June, 2023

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How to Crisis-Proof Your Data Management in 8 Steps

TechBeacon

Company shutdowns, mass layoffs, pandemics, wars—unfortunately, we're no strangers to these types of crises. Knowing how to maintain business operations and communications with stakeholders during turbulent times is an important skill—and data plays an important role therein.

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Why Your Data Lake Strategy is Broken for Observability

DevOps.com

Someone once said, “Life is better at the lake.” That may be true in the physical world, but when it comes to using data lakes for observability, that’s not typically the case. Just about every organization in every industry has a digital presence, whether it’s a website, an app or another digital service.

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Transformational Leadership in Digital Era

Agile Alliance

This experience report illustrates my story about how I could help leaders from my organization – Cognizant Technology Solutions to transform from a power to an empowerment-based leadership style using the 5 dimensions of transformational leadership which are vision, culture, values, collaboration, and enablement.

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Linking Modular Architecture to Development Teams

Martin Fowler

Mobile applications often deliver features rapidly at first, but slow as a codebase builds up. These common software problems are exacerbated by the need to prioritize different features in different markets. Matthew Foster describes an example of this from his work with clients, and how using Domain-Driven Design and Team Topologies helped create a modular architecture that substantially reduced the time needed to deliver new features.

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The Product Symphony: Orchestrating Success with Storymapping

Speaker: Jamie Bernard - Senior Product Director at Launch by NTT Data

In today’s dynamic business landscape, successful product management hinges on a keen understanding of customer needs and market dynamics. Storymapping emerges as an invaluable pre-investment tool, enabling smarter decision-making, more accurate resource allocation, and enhanced scope control. It serves as a catalyst to better align your entire organization, setting the stage for impactful, customer-centric product management.

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The Role of Technology in Achieving Sustainability Goals

IDC

Over the past few years, a growing number of organizations around the world have made bold pledges – and set specific targets – to achieve environmental and social sustainability goals. However, many organizations continue to struggle to make progress toward achieving these goals. This is often due to a lack of a clear technology strategy [.

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How Cloud Migration Helps Improve Employee Experience

Ivanti

The old saying goes, “practice what you preach.” When Ivanti started its " Customer Zero " initiative, Bob Grazioli, Chief Information Officer, saw it as a perfect opportunity to test the products and services consumed by customers. For example, during Ivanti’s move to the cloud, Grazioli and the team experienced the same issues that customers would’ve experienced in their migration process.

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Harnessing AI in Continuous Delivery and Deployment

DevOps.com

In my recent article Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps with AI-Engineered Tools, I explained that the continuous delivery pillar is an approach where code changes are automatically built, tested and prepared for release to production; this may be followed by continuous deployment where an approved release is automatically deployed to the production environment.

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Enhancing User Trust Through Automated Review Moderation

QBurst

Reviews have become a trusted source of guidance for customers today. Reviews also influence shopping decisions. A recent survey of more than 6000 U.S. consumers shows that nine out of ten customers consider user feedback while making a purchase. Reviews are also the primary means through which over 74% of customers discover new products. In […] The post Enhancing User Trust Through Automated Review Moderation appeared first on QBurst Blog.

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Building Boba AI: Some lessons and patterns learnt in building an LLM-powered generative application

Martin Fowler

While it's fascinating to work directly with a Large Language Model, such as ChatGPT, it takes some skill and practice to learn how to prompt it effectively. My colleague Farooq Ali has been working on a co-pilot tool, Boba AI, for using an LLM to help generate ideas for product strategy. From this experience he as proposed eight patterns which he judges will be generally useful for building these kinds of AI co-pilot applications.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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The Importance of Security and Compliance in Enterprise Applications

OTS Solutions

Enterprise applications have become an integral part of modern businesses, helping them simplify operations, manage data, and streamline communication. However, as more organizations rely on these applications, the need for enterprise application security and compliance measures is becoming increasingly important. In this article, we will explore the importance of security and compliance in enterprise applications and offer guidelines, best practices, and key features to ensure their protection.

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Evolve-Ability: The need for an adaptive business evolution

Agile Alliance

Adaptability involves minor changes within the current plan ("plasticity") and major adjustments to the business model, requiring an Agile approach to navigate evolving business landscapes effectively. The post Evolve-Ability: The need for an adaptive business evolution first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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How to Talk With a Passive-Aggressive Coworker (And Not Play Their Game)

Let's Grow Leaders

What to Say When a Passive-Aggressive Coworker Tries to Ruin Your Day Passive-aggressive behavior is contagious. It’s easy to let yourself react with frustration or even get passive-aggressive (or maybe aggressive-aggressive) yourself. Now you look like the jerk—not good. The best way to deal with a passive-aggressive coworker is not to get caught in their game.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

In the summer of 2022, I joined a team of BGP experts organized by the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) to draft a comprehensive report covering the security of the internet’s routing infrastructure. The section that I was primarily responsible for covered the history of notable BGP incidents, a topic I have written about extensively throughout my career in the internet industry.

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Value-Driven AI: Applying Lessons Learned from Predictive AI to Generative

Speaker: Data Robot

Enterprise AI maturity has evolved dramatically over the past 5 years. Most enterprises have now experienced their first successes with predictive AI, but the pace and scale of impact have too often been underwhelming. Now generative AI has emerged and captivated the minds and imaginations of leaders and innovators everywhere. Join our DataRobot experts to reflect on lessons learned from helping hundreds of enterprises grow their AI maturity over the past 5 years.

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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

Netflix Tech

By Jennifer Shin , Tejas Shikhare , Will Emmanuel In 2022, a major change was made to Netflix’s iOS and Android applications. We migrated Netflix’s mobile apps to GraphQL with zero downtime, which involved a total overhaul from the client to the API layer. Until recently, an internal API framework, Falcor , powered our mobile apps. They are now backed by Federated GraphQL , a distributed approach to APIs where domain teams can independently manage and own specific sections of the API.

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Copilots For Everyone: Microsoft Brings Copilots to the Masses

DevOps.com

Microsoft has been doing a lot to extend the coding ‘copilot’ concept into new areas. And at its Build 2023 conference, Microsoft leadership unveiled new capabilities in Azure AI Studio that will empower individual developers to create copilots of their own. This news is exciting, as it will enable engineers to craft copilots that are […] The post Copilots For Everyone: Microsoft Brings Copilots to the Masses appeared first on DevOps.com.

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GPT-4 + Streaming Data = Real-Time Generative AI

Confluent

ChatGPT and data streaming can work together for any company. Learn a basic framework for using GPT-4 and streaming to build a real-world production application.

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Adopting Scrum in a Management Team with a Just-In-Time Learning Approach

Agile Alliance

An approach to instilling Agile and Scrum knowledge based on a Just-In-Time strategy.

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ERP Migration: Why Data Quality Comes First

We are living through a fundamental transformation in the way we work, and the way that organizations function. Automation and machine learning are augmenting human intelligence, tasks, jobs, and changing the systems that organizations need in order not just to compete, but to function effectively and securely in the modern world. These momentous changes raise huge organizational, digital and data challenges – at a time when business leaders are already wrestling with unprecedented risks, disrup

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Compassionate Accountability with Nate Regier

Let's Grow Leaders

Compassion and accountability are too often in tension – leaders feel they have to pick one or the other when in fact, practicing compassionate accountability can lead to a thriving organizational culture. Solely prioritizing accountability can create toxic work environments that drive away good talent. On the other end of the spectrum, being too nice can compromise performance and productivity.

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GitHub Dataset Research Reveals Millions Potentially Vulnerable to RepoJacking

Aqua Security

Millions of GitHub repositories are potentially vulnerable to RepoJacking. New research by Aqua Nautilus sheds light on the extent of RepoJacking, which if exploited may lead to code execution on organizations’ internal environments or on their customers’ environments. As part of our research, we found an enormous source of data that allowed us to sample a dataset and find some highly popular targets.

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

Netflix Tech

By Jose Fernandez , Ed Barker , Hank Jacobs Introduction In November 2022, we introduced a brand new tier —  Basic with ads. This tier extended existing infrastructure by adding new backend components and a new remote call to our ads partner on the playback path. As we were gearing up for launch, we wanted to ensure it would go as smoothly as possible.

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Microsoft’s 9th Outage in 2023 ¦ RISE of RISC-V ¦ Meta Ends WFH

DevOps.com

In this week’s #TheLongView: Redmond SaaS keeps failing, RISC-V is RISEing, and Meta is enforcing hybrid work. The post Microsoft’s 9th Outage in 2023 ¦ RISE of RISC-V ¦ Meta Ends WFH appeared first on DevOps.com.

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The Ultimate Guide to Software Delivery & Engineering Metrics

As DevOps Value Stream Management (VSM) goes mainstream, large and small organizations increasingly recognize the need to apply data analytics to manage the end-to-end software delivery process more effectively – to deliver quality software faster and more predictably. Plandek is a global leader in end-to-end software delivery metrics and analytics, and we work with clients of all sizes and levels of Agile DevOps maturity.

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No Turning Back: AI Everywhere Causes a Seminal Shift in the Tech Market

IDC

The tech industry is at a seminal moment. The combination of executive and board level interest, clearly defined outcomes, and the sheer speed of adoption makes Generative AI unlike anything we have seen before.

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Inventing and Implementing “The Scrum Master Dilemma Game”

Agile Alliance

In this report, you will be introduced to our Scrum master Dilemma game and how to play it.

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Online Reviews are the Underrated Fuel Powering the American Economy

CEO Insider

Businesses have gone through a lot over the last several years. From the global pandemic to inflation to an economic slowdown, they’ve had to find ways to innovate and thrive as consumer preferences change – which is faster than ever before. How can some businesses seemingly thrive amid the chaos, while others have faded into […] The post Online Reviews are the Underrated Fuel Powering the American Economy appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Introducing KBOM – Kubernetes Bill of Materials

Aqua Security

SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) is an accepted best practice to map the components and dependencies of your applications in order to better understand your applications’ risks. SBOMs are used as a basis for vulnerability assessment, licensing compliance, and more. There are plenty of available tools, such as Aqua Trivy , that help you easily generate SBOM for your applications.

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10 Rules for Managing PostgreSQL®

PostgreSQL is a highly versatile and robust technology, capable of addressing a wide range of challenges in diverse environments. Its expanding range of use cases is witnessing exponential growth, allowing PostgreSQL to effectively target an ever-increasing number of applications while minimizing limitations. This whitepaper presents ten indispensable rules that will empower you to optimize your PostgreSQL installation and stay ahead of the evolving landscape.

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You Can’t Regulate What You Don’t Understand

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The world changed on November 30, 2022 as surely as it did on August 12, 1908 when the first Model T left the Ford assembly line. That was the date when OpenAI released ChatGPT, the day that AI emerged from research labs into an unsuspecting world. Within two months, ChatGPT had over a hundred million users—faster adoption than any technology in history.

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How Open Source Can Enhance Developer Experience

DevOps.com

Developer experience (DX) is becoming more and more of a competitive advantage among developer-facing tools and platforms. A great developer experience that’s easy to follow and implement can truly help a software tool stand out from the crowd. Simultaneously, open source software is all the rage. In fact, a recent StackOverflow survey found open source […] The post How Open Source Can Enhance Developer Experience appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Article: Debugging Outside Your Comfort Zone: Diving Beneath a Trusted Abstraction

InfoQ Culture Methods

This article takes a deep dive through a complex outage in the main database cluster of a payments company. We’ll focus on the aftermath of the incident - the process of understanding what went wrong, recreating the outage in a test cluster, and coming up with a way to stop it from happening again, and dive deep into the internals of Postgres, and learn about how it stores data on disk.

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