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Branching Patterns: Release-Ready Mainline

Martin Fowler

Release-Ready Mainline: Keep mainline sufficiently healthy that the head of mainline can always be put directly into production. The recent patterns I've published are useful, but keeping a release-ready mainline is often the simplest and best choice. moreā€¦.

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During and After a Pandemic, Diversified Companies Represent a More Efficient Investment Alternative

CEO Insider

Why I Co-Founded a Diversified Platform Company With a career focused on whatā€™s next, Iā€™ve led multiple technology firms ranging from startups to public companies. My business involvements relate to digital revolutions and how emerging technologies will disrupt our lives. By early 2016, I came to the conclusion that Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality […].

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Self-Service Data Protection at Scale, Brought to You by Dataiku, Snowflake and Protegrity

Dataiku

Ever heard of Doorstep Dispensaree Ltd? Probably not. But in December 2019, they became the first-ever company in the UK to be fined for failing to comply with the European Unionā€™s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Solve SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

The Crazy Programmer

How many of us are Python Programmers here? I hope many of us and I hope almost all of us might have come across SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing and we might have tried to look for it somewhere online. But do you exactly know what is this error all about and how we can remove it from our python code? So, what exactly an EOF is? EOF stands for End Of File.

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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. Itā€™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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A Short on How Zoom Works

High Scalability

Zoom scaled from 20 million to 300 million users virtually over night. What's incredible is from the outside they've shown little in the way of apparent growing pains, though on the inside it's a good bet a lot of craziness is going on. Sure, Zoom has made some design decisions that made sense as a small spunky startup that don't make a lot of sense as a defacto standard, but that's to be expected.

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DRY Comes to COBOL in IBM Z Development

DevOps.com

Donā€™t Repeat Yourself (DRY) is a fundamental tenet of modern computer programming. Just about every CS student is taught that duplicating code in an application is an accident waiting to happen. The hazard is that you might alter a piece of code in one place, only to leave another identical instance of that code unchanged. […]. The post DRY Comes to COBOL in IBM Z Development appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Creating Dynamic VMs Infrastructure With Xen Hosts

Dzone - DevOps

Introduction. In today's world, the server infrastructure machines are either in on-premise data centers, private data centers, or public cloud data centers. These machines are either physical bare-metal machines, virtual machines (VMs) with hypervisors, or small containers like Docker containers on top of physical or virtual machines. These machines physically might be in the local lab.

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How to Make Your Team Feel Connected and Included While Working Remotely

CEO Insider

From 30-day challenges to hiring a llama for Zoom meetings, teams across the world are looking for creative ways to stay connected as much of the world shifts to distributed and hybrid teams. How can companies re-create the magic of sharing a physical space when working exclusively online? How can we allow strong interpersonal bonds […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article How to Make Your Team Feel Connected and Included While Working Remotely are those of the au

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How DevOps Teams Can Switch to Remote Work

Dzone - DevOps

COVID-19 has left things in disarray for Agile development teams. The sudden transition into a remote working structure has baffled the blended approach to DevOps which combines work culture and automation tools. The lack of contact work will start by striking your work culture first and then affect infrastructure and tools. It becomes imperative for your operative modes to adapt to the new normal.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If youā€™re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache CassandraĀ®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether youā€™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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HashiCorp Extends Consul Service Mesh Reach

DevOps.com

HashiCorp today made available an update to its Consul service mesh that makes it easier to integrate legacy and modern applications. Service meshes have emerged as a framework for documenting and controlling how application services interact with one another. Most of the adoption of service meshes thus far has involved applications built using microservices.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For May 14th, 2020

High Scalability

Hey, it's HighScalability time! LOL. Who knew a birthday service could lead to an existential crisis? Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff can't happen. You are that important to the fate of the smart and thoughtful world. Know someone who wants to understand the cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them.

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Canā€™t-miss sessions for AWS Summit Chicago

Stackery

AWS Summit Chicago on the horizon, and while thereā€™s no explicit serverless track, there are some amazing sessions to check out. Here are my top choices for the serverless sessions and a workshop you wonā€™t want to miss: Workshop for Serverless Computing with AWS + Stackery + Epsagon. If you want to prime your mind for all the fantastic content coming up at AWS Summit Chicago, be sure to attend this hands-on workshop hosted by Stackery, Epsagon, and AWS the day before the event kicks off!

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What are the biggest mindset challenges you face when leading your team remotely?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: What are the biggest mindset challenges you face when leading your team remotely? I worry they’re not actually working. 19.5% I have little control over their deliverables. 8.4% I worry they feel like I’m not developing them. 22.2% I worry they feel I’m not necessary or adding value. 16.9% I don’t worry at all about anything. 12.7% I worry about something else. 20.3% Itā€™s not you, itā€™s me.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Donā€™t just meet

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LogicMonitor Releases IT Downtime Detection and Mitigation Study

DevOps.com

Although 99.999% availability may be ITā€™s ambition, itā€™s far from reality. In March 2019, Googleā€™s Gmail experienced a 4.5-hour global outage. In the same month, Facebook suffered a 14-hour outage, its most massive outage to date, crippling app-accessibility worldwide. Downtime and low availability will likely occur to all systems eventually, especially when introducing code changes. […].

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Offshore Outsourcing: Hiring and Managing an Effective Team

Daffodil Software

Outsourcing is a practice that a lot of companies have adopted in the past few years. The primary objective of outsourcing is cost reduction. Companies are constantly on the lookout for reliable technology partners to add value to their projects. Nowadays companies have various additional motives for implementing the practice.

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Render Now Serving More Than One Billion Web Requests Monthly; Expands Into Europe With Easiest Cloud for Hosting Any App or Website

DevOps.com

SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Render, the easiest cloud provider for developers and startups, today announced that it served more than one billion HTTP requests in April which is more than two times the number of requests in March. Today Render also announced that it has launched early access to its first hosting region in […].

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Solving ETL Challenges: 5 Command-Line Tools You Need to Know

Datavail

ETL (extract, transform, load) can be as essential to your business as it can be painful. Without the necessary experience and technical skill set, dealing with ETL issues such as inefficient queries and poor system design can occupy far too much of your time and effort. The good news: in many cases, you can diagnose and solve some of the most pressing ETL challenges using nothing more than the command-line tools that you already have at your disposal.

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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 youā€™ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzingā€™s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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3 things every IT org should be doing to get ahead of the pandemic

TechBeacon

Itā€™s a pandemic. Almost every business is feeling or will soon feel its effects, and some market sectors will struggle much more than others. Taking all enterprises as a whole, and considering the circumstances, many organizations are weathering the crisis reasonably well. Others may not make it in the long run.

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Cisco Aligns With Google to Meld DevOps and NetOps

DevOps.com

The extension of a partnership between Cisco Systems and Google to drive tighter integration between their respective software-defined wide area network (SD-WANs) offerings and cloud platforms promises to accelerate the convergence of NetOps and DevOps. John Apostolopoulos, vice president and CTO for Intent-Based Networking Group at Cisco, said in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic […].

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5G paves new paths to innovation

Beyond B2B

May 17 th marks the day in 1865 when the first International Telegraph Convention was signed in Paris; 20 countries met that day to figure out how to handle growing traffic in Morse Code telegraph messages.

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Chef Adds Support for Arm Graviton 2 Processors on AWS Cloud

DevOps.com

Chef announced this week that its offerings for managing and testing infrastructure as code now support Graviton 2 processors from Arm on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. AWS this week announced the availability of an M6g instance of processors on its public cloud. Based on a 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 architecture, the M6g processors […]. The post Chef Adds Support for Arm Graviton 2 Processors on AWS Cloud appeared first on DevOps.com.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics wonā€™t cut it in todayā€™s data-driven applications ā€“ not for your end users, your development team, or your business. Thatā€™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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The Five Phases of COVID-19 Aligned to Security Services

IDC

Enterprise security will encounter 5 phases in response to COVID-19's effects. Explore what CISOs need to know about these phases with IDC's Christina Richmond.

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ā€˜Thunderspyā€™ enlighteningā€”very, very frightening

TechBeacon

Seven flaws in Thunderbolt ports let an attacker fully access data on recent PCs and some Macs. Is this just fantasy?

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Supercharging AI and HPC Engines with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA

Dell EMC

Dell Technologies and NVIDIA deliver unprecedented acceleration and flexibility for AI, data analytics and HPC to tackle some of the worldā€™s toughest computing challenges. Dell Technologies has long been on the forefront of innovation when it comes to artificial intelligence and high performance computing, and in many cases NVIDIA has been right there with us.

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Google Sustainability Efforts in the Cloud Now Claim to be ā€œCarbon Intelligentā€

ParkMyCloud

Google Sustainability is an effort that ranges across their business, from the Global Fishing Watch to environmental consciousness in the supply chain. Given that cloud computing has been a major draw of global energy in recent years, the amount of computing done in data centers more than quintupled between 2010 and 2018. But, the amount of energy consumed by the worldā€™s data centers grew only six percent during that period, thanks to improvements in energy efficiency.

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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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Proven Again! Simple Cloud Protection Solutions with Google Cloud VMware Engine

Dell EMC

Dell Technologies makes protecting virtualized applications simple with comprehensive backup, recovery and storage solutions for Google Cloud. On May 14th, Google announced Google Cloud VMware Engine, which enables users to seamlessly migrate VMware workloads to Google Cloud while lowering costs and freeing IT resources for innovation. Running VMware workloads natively in a dedicated, private cloud means you can use the same tools, processes and policies you used on-premises, making transitions

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What Is Your Recovery Point Objective (RPO)?

Arcserve

RPO is a measurement of your tolerance for data loss. Calculating RPO allows you to set your backups in ways that works for both your data and your budget. The post What Is Your Recovery Point Objective (RPO)? appeared first on StorageCraft Technology Corporation.

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Building A People-Driven Culture With Dan Javan

Steve Farber

Helping people and making profits are not mutually exclusive, and a people-driven culture can actually be instrumental in propping your business to new heights. This is well illustrated by the story of Dan Javan, the. Read more.

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