Thu.Sep 05, 2019

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Top 10 BI data visualization tools

CIO

There is golden knowledge in the sea of data that businesses are swimming in. Being able to fish out the business intelligence you need — when you need it — is the key to steering your ship.

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ICT.Social – A Social Network for IT Professionals

The Crazy Programmer

ICT.social is an international social platform for IT professionals to gather around and resolve programming queries by providing solutions. The platform hosts a large number of databases including online courses (free and paid versions) and articles related to programming and IT sector. The best part? ICT.social works as a social media platform for programmers making it the most convenient and interactive platform for sharing and gaining knowledge.

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How to Find the Great Idea in Your Best Practice

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Best Practice Might Not Work Everywhere Javier was a well-loved director at an engineering design firm. He was also an accomplished Italian chef. Every year he would conduct an operational excellence rally that he personally catered with spaghetti made from homemade noodles, […]. The post How to Find the Great Idea in Your Best Practice appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Change Lessons from Back-to-School Season

Change Starts Here

In a recent webinar, someone pointed out how we help people change in business, but our children have a ton of change each year as they start school and they do fine. She asked, why do we seem to coddle adults more than kids? I’m in a unique situation as a parent this year.

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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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Agile and DevOps Success Needs Continuous Testing

DevOps.com

One of the central ways to progress an agile transformation is to introduce continuous testing. With all such changes, it is cultural as much as technical. The expected outcomes are less broken builds and reduced time from break to fix, as well as a yardstick for measuring the team’s ambition for improvement. The Testing Bit […]. The post Agile and DevOps Success Needs Continuous Testing appeared first on DevOps.com.

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When Shift Right is Shift Left

DevOps.com

In some areas of IT, we utilize the idea of shift right quite a bit. Testing and security are two areas where it comes up often. The idea is that tracking late in the process–usually while the application is in production–leads us to find more insidious issues that might have remained hidden, and gives us […]. The post When Shift Right is Shift Left appeared first on DevOps.com.

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10x Programmers: Myth Or Reality?

Dzone - DevOps

Originally published June 24, 2016. It's time to give the software engineers their due. 10x programmers are a hot topic to discuss in the software industry nowadays, so thought it'd be a good idea to share my viewpoint in this regard.

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Perspective and Reducing Assumptions in Leadership

CoachStation

As an effective leader, one of the key skills to develop is the ability to ask questions. More specifically, ask the right question at the right time. The key benefits of mastering this skillset are the additional perspective gained and the reduction in assumptions. This has power within leadership as it ensures you take into account other people’s perspective as well as your own.

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MSPs – Get ready to Migrate

Kaseya

During its nine-year run, Windows 7 has found a loyal fan base among MSPs. They cling to Windows 7 even when it comes at the cost of their security. The bottom line: In January 2020, less than five months to go, Microsoft will abandon Windows 7 and Windows server 2008 by cutting support services, including any type of security patches. Clearly, the ‘fetishes’ for Windows 7 will bring a host of cybersecurity risks for your MSP business and clients.

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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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Monkeys and Rocks with Matt Greenberg

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Episode 19. If a friend asks you to help them move something heavy, like a rock, you probably wouldn’t think twice. But if they asked you to take care of their pet monkey… That’s the beginning of our chat with Matt Greenberg, Vice President of Engineering at Credit Karma, who compares problems of various types and sizes to monkeys and rocks. The goal of effective leaders should be to break down bigger problems into smaller ones, going from monkey-sized problems to smaller, rock-sized ones.

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Switching to immer.js for Immutability in React: Worth the Hype?

Praxent

Switching to immer.js for Immutability in React : Worth the Hype? Immer.js is a tool for enforcing immutable data structures and is becoming increasingly popular in the JavaScript community. One of Praxent’s software engineers shares his experience using immer.js for immutability in a React application. What Is Immutability? In programming, immutability refers to an object that cannot be changed, or whose state cannot be altered after it’s created.

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As 2020 Looms, Clock Ticking in Race to Enforce Stronger Election Security

Symantec

Looking to protect against recurrence of foreign meddling, states and local agencies debate how to bolster election security

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How graph algorithms improve machine learning

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A look at why graphs improve predictions and how to create a workflow to use them with existing machine learning tasks. We’re passionate about the importance of understanding the connections between things. That’s why we work on graph technologies, which help people make use of these connections. It's also why we wrote the O’Reilly book: Graph Algorithms: Practical Examples in Apache Spark and Neo4j.

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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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Taking Analytics to the 4th Dimension

Teradata

4D analytics combines geospatial, temporal and time series data to do advanced analysis of time and space. Learn how to uncover new insights today.

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Notes from Observability Roundtables: Capabilities Deep-dive

Honeycomb

Greetings, fellow o11ynaut! You may recall a post we shared here about two months ago that told tales of the themes we felt best represented our recent release of the Framework for an Obsersvability Maturity Model. Well, the o11y maturity model was once again the primary topic and focus of Honeycomb’s most recent Observability Roundtable event held in San Francisco in mid August.

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Be Brilliant! Achieve Operational Excellence

Beyond B2B

If you don’t have the happiest customers in the world, then you are not making the most of your business.

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How do you deal with passive-aggressive people?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How do you deal with passive-aggressive people? I confront them directly when I see the behavior: 41% I generally ignore the behavior: 47% I behave passive-aggressively right back at them: 13% Don’t stoop to their level. The majority of you either confront passive-aggressive behavior when you see it or you just […].

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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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The Hidden Costs of Offshore Development

iTexico

The Hidden Costs of Offshore Development. Outsourcing has always been a source of great debate around the American watering hole, and quite frankly it may be a debate that will never truly go away. One thing for certain, however, is that the reason why outsourcing is so frequently leaned on is due to its overtly cost-effective nature. Hiring out an offshore software development company and producing a quality product for a fraction of the price is tempting.

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Taking Analytics to the 4th Dimension

Teradata

4D analytics combines geospatial, temporal and time series data to do advanced analysis of time and space. Learn how to uncover new insights today.

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Kickstart your Business’ AI Adoption with Design Sprints

iTexico

Kickstart your Business’ AI Adoption with Design Sprints. Today, when asked about AI, perhaps a lot of people will still relate the term to robots and science fiction apocalyptic scenes. The reality is further from that concept, with artificial intelligence already being part of our daily lives, everywhere. Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that makes it possible for machines to learn from human behavior and perform cognitive functions such as reasoning, interpretation, pro

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Scale your security with DevSecOps: 4 valuable mindsets and principles

TechBeacon

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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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The Zero Trust Approach for the Cloud

Palo Alto Networks

By Evin Safdia, Technical Marketing Manager, Prisma. The term “Zero Trust” has been around for almost 10 years, but it has recently picked up momentum as businesses look to proactively protect their data and infrastructure. With the shift to the cloud, Zero Trust is now a philosophy of choice for CIOs and CISOs, who are tasked with protecting their systems from outside attacks as well as from within the organization.

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Data breach costs continue to soar

DXC

Propelled by rising amounts of data, business process digitization and regulatory fines, organizations’ data breach costs are expected to soar from $3 trillion annually to more than $5 trillion by 2024, according to a recent report from Juniper Research. Interestingly, the report, The Future of Cybercrime and Security: Threat Analysis, Impact Assessment and Migration Strategies […].

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Phishing for a Proactive Security Culture

Symantec

How to drive a measurable reduction in security risk using phishing simulations

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Learn New Edge Techniques: IoT, AI and Analytics in Three Days at IoT Solutions World Congress, Barcelona

Nutanix

We are about a month away from IoT Solutions World Congress and we are very excited to be a diamond sponsor from the 29th-31st of October, 2019. We are bringing our bright and talented Nutanix Xi IoT team members and partners to talk to you about IoT/AI edge use cases with powerful live demos.

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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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How to Use Schema Registry and Avro in Spring Boot Applications

Confluent

TL;DR. Following on from How to Work with Apache Kafka in Your Spring Boot Application , which shows how to get started with Spring Boot and Apache Kafka ® , here I will demonstrate how to enable usage of Confluent Schema Registry and Avro serialization format in your Spring Boot applications. Using Avro schemas, you can establish a data contract between your microservices applications.

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Hybrid Cloud Endgame: Lock in Value

Nutanix

To achieve maximum value, hybrid cloud is more apropos than multi-cloud. It starts with a solid, stable datacenter that can extend seamlessly into clouds as determined by the needs of your end-users and the business.

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Splunk Adds Omnition to DevOps Portfolio

DevOps.com

Splunk followed up on its pending acquisition of SignalFx, a provider of an application performance management (APM), by also acquiring Omnition, a startup building a distributed tracing tool accessed as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. Rick Fitz, senior vice president and general manager for the IT Markets Group at Splunk, said Omnition consists of a small […].

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