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Why I Am Thankful for DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

Here are some reasons to be grateful for DevOps. In the United States, the end of the month of November is when time is taken to perform a retrospective-like event called Thanksgiving. What started out as a dedication to give thanks for the blessing of harvest and the preceding year has transformed into a time to simply be thankful for one's blessings.

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How to Build a Better Boss

Let's Grow Leaders

A better boss starts with a good relationship and great performance A listener to a recent episode of my Leadership without Losing Your Soul podcast asked a question about how she could tell her leader about the content she’d learned. Her heart […]. The post How to Build a Better Boss appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Leadership and Change: Why Resilience is the Key to Success

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Resilience is key to success for leaders. Resilience is a source of energy to move forward and make an impact. Five strategies can develop your resilience. Today’s post is by Beth Kennedy, author of Career ReCharge (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Several years ago, the company for which I was providing career consulting was purchased by another company.

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Moving AI and ML from research into production

O'Reilly Media - Data

In this interview from O’Reilly Foo Camp 2019, Dean Wampler, head of evangelism at Anyscale.io, talks about moving AI and machine learning into real-time production environments. Highlights from the interview include: Facilitating the transition from research to production in a robust way introduces a number of complications, Wampler says, including governance, GDPR, and traceability rules.

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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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Travel Back To 1985 For A Guest Lecture By Commodore Grace Hopper on The Future of Computing

CTOvision

Thanks to the power of computing you can watch Commodore Grace Hopper delivering her landmark lecture at MIT Laboratory on 25 April 1985. The entire presentation is excellent and worth listening to. But my favorite line is right around 23 minutes in, when after describing the nature of technology innovation she says: “Probably the most […].

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Software Acquisition and Practices in Government: Build or Buy?

CTOvision

This post is the next in our series focusing on building vs buying software for government uses. Also see our CTOvision Study on Build Vs Buy in Government and How Do Leaders In Government Decide GOTS or COTS? The issue of building or buying software for government uses is one of the oldest discussion topics […].

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Cloud-native DevOps gets real with new tools

TechBeacon

DevOps practitioners take heed: Cloud-native computing will be the overarching trend for enterprise application development in the 2020s.

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Optimizing AWS Performance Over the Long Term

DevOps.com

Ask most folks how to optimize performance on AWS, and they’ll talk about things such as autoscaling and rightsizing. Those tools are certainly part of an effective AWS performance optimization strategy. On their own, however, they are not enough to guarantee performance and reliability over the long haul. That’s because tools and processes such as […].

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Top 10 Automated Software Testing Tools

Dzone - DevOps

We are in an era of automation everywhere! Some time back, Bob Egan, the Chief Research Officer at Sepharim Research, talked about mobile security. He made a statement on Enterprise Mobility Trends 2016 : “The modern desktop is really not a desktop, but an experience that fits the moment.”. He also added saying that we are getting into a generation where there will be applications developed specifically for the work to be done easily and efficiently.

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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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Conquering Hybrid Cloud with Replicated Event-Driven Architectures

Confluent

Potential advantages of hybrid cloud architectures include avoiding vendor lock-in, increasing system resilience, optimizing costs, and inducing price competition among cloud providers. Hybrid cloud architectures require the ability to securely […].

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7 essential skills for Machine Learning and AI developers on AWS

Gitprime

Machine learning and artificial intelligence developers are more in demand than ever. Get the 7 skills needed to make the biggest impact in this role, and see how you measure up.

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Oracle v. Google and Its Impact on APIs and Code

DevOps.com

What, if any, impact will the Supreme Court’s rulings on Oracle v. Google have on the industry at large? TL/DR: It is unlikely to impact the vast majority of us, vendor and enterprise developer alike. Disclaimer: I am a technologist, not a lawyer. I have done some research, and talked to lawyers, but all that […]. The post Oracle v. Google and Its Impact on APIs and Code appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Defining Data intelligence: Intelligence about Data, Not from Data

IDC

IDC has been using the phrase “data intelligence software” to describe a category of capabilities that provide intelligence about data, and the term “data intelligence” has caught on in the industry. But not all definitions of data intelligence are equal. Let’s take a closer look at how IDC defines the term, and some permutations that have emerged.

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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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The blockchain train: Get on board—with caution

Synopsys

What are the best ways to make enterprise blockchain platforms more secure? Test them, analyze them, and get the bugs out before exposing them to the world. The post The blockchain train: Get on board—with caution appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Cloud computing: SaaS, IaaS or PaaS – which is growing fastest?

CTOvision

As cloud computing continues to eat up traditional tech spending, businesses are beginning to change where they spend their money. The worldwide public cloud services market is forecast to grow 17% in 2020 to a total of $266.4 billion, up from $227.8 billion in 2019, according to tech analyst Gartner. Cloud computing adoption has now become mainstream, […].

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2020 Tech Trend: Companies get a better understanding of AI’s effects

DXC

In 2020, as AI makes inroads into professional services, companies will struggle with anticipating how AI can — or should — change their professions. AI is already changing the way contracts are interpreted, taxes are prepared and medical conditions are diagnosed. However, if the dominant strategy for deploying AI is for low-level problem solving, then […].

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How internet of things integration can help the manufacturing assembly line?

CTOvision

We have seen many large companies are moving towards automation where the real-time data been updated to ERP or the central system to make a decision. Production is in progress. Quality is done with reasons for failures. If you find the same issues again, stop the production and find the reasons. Recently we spoke to […].

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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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Best practices using Rails Seeds

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 2 minutes # Best practices using Rails Seeds. Rails seeds are useful since they help us populate the test and development DBs with data; this means that we can simply run rails db:seed for rails 5 and beyond or rake db:seed for rails 4 and prior and have the app up and running with enough information to be productive right away. Rails documentation has a pretty good definition for the seeds, and here you have it : To add initial data after a database is created, Rails has a built-

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Microservices in Publish-Subscribe Communication Using Apache Kafka

Dzone - DevOps

Publish-Subscribe Messaging systems play an important role in any enterprise architecture as it enables reliable integration without tightly coupling the applications. The ability to share data between decoupled systems is not a problem that is easily tackled. Consider an enterprise with multiple applications that are being built independently, with different languages and platforms.

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Defining Data intelligence: Intelligence about Data, Not from Data

IDC

IDC has been using the phrase “data intelligence software” to describe a category of capabilities that provide intelligence about data, and the term “data intelligence” has caught on in the industry. But not all definitions of data intelligence are equal. Let’s take a closer look at how IDC defines the term, and some permutations that have emerged.

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3 Critical Approaches To Software Modernization

Daffodil Software

When legacy systems hold back the business growth, IT teams race to modernize the existing solutions, thereby creating new business value out of them. The process involves technical or functional improvements, which may range anywhere between rewriting code, migration to a different platform, changing the architecture, or even replacing the entire system with a newer one.

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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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QAOps and Why It Matters For Your Web Application

Dzone - DevOps

QAOps puts quality assurance in your DevOps process. QAOps refers to maintaining software quality by approaching it with a DevOps mindset. You must have come across the term “DevOps.” DevOps refers to Software Development (Dev) and IT Operations (Ops) and establishes a relationship between development and IT Operations. The purpose of introducing DevOps as a business practice is to improve the collaboration between the two business units.

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5 questions to untangle sticky problems

Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

My work world is filled with fascinating situations – and I wouldn’t have it any other way. One client recently spent four weeks, and thirteen people, responding to their CEO’s request to “add this small feature today.” The teams work well until they are blindsided and rushed – and then the poo hits the fan. One client has a team where everyone gets along… until a Sr.

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Build a BDD Automation Framework With A Vision

Dzone - DevOps

Building a test automation framework with Selenium is more of an art than a technical activity. A lot needs to be considered when building such frameworks. Understanding client expectations for what needs to be delivered is a key aspect of thinking about automation. Automated testing approaches with technologies that can build applications much faster than a traditional full-stack brings automation testing time in a squeeze.

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How Can Failures Fuel Learning?

Planbox

This article originally appeared in Innovation Leader’s Fall 2019 Pointer’s Magazine. To view the article on Innovation Leader, click here. Failure in some of your innovation initiatives is more often than not inevitable. The lack of visibility into the ROI of innovation activities and the fact that today’s complete duds can sometimes become tomorrow’s commercial success tells you everything you need to know about this challenging problem.

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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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Article: Q&A on the Book Mastering Professional Scrum

InfoQ Culture Methods

The book Mastering Professional Scrum explores how using the Scrum values and focusing on continuous improvement can increase the value that Scrum Teams deliver. Stephanie Ockerman and Simon Reindl explain how professional Scrum teams can be focused and committed to delivering a Product Increment every Sprint, and how they leverage empiricism to improve themselves.

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How Your IT Team Can Take Advantage of Predictive Analytics

Dell EMC

Is your company aiming to be a leader in the field of predictive analytics? New research suggests it should. ESG research finds that AI-enabled organizations considered to be the “Most Advanced” IT shops are 2.6x more likely to lead the competition in business intelligence and analytics. Organizations that are categorized as “Most Advanced” use: Modern servers with extensive automation capabilities (i.e., automated updating, monitoring, configuring, provisioning, and issue remediation).

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Mexico’s Strategic Security Problem

The Cipher Brief

This unique national-security focused expert insight can’t be generated for free. We invite you to support this kind of quality content by becoming a Cipher Brief Level I Member. Joining this high-level, security-focused community is only $10/month (for an annual $120/yr membership). It’s a great and inexpensive way to stay ahead of the national and global security issues that impact you the most.

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