June, 2020

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Why is Site Reliability Engineering Important?

DevOps.com

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is one of the fastest-growing enterprise roles and set of operational practices for managing services at scale. During the Site Reliability Engineering SKILup Day June 18, I asked a group of the DevOps Institute Ambassadors why SRE was important to them. Below you will find some insightful responses, tips and calls […].

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Who?s Responsible for Security? Apparently, It Depends

DevOps.com

More than 10 years after organizations began implementing DevOps, responsibility for security still resembles the proverbial chicken and egg dilemma. GitLab’s 2020 Global DevSecOps Survey asked developers, security team members, operations pros and testers about sole responsibility for security in their organizations. About 28% of developers, 33% of security teams, 21% of ops pros and 23% […].

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What is Blockchain Technology?

CTOvision

Read David Hamilton explain all the nitty-gritty of blockchain technology on Security.io Its been almost ten years since Satoshi Nakamoto first introduced Blockchain technology to the world in his 2008 […].

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Agile Methods Are No Match For Outdated Leadership

Agile Alliance

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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 to Overcome Challenges With AWS Lambda Logging

DevOps.com

Monitoring AWS Lambda can be a complex and potentially costly endeavor. Here’s what you need to know to stay on track and on budget Organizations are already experiencing a shift toward serverless cloud computing. According to the O’Reilly “Serverless Survey 2019,” around 40% of respondents said they had implemented serverless architecture.

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CVE-2020-2021: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Vulnerable to Critical Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Tenable

Critical authentication bypass vulnerability in PAN-OS devices could be exploited in certain configurations, which are commonly recommended by identity providers. Background. On June 29, Palo Alto Networks published an advisory for a critical vulnerability in PAN-OS. PAN-OS is the custom operating system (OS) that Palo Alto Networks (PAN) uses in their next-generation firewalls.

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The EU’s Plans to Build a Wall Around GDPR-Protected Data

DevOps.com

An ambitious German- and French-lead European Union (EU) initiative could wrestle tighter management, and eventually, control of data from commercial cloud providers. The project, dubbed as “Gaia-X,” is also intended to offer firewall-like protection for data sources from the EU. The initiative could have repercussions on how DevOps teams from outside of the EU manage […].

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Tableau certification guide: Kick-start your analytics career

CIO

Data visualization platform Tableau is one of the most widely used tools in the rapidly growing business intelligence (BI) space and individuals with skills in Tableau are in high demand. Market intelligence and advisory firm Mordor Intelligence forecasts the global data visualization market to achieve a compound annual growth rate of more than 9 percent between 2020 and 2025 as businesses seek to become more analytically driven.

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Artificial Intelligence: The time for ethics is over

CTOvision

If the rules are too weak, there is a too great a risk that our rights and freedoms will be undermined: This currently applies to all applications of artificial intelligence, […].

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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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API Development in Go Using Goa

Toptal

Your code is described in your API definition using a Golang Domain Specific Language (DSL), then generated using the Goa CLI, and implemented separately from your application source code.

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How to Co-Create a Better Future

Let's Grow Leaders

There’s no going back, but a better future is possible It should be clear to every leader at this point: there’s no getting back to “normal.” The pandemic has unalterably shifted the economic landscape and business operations. The racial equity movement sweeping […]. The post How to Co-Create a Better Future appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Threat Alert: DzMLT has Hidden Cryptominers in Container Images

Aqua Security

We, the research team at Aqua Security, recently performed an in-depth examination of cloud native assets in the wild by dynamically scanning for hidden threats and then cataloging those findings. As a result of this process, we discovered an infrastructure of 23 container images stored in Docker Hub. These container images had a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA) hidden either within their image layers or downloaded into their instantiated containers during runtime.

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3 Reasons Why Traceability Should Be a DevOps Priority

DevOps.com

Traceability in DevOps is about ensuring clarity, accountability and the best possible end product for customers There’s a lot to think about when it comes to mobile DevOps. For a start, there’s the need for effective cooperation between members of different teams, perhaps even via team collaboration software for remote workers. With so many people […].

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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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Why Now Is the Time for the Spring Boot of Infrastructure Automation

Dzone - DevOps

Gartner predicts that through 2022, 75% of DevOps initiatives will fail to meet expectations due to issues around organizational learning and change. But DevOps initiatives are important because they enable critical capabilities to compete in the future. Without demolishing the figurative wall legacy IT built between development and operations, delivering the kind of digital experiences customers expect today will more likely fail than not.

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The Internet of Things Has a Consent Problem

CTOvision

Read why Stacey Higginbotham says that the Internet of Things has a consent problem on IEEE Blog : Consent has become a big topic in the wake of the Me […].

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10 portfolio projects for aspiring automation engineers

TechBeacon

Those looking to break into the test automation field have difficulty doing so because of lack of experience. One way to gain experience is, of course, to study and practice on your own. But how do you demonstrate your newfound knowledge to employers?

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How to Hold an Effective Mid-Year Review in a Pandemic

Let's Grow Leaders

We get it. It’s all a lot right now. Some days it takes every ounce of energy just to make it through. Who has time for mid-year reviews? Why not just skip them this year? After all, a great mid-year review is […]. The post How to Hold an Effective Mid-Year Review in a Pandemic appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Next.js 101: What you should know

Netlify

Chances are if you pay attention to the web development space, you might have been hearing quite a bit about Next.js. Why the hype? What’s so exciting about it? Nobody knows. Just kidding. I know. And I’ll tell you. Why does Next.js exist? Isn’t it just bloat on top of React? Anyone who knows me knows I love React, and I stick to vanilla React as often as I can.

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Editor's Soapbox: On Systemic Debt

The Daily WTF

I recently caught up with an old co-worker from my first "enterprise" job. In 2007, I was hired to support an application which was "on its way out," as "eventually" we'd be replacing it with a new ERP. September 2019 was when it finally got retired. The application was called "Total Inventory Process" and it is my WTF origin story.

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DevOps Best Practices

Dzone - DevOps

Traditional IT had two separate teams in any organization – the development team and the operations team. The development team works on the software, developing and releasing it after ensuring that the code works perfectly. The Operations team works on deployment, load balancing, and release management to make SaaS live. They check the application performance and report back any issues, if existent to the development team.

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How Decentralization Could Alleviate Data Biases In Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

Read why Oluwaseun Adeyanju says that decentralization could increase data biases in artificial intelligence on Forbes : The Covid-19 outbreak has overwhelmed health systems around the world. At a point, […].

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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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8 ways to know when you’ve done agile well

TechBeacon

You'll find many measures of agile team performance and behavior out there, but the eight listed here are ones you don’t often hear much about—even though they're key to success.

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One Crucial Way to Release Your Team’s Best Thinking

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Team’s Best Thinking Won’t Always Raise Its Hand Medical insurance rates had gone up again. Our company’s insurance provider had restructured all their plans, and the numbers didn’t look good. Three days after we got the news, the CEO, Director of […]. The post One Crucial Way to Release Your Team’s Best Thinking appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How DevOps Powered by AI and Machine Learning Is Delivering Business Transformation

DevOps.com

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is fundamentally changing the way we think about DevOps. Most notably, it is delivering a new form of DevOps that recognizes the need to have systems that are intelligent by design and underpinned by comprehensive security (DevSecOps). For many, this will be the crucial next […].

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How to Build a Node.js Error-handling System

Toptal

Node.js developers often find themselves working with chaotic code that’s anything but clean. This can obviously cause productivity issues and outright errors. In this article, Toptal Full-stack Developer Jay Huang will introduce you to error-handling in Node.js and demonstrate how you can build a robust error-handling system yourself.

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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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Bash Wars

Lacework

Whether you’re an engineer or a system administrator, you’ve probably found bash to be a go-to resource for automating your Linux tasks. Bash is so useful that it has become popular among malware authors as well. This is because it can easily perform many tasks that are necessary for malware installation and system persistence. Cryptomining [.]. Read More.

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Twitter says some business users had their private data exposed

CTOvision

Flip the “days since the last Twitter security incident” back to zero. Twitter said Tuesday that it has emailed its business customers, such as those who advertise on the site, to […].

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4 ways digital transformation can help you adapt to a post-pandemic world

TechBeacon

Heading into this year, a growing number of organizations were pondering the perceived benefits of a digital transformation effort—kicking the tires, as it were—and weighing those gains against the certain business disruptions such an effort would bring.