Wed.Dec 11, 2019

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Emerging Patterns in SRE Implementation

DevOps.com

First we were told that every company will become a technology company. Then the tides shifted to every company will become a DevOps company. Now the zeitgeist has a new obsession: Every company will become a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) company. Have you been keeping pace? If your company survived the ruthless restructuring of digital […].

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Keys to bridging the IT gender gap

DXC

Today’s global technology industry evolves and moves forward almost daily. But one thing hasn’t changed: women continue to be underrepresented in the IT workforce. What really causes this ongoing gender imbalance, and what can be done to reduce it? The IT gender gap persists—and it may be growing. According to McKinsey, the percentage of female […].

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The state of AIOps: What IT can expect in 2020

TechBeacon

AIOps is becoming the go-to technology for unifying monitoring capabilities because it presents a single source of the truth, according to industry observers. In fact, some 68% of the almost 100 IT leaders that participated in the inaugural meeting of the AIOps Exchange forum said they have active AIOps projects underway.

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How the Best Leaders Encourage Open and Honest Dialogue

Next Level Blog

The best leaders I work with as an executive coach encourage open and honest dialogue. They’ve learned and understand why it’s so important for the people on their team and in their organizations to be completely comfortable with speaking up. First, you really want people contributing their best ideas on a regular basis because that’s how you win. Second, if your people aren’t contributing, speaking up and sharing the truth as they see it, you’re going to be flying blind as a leader.

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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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Top 12 DevOps Tools for Your DevOps Implementation Plan

Dzone - DevOps

Top 12 DevOps tools. DevOps is a software development and delivery process that helps in emphasizing communication along with cross-functional collaboration between product management, software development, and operations professionals.

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Behshad Rejai on the past, present, and future of software development

Synopsys

With 36 years of experience, Behshad Rejai, VP of engineering in the Software Integrity Group, shares her views of the future of software development. The post Behshad Rejai on the past, present, and future of software development appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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No Device Left Behind: How to Ensure Protection of BYODs

Symantec

Mobile Threat Defense adoption on BYODs has been challenging due to the lack of an enforcement mechanism. Symantec Mobile Access Control solves this by integrating the MTD solution in your organization’s SAML flow.

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How MSPs Can Boost Profits by Increasing Customer Satisfaction

Kaseya

Customer satisfaction is a great way for MSPs to measure the efficiency of their operations. It also helps them in customer retention, which is critical for their subscription-based business model. However, a study by Analysys Mason has found that only 38 percent of MSPs track customer satisfaction compared to other metrics like profitability and revenue.

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4 simple ways to improve data literacy across your organization

Gitprime

Generating data is easy. Making sure it’s actionable, reliable and useful is harder. Here’s how to improve data literacy at your organization and enjoy greater success.

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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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Optimizing open source project builds on CircleCI

CircleCI

In a previous blog post , I wrote about how I was able to optimize React Native Camera’s builds on CircleCI. What we learned from this effort was that the maintainers were not even aware of these optimizations. Everything I did is available for reference in our documentation , but as the old adage goes, “You don’t know what you don’t know.” Now, we want to take an opportunity to promote the host of optimizations available for all projects on CircleCI.

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Boost Team Flow with this Adjacent Disciplines Exercise

Accenture

A recent white paper “What Moves You” by the Business Agility Institute revealed that as business agility continues to flourish, so will the focus on employee engagement. Organizations are now looking past team lunches and formal recognition programs to meaningful, forward-looking incentives. While many companies are revamping their formal programs, leaders have an opportunity to make a big, local impact on engagement.

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Testing Emerges as DevOps Hurdle in Mainframe Shops

DevOps.com

A survey of 400 senior IT leaders responsible for application development using mainframes finds 90% believe automating more test cases could be the most important factor in their success, as the pressure to accelerate innovation increases. However, the same survey finds only 7% of organizations automate the execution of test cases involving mainframe code today. […].

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Our digital world, changed by blockchain

Gitprime

Blockchain is providing unprecedented changes when it comes to supply chain management and initiative structures.

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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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Teradata Experts on the Top Tech Predictions for 2020

Teradata

Teradata's team of experts are chiming in on their top technology and business predictions for 2020 - from AI to Customer Experience to the Cloud. Read more!

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How Responsibilities, Activities and Initiatives (RAI) can redefine workflow

CEO Insider

The demands on your business are unprecedented: the volume of work is ever growing, complexity is increasing and digital is confusing. There is a need to create greater capacity for valuable initiatives through assessing and remediating the draining activities. How? Through your employees, however your organisation will need to shift the psychological contract, by rewarding […].

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Keys To Effective Negotiation

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Mike Figliuolo, thoughtLEADERS’ Managing Director, sat down with Jim and Jan of The Leadership Podcast to discuss Negotiation. In continuation of our new collaboration with The Leadership Podcast, Mike, breaks down some of the basics of negotiation in this short form “chalk talk.” These chalk talk series are bitesize sessions on a common (but challenging) leadership issue.

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Low-risk releases: Removing 7 common wastes from your software development life cycle

Gitprime

Even a well-functioning software development process is subject to waste. Here are the 7 most common areas you’ll find waste in your software development life cycle and how you can solve them with a DevOps approach.

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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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Why Cloud Migrations Fail

CloudSphere

Cloud migration is a complex process. The more complex the migration, the greater chance of failure. Gartner reports that the vast majority of cloud migrations involving ERP systems fail. Gartner also states that 19 out of 20 private cloud implementations leave something to be desired. All of this leads to the inevitable question: why do so many cloud migrations fail?

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Low-risk releases: Increasing velocity through skill development

Gitprime

Deciding whether or not to implement DevOps might seem like a no brainer. But for DevOps to enable the workflow velocity your company and customers demand, you need to have a strong understanding of the existing skills on your team and a plan to level them up.

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This Is Praxent: Working Remotely from North Carolina

Praxent

This Is Praxent: From The Inside Out. The Experience of Working for Praxent Remotely. Praxent is based in Austin, Texas, but we’re proud to hire talent from around the country (and world)! At Praxent, we prioritize making remote work possible and enjoyable, and invest in the latest tools and resources to ensure all members of our team can enjoy a positive and beneficial working environment – no matter where they’re working from.

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Augmenting customer (and employee) experience through technology skill development

Gitprime

See how a brick-and-mortar store benefits from digital transformation, without sacrificing its classic experience and original values.

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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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Representative Line: An Absolute Square

The Daily WTF

Seth S offers us something new: a representative line of Ada. We don’t get much of that, and Ada isn’t a particularly popular language, but Seth assures us that it is “unfairly maligned”. Since 1995, Ada has been an object oriented language, and offers a standard library, strong types, a message-passing approach to communicating with objects (which migrated into Objective-C but generally doesn’t show up very often elsewhere).

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When should you code, coach, or consult?

Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

There are many things you could do today. Three options are coding, consulting, or coaching. Each has its place, but how do you know which is fit for a given problem? Here’s how I think about it. Coding (or any hands-on work) is helpful when your team needs: A particular skill that you have, which they don’t. This could be configuring Apache modules, writing XF86Config files, or working with the S3 API.

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How To Take Your New Business Idea To The Next Level

Strategy Driven

When you come up with a great business idea and begin to lay the foundations for your dream to become a reality, you might find that you are being held back by certain restraints that can stop your concept from truly flourishing. It’s unlikely that you can be a one man band, and you need so many different contributing features to bring the whole venture together and really make it work.

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Social and Emotional Learning: What It Is, Why It Matters, & How Analytics Can Help

PowerSchool

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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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Path to Agile2020: First Steps

Agile Alliance

I started out speaking in the developer community a few (cough cough) years ago and then within the test community, and through those I met great people who were very active and involved. When I came to my first Agile20XX conference I realised that if you created a Venn Diagram of these communities, Agile20XX sat … Continued.

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Kim Jong Un’s Frustration and the Risk of Hybrid Warfare

The Cipher Brief

This unique national-security focused expert insight can’t be generated for free. We invite you to support this kind of quality content by becoming a Cipher Brief Level I Member. Joining this high-level, security-focused community is only $10/month (for an annual $120/yr membership). It’s a great and inexpensive way to stay ahead of the national and global security issues that impact you the most.

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Advent of Code, day 11: to be or not to be…

Xebia

Though I’m not a fanatic participant in Advent of Code I still like to join in on the fun and challenge myself to solve the puzzles posted every day. I’m one of those players that plays whenever there is time, instead of the top players that set their alarm clocks to be at the ready […]. The post Advent of Code, day 11: to be or not to be… appeared first on Xebia Blog.