Fri.Nov 08, 2019

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How to navigate risk in today's fast-changing security world

TechBeacon

Enterprises face a challenging and fast-changing risk environment, and that's only going to increase for the foreseeable future. Technologies such as artificial intelligence and connected devices are becoming increasingly commonplace, are are the growing privacy and security considerations related to voice-first technology that lets devices listen to almost everything people say.

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What is multi-cloud anyway and why do we use it?

DXC

Many companies are moving to multi-cloud deployments. For example, most EMEA and North American financial services businesses are moving to multi-clouds within the next two years. Gartner reports 81 percent of surveyed public cloud users are already working with multi-clouds. But, Gartner states that multi-cloud is a subset of hybrid clouds. I disagree.

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Don’t Treat Your Team Like Family

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s a mistake that many well-intentioned leaders make. You want to communicate your care, compassion, and commitment, so you tell your team or company that you’re a family. In this episode, David explains why it’s a mistake to treat your team […]. The post Don’t Treat Your Team Like Family appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Jenkins CI/CD With Git Secrets

Dzone - DevOps

Connect all your Git secrets to the Jenkins pipeline. It's a common practice to encrypt the secrets/credentials we use in our code and then save it in some secure place. We have a number of options to achieve this, with tools like Vault, Git-crypt, and more. However, git-secret is one simple awesome tool that we can use to store our secrets in our Git repo.

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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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The Problem With Over-Engineering

Mentormate

Imagine you come up with a brilliant idea for a solution that solves the problems of thousands of customers. You initiate a project, gather a team of experts, design a rich interface that provides great user experience, build the product to provide all envisioned functionality, and, finally, release it to the public. And then… you realize hardly anyone uses it.

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Striving for greater efficiencies on the grid

Capgemini

Investor-owned electric utilities and stand-alone transmission companies invested a record $21.9 billion in transmission facilities in 2017, up 6.1% from the $20.6 billion invested in 2016, according to the 2018 Annual Property and Plant Capital Investment Survey by Edison Electric Institute (EEI). Spending on infrastructure to deliver power to homes and businesses has increased steadily over the past 10 years as utilities build, upgrade, and replace station equipment, poles, fixtures, and overh

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Important Software Testing Documentation: SRS, FRS and BRS

Dzone - DevOps

SRS, BRS, and FRS play important roles in designing software. Professionals working in software development and testing have to deal with specific kinds of requirement specifications when tackling a new product. Accurate and clear requirements are needed for a software development team to work on the creation of the right product, and this documentation makes the overall development process easier.

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How Open Source Software Is Defining the Future of Mobile Connectivity

DevOps.com

Mobile operators face intense pressure to deliver more data, faster connectivity, better coverage and more functionality to end users who are (unfortunately) more demanding than ever. Increasingly, these end users will not be people as we know them but rather Internet of Things (IoT) devices. IDC has projected that by 2025, 60% of the world’s […].

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Python Tic Tac Toe Game

The Crazy Programmer

In this tutorial we are going to see how we can implement the tic tac toe game in Python. We can either make use of random numbers for the computer move or we can develop a simple algorithm which will play the role of a computer. . Let us first see the representation of our board. For the purpose of this tutorial every place in the board is given a number.

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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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CIOs See Dramatic Change Ahead

DevOps.com

Driven by heightened competition and a rapidly changing business environment, many enterprises now find themselves faced with decisions that could make or break their future. Consider this: Within three years, 44% of respondents to the 2019 Harvey Nash / KPMG CIO Survey expect to fundamentally change their product, service offerings or business model.

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Data Science Fails: Watch Out for Typos

DataRobot

Back when I was doing my undergraduate degree, I remember being asked to proofread a friend’s economics essay. I didn’t make it past the first paragraph before spotting the surprising phrase “John Maynard Keynes' work was impotent.” While there was a possibility that my friend wanted to criticize Keynes’ work, the remainder of the essay was pro-Keynes.

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Two Large Barriers to Widescale AI Adoption in Chemical Manufacturing

Dataiku

A report by Accenture postulated $550 billion could be unlocked for the chemical industry in the next decade by digitalization. Though chemical companies are eager to embrace opportunities that will enhance efficiency and boost revenue and profitability, few have fully harnessed the available tools.

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Eficode Adds Analytics to Managed DevOps Service

DevOps.com

Eficode has added an analytics module to a DevOps platform it makes available as a managed service. Tuomas Keränen, product manager for Eficode ROOT, said Eficode ROOT Insights provides different types of end users with access to an analytics module designed to make it easier to understand how changes to a software development project will […].

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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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The Extreme Competitiveness of a Truly Connected Enterprise

Beyond B2B

Disruption is driving a tectonic shift in business models. Businesses are entering the “third era of IT,” according to Gartner; where they’re no longer just considering digital transformation but are implementing it and scaling it.

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CNCF Advances Jaeger Distributed Tracing Project

DevOps.com

The open source Jaeger distributed tracing platform has officially graduated into the top tier of projects being stewarded by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Designed to be employed within any DevOps environment, Jaeger is a tool for monitoring transactions across complex distributed computing environments. It consists of a backend for trace collection and analysis […].

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New and Enhanced Palo Alto Networks Support Offerings Elevate the Customer Experience

Palo Alto Networks

By Ed Metcalf, Director, Product Marketing, Services, Support, Education & Success Tools. Palo Alto Networks is known for our technological innovations, but we’re also dedicated to innovations that elevate the customer experience. We’ve created products to ensure each day is safer and more secure than the one before, and we know that the right level of support plays a foundational role in securing our customers’ success.

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Mario’s Adventures in Tekton Land

DevOps.com

Tekton is an open source, cloud-native CI/CD pipelines engine. The project has its roots in the Knative project, where about two years ago it started under the name “Knative Pipeline,” with the aim of providing an extension to build Knative’s own “source to image” service. About a year and a half ago the project was […]. The post Mario’s Adventures in Tekton Land appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Free DonorPerfect Giving Tuesday Templates

TechSoup

TechSoup donor partner DonorPerfect has come out with a great free resource hub that has the strategies and communication templates you need to execute a successful Giving Tuesday campaign quickly and easily. The DonorPerfect resource hub has eight planning worksheets and templates that you can fill out online and print out or save as PDF documents.

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CGS MuleSoft Capabilities Interview with Lini Abraham and Suresh Nayak

Capgemini

Capgemini Government Solutions deals with many projects that involve integration or require the monitoring and transfer of large amounts of data. It’s growing increasingly imperative for connectivity to become a core competency for the federal space to move faster and evolve its digital experiences to keep pace with industry trends. MuleSoft allows for leveraging expertise to optimize an application network.

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How to reduce development cost with PowerApps

Invid Group

How to reduce development cost with PowerApps. BY: NEISHA SANTIAGO. A recent study report by Forrester, The Total Economic Impact™ Of PowerApps And Microsoft Flow (2018), stated that the average cost to develop an app is 70% less with Microsoft PowerApps and Flow. The lowered cost of development comes about in various ways: Reducing application development time by the capability to create apps fast with a point-and-click approach to app design.

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CGS Management Consulting Interview with Ricardo Benn

Capgemini

Capgemini Government Solutions applies management consulting expertise in each of its projects. The management consulting practice area covers a range of topics from financial management to strategic planning and data analysis. As a new business consultant at CGS, I was interested in learning more about our management consulting practice so I reached out to Ricardo Benn for an interview.

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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 Celebrate A Business Birthday

Strategy Driven

From time to time, a business will celebrate its anniversary. Of course, perhaps celebrating three years of being open is not something you will celebrate outside of the office, even though it is somewhat of an amazing achievement. But five years? Ten years? Twenty? These are large milestones that show you have the staying power you once felt impossible, and this is worth celebrating.

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New Distribution Capability (NDC) for Airlines: Key Providers and Implementation Scenarios

Altexsoft

Today, airlines still use third parties for their flight distribution. Travelers still stick to comprehensive booking platforms like OTAs and price aggregators. Although some airlines strive to inspire loyalty in their customers and encourage them to buy tickets directly from their sites, it can hardly be a working scheme for every airline. Until the 2000s, airlines managed to maintain direct relations with travel agencies via Computer Reservation Systems (CRSs).

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Don’t Punt on Insider Threats

Saviynt

Recently, a smattering of news headlines seems to highlight a disturbing trend of employees spying on customer data, with more coming to light each week. From Twitter employees spying for the Saudi Arabian government to Snapchat employees abusing their access, the story basics are all the same: an employee at an organization used legitimate access in a completely inappropriate fashion.

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CGS Robotic Process Automation Interview with the CGS Automation Team

Capgemini

Capgemini Government Solutions is a leader in automation, with significant past and current experience. In general, it is growing increasingly imperative for federal agencies to efficiently use time and resources, and RPA is one way in which to accomplish these goals. As recent hires at CGS, we wanted to learn more about RPA to further understand its benefits and implications in the federal space.

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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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Achieving Time-Efficiency And Cost-Efficiency To Ensure Steady Business Expansion

Strategy Driven

Building a successful business requires a well-planned and efficient strategy. You need to consider the way in which you use your time and resources on a daily basis if you want to maximize the growth of your company and its profits. Having an innovative idea for your products and services, of course, will help you to succeed. And having motivated workers will help you, too.

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Trump University and Other “Successful” Founder Fails

CEO Insider

An oft-repeated lie, which appears in many variations, is the amazing tale of the incredible successes of a company’s founder. “Our founder created this company after a lifetime of success!” these companies—and particularly, recruiters—often loudly announce. These successes are said to have taught the founder everything they needed to know about how to create astoundingly […].