Tue.Sep 18, 2018

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What Is Kubernetes? A Guide to Containerization and Deployment

Toptal

As we start transitioning to microservice-based architectures, a question arises: What should I choose to make my service stable as well as easy to manage and deploy? The short answer is: Use Docker!

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Frustrated or Focused – Leadership Tips for Managing Emotions

Let's Grow Leaders

“David, I know I shouldn’t take this personally, but I’m so frustrated and I just want to yell at my team and walk away. I need help managing emotions or I’m going to have a meltdown.” Amanda is a team leader for […]. The post Frustrated or Focused – Leadership Tips for Managing Emotions appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Ransomware attacks against hospitals: A timeline

The Parallax

Ransomware attacks are serious business for hackers?and often completely avoidable. Hospitals and health care systems, now in the business of collecting patient data as a side effect of treating physical maladies, struggle to keep that information secure. While there’s no ransomware-specific cost estimate to the health care business, Verizon’s annual Data Breach Report for 2018 estimates that ransomware is included in 85 percent of the successful malware attacks against hospitals.

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Agile2018 Diversity and Inclusion Experiences

Agile Alliance

At the AgileTonight event on Tuesday, August 7, 2018, four Agile Alliance members shared stories about the direct effect of Diversity and Inclusion on their lives with a room full of other members. It was a first and I am very appreciative to be a part of that experience. It was a beginning of a … 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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Artificial Intelligence Sells, But Machine Learning Delivers

CTOvision

There is an old adage in the world of computing. If you want money for your project say it is Artificial Intelligence. But if you want talent to deliver on your capabilities remember to hire Machine Learning experts. Seems Artificial Intelligence sells. But Machine Learning Delivers. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning are all […].

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The AI Industry Series: Top Healthcare AI Trends To Watch

CTOvision

CB Insights sets the standard when it comes to analysis of the tech industry. We love their views on all things tech. Here is some recent insightful AI work: The importance of artificial intelligence in healthcare is a subject of research but that is not stopping companies and individuals from investing in healthcare AI startups. […].

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Three Concurrent Paths to Influence Change at Work

Change Starts Here

All the different things we do to influence change at work can seem convoluted. But when you break it down, there are only three paths for driving change from the current state to the future state. The following ways to influence must happen concurrently to get real results. Path 1: Create Conditions that Influence Change […].

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Ditch MVPs, Adopt Minimum Viable Prototypes (MVPr)

Toptal

Learn the value of minimum viable prototypes (MVPr), a quick and affordable way to create, launch, test, and improve digital products based on real-world insights.

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Facebook’s new ‘SapFix’ AI automatically debugs your code

CTOvision

Writing got a lot easier when spellcheckers and grammar checkers arrived on the scene. Now Facebook is using artificial intelligence to give programmers a similar boost with a tool called SapFix that’ll debug their software. “SapFix can automatically generate fixes for specific bugs, and then propose them to engineers for approval and deployment to production,” […].

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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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Being Brave Enough to Charge What We’re Worth

Women on Business

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Artificial Intelligence: 58 Million New Jobs Means Maybe The Sky Is Not Falling

CTOvision

We have heard AI naysayers warning about mounting job losses if artificial intelligence becomes mainstream. It so happens that the opposite is true. According to a new report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) called “The Future of Jobs 2018” predicts exactly the opposite of what AI doomsday predictors say. While there will be job losses […].

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5 Things to Give Away That Will Immediately Improve Your Life

Steve Farber

If you’re reading this, you are probably looking for a way to improve the way your work life works. Who doesn’t want that? One way is to throw out unnecessary papers, sure; but I’d like to suggest something a little more radical (and more impactful) with the following five tips that will clear out your world by making your workplace a happier and more interpersonally positive place to be.

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Stealing From a Cashierless Store (Without You, or the Cameras, Knowing It)

CTOvision

AI is arriving in the retail sector in a big way. A company called Standard Cognition which uses cameras and AI to track shoppers and what they buy opened San Francisco’s first cashierless store. Standard Cognition uses visual tracking and behavioral data to operate a new San Francisco market, which lets shoppers walk out unimpeded. […].

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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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Net senior developer job offer in Barcelona

Apiumhub

We are searching for a.Net senior developer to join our software development team in Barcelona! We keep receiving interesting projects to work on and build working software. Let’s grow together! Main Tasks of a .Net senior developer. Develop and improve a product platform using C#, ASP.NET MVC / Web API, Xamarin and MS Azure as part of a highly motivated team.

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Flash Prices are Dropping. Now What?

Infinidat

Flash Prices are Dropping. Now What? Eric Klinefelter. Tue, 09/18/2018 - 8:18am. Unless you spent the last month in a cave on a remote island near Antarctica you probably saw the abundance of articles on flash price drop predictions. Chris Mellor’s article at The Register is a good example. The obvious question is “Now what?” Will we see the world moving to the ‘all-flash data center’ that some vendors have been saying is the only storage solution moving forward?

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Script & Style Show: Episode 21: Third Party JavaScript and Web Performance with Charlie Vazac

David Walsh

On this week’s episode: David shrugs aside the scars of the week’s DevTools Debugger development to welcome this week’s guest: Charlie Vazac. Charlie boasts the title of Senior Architect at Akamai and joins David and Todd to talk about third party JavaScript, monkey patching, security, performance, and more! Enjoy! The post Script & Style Show: Episode 21: Third Party JavaScript and Web Performance with Charlie Vazac appeared first on David Walsh Blog.

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Caution to the Wind: Views on the Renewable Energy Growth Boom

Toptal

Renewable energy generation, lead by solar PV and wind power, is growing at a considerable rate. Innovations are lowering the cost to generate such power to levels of traditional fossil fuels. Yet underneath the positive headlines, there are some fundamental issues that remain in the long-term sustainability of business models in the industry.

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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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Securing the microservices mesh with an API Gateway

Akana

Securing the microservices mesh with an API Gateway is a best practice. These tables compare Akana API Gateway to the open source solution Istio Sidecars in the features that should be critical components of an organization’s API strategy. The post Securing the microservices mesh with an API Gateway appeared first on API Management Blog - Akana.

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Transforming IT Performance into Formula One Success

Dell EMC

When people think of McLaren they think of Formula One where we have been competing since 1966. What makes us unique today is our diversification into three different businesses including a global, high-performance sports car business, McLaren Automotive, and a game-changing technology and innovation business, McLaren Applied Technologies as well as McLaren Formula One team.

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How to Increase Online Sales Quickly in 2018?

Xicom

Whether you have gone for Ecommerce Development recently or many years ago to get an e-commerce website, you must be thinking of ways to increase your E-Commerce sales. If your business becomes successful, there is a no doubt that you can earn a lot of money through it but the truth is that not all businesses become successful and even those businesses which are successful goes through phases of declines and lesser sales.

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HyperCloud™ Analytics Is Now Available on AWS Marketplace

Hypergrid

We’re excited to announce the availability of HyperCloud Analytics in the AWS Marketplace. AWS users now have the ability to optimize the AWS environment and user experience with a pay-as-you-go, no contract model for cloud migration planning and cloud usage optimization. Our relationship with AWS and opportunity to host HyperCloud in the AWS Marketplace is no small feat when you look at the numbers.

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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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CodeSOD: Switch On Suppression

The Daily WTF

Krista noticed our article explaining that. switches were replacements for ifs. She sent in a version she found in her codebase, around the same idea: @SuppressWarnings("incomplete-switch") @Transactional public void removeAssetFromPackage(Package pkg, Asset assetToRemove) { pkg.getAssets().remove(assetToRemove); // Delete from DB and asset store. removeAsset(pkg, assetToRemove); // If we're removing LIVE asset, also delete AsyncJobs. switch (assetToRemove.getType()) { case LIVE: asy

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Sponsored Post: Twitch, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Etleap, Stream, Scalyr, MemSQL

High Scalability

Who's Hiring? Twitch's commerce team in San Francisco is looking to hire senior developers to keep up with rapidly increasing demand for our Subscriptions and Payment platform. Engineers will be tasked with building new products and features to solve business and ecommerce challenges as we're dealing with engaging problems at a massive scale and will create solutions that impact millions of people around the world.

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Consent is not enough (part 2): GDPR recordkeeping, reporting and notification requirements

TechTalk

Last month, in my article titled Think you’re GDPR compliant? Think again, I wrote about how consent can be key to proving that your organization’s collection, storage, and processing of personal data of individuals is lawful under the GDPR. Then earlier this month, in part one of the “Consent is not enough” series, I discussed […].

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Meet us at Agile People Sweden 2018

Agile42

We are happy to be at Agile People Sweden , a conference with a diverse set set of participants and speakers as possible: people from IT, Management, HR and other professions and people with different backgrounds from different parts of the world come to Stockholm between 23rd and 26th of October, 2018 to discuss ways of collaboration and interactions between people with different perspectives.

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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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What are OKRs and How Can They Benefit Your IT Firm?

Arcserve

There are dozens of ways for your organization to grow and become more efficient. You can simplify your product and service offerings so employees can focus efforts on a smaller number of things. You can adopt the latest technologies (such as hyper-converged infrastructures) to save time managing systems. But outside of re-thinking how you provide. Read more » The post What are OKRs and How Can They Benefit Your IT Firm?

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Why the Economics of Adding a Network Engineer to the Cloud Engineering Team Doesn’t Add Up

Aviatrix

Networking in AWS, Azure or GCP is complicated. (Just take a look at our Day in the Life list below.) Many cloud teams naturally assume they’ll need a network engineer with a traditional data center skill set to manage their cloud networking. But from both a skills and cost perspective, that’s just not the case. Let’s examine the business case and the alternatives, including the opportunity that this presents for cloud services consulting companies.

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How Midscale Companies Can Use a Lightweight Version of SAFe – #SAFeSummit 13

Net Objectives

Many mid-scale companies feel they are in the dilemma that LeSS is insufficient while SAFe feels like too much. Many decide to use the SAFe program increment planning event but are left with little guidance on product management. SAFe”s intriguing because it provides many good insights – MVPs, MMFs, Solutions, and more. But many of … Continue reading "How Midscale Companies Can Use a Lightweight Version of SAFe – #SAFeSummit 13".

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