Tue.Mar 03, 2020

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Why is test automation the next big game-changer in the insurance industry?

Trigent

In a world where technology is creating on-demand and bespoke experiences, the insurance industry is ready for disruption. Characterized until now by lengthy and manual processes and limited offerings, the industry has been quick to burst out of its protective bubble by leveraging new-age technologies including Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), extended reality, and quantum computing.

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Drive Corporate Creativity with Artificial Intelligence

Planbox

Artificial intelligence has been a regular topic of growing importance in conversations about the future of technology for quite some time. This is an era of rapid business transformation that can often feel difficult to keep up with, and it is being defined by digital disruptions. This raises questions about the future of work , employee engagement, and management systems.

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Agile Alliance Announces deliver:Agile 2020 Program

Agile Alliance

Fifth annual event in Columbus, Ohio will focus on new advances, new challenges, and new directions in Agile Software Development Portland, Ore, March 3, 2020 — Today Agile Alliance is pleased to announce the program for its annual technical conference, deliver:Agile 2020. The event is tailored to software developers who want to learn more about … Continued.

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The NIST Privacy Framework: How to put this GDPR and CCPA guide to work

TechBeacon

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) recently released Privacy Framework can help your organization define privacy goals, identify privacy risks, and optimize the use of personal information while limiting privacy violations. The framework is not a law or standard; it is a free tool, similar to NIST's Cybersecurity Framework.

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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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A Deep Dive Into AI for IT Operations

DevOps.com

Traditional IT administration and management techniques are reforming. By employing artificial intelligence (AI), IT operations are taking an interesting turn in the field of advancements. The term “AIOps” stands for Artificial Intelligence for the IT Operations. AIOps uses AI techniques and algorithms to monitor the data as well as reduce the blackout times.

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Fight ageism in QA: 4 skills experienced testers can tout

TechBeacon

It's a fact of business that younger workers are often cheaper than older ones. We see this in virtually every industry—education, manufacturing, and now DevOps and QA testing.

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U.S. Military Adopts New Ethics Guidelines For Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

The U.S. military has adopted new ethics guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in its futuristic robot tanks and smart weapons systems, according to a new press release by the U.S. Department of Defense. And at least one outside expert is actually impressed with the result, provided the Pentagon adheres to its own rules. The […].

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Netlify secures Series C funding to push forward our vision for the web

Netlify

We’re thrilled to announce a new round of $53 million in Series C funding , led by EQT Ventures, with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, as well as Preston-Werner Ventures. Our team will use this funding to push forward our vision for the web and JAMstack category to greater heights than ever before!

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Algorithmia Adds GitHub Integration to Machine Learning Platform

CTOvision

Algorithmia, an AI model management automation platform for data scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers, now integrates with GitHub. The new release integrates machine learning initiatives into organisations’s DevOps lifecycles. Users can access centralised code repository capabilities, such as portability, compliance and security. The integration follows DevOps best practices for managing machine learning models in […].

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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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Four growth strategies for individual contributors

CircleCI

There’s not a right or wrong career path for software engineers. Some find a natural niche as leaders and work into management positions where they end up leading teams and designing career paths for others. Conversely, some thrive and become leaders by developing their own paths as an individual contributor (IC). Pat Shields, CircleCI’s chief architect, recently wrote about his experience growing as an individual contributor , including advice about how engineers on the IC route can succeed in

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Quest Software Expands MDM Cloud Reach

DevOps.com

Quest Software today extended the reach of its mobile device management (MDM) service to provide more granular control over mobile devices and applications in addition to being able to track their location. Capabilities being added to the KACE Cloud MDM service include support for a “Kiosk Mode” for Android devices that allows administrators to lock […].

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Balbix: An OODAcon 2020 Future Proof Sponsor

CTOvision

Balbix is a sponsor of Future Proof, our 2020 OODAcon. We have known the leadership of Balbix for years (Bob is an advisor to the firm). And our excitement over what they have been doing has been growing ever since their formation. Balbix addresses some of the hardest problems in enterprise security today, including the […].

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Provide Continuous Value with Product-Centric Delivery

DevOps.com

Software engineering and management has borrowed many practices over the years from traditional industries such as construction, automotive and manufacturing. One such practice is the notion of managing software development and delivery based on projects. According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), a project is defined as “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique […].

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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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America Must Shape the World’s AI Norms — or Dictators Will

CTOvision

As Secretaries of Defense, we anticipated and addressed threats to our nation, sought strategic opportunities, exercised authority, direction, and control over the U.S. military, and executed many other tasks in order to protect the American people and our way of life. During our combined service leading the Department of Defense, we navigated historical inflection points […].

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Humble Origins

The Daily WTF

I've decided to bring my tenure as a Daily WTF contributor to an end. I've had a great time telling your tech tales of woe the past 6.5 years. I can't thank Alex, Remy, and Mark enough for giving me this opportunity and for being great to work with. In my final article, I'd like to actually tell my own WTF tale - my "origin story", if you will - about my first IT job.

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How HR stands to benefit from artificial intelligence

CTOvision

Read Emily Wong explain how artificial intelligence can benefit your human resources on Tech Wire Asia : Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to boost performance and efficiency across the business and, in the long run, yield a profound impact on an organization’s bottom line. Most business executives recognize the value AI brings, and are devising strategies to […].

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Basic Git Branching

Dzone - DevOps

Dr. Banner (Hulk) talking with the Ancient One about alternate timelines in regard to the Infinity Stone in "Avengers: End Game" is a perfect example of branching in Git. But, instead of source code, they were talking about time travel and alternate realities. Branching is a very useful topic in software version control, and I believe most people are aware of this idea even if they are not from a software development background.

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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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New Decade, New IDE – Experience CodeSignal’s Improved IDE

CodeSignal

I’ll begin with the punchline: We’ve upgraded our IDE incorporating Monaco Editor. It’s a big deal! Monaco Editor is the code editor that powers Visual Studio Code, the most popular development environment in the world according to Stack Overflow’s 2019 Developer Survey. Not only does this create a better candidate experience, by providing a more familiar and comfortable environment for developers, but it also allows developers to show their full potential by worrying less about the platfo

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The Importance of Typography in UIUX Design

iTexico

The Importance of Typography in UIUX Design. The desire for uniqueness can be easily misconstrued and morphed into a warped rendition of your original vision. Anyone can create a bread and butter website, and while it may serve its function well enough, the final product may not leave an impact on the user as you’d like it to. Pursuing that final look, whether it be original, exotic, or attention-grabbing, is a result descending from… a certain overzealousness for “the look”, and winds up with t

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Mock APIs vs. Real Backends – Getting the Best of Both Worlds

Confluent

When building API-driven web applications, there is one key metric that engineering teams should minimize: the blocked factor. The blocked factor measures how much time developers spend in the following […].

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General John Hyten, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Provides Context on Make vs Buy in the Federal Ecosystem

CTOvision

General John Hyten is the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is widely known as one of America’s greatest strategic thinkers. In the video below, recorded 17 Jan 2020 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, he provided insights into his position and his priorities. He also provided context on the […].

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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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Customers and Commerce

DevOps.com

— ROELBOB. The post Customers and Commerce appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Pamper Workloads with Powered-up Performance from PowerMax

Dell EMC

Last month on Direct2DellEMC, we began a conversation on how Dell Technologies can work with your organization to focus IT modernization efforts and drive innovation in a post entitled “Optimize Your Infrastructure for Critical Business Workloads.” We explored how you can begin to automate critical activities and free your IT staff to become more responsive to the innovation process by prioritizing upcoming technology investments around the use cases, applications and databases that have a most

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The Cost of Inefficient AP Processes

Docuphase

Accounts Payable is the source of a lot of paper in organizations—it’s also full of time-intensive processes.

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How Netflix uses Druid for Real-time Insights to Ensure a High-Quality Experience

Netflix Tech

By Ben Sykes Continue reading on Netflix TechBlog ».

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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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Four short links: 4 March 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

tota11y — an [open source] accessibility visualization toolkit from Khan Academy. DOS Pi — a DOS computer in a keyboard. Simple Systems Have Less Downtime — Why? (1) Proficiency takes less time; (2) Troubleshooting takes less time; (3) More alternative solutions. Cybersecurity Law, Policy, and Infrastructure — This is the full text of my interdisciplinary “eCasebook” designed from the ground up to reflect the intertwined nature of the legal and policy questions associated

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New Decade, New IDE – Experience CodeSignal’s Improved IDE

CodeSignal

I’ll begin with the punchline: We’ve upgraded our IDE incorporating Monaco Editor. It’s a big deal! Monaco Editor is the code editor that powers Visual Studio Code, the most popular development environment in the world according to Stack Overflow’s 2019 Developer Survey. Not only does this create a better candidate experience, by providing a more familiar and comfortable environment for developers but it also allows developers to show their full potential by worrying less about the platfo

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Question the Current Dogma — Is Kubernetes Hyper-Scale Necessary for Everyone?

Stackery

This article was originally published on The New Stack. Kubernetes in 2020 has become synonymous with the term cloud native and is also often used as a vehicle for vendors and IT organizations alike to claim they are transforming or modernizing their workloads. But what are they actually transforming? What is Kubernetes itself actually providing? A top driver for those moving to Kubernetes and modernizing applications is the promise of increased time to value and the ability to innovate faster.