Mon.May 11, 2020

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Decoding NLP Attention Mechanisms to Understand Transformer Models

Dataiku

Arguably more famous today than Michael Bay’s Transformers (at least among the deep learning community), NLP transformer architecture and transformer-based models have been breaking all kinds of performance records across an array of NLP tasks.

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Tips for Using Data to Drive Fundraising Strategies

TechSoup

According to a study conducted by Statista in the U.S. and Canada, "donor cultivation, acquisition, retention, and communications" is ranked the second biggest challenge faced by nonprofits, second only to concerns about staffing.

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Branching Patterns: Environment Branch

Martin Fowler

Environment Branch: Configure a product to run in a new environment by applying a source code commit. This pattern is a bad smell, only useful as a jerry-rigged mechanism for an application lacking that design, but then should be a high priority for removal with a sustainable alternative. more….

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Webinar Recap: Tools for Effective Remote Agile Teams

Agile Alliance

Sprint planning. Product backlog refinement. Daily stand-ups. Sprint review. Demos. And then the retrospective. How you adapt these practices to meet the needs of your suddenly distributed team can make the difference between daily success and just making it through another day on the calendar. On April 30, four Agile and collaboration experts got together … Continued.

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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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Branching Patterns: Hotfix Branch

Martin Fowler

Hotfix Branch: A branch to capture work to fix an urgent production defect. more….

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Blockchain ‘has significant use cases for 5G’

CTOvision

Jiang Wei, the chairman of China Telecom Blockchain and Dig­i­tal Econ­omy Joint Lab­o­ra­tory, explained in an interview published on a Chinese news portal, Cebnet, that blockchain technology has significant use […].

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Leadership in Turbulent Times: 9 Ways to Embrace Change

Career Advancement

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” – Peter Drucker. Do you feel like you’re just treading water right now, trying to keep your team afloat? To lead through challenging times, you must embrace change. Never forget that disruption gives you an opportunity to rise to the top of your field.

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What Are The Best Big Data Cloud Storage Providers? Here Are The Top 6

CTOvision

Unless you have the resources for building and maintaining large amounts of IT infrastructure, the best place for most organizations’ Big Data these days is in the cloud. Using cloud […].

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Low-Code Development: The Future of Communications Experiences

DevOps.com

The benefits of embedding real-time communications features into business and consumer applications are well-known. When it comes to customer service, most people would much rather click-to-call from within a web experience, social media site or business application to connect with another person, than find their phone to dial a number and wait in a queue. […].

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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 state of app sec testing: Get your shift on to secure code

TechBeacon

Application security testing isn't what it used to be. As the software delivery lifecycle has shrunk, testing has had to evolve to find ways to produce high-assurance, high-value results without creating a drag on the development process. Businesses expect testing tools to fit into the development cycle earlier. And, in contrast to past practices, testing is more often than not driven by developers, not security specialists.

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Why Aren’t Enterprises Developing More Mobile Apps?

DevOps.com

We live in a mobile age, and enterprise IT leaders recognize it. But even though 64.5% of enterprises say that mobility is a top IT priority, most won’t deploy more than five mobile apps this year, according to a December study from Enterprise Mobility Forum. That’s a very small number, especially considering that large organizations […]. The post Why Aren’t Enterprises Developing More Mobile Apps?

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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

High Scalability

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. This is especially apparent in today's world where organizations are doing whatever they can to optimize and reduce their costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting.

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From Eager to Smarter in Apache Kafka Consumer Rebalances

Confluent

Everyone wants their infrastructure to be highly available, and ksqlDB is no different. But crucial properties like high availability don’t come without a thoughtful, rigorous design. We thought hard about […].

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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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Cybersecurity Solutions Your Business Must Have

Kaseya

Given the rapidly evolving technological landscape and the increasing sophistication of cyberattacks, organizations need stronger and more robust defenses. Unfortunately, your antivirus and firewall may not cut it in this day and age. In this blog, we’ll take a broader look at cybersecurity solutions in three key areas that can help you build a solid foundation for overall IT security.

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Meeting Exposes Shortcomings In Government’s AI Plans

CTOvision

Read Ronald Schmelzer’s article in Forbes about the White House’s plans to support and grow the AI industry in the United States. Governments around the world are getting increasingly more […].

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Getting Started with Azure DevOps: Services and Tips

Dzone - DevOps

Microsoft Azure is a top cloud vendor offering a wide range of services. Azure DevOps is a relatively new service (launched in 2018) that offers a collection of cloud-based Azure-native services that answer certain DevOps needs. This article reviews five Azure DevOps services, each providing certain capabilities — Azure Boards, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, and Azure Artifacts.

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How 5G Will Unleash AI

CTOvision

Read why Tom Taulli says that the 5G technology will unleash the full potential of artificial intelligence on Forbes : When it comes to the 5G roll-out, AI will definitely […].

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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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The Future of Energy: North America – Part 1

Capgemini

A conversation with Randall Cozzens, North America Sector Head of Energy, Utilities, and Chemicals at Capgemini. The month of April presented the energy industry with a so-called “double black swan,” as the ongoing public health emergency coincided with a collapse in oil prices. With the recovery timeline for both crises unclear, the entire sector is forced to manage through a period of unprecedented volatility and prolonged disruption.

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The Internet of Things in 2020: More vital than ever

CTOvision

Read why Eric Knorr says that in 2020 the Internet of Things are more vital than ever on Network World : If you work in IT, you’re probably safely ensconced […].

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Patience – A Leadership Principle

Lead on Purpose

During the last few weeks and months so much has changed for all of us. With the recent pandemic we’ve seen many things change that we heretofore took for granted, things we’d become so accustomed to were transformed within days.

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How to Parse a JSON File in Adobe Campaign

QBurst

A unified view of the customer journey is a must for launching powerful targeted marketing campaigns. The customer profiles feature in Adobe Campaign gives marketers this critical data to create persuasive personal campaigns. Data residing in multiple applications and databases are merged in Adobe Campaign to create comprehensive profiles for each customer.

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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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NVIDIA Aims to Drive Disaggregation Following Cumulus Networks Buy

DevOps.com

Adoption of open source networking may be about to get a boost following the forthcoming acquisition of Cumulus Network by NVIDIA. The acquisition of the provider of a network operating system (NOS) based on Linux follows an earlier move by NVIDIA to acquire Mellanox, a provider of networking and storage systems. Kevin Deierling, senior vice […].

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Expert Digital Guidance: How to Deal with the Impact of Covid-19 on your Large Enterprise

Daffodil Software

The global Coronavirus outbreak has forced mankind to alter our way of living in high magnitude. People have shut themselves in their houses in order to combat the life-threatening disease COVID-19. This has led to many organizations small or large struggling to find a way forwards as an economic crisis is also collateral damage that the pandemic has brought with it.

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MemSQL Fuels Growth with $50M Hercules Capital Partnership

DevOps.com

Non-Dilutive Financing Provides Tech Company with Added Fuel to Accelerate Growth SAN FRANCISCO – May 11, 2020 – MemSQL, the No-Limits Database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications, has signed a debt facility that provides up to $50 million of new capital. Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC), the largest non-bank venture debt provider with more than $2.4 […].

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Why Windows 10 Needs a Cloud-Ready Network

CTOvision

Read Nils Ullmann explain why any system running on Windows 10 needs a cloud-ready network on Computer Business Review : Digitalisation is a double-edged sword for many companies. On the […].

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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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How is DevOps Surviving Corona?

Dzone - DevOps

All around the world, Coronavirus is upending businesses and enforcing shutdowns. The IT industry, on the other hand, is stronger than ever and the demand for the DevOps market is rising; why is this the case? Many governments issued mandatory work-from-home policies due to the spread of COVID-19. As a result, virtual communication tools and online platforms became an everyday necessity.

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VMware Carbon Black Developer Day 2020: Bringing DevSecOps to the Fore

DevOps.com

Developer Day is a VMware Carbon Black’s virtual event that connects intermediate to advanced security developers with Carbon Black experts to learn advanced API and integration techniques. The event takes place Tuesday, May 12, starting at 11 a.m. EST. Developer Day, which occurs the day before VMware Carbon Black’s Connect 2020 virtual conference, focuses on […].

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CI/CD Processes And Tools For AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Dzone - DevOps

CI/CD processes allow developers to worry less about infrastructure and deployment, and more about developing robust and reliable apps. Developers can be more involved in monitoring how a production environment behaves when new codes are introduced. Quality assurance becomes a part of the development process too. The introduction of a CI/CD pipeline to a development workflow also means updates are no longer stressful.

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