Tue.Nov 06, 2018

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A Case Against Dependencies

Atomic Spin

When you need to add a major bit of functionality to your system, what’s the first thing you do? Naturally, you start looking through whatever package repository is appropriate for a solution that fits. While there’s nothing inherently wrong with this, it’s important to think of the trade-offs made by adding external dependencies. Why Do We Use Dependencies?

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How to Add HTML Template in Django

The Crazy Programmer

In last tutorial we have seen, how we can return a HTML code through a string from views.py. It is not a good idea to pass whole HTML code through a string because if we have to design a complete webpage in HTML then we shouldn’t pass the whole code through the HttpResponse function because it will reduce the readibility of our code. So instead of passing the whole code through the HttpResponse function, we’ll create a separate HTML file.

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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

SAN FRANCISCO—The fastest, most cost-effective way to secure direct-record electronic voting machines in the United States, according to cybersecurity experts, is to stop using them. Switch to paper ballots and apply risk-limiting audits to ensure that vote tallies are conducted properly. And over the long term, consider switching to the cheaper—and more advanced and secure—voting technology that cybersecurity expert Ben Adida is dedicating his next career move to developing.

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One Easy Way to Have More Influence

Let's Grow Leaders

More influence isn’t always about what you say. I knew Gary wasn’t happy. During my first time in a mid-level management role, one of my team leaders was clearly struggling. He looked frustrated, sounded frustrated, and it didn’t take a genius to […]. The post One Easy Way to Have More Influence appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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The Practice of Sizing Spikes with Story Points

Agile Alliance

Every once and a while it's good to take a tool out of its box and find out if it's still fit for purpose. Maybe even find if it can be used in a new way. I recently did this with the practice of sizing spikes with story points. I've experienced a lot of different … Continued.

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Setting the Tone: Jessica Kerr and Donovan Brown Announced as Keynote Speakers for deliver:Agile 2019

Agile Alliance

It's nearing the holiday season here in the US. You know what that means: awkward office parties! How you get invited to these parties often sets the tone for what you should expect. Email invitation for a kickin' party in the main conference room at 3:30pm on Friday? Sounds like you should expect store-brand eggnog … Continued.

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Seven Ways to Involve People in the Change Process

Change Starts Here

Last month, I published an article about Five Stages in the Change Process Where You Can Involve People, which detailed opportunities to engage more people in change – and not just during implementation. In other words, do change with people instead of to people. Now, I’d like to follow up with a post about how […].

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Sound Advice: A Quick Guide to Designing UX Sounds

Toptal

Sound can be easily overlooked in UX design, but it’s an essential element in building impactful user interactions, such as providing feedback for user’s actions and building brand recognition.

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5 questions CEOs are asking about AI

CTOvision

Read Jill Dyche detail the five questions CEO of any company is bound to ask before deploying AI in their organisation on CIO : Though AI has proved its competency, many CEOs are still sanguine about its usage in their company. Recently in a risk management meeting, I watched a data scientist explain to a group […].

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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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Working With Static Patterns: A Swift MVVM Tutorial

Toptal

Real-time data-driven apps create new challenges in the way we structure our programs, especially on mobile. In this article, Toptal Freelance iOS Developer Lucas van Dongen implements an iOS chat app, comparing the classic MVC approach with a static immutable MVVM pattern.

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An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Travelers in the EU

CTOvision

Soon traveling to Europe will depend on a lie detector test taken by an artificial intelligence tool. EU is planning to launch a six-month trial of iBorderCtrl, an AI lie detector that looks for “biomarkers of deceit”, at its external borders in Hungary, Latvia, and Greece. In Hungary, Latvia, and Greece, travelers will be given an […].

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#1 in HCI – and Moving Ahead

Dell EMC

New VxRail and SmartFabric solution is a major Partner opportunity Everyone knows data is growing fast – but the pace of change is accelerating. Anything that helps major enterprises keep up with this explosive growth is sure to be in big demand. What’s needed are scalable network fabrics capable of supporting extreme data consumption and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) – and the first place people should look is right here.

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Modern cryptography in PHP 7.2 with Sodium

Zend

Recently, at ZendCon & OpenEnterprise 2018, I presented a session about the usage of Sodium in PHP 7.2. Here you can find the slides of this session. Sodium is a powerful library for modern cryptography. It is a portable, cross-compilable, installable and packageable fork of NaCl, a famous cryptographic tool designed by Prof. D.J. Bernstein. […].

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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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A.I. Is Helping Scientists Predict When and Where the Next Big Earthquake Will Be

CTOvision

Countless dollars and entire scientific careers have been dedicated to predicting where and when the next big earthquake will strike. But unlike weather forecasting, which has significantly improved with the use of better satellites and more powerful mathematical models, earthquake prediction has been marred by repeated failure. Take a look at AI-related research for predicting […].

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Turn Bluetooth On and Off from Command Line on macOS

David Walsh

Bluetooth has been a revelation in wireless technology: wireless mice, headphones, streaming devices, and a variety of home and office environments. It goes without saying that wireless peripherals are so much easier to manage than wired counterparts, especially mice, that I usually have my MacBook’s bluetooth turned on. There are times, however, that I move my laptop away from the mouse (OK, I admit: the kitchen) where the bluetooth connection is still in range but with the mouse still

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Pulumi: SaaS multicloud app deployment service

CTOvision

Pulumi seeks to “Program the Cloud” They provide infrastructure for serverless containers. For an intro overview of Pulumi see: From GeekWire: It didn’t take long for the ex-Microsoft engineers behind Pulumi to prove their software development platform for multicloud computing was worthy of additional investment. Pulumi launched its SaaS multicloud app deployment service which could help businesses […].

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Why We Believe in Remote Work – and Tips for Making It Happen

UruIT

Some tips for working remotely and the main learning points I had in my experience. Currently, it is very common to hear or read about how workers of the new era manage to balance their personal life and ambitions with their career goals through remote work. For example, one who travels the world while also scaling a new business. It sounds good enough to be real, but is it really possible?

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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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Explore RubyGems data with Honeycomb

Honeycomb

Our new RubyGems.org public dataset is now available — use it to analyze global download traffic of all gems hosted on RubyGems! About RubyGems.org. RubyGems.org is the Ruby community’s gem hosting service. Gem creators can publish their gems to RubyGems for anyone to use. Developers can install gems from RubyGems using tools like Bundler or browse gem pages to learn more about dependencies and revision histories.

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Lower Your Lap Bar – VxRail with Network Automation Corkscrews to the VMware Cloud

Dell EMC

Who doesn’t love roller coasters? Soaring above the ground in a feat of engineering, flying forward faster than seems as possible. If 2016 and 2017 witnessed hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) climbing that first big hill of customer adoption, 2018 has the industry racing down the other side. HCI continues to grow at an incredible pace—up 70% YoY*.

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How to Implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery with Legacy Oracle EBS Systems

Flexagon

The future of software development is continuous. We know this. But how do you implement methodologies like continuous integration and continuous delivery with legacy systems? These systems, which are integral to business operations and revenue channels, have taken years of effort and significant investment to build and customize. At the same time, legacy systems shouldn’t.

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Software-defined Networking is an Essential Consideration for Successful IT Transformation

Dell EMC

Making the switch to software-defined networking delivers significant business benefits and plays a key role in IT Transformation. In the fifth of a series of blogs inspired by influential research published by industry analyst ESG, we discover the impact that software-defined networking can have on an organization’s IT Transformation efforts. With both data and IT users being more distributed than ever in a typical enterprise, the network connectivity between them is increasingly important and

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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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How to Choose the Right Threat Intelligence Sources for Your TIP

Symantec

What you get out of your threat intelligence platform depends on what you put into it

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Data Domain Hybrid Management – On-Prem and In-Cloud

Dell EMC

Not only is it important to back up your data but accessing and managing that data is just as important. What’s the point of a backup if you can’t access it? Dell EMC Data Protection is a market leader due to its combined portfolio of Data Domain appliances, Integrated Data Protection Appliances and Data Protection software. Last quarter, Dell EMC’s Data Domain lead the Target Systems segment of the Purpose Built Backup Appliance (PBBA) market with a 75% revenue share and saw a year over year g

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Four short links: 6 November 2018

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

People Don't Change, Open Access, Event Database, and Apple Maps. People Don't Change -- interesting and entertaining talk to remind you that modern people with their selfies and mobile phone obsessions aren't new special creatures unlike the people of the past. The first half is non-technical similarities, and the second half kicks into how the same human drives behind our tech obsessions can be found (with different tech) in the past.

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Simplified Converged Infrastructure Operations: 10 Things to Know About VxBlock Central

Dell EMC

The demand for increased automation and clouds where converged infrastructure (CI) plays a vital role create an opportunity for partners. Customers want more value from their CI investment and are looking to improve management, simplify operations and provide a path to a cloud operating model. The introduction of VxBlock Central software can help partners deliver the solution customers want.

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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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Cipher Brief Analysis: The Pakistan Problem

The Cipher Brief

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan recently returned from China without the concrete funding assurances that he was seeking in order to keep his country from having to request a second bailout from the International Monetary Fund. Pakistan has repeatedly turned to China and Saudi Arabia for financial assistance, while the U.S. has withdrawn aid, most recently cancelling $300m, claiming that Islamabad has not done enough to root out militants operating along its border with Afghanistan.

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Tips For Successfully Growing Your Business

Strategy Driven

The decision to grow your business is an exciting one, but can also bring many new challenges your way. Plan ahead, so you have a good idea of what you want to see your company tackle going forward and know exactly how you’re going to handle the growth process. You want to make sure the numbers are there, and your business is stable enough to withstand the expansion you’re about to undertake.

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Kubernetes' scheduling magic revealed

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Understanding how the Kubernetes scheduler makes scheduling decisions is critical to ensure consistent performance and optimal resource utilization. Kubernetes is an industry-changing technology that allows massive scale and simplicity for the orchestration of containers. Most of us happily push thousands of deployments and pods to Kubernetes every day.