Tue.Jul 28, 2020

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Introducing the Agile2020 Experience Reports

Agile Alliance

We were already busy writing and reviewing experience reports when the Agile2020 conference was cancelled in early June. Towards the end of March, we’d selected twenty experience reports (out of 88 submissions). Each report author was then paired with a shepherd who had advocated for their report. Shepherds volunteer their time to give constructive advice … Continued.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The Core Responsibilities of the AI Product Manager. Product Managers are responsible for the successful development, testing, release, and adoption of a product, and for leading the team that implements those milestones. Product managers for AI must satisfy these same responsibilities, tuned for the AI lifecycle. In the first two articles in this series, we suggest that AI Product Managers (AI PMs) are responsible for: Deciding on the core function, audience, and desired use of the AI product E

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Article: How to Get Hired as a Machine Learning Engineer

InfoQ Culture Methods

To become a machine learning engineer, you have to interview. You have to gain relevant skills from books, courses, conferences, and projects. Include technologies, frameworks, and projects on your CV. In an interview, expect that you will be asked technical questions, insight questions, and programming questions. When given a technical task, demonstrate your skills as if you already had the job.

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RackN Transforms Bare-Metal Servers Into a Cloud

DevOps.com

RackN is making available an update to the RackN Digital Rebar Platform that will make it easier to employ tools such as Terraform to configure bare-metal servers. Company CEO Rob Hirschfeld said version 4.4 of the platform adds an application programming interface (API) that enables bare-metal servers to be abstracted into resource groups. IT administrators […].

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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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Essential data types: What you need to know

TechBeacon

Big data is a big market, already valued worldwide at nearly $200 billion and expected to grow to $274 billion by 2022. What's driving this is the growing realization by many medium-size to large businesses that a wealth of insight lies hidden in data that was, until recently, too voluminous to access and make use of.

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MSP Marketing:  3 Channels to Build Your Sales Pipeline

Kaseya

Many managed service providers (MSPs) struggle with getting their marketing strategy in place. This is usually because MSP owners are technologists and who tend to gravitate towards the technical capabilities and features of the services they provide, with limited experience in selling the value of the services. However, for MSPs to scale and generate recurring revenue, reaching the right prospects, turning them into customers and retaining them for longer periods is essential.

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No-Code/Low-Code: Empowering Collaboration

DevOps.com

No-code/low-code will create seamless integration between cloud platforms, tools and utilities Recent developments have created a massive shift to working remotely, which, according to a recent Gartner survey, is not a temporary move. The survey indicates that 74% of CFOs plan to continue some form of permanent remote working. This in turn paves the way […].

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Jenkins Pipeline Groovy Script - Part 1: Creating Gitlab Group

Dzone - DevOps

In this article, I am discussing a simple groovy functionality along with Jenkinsfile pipeline script on how to automatically create a new GitLab group or subgroup under the parent group. In DevOps Continuous Integration(CI) and Continuous Delivery(CD), managing projects in git level is very much important and useful for version control. These projects are organized under a specific groups to have a disciplined structure in order to handle the application deployment well via DevOps.

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Performance Issues: Looking Beyond the Infrastructure

DevOps.com

In most cases today, resolving performance issues will require architecture changes or code refactoring Imagine you’re a software reliability engineer with your service-level objectives clearly laid out on your Grafana dashboard. Suddenly, an alert appears: Your 99th percentile latency is going through the roof! A quick glance at the relevant metrics reveals the culprit: A […].

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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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Best Practices for Java Deployments

Dzone - DevOps

The proper deployment of Java applications can be a cumbersome and tedious process and the risk of failure is never higher than it is the moment after deployment. Errors during/after deployment not only impact IT development and operations of the organization but also your customers. To reach an optimal deployment process many projects and DevOps managers and engineers have adopted best practices to improve the deployment process to mitigate deployment risks.

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How to securely authenticate with SCRAM in Postgres 13

The Citus Data

Making security easy to use is crucial because hard-to-use security is likely to be neglected entirely. SCRAM with channel binding is a variation of password authentication that is almost as easy to use, but much more secure. In basic password authentication, the connecting client simply sends the server the password. Then the server checks that it’s the right one, and allows the client to connect.

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Pypestream Introduces Conversational Ads, Delivering Engaging and Personalized Experiences

DevOps.com

Upending traditional display ads, Conversational Ads move customers through sales and marketing funnels more effectively, creating dynamic, feature-rich interactions July 28, 2020 – NEW YORK – Pypestream, the leading conversational AI platform with all-in-one cloud messaging, announces Conversational Ads, an immersive brand experience driven by in-ad engagements.

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COVID-19 Exposes the Need to Shift to Online Faxing

TechTalk

Recently, we read an article in the New York Times that detailed how the Fax Machine is causing a bottleneck for the U.S. coronavirus response because of their reliance on the old, yet still much needed fax technology. Our hearts go out to all the frontline healthcare workers who are battling COVID-19 day after day […].

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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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Webinar Recap: FlexDeploy for Oracle APEX and Friends

Flexagon

What is FlexDeploy? FlexDeploy is a DevOps platform supporting full Build Automation, Deployment Automation, and Release Orchestration. With over 90 plugins and integrations available out-of-the-box, its expansive plugin library drives the build and deploy process. Automating APEX Deployments and Tracking In this 30-minute webinar, Chandresh Patel, a Principal Architect at Flexagon, uses FlexDeploy and its continuous integration, continuous.

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Queue-jumpers welcome! Teams can now prioritize a build to run next

Netlify

Users of Netlify Business and Enterprise accounts now have a new way to control the builds and deploys being generated by team members. As teams increase in size, or collaborate on more projects, they become more likely to reach their concurrent build capacity. Builds which are requested when a team’s build capacity is full, are queued until capacity is available.

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Upcoming Event: DevOps India Summit 2020

DevOps.com

DevOps experts and business leaders from across the globe will come together to share their thoughts on DevSecOps, security and governance in DevOps during the third edition of DevOps India Summit (DOIS). Presented in a virtual environment, DOIS20 will take place on Sept. 9, at 9 a.m. IST. At DOIS20, attendees will have the opportunity […]. The post Upcoming Event: DevOps India Summit 2020 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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LeChiffre ransomware targets US distributor

Darktrace

LeChiffre ransomware was recently identified by Darktrace’s AI inside the network of a US distributor. As the Cyber AI Analyst launched an automated investigation in real time, this blog looks at every stage of the attack kill chain, and how it could have been stopped with Autonomous Response.

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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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Dell Technologies has named DXC Technology as a Titanium Black Partner. What does it mean for our customers?

DXC

I’m very excited and proud to announce that DXC Technology recently achieved Dell Technologies’ highest level of partner status – Titanium Black. Only 13 companies in Dell Technologies’ partner network, one of the largest in the industry, have been recognized at this level. In fact, we are now one of only three global cloud service […]. The post Dell Technologies has named DXC Technology as a Titanium Black Partner.

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Pair Programming

DevOps.com

The post Pair Programming appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CodeSOD: True if Documented

The Daily WTF

“Comments are important,” is one of those good rules that often gets misapplied. No one wants to see a method called addOneToSet and a comment that tells us Adds one item to the set. Still, a lot of our IDEs and other tooling encourage these kinds of comments. You drop a /// or /* before a method or member, and you get an autostubbed out comment that gives you a passable, if useless, comment.

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Redefining Agile: Shift to Virtual, Return to the Office

Agile Alliance

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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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PVS-Studio: Analyzing Pull Requests In Azure DevOps Using Self-Hosted Agents

Dzone - DevOps

Static code analysis is most effective when changing a project, as errors are always more difficult to fix in the future than at an early stage. We continue expanding the options for using PVS-Studio in continuous development systems. This time, we'll show you how to configure pull request analysis using self-hosted agents in Microsoft Azure DevOps, using the example of the Minetest game.

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7 Interesting Applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Daffodil Software

On average, a human speaks 700 words per day, which includes the words of actual value (i.e. words that have an intent to communicate to another person). Instant messaging, telephonic conversations, books, movies, songs, verbal (F2F) communication are amongst some of the common ways humans exchange their thoughts and information.

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Production Support and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Mentormate

I have a passion for motorcycles. Over the years, I’ve owned several and have put thousands of miles on them. One of the bikes I currently have in my stable is a Bulgarian 1959 Balkan — an absolutely beautiful old motorcycle. A few years ago, I made the long journey from Bulgaria all the way to the Stella Alpina Rally in Italy on that 1959 Balkan. The trip was well-planned and I completely rebuilt the bike before we embarked.

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Disinformation and the Case for a Well-Regulated Cyber Militia

The Cipher Brief

As experts contemplate how to address the serious risk to national security posed by disinformation, there is consensus among many for better expert coordination, better communication and better education as our best options for addressing the issue. Some are arguing for a centralized government office to help direct it all. Still others, like former CIA Officers Stephanie Hartwell and Steven Hall, aren’t looking to government to do more, but are instead urging us to look to other countries that

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Changing from Git Master to Main on Heroku

Dzone - DevOps

I just saw that Heroku created the ability to git push heroku from main instead of master - and since I've been wanting to change my Git repos away from master anyway, I thought I'd check it out myself. Luckily, it was simple. (For a little background info on the issue of master vs main in Git, see here ).

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Augmenting Human Decision-Making & Fostering Agility: Dataiku’s Self-Service Data Culture

Dataiku

At Dataiku, we believe -- both for ourselves and for our customers -- that being a data-powered organization means that everyone – no matter what their role or team – should have appropriate access to the data they need to do their jobs and make decisions through a centralized data platform to connect to, prepare, enrich, transform, and visualize data.

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Tricentis Significantly Expands SAP® Partnership to Help Customers Accelerate Adoption of SAP Releases and Migration to the Intelligent Enterprise

DevOps.com

Tricentis testing solutions to break top barriers to cloud and SAP S/4HANA adoption Mountain View, Calif. — July 27, 2020 — Tricentis, the world’s #1 continuous testing platform, today announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with SAP SE (NYSE: SAP), the market leader in enterprise application software. Tricentis’ SAP partnership is based on its market […].