Thu.Jul 18, 2019

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2019 State of the Software Supply Chain Report: 5 key takeaways

TechBeacon

Decades ago, W. Edwards Deming deftly advocated that to improve business manufacturing processes, companies must select only the best suppliers and seek continuous improvement. He evangelized the benefits of eliminating the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into products.

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How to improve candidate experience using developer assessments

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

David Heinemeier, the creator of Ruby on Rails tweeted: Several organizations still use whiteboard interviews as a standard process to hire developers. . In a whiteboard interview, developers are given a problem statement for which they have to provide the solution on a whiteboard. This is meant to test their communication and problem-solving skills.

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Low-Code Has Taken Development by Storm. Why Not the Web?

DevOps.com

For more than a decade, development tools increasingly have made their way into the hands of less-technical people. On the web in particular, we’ve eliminated the webmaster as the middleman with content management systems and moved progressively toward a model where non-technical users could assemble their own sites with little to no coding experience of […].

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Best Practices in Leadership and Productivity: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their best practices in leadership and productivity. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! The August Frontline Festival will be […]. The post Best Practices in Leadership and Productivity: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Introducing New Azure Hands-On Labs

Linux Academy

At Linux Academy, we have the most extensive learn-by-doing library of cloud training and the largest on-staff training team in the e-learning market. Our training team is the key to our course success, especially when it comes to Azure. This year, Microsoft has made it hard to keep up. They have had multiple cancellations, and closed several Azure exams that were less than 3 months old!

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CISO-as-a-Service: When your enterprise needs cybersecurity expertise on demand

CTOvision

Your business operates in a world where there is an incredibly high demand for cybersecurity talent. Now with unemployment at a 50 year low there are no indications that anything can be done to dramatically increase the pool of cybersecurity talent. Enterprise grade cybersecurity requires enterprise grade experience. How do you get that in today’s […].

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Interview: How to Influence and Measure Behavior Change

Change Starts Here

In this episode, Larry Mohl, Co-Founder and CEO of Jubi, Inc. shares how a learn-do-inspire approach helps instigate, measure, and sustain behavior change. Hear the principles behind Jubi’s cloud-based change experience platform.

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Too Big for Excel? An Alternative for Analysis

Dataiku

Big data. The term means many things to many people. The best definition I've heard is data that won't fit on your laptop. With 1 terabyte hard drives available by "fit" I mean it's too big to process on your laptop. A top-of-the-line MacBook pro packing a quad-core processor and 16GB of RAM can analyze a lot of data, however it's easy to surpass even those mighty specs.

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Securing Hybrid Cloud Workloads on Google Anthos

Aqua Security

There are major shifts happening around container technology. We have seen ongoing improvements in automation tooling and changes as fully containerized workloads move into production. Companies are often running more than one production Kubernetes cluster at a time. DevOps and operations teams, subsequently, have an additional burden because they must control and manage these clusters, and configuring Kubernetes isn’t easy.

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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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Another Android FAIL: Samsung leaks Sprint customer data

TechBeacon

Another week, another leak. Sprint—the carrier, not the agile concept—warns its customers that some of their data has gone walkabout (but it’s not sure how many customers).

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Debunking Myths Around RASP

DevOps.com

Runtime application self-protection (RASP) has taken a fair bit of scrutiny over the last few years. Like many security technologies that pioneer new ways of tackling old problems, people inherently don’t like change. Several companies entered the space early and early adopters helped mature various RASP solutions on the market and the technology has advanced […].

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Advantage of Using CRM Software

OTS Solutions

There are Some Advantage of Using CRM Software. Customer relationship management software can help businesses become more efficient and profitable by collecting and managing data. When properly implemented CRM software solutions can boost customer acquisition and retention while reducing operating costs. A CRM system can do those things for you by giving you the following advantages.

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New Server Hits the Machine-Learning Track

Dell EMC

The new Dell EMC DSS 8440 server accelerates machine learning and other compute-intensive workloads with the power of up to 10 GPUs and high-speed I/O with local storage. As high-performance computing, data analytics and artificial intelligence converge, the trend toward GPU-accelerated computing is shifting into high gear. In a sign of this momentum, the TOP500 organization notes that new GPU-accelerated supercomputers are changing the balance of power on the TOP500 list.

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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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Vulnerability Management Fundamentals: What You Need to Know

Tenable

In part one of our five-part series on Vulnerability Management fundamentals, we explore the four stages of the Cyber Exposure lifecycle. . Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. —Sir Isaac Newton. At Tenable, we are pioneering the discipline of Cyber Exposure to help cybersecurity teams measure and manage their cyber risk.

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How to improve candidate experience using developer assessments

Hacker Earth

David Heinemeier, the creator of Ruby on Rails tweeted: Several organizations still use whiteboard interviews as a standard process to hire developers. . In a whiteboard interview, developers are given a problem statement for which they have to provide the solution on a whiteboard. . The most common tasks include recalling algorithms and writing them bug-free on the whiteboard. .

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Partnering with AgilityHealth to Measure Metrics that Matter to Business Agility

Accenture

Welcome to the age of Business Agility. In this new age, many organizations are already learning to become more responsive to change and adaptable to new business conditions. They are achieving measurable improvements in key areas such as customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and ultimately achieving noticeable increases in market success. And yet, while many organizations have undergone transformation initiatives, too often they find that they aren’t achieving the outcomes the transform

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Helsana Versicherungen Rebuilds Their Identity with SailPoint

Sailpoint

Helsana Versicherungen is one of the largest Swiss health insurance companies with 1.9 million customers. The group offers basic health, supplementary and casualty insurance and is based in Dübendorf. They recently became one of the first Swiss insurance companies to offer their customers a health incentive program. Envisioning a Better Way. Helsana was managing employee access with a legacy identity vendor.

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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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5 Experience Design Takeaways for Developers

Praxent

5 Experience Design Tips for Developers. This article outlines five ways for proactive developers to collaborate in the experience-design process. >> Interested in working for Praxent? Check out our job openings! Building digital products that change the world requires radical collaboration. Radical collaboration challenges craftspeople to loosen their grip on the skills that define them — to teach others and assume a servant role for the sake of greater impact.

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Gorilla Logic, AWS, and Maxar Share Cloud Transformation Experiences

Gorilla Logic

Gorilla Logic recently collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host an intimate workshop where attendees could learn about and share their cloud transformation experiences and the AWS products that enable the process. Because the attendees were in various stages of their cloud journey—from dabbling to all-in—the group was able to discuss a variety of successes, challenges faced, and lessons learned.

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Acquiring and sharing high-quality data

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Roger Chen on the fair value and decentralized governance of data. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Roger Chen, co-founder and CEO of Computable Labs , a startup focused on building tools for the creation of data networks and data exchanges. Chen has also served as co-chair of O'Reilly's Artificial Intelligence Conference since its inception in 2016.

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Securing software development: NIST joins the parade

Synopsys

The NIST Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) is the latest standard aimed at improving software security. Can its novel approach help it succeed? The post Securing software development: NIST joins the parade appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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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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O’Reilly Radar: Open source technology trends—What our users tell us

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Using aggregate analysis of O’Reilly online learning content usage and search data, Roger Magoulas shares key insights that impact the technology tools ecosystem. Continue reading O’Reilly Radar: Open source technology trends—What our users tell us.

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Do you enjoy negotiating?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: Do you enjoy negotiating? I love it! I’ll negotiate over everything: 10% I like it especially for important things: 31% It’s OK, but it doesn’t really excite me: 26% Not really. I find it uncomfortable: 24% Not at all. I hate every aspect of it: 9% Let’s make a deal. A […]. This is only the beginning of the thought.

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The war for the soul of open source

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Drawing on 13 years spent building the Chef community, Adam Jacob takes a deep dive into the soul of open source. Continue reading The war for the soul of open source.

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Error'd: The Parameter was NOT Set

The Daily WTF

"Spotted this in front of a retro-looking record player in an Italian tech shop. I don't think anybody had any idea how to categorize it so they just left it up to the system," Marco D. writes. . George C. wrote, "Never thought it would come to this, but it looks like LinkedIn can't keep up with all of my connections!" . "Apparently opening a particular SharePoint link using anything else other than Internet Explorer made Excel absolutely lose its mind," wrote A

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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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O'Reilly Open Source and Frank Willison Awards

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The O’Reilly Open Source Awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of open source software. Continue reading O'Reilly Open Source and Frank Willison Awards.

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How podcasting can advance your tech career

DXC

There was a time when the only ways technology professionals could proactively raise their profiles (and monetary value) in their industries or areas of expertise were to get on the conference/speaker circuit, become a steady and reliable source for print and broadcast news media, write books, and maybe land a columnist gig at a tech […].

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Managing machines

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Pete Skomoroch covers what you need to know as we shift from a world of deterministic programs to systems that give unpredictable results on ever-changing training data. Continue reading Managing machines.