Fri.Oct 25, 2019

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Is it time to review your approach?

TechBeacon

For most folks, October is a month for ghosts and goblins, but for the last 15 years the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) have had a different emphasis: National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCAM).

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Article: Categorise Unsolved Problems in Agile Development: Premature & Foreseeable

InfoQ Culture Methods

Productivity decline and technical debt, as often seen in agile development, can be prevented by separating unsolved problems into premature and foreseeable. It shifts the discussion about unsolved problems from importance to likelihood. With small but essential adjustments agile can be kept sustainable. With this insight, developer-architect differences and team psychology gaps can be bridged.

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Data Science Fails: There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

DataRobot

When I was young, I took a packed lunch to school every day, and since I grew up in Australia, my packed lunch would include a couple of Vegemite sandwiches. Unless you grew up in Australia, you’ve probably never tasted it. And judging by this American’s first taste reaction of “Oh, that’s bad!”, you probably wouldn’t like the taste if you tried it out.

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10 Stories Great Leaders Tell – Interview with Paul Smith

Let's Grow Leaders

One of the most effective leadership communication tools you’ll ever have is a powerful story. Join David and his guest, Paul Smith – an expert in leadership and business storytelling – for a powerful discussion of how to tell a good […]. The post 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell – Interview with Paul Smith appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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5 Ways to Fuel the Entrepreneurs in Your Teams

Women on Business

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See You at DOAG 2019?

Flexagon

DOAG is Deutsche Oracle Anwendergruppe, the German Oracle Users Group. This year, DOAG will be held November 19-22 in Nuremberg. There will be over 400 lectures, a wide variety of activities, and all-things Oracle! It will be a great learning experience for all Oracle users and fans. Flexagon’s president, Dan Goerdt, will be speaking! His. The post See You at DOAG 2019?

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Legacy Databases Are Holding Back Enterprise Digital Transformations

DevOps.com

As enterprises rush to digitize their business operations and enhance customer engagement, few are seeing the success they hoped. A recent survey points to a couple of culprits, including the difficulty of utilizing data held in legacy databases. The survey, conducted by market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Couchbase, of 450 heads of […].

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Dev horror stories to tell around the campfire

CircleCI

Life as a developer can take many spooky turns. Original art from xkcd. From forum quandaries that haunt you through time, to sneaky bugs you find lurking in your legacy code, the things you encounter as a developer can be downright shocking. Read on for some spooky stories from our own CircleCI developers in honor of the Halloween season: “I was once working tech support for a VPS provider and told a customer that their disk image was hosed so they should delete it and restore from the backup.

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NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Your Cloud

Lacework

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF) is currently one of the most popular standards for small to medium sized companies with an emphasis on cloud computing. Introduced in 2014 and updated in 2018, CSF offers an alternative to the NIST 800-53 standard. NIST 800-53 was developed in 2005 as an [.]. Read More.

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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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Gaining Insights While at NetApp’s INSIGHT 2019 Event

Dell EMC

It’s nearing the end of the year and the IT vendor conferences are starting to wind down. Next week will be NetApp’s annual INSIGHT event in Las Vegas, and we’d like to share some thoughts on what you might want to ask NetApp if you happen to be attending their event. NetApp has been in the storage industry for a long time and has had its ups and downs.

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Cyber Canon Candidate Book Review: A Data-Driven Computer Security Defense: THE Computer Security Defense You Should Be Using

Palo Alto Networks

Cyber Canon Book Review: “A Data-Driven Computer Security Defense: THE Computer Security Defense You Should Be Using,” 2017, by Roger A. Grimes. Book reviewed by: Paul Calatayud. Bottom Line: I recommend this book for the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame. Review: This book is a must-read for all network defenders. First and foremost, it book is based on the author’s real-world experiences as a cybersecurity consultant.

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October 2019 Quarterly Critical Patch Updates Announced for Hyperion

Datavail

Hi EPM/Hyperion on-premises Infrastructure friends, The following information is what I was able to dig up concerning OCT2019CPU, published just a few days ago. Here are the specific patch ID #s which apply to Hyperion: Oracle WebLogic Server, versions 10.3.6.0.0. 30109677: WLS PATCH SET UPDATE 10.3.6.0.191015. (Available for 11.1.2.3 and 11.1.2.4 only).

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A Year of Wins for the Palo Alto Networks LGBTQIA+ Employee Network

Palo Alto Networks

By Maryn Eisenhart , president of Palo Alto Networks’ LGBTQIA+ Employee Network. I would never have dreamed of how much the LGBTQIA+ Employee Network would achieve in the past year. I knew that the network was supported by many, but I wouldn’t have anticipated the mounds of support we received, from top to bottom, throughout the organization. So no matter where we were standing last year, this year our accomplishments were tremendous ones for us.

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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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[Webinars] How to risk rank vulnerabilities, insights from BSIMM10

Synopsys

Learn about five ways to approach risk ranking in vulnerability management, and hear key insights into real-life software security programs from BSIMM10. The post [Webinars] How to risk rank vulnerabilities, insights from BSIMM10 appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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4 Ways To Boost Employee Health In Your Business

Strategy Driven

As a business owner, it’s your responsibility to look after your employees. The happier they are, the more productive they’ll be, so everybody benefits if you treat your employees well. But one thing that a lot of business owners don’t put that much thought into is their employees’ health. If they are unhealthy, it impacts your business in a lot of different ways.

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How to if?

Xebia

While trying to upgrade my programming skills, I ran into a new-fangled way to do ifs. The example below is taken from code that gets a value for a property of a class. A value may or may not be set and if it isn’t the code should use a default. You can find the […]. The post How to if? appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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How to Ensure a Great Turn Out at Your Brand’s Next Event

Strategy Driven

Are you planning a big event for your business and wondering how to go about promoting it effectively in order to see a decent turn out? Here are some helpful tips to aid you in generating the highest amount of interest at the lowest possible price. Leverage social media. R. Couri Hay Creative Public Relations company insists that your most powerful tool when it comes to promoting an event is social media.

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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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Dr. Peter Scott-Morgan work-a-thon update: October 2019

DXC

In a groundbreaking initiative with Dr. Peter Scott-Morgan and The Scott-Morgan Foundation, DXC Technology and world-class partners are helping Peter use the most advanced robotics and AI to turn him into what he calls the “world’s very first full Cyborg.” This initiative demonstrates the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve and transform the quality of life […].

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Software Testing in a Millennial World

InfoBest

Software testing has become one of the most popular job aspirations for millennials in the IT industry. Over the past decade, this generation has been increasingly seeking more opportunities to take up software testing as a career path. People in this generation were introduced to technology at an early stage in their life and they became the first connected generation in history.

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From Pets to X-as-Code: Enabling Control and Predictability for ITOps at Scale

DevOps.com

Amy Wheelus, vice president of network cloud at AT&T, recently spoke about declarative predictability at the Open Networking Summit in Antwerp. AT&T is the world’s largest telecommunications company providing mission critical communication services where people’s jobs–and lives–can be on the line. As they move away from labor-intensive IT operations toward cloud-native automation, there is a […].

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Risk Management Strategies and Best Practices for Dedicated IT Teams

Cabot Solutions

Risk management is an imperative part of any business operation In this article we look at the risk management strategies for dedicated IT teams

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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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Smart Water Management? It’s about Time.  

Beyond B2B

Every day in the UK there are over 3.0 million liters of water lost. This is largely due to leaks, poor metering and theft – and is enough to fill 1,268 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 25th, 2019

High Scalability

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Is this the PDP-7 Ken Thompson used to create Unix? Our intrepid detective says yes. Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. I also wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for all who need to understand the cloud. On Amazon it has 61 mostly 5 star reviews (136 on Goodreads). Please recommend it.

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2019 Year in Review: A Letter from Our CEO

TechSoup

"Since we adopted cloud technologies we work entirely differently than we used to.".

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Product Development Process: How to Bring Innovation to Life

Altexsoft

A company can’t benefit from a single unchangeable product eternally, no matter how popular it has been. There comes a time when you have to bring something new and exciting to the market — be it just a useful add-on or a revolutionary technology. Otherwise, more proactive competitors will steal your customers and bite off a hefty piece of your market share.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Simply Zentastic Partner Conference

Actian

“One of the best conferences we had in the last 20 years”… that is how one of the Actian Zen partners appraised our 3 day partner meeting that took place the week of October 14th in Actian’s office in Austin, Texas. With Actian Zen reaching new heights, mainly in the mobile and IoT space, the meeting was rather lite on Powerpoint slides yet heavier on discussions, best practice sharing and networking.

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How 8 New York Startups Are Shaking up Real Estate

BrainStation Technology

We recently explored why New York is drawing record amounts of venture capital , and it seems that influx of funding has led to a boom in PropTech – or property tech – that is sending reverberations throughout the real-estate industry. Even on a global level, investors have never been more bullish on PropTech. MetaProp’s mid-year 2019 Global PropTech Confidence Index found that investor confidence is at an all-time high at 8.8 out of 10, with startup confidence also at an all-time high of 7.3 ou

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Industry Insights: What are the Top 4 Obstacles That Prevent Business Growth?

Strategy Driven

You can never stand still in business or you risk being left behind by your competitors, but there can often be some obstacles that are blocking your path to future prosperity, all of which are often negotiable if you know how to get around them. Being able to get what your business needs in terms of new equipment is just one challenge that you have to find a way to face up to and if you can learn from others that have been there before you it could give you the vision to succeed.