Fri.Sep 18, 2020

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DevOps Deeper Dive: IPO Frenzy Heralds Consolidation

DevOps.com

A spate of initial public offering (IPOs) has resulted in billions of investment dollars being poured into JFrog, Snowflake and Sumo Logic and is likely to fuel of wave of merger and acquisition activity in the months ahead. While each of these software companies addresses fundamentally different IT requirements, they are all tapping into a […].

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7 ways to market yourself as a DevOps pro in the remote era

TechBeacon

Demand for new digital transformation projects is at an all-time high. Some 83% of organizations say that, amid pandemic concerns, they're accelerating efforts to modernize their applications and infrastructure to meet new market needs, a recent survey by IDG Research has found.

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Catchpoint Acquires Webpagetest.org Service

DevOps.com

Catchpoint this week announced it has acquired Webpagetest.org as part of an effort to expand use of the open source web performance testing service. Led by Patrick Meenan, the Webpagetest service is already relied on by more than 1 million users per month to instantly run tests of websites and applications from various locations, which […]. The post Catchpoint Acquires Webpagetest.org Service appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Stressful Life Events Can Impair Value-based Leadership. It Shouldn’t. Here’s How.

CEO Insider

It’s not uncommon for leaders to lose connection with their personal values during challenging times. Sure, they know what they value. It is the octane that mobilizes their performance. Leaders understand this. Matters of the heart are the canvass for painting the image of the kind of person a leader wants to be. Focusing on […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Stressful Life Events Can Impair Value-based Leadership.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Report: Cloud Expertise Now Superior to University Degree

DevOps.com

According to a report by online learning platform A Cloud Guru, 90% of IT leaders expect to expand their cloud services usage over the next one to three years, yet only 56% have an actionable plan to upskill their workforce. The recently released “State of Cloud Learning Report” revealed interesting trends in cloud adoption and […].

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For Sep 18th, 2020

High Scalability

Hey, it's HighScalability time! I can't wait for the duel. Just don't shoot into the air. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff won't happen. Know someone who could benefit from becoming one with the cloud? Of course you do. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. On Amazon it has 167 mostly 5 star reviews.

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TIL that AWS Lambda terminates instances preemptively

Xebia

TL;DR: There’s a lot of articles and blog posts on preventing or shortening cold-starts for AWS Lambda instances. I learned that AWS Lambda forces cold-starts to happen nevertheless by terminating active, running instances every two hours. AWS Lambda is an event-driven, serverless computing platform delivered by Amazon. It runs code in response to events and […].

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Welcome to the Smart Home of the Future, Powered by 10G

CableLabs

Today, we’re very excited to announce another successful milestone on the road to 10G. We’ve partnered with Mediacom Communications —one of the first cable operators to roll out gigabit service to all of its customers—and the NCTA-The Internet & Television Association to bring you a real-life demonstration of how 10G will power the smart home of the future.

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A Transition to Digital Infrastructure is in Your Future – But You Need New KPIs to Succeed

IDC

Digital infrastructure ensures faster delivery of innovative hardware, software, & abstraction to support digital services and experiences. Learn more about the future of digital infrastructure with IDC's Rick Villars.

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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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Training Cutting-Edge Neural Networks With Tensor2Tensor and 10 Lines of Code

Dataiku

There are many libraries out there to help people build deep learning Applications, but one API stands out from the rest when it comes to using state-of-the-art models from the latest architectures with minimal code: Google’s Tensor2Tensor. I used this library to make Translators using advanced new neural net architectures, specifically the Transformer , with hardly any code.

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Building a Modern SMS Communication Strategy at Your Nonprofit

TechSoup

Due to the pandemic and the lack of in-person engagement, organizations of all types and sizes are accelerating their digital transformation efforts. There's never been a better (or more relevant) time to optimize your digital presence and reach supporters where they're at — starting in the palms of their hands.

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How to Effectively Test Geolocation-based Mobile Apps & Websites

RapidValue

Today, with the advancement of technology and innovations, people can delve deeper into the vast digital world and explore several business opportunities in no time. In initial days, businesses grew and served its purpose locally or were restricted to a specific region. But now with the technology boom and the wide reach of the Internet and its power, businesses can evolve faster, serving multiple regions or even continents.

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DevOps Tools Radar: Choosing and Classifying the Best Tools for a Project

Perficient

Tools are a crucial element of the DevOps process, but the sheer quantity of tools out there can be pretty overwhelming for new DevOps practitioners. To get around this challenge, our experts have designed a DevOps tools "Radar", which helps engineer.

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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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Cache Busting In React JS

InnovationM

Browser Caching:- When the site is loaded on the web browser, the browser caches some resources like- images, JS, CSS locally and when a user visits the site next time browser serves the file from the local cache. Since we do not have control on the user’s browser it is really hard to clear cache from the browser. If we are webpack or other header caching tools it becomes easier to manage.

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Using the Fully Managed MongoDB Atlas Connector in a Secure Environment

Confluent

Since the MongoDB Atlas source and sink became available in Confluent Cloud, we’ve received many questions around how to set up these connectors in a secure environment. By default, MongoDB […].

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Logging As a Last Resort

Dzone - DevOps

Motivation. In software development one often finds themselves investigating issues. Depending on the type of the application, various sources of informations can be available: screenshots. verbal description of the problem. metrics. logs (application, framework, container, application server, OS,). thread and heap dumps. In an ideal world, the exact inputs that caused an issue and the code that failed would be immediately available.

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How Our Paths Brought Us to Data and Netflix

Netflix Tech

Part of our series on who works in Analytics at Netflix?—?and what the role entails by Julie Beckley & Chris Pham This Q&A provides insights into the diverse set of skills, projects, and culture within Data Science and Engineering (DSE) at Netflix through the eyes of two team members: Chris Pham and Julie Beckley. Photo from a team curling offsite?

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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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From Distributed to Virtual PI Planning: How We Successfully Adapted Our Approach

Gorilla Logic

Long before most of us shifted, almost overnight, to a full-time, work-from-home model, our Gorillas have been successfully running distributed PI Planning with our clients (you can read about our lessons learned about PI Planning here and here ). Our most recent PI Planning experience embraced a fully virtual approach and, with the right tools and comprehensive preparation, resulted in a highly successful meeting that exceeded expectations.

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Covid-19 Accelerates The Need for Retail, Manufacturing Supply Chains To Adapt – Part 2

Cloudera

Supply chain redesign has become an area of critical focus as businesses try to ensure supply chains aren’t overly reliant on any one constituent part. . In Part One of our round-table discussion with Michael Ger, Managing Director of Manufacturing and Automotive, and Brent Biddulph, Global Managing Director, Retail and Consumer Goods at Cloudera they talked about the direct impact of COVID 19 on the retail and manufacturing sectors with Vijay Raja, Director of Industry & Solutions Marketing

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What is the State of Business Agility Today?

Accenture

The 2020 Business Agility Report was just released publicly yesterday (September 17, 2020) and for the third straight year, the annual report reveals where organizations are in their journey to becoming more Agile businesses. The 2020 Business Agility Report examines data from 359 organizations, spanning 28 industries and 53 countries. What is of particular interest for us is that this year’s survey responses were collected in the time period preceding and through the first few months of the COV

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Four short links: 18 Sep 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

CS349 – Contemporary Issues in Computer Science — This class examines ethical frameworks, modern ethical concerns related to computer science and technology, and clear oral and written communication. Topics we will explore include policy vacuums created by new technology, copyright and patent, software bugs and liability, freedom of speech, privacy, security, employment and job markets, warfare and state-building, wealth discrepancy and consumerism, environmental impact, and changing

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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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Big Data 101: An Introduction to Data Query Engines

Perficient

Big Data is one of the most valuable commodities in business today, but only if organizations have the power to analyze it and make it work for them. The term "Big Data" represents a massive amount of structured and unstructured data from several dif.

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Online Learning Will Take Over Education

KitelyTech

COVID-19 has made it clear to many people why online learning is one of the best things to happen to education in the last 100 years. However, it is just one of the most recent incidents to make it clear how valuable online learning can be. The option has been available for more than a decade, although most people don’t take advantage of it until now.

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Why Exploratory Testing is Essential and How to Get it Done

Perficient

Automation may be the most efficient way to execute a test case, but companies will often need to consider unknowns during the testing process, which requires an ability to perform exploratory testing. Exploratory testing is a manual process used to.

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The Secureworks Advantage: Our Foundation

SecureWorks

The Secureworks Advantage: Our Foundation A blog by Steve Fulton, Chief Product Officer, Secureworks A blog by Steve Fulton, Chief Product Officer, Secureworks.

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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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DevOps Tools Radar: Choosing and Classifying the Best Tools for a Project

Perficient

Tools are a crucial element of the DevOps process, but the sheer quantity of tools out there can be pretty overwhelming for new DevOps practitioners.To get around this challenge, our experts have designed a DevOps tools "Radar", which helps engineers.

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Sponsored Post: IP2Location, Ipdata, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Triplebyte, Stream, Fauna

High Scalability

Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. They break down interview prep into fundamental building blocks. Try out their platform. T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart.

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Big Data 101: An Introduction to Data Query Engines

Perficient

Big Data is one of the most valuable commodities in business today, but only if organizations have the power to analyze it and make it work for them.The term "Big Data" represents a massive amount of structured and unstructured data from several diff.