Tue.Jun 14, 2022

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SAP Cloud Migration in 2022: 4 Trends to Watch

Protera

There’s no doubt that SAP migration to cloud and the evaluation of SAP S/4HANA are top of mind for enterprises globally. In fact, as SAP phases out its maintenance of legacy SAP systems in the next five years, companies will have to embrace modernization. As companies increasingly migrate to the cloud and update their systems, we have identified emerging SAP cloud migration, and modernization, trends.

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Product Backlog Building Canvas

Martin Fowler

Many software teams describe desired product capabilities as a product backlog: a list of user stories. These stories capture who needs the work, what the work is, and why it's needed. Too often teams expect a product owner to be the sole source of the backlog, but anyone could (and should) write user stories. Paulo Caroli teaches teams to use a Product Backlog Building Canvas , which provides a simple process to develop user stories, starting with describing personas for product users and the a

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Setting Python source folders in Visual Studio Code

Xebia

Visual Studio Code is my preferred editor. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work with additional Python source folders out of the box. This blog shows how to add a Python source folder and regain the developer experience you’ve come to love. Although it’s common to use top-level modules, Python allows you to organize your project any way you want. The src-based module layout uses a src-folder to store the top-level modules.

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Is Your Approach Parent-Child Management or Adult-to-Adult Leadership?

Next Level Blog

Years ago, when I was a rising leader in corporate-land, I worked for a company president who regularly asked a thought-provoking question, “Are we engaging in an adult-to-adult conversation or a parent-child conversation?”. When she asked the question, I don’t think she had in mind the nurturing type of parent-child relationship that most of us would likely prefer, but the type in which the parent is the alpha and the child is the beta.

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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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Harness the Power of WordPress Hooks: Actions and Filters Explained

Toptal

WordPress developers might be tempted to customize this popular website builder directly, but that approach creates ongoing maintenance headaches. Fortunately, there's a clean way to extend functionality: via WordPress hooks, actions, and filters.

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How to Adopt an SRE Practice (When You’re not Google)

DevOps.com

Site reliability engineering (SRE) isn’t a new term or practice. The practice of applying software engineering skills and principles to operations problems and tasks happened even before site reliability engineer was a defined job title. But organizing a proactive approach to building and maintaining software drives long-term success in improving operational efficiency, data-driven roadmap planning […].

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When Your Product Teams Should Aim to be Inefficient – Part 1

OpenCredo

A Story. Have you ever done the wrong thing really well? Whilst I’ve done many things that fall into this category, a clear-cu t example comes from meeting a friend in London. I loftily declared I could meet him in 15 minutes at his favourite restaurant – Wahaca near Waterloo station – despite still being on the train and a good distance from a restaurant I’d never been to before.

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CDEvents Aims To Standardize CI/CD Interoperability

DevOps.com

Companies are under mounting pressure to continuously release new applications and features. And as software development life cycles become more iterative, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has become a necessary ingredient to enable more rapid deployments. Many development teams now embrace DevOps, but fully automating a CI/CD pipeline from source code to production deployment […].

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June Patch Tuesday 2022

Ivanti

June Patch Tuesday is here, and we’ve now reached the midway point of 2022. It’s been and up and down six months so far with a wide swing in the number of vulnerabilities Microsoft has been addressing each month. We started off with 85 CVEs addressed in Windows 10 in January, dropped to a low of 21 CVEs in February, and are back up to 97 CVEs addressed in May.

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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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Article: Building Effective Developer Tools to Enable an Entire Organization to Move Faster

InfoQ Culture Methods

Building effective tooling can help bring down the time to delivery and increase the number of changes delivered safely. This article demonstrates the tools that Monzo has built to enable developers, and how these tools are being used within the engineering function to deploy hundreds of times per day and beyond the engineering function to run a bank at scale.

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Microsoft’s June 2022 Patch Tuesday Addresses 55 CVEs (CVE-2022-30190)

Tenable

Microsoft addresses 55 CVEs in its June 2022 Patch Tuesday release, including three critical flaws. 3 Critical. 52 Important. 0 Moderate. 0 Low. Microsoft patched 55 CVEs in its June 2022 Patch Tuesday release, with three rated as critical, 52 rated as important. This month’s update includes patches for: NET and Visual Studio. Azure OMI. Azure Real Time Operating System.

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Splunk Adds Data Management Tools to Observability Platform

DevOps.com

At its.conf22 event, Splunk today announced it is making it easier to both onboard data and then manage it across hybrid IT environments via the Splunk Cloud Platform. In addition, Splunk Enterprise is being extended to add support for Microsoft Azure with SmartStore for Azure to store cold data alongside existing support for Amazon […]. The post Splunk Adds Data Management Tools to Observability Platform appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Natively Connect Teradata QueryGrid to Google BigQuery

Teradata

With the Teradata QueryGrid Google BigQuery Connector, we’re enabling our customers to natively join data between Vantage and BigQuery in real-time, at scale.

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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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Grafana Labs Adds Visual Tools to Simplify Prometheus Queries

DevOps.com

At its GrafanaCONline event, Grafana Labs today announced an update to the open source Grafana dashboard. The update adds visual query tools to make it easier for IT professionals of any skill level to launch queries against the Prometheus monitoring platform or the company’s Grafana Loki log aggregations framework. In addition, Grafana said the open […].

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XDR vs SOAR: Finding the Right Tool for the Job

SecureWorks

XDR vs SOAR: Finding the Right Tool for the Job In the search for the right solution to support, extend, and empower your SOC, here’s what to know when evaluating XDR vs SOAR.

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Using Fiction to Find Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Immersing yourself in possible futures allows you to be creative and open to unexpected possibilities.

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Willie Osborn on Creating a Culture of SDR Success

Confluent

Growth marketing and sales isn’t only for growing revenue, but your sales people. Here’s how our Director of Sales ensured success for our SDRs through mentorship and upward mobility.

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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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Stressed, Sad, and Anxious: A Snapshot of the Global Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Employee stress levels are at an all-time high, according to Gallup’s new “State of the Global Workforce” report.

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How Can AI Help Underrepresented Young People Get Into the U.K.’s Top Universities?

Dataiku

Dataiku’s AI for Good program, Ikig.AI , provides free Dataiku licenses to accelerate nonprofits’ missions. These collaborations often reveal outside-the-box use cases with tangibly positive human impact. This blog post will walk you through Ikig.AI’s AI partnership with The Brilliant Club , a U.K.-based nonprofit seeking to increase social representation in prestigious universities.

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Fighting Bias and Inequality at the Team Level

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Just Work CEO Trier Bryant on the “last mile” of promoting equity and inclusion at work.

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Bias Mitigation with DataRobot

DataRobot

The ability to test models for algorithmic bias is an important part of ensuring that models are fair and balanced. Many platforms, including DataRobot’s Bias and Fairness suite, allow you to do this. However, correcting the biased behavior behind the models is more challenging. We’re excited to share that we’ve now extended our Bias and Fairness capabilities to include automated Bias Mitigation.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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4 Ways to Improve Specialty Health Care in the U.S.

Harvard Business Review

The current practice of “bundling” care makes it less accessible, affordable, effective, and pleasant.

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3 methods to provide security while scaling AppDev

TechBeacon

Cloud technology continues to be embraced by companies of all types and sizes, but it remains essential to consider security. In the past couple of years, 79% of companies have experienced at least one cloud data breach, according to IDC. Even more alarmingly, it says, 43% have reported 10 or more breaches in that time.

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Classic WTF: The Source Control Shingle

The Daily WTF

It's still a short summer break for a few more days, as always, keep those submissions filling our inbox while we're away. In the meantime, we're also into peak homebuying season. A friend of mine needed a new roof as part of her purchase. Roofs are important, as they provide vital protection for your structure. Unless that structure is your source code… Original. -- Remy.

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Procure-to-Pay Process Guide: Benefits, Real-Life Example, and How to Implement It

Docuphase

Are your old and clunky accounts payable and purchasing processes slowing down your business and damaging vendor relationships? Do your accounting teams struggle to compile data from different systems and teams?

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Leveraging clean-room technology for better ad buys

Capgemini

My team and I are delighted that Snowflake has honored Capgemini with a special Media Competency Badge for accelerating innovation via the Snowflake Media Data Cloud. This is an important recognition of how we’re helping publishers, advertisers, and other parties prosper in an increasingly complex media landscape. . The sector faces numerous challenges, but three data-specific ones stand out. .

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Ransomware hits the cloud

Lacework

Ransomware attacks are on the rise. In the last two years, we’ve seen a 600% increase in attacks which is not terribly surprising given ransomware, a form of malware that seeks to encrypt or withhold data unless a ransom is paid, is profitable for attackers. This is just one reason why it’s more important than ever to implement runtime visibility and anomaly threat detection.

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Do You Need Field Service Management Technology?

Datavail

According to recent research, 52% of field service organizations are managing field service operations manually. If you’re among those 52%, you might be wondering if you need to take the initiative to automate your field service operations. Here are the reasons why you should, and how the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service technology can transform your business.