Tue.Sep 08, 2020

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API-First, Mobile-First, Design-First. How Do I Know Where to Start??

Dzone - DevOps

Dear Geek, There have been a lot of "First" methodologies thrown around in the past few years: Mobile-First , Code-First , API-First , API-Design-First , Test-First , Contract-First , Model-First , Security-First , Design-First , and many more. Before I throw all these out the window and just start building something, can you tell me which "First" is the one I should be using?

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Progress Acquires Chef to Expand DevOps Portfolio

DevOps.com

Progress today announced it has acquired Chef for $220 million in cash as part of an effort to advance adoption of best DevOps and DevSecOps practices in the midmarket. Once the deal is completed next month, Chef will operate as an independent business unit led by Sundar Subramanian, who currently is a senior vice president […]. The post Progress Acquires Chef to Expand DevOps Portfolio appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Pair Programming with AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In a conversation with Kevlin Henney, we started talking about the kinds of user interfaces that might work for AI-assisted programming. This is a significant problem: neither of us were aware of any significant work on user interfaces that support collaboration. Most AI systems we’ve seen envision AI as an oracle: you give it the input, it pops out the answer.

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Web Server Installation

The Daily WTF

Once upon a time, there lived a man named Eric. Eric was a programmer working for the online development team of a company called The Company. The Company produced Media; their headquarters were located on The Continent where Eric happily resided. Life was simple. Straightforward. Uncomplicated. Until one fateful day, The Company decided to outsource their infrastructure to The Service Provider on Another Continent for a series of complicated reasons that ultimately benefited The Budget.

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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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How One MSP Improved Customer Satisfaction and Reduced Support Tickets

Kaseya

Because so many business applications we use are now in the Cloud, internet continuity is critical to daily operations, employee productivity and customer experience. Unfortunately, many small and mid-size businesses still experience daily frustrations — from dropped VoIP calls to choppy video conferences and unresponsive applications — that are caused by poor internet connectivity.

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DevOps Automation: How to Apply Automation Into Your Software Delivery Process

Dzone - DevOps

It seems that nowadays, DevOps can mean many different things. As a DevOps expert at OutSystems, whenever I’m asked what this practice is all about, I like to say that it’s a way to deliver value faster to your end-users. More than a skill, a job role, or a tool, DevOps is a culture-shifting paradigm. It’s about speeding up the flow of delivering software changes to your production environments and amplifying the feedback loops in your delivery pipeline so that you can catch problems early on du

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Microsoft’s September 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 129 CVEs

Tenable

For the fourth month in a row, Microsoft patches over 120 CVEs, addressing 129 CVEs in its September release. Microsoft patched 129 CVEs in the September 2020 Patch Tuesday release, including 23 CVEs rated critical. This month, several remote code execution (RCE) flaws in Microsoft Office products were patched. Many of these RCEs require a user to open a specially crafted document, making these vulnerabilities a growing concern for e-learning students and teachers alike as they return to school

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Survey Shows Most IT Teams Adapting in New COVID-19 Normal

DevOps.com

A survey of 122 IT professionals published today by SolarWinds in advance of IT Pro Day next week, finds that while IT teams are enjoying greater respect within their organizations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly a third (31%) admit there’s a need to rethink internal processes to better accommodate rapid change. Overall, […]. The post Survey Shows Most IT Teams Adapting in New COVID-19 Normal appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Kerberos Authentication with Oracle Databases

Datavail

In an effort to simplify Oracle database authentication, Kerberos will be installed and configured to authenticate user’s password against Microsoft AD. This will allow users to maintain only one password for AD and Oracle databases. There are several parts to the configuration; MS AD, Unix and Oracle Database. This document will consolidate all the parts into one document for a consistent installation across all the database servers.

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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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Shifting Left With DevSecOps: ESG Report Exposes Difficulties

DevOps.com

A recent report asks the tough questions about DevSecOps adoption, and the results are surprising In a world of increasing development velocity, companies are placing more responsibility on developers to enact quick deployments. Naturally, security is “shifting left” as well. Theoretically, DevSecOps sounds great, but it opens up many questions. Who exactly is responsible for […].

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Building Your Own Signal Detection Rules: A Data-Centric Approach to Cybersecurity (Part I)

Dataiku

As data becomes more available but also grows in size and is continuously more dense and unstructured — specifically in a context where more than just network logs are required to perform accurate anomaly detection and threat intelligence — the cybersecurity industry is aiming to introduce more automation into the process to provide security experts with actionable information for identifying patterns, threats, attackers, and more.

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The Cause and Effect of Supply Chain Fragility, and How to Fix It

Teradata

The fragility of your supply chain existed long before COVID-19 brought it into sharp relief. Discover the secret to true supply chain resilience.

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Instant Communication with FlexDeploy

Flexagon

DevOps, at its core, is all about communication. It has become vital with more people than ever working from home, and more teams spread out across different offices. Teams need to have a space for collaboration, and this often comes down to choosing the right tools. Instant communication. It’s become an expectation for just about. The post Instant Communication with FlexDeploy appeared first on Flexagon.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

Netflix Tech

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. At Netflix, we have adopted the Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern : instead of having one general purpose “backend API”, we have one backend per client (Android/iOS/TV/web).

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Protecting Cloud VMs for Full-Stack Cloud Native Security

Aqua Security

The management of Virtual Machines (VMs) in the cloud is not like anything else in your cloud native environment. Traditional host-based security methods used for VMs running on physical servers relied on agents to perform functions that simply do not exist in cloud native environments. In addition, cloud instances frequently have OS-level vulnerabilities, configuration violations, and may not provide enough visibility — creating security blind spots.

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Diffblue Launches World’s First AI-Powered Automated Java Unit Testing Solution with Free Community Edition for Developers

DevOps.com

Up to 100x faster than writing manual tests, built on a decade of artificial intelligence by (AI) researchers from the University of Oxford and backed by Goldman Sachs Oxford, United Kingdom, Sept. 8, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Diffblue, creators of the world’s first AI for code solution that automates writing unit tests for Java, today […].

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AWS re:Invent 2020 Guide – How to Make The Most of The Virtual Event

ParkMyCloud

It’s time to start thinking about AWS re:Invent 2020! Since 2012, AWS re:Invent has been one of the biggest cloud conferences every year – last year they drew over 60,000 attendees from around the world. Like many other big events, such as Google Cloud Next and Microsoft Ignite , re:Invent is going to look a little different this year. Over the course of three weeks (November 30 – December 18), AWS will be showing keynotes, launches and sessions – the best part is that it’s fre

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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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Challenging Cloud Migration Myths in the Wake of COVID-19

DevOps.com

The COVID-19 push to cloud migration, unfortunately, is riddled with myths. Here are some worth busting With a substantial increase in the number of businesses now operating from their employees’ homes, and organization leaders realizing that their office buildings are now somewhat unnecessary until a vaccination against the coronavirus is widely distributed, the cloud has […].

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Chart a Better IT Future With Dell EMC PowerEdge and VMware

Dell EMC

Co-Author: Yvonne Bourquin Hardware and software upgrades can lead to a better hybrid cloud experience You can see the change happening all around you. The enterprise has rapidly adopted a hybrid cloud model, and with good reason, as 90% of modern server environment operators report increased value/effectiveness from hybrid cloud initiatives versus just 62% of those running legacy server shops.

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CommScope Partners with Google to Bring Orion WiFi to Public Venues

DevOps.com

CommScope’s RUCKUS SmartZone controller brings enhanced security and simplified network management HICKORY, N.C. September 8, 2020 — CommScope is partnering with Google’s Area 120 for the launch of Orion Wifi, a platform designed to bring private, secure roaming for consumers while helping public venues solve cellular dead zones and monetize their networks.

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SRE + Honeycomb: Observability for Service Reliability

Honeycomb

As a Customer Advocate, I talk to a lot of prospective Honeycomb users who want to understand how observability fits into their existing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice. While I have enough of a familiarity with the discipline to get myself into trouble, I wanted to learn more about what SREs do in their day-to-day work so that I’d be better able to help them determine if Honeycomb is a good fit for their needs.

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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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BMC to Acquire Alderstone

DevOps.com

Acquisition streamlines and expedites ITSM modernization HOUSTON – September 8, 2020 – BMC, a global leader in IT solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to purchase Alderstone, a leading provider of ITSM adoption and modernization solutions. The deal is expected to close in the coming months, subject to customary closing conditions.

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The Future Of The Telco Industry And Impact Of 5G & IoT – Part 1

Cloudera

Technology like IoT, edge computing and 5G are changing the face of CSPs. Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are in the middle of a data-driven transformation. The current scale and pace of change in the Telecommunications sector is being driven by the rapid evolution of new technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, advanced data analytics, and edge computing.

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Progress Announces Acquisition of Chef

DevOps.com

Acquisition aligns with strategy for accretive acquisition and extends product offerings in DevOps and DevSecOps with market-leading infrastructure automation BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and digital experience technologies, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Chef, a global leader in DevOps and DevSecOps, providing complete infrastructure automation to build

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Why Is the Public Support Test Important?

TechSoup

At TechSoup, we are proud to have a legal team with a variety of backgrounds and areas of expertise who are able to work across our programs and departments to support the broad range of work we do.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Hasura Brings Instant GraphQL to MySQL and SQL Server for Rapid API Development to Unlock Siloed Data, Raises $25 Million in Series B

DevOps.com

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hasura, the data access infrastructure company, today announced that it has added GraphQL support for MySQL and early access support for SQL Server to its existing support for PostgreSQL. Hasura now supports three of the most popular database technologies. A great deal of valuable data lives inside existing MySQL and […].

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Take charge of your cloud migration

Radixweb

Cloud migration can prove to be an intricate and complicated process, most often requiring technology consulting and a slew of hard choices throughout the process. Here is a comprehensive checklist to refer to when migrating to the cloud.

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Capgemini Introduces ‘Smart Foundry’

DevOps.com

Innovative DevTest environment management solution powered by Nutanix and Plutora capabilities bolsters speed-to-market for financial services institutions September 08, 2020 11:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Capgemini today announced the launch of ‘Smart Foundry,’ its end-to-end DevTest1 environment management solution, powered by the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Plutora’s Value Stream Management (VSM) platforms.