August, 2022

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Fixed Partitions

Martin Fowler

When partitioning data across a set of cluster nodes we need a uniform distribution and to be able add and remove nodes to the cluster without causing a lot of data to be moved around. Unmesh Joshi. explains how to do this by allocating data to a large number of virtual fixed partitions which are then allocated to the nodes.

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How to Give Your Boss Bad News: Avoid This Mistake and What to Do Instead

Let's Grow Leaders

Avoid This Mistake When Giving Your Boss Bad News. You’ve got to give your boss bad news. But the timing isn’t great–for you or for them. The restructure. The uncertainty. The promotion that’s right around the corner. Maybe it’s just not a great time to rock the boat. . How do you give your boss bad news well, while avoiding the proverbial shooting of the messenger?

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Joy of Agility – Joshua Kerievsky

Agile Alliance

Joshua shares six essential agile mantras, plus unforgettable, real-world agile stories that will empower you to be quick, adaptable, and resourceful in the face of opportunities and challenges. The post Joy of Agility – Joshua Kerievsky first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Metaverse: The time for CIOs to experiment is now

CIO

For the past forty years CIOs have labored to retrofit, rearchitect, and ultimately replace underfunded and underappreciated legacy infrastructures in hopes of delivering the full benefits associated with periodically occurring waves of transformative emerging technologies. Debate now rages in IT and digital communities regarding what will be the seismic technological shift of the 2020s.

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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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A troubling startup layoff trend has emerged

TechCrunch

We don’t need to tell you about the layoffs that are defining the tech landscape right now, concentrated particularly in late-stage companies that are struggling to raise extension rounds and grow into existing valuations. What we do think is important, though, is focusing on a frustrating trend that is emerging between all these headlines: some companies have announced layoff after layoff in quick succession , a double reduction that feels surprising.

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Clock-Bound Wait

Martin Fowler

Although he's been quiet for a while on here, Unmesh Joshi has been working hard on more of his Patterns of Distributed Systems. In this first of a new batch, he looks at the difficulty of getting consistent reads from servers in the presence of the inevitable drifts between system logs. A Clock-Bound Wait. adds a small wait time on a request for a value at a recent time.

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How to Host a Clear the Air Meeting for Better Team Collaboration

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical Approaches For a Better Clear the Air Meeting. Do you ever need to have a meeting to “clear the air?” This question came in from one of our recent leadership development programs. An HR professional working to support co-workers who wanted to resolve their conflict and show up for one another in a human-centered way. They wanted to have a clear-the-air meeting, but they wanted to ensure it didn’t backfire and make things worse.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” We’ve recently updated and reposted it. The post describes how, in most software engineering organizations, power naturally accrues to managers—and also makes the case that it’s important to limit this accrual in some ways, guaranteeing certain conditions for engineering ICs, rather than leaving every aspect of t

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Geopolitical risks could present new opportunities for CIOs: Gartner

CIO

Digital geopolitics, emanating from cross-country politics, is rapidly becoming an issue that multinational CIOs must step up to lead, according to Gartner. Gartner predicts that by 2026 about 70% of multinational enterprises will adjust the countries in which they operate by hedging to reduce their geopolitical exposure. The research firm defines geopolitics as the geographic influence on power relationships in international relations.

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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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These 5 investors are betting on helping you live longer and better

TechCrunch

Analysts estimate that the market for “delaying human death” could be worth $610 billion by 2025. But that doesn’t sit well with Christian Angermayer, who co-founded Cambrian BioPharma and Rejuveneron, and whose family office Apeiron Investment Group has a special interest in expanding longevity. “This is a nonsensical, imaginary number that is almost entirely made up by the cosmetics and supplements industry,” Angermayer said of the $610 billion estimate.

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DevOps World 2022: Why DevOps Needs a Remix

DevOps.com

I was checking out the DevOps World website today to gather information, as Techstrong.TV will be live streaming from the show in Orlando, Florida September 28 and 29, 2022. The theme for this year’s DevOps World is “DevOps Remix.” The more I thought about it, the more it became clear that DevOps Remix is a […]. The post DevOps World 2022: Why DevOps Needs a Remix appeared first on DevOps.com.

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A Concise Guide to DevSecOps and Their Importance in CI/CD Pipeline

Dzone - DevOps

Leveraging continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), many businesses today automate the software development life cycle. CI/CD is a part of the DevOps process, which aims to accelerate software development while minimizing errors. Continuous delivery automates the entire software release process up to production, whereas continuous integration produces and tests code automatically.

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How to Help Your Team’s Performance Stand Out For Better Recognition

Let's Grow Leaders

Better Recognition Starts With More Strategic Contribution. You care about your team and the work they’re doing. They’re working hard. And if they’re like so many teams we work with, they yearn for better recognition. They want to know their work matters and that you (and your boss) appreciate all they do. So how do you help your team’s performance stand out?

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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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Now you can Scan your AWS Services for Security Issues with Trivy

Aqua Security

Every cloud provider has different resources that require detailed understanding to scan for security issues. To make this easier, cloud providers offer built-in security scanners. However, those may often lack functionality and integration into your existing stack.

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The Right Stuff: The Role of MLOps in AI Success

CIO

Great teams incorporate a variety of skill sets. For example, a football team consisting of 11 quarterbacks would get crushed in a game against talented linemen, running backs and receivers. It’s no different when building a team for an enterprise AI project; you can’t just throw a bunch of data scientists into a room and expect them to come up with a revenue-generating or efficiency-improving project without support from other members of the enterprise.

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Why not all VCs are ready to embrace AI-powered investment tools

TechCrunch

AI’s strength lies in its predictive prowess. Fed enough data, the conventional thinking goes, a machine learning algorithm can predict just about anything — for example, which word will appear next in a sentence. Given that potential, it’s not surprising that enterprising investment firms have looked to leverage AI to inform their decision-making.

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NewOps? AIOps? NoOps? Just Don’t Call Me Late for Dinner

DevOps.com

Once again, we are seeing an uptick in the use of the term NoOps. I always felt that NoOps was a misleading and, in fact, empty phrase. I don’t care what magic you think you have; you are never going to eliminate the need to operate your software, applications and infrastructure. I first heard the […]. The post NewOps? AIOps? NoOps? Just Don’t Call Me Late for Dinner appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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CyRC Case Study: Exploitable memory corruption using CVE-2020-25669 and Linux Kernel

Synopsys

This in-depth analysis explores CVE-2020-25669, a vulnerability that exploited a memory corruption issue in Linux Kernel. The post CyRC Case Study: Exploitable memory corruption using CVE-2020-25669 and Linux Kernel appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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Threat Actor Tactics in the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict: Analyst Observations and Predictions

Darktrace

The escalation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has led to fears of a full-scale cyberwar. In this discursive blog, analysts cover the most popular methods of attack in the conflict so far, some of the hacking groups involved, and the observations Darktrace has made in its own customer environments.

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Why Process Orchestration Needs Advanced Workflow Patterns

Bernd Rucker

Life is seldom a straight line, and the same is true for processes. Therefore, you must be able to accurately express all the things happening in your business processes for proper end-to-end process orchestration. This requires workflow patterns that go beyond basic control flow patterns (like sequence or condition). If your orchestration tool does not provide those advanced workflow patterns, you will experience confusion amongst developers, you will need to implement time-consuming workaround

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5 forces shaping the future IT workforce

CIO

Concerns about a looming recession have not derailed the booming IT job market. In the first half of this year, 115,000 new IT jobs were added, according to consulting firm Janco Associates. Even with inflation, high energy costs, and the invasion of Ukraine, IT hiring continued at a record-setting pace, but keeping tech talent still poses challenges.

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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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Ulta Beauty launches a fund, showcasing the resilience of corporate venture capital

TechCrunch

Over the past few years, corporate venture capital investors have solidified their stature as a reliable source of VC funding. The number of companies launching investment arms has exploded , and the amount of new funds has continued to rise despite the current market volatility. Ulta Beauty, the largest chain of beauty stores in the U.S., became the latest company to launch a venture arm this week.

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MLOps Vs. DevOps: What’s the Difference?

DevOps.com

Machine learning operations, or MLOps for short, is a key aspect of machine learning (ML) engineering that focuses on simplifying and accelerating the process of delivering ML models to production and maintaining and monitoring them. MLOps involves collaboration between different teams including data scientists, DevOps engineers, IT specialists and others.

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Threat Alert: Cloud Network Bandwidth Now Stolen through Cryptojacking

Aqua Security

Threat actors are looking to increase their financial gain and thus deploy cryptominers which are considered easy to use and lucrative. Cryptomining involves complex calculations leading to high computation power and consequently increased CPU consumption and electricity (or cloud) bill. Aqua Nautilus found a new type of cryptomining attack in the wild.

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Emotet Resurgence: Cross-Industry Campaign Analysis

Darktrace

This blog aims to provide background and technical discoveries from the recent Emotet resurgence detected in early 2022 across multiple Darktrace client environments in multiple regions and industries. Predominantly in March and April 2022, Darktrace DETECT provided visibility over network activities associated with Emotet compromises using initial staged payload downloads involving algorithmically generated DLLs and subsequent outbound command and control, as well as spam activities.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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4 Myths of Low-Code Methodology for BPM

TechBeacon

Prioritizing digital transformation has become a business imperative, causing disruption but also delivering dramatic results across all industries. And low-code software development—described as "extraordinarily disruptive"—has become a part of digital transformation for many organizations. According to a market research report earlier this year from Fortune Business Insights, the size of the global low-code market grew from $10.82 billion to $13.89 billion from 2020 to 2021; by 2028, the low-c

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Why every IT leader should avoid ‘best practices’

CIO

The nonsense was tucked away in a PowerPoint slide, as so much nonsense is. “We’ll help you institute best practices, followed by a program of continuous improvement,” the offending bullet said. Now, I’m willing to shrug at a bit of harmless puffery from time to time. And maybe this puffery was harmless. But I don’t think so. As my pappy used to say, ‘If someone sells this and someone else buys it, they have something in common: They’re both schmucks.

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Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A

TechCrunch

Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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