O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 7, 2020

Automated pet herding for fun and profit. Okay. It’s 2020. Cloud is king. Everything’s web-scale. You want to architect and build a massive platform to provide services for hundreds if not millions of users. Maybe you already have one, and want to understand or manage it better. Where do you start? There are a lot of ways of thinking about systems. This article is not concerned with how REST-ful your APIs are, or which consensus algorithm you choose, or whose database paradigm best fits your nee

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 7, 2020

I am a strong believer that sound organizational models are the key to a company’s success and its viability in the complex world in which it must survive. The key to any viable system, much like human systems, is the ability to restructure, evolve, or undergo exaptation to remain viable. In the case of companies, … Continued.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 7, 2020

There’s no secret that over the past five years especially, the major (“tier 1”) cloud infrastructure players—Amazon, Microsoft and Google—have been snatching up smaller specialty providers, particularly cloud migration and security services. While this acquisition strategy immediately aims to strengthen and expand the provider’s direct and tangential cloud infrastructure offerings, the long-term goal is customer […].

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Cloud Infrastructure Strategy DevOps 86

Xebia

JANUARY 7, 2020

What is happening to product quality? Throughout my career as a quality engineer, I have developed a deep passion for quality. This passion goes way beyond the quality of software products. It is also about the quality of all interactions, quality of processes, and quality of work and life experience. I strive to bring excellence […]. The post How product quality is affected by the test automator role appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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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.

Artificial Inteligence

TechBeacon

JANUARY 7, 2020

How do you find the right open-source API testing tool for your needs? Since my last roundup of the best candidates, a few more tools have appeared that warrant consideration—and there's a new technique that's all the buzz in AI automation circles that you need to know about.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 7, 2020

OODA loop provides actionable insights into a wide range of intelligence, analysis, and global security issues. This includes special reports on dynamic situations like the current crisis with Iran. We encourage all to sign up for our free OODA Daily Pulse Report to track key topics of interest to decision-makers. We also provide special reports […].

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Analysis Report 80

Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 7, 2020

In our extensive work with security teams around the world, we’ve seen the best and the worst security operations (SecOps) practices. Despite a wide range of cybersecurity strategies and investment levels, we’ve found that most enterprise security programs have lots of room for improvement to better prevent, identify, investigate and mitigate threats with speed and confidence.

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Technical Review Systems Review Vendor Management Knowledge Base 72

CTOvision

JANUARY 7, 2020

Technology giants are increasingly designing their own semiconductors to optimize everything from artificial intelligence tasks to server performance and mobile battery life. Google has the Tensor Processing Unit, Apple Inc. has the A13 Bionic and Amazon.com Inc. has the Graviton2. What the titans all lack, however, is a factory to build the new chips they […].

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Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Mobile Performance 78

The Daily WTF

JANUARY 7, 2020

"For my sins," John writes, "I'm working on a SharePoint 2010 migration." This tells us that John has committed a lot of sins. But not as many as one of his coworkers. Since they were running a farm of SharePoint servers, they needed to know what was actually running, which was quite different from the documentation which told them what was supposed to be running.

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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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CTOvision

JANUARY 7, 2020

Read Katharine Rooney list five ways to get your business ready for artificial intelligence in 2020 on European Sting : They say you have to learn to walk before you can run. It turns out the same rule applies when it comes to the rollout of artificial intelligence. A new report on AI suggests that companies […].

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

This past September, Vox employees learned of their company’s merger with New York Media by reading about it in The New York Times. There was no announcement from leadership or transition plan from human resources, just a report in the news media that left people at both organizations rattled and scrambling for answers. Employees are a company’s biggest […].

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CTOvision

JANUARY 7, 2020

Neon’s super-realistic digital people are real. Well, sort of. The mysterious company, emerging from the Samsung Technology and Advanced Research Labs (aka STAR Labs), debuted late Monday at CES 2020 in Las Vegas. It described its technology, also called Neon, as “a computationally created virtual being that looks and behaves like a real human, with the […].

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BrainStation Technology

JANUARY 7, 2020

We’re very happy to announce that we are now accepting applications for BrainStation’s new Digital Marketing Diploma Program ! Designed to transform skill sets and prepare individuals for careers in digital marketing, the 12-week Digital Marketing Diploma Program is available at BrainStation’s state-of-the-art campuses. . “After overwhelming demand for our part-time digital marketing certificate courses, we’re very proud to announce the launch of BrainStation’s full-time Digital Marketing Diplom

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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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CTOvision

JANUARY 7, 2020

Read Martin Heller explain the difference between deep learning vs. machine learning on Info World : Machine learning and deep learning are both forms of artificial intelligence. You can also say, correctly, that deep learning is a specific kind of machine learning. Both machine learning and deep learning start with training and test data and […].

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Capgemini

JANUARY 7, 2020

The release of the movie War Games coincided with the start of my career in technology. The movie introduced many to the notion of artificial intelligence (AI) and the potential impacts it could have on our lives. Fast-forward 36 years and we see intelligent algorithms playing prominent roles in everything from how we purchase products to how we defend our borders.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 7, 2020

Read Bernard Marr’s list of 10 artificial intelligence trends for 2020 on Forbes : Artificial Intelligence (AI) has undoubtedly been the technology story of the 2010s, and it doesn’t look like the excitement is going to wear off as a new decade dawns. The past decade will be remembered as the time when machines that […].

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Capgemini

JANUARY 7, 2020

The amount of data being generated is growing exponentially. For utilities, digital innovation in operations is the future of the business, but core capabilities are shifting to adapt. As decarbonization, disintermediation, decentralization, and decreasing consumption are on the rise, digitization is the key to connecting them. According to Capgemini’s World Energy Markets Observatory 2019 , the path towards digital innovation and convergence and the move beyond a pure platform model requires th

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Digital Realty

JANUARY 7, 2020

Can your IT infrastructure keep up with your digital transformation plan? Regardless of the stage or focus, digital transformation will affect everyone.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 7, 2020

The post The Limits of Technology appeared first on DevOps.com.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 7, 2020

Ten Simple Rules for Organizing an Unconference — academia-targeted, but generally useful, advice for running unconferences. Jellyfin — free software media server. Flyte — a structured programming and distributed processing platform for highly concurrent, scalable, and maintainable workflows from Lyft. Intro blog post lays out the case, and this blog post describes the differences between Flyte and Apache Airtable. bandwhich — terminal-based bandwidth utilization tool.

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Scalability Media Programming Tools 40

CloudZero

JANUARY 7, 2020

Amazon recently announced the rollout of their new AWS Savings Plans , a new way to reduce your cloud compute costs. These allow you to achieve the discounts associated with their popular Reserved Instances (up to 72% off on-demand pricing) without having to engage in the headache of managing the same. With the new plans, you would commit to a particular hourly spend of your choosing on either a 1 year or 3 year fixed term.

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PowerSchool

JANUARY 7, 2020

A discussion with tech and K?12 leaders about the biggest upcoming priorities in educational technology. Keeping up with the latest trends and priorities in edtech can be a challenge. As schools and districts continue to shift to digital ecosystems and edtech products are used for everyday K?12 functionality, knowing where to efficiently focus resources and budgets can be difficult.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2020

There are several reasons that can lead to debt: unforeseen expenses, medical emergencies, loss of employment, etc. When it gets out of hand, it can easily affect your psychological and physical health. The first thing to know is that this situation can affect everyone. And even if the situation may seem overwhelming, you should also know that it is not final and that solutions exist.

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PowerSchool

JANUARY 7, 2020

Budget 52

Budget Recruiting 52

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2020

There comes a time when every commercial retail or wholesale business requires a space that is more than their current capacity. The first go-to in this case that strikes the minds of the owners is to consider additional space on rent, which can prove very expensive and can double the cost especially when you are already running your primary office on a rented space.

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Applications

OverOps

JANUARY 7, 2020

Happy New Year from OverOps! Resolve to eliminate new application errors in 2020 with the help of OverOps’ Continuous Reliability solution. It’s that time of year again when we all pause to reflect on past accomplishments, and establish future goals that we seek to accomplish in the next 365 days. In working to prepare my own New Year’s resolutions, I came across an interesting article on Business Insider about why most New Year’s resolutions fail.

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TechBeacon

JANUARY 7, 2020

The most life-changing products to come out over the next few years will almost certainly center on mobile, the Internet of Things (IoT), and voice-control technology. Attending these conferences could help you find the inspiration to create those transformative products, and give you the knowledge you'll need to build the future's most exciting and useful inventions.

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Nutanix

JANUARY 7, 2020

We published a blog and created a short survey on what is driving where applications and IT services live and run. Now the findings are here!

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