Fri.Oct 11, 2019

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The top 5 DevOps myths debunked

TechBeacon

Business executives today are under pressure to accelerate speed to market while ensuring high quality, so it's not surprising that they are turning to DevOps practices to ensure high-quality software and an exceptional experience for the customer.

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Article: Q&A on the Book Impact: 21st Century Change Management, Behavioral Science, and the Future of Work

InfoQ Culture Methods

The book Impact by Paul Gibbons explores how to lead and manage change in the 21st century to support digital transformations while taking the needs of millennials and Gen Z into account. It describes how we can humanize change and use pull models and dialogs to support behavior change. By Ben Linders, Paul Gibbons.

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Containers and Configuration: 3 DevOps Tools and Cheatsheets

Dzone - DevOps

These DevOps tools make every DevOps implementation easier. Puppet. Puppet is one of the most widely-used DevOps tools. It makes delivering and releasing technology changes quicker and more frequent with features that support versioning, automated testing, and continuous delivery. It can manage multiple servers and enforce system configuration. Puppet is one of the most popular configuration management tools in the IT world these days for a number of reasons.

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Motivating Your Team When You Don’t Set the Goal

Let's Grow Leaders

For leaders at every level, there are times when you must implement a decision or pursue a goal that you don’t agree with or where you didn’t get input. These are critical moments in your leadership. Handle it poorly and you […]. The post Motivating Your Team When You Don’t Set the Goal appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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10 Trends of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2020

iTexico

10 Trends of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2020. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been predictable for decades, probably because the technology was associated with robots. But things have changed now that AI application is wide. Over the last few years, we have seen an exponential upthrust in the number of platforms, applications, and tools based on machine learning and AI technologies.

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Finding the Route from CTO to CEO

CEO Insider

Making the move from CTO to CEO was a daunting experience for me: after all, I had spent a large part of my career working behind the scenes. Now, I was going to be the face of a company, taking on new responsibilities that encapsulated a whole other realm of leadership than what I had […].

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Our DevOps Toolbox: The Ansible Interview

Exadel

Sergey Krivopishin. There are many IT automation tools available, including mature ones like Puppet and Chef, so why choose Ansible ? Michael Shklyar, DevOps Software Engineer from the Exadel Digital Transformation Practice, recently sat down with Sergey Krivopishin , a DevOps specialist from one of our client projects to discuss the advantages of Ansible and how it helps him solve issues.

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Remote Access VPN’s?—?IPSec Or SSL?

taos

Remote Access VPN’s?—?IPSec Or SSL? First Published: May 22, 2012, By Bill Clancy?—?Technical Consultant Most IT professionals who are asked this question will immediately respond with something close to this: “The obvious choice is SSL VPN.” If you inquire further, you might hear reasons like “IPSec is a pain to configure, and SSL VPN is so much easier” or “SSL VPN doesn’t require installing client software and that all you need is a browser to connect.

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Agile Development for “Non-Products”

Exadel

Software development is the core focus of any digitally transforming organization. A lot of time and effort in these organizations is spent thinking about and communicating the concept of product development. Customer-centricity, continuous delivery, and automated QA are just a few of the things that are necessary for product development. For many IT teams, developing products can be fun, invigorating, and meaningful.

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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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Extract, Transform and Load for the Cloud

taos

First Published: August 30, 2017, By James Ferguson Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) is a common method for taking disparate data from other systems and transforming then pushing to another system. We see this method used in many industries and processes repeated daily. However, the ETL process when using the cloud has not always been so straight forward.

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How to Monetize Your Open Source Project and Stay Alive

The Crazy Programmer

Chen Ravid is a free software enthusiast and serial entrepreneur. He is one of the founding members and VP product at xs:code , a monetization platform for open source projects. Why Monetize? Open-source developers are not in it for the money. They create amazing software projects we all use every day, spending hundreds, if not thousands of hours of their spare time in the process.

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Goss

taos

First published: April 19, 2017, B y Jess Males?—?Technical Consultant Operating our infrastructure as code delivers a world of best practices from the realm of software development. Linting before commits is a no-brainer. Continuous delivery relieves the drudgery of manually rolling out infrastructure changes. These practices are now common. One practice less frequently discussed is test-driven-development: write a test-case for the infrastructure before writing the implementation.

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The Influence of Start-ups on Healthcare

Strategy Driven

There are startups in every industry that are changing the way we do things in all aspects of our lives. Healthcare is no exception. In recent years, the number of startups in the healthcare industry has skyrocketed, and their innovations have potentially changed the future of healthcare. Our health and insurance requirements start to change after we turn 26, which makes innovations in this area incredibly important.

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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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Guest Blog | The Cloud is Full of Acid Rain: On Cloud Migrations

taos

First Published: August 8, 2017, By Corey Quinn. We are excited to share our Guest Blog from Corey Quinn. Corey is a former Taoser and huge community advocate of Taos. During my consulting tenure with Taos, I had the privilege of architecting numerous cloud migrations. Now that I curate [link] , I’ve gained particular insight into many more. I want to be very clear that I’m not saying that cloud migrations are follies– far from it!

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DevOps Chat: Phoenix OSS Framework with DockYard

DevOps.com

Stateless application architecture is the current de facto approach, right? Not necessarily. Stateful applications communicating over TCP sockets can and are successfully built even in today’s age of cloud-native applications. Our guest on this episode of DevOps Chat is Chris McCord, creator of the Phoenix open source software, and architectural engineer at DockYard.

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Creating A Bootable USB Stick

taos

First Published: November 13, 2014, by Hui-Jen (Jen) Shiau?—?Technical Consultant With servers not having a CD-ROM drive and iso files becoming larger and larger, we are often required to use a USB stick that is bootable. To create a bootable USB stick, do the following: 1. Grab any size USB key (even 1GB will do, the image is only 300MB or so) 2. Enter a Command Prompt 3.

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DOES19 London: Bridging the Communications Gap

DevOps.com

At the cornerstone of any successful DevOps transformation is effective communication between all members in an organization, from the business leaders, IT leaders, middle management and out to each individual member on their teams. Yet, so many times in organizational change, we see a monumental communication breakdowns occur. So it’s no surprise that every year […].

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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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DNSSEC?—?Helping Secure The Internet

taos

DNSSEC?—?Helping Secure The Internet First Published: March 7, 2014, By Dirck Copeland?—?Technical Consultant The DNS (Domain Name System) is one of the most critical protocols in use on the Internet. Virtually every end-user transaction involves a DNS query. Every email, text message, and web page viewed requires interaction with a DNS server. With such a critical service, it’s no surprise that it has increasingly become the target of attack since its inception in 1983.

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Intelligent Automation for the Public Sector

DataRobot

What is Intelligent Automation? Intelligent Automation (IA) refers to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies in particular combining machine learning , and robotic process automation (RPA). This convergence of technologies produces automation capabilities that dramatically elevate business value and competitive advantages for organizations.

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Leveling Up: Skill Building for Systems Administrators

taos

First Published: July 27, 2017, By Jess Males As technologists, half the technology we need to know for our jobs is getting invented or reinvented on a daily basis. You already know this: look at the rapid onset of Docker; look to the continual improvement of languages like Java and Go; look to the features and services that public clouds introduce daily.

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A Comprehensive Approach to Cybersecurity at Your Nonprofit

TechSoup

We live in a world with constantly increasing cybersecurity risks. IT systems can no longer be protected by a firewall at the edge of a network as the boundaries of the organization's IT systems continue to expand with the adoption of cloud solutions. At the same time, the tools available to cybercriminals have grown in sophistication and decreased in cost.

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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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Book Review

taos

Book Review?—?The Phoenix Project First Published: January 29, 2013, By Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford The short version: The Phoenix Project is to IT what the best of the Harvard Business Review cases are to a business. It’s fictionalized, it’s realistic, and it provides the best set of lessons on running a complex IT operations environment that I have seen anywhere.

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Why first movers get the juiciest rewards

Beyond B2B

There is an old saying - “the early bird gets the worm” – which captures the essence of being a first mover in a competitive landscape. Being first can enable a company to establish strong brand recognition and customer loyalty before its competitors are even in the market.

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OCR: Extracting Printed Text from Scanned Documents

QBurst

One of our clients in the banking sector recently came up with a request (or challenge, rather). While it is true that digitalization has brought a world of difference to banking, we are still nowhere near paperless banking. Regulations require banks to collect different types of documents from customers at the time of onboarding and […]. The post OCR: Extracting Printed Text from Scanned Documents appeared first on QBurst Blog.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 11th, 2019

High Scalability

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Light is fast—or is it? Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. And I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for all who want to understand the cloud. On Amazon it has 57 mostly 5 star reviews (135 on Goodreads). Please consider recommending it. You'll be a cloud hero. Number Stuff: Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (

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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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DevOpsDays Raleigh 2019: Creating Real DevOps Heroes (Workshop)

Dzone - DevOps

Here's a presentation from the recent DevOpsDays 2019. Today was the launch of this new workshop, focused on creating real DevOps heroes by sharing a brand new (for most) tool for their toolboxes at DevOps Days Raleigh. Whether you're a developer or and operations-minded person, it's always nice to have a powerful selection of tooling to choose from when tackling the various problems in your daily work.

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Flexing AI Workloads Using KubeFlow and OpenShift Container Platform

Dell EMC

Want to create a flexible environment for machine learning and deep learning workloads? Deploy Kubeflow on an OpenShift Container platform with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. Many enterprises invest in custom infrastructure to support artificial intelligence (AI) and their data science teams. While the goal is right, this approach can be a problem. Oftentimes, these ad-hoc hardware implementations live outside of the mainstream data center, and that can limit adoption.

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Mobiconf 2019: Our Experience

Apiumhub

Mobiconf 2019 has been a spectacular edition. This conference, that took place in Cracovia, gathered a lot of mobile development experts , from engineers to designers and managers. We attended a lot of talks during its two days duration, and here’s our personal experience: Mobiconf 2019: First Day. Keynote. The event’s introduction was done by Sommer Panage , an iOS developer who was back to this world after having an unusual and interesting experience outside of it.