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Why is Site Reliability Engineering Important?

DevOps.com

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is one of the fastest-growing enterprise roles and set of operational practices for managing services at scale. During the Site Reliability Engineering SKILup Day June 18, I asked a group of the DevOps Institute Ambassadors why SRE was important to them. Below you will find some insightful responses, tips and calls […].

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Artificial Intelligence: The time for ethics is over

CTOvision

If the rules are too weak, there is a too great a risk that our rights and freedoms will be undermined: This currently applies to all applications of artificial intelligence, […].

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API Development in Go Using Goa

Toptal

Your code is described in your API definition using a Golang Domain Specific Language (DSL), then generated using the Goa CLI, and implemented separately from your application source code.

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IBM donates machine learning tooling to enable ‘responsible’ AI

CTOvision

IBM Corp. is donating three open-source artificial intelligence development toolkits to LF AI, an organization within the Linux Foundation that maintains open-source machine learning tools. The LF AI Technical Advisory Committee […].

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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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How to Use Microservices To Evolve DevOps Pipelines

DevOps.com

Enterprises are quickly becoming an intricate mesh of many applications. As companies create more and more microservices, their deployment environments are becoming increasingly elaborate. Without proper configurations, a microservices road map could quickly become unmaintainable. According to DeployHub CEO Tracy Ragan, if development teams are pushing points to a cluster continuously, application development can suffer […].

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Businesses Modernizing Apps in Wake of Pandemic

DevOps.com

A survey of 5,000 business decision-makers, IT decision-makers and app developers published suggests organizations are taking advantage of the crisis created by the global COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate the modernizing of apps using DevOps practices. Conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne, the survey finds 80% of respondents said organizations must modernize the technologies […].

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United States: The World’s Leader In The Global Blockchain Market For 2020

CEO Insider

The emerging technology of Blockchain is evolving into an important factor in the transformation of financial services worldwide. Even after the Covid-19 crisis, investment in Blockchain continues, a fact that is reflected in the estimates for the progress of the market in 2020. According to a report by IDC (Worldwide Blockchain Spending Guide Worldwide), the […].

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What’s in the Way IS the Way—A Story of an Unlikely Successful DevOps Journey

Agile Alliance

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Kong Donates Kuma Service Mesh to the CNCF

DevOps.com

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today it has accepted the open source Kuma service mesh developed by Kong as a sandbox level project. At the same time, Kong announced an update to the service mesh for monolithic and microservices-based applications that makes it easier to deploy multi-tenant instances of Kuma across multiple types […].

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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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Spring for Apache Kafka – Beyond the Basics: Can Your Kafka Consumers Handle a Poison Pill?

Confluent

You know the fundamentals of Apache Kafka®. You are a Spring Boot developer working with Apache Kafka. You have chosen Spring Kafka for your integration. You have implemented your first […].

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Commvault Extends Data Protection Alliance with Microsoft

DevOps.com

Commvault and Microsoft are extending their existing relationship to integrate Commvault’s data protection software with Azure Blob Storage. Azure Blob Storage is a service based on object-based storage optimized for unstructured data. Commvault last year launched the Metallic software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, which provides a cloud-based approach to managing data protection, that runs on Azure.

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Advancing Azure service quality with artificial intelligence: AIOps Facebook

CTOvision

As Mark mentioned when he launched this Advancing Reliability blog series, building and operating a global cloud infrastructure at the scale of Azure is a complex task with hundreds of […].

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Article: Q&A on the Book Becoming an Effective Software Engineering Manager

InfoQ Culture Methods

The book Becoming an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier explores how to manage engineers and what managers can do to build and run effective teams. It helps people decide if they want to go from an engineering to a manager role and organize and improve their management activities. By Ben Linders, James Stanier.

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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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3 New Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Powering The Future Of Marketing

CTOvision

Read Cathy Hackl explain how artificial intelligence is helping marketing sector on Forbes : Artificial intelligence is top of mind for many in the marketing and communications world. Many Marcom […].

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How Artificial Intelligence is Helping Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic

Daffodil Software

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected over 9 million lives worldwide. The virus infection is disseminating like wildfire, putting pressure on the global economy and marking a downfall of various businesses.

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How to Improve ROI From Local SEO

KitelyTech

When we talk about SEO return on investment (ROI) and how to measure ROI on SEO, we need to think about how to track and report values to small business owners. Too often, clients will look at reports from their current or prior SEO company and be unable to discern what they are specifically getting for the money they are putting in. Common complaints from clients can include: An overabundance of marketing lingo (Terms like “CTR,” “Bounce Rate,” etc.

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A Review of Artifactory and CodeArtifact Repository Types

Dzone - DevOps

This post is a part of a series by JFrog Developer Advocates, comparing JFrog Artifactory to AWS CodeArtifact. I’m the first to admit that I fit well into the developer stereotype of someone that gets easily distracted by the new, shiny thing. It’s just part of my nature, and I accept it. Plus, I absolutely enjoy exploring new implementations, technologies, or strategies that promise to elicit that “Ah, much better!

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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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Honeycomb.io Granted Patent to Securely Manage & Control Sensitive Data

Honeycomb

San Francisco, Calif., June 16, 2020 – Honeycomb , a provider of observability for software engineering teams to understand, debug, and improve production systems, announced today that The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a patent U.S. patent No. 10,635,830 for its unique capability — Secure Tenancy — to manage sensitive data being accessed by Honeycomb users for observability and rapid query.

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To Automate or Not to Automate: The Framework to Continuous Testing Success

Dzone - DevOps

When it comes to continuous software delivery, one of the most important steps is testing. You should be able to constantly test existing software and new changes to make sure not only these changes are working as expected, but current functionalities remain intact. Talking about software having many functionalities means not having to conduct all tests manually, and instead, you can automate the majority of tests, thus increasing the speed and quality of your release process.

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Netflix Studio Engineering Overview

Netflix Tech

By Steve Urban , Sridhar Seetharaman , Shilpa Motukuri , Tom Mack , Erik Strauss , Hema Kannan , CJ Barker Netflix is revolutionizing the way a modern studio operates. Our mission in Studio Engineering is to build a unified, global, and digital studio that powers the effective production of amazing content. [link] Netflix produces some of the world’s most beloved and award-winning films and series, including The Irishman, The Crown, La Casa de Papel, Ozark, and Tiger King.

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Continuous Testing Success With Automation and Effective Frameworks

Dzone - DevOps

Continuous Testing , a term that started to increase in popularity in mid-2019, has made its way into many of today’s CI/CD processes used in the SDLC, but what exactly does the phrase mean? Continuous testing (CT) refers to the idea of automated testing of software as it passes through various stages in the software delivery pipeline. It is a technique employed to provide insight into risks associated with new and upcoming software release candidates before they are released to production.

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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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Work Optimally with Your Onshore Nearshore or Offshore Team During and After COVID

Cabot Solutions

The global pandemic has changed the way we do business Here s how you can work optimally with your onshore nearshore or offshore team during and after COVID

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Zero to Metrics-Driven Hero

Agile Alliance

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Data-Driven Design: an introduction

Apiumhub

Data has become a crucial quality property of software systems that software vendors have to consider in each development phase. To fill this gap, we introduce data flows in an architectural description language to enable simple definition of confidentiality constraints. . In most Web-based projects, there are two general types of data: Quantitative data : Numerical data that shows the who, what, when and where.

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Digital Divide During a Pandemic: How to Work Toward Inclusion

TechSoup

As COVID-19 has changed and continues to change our lives in many ways, nonprofits can play a vital role in advocating for individuals excluded by the digital divide. Together, nonprofits have a responsibility to work toward creating environments, both in the built and in the digital world, where people have a sense of belonging accessible by all.

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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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Inside the modern SOC: How to align your SecOps team for success

TechBeacon

A deepening skills shortage, data overload, and a lack of a clearly defined mission are among several factors undermining the ability of security operations center (SOC) teams to carry out their functions effectively at many organizations. Numerous recent studies suggest that, even as the role of the SOC has evolved and become more business-critical, so have the challenges facing them.

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Improving and Extending the Voter Experience: Democracy Works deploys with Netlify

Netlify

How Democracy Works deploys with Netlify to ensure smooth handling of big traffic spikes. Democracy Works is a nonpartisan nonprofit that builds tools to upgrade the infrastructure of American democracy, and improve the voting experience for voters and election officials. It works with colleges and universities, election officials, and corporate and nonprofit partners to increase civic participation and voter turnout.

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Celestial Support

DevOps.com

The post Celestial Support appeared first on DevOps.com.

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