Fri.Jan 10, 2020

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Is COBOL Here to Stay? Five Signs IT is Ready to Modernize

DevOps.com

With increased demands and challenges around compliance and regulations, plus growing expectations for IT to provide more value-added services, companies are looking for more flexible and collaborative options. Interestingly though, while some IT departments have updated legacy systems, COBOL code has continued to be a mainstay. In fact, COBOL just turned 60 and many are […].

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Productivity hacks for testers: 4 ways to get more done

TechBeacon

Ever wonder how some people achieve so much in their lives while others accomplish only a fraction, even though we're all given the same amount of time in which to work?

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A Brief History of Containers: From the 1970s to 2019

Aqua Security

When we first published this blog post in 2017, the technology landscape for containers was quite different than it is today. Over the past two years, we have seen significant changes take place that affected, and continue to affect how Containers are adopted. As we enter the new decade, we want to recap the changes and developments that we saw and offer our view of where we believe Containers are heading to in 2020.

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Data Science Fails: The Transparency Sweet Spot

DataRobot

Does your organization apply appropriate human resources governance when hiring staff? Large enterprises tend to follow the same basic processes for hiring human staff. First, hiring managers write a job description, including the tasks the position requires and the skills and attributes of a suitable candidate. Job vacancies are posted, sometimes recruiters are also used, and people submit their resumes for consideration.

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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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When the Job Outgrows Your Employee

Let's Grow Leaders

You’ve got an employee who does great work, but their role is changing. It will ask for new and different skills from them. You’re not sure they’ll be able to succeed. You’re a caring, compassionate leader who’s also committed to achieving […]. The post When the Job Outgrows Your Employee appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to Improve Your Nonprofit's Digital Content in 2020

TechSoup

Think about how the world online encounters your nonprofit. Do you have a website? Does your website have a blog? Are you active on social media? Do you make videos? Do you fundraise online? Your digital presence is defined by factors like these. And in order to properly share your organization with the world in 2020, you need to be thinking carefully about digital content.

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10 Things to Remember Before You Say Yes to Automation Testing

Dzone - DevOps

Find out what you need to know before implementing automated testing. Testing a software or an application is as important as the work done by the developers to create that software. Sometimes not given much importance, software testing can save a company from unnecessary embarrassment and monetary loss. Identifying bugs and security flaws in an application before it is released to the public will act as a saving grace for the company.

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Top 25 Web Development Companies In Dubai UAE

Xicom

Did you ever ask any experienced business owner how was their experience with a web development company for their website development? You are probably to get an angry look or a revert like “Which version”? Experimenting with your first project can be a perplexing preposition without succinct diligence due to the selection of the right web development companies in Dubai.

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Struggling With Toolchain Sprawl? You're not Alone

Dzone - DevOps

With more and more organizations focusing on DevOps, it’s not surprising to see the number of toolchains — and the complexity of those toolchains — multiply. Afterall, automated testing for function, security, and deliverability is at the core of improving a team’s DevOps. But, at what point are more tools and toolchains creating more distracting work for your team than they save?

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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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Externalize Property File for Traditional War Deployment in Spring Boot

InnovationM

Sometimes we have to configure property files from outside of classpath so that anyone can access this file without looking into application. Spring boot provides many ways to configure this but most of them are used only if we read the property file from classpath if we are going to read from file system then it will not accessible and will get some error so now we are going to see how to.

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Just look at the Data: Roger Craig Should be in the Hall of Fame

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

Reading Time: 5 mins 30 sec. Even the most well-trained eyes of lifelong talent scouts cannot equal the value of fact-based evidence and data-driven decisions. That’s why we’re amazed that former San Francisco 49ers running back Roger Craig is not yet enshrined in Canton, Ohio’s Pro Football Hall of Fame. No player not yet inducted enabled their team to succeed more so than Craig.

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Breathe New Life into Your Devices: Prepare for Windows 7 End of Life

Datavail

Windows 7 has had a great run, outliving its expected lifetime by many years. It’s 10 years old and millions of people all over the world are still using it. But, that situation needs to change by January 14, 2020, the date Microsoft has targeted for the Windows 7 End of Life. There are critical problems that will arise if you continue to use Windows 7 past its End of Life, so you need to prepare now.

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[Webinars] DevSecOps best practices, AppSec tools, and the year in open source

Synopsys

Learn more about DevSecOps best practices, application security tools and features, and key legal developments related to open source in 2019. The post [Webinars] DevSecOps best practices, AppSec tools, and the year in open source appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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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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Instrumenting Lambda with Traces: A Complete Example in Python

Honeycomb

We’re big fans of AWS Lambda at Honeycomb. As you may have read , we recently made some major improvements to our storage engine by leveraging Lambda to process more data in less time. Making a change to a complex system like our storage engine is daunting, but can be made less so with good instrumentation and tracing. For this project, that meant getting instrumentation out of Lambda and into Honeycomb.

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Article: Kubernetes Security: The State of the Union - a Virtual Panel

InfoQ Culture Methods

InfoQ caught up with experts Scott Coulton, Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, Liz Rice, VP of Open Source engineering at Aqua Security, Gareth Rushgrove, Director of Product Management at Snyk, Maya Kaczorowski, Product Manager for Security and Privacy at Google Cloud and Kirsten Newcomer, Senior Principal Product Manager at Redhat about the state of the union of Kubernetes security.

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Collaboration and Notqmail with Amitai Schleier

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Episode 35. On this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Amitai Schleier, discuss a new project Amitai is working on regarding reviving an old, but useful, open-source program called qmail. Strategy and collaboration on this project as well as how to manage a project of this nature are discussed. Show Notes. The ‘old’ project is called notqmail. @1:10.

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Retailers and the Rule of Three

Beyond B2B

You all know this phrase: “Friends, Romans, Countrymen…” Or this one: “Location, location, location.”.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Planbox Conducts State of Corporate Innovation Survey

Planbox

Participate in the State of Corporate Innovation Survey. MONTREAL, QC, January 10, 2020 — Planbox, a pioneering provider of cloud-based AI-powered agile innovation management solutions, today announced it is conducting a survey on the State of Corporate Innovation to understand the state of innovation program maturity across a number of industries in 2019.

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DXC Technology highlighting latest retail capabilities during NRF 2020

DXC

Reports of the retail industry’s imminent demise are widespread, not to mention incorrect. There’s no question the retail industry is transforming: New technology, evolving consumer behavior and disruptive new innovators are redefining the retail experience in new and exciting ways. But statistics gathered by the National Retail Federation show that retail isn’t on the decline. […].

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3 Reasons to Use a Substitute Management Mobile App

PowerSchool

See what’s new with the Unified Talent Winter Release 2020 for SmartFind Express. With teacher absenteeism rising and substitute pools shrinking, school districts need to become more adept at connecting with and engaging with qualified substitutes. Today, on average, only 85% of teacher absences get filled with a qualified substitute 2. A strong, engaged substitute pool means your fill rates are likely to be higher and student learning never stops.

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Understanding Azure Databricks and resource groups

DXC

Azure Databricks, an Apache Spark-based analytics platform optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud, is a highly effective open-source tool, but it automatically creates resource groups and workspaces and protects them with a system-level lock, all of which can be confusing and frustrating unless you understand how and why. The Databricks platform provides an interactive workspace […].

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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The Rest-Assured Way to Overcome RPA Challenges

OTS Solutions

The Rest-Assured Way To Overcome (Robotic Process Automation) RPA Challenges. Robotic process automation (RPA) is a way to automate business processes. It’s a technology that utilizes RPA tools to carry out actions such as data modification, transaction processing, and computer communications, just to name a few. In some cases, to create RPA solutions, robots are used to record the steps of a process and translate the application.

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Why is Education So Important?

Strategy Driven

We are told throughout our lives that education is important. We are told that it is something we need to take seriously, and something we need to think carefully about. It is a privilege to be able to even have an education, so we should be glad about the one we have. Of course, at a young age when we have to go to school every day, we might not necessarily agree with all of this.

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NEXT 2020 Chicago Call for Content is Now Live!

Nutanix

If you’ve ever been to Nutanix’s.NEXT conference, then you know it’s the place to be for all things enterprise cloud.

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3 Changes To Implement In Your Business This Year

Strategy Driven

It is that time of year when we set new goals, revisit our expectations and make fresh plans for our businesses. You have probably already been thinking about revisions that you might need to make and pinpointing your strengths in a bid to build on them and further develop them. We are keen to help you to have a successful start to the year, which is why today we are sharing with you 3 changes to implement in your business this year.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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NEXT 2020 Chicago Call for Content is Now Live!

Nutanix

If you’ve ever been to Nutanix’s.NEXT conference, then you know it’s the place to be for all things enterprise cloud.

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Tips For Introducing Automation To Your Business

Strategy Driven

Automation is all over the place in business these days. From things like programming software to help you to complete different tasks that are based on some conditions, you can really increase the speed and efficiency of things. It can massively increase the accuracy of the processes, especially for things like marketing and recruiting. That will then free up some time so you can better focus on some bigger, and more important work to boost and grow the business.

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NEXT 2020 Chicago Call for Content is Now Live!

Nutanix

If you’ve ever been to Nutanix’s.NEXT conference, then you know it’s the place to be for all things enterprise cloud.