Mon.Jun 20, 2022

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Coach your Architects in Agile Architecture!

Xebia

When companies transform towards an agile and DevOps way of working, they sometimes ask how to proceed with architects. Some companies ignore architects in their transformation, some will upskill their architects, and some will make the DevOps teams responsible for the architecture. A core problem we see is that those responsible for the transformation have little experience dealing with architecture in an agile way.

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Building Transparency into AI Projects

Harvard Business Review

As AI becomes ever more embedded in people’s lives, effective communication with stakeholders can define a product’s success — or failure.

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GitHub Bug Allowed Third-party Apps to Gain Elevated Permissions

Aqua Security

We learned about a bug in GitHub that for about five days at the end of February allowed connected GitHub third-party applications to generate new scoped installation tokens with elevated permissions. For example, if you connected the Codecov app to your GitHub account with read-only access to your repositories, during that window it could have created a new token with write access to them.

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Revisiting '13 programming languages for the future'

TechBeacon

Baseball great Yogi Berra famously said that predictions are hard, especially about the future. Seven years ago, my editors asked me to come up with a list of 13 programming languages that would define the future of coding. Now they've asked me to go back and analyze what I got right and what I got wrong.

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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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Not Everything That is Necessary Adds Value

DevOps.com

Since the Lean production method for manufacturing arose in the 1930s, organizations everywhere have been seeking ways to apply it to reduce waste and increase productivity. This model has served thousands of companies well, from manufacturing and product design to software development. Yet, one difficulty that comes up when discussing or applying Lean in software […].

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Open Source Coder Tool Helps Devs Build Cloud Spaces

DevOps.com

Coder today launched an open source project that gives developers and data scientists a way to create cloud workspaces in a matter of minutes to make it easier to build applications and models faster. Currently, Coder provides a cloud application development platform that enables developers to build applications using any editor or integrated development environment […].

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How A Cost Intelligence Mindset Will Help You Survive The Tech Industry Slowdown

CloudZero

In the past couple of months, after nearly a decade of huge returns and steady growth, the tech industry has officially slowed down.

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Run Untrustworthy Data Out of Town

Dell EMC

Dell Technologies Data Confidence Fabric provides an industry-first measurable confidence score, infusing data with trust from edge to core.

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Be Careful Which Bus You Get On: Having a Fulfilling Life and Career

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

If you’re not mindful of the direction your life is headed, you might end up somewhere you’re unhappy with. Be deliberate and intentional about where you’re headed. Answer this set of four questions to get a better sense of your direction. Today’s post is by Donna Stoneham, PhD, author of The Thriver’s Edge ( CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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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 Nonprofits Can Use Technology to Save Time in the Back Office

TechSoup

As your organization balances everything from donor relations to delivering on your mission, staying efficient and organized is critical. Back-office and other administrative duties can feel as if they are getting in the way of bigger-picture activities, but you can't let them fall by the wayside.

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Don’t Let Your Calendar Dictate Your DEI Initiatives

Harvard Business Review

It’s good to honor Juneteenth or Pride month, but how are you showing up the rest of the year?

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Troubleshooting HTTP 502 Bad Gateway in AWS EBS

Dzone - DevOps

The application that we are going to discuss in this post was running on Elastic Beanstalk (EBS) service in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Intermittently this application was throwing an HTTP 502 Bad Gateway error. In this post, let’s discuss how we troubleshoot and resolve this HTTP 502 bad gateway error in the Elastic Beanstalk service. AWS Elastic Beanstalk Architecture.

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Dataiku 11: Connect Your Experts With the Platform for Everyday AI

Dataiku

Current analytics and AI development processes don't scale for many companies because they are too manual, disconnected from business functions, and lack transparency and necessary controls. Analytics leaders now understand that delivering AI and machine learning (ML) at scale will not be achieved by hiring an army of technical experts. Instead, companies will have to create more projects and provide more value with the people and resources they already have.

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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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How to Move from Strategy to Execution

Harvard Business Review

Three steps to put your plan into action.

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CodeSOD: Show Thumbnails?

The Daily WTF

Christopher Walker continues to struggle against ancient PHP applications in the automotive industry. With the point system behind him, there was a whole pile of internal applications for handling information about laws, misconceptions about the law, and other driver services. One, a home-grown CMS , was useful for publishing blog-style content about changes in the law.

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Identifying XML External Entity: How Tenable.io Web Application Scanning Can Help

Tenable

XML External Entity (XXE) flaws present unique mitigation challenges and remain a common attack path. Learn how XXE flaws arise, why some common attack paths are so challenging to mitigate and how Tenable.io Web Application Scanning can help. Modern applications have more and more tendencies to process data from user-supplied inputs, directly or indirectly.

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How cyber criminals are cashing in on crypto

Darktrace

Crypto-mining continues to draw massive profits for cyber attackers, who use malicious botnets like Sysrv to exploit vulnerable organizations. Discover how these botnets work around traditional security tools, and what the upcoming Darktrace Prevent product family can do to harden defenses against them.

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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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Three Reasons You Should Interconnect Your Clouds

Megaport

Having multiple cloud providers alone isn’t enough to future-proof your business. Here’s why your next step should be to interconnect your clouds. A Megaport blog reports: “Gartner estimates the average cost of downtime for a business can be as much as USD$5,600 per minute.” When you’re working in a multicloud environment, this cost only multiplies.

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Driving Innovation with Industry Ecosystems

IDC

Achieving an open, shared approach with partners is not easy: data, applications, operations, and capital (human, assets, and financial) for every organization are disparate of course; business processes are disconnected; and security protocols and systems are not unified. The future of industry ecosystems — an expansion of ecosystem partners that organizations must work with in support of any situation, whether innovation, product or service change, dynamic demand, or unexpected disruption — is

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Three Reasons You Should Interconnect Your Clouds

Megaport

Having multiple cloud providers alone isn’t enough to future-proof your business. Here’s why your next step should be to interconnect your clouds. A Megaport blog reports: “Gartner estimates the average cost of downtime for a business can be as much as USD$5,600 per minute.” When you’re working in a multicloud environment, this cost only multiplies.

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From Data Science to Value: Free Data Science Webinar

Exadel

Data science brings value to every business and industry; statistics and data-driven insights help managers to make the best decisions. At the same time, improper data science implementation and misalignment with the company’s business goals can prevent organizations from seeing all of its benefits. To illustrate how you can make data science work for your company, we’ve collected some case studies that show how it can be done: How does data science add value to a business.

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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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Enhancing the Business Strategy with Data Engineering Solutions

Trigent

Businesses worldwide are realizing the importance of the considerable volume of data they possess and the need to extract value from it and incorporate it into enhancing Customer Experience or simplifying operational processes for improved results. To do this, they are constantly looking to partner with experts who can guide them on what to do with that data.

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What is Zero Trust and What Does it Mean for Digital Security

Radiant Logic

The post What is Zero Trust and What Does it Mean for Digital Security appeared first on Radiant Logic.

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Using Promotional Drinkware to Put Your Business on the Map

Women on Business

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Understanding Identity and Access Management Compliance

Saviynt

4 Reasons Organizations Struggle with IAM Compliance and 5 Ways Automation Can Help The Identity and Access Management (IAM) compliance struggle is real. As organizations add more SaaS applications to streamline their business operations, they often lose visibility over their users’ access within the complex architecture. As your organization moves to the cloud, you need […].

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Top 3 Careers to Pursue with a Doctorate in Business Administration

Women on Business

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How Can You Have A Meaningful Life?

Mills Scofield

Today, I’m honored to host an excerpt from the new book by my friend, Frank Sonneberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life *. Frank’s books are ‘must reads” and “must gives.” You should read his blog and follow him on facebook and instagram. You’ll be glad, and better, because you did! 10 Critical Rules for Living a Happy Life Some people spend their whole life searching for happiness.

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Four tips to better structure Terraform projects

Xebia

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) codifies the provisioning of infrastructure. This way it can take advantage of software engineering best practices to produce faster and consistent deployment of infrastructure. One of the leading IaC software tools is Hashicorp’s Terraform and with the return of Hashiconf to Amsterdam I decided to share my personal recommendations on how to better structure your Terraform projects!

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