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The topics to watch in software architecture

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Microservices, serverless, AI, ML, and Kubernetes are among the most notable topics in our analysis of proposals from the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference. The speaker proposals we receive for the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference are valuable because they come from speakers who are often the leading names in their fields. These go-to experts and practitioners operate on the front lines of technology.

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The Role of Bots in DevOps

DevOps.com

DevOps has evolved from its infancy into a mainstream focus area for a majority of CIOs. DevOps has become a main focus and has been shaping the world of software and infrastructure engineering and operations for the last few years. Some of the key DevOps trends include: DevOps assembly lines automation. Smart, actionable alerts from […]. The post The Role of Bots in DevOps appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Product thinking in a data platform

Martin Fowler

Distribution of the data ownership and data pipeline implementation into the hands of the business domains raise an important concern around accessibility, usability and harmonization of distributed datasets. Zhamak explains that this is where the learning in applying product thinking and ownership of data assets come in handy. more….

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Decision-Making and Problem Solving: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their thoughts about decision-making and problem-solving (and several weighed in on the choice between coffee and tea.) Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and […]. The post Decision-Making and Problem Solving: A Frontline Festival 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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Top Benefits of Dynamics CRM Integration with SharePoint

OTS Solutions

Benefits of the Sharepoint integration with Dynamics CRM. Sharepoint is a highly used document management and team collaboration resource created and maintained by Microsoft. Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is a kind of software that works to create more efficient use, monitoring, and changing of data with respect to the sales, service, and marketing departments of businesses.

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Technology: Isolation in the Age of Automation

DevOps.com

Dependence on technology makes us more independent overall, but it also makes us more isolated. So, what happens if things come to the point where we depend on machines more than we depend on other human beings? Earlier this month I attended a presentation about machine learning on mobile phones at Google IO 2019. Right […]. The post Technology: Isolation in the Age of Automation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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WhatsApp confirms it’s been targeted by spyware. That’s exactly its customers’ fear

CTOvision

Since WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook in 2014, users of the messaging app have long speculated on how secure the platform would be from its new parent company’s data collection practices. What users may not have expected, however, was that their conversations could potentially be tapped by a third party — another company with the means […].

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The Long and Short of an Effective Employee Development Program

Women on Business

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Cybercriminals Favor Targeting Top Executives, Small Businesses, Money: Verizon Data Breach Report

CTOvision

Verizon published last week the 12th edition of its Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) based on real-world data from 41,686 confirmed security incidents and 2,013 data breaches spanning 86 countries worldwide. “Every one of the incidents in this report is either where data has been stolen, or there was a quantified cyber incident,” told me in […].

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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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Fostering ‘The Third Way’ via Learning

DevOps.com

Learning is an integral part of the DevOps process. Dojos can be critical in transforming the process. With so many new and evolving technologies, practices and approaches to product delivery, how can organizations possibly keep up? From infrastructure as code to cloud-native and microservices through product thinking (and don’t forget testing!) as well as chaos […].

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Four Cloud Security Concerns (and How to Address Them)

CTOvision

Read Matthew Chiodi list top four cloud security concerns and how to address them on Palo Alto Networks Blog : The cloud can be overwhelming. Counter to the structured and disciplined rigor of old-school, waterfall, data-center-centric application development, there’s code being deployed in a nearly continuous fashion. Traditional servers are history.

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How to put GitOps to work for your software delivery

TechBeacon

GitOps is increasingly popular in the cloud-native world, allowing developers to deliver software to production using their native tooling—a pull request in Git. The underlying principle is that of infrastructure as code. Namely, any change in operations can be affected by a change in code.

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Samsung spilled SmartThings app source code and secret keys

CTOvision

A development lab used by Samsung engineers was leaking highly sensitive source code, credentials and secret keys for several internal projects — including its SmartThings platform, a security researcher found. The electronics giant left dozens of internal coding projects on a GitLab instance hosted on a Samsung-owned domain, Vandev Lab. The instance, used by staff to […].

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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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Tricentis to Livestream Accelerate SF: Automation @ the Speed of Change

DevOps.com

Two days of continuous testing insights will be shared with the global community of software testing professionals, free of charge Mountain View Calif., May 16, 2019 – Tricentis, the cloud’s #1 Continuous Testing platform, today announced that sessions from the Accelerate SF keynote stage will be livestreamed for free. [Livestream registration] On May 22-23, the […].

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Pick the Right Tech Conferences for You

UruIT

A 5-step guide for defining our yearly events calendar. I’m currently in the USA to attend some tech conferences: the Nexus Conference by Nearshore Americas in New York and later, the MIT Symposium in Boston. Both of these events are great opportunities to learn about tendencies that are shaping the nearshore software development industry. It’s the second time we travel to the USA this year.

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Open source on CircleCI: SciPy

CircleCI

A large and growing community of open source software (OSS) projects count on CircleCI to keep their projects running. We offer OSS projects free resources and unlimited usage and, as a result, we process nearly 2.6 million OSS jobs per month. Recently, we reached out to some of the most interesting OSS projects building on CircleCI to ask them about the importance of their project being open source, the importance of CI for their projects, and tips from their configs that other OSS projects can

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Interesting Things You Should Know About The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) In India

CEO Insider

CEOWORLD magazine. Interesting Things You Should Know About The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) In India. One of the dream institutions for any engineer kid in India is the group of Indian Institute of Technology (IITs). It is one of the most well-established and reputed groups of engineering institutes in the world and many of its members perform exemplary in world rankings.

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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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7 Must Have Office 365 Apps #7: Flow

Datavail

Microsoft Flow helps to improve productivity by allowing users to create multistep workflows to replace time-consuming repetitive tasks. Users can use Flow to create entirely new workflows specific to their unique needs. However, Microsoft also provides a wide selection of templates on Flow that will give your employees a head start on automating some of the most often used task sequences.

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Turning DevOps Misconceptions into Opportunities in Colombia’s Software Outsourcing Industry

Perficient

With its increasing popularity in the world of software outsourcing, DevOps has quickly become one of those trendy industry buzzwords that overshadow the nature of its true value. According to PSL's resident DevOps expert, Juan Ruiz, Colombia's software development talent pool has recently been driven by the buzzword instead of the cultural philoso.

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Service Desk ROI:5 Companies Seeing Big Returns

Samanage

Seeing a positive return on investment when it comes to a service desk can be challenging without the right solution in place. Whether it is properly routing requests or creating approvals and workflows, a comprehensive platform can make a measurable difference. In this blog, you will learn how five companies experienced measurable ROI since implementing the Samanage Service Platform.

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Preventing the Spread of Ransomware

Edgewise

After a brief moment away from the spotlight in 2018, ransomware has returned with a vengeance to commence 2019. In the first four months of the year alone, ransomware has hit Norsk Hydro , Arizona Beverages , Cleveland Hopkins International Airport , and the cities of Greenville (NC) and Albany (NY), plus Garfield County in Salt Lake, City (UT). In all likelihood, this is just the tip of the attack iceberg, and potentially a sign of things to come.

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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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Ranked: The 15 Cities With The Most Billionaire, 2019: New York And Hong Kong Tops

CEO Insider

CEOWORLD magazine. Ranked: The 15 Cities With The Most Billionaire, 2019: New York And Hong Kong Tops. When it comes to the three comma club, fifteen cities in the world are home to almost 30 percent of the global billionaire population as of 2018. Unsurprisingly, New York tops the list with 105 billionaires, 18 more billionaires than the second-ranked city, Hong Kong, according to Wealth-X’s 2019 Billionaire Census report.

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Texas Linux Fest 2019

Linux Academy

Yee-haw! Calling all Southern Linux & Open Software users, Texas Linux Fest is almost here and this time it is located in Irving, Texas. The Linux Academy & Jupiter Broadcasting crew will be leaving the headquarters for the day to see you at the fest! Stop by our space in the expo to grab some official Linux Academy swag, and meet our team. We may even drop some hints on what to expect for our next content launch.

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Cisco clueless about security, apparently: Meet Thrangrycat

TechBeacon

Hundreds of Cisco products are vulnerable to a secure-enclave takeover. Dubbed Thrangrycat, it permits an attacker to hide a persistent threat inside the Trust Anchor module (TAm) of any number of Cisco networking boxes.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Now Available In Linux Academy Cloud Playground

Linux Academy

Linux Academy is happy to announce that the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Distribution is available in the Linux Academy Cloud Playground. Cloud Playground is included in both individual Linux Academy memberships , as well as business memberships. Cloud Playground was specifically designed for professionals and companies who need to train their staff and may offer training time during business hours.

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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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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) – The Leader in Hosted Container Orchestration

ParkMyCloud

One of Google Cloud’s killer products is Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE. Since Google was the original creator of the Kubernetes container scheduler, it’s fitting that they are considered to be at the forefront of Kubernetes management and development. In spite of the fact that Kubernetes is now managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation , Google is still a major contributor to the open-source Kubernetes project on Github.

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Practical business uses for blockchain technology

DXC

Blockchain was created as the public transaction ledger for the bitcoin cryptocurrency, but blockchain technology also has a variety of practical applications in enterprise business process scenarios. The beauty of blockchain is that virtually any type of data can be put into the distributed ledger. Each record or block contains a cryptographic hash of the […].

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Four Cloud Security Concerns (and How to Address Them)

Palo Alto Networks

The cloud can be overwhelming. Counter to the structured and disciplined rigor of old-school, waterfall, data-center-centric application development, there’s code being deployed in a nearly continuous fashion. Traditional servers are history. Penetration tests are so out of date by the time they’re done that CISOs and their teams are left wondering if they actually gained anything from the exercise.

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