Mon.Dec 03, 2018

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9 Ways to attract tech talent as a growing startup

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Over 86% of recruiting agencies face shortages finding and recruiting tech talent. This is according to a survey by Indeed , the most trafficked job-recruitment website in the United States. Because the number of applicants exceeds the number of candidates, it’s an applicant’s market. Companies are competing for a limited talent pool, fighting for their very existence in a proxy war of finding the right people to put in the right job.

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What you need to know about the Marriott breach

The Parallax

Obama was president of the United States, Apple introduced its first watch, Russia invaded Crimea, and the San Francisco Giants won the World Series. The year was 2014, and from then until November 2018, hackers have been stealing data from computers controlled by Starwood Hotels and Resorts ( now owned by Marriott Hotels). All told, records belonging to as many as 500 million guests were stolen, the company said in a statement November 30.

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2Captcha – Human-Powered Image and CAPTCHA Recognition Service

The Crazy Programmer

With due technical advancement and increasing demand of software for various tasks (of our individual, personal as well as commercial needs), the authenticity of using these software has become as crucial as they themselves are. Captchas are one of the most commonly used methods for maintaining the authenticity of these software platforms. Often, we face problems while solving these captchas because of the time they take specially if we need to work on them on a large scale, they can take away

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Highlights From Amazon’s AWS re:Invent 2018

CTOvision

It is hard to digest all the innovations coming out of Amazon’s cloud computing business. There are 1000’s of capabilities already available and each continue to evolve, and major new capabilities are being announced at a rapid pace. The annual re:Invent is a great time to take stock of things, but even this is just […].

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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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Database DevOps: Why you need it—and how to do it

TechBeacon

DevOps attempts to bridge the gap between an enterprise's development and operations teams. But DevOps is not just about breaking down the silos between these two. For DevOps to be successful, each manual operation in the delivery pipeline should be evaluated for potential automation. This includes how you work with databases.

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Outsourcing Version 1: Advice from a CTO

CTOvision

No offense to software contractors, but given the choice I usually prefer to build software with hired employees. By signing on as employees, engineers demonstrate belief in the mission and commitment to the long-term success of the company. Often I can further align their interests with the company’s through equity as well as the opportunity to “grow […].

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Top CTO Challenges for 2019

SoCal CTO

The LA CTO Forum recently conducted a survey to find out what our Chief Technology Officer (CTO) members saw as their biggest challenges heading into 2019. We received over 250 responses that provides a pretty good insight into the top CTO challenges. The rating scale was 1-5 with: Not a challenge A small challenge Somewhat a challenge Definitely a challenge Keeps me up at night We provide both an Average and a Scaled Rating that gives much higher weight to 4s and 5s and discounts 1s and 2s.

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Internet of Things Poised to Impact Manufacturing

CTOvision

By 2025, the Internet of Things, or IoT, is forecast to have an economic impact in the nation’s manufacturing sector of between $1.2 trillion and $3.7 trillion. While that sector is where most of the impact will be seen, IoT devices will also boost the retail ($0.4 trillion to $1.2 trillion), worksite ($0.2 trillion to […].

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AI Winter is Not Coming

Dell EMC

One of the most popular shows is Game of Thrones. Ever since the first season characters have been warning that Winter is coming. Around this time of year as the leaves change colors, we know that Winter is coming. What about in the technology world is AI Winter coming? I think not. Since the 1950’s we have had periods of AI Summers and AI Winters. These AI Summers are times of amazing hope of what AI will do for our future.

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Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen?

CTOvision

Since Satya Nadella became CEO, Microsoft has almost tripled its market cap to $850 billion plus, and on Friday it replaced Apple as the world’s most valuable company on NYSE. Just a few years ago, Microsoft was seen as a lumbering has-been of the technology world. It was big and still quite profitable, but the company had […].

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9 Tips to Effectively Manage your Online Reputation

Career Advancement

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”. ~Warren Buffett~. Blake was about to submit his resume for several open positions. As he was Googling, he came across some unsettling articles on how bosses look at candidates’ social media. Before he applied, he decided to make sure his online reputation wasn’t working against him.

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AWS introduces 4 new services for IoT applications

CTOvision

We recapped many other high priority announcements from re:invent here, but almost missed this one: U.S. e-commerce leader Amazon‘s Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday introduced four services and capabilities to make it easier to ingest data from edge devices and build the rich Internet of Things (IoT) applications. “Customers tell us they want to spend […].

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People Transformation is the Enabler for All Other Change

Dell EMC

Do you know that strange mixture of excitement and worry when you switch jobs? Excited to start something new, but also worried to leave behind what you’ve worked so hard for over recent years (and that works so well). Well, I’m in that place right now. And it got me thinking about why I accepted the challenge. The quick answer is this: change is the only constant in life and when opportunity knocks, you’d better act on it.

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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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A Closer Look At Hybrid-Cloud And Multi-Cloud Approaches

CTOvision

Read Chaitanya Atreya explain the difference between hybrid cloud and multi-cloud approach on Forbes : Hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud are quickly becoming the new norm for enterprises. While these approaches offer several advantages, de-risking business decisions and adopting best-of-breed services stand out as the overarching reasons enterprises are adopting these strategies.

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Flying under the radar: How Darktrace detects ‘low and slow’ cyber-attacks

Darktrace

The latest escalation in the cyber arms race sees attackers choosing stealth over speed and cunning over chaos.

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ECB takes on PayPal with instant payment system

CTOvision

The European Central Bank launched on Friday a new system aimed at letting banks settle payments instantly across Europe, helping them to compete with PayPal and other global tech giants. Developed in just over a year, the ECB’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) system will let people and companies in Europe transfer euros to each other […].

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Gorilla Logic Included in Clutch’s Global Awards

Gorilla Logic

This year has been a great year for Gorilla Logic. We were named in the Inc. 5000 for a 5th year. We were also named BizWest Mercury 100 fastest growing companies in Colorado. So, what makes our inclusion in Clutch’s global awards event so impressive? First, let’s see what our inclusion in their awards event entails. We are named as a top global web development company, a top Android App development company, and in the “Clutch 1000” which is a list of the top 1000 business service companies on C

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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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Tales from the Interview: A Reusable Application

The Daily WTF

Jay J had been helping a friend with the job hunt. As an experienced developer, with a strong network, Jay had a sense of who was hiring and what jobs were promising. One of his connections turned up a lead at Initech. Jay pointed his friend in that direction, and wished for the best. "They won't let me apply," the friend explained when Jay asked how things were going. "Here, try it.

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How to Spot the Right MSP for Your Needs

Arcserve

Managed Service Provider (MSP) has become a bit of a buzz term in business lately, and that makes complete sense. When it comes to IT, companies need to be able to trust that their technology infrastructure is going to hold up through anything. In fact, in most cases, modern organizations rely entirely on the functionality. Read more » The post How to Spot the Right MSP for Your Needs appeared first on StorageCraft Technology Corporation.

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The Datica book, "Complete Cloud Compliance", is now available!

Datica

I’m thrilled to share the final version of our book, Complete Cloud Compliance with you all. The book makes an ideal holiday gift for friends and family who need to learn how healthcare data and compliance in a post-cloud world will empower digital transformation in the biggest industry in the world.??. All copies of the book will be sold at-cost. That means we are making zero profit via these retailers.

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How to Protect against Brute Force Attacks on SSH using AWS Well-Architected Framework [video]

Cloud Conformity

[link] One of the most common AWS misconfigurations we see is EC2 servers being built with Port 22, SSH, open to the public internet. This easily overlooked setting leaves your resources completely vulnerable to numerous scans specifically designed to search for servers with Port 22 open. Any successful scans then use brute force attacks on your username and password, leaving recovery incredibly difficult.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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DevOps TV: DevOps Trends – What Does the Future Hold?

CollabNet VersionOne

I had the privilege of sitting down with Charlene O’Hanlon from DevOps TV along with Robert Reeves from Datical and Derek Langone from XebiaLabs to talk about what the future holds for DevOps in the enterprise and what to be on the lookout for the coming year. It was a great discussion and we talked about some trends we are seeing in our areas of expertise.

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Board visualisation tips

Marcusoft

Quite often I get to introduce people to using a “work visualization board” (often referred to as a kanban board), these days. When I do I’m struck with the common misconceptions that follow many tools - especially tools that I have been nudged (or forced) to use. I wanted to share a few of the things that find myself repeating to new users of kanban boards.

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Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Training Workshop in Kitchener-Waterloo—April 4-5, 2019

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Agile Pain Relief presents a two-day Certified ScrumMaster Workshop in Kitchener-Waterloo—April 4-5, 2019 taught by certified Scrum Trainer Mark Levison.

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How to Get a Job That comes with the Best Benefits

Strategy Driven

If you want a job that comes with all the best benefits, then there are a few ways to ensure that this happens. Take a Closer Look. Job hunters who know the tricks of the trade know how to identify any job benefits that will contribute to their bottom line. The categories include child care, dental insurance, medical care and more. The most important benefit that you should be looking out for is a retirement plan.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo

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Enterprise Storage Systems in a Midrange package

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

High end enterprise storage systems are designed to scale to large capacities, with a large number of host connections while maintaining high performance and availability. That takes an architecture where a host can access any storage port and have direct access to a number of storage controllers which can service I/O requests and process their data services requirements.

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Don't Panic Series (Part 1): What is culture?

Agile42

Kicking off the Don’t Panic series , Dave Sharrock and Melissa Boggs will provide a definition of culture, explain the purpose that culture serves, and share a number of stories about how culture can be changed through storytelling. What is culture? Melissa Boggs (MBO): A lot of times people approach us saying, “I can’t change the culture. I’m one person amongst tens of thousands and I can’t make that change.

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Respond to Crises with Clarity and Confidence

Nathan Magnuson

What happens when you find yourself in the midst of a crisis situation? Do you freeze up? Jump into action? Sit down to create a plan? What if you’re the person in charge? It’s the leader’s job recognize when stakes are high and respond appropriately. We don’t need to look far to see harsh criticisms of leaders with underwhelming responses to crises that occurred on their watch.