Wed.May 13, 2020

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5 Can’t-Miss Virtual Events for the DevOps Community

OverOps

Network and collaborate with your fellow software development and delivery peers at one of these virtual events. The COVID-19 pandemic is changing a lot about how the software engineering community operates – including how we exchange ideas and best practices. If you were looking forward to a packed calendar of conferences and meetups this summer, have no fear!

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Developing a Ride-Sharing App? Here are Some of the Most Essential Features

Xicom

Do you own a collection of taxicabs? Feeling the weight from taxi aggregators like Uber and ola? All things considered, the perfect method to keep up the significance of your image and remain above water is to construct an application that includes the experience offered by these taxi providers. Be that as it may, how might one copy the achievement that these on-request specialist co-ops have made?

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Resilience And Innovation: Lessons From Pandemic

CEO Insider

Leaders have a lot on their plates right now. Pandemic presents a multi-dimensional challenge: Public health, operational, and economic crises, all rolled into one. Wrestling this three-headed beast is the metaphorical equivalent of having to walk, chew gum, and juggle chainsaws at the same time. Adding complexity, each crisis demands short- and long-term strategic responses. […].

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Branching Patterns: Release Train

Martin Fowler

Release Train: Release on a set interval of time, like trains departing on a regular schedule. Developers choose which train to catch when they have completed their feature. more….

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Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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How to Tap into Past Moments of Courage to Cultivate More

Let's Grow Leaders

The best way to find courage, is to remember that last time you did the right thing and how it made you feel. Small moments of courage make it easier the next time. “All courage is a threshold crossing. Often there is […]. The post How to Tap into Past Moments of Courage to Cultivate More appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Secure Software Development Life Cycle: Syncing Development and Security

DevOps.com

Over the last five to 10 years, the nature of software development has shifted dramatically. Whereas large software releases occurred every six to 18 months in the past, current release schedules have become much more frequent. The waterfall model of software development has morphed into what we now know as the DevOps model. As a […]. The post The Secure Software Development Life Cycle: Syncing Development and Security appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Scams Exploit COVID-19 Giveaways Via Venmo, PayPal and Cash App

Tenable

The economic impact of COVID-19, which is causing record unemployment, creates a golden opportunity for scammers looking to target vulnerable people desperate for cash to help pay their bills. As Cash App steps up the frequency of its giveaways, and celebrities and other notable figures launch giveaways of their own, scammers are brushing off old tricks in a rush to exploit them.

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IT support automation keeps remote workforces productive

DXC

Enterprise clients have looked to automate IT support for several years. With millions of employees across the globe now working from home, support needs have increased dramatically, with many unprepared enterprises suffering from long service desk wait times and unhappy employees. Many companies may have already been on a gradual pace to exploit digital solutions […].

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Getting Started with Slack

TechSoup

In our new COVID work-at-home world, we've seen many nonprofits adopt collaboration tools to keep them going. One very popular remote working tool is Slack, a workplace messaging platform structured around channels similar to group chats. By using these channels, or messaging colleagues individually, users can communicate quickly and easily from anywhere in the world.

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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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Data Breaches Wipe 7.2% Off Average Company Share Price

CTOvision

New insight has calculated that a data breach could wipe as much as 7.2% off a company’s share price. It’s the equivalent of up to $8.8 million in cash terms […].

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Set Up Your Continuous Testing Process for Android

Dzone - DevOps

Test automation is an indispensable part of any software development process, including mobile app development. Trying to run all your tests manually simply takes up far too much time, time that could be better spent on improving your code, or, well, a bunch of other things that are far more useful than running unit tests one by one. Of course, 100% automation is impossible: you simply cannot eliminate all the tedium from testing.

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How to Leverage Elastic Services for Cost Optimization

DevOps.com

Due to the current pandemic, business continuity for many organizations has suffered a great deal. Organizations, primarily those in manufacturing, agriculture, transport, hospitality, energy and retail sectors, have been affected by the unanticipated change in the business landscape. Some companies in these sectors have been experiencing massive losses in revenue, which is why their primary […].

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Sophos: Paying Ransom Can Double Attack Recovery Costs

CTOvision

Organizations that decide to pay their ransomware attackers may end up doubling the overall cost of recovery, according to a new report from Sophos. The UK-headquartered security firm polled 5000 IT […].

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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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Communicate Effectively to Influence and Lead

CoachStation

The benefits of developing your communicating skills are many. Through practice, when we communicate well, there is feeling of power and influence. In recent years whilst coaching, I have developed a concept regarding the effectiveness of communication. It highlights the need for depth in conversation. To verbally communicate well provides meaning and purpose.

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Bringing Intrinsic Security to Containers: VMware Announces Intent to Acquire Octarine

CTOvision

Today is a very exciting day for VMware and for our customers as we announce our intent to acquire Octarine, whose innovative security platform for Kubernetes applications helps simplify DevSecOps […].

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A look at CircleCI’s industry-leading support for transition-related medical leave

CircleCI

One of the great things about working at CircleCI is that the company believes that everyone should be able to be their whole self at work. Inclusivity, demonstrating trust and respect, and making sure everyone has the tools and support they need are all buried deep in the culture here – it is a big part of how we deliver the best value for our customers.

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Divide Narrows Between Open Source Community, Standards Bodies

DevOps.com

The path through which open source projects become industry standard is about to become a lot smoother. The Joint Development Foundation (JDF), an arm of The Linux Foundation, this week announced it has been approved to become an official submitter to the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

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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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COVID-19: The Perfect Storm

Teradata

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a Perfect Storm of disruption that impacts all of us -- from our health to the economy to the supply chain. Read more.

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Sales excellence in a time of disruption

Capgemini

I won’t sugarcoat it: we are living in one of the most disruptive business environments in human history. Across every industry, supply chains, customer journeys, and sales models are rife with challenges and organizations are scrambling to find new ways to drive business. At the same time, this new world offers up its own set of opportunities. Constraint breeds creativity, and even though we’ve been painfully thrust headlong into a seemingly digital-only society, I believe that our struggles an

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Your Guide to Get Started with Mobile Game Development

Daffodil Software

Gaming is the third most popular category amongst apps on the play store. By 2021, it is estimated that mobile gaming will generate the largest proportion of total gaming revenue worldwide. (Statista).

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Fast-tracking transformation initiatives with pre-built solutions and accelerators

Capgemini

Whether getting IT transformation off the ground or spinning up new offerings or experiences, moving quickly is the only way to get and stay ahead at a time when always-on innovation is the norm. Because of this, “fail fast” is among the most common mantras in today’s corporate world. However, every corporate leader knows that the tolerance for failure doesn’t always go hand in hand with professional success.

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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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Lunch and Learn: Application Infrastructure

James Shore

13 May 2020. James Shore/Blog/Lunch-and-Learn. Each week in my Tuesday Lunch & Learn livestream, we look at a useful technical skill, define a challenge related to that skill, and solve the challenge live. This week, it's isolating and testing application infrastructure. Application infrastructure is all the external systems your application interacts with: networks and services; file systems and databases; and global state such as the computer's clock and your application’s process.

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7 Cybersecurity tips for small businesses – especially those with remote workers

CTOvision

Small businesses have been facing a mountain of problems since the coronavirus outbreak took hold of the world’s economy and shifted most people to working from home. Millions of small […].

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Prisma Cloud Named Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year

Palo Alto Networks

Beginning a digital transformation to the cloud is like a marathon: You’ve got to be prepared for the long haul. And like athletic training, it matters who you run with. That’s why we’re glad to be running with Google Cloud – and to have been named Technology Partner of the Year for 2020. “We’re proud to recognize Palo Alto Networks as our Technology Partner of the Year,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, corporate vice president, global ecosystem at Google Cloud.

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Announcing ksqlDB 0.9.0

Confluent

We’re pleased to announce the release of ksqlDB 0.9.0! This version includes support for multi-join statements, enhanced LIKE expressions, and a host of usability improvements. We’ll go through a few […].

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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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OpenStack Delivers Ussuri Update

DevOps.com

The OpenStack community today officially released Ussuri, an update to the cloud management framework that tightens integration between components including the ability to automatically provision bare-metal servers using the Ironic IT automation framework built for that purpose. In addition, the community has added IPv6 support to the Kuryr project for integrating OpenStack with container networking […].

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How Retailing Will Shift in the Post-COVID-19 Era

IDC

Learn how retailers need to adapt to new technology capabilities and processes to scale ecommerce, store-level inventory management, and fulfillment and delivery volume.

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Atlassian Acquires Halp to Gain Help Desk Based on Slack

DevOps.com

Atlassian this week announced it has acquired Halp, a provider of a help desk platform that employs Slack as its user interface. Steve Goldsmith, head of product integrations at Atlassian, said Halp will provide organizations with a way to manage lightweight processes via an interface that is already commonly used within many organizations. The goal […].