Mon.Feb 25, 2019

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Can DevSecOps Prevent a Zombie Apocalypse?

DevOps.com

Making consistent progress within any DevSecOps initiative often can be an overwhelming undertaking. Developers tend to outnumber operations dramatically, with little to no security accountability. This leaves DevSecOps doomed to work with the same network security stack that was originally designed decades ago for on-premises environments. Still, the expectation is to support shrinking deployment cycles […].

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How to Stop Bad Releases From Being Deployed to Production with OverOps

OverOps

Following on our latest launch of OverOps Reliability Dashboards, it’s time to take a closer look at the dashboards themselves and see what added value they can bring to DevOps/SRE, QA and dev teams. OverOps’ new Reliability Dashboards give visibility across pre-production and production environments. These capabilities help developers, DevOps and QA teams identify and prioritize anomalies before a release, which can stop you from promoting bad code.

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Top Trends in DevOps for 2019

DevOps.com

DevOps is poised for healthy growth over the next several years, with analysts large and small weighing in with forecasts. For instance, IDC predicts the worldwide DevOps software market will reach $8 billion by 2022, up from $3.9 billion in 2017. Similarly, Grand View Research estimates the global DevOps market will hit $12.85 billion by […].

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How AI Enabled Chatbots Can Help Your Business

CTOvision

AI enabled chatbots are rapidly becoming part of our every day lives. They are being adopted by many different industries and being used on the front line of customer engagement. Chatbots can be integrated into customer support service teams to answer common or basic questions. They can also suggest products or services based on customer preferences […].

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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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5 Things Companies Can Do Now to Make the Workplace More Women-Friendly

Women on Business

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Why MITRE ATT&CK Matters

Symantec

This collaborative framework offers defenders a common language to talk about tactics and techniques to foil Advanced Persistent Threats

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Airline seats now equipped with cameras

CTOvision

The traveling public should pay attention to this one. Is this a violation of your privacy? Not in any legal sense, you are pretty much in a public place when on commercial air. But still it could be so creepy and such a violation of what we believe should be a private time that it […].

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Facial recognition can drive business goals, but where do we draw the line?

Enterprise.nxt

Some people worry that facial recognition technology undermines privacy, but there is a fundamental difference between using the technology to monitor shopping habits and using it to save lives.

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Why Do I Need Blockchain If I Have A Database?

CTOvision

Read Chris Murphy’s article about how to use blockchain technology to unleash the true power of a database on Forbes : Because there’s so much excitement about the potential of the blockchain, there’s a risk that project planners will start throwing this emerging technology at problems that don’t fit. This article is meant to help you […].

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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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Design Of A Modern Cache—Part Deux

High Scalability

This is a guest post by Benjamin Manes , who did engineery things for Google and is now doing engineery things as CTO of Vector. The previous article described the caching algorithms used by Caffeine , in particular the eviction and concurrency models. Since then we’ve made improvements to the eviction algorithm and explored a new approach towards expiration.

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Microsoft shrinks Kinect into a $399 cloud-powered PC peripheral

CTOvision

Kinect originally debuted as an Xbox 360 accessory for motion sensing so you could control games with your hands or body. While it was a successful console accessory initially, its bundling and lack of games with the Xbox One forced Microsoft to rethink its entire approach to Kinect. Microsoft is now packaging up all of […].

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Why small habits make a big difference

Lead on Purpose

The word ‘habit’ generates different thoughts depending on your situation. For some it’s that thing they are addicted to. For others it brings to mind the things they’re not doing and invokes anxiety.

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IoT And The New Digital Pollution

CTOvision

Read why Sam Curry says that the surge in the Internet of Things products could lead to digital pollution on Forbes : We have many forms of pollution that plague Humanity and our world. From noise pollution where we can’t escape the sounds of the Anthropocene to water pollution choking up our rivers, lakes, and oceans. […].

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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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How to plan and create a structured approach to coaching?

Agile42

Observational Coaching Starting out as a new agile coach is difficult. Where do you go? How do you start? Learn to leverage a structured approach to coaching that defines a way to prepare and execute coaching activities. This starts with making observations and identifying what behavioural goals you would like the coachee(s) to achieve. As coaches, our opinions and unconscious biases can mislead or misdirect those we are coaching.

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microSD Express unlocks hyper-fast data speeds for mobile devices

CTOvision

The SD Association has unveiled microSD Express, a new format that will bring speeds of up to 985 Mb/s to the tiny memory cards used in smartphones and other devices. Like SD Express, it exploits the NVMe 1.3 and PCIe 3.1 interfaces used in PCs to power high-speed SSDs. The tech is incorporated into the […].

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How Conversational Search is Redefining Digital Interactions

Algolia

The next revolution will be powered by the most natural form of human interaction: voice. Already, 32% of people are searching by voice daily. And there’s hardly an industry where voice search doesn’t add to the user experience. E-commerce alone expects $40 billion voice purchases in the U.S. and U.K., with other industries sure to follow. Using only their voice, a shopper can be perusing your digital storefront to find exactly the pair of pants they’ve been looking for.

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UI Design Best Practices for Better Scannability

Toptal

Scannability is often an overlooked usability factor, but it is one of the most impactful. These UI design tips make it easy for designers to convert a brief visitor to a long-lasting user.

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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 Doctorate to Dojo: Redefining Healthcare Through Code

Coding Dojo

Dr. Kwame Johnson , has all the education and knowledge to pursue a career as a neurosurgeon. Instead, he’s chosen … Read more >>. The post From Doctorate to Dojo: Redefining Healthcare Through Code appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Enter to Win Free IT Team Training | Birthday Invitation

Linux Academy

You’re invited to join us in celebrating our 7th birthday and we’re giving YOU the gifts! It’s your chance to win a team account with 7 free seats,* a limited edition sticker, and claim 30 free gems! *Winner of the team account will receive one year of free membership for a team account, which must be used for a company-affiliated account for new members only (cannot be applied as a discount for existing team members).

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The first unintended consequences of GDPR

Enterprise.nxt

While the idea behind GDPR is clear, the results of adhering to the new privacy policies are not. Venture capital funding, ad technology, digital marketing, and compliance software and services businesses are experiencing the first wave of changes.

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Patch Management | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

In the last post, we discussed vulnerability scanning, which will lead directly to patching most of the time. When we think of patching, we most often think of patching our servers and workstations operating systems, but we can’t stop there. What do you mean we can’t stop there? What else is there? Well, there’s all of your network devices, IoT devices, hypervisors, and let’s not forget about all of those wonderful applications!

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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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3 cornerstones of QA outsourcing

TechBeacon

All companies—not just tech firms—have software to test. But many enterprises consider the costs of employing an appropriate in-house QA and testing team to be extravagant.

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CodeSOD: The Serial Killer

The Daily WTF

Debugging code on embedded devices introduces additional challenges to tracking down what's going wrong, especially as in many cases, you can't even rely on any sort of println debugging. I've worked with a few devices which my only debugging output is 3 RGB LEDs. Serial devices, then, can be a godsend. For short runs, you can often just wire pin-to-pin, but for longer connections, you need some sort of serial transceiver chip.

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Migrating to Windows 10 in Less Than 5 Weeks

Trigent

CIOs mostly worry about the scale and complexities involved in migrating to Windows 10. Some even say that this will be one of most tiring, expensive and time-sensitive IT project for organizations. To ensure that migration does not cause an enterprise-size migraine would require IT to strike a balance between speed in migration and least disruption to operations.

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Ransomware Recovery and Cyber-Resilience: Lessons from the Front Lines

Dell EMC

Malicious cyberattacks are commonplace within our constantly transforming IT world. It should be well known by now that even with an all-encompassing strategy complete with best-in-class breach detection and prevention and data security technology, the likelihood of a successful cyberattack is still possible. The urgent question IT Directors and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are now asking their teams is, “How cyber-resilient is my organization?”.

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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 Avoid Stakeholder Gridlock on Your Software Project

Atomic Spin

Have you ever been to a meeting that involved a dozen or more people, that constantly went too far into the weeds, that couldn’t come to a consensus, and that left you feeling like nothing was accomplished? It was horrible, right? You probably never want to have that experience again. This kind of frustrating situation can quickly become the theme of a software project when too many stakeholders are involved and nobody has clear decision-making power.

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Easy, Economical Cloud DR to AWS with RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

Dell EMC

The most recent RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines v5.2.1 release, adds the capability to protect VMs directly to AWS S3 object storage, using proprietary snap-based replication, with RPO that can be measure in minutes. This blog recaps the capabilities that Cloud DR 18.4 unlocks for Recover Point for Virtual Machines. RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines works with Cloud DR to protect your VMs by replicating them to the AWS cloud.

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Connecting Across Perceived Boundaries

Symantec

Symantec CIO Sheila Jordan shares how she and her friends recognized a lack of connection with San Francisco's homeless, and how the importance of connecting within our personal and professional lives leads to removing boundaries.

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