Wed.Apr 29, 2020

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Branching Patterns: Continuous Integration

Martin Fowler

Continuous Integration: Developers do mainline integration as soon as they have a healthy commit they can share, usually less than a day's work. moreā€¦.

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Automating to Prevent Security Misconfigurations During and After a Crisis

Firemon

Most security breaches are the result of misconfigurations through human error , not flaws in technologyā€”and thatā€™s on a normal day. When a crisis creates a profound change in enterprise network topology, the impact of security misconfiguration is more keenly felt without automation. Change has always been the nemesis of network security. The Covid-19 pandemic represents a rapid change thatā€™s led to an unprecedented shift to remote work, a spike in cyber-attacks, and a significant uptick in infr

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Phishers target oil and gas industry amid Covid-19 downturn

The Parallax

The oil-and-gas industry has been taking a beating as severe as any other hit hard by the Covid-19 shutdown. Tanker ships loaded with crude idle in the ocean , traders struggle to store what has already been pumped , and prices per barrel have plummeted into negative sums. With all that going on, the industry is ripe for hackers to exploit. In some cases, that’s already happening, says Tom Murphy, chief technology officer at network security provider Nuspire.

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IngenierĆ­a de Software en tiempos de DevOps

Agile Alliance

Esta semana tuve el gran placer de entrevistar a Nico Paez quien es un profesor universitario, consultor y mentor tĆ©cnico en DevOps. Nico es argentino y estuvo entre el grupo de pioneros que iniciĆ³ el movimiento Agil en su paĆ­s hace ya mĆ”s de una dĆ©cada. Nico divide su tiempo entre enseƱar en la universidad … Continued.

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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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Why You Canā€™t Have DevOps Without Test Automation

DevOps.com

The rapid adoption of digital technologies by enterprises to stay nimble, competitive and quality-driven has given digital transformation wide currency. The process facilitates decision-making and allows organizations to innovate, accelerate the time to market and be responsive to customer needs. The world of today is for those enterprises that can quickly turn an idea into […].

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Why the Public Versus Private Blockchain Debate Is the Wrong Conversation

DevOps.com

When blockchain burst onto the scene in 2009/2010, we watched as Bitcoin forever disrupted our monetary system. As the technology hits critical massā€”a recent Deloitte survey showed a 2000% increase in interest in blockchain since its inceptionā€”the revolution has forked into two sides. There are the purists who want to only keep blockchains public, and […].

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Four Ways To Harness Social Media For Crisis Management

CEO Insider

Whether one of your employees gets wrapped up in a scandal or you have a disgruntled customer ranting about you online, knowing how to communicate with the public during a crisis is imperative and can ensure the survival of your business. And with more than 2.81 billion people around the world using social media, Facebook, […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Four Ways To Harness Social Media For Crisis Management are those of the author Blair Kaplan Venables

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Performance reality check: 4 ways to keep up with unexpected surges

TechBeacon

From online retail to finance, and from streaming entertainment to healthcare providers and agencies, all manner of businesses and government entities have seen their web traffic and app activity explode. COVID-19 has changed everything for many organizations, and it did so overnight, with no time to prepare.

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DevOps Your Skill

Dzone - DevOps

"DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users." - Donovan Brown, Microsoft. DevOps is a "culture", which has a set of practices that combine software development (Dev) and information-technology operations (Ops), which aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality.

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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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What Is Progressive Delivery All About?

LaunchDarkly

The art of moving fast but with control. Progressive Delivery is a new software development lifecycle that builds upon the core tenets of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). Organizations that employ Progressive Delivery ship code faster, reduce risk, and continuously improve the customer experience. Some may understandably read this and say, ā€œbut wait, weā€™re not even doing CI/CD; now we have to adopt yet another methodology?ā€.

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A Conversation with Leading Expert on The Use of Deception Technologies in Cybersecurity Tony Cole

CTOvision

In this OODAcast, OODA CTO Bob Gourley was joined by Tony Cole of Attivo Networks in an interactive discussion on the state of cybersecurity, with a focus on how deception technologies can be leveraged by organizations of all sizes to mitigate risks. Tony is an icon in the cybersecurity community. He is known both as […].

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Training and Certifications: Get It, Donā€™t Sweat It

DevOps.com

At my company, weā€™re pretty big on continuous learning. Itā€™s not so much which corner of tech you are learning about, as that you are expanding your professional horizons. Knowing that many of you are the same way, I thought Iā€™d offer some insight into the state of online education and online certification in the […]. The post Training and Certifications: Get It, Donā€™t Sweat It appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Planning RMI 11.2: ā€œCould not find the service start classā€ SOLUTION

Datavail

I spent more time troubleshooting this than I care to admit. Rather than walking you through the things I tried, let’s cut to the chase! Symptom Observed: You start the “Oracle Hyperion RMI Registry” service in the Control Panel or via a script. The service shows it is running and no logfiles reveal an up/down status for it. Meanwhile, your classic Planning batch scripts don’t work like they used to… Digging deeper with traditional port checking tools, we see the RM

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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. Itā€™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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Solving the Mystery of Lightning

Apps Associates

Many Salesforce users have heard about the Lightning platform, and are possibly using it, however, they donā€™t understand exactly what it is. For most people, there is a mystery surrounding Lightning. Is Lightning a new User Interface? Is it a new way to build applications? Does it work with Salesforce Classic? The short answer to … Continue reading "Solving the Mystery of Lightning".

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How to Outsource DevOps the Right Way

Dzone - DevOps

Before we start discussing how to go about outsourcing DevOps and upgrade your organizational practices, I want to make sure that we are all on the same footing and understand DevOps in the same way. DevOps relates to the practices and approaches of organizing software development and operational processes to work in unison that, respectively, results in streamlining the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and continuous delivery.

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IBM announces Elyra AI Toolkit, a set of AI-centric extensions to Jupyter Notebooks

DevOps.com

Elyra AI Toolkit is a new open source project that extends the JupyterLab user interface to simplify the development of data science and AI models. By Luciano Resende Published April 29, 2020 Jupyter Notebooks are now the open standard for data science and artificial intelligence (AI) model development. In keeping with our commitment to open source […].

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Kafka Summit Austin 2020 is Going Virtual

Confluent

As you know, we were looking forward to welcoming the Apache KafkaĀ® community to Austin, TX, for Kafka Summit in August. Meeting together in person is always the best way […].

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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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All Models Are Wrong (But Some Are Useful)

Teradata

Lots of smart people have created many predictive analytics models to help us manage the COVID-19 pandemic. But many of these models use different inputs, different heuristics, and come to different conclusions.

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Why decades-old applications still matter

Beyond B2B

A good workman never blames his tools for a bad job; so when the half-century old programming language COBOL got some unwarranted press lately, I thought I should look into it.

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Article: The Value and Purpose of a Test Coach

InfoQ Culture Methods

Introducing business-oriented automated testing can involve a huge cultural change. For this we really need a Test Coach role, just like we have agile coaches and scrum masters. In this article we hear from someone living this new role, using Domain Oriented Testing on a daily basis to ensure acceptance tests have full story coverage, and unit tests verify business behavior, not implementation By Matt Stephens.

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The top 10 most binged tech skills courses of this month

Gitprime

These are the most viewed courses, paths and assessments during Pluralsight's #FreeApril and point to which skills new users are most interested in developing.

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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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Augmenting Pipelines with Custom Gates

Flexagon

Do your developers have to manually deploy every time they finish a task? Is manually starting tests when tasks are ready wasting your developers precious time? Do your developers have to do tedious, manual tasks every time something changes in another system? You can solve these problems and more with custom gates! FlexDeploy 5.2.0.3 added. The post Augmenting Pipelines with Custom Gates appeared first on Flexagon.

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6 Tips for Promoting K-12 Student Accountability During Distance Learning

PowerSchool

Student accountability matters more now than ever as K-12 schools and districts move to distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a remote education environment, teachers must rely on studentsā€™ self-motivation to push them to their full potential at the end of a uniquely difficult school year. Motivating students to take responsibility for their learning and achieve their best has always challenged teachers.

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Single Sign-On and Multi Factor Authentication for FlexDeploy

Flexagon

FlexDeploy platform provides easy to configure role-based security model. In my experience, most FlexDeploy customers integrate with corporate directory like Active Directory. This helps eliminate user administration in FlexDeploy. In addition, FlexDeploy customers have also requested support for Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi Factor Authentication (MFA).

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Preparing Leaders To Be Ahead Of The Curve: The Successful 7 Reopening Resources For After The Covid-19 Crisis

CEO Insider

Governor Cuomo told us that we will start to consider reopening NY after May 14th. For some there is a light at the end of the tunnel. For others there is just more darkness. What we learned after 9-11 is that getting back to work is easy for some and challenging for others. Our leaders […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Preparing Leaders To Be Ahead Of The Curve: The Successful 7 Reopening Resources For After The Covid-19 Crisis are those of the author Dr.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

ā€œReimagined: Building Products with Generative AIā€ 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 engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

The typical job description for many engineering manager roles is action-packed. It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent ā€¦ the list goes on. In our work, we deal with both technical and people systems: we support individual engineersā€™ growth; help teams become successful; and make the organization more productive, functional, and innovative.

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Cutting Through the Noise in Marketing Personalization

Dataiku

One of the core use cases for AI in marketing is deep personalization, whether it manifests through website customization, customer purchase journey mapping, collaborative filtering (ā€œcustomers who bought this item also boughtā€), or recommendation engines, to name a few.

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How the Pluralsight community is skilling up during COVID-19

Gitprime

Here are ten of our favorite ways people have been using Pluralsight to stay home and skill up during Free April.

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