January, 2020

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A Brief History of Containers: From the 1970s to 2019

Aqua Security

When we first published this blog post in 2017, the technology landscape for containers was quite different than it is today. Over the past two years, we have seen significant changes take place that affected, and continue to affect how Containers are adopted. As we enter the new decade, we want to recap the changes and developments that we saw and offer our view of where we believe Containers are heading to in 2020.

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On Pair Programming

Martin Fowler

At ThoughtWorks, we regularly use Pair Programming. We find it's a rarely used practice, in part due to lack of knowledge in how to do it well and because its benefits are not immediately obvious. Birgitta Böckeler and Nina Siessegger put together an excellent conference talk where they pulled together the techniques we've learned, the benefits we've found, and the challenges we've faced.

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DevSecOps: 10 Best Practices to Embed Security into DevOps

DevOps.com

For companies that employ the agile approach, DevOps seems like a natural extension. Traditionally, enterprises started with integration, development and test automation early in the product lifecycle. Gradually, the agile delivery team took care of iterative development and monitoring practices that increase code quality. Today, organizations work in unison to bridge the gap between development […].

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Shifting Left with Feature Flags and Bug Bounty Programs

LaunchDarkly

In this blog post, we’re going to cover a method to reduce your risk exposure by leveraging feature flags and your existing bug bounty program. Our goal is to catch and patch more bugs before attackers have a chance to find them. * * *. The internet has become a very hostile place. It seems like every day there’s a headline featuring another data breach or compromise.

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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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To boost your test automation success, treat it like a business

TechBeacon

Automation is cool. You simply choose the best tool, create test scripts for your smoke test suite and regression test suite, and click the "run" button. Then you get to sit back and watch stuff zip around the screen. The benefit: Testers get to spend time doing exploratory testing or partake in other valuable testing pursuits because their routine testing now takes minutes, right?

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Do Your SOC Metrics Incentivize Bad Behavior?

Palo Alto Networks

The following post on SOC metrics is adapted from the book, “Elements of Security Operations,” a guide to building and optimizing effective and scalable security operations. Download a free copy today. Some metrics that security operations centers (SOCs) widely use to evaluate their performance have the potential to drive poor behavior. One example is mean time to resolution (MTTR).

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The Myth of the Blameless Retrospective

Dzone - DevOps

I love the idea of the blameless retrospective. What's not to like? Getting all the members of a team together to blamelessly review work done at the end of a production cycle or in response to a crisis is a great idea. There's a great benefit in having a fearless, uninhibited, blame-free examination of a problem in order to improve. You get more information and you get better ideas.

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How to manage a program in a product-mode organization

Martin Fowler

My colleagues often talk about the important advantages of organizing a software development organization using products rather than projects. While this is an effective organizational approach, it does have its downsides. One of these is handling programs that require coordinating across multiple product teams. Luiza Nunes and James Lewis share their experiences dealing with this situation, outlining the kinds of problems they see and the practices they've found to make it work.

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How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model

Erik Bernhardsson

Let’s consider a toy model where you’re hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable. It’s not very important what those are, so let’s just call them “thing A” and “thing B” for now. For one set of abilities, the scatter plot looks like this: The assumption here is that A and B are drawn from a 2D-Gaussian with a mild positive correlation.

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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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20 Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Follow In 2020

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Machine Learning (ML) is emerging as one of the hottest fields today. It has penetrated into numerous aspects of our everyday life—be it Siri or Alexa, Facebook/Instagram friend suggestions, Gmail spam filters, traffic congestion predictions, customer support chatbots, and much more. The Machine Learning market is ever-growing, predicted to scale up at a CAGR of 43.8% from 2019 to 2025, reaching up to an estimated evaluation of USD 96.7 billion by the end of 2025.

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4 Words to Help You Build a Powerful Team

Let's Grow Leaders

One question leads to a powerful team “David, I just don’t have time. There’s so much to do that some days I just want to give up!” Lynn was a midlevel manager in a mid-sized healthcare company. She’d sought out coaching because […]. The post 4 Words to Help You Build a Powerful Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Passing the Baton: Leadership in Transition

General Leadership

“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is saved.” Benjamin Franklin. So you’ve been leading your organization for a year or two, maybe more, and now it’s time to turn over your pride and joy to another leader. You’ve given it everything you’ve got, as you poured your heart and soul into this organization striving to lead your team to new heights.

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Four Invisible Dynamics You Must See to Change Your Organization

Change Starts Here

Ever wonder why your organization doesn’t change as much as you expect, despite your best efforts? Your organization is perfectly designed to achieve the results it’s currently getting. If you want to change the results, then you have to change the way the organization achieves those results.

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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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Managing dependencies and communication strategy for programs

Martin Fowler

Luiza and James add two more practices to their helpful list for managing programs in product-mode organizations. This installment looks at developing a communication strategy and managing dependencies and risks. more….

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This One Little Configuration Change Will Make It Harder For People To Steal Your Information

CTOvision

Editor’s note: We are aiming this tutorial at the non-technical person. Please share with anyone in your life who could benefit from this. -bg Cyberspace is a complex domain and our adversaries are always seeking new ways to steal information or spread their malicious code or hold our data for ransom. This is the big reason […].

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20 Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Follow In 2020

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Machine Learning (ML) is emerging as one of the hottest fields today. It has penetrated into numerous aspects of our everyday life—be it Siri or Alexa, Facebook/Instagram friend suggestions, Gmail spam filters, traffic congestion predictions, customer support chatbots, and much more. The Machine Learning market is ever-growing, predicted to scale up at a CAGR of 43.8% from 2019 to 2025, reaching up to an estimated evaluation of USD 96.7 billion by the end of 2025.

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How to Get Better Results in 2020: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their thoughts about how to achieve better results in 2020. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors. Are you […]. The post How to Get Better Results in 2020: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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DevOps Versus ITIL: How to Win the Battle Over Change Management

DevOps.com

Ever since DevOps came on the scene a decade ago, ITIL has been under siege. ITIL lays out a number of IT service management (ITSM) best practices, including release management, change management, incident management, problem management and many other aspects of running an IT shop so that its priorities align with the business’s. For many […].

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Test automation tools: Top trends and challenges for 2020

TechBeacon

Test automation tools have been steadily evolving—a trend that shows no sign of slowing down in the coming year. Several key advances to watch for over the next 12 months should make life easier for test automation engineers, consultants and tool vendors say, while others to watch out for are only likely to add confusion.

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Visual artifacts and defined roles in running a program

Martin Fowler

Luiza and James finish their article on running programs in product mode organizations by discussing two useful practices. Investing in visual artifacts to help convey information to those involved, and the necessity of having defined roles for managing the overall program.

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AI-Driven Predictions for Super Bowl LIV: A Touchdown for Sports Analytics

DataRobot

In Super Bowl LIV this Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs will face the San Francisco 49ers in Miami, Florida. This will be the first Super Bowl appearance for the Chiefs in 50 years. After a loss in 2013, the 49ers are looking to secure their sixth Super Bowl ring, which would tie them with the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers for the league record.

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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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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The benefits of honing technical skills go far beyond the Information Technology industry. Strong tech skills are essential in today’s changing world, and if your employees consistently and proactively enhance their IT skills, you will help them improve both personally and professionally. This, in turn, will help your business grow. Yes, it may feel overwhelming.

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How to Help Your Team Navigate the Chaos

Let's Grow Leaders

How do you help your team navigate the chaos, particularly when you’re feeling frustrated, overwhelmed (and maybe even a bit frightened)? In this article, I share three ways to help your team navigate the chaos of reorganization, shifts in direction or toxic […]. The post How to Help Your Team Navigate the Chaos appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to Combine DevOps and Agile

DevOps.com

In recent years, application development and deployment have become an increasingly critical part of business operations. Because of this, various entities have sought to optimize their product development process. This has led to a rise in the popularity of DevOps, which is designed for that purpose. In simple words, the DevOps application during the software […].

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DevOps must-reads: 7 titles every practitioner should read

TechBeacon

Upskilling continues to be the biggest challenge—and opportunity—as DevOps and digital transformation initiatives continue to advance, so as 2020 rolls out it's only fitting to recommend the best books for learning.

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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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Cloudera: Extract Benefit From All Your Data And Work Across Clouds

CTOvision

We have tracked Cloudera from the very beginning and have watched as it has continually innovated in ways that help both enterprises and the open source community deliver more value. They started off on a mission to make Hadoop safe for the enterprise and then built upon that solid foundation to create full spectrum solutions […].

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Data Science Fails: The Transparency Sweet Spot

DataRobot

Does your organization apply appropriate human resources governance when hiring staff? Large enterprises tend to follow the same basic processes for hiring human staff. First, hiring managers write a job description, including the tasks the position requires and the skills and attributes of a suitable candidate. Job vacancies are posted, sometimes recruiters are also used, and people submit their resumes for consideration.

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Top 10 cities to hire developers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

According to StackOverflow , the demand for software developers still outpaces the supply. Research reveals that in the US alone, tech talent shortage is predicted to cost the country USD 435.7 billion. . Unfortunately, businesses in major tech countries such as the US and the UK have long been suffering because of the rapid growth of tech industries and the shortage of talented developers.