO Brian Kirkland, who claims his company is enjoying the cost benefits and energy efficiencies of the cloud while exploiting many of 225 related services AWS offers such

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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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Kenyan fintech Kwara raises $3M seed extension, signs deal to reach over 4,000 credit unions

TechCrunch

Kwara , a Kenyan fintech digitizing credit unions (saccos), more than doubled its client base last year, and its eyeing enormous growth in the coming years after raising a $3 million seed extension, and signing an exclusive digital solutions distribution agreement with the Kenya Union of Savings & Credit Cooperatives (Kuscco), the national umbrella body representing saccos.

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7 space tech predictions for 2023

TechCrunch

Mark Boggett. Contributor. Mark Boggett is the CEO and co-founder of the Seraphim Space Manager LLP , the world's first listed fund focused on space tech. Cell phone connectivity from space. Multiple players in the industry have recently set their sights on direct-to-mobile connectivity from space. While it’s still a very early market with limited existing capabilities, companies such as Apple, T-Mobile, Globalstar, SpaceX, AST SpaceMobile and Lynk Global are targeting this area.

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fetch with Timeout

David Walsh

A few years back I wrote a blog post about how write a fetch Promise that times out. The function was effective but the code wasn’t great, mostly because AbortController , which allows you to cancel a fetch Promise , did not yet exist. With AbortController and AbortSignal available, let’s create a better JavaScript function for fetching with a timeout: Much like the original function, we’ll use setTimeout to time to the cancellation but we’ll use the signal with the fetch

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Nucleus aims to simplify the process of managing microservices

TechCrunch

An increasing number of organizations are adopting microservices, the loosely-coupled, independently-deployable services that together make up an app. According to a 2020 O’Reilly survey , 77% of organizations had adopted microservices as of then, with 29% reporting that they were migrating or implementing a majority of their systems using microservices.

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What Is Penetration Testing? A Beginner’s Guide

Coding Dojo

There are many hackers these days – the worldwide annual cost of cybercrime is around $6 trillion per year – and cybersecurity is crucial because it protects people’s data from attack, loss, and theft. There are many reasons why data can be sensitive and private. The information might be personal, like health data, or intellectual … What Is Penetration Testing?

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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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Paris to hold vote on shared scooters

TechCrunch

This weekend, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo told Le Parisien that Parisians will get to vote whether they want to ban free-floating electric scooters or not. As I explained last week , Dott, Lime and Tier, the three scooter companies currently operating in the city, have operating licenses that are set to expire on March 23rd, 2023. And the fate of those services could have wide implications across the micromobility sector.

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CodeSOD: The Email Process

The Daily WTF

Today's submission comes from Florian , and it starts with "this app processes important business transaction by email", which is always a good way to start a WTF. I've seen a depressing number of applications in my life that use email as a means of data exchange. It's common enough that even the industry standard EDI protocol supports email as one of its transports, but hoo boy is that a terrible abuse of email systems.

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If your CEO isn’t pitching to VCs, you’ll never raise money

TechCrunch

Occasionally, in my role as a consultant, I am approached by companies that have a plan in place for their fundraising that doesn’t involve the CEO or a member of the founding team running point on the fundraising process. From one perspective, I can understand that: VC fundraising does, from the outside, look a lot like sales, and if you have a good salesperson, why not let them do what they do best?

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Deploying Ruby AWS Lambda functions with CDK

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 2 minutes What is Cloud Development Kit (CDK). It is an open-source tool created by the AWS team. It allows you to use the programming language of your choice ( TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#/.Net, or Go ) to write infrastructure as code. It uses the Construct Programming Model (CPM) to generate CloudFormation templates and materializes them as AWS resources when deployed.

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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 Reduce Strife Between Engineers And Finance

CloudZero

The conflict between engineers and finance is notorious. Finance thinks engineers just want to build cool products regardless of the cost. Likewise, engineers often feel their every move gets monitored by hawkish finance employees who seem to only care about costs.

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How to choose a React Native development company in 10 easy steps?

Xicom

Table Of Contents. 10 Easy Steps For Choosing Best React Native Development Company: 1) Define your project requirements 2) Setting Up The Right Budget 3) Consider the company’s experience 4) Check out the company’s portfolio 5) Make sure the company uses the latest technology 6) Consider the company’s pricing 7) Check out the company’s reviews 8) Ask for references 9) Meet the team 10) Get a contract Conclusion FAQs: What is React Native?

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Introducing MentorMate Paraguay

Mentormate

Just over one year ago, I enjoyed a much cherished escape from Minnesota winter to the Southern Hemisphere. While it wasn’t my first time venturing south of the equator, it was my first visit to Paraguay and I was so excited for the opportunity at hand. The reason for the trip was to explore a new strategic partnership between MentorMate and Software Natura, a custom software development company based in the capital city of Asunción.

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My CEO Career: Workplace Culture My Biggest Lesson

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Learn how an award-winning CEO transformed a once struggling organization by improving its workplace culture. Today’s guest post is by Thane Lawrie, author of The Buddhist CEO (CLICK HERE to get your copy). In this article I will tell you an interesting story about how I became a successful CEO and what I believe was my biggest lesson. I have just published a book called The Buddhist CEO , but in many ways I was the accidental CEO.

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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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Interview With Michael Feathers, GSAS22 speaker

Apiumhub

Michael Feathers, software architect and author of Working Effectively with Legacy Code, attended the Global Software Architecture Summit on October 4th, 2022, to give a talk about “Aligning Architecture with Responsibility Indices.” Apiumhub had the opportunity to interview him to get to know more about his job and his experience at the conference—check it out!

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People of Perficient: Enabling Diversity Equity and Inclusion in Healthcare & Life Sciences

Perficient

Driving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) is top-of-mind for healthcare and life sciences organizations. Since the COVID-19 pandemic revealed disparity across industries, consumers are expecting organizations to play a more active role in safeguarding against health disparities and under-represented clinical trials. According to Forrester, “By 2030, HCOs (healthcare organizations) must actively dismantle the inequities that affect marginalized communities.

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Megaport Simplifies AWS Outposts Networking

Megaport

AWS Outposts has changed the way enterprises network for challenging workloads. The Outposts Rack offering has been in the market now for a few years, and there are a handful of enterprise use cases emerging which give insight into the power and flexibility of modern edge and hybrid cloud architectures. But the combination of geographic proximity and compute power requirements from organizations.

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5 steps for developing a successful Dynamics 365 CRM implementation strategy

Perficient

The Challenge. Implementing a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system can be a major undertaking for any organization, and it’s important to have a clear strategy in place to ensure success. Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM is a powerful tool that can help businesses streamline their operations and better manage their customer interactions, but it’s important to approach the implementation process in a thoughtful and strategic manner.

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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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The Essentials: Managing Projects

Harvard Business Review

Habits, tools, and tactics that will help you deliver results.

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A Recruitment Success Story: Filling Clinical Roles with a Strategic Approach

Perficient

Healthcare organizations (HCOs) are struggling with major staffing shortages and unprecedented competition for talent across the industry. According to analysts at Forrester , more prevalent chronic disease, the COVID-19 pandemic, and aging populations are responsible for leaving the burden on the healthcare ecosystem at an all-time high. Difficulty filling roles with high quality candidates has been especially high for nurses due to a high level of burnout.

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40 Ideas to Shake Up Your Hiring Process

Harvard Business Review

Innovative approaches that your company may not have considered.

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Optimizing Boomi Limitations

Perficient

Boomi Introduction. Boomi is a cloud-based integration platform that allows businesses to easily and quickly connect their various applications, data, and systems. It offers a wide range of scalable and flexible integration capabilities, such as data integration, application integration, and API management, to integrate on-premises and cloud-based applications.

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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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How Successful Women Sustain Career Momentum

Harvard Business Review

Three strategies, based on interviews with 37 senior leaders.

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Config-Per-Site in Optimizely Multi-Tenant Environments

Perficient

Recently, I was given a task at work where we needed a multisite configuration. We all know that multi-environment is as easy as appsettings.<environment_name> config. What about in multi-tenant environments? You can’t have appsettings.site1.config and appsettings.site2.config on your site! Well, not without a little extra work… Let me introduce AddKeyPerFile ; this handy little function you set up in your Program.cs will enumerate the files in a directory and add them to you

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Configuring OpenTelemetry Agents to Enrich Data and Reduce Observability Costs

Dzone - DevOps

BindPlane OP is a powerful open-source tool that makes it easy to build and manage telemetry pipelines to ship data from IT environments of any kind and size to any analysis tool or storage destination. BindPlane OP installs and configures OpenTelemetry agents, which support a wide variety of sources and can be configured to ship data to multiple destinations while enriching or reducing data simultaneously.

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