Wed.Jun 12, 2019

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The Human Value in Automation-Driven DevOps Testing

DevOps.com

Enterprises are embracing DevOps underpinned by automation to ensure the quality of software across all digital touchpoints. In fact, automation has become the crux of continuous integration and delivery, the vital DevOps testing goals. Without automation, DevOps would become a distant dream, and businesses would struggle to keep pace with seamless delivery and integration.

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Scrum Anti-Patterns: The Hardening Sprint

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Hardening Sprints are one of the most common kinds of Scrum Anti-Patterns: ways of addressing recurring problems that seem like effective solutions at the time but in fact hamper productivity or create more problems later on. Here we introduce why they are used, why they are not an effective design pattern, and how you can create more effective solutions.

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5 Can’t-Miss Talks and Workshops to Attend at QCon NYC

OverOps

QCon NYC is an international software development conference for senior software engineers and architects. It’s the conference professional developers have been attending for the past 8 years to find out what the world’s most innovative software shops are using. This year’s conference will be held at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square, right in the energetic epicenter of NYC.

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BBC on Retail Robots

CTOvision

This is a great video because it captures the state of robotics in the retail industry. It starts off with developments pioneered by Amazon in their warehouse and fulfillment centers, and also includes the safety devices used by humans who need to interact with these dangerous robots. The video also reviews robots in use in […].

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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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True Digital Adoption Empowers Humans

DevOps.com

True Digital Adoption empowers humans to use use technology which is almost exclusively digital. What are the killer apps that you use all the time? OK, of those handful (for most of you) of apps, how well do you know them? What percentage of the feature set do you really use? Making better use of […]. The post True Digital Adoption Empowers Humans appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Great Business Ideas for Women at Home

Women on Business

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The DevOps Security Stack

DevOps.com

The whole idea behind DevOps is automation. DevOps automates the development process by eliminating or minimizing human error. If an error occurs, the applications fail quickly so the errors can be resolved promptly on a smaller scale. DevOps and cloud-native applications complement each other perfectly. Even though DevOps offers a more efficient and faster way […].

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Mini Tutorials – Working with Figma Button Components

Toptal

In Figma, UI Components are all-powerful and unbelievably versatile, but how do they work? We demonstrate their power by focusing on one of the most common UI elements of all—the button.

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How to track security problems in your Kubernetes deployments

TechBeacon

Kubernetes users often ask me what they need to do to determine whether their deployment is running and configured safely from a security perspective. The best answer is to hire someone to perform penetration testing, but that can get expensive.

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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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From Allbirds to Patagucci: The Ultimate Guide to Finance Fashion

Toptal

Having the right look has always been important in finance. As dress codes are relaxing and the gamut of careers are expanding, what should one wear? From Allbirds to Patagucci, a style guide for financial services.

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How to Connect KSQL to Confluent Cloud using Kubernetes with Helm

Confluent

Confluent Cloud, a fully managed event cloud-native streaming service that extends the value of Apache Kafka ® , is simple, resilient, secure, and performant, allowing you to focus on what is important—building contextual event-driven applications, not infrastructure. If you are using Confluent Cloud as your managed Apache Kafka cluster, you probably also want to start using other Confluent Platform components like the Confluent Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, KSQL, and Confluent REST Proxy.

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The Future Ready Triad and Why It Matters More Than Ever

CEO Insider

CEOWORLD magazine. The Future Ready Triad and Why It Matters More Than Ever. Triads are a fascinating construct. They are also an important model to consider when it comes to assuring that you and your employees are future ready. Everything happens in threes, right? Why not future readiness? Years ago, Tribal Leadership coauthor Dave Logan talked to me about why triads are more effective than dyads when it […].

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How ITIL4 and SRE align with DevOps

TechBeacon

In the early days of DevOps, there was a lot of debate about the ongoing relevancy of ITIL and IT service management (ITSM) in a faster-paced agile and DevOps world. Thankfully, that debate is coming to an end.

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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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EnVeil: Pioneering data security company protecting data in use

CTOvision

Enveil is a pioneering data security company protecting data in use. It is one of the DataTribe portfolio of companies. Here is a brief overview by Enveil CEO Ellison Anne Williams: Based in the Washington, D.C. metro area, Enveil is a data security company that focuses on protecting Data in Use. In the words of […].

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Ruby Algorithm Documentation with AsciiDoc and Knitr

Toptal

A functional specification is a high-level design document created before implementation and serves as a true plan for the team. In this article, Toptal Freelance Ruby Developer Alec Ten Harmsel walks us through prototyping an algorithm and creating a functional specification with the help of AsciiDoc and R for a Ruby on Rails project.

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Bill Gates’s view on the future of technology

CTOvision

MIT Technology Review solicited thoughts from Bill Gates on technology. Gates provided very insightful context on a wide range of technologies and presented a view of the future that is very optimistic, which is great! Some of his interests include lab grown meat, AI, virtual assistants, nuclear power, sanitation (the re-invented toilet). The overall results […].

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Using virtual reality to reinvent the IndyCar fan experience

DXC

Racing’s digital fan experience of the future was on display during the DXC Technology 600 at Texas Motor Speedway on June 8. DXC Labs showcased numerous virtual reality demos, viewed via Facebook’s latest Oculus VR headsets, to give clients and partners attending the event an insider’s view of what it’s like to prepare and drive […].

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Pulumi Advances DevOps on AWS

DevOps.com

Pulumi announced the availability of Pulumi Crosswalk for Amazon Web Services (AWS), an open source framework for deploying applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Company CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi Crosswalk for AWS provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application through which DevOps teams can automate the deployment of applications on AWS infrastructure using software development kits […].

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Red Balloon Security: Intrusion defense for any embedded device

CTOvision

Red Balloon builds intrusion defense, persistent implant detection, and situational awareness capabilities that can be installed on any embedded device. The team of Red Balloon has some fame in the security community. For a glimpse of why see this presentation at Defcon: Red Balloon Security is a leading security provider and research firm for embedded […].

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SQL? NoSQL? Cloud? On-premises? Evaluating Database Options

Datavail

Managing the database challenges that you face as an organization is no easy task, and you need to keep several business considerations in mind. You need to balance your vision of the perfect database solution against real-life constraints such as IT budgets, service-level agreements (SLAs), and the risks and rewards of any particular option. Trying to enact database management strategies in place without a long-term strategy could end up creating even more problems further down the line.

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Shift Security Left, Then Shift Up

Aqua Security

Many of you may be familiar with the shift left security approach in which security is built in at an early stage of the application development life cycle. It is easier and more effective to do it early, rather than discover security issues later in the game, when applications are already deployed. When issues are found after deployment, it is harder to trace their point of origin and who can fix them, increasing the time it takes to fix them.

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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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CloudBees’ Acquisition of Rollout: The CEOs’ View

DevOps.com

As Mike Vizard reported yesterday, CloudBees, as part of its mission to build “the world’s first end-to-end automated software delivery system,” announced another acquisition: Rollout, a developer of a feature flag application that allows for simplified testing of new modules within an application. Not to repeat the gist of Vizard’s article; you can read it […].

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Meet Linux Academy at the New York AWS Summit!

Linux Academy

The Linux Academy team will be at the New York AWS Summit! Our AWS Training Architects are excited to speak with you about how continuous learning can change your organization. Don’t wait until you’re forced to adapt to the inevitable changes in IT; start training now! At the summit, we will be showcasing the unique qualities of our Learn-By-Doing training.

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Testim Raises $10 Million After 700 Percent Market Growth

DevOps.com

Additional capital will allow the company to scale operations, headcount and accelerate autonomous testing San Francisco, June 12, 2019 – Testim, a leading provider of AI based software testing, today announced it has closed $10 million in Series B funding to address the global demand for continuous testing allowing development teams to move at the […].

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5 Tips from GE Aviation for Starting a Self-Service Data Initiative

Dataiku

GE Aviation went from data silos to self-service data in just a few years, and now they have more than 1,800 users empowered to use data in their day-to-day work. Here are their top five tips for setting up a self-service data initiative.

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Embedded Analytics: A Force Multiplier for Business

The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless. No matter the industry, brand after brand is finding that analytics can be the solution to a multitude of business challenges. Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data.

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Akamai Extends Reach to the IoT Edge

DevOps.com

Akamai today unveiled a strategic initiative to extend the reach of its global network out to applications deployed on the network edge. Announced at the Akamai Edge World conference, the Edge Cloud portfolio will consist of a mix of existing, new and forthcoming offerings. In terms of new offerings, Akamai launched IoT Edge Connect, which […].

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Three Reasons Your Change Initiative Will Fail

Next Level Blog

When you stop and think about it a big part of leadership is about convincing people to do things differently. It could be persuading customers to buy your product or try your service. It could be getting employees or vendors to raise their game. It could be convincing regulators and other rules makers to support what you want to do. In each of these examples or a dozen others that you could come up with, success depends on getting people to change their behaviors.

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What Can CIOs Do When The Cloud Isn’t Fast Enough?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Computing at the edge changes everything Image Credit: zorro013. The world in which we live is currently changing. Over the past few years, as the importance of information technology has grown, the internet has become a bigger and more important part of both our personal and professional lives. Every IT department makes extensive use of the internet these days to run apps, handle storage, and communicate.

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