DevOps.com
DECEMBER 6, 2018
How matrix management can help teams work effectively regardless of skills We want teams to share a common purpose. They need a wide set of skills. If we lead by purpose, then we can’t lead by skill, so how are people going to be evaluated on their professional competence? How will they grow? Matrix management. […]. The post DevOps as Matrix Management appeared first on DevOps.com.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Get a basic understanding of distributed systems and then go deeper with recommended resources. The technology landscape has evolved into an always-on environment of mobile, social, and cloud applications where programs can be accessed and used across a multitude of devices. These always-on and always-available expectations are handled by distributed systems, which manage the inevitable fluctuations and failures of complex computing behind the scenes.
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Hacker Earth Developers Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Did you know that women seeking leadership roles often report a lack of good mentors as an obstacle to their career growth. We recently ran a survey for women technologists and almost 47% of the respondents claimed that they had no tech mentors or role models to look up to. With a growing demand for technologists worldwide, organizations have a need now, more than ever, to create workplaces which support and uplift women in technology.
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Power Corrupts, But Does It Have to Corrupt You? It was a heartfelt question. A young manager approached us after a Winning Well workshop and asked, “I’m not sure I want to be a leader. I keep seeing people get promoted – they […]. The post Power Corrupts – How to Avoid Losing Your Leadership Soul appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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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.
Flexagon
DECEMBER 6, 2018
The benefits of bringing DevOps tools into your IT Organization are many and well documented. Regardless of the technologies in play, continuous delivery and release automation help teams deliver higher quality software faster, and with less cost and risk by reducing or eliminating manual and scripted processes, and adding repeatability and consistency.
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DevOps.com
DECEMBER 6, 2018
It’s amazing how many applications behave as if the network is always available, bandwidth is infinite and latency is zero. While optimistic, this approach to applications is ultimately rooted in fantasy. As it stands, there is a major proficiency gap between application developers and the networks in which they operate—but this can’t continue as our […].
Toptal
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Keeping your Android codebase maintainable as your codebase grows can be a challenge. In this article, Toptal Freelance Android Developer Abhishek Tyagi shows how to combine MVVM with Clean Architecture—the latter as described by Robert C. Martin—to write decoupled, testable, and maintainable code.
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 6, 2018
It seems every organization is chasing digital transformation. Some companies are succeeding, while some are wallowing a bit, trying to figure out how to do it. Box is a company that is both successfully navigating digital transformation and being a catalyst for digital transformation at other organizations. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Paul […].
Toptal
DECEMBER 6, 2018
With today’s rapid pace of technological progress, organizational change is perhaps more necessary than it ever has been. But change is hard. Countless studies show that more often than not, corporations fail to implement change successfully, losing money, time, and employee morale in the process. Based on his 20+ years of international finance experience across a range of industries, and over a decade of experience as a CFO, Toptal Finance Expert Edwin Petersen outlines his thoughts on why chan
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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
TechBeacon
DECEMBER 6, 2018
If you're a tester and you think you need to get up to speed on coding to become a test automation engineer, you're on the right track. But don't just learn to code. Instead, start by learning about source control, a methodology for tracking and managing changes to your code.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
DECEMBER 6, 2018
When it comes to automation of existing tasks and workflows, you need not adopt an “all or nothing” attitude. In this post, I share slides and notes from a keynote Roger Chen and I gave at the Artificial Intelligence conference in London in October 2018. We presented an overview of the state of automation technologies: we tried to highlight the state of the key building block technologies and we described how these tools might evolve in the near future.
TechBeacon
DECEMBER 6, 2018
The Kubernetes project has disclosed a super-critical security bug that’s in every supported version (and probably loads of unsupported ones, too).
Dell EMC
DECEMBER 6, 2018
To prepare students for a constantly changing, connected world, higher education is creating more personalized and collaborative learning environments. Colleges and universities are in the middle of a significant shift in educational models, delivering both unique learning models and student campus experiences through digital transformation. Students are increasingly taking advantage of technology on demand to meet their own learning needs and chart their own path to workforce readiness.
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.
Aqua Security
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Earlier this week, a severe vulnerability in Kubernetes ( CVE-2018-1002105) was disclosed that allows an unauthenticated user to perform privilege escalation and gain full admin privileges on a cluster. The CVE was given the high severity score of 9.8 (out of 10) and it affects all Kubernetes versions from 1.0 onwards, but fixes are available for recent versions.
Dell EMC
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Small and medium businesses know that the road to success is filled with distractions and roadblocks. According to IDC, the three major IT priorities for small and medium businesses are improving efficiency, improving revenue growth, and reducing expenses.1 Most small to medium businesses don’t have dedicated IT personnel on hand to tackle these priorities.
Dell EMC
DECEMBER 6, 2018
? The magic number 3 works its ways to bring us the third episode of Bakers Half Dozen. Matt takes the time to answer: What’s faster…the speed of light or edge computing? What will the new capabilities of 5G unlock and how will they raise the bar for customer expectations? Could Jet Li’s karate kicks become digitized? If you’ve got questions about this episode, or a question you’d like Matt to answer in the next episode, comment below or tweet @mattwbaker using #BakersHalfDozen.
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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.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
DECEMBER 6, 2018
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Alex Wong on building human-in-the-loop automation solutions for enterprise machine learning. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Alex Wong , associate professor at the University of Waterloo, and co-founder of DarwinAI , a startup that uses AI to address foundational challenges with deep learning in the enterprise.
Trigent
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) managers have their jobs cut out for them. The ground below their feet is shifting and the seismic waves are unsettling the IT function, as they have known it. Today IT infrastructure is intrinsically tied to business value and outcome. It is no more the backbone of an organization; it is the central nervous system that controls how far and how soon a business can push geographical and other boundaries.
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Instana Automatically Correlates OpenSource Traces with Built-in AutoTrace™ Solution and Provides Deeper Analysis with Trace Analyzer San Mateo, CA and Solingen, Germany – December 6, 2018 – Instana, the first monitoring solution to fully automate all aspects of application performance monitoring (APM), today announced the release of new capability to seamlessly ingest tracing data from […].
Honeycomb
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Happy December! Back in October, we cohosted a SPOOKY HALLOWEEN meetup with our pals at Launch Darkly about testing in production. Here’s a review of the talks we saw! My biggest takeaway from Paul Biggar ‘s talk, “The Time Our Provider Screwed Us”, was how his team conceptualized their incident response. When a big incident strikes, if you haven’t been in a situation of that magnitude before, it can be easy to panic and not know what to do first.
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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.
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 6, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY – December 6, 2018 — Venafi, the leading provider of machine identity protection, and DigiCert, the world’s leading provider of TLS/SSL, IoT and other PKI solutions, today announced a new, deeper integration that simplifies and automates complex machine identity programs for the world’s most demanding, security-conscious organizations.
Rapid BI
DECEMBER 6, 2018
This morning I received the following request: Hi Mike, I am working on designing an e-learning course ware for the managers, to help them understand the company’s rating scale which we use for performance evaluation. we have five scales for performance and appraisal. the problem is most of the managers can’t differentiate between the 1st […].
Loom Systems
DECEMBER 6, 2018
AIOps, a term coined by Gartner referring to Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations, describes quite clearly the use and ongoing absorption of Artificial Intelligence in day-to-day IT Operations, lightening the workload by easing and automating manual tasks such as monitoring, parsing, etc. thus assisting IT teams to attend to higher level IT issues.
Symantec
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Security field sees major boon coming thanks to advances in AI, machine learning, and advanced behavioral analytics
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“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.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Public Domain, Optimistic Sci-Fi, C64 Defrag, and Quantum Computing. Re-Opening of the Public Domain (Creative Commons) -- after years of legal extension of copyright terms, 2019 will be the first year in which new materials fall into the American public domain, and Creative Commons is throwing a bash at the Internet Archive. Better Worlds (The Verge) -- starting on January 14th, we’ll be publishing Better Worlds: 10 original fiction stories, five animated adaptations, and five audio adaptations
The Daily WTF
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Tokyo readers, it's been quite a while since our last Tokyo/TDWTF nomihoudai. It's always a fun time, and we've got a good group of regulars now. Here's a pic of a group of us from a past meetup: If you're unaware, nomihoudai is an easy way for a group of folks to get as much food and drink from the menu as they'd like for a set price over a set duration, without fussing over details like who ordered what and how many.
Samanage
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Walking the Line When Dealing With Customer Dissatisfaction. As anyone who’s ever worked more than a couple of days in a customer-facing position can tell you, there is no one right way to go about handling customer complaints, but there are definitely a whole host of wrong ways to go about it. In the end, each customer is different and every scenario your team comes across when handling customer complaints may require a nuanced response.
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