July, 2022

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Being Agile vs. doing Agile – what’s the difference?

Agile Alliance

Companies of all sizes are racing to adopt Agile ways of working. But, to truly reap the benefits of Agile methodology, organizations need to shift from ‘doing’ Agile to 'being' Agile. The post Being Agile vs. doing Agile – what’s the difference? first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Types of Ciphers in Cryptography

The Crazy Programmer

Cryptography is the study of data security through Encryption technique, which describe the encryption process and techniques used. A cipher is an algorithm which is used to encrypt or decrypt the data. Plain text is converted in cipher text with help of this. The transforming process is performed using a key. This key is like a pattern to encrypt the data.

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Myth Busting: 5 Misconceptions About FinOps

DevOps.com

Over the years, moves to the cloud have happened in several different ways and at various speeds. The reality is that today most enterprises are spending massive amounts on their cloud environments, and many teams are struggling to contend with the governance implications of this reality. Fundamentally, teams struggle with an either-or proposition: Either they […].

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Legacy Displacement: Revert to Source

Martin Fowler

Legacy systems often act as integration hubs, ingesting source data to pass on to downstream systems. A new downstream system can decouple itself from legacy by finding the source of data to the legacy and integrating directly to that instead. Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis describe this Revert to Source pattern, explaining that this part of legacy displacement often also allows a new system to take advantage of upgrades to source data that the legacy had neglected.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le

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Curiosity at Work: 5 Opportunities to Show Up a Bit More Curious

Let's Grow Leaders

I am a HUGE proponent of showing up with genuine curiosity at work. Need to have a performance feedback conversation with an under-performing employee? There’s no better place to start than with curiosity. Need a solution to a seemingly no-win scenario with a customer? Again, a bit of curiosity goes a long way. And yet, I know I’m guilty of this.

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5 quick tips for successful Agile outcomes

Agile Alliance

Product Ownership Analysis or POA is a researched and studied discipline with a set of practices, processes, and procedures to create successful outcomes. Here are five quick tips to add to your toolkit. The post 5 quick tips for successful Agile outcomes first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Dennis Ritchie Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Dennis Ritchie, a computer scientist is most popularly known for creating the C programming language. Dennis grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended ‘Summit High School’ in Summit, New Jersey. He was a star student in the classroom, earning consistently good grades. He went on to study applied mathematics and physics at Harvard University.

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Announcing GitLab support on CircleCI

CircleCI

GitLab teams, welcome to CircleCI! Today we are pleased to announce GitLab support on CircleCI. Teams using GitLab SaaS can now build, test, and deploy on CircleCI, and access CircleCI’s most popular features like Docker layer caching and automatic test-splitting. GitLab is now the third version control system we support, in addition to GitHub and Bitbucket.

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What the evolution of API management means for DevOps

TechBeacon

With resources stretched and margins getting thinner, application programming interfaces and the API economy will continue to play a critical role in connecting services, applications, and clouds.

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Use Cases for Apache Cassandra®

There’s a good reason why Apache Cassandra® is quickly becoming the NoSQL database of choice for organizations of all stripes. In this white paper, discover the key use cases that make Cassandra® such a compelling open source software – and learn the important pitfalls to avoid. From understanding its distributed architecture to unlocking its incredible power for industries like healthcare, finance, retail and more, experience how Cassandra® can transform your entire data operations.

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How to Lead Through a No-Win Scenario

Let's Grow Leaders

There will be times when you face outcomes you intensely dislike. A seeming no-win scenario is also a chance to distinguish yourself, earn people’s trust, and innovate. Here are seven ways to lead through these tough circumstances, build your credibility, and sleep well at night: Reframe. Own the UGLY. Collaborate. Win with Values. Choose a Different Time Frame.

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CPG Hiring Trends

N2Growth Blog

The evolution of new technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic have greatly influenced consumer habits worldwide, consumers are becoming more demanding, and companies are working on efficiencies to offset the negative impact of inflation on their P&Ls. Leaders are working on efficiencies to offset these challenges. This article will examine how new technologies, consumer habits, and the pandemic have influenced consumer expectations, how companies are working to meet changing consumer expectati

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How DevOps Teams Can Defend Against API Attacks

DevOps.com

Remember when ransomware was the main security threat that DevOps teams needed to worry about? Those days are over. Ransomware attacks are certainly still happening, but API security breaches—which increased by a whopping 600% in 2021—are now poised to become the top attack vector for threat actors, according to Gartner. That’s the bad news. The […].

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How Machine Learning is Used in Finance and Banking

Exadel

Sophisticated, intelligent security systems and streamlined customer services are keys to business success. Financial institutions, in particular, need to stay ahead of the curve using cutting-edge technology to optimize their IT and meet the latest market demands. The banking landscape is constantly changing, and the application of machine learning in banking is arguably still in its early stages.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Article: It’s Time to Start Growing No-Code Developers

InfoQ Culture Methods

It’s time to start training and promoting people to be “business application no-code developers.” Why? Because everyone who manages a system is now a “developer,” whether they were trained that way or not. And if you don’t do this, your company will run into insurmountable problems when scaling its systems. Read this advice from a CTO on how your org can catch up.

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The future of DevOps

TechBeacon

There's more to DevOps than methodology. According to a recently released report from Forrester, future DevOps success will require organizations to undergo a mindset shift—embracing new tools, technologies, and practices that support teams working together toward a common goal.

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How Do I Ask Better Questions: Asking For a Friend with Chad Littlefield [VIDEO]

Let's Grow Leaders

Want to Ask Better Questions? Stop Asking Why. Here’s Why… In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I talk with Chad Littlefield, Co-Author of Ask Better Questions. Chad and I met at an industry conference where we were both speaking and discovered many shared interests including creating psychological safety and encouraging deeper, more meaningful conversations and swimming.

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7 Ways to Optimize Performance for Your WordPress Site (Sponsored)

David Walsh

The vast majority of blogs, news websites, and information websites run on WordPress. While the WordPress developer team and community do their best to ensure wordPress is performant, there are a number of practices you can implement to keep your site blazing fast. Let’s look at some of them! Use Cloudinary WordPress Plugin for Media. Cloudinary is the most dynamic media transformation, delivery, and optimization service on the internet.

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From Whims to Wins: How a Customer-Centric Portfolio Transforms Product Strategy

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar, and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.

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Applying Automation to DevOps

DevOps.com

In the book, “Life and the Art of Engineering,” author Haresh Sippy said, “Automation is cost-cutting by tightening the corners, not cutting them.” Today, businesses and organizations are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve productivity while reducing inefficiencies across their operations. Automation has emerged as the natural answer as it addresses these issues while […].

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CVE-2022-32223 Discovery: DLL Hijacking via npm CLI

Aqua Security

Aqua Team Nautilus recently discovered that all Node.js versions earlier than 16.16.0 (LTS) and 14.20.0 on Windows are vulnerable to dynamic link library (DLL) hijacking if OpenSSL is installed on the host. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to escalate their privileges and establish persistence in a target environment. The vulnerability can also provide another way to embed malicious code into packages.

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Top 3 Barriers to Entry for AI in Health Care

Dataiku

When many people hear the phrase “AI in health care,” they may think of doctors being replaced by robots or machines. Not exactly a positive connotation, both on the patient and on the physician side of the equation, and also far from a realistic goal or measure of success. The potential for AI in health care is so much more diverse and, in many ways, complex.

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COBOL's youth culture

TechBeacon

COBOL isn’t something new. It’s not thought of as something emerging or disruptive. Yet slowly, almost out of necessity, it’s building a youth culture. A new generation is taking hold of the language and starting to chart a path forward.

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The Definitive Entity Resolution Buyer’s Guide

Are you thinking of adding enhanced data matching and relationship detection to your product or service? Do you need to know more about what to look for when assessing your options? The Senzing Entity Resolution Buyer’s Guide gives you step-by-step details about everything you should consider when evaluating entity resolution technologies. You’ll learn about use cases, technology and deployment options, top ten evaluation criteria and more.

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How to Be Less Negative – and Still Be Yourself

Let's Grow Leaders

Learning How to Be Less Negative Will Make You More Effective. When your team or supervisor thinks of you as a negative person, you’re less likely to be invited to conversations where you would have valuable contributions to make. You’re less likely to receive recognition for your work and your odds of promotion go down. If you often hear that you’re too negative, learning how to be less negative is a critical skill to master—and fast.

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Ruby on Rails Examples to Consider for Your Developmental Journey

Coding Dojo

Ruby on Rails continues to be an extremely powerful yet developer-friendly solution for tackling all manner of web projects, and … Read more >>. The post Ruby on Rails Examples to Consider for Your Developmental Journey appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Simplifying DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

DevOps.com

Let’s face it, tools for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) configuration management may be vital, but they’re difficult to use. But what if it’s not so much the tools themselves as it is our understanding of them? What if we looked at provisioning and configuration systems differently and did so using vocabulary that was less confusing and more […].

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How to Create a Compelling Narrative That Connects with Senior Execs

Next Level Blog

One of the leadership communications distinctions I’ve been thinking about a lot this year is the difference between communications that are episodic and those that are longitudinal. Back in January, I wrote a post about how leaders need to pull the thread through so their teams can see how their work fits into the longer arc of the work. Lately, I’ve been advising a lot of clients on how to frame their communications for C-Suite executives who, because of the nature of their jobs, are bombarded

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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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Debugging Postgres autovacuum problems: 13 tips

The Citus Data

If you’ve been running PostgreSQL for a while, you’ve heard about autovacuum. Yes, autovacuum, the thing which everybody asks you not to turn off, which is supposed to keep your database clean and reduce bloat automatically. And yet—imagine this: one fine day, you see that your database size is larger than you expect, the I/O load on your database has increased, and things have slowed down without much change in workload.

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4 tips for building high-quality Flutter applications

TechBeacon

Flutter is a great mobile application framework for developers, testers, and organizations overall. Because it lets you build iOS and Android applications with the same codebase on a user-friendly interface, Flutter makes app development both fast and cost-effective. It also offers availability on different IDEs, performance that is indistinguishable from native mobile apps, ample documentation, and an active user community.

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Tomorrow Together with David Dye

Let's Grow Leaders

The 21st century hasn’t started the way that many of us expected it would. We’re looking at a potent mix of a global pandemic, global warming, the resurgence of authoritarianism, white nationalism, and war that again threatens to consume the planet. It can feel frustrating and hopeless. And those are just a few of the issues that are pervasive and in people’s consciousness regularly.