Wed.May 08, 2019

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How to Gain Control of Change

Beyond B2B

Today, few organizations would make the mistake of ignoring change - and very few would make the mistake of ignoring the role of its people in adopting that change.

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Anatomy of a Cascading Failure

Honeycomb

In Caches Are Good, Except When They Are Bad , we identified four separate problems that combined together to cause a cascading failure in our API servers. This followup post goes over them in detail, and shows how we used Honeycomb to help ourselves understand and illustrate how feedback loops and amplification can turn a small issue into a major outage.

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Visualizing the Correlation of Unplanned Work with Feature and PI Objective Delivery

Agile Alliance

This article is specifically targeted toward RTE’s, Product Management, and coaches that are currently engaged in establishing a program level workflow (Kanban) that prioritizes the highest valued features as candidates for the Program Increment (PI) Planning event. The promise of a team of teams achieving a consistent 80% predictability in delivery of PI objectives and … Continued.

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90% of data breaches in US occur in New York and California

CTOvision

Cybersecurity firm Risk Based Security (RBS) released an alarming report on data breaches in the first quarter of 2019, revealing a record breaking number of data breaches that exposed billions of documents to theft. “For three years in a row more than one billion records have been exposed in the first quarter of the year, whereas […].

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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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7 Big Digital Transformation Trends

DevOps.com

As enterprises continue their rush to digitally transform their organizations, they’re investing big in retooling their software development pipelines, new artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) technologies and low-code development platforms, as well as putting considerable money into customer engagement software. Yet, the extent of success following these investments remains unclear and varies […].

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High-frequency Trading Strategies: How Fast Is Fast?

Toptal

Although high-frequency trading has been around for years, it remains a field plagued by misconceptions and a general lack of understanding. In this article, Toptal C++ Developer Mark Best demystified the world of high-frequency trading and outlines a number of strategies and tips aimed to ensure lightning-fast performance.

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PR Strategy Session: 6 PR Types to Leverage in Your PR Outreach

Women on Business

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Why and how to implement pipeline as code with Jenkins

TechBeacon

Jenkins has seen some major changes in the last few years, one of the largest of which is a scripted pipeline, or pipeline as code: the ability to describe your continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) process programmatically.

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McDonald's Turns to AI for a Better Burger

Dataiku

While Burger King may still be poking fun at AI following their robot commercials last year, other burger titans embrace AI as the next step in their evolution. This year, Wendy’s announced that it’s adding $25 million to its digital budget, while McDonald's took things to the next level when they purchased a marketing AI startup for over $300 million, their largest acquisition this century.

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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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The Front End: Using Gatsby.js and Node.js for Static Site Updates

Toptal

With a static site generator back end in place from Part 1, now it's time to implement a Gatsby.js-based front end, host it on Netlify, and get AWS to activate the whole pipeline.

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DevOps: What Do Governments Need to Know?

DevOps.com

How the government can successfully implement and enforce DevOps practices The speed at which technology is being produced it outstripping the pace at which better development tools are being introduced, which makes secure development even more challenging. Unfortunately, the negligence of organizations and authorities is intensifying the issue. For this reason, organizations are adopting DevOps. […].

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5 False Hopes of Scrum and How to Fix Them

Toptal

Scrum is easy to introduce but hard to master. Left to its own devices, Scrum creates false hopes and undercuts many of the expected benefits. Scrum teams need to continually improve their process and work culture to reap the rewards of an Agile transition.

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Agilest Advice: Struggles and Vocabulary

scruminc

Agilest Advice: Struggles and Vocabulary. by Dave Slaten and Tom Bullock | May 8, 2019 | Blog. BLOG NOTE: Dave Slaten is a Principal Consultant at Scrum Inc. Tom Bullock is our Chief Storyteller. Every now and then they talk shop in an effort to share the latest learnings and ideas from the field. “Tom, this is Dave. I’m trying an experiment, my friend.".

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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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Leading startups hubs: Barcelona 6th place!

Apiumhub

In the last 10 years, we’ve been switching from the physical to the digital world. Companies have brought commerce, education and many more online. Every day we read news about new startups , new ideas, new products that have potential to change our lives even more. In this article I would like to talk about what makes cities to be top startup capitals.

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Why robotic process automation has a bright future with enterprise IT

TechBeacon

In the midst of unbridled enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI) and all things automated, enterprises are diving head first into the robotic process automation (RPA) market. Large organizations reap benefits of RPA through faster processing of data and less time spent by employees on repetitive tasks.

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Top 5 Configuration Mistakes That Create Field Days for Hackers

CTOvision

Sometimes it’s the little things that lead to big consequences. When it comes to cybersecurity, hacks more often than not stem from minor missteps – or even completely preventable, obvious mistakes. Common security mistakes and overlooked misconfigurations can open the door for attackers to drop malware or exfiltrate data – or even sabotage operations.

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Connect IT Global: Day 2 Recap

Kaseya

For attendees at Connect IT Global, Day 2 was full of opportunities to learn and be excellent across three key dimensions of tech – people, process, and technology. People – People learn from one another – and a conference with roughly 1,800 attendees provides almost unlimited ways to learn and make meaningful connections, from mealtimes, to training, to breakout sessions, to even just walking around the venue.

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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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Aqua Operator: Automating Security for Kubernetes

Aqua Security

Aqua recently developed a Kubernetes Operator that was successfully tested and validated by Red Hat standards for integration and supportability. Before we tell you about our new OpenShift-certified Operator, let’s get some context about what an Operator is.

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Four Steps to Creating More Productive Working Relationships Between Men And Women In A Post #MeToo World

CEO Insider

CEOWORLD magazine. Four Steps to Creating More Productive Working Relationships Between Men And Women In A Post #MeToo World. The recent Women’s Movement, which has been extremely important in bringing attention to sexual assault and harassment in the workplace, has inadvertently created a culture of tension between male and female employees at many companies.

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What is operationalized analytics?

DXC

Organizations with a high “Analytics IQ” have strategy, culture and continuous-improvement processes that help them identify and develop new digital business models. Powering these capabilities is the organization’s move from ad hoc to operationalized analytics. Seamless data flow Operationalized analytics is the interoperation of multiple disciplines to support the seamless flow of data, from initial […].

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Freedom Mobile data breach impacts thousands of customers

CTOvision

Freedom Mobile, a major Canadian telecommunications provider, has revealed a data breach which may have exposed sensitive information belonging to thousands of customers. On Tuesday, cybersecurity researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar from vpnMentor said they were able to access a database belonging to Canada’s fourth-largest telco, which was “totally unprotected and unencrypted.” The database contained […].

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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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There’s No Point Focusing On What You’re Doing If You Don’t Know How Well You’re Doing It

CEO Insider

CEOWORLD magazine. There’s No Point Focusing On What You’re Doing If You Don’t Know How Well You’re Doing It. Why is it that so many companies are highly focused on the latest customer experience (CX) strategies yet have very little or no data to ensure they are on the right track? As W. Edwards Deming said, ‘without data you’re just another person with an opinion’.

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How to Limit How Long Google Keeps Your Data

CTOvision

Google put security and privacy features front and center as it kicked off this year’s I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday. The company went so far as to say that “security and privacy are the central theme” of its upcoming Android Q release. But let’s say you want to take some control […].

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Delphix Drives Significant Growth Across its Business, Driven by the Demand for Data to Accelerate Innovation

DevOps.com

Fortune 100 companies use Delphix to deliver data quickly and securely to fuel critical digital transformation initiatives REDWOOD CITY, C alif. , May 8, 2019 – Delphix , the company helping enterprises accelerate innovation through DataOp s, today announced continued momentum across its portfolio of top global enterprises. During its fiscal year 2019, Delphix reported […].

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Managing Security Risks in the Cloud

CTOvision

Read Daniel Smith explain how companies can manage security risks in the cloud on Security Boulevard : Often, I find that only a handful of organizations have a complete understanding of where they stand in today’s threat landscape. That’s a problem. If your organization does not have the ability to identify its assets, threats, and […].

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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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Why MEDR is Key to Helping Government Combat Stealthy Threats

Symantec

Managed EDR accelerates cyber response – which is especially important for government agencies under siege from increasingly savvy malicious attackers

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Tricentis Adds New Capability for Accelerating Digital Transformation with SAP Applications

DevOps.com

Tricentis signs agreement to acquire IntelliCorp LiveCompare: Smart DevOps software for SAP applications Mountain View Calif., May 8, 2019 – Tricentis, #1 in SAP application testing, today announced the signing of an agreement to acquire IntelliCorp LiveCompare. IntelliCorp’s LiveCompare provides a deep analysis of an organization’s “as-is” and “to-be” SAP application environments—identifying the differences that […].

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Symantec Mobile Threat Defense: Spotlight on Mobile Endpoint Detection and Response

Symantec

Organizations need mobile EDR to combat a growing trend in mobile security: advanced and persistent attacks that exploit mobile OS vulnerabilities

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