January, 2019

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AI brings speed to security

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Survey results indicate incident response times improve with AI-based security services. Organizations that use security tools with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) see a significant decrease in incident response time, according to a survey of 457 security practitioners conducted by O’Reilly Media in conjunction with Oracle. Twenty percent of IT professionals who rely on traditional security measures said their teams can detect a malware infection or other attack within min

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The 4 Keys to Effective Continuous Testing

DevOps.com

In the digital era, products no longer can win on capabilities alone. Speed to market and buyer experience now matter just as much to customers as the extent to which a product meets a pressing need or outperforms competitive offerings. Against this backdrop, software developers find themselves under increasing pressure, left with no choice but […].

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How to Fully Maximise the OKR Benefits for Your Company

Luis Goncalves

Maybe you’ve heard about OKR in an executives-only grapevine. You heard other guys saying they’re having lesser headaches with their teams. Maybe you heard that everyone in Company A is breaking their performance score after many years of stalling the company’s growth. The culprit behind, OKRs. Of course, as the leader of your company, you want the same results.

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Agile Q&A: What Do Business Analysts Do on an Agile Team?

Agile Alliance

I have the opportunity to talk to business analysts quite a bit, and the conversation usually turns to the topic of Agile. More often than not, the question that comes up is “there isn’t a business analyst role mentioned in Scrum. Does that mean that there is no place for business analysts?” The short answer … Continued.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Gradually, then suddenly

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Technological change often happens gradually, then suddenly. Tim O'Reilly explores the areas poised for sudden shifts. There’s a passage in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises in which a character named Mike is asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he answers. “Gradually, then suddenly.”. Technological change happens much the same way. Small changes accumulate, and suddenly the world is a different place.

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How to Protect Your Small Business from a Hacker Attack

The Crazy Programmer

Data breaches and compromised websites frequently used to spread malware can be risky for your business; including small businesses. In fact, small or medium-sized businesses are likely to suffer more consequences of cyber-attacks than large enterprises. Large enterprises have the benefit of huge financial reliance as well as organizational resources to combat any attacks.

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How to Lead Different and Diverse People

Let's Grow Leaders

Achieve More When you Lead Different and Diverse People You know that the ability to lead different and diverse people to come together and blend their talents is key to achieving breakthrough results. But if you’re like most leaders we work with, we […]. The post How to Lead Different and Diverse People appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How OKR Works: A Beginner’s Guide

Luis Goncalves

How OKR works? OKR is a phenomenal goal setting framework that many companies swear by. It’s easy and simple. Very straightforward and is results-driven. Google, Intel, Amazon, Spotify and many other leading brands have been using it for many years. They deem it an effective tool that drives productivity, accountability, and engagement among employees from top to bottom.

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Agile Q&A: Team Qualities

Agile Alliance

I recently received a question about the basic qualities Agile teams should have via the website. I replied with a reader’s digest version to the requester and promised a more complete answer in a blog post. Here’s that more complete answer. Basic qualities for an Agile team What are basic qualities should Agile teams have? … Continued.

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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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Encountering Resistance to Change? Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing

Change Starts Here

The dictionary definition of Resistance is: Any force that slows down or prevents motion. Resistance is a scientific term that stems from Newton’s laws of motion. An object in motion stays in motion until subjected to an outside force. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Resistance plays a crucial part in […].

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10 Ways Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing Sales

CTOvision

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning show the potential to reduce the most time-consuming, manual tasks that keep sales teams away from spending more time with customers. Automating account-based marketing support with predictive analytics and supporting account-centered research, forecasting, reporting, and recommending which customers to upsell first are all techniques freeing sales teams from manually […].

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Mobile UX Design – Best Practices, Constraints, and Working with Developers

Toptal

We can achieve better user experiences with mobile UX design by following best practices, understanding constraints and facilitating a solid working relationship with developers.

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5 Poor Leadership Practices You Need to Stop

Let's Grow Leaders

These poor leadership practices are common but limit your influence. You’re working hard to be a great leader. You focus on results and relationships. You try to show up with confidence and humility. But despite your effort, you’re still struggling. Could one […]. The post 5 Poor Leadership Practices You Need to Stop appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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The State of the Octoverse: machine learning

Github

In our 2018 Octoverse report, we noticed machine learning and data science were popular topics on GitHub. tensorflow/tensorflow was one of the most contributed to projects, pytorch/pytorch was one of the fastest growing projects, and Python was the third most popular language on GitHub. We decided to dig a little deeper into the state of machine learning and data science on GitHub.

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Mob Programming

Agile Alliance

Mob Programming is a software development approach where the whole team works on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and at the same computer.

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Tips for a Successful and Smooth Launch

Women on Business

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Artificial Intelligence Systems Can be Fooled

CTOvision

Read why Nidhi Singh says that artificial intelligence systems have their own severe limitations on Entrepreneur : Despite all its benefits and the ease that technology has brought in, the fear that new-age technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and robotics would displace human jobs still looms. However, some researchers don’t agree with the idea that […].

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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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Cross-Cultural Design and the Role of UX

Toptal

Bringing a digital product to a new market can feel like navigating uncharted territory. Cultural differences are hard to identify but essential to understanding when developing a localized user experience.

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6 Reasons Your Staff Keeps You in the Dark

Let's Grow Leaders

Do you ever feel like your staff keeps you in the dark? Do you ever wonder if they’re going out of their way to keep you out of their way? That seems ridiculous. AND, it’s entirely possible. Here’s the scary part if […]. The post 6 Reasons Your Staff Keeps You in the Dark appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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9 Pillars of Continuous Security Best Practices

DevOps.com

Without proper consideration given to security best practices, the continuous delivery of software changes facilitated by DevOps is risky. On the other hand, DevOps provides an opportunity to reduce security risks if security is integrated into the continuous delivery pipeline according to best practices. This blog enumerates best practices for security across nine pillars of […].

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The best software engineering conferences of 2019

TechBeacon

As a developer, you expect to get practical, technical content when you go to a conference, but you also want to network with other engineers in your field—hopefully, with people who are dealing with some of the same challenges as you. And if you're like most of your peers, expo halls are a lower priority.

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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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West African Financial Institutions Hit by Wave of Attacks

Symantec

Attackers using commodity malware and living off the land tools against financial targets in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo (DR), Ghana, and Equatorial Guinea.

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Blockchain Technology can be Critical to IoT Infrastructure Security

CTOvision

Read why Floyd DCosta says that blockchain technology could be a crucial cog in the Internet of Things infrastructure on Entrepreneur : The era of the Internet of things (IoT) is upon us and it is impacting our lives. Today, technology has pervaded into nearly all walks of life, and constant innovation has made it […].

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State Management in Angular Using Firebase

Toptal

Without proper state management, your Angular app will become a UX nightmare. But even with that solved, persisting state across sessions and devices can be tricky. This tutorial shows how to leapfrog that challenge using Firebase.

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How to Hold a Remarkably Effective Team Huddle

Let's Grow Leaders

When Karin was in her sales exec role at Verizon, she would often walk into the back door of a store to find her highest performing team huddled just before the store opened, talking about their plans for the day. When she […]. The post How to Hold a Remarkably Effective Team Huddle 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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7 DevOps Lessons in 2018: The Path to DevOps Success in 2019

DevOps.com

We all learn from mistakes, right? But it would be better if we learned faster and didn’t repeat them in our future exercises. And this is exactly what we will discuss here in this blog. For a while now, we’ve been overwhelmed by the idea of the DevOps principle. We love how the collaboration between […]. The post 7 DevOps Lessons in 2018: The Path to DevOps Success in 2019 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Why DevOps is not enough

TechBeacon

Accelerating time-to-market is more than a goal; it's a necessary survival skill in today's digital age. An enterprise's success depends on its ability to quickly create innovative digital applications, products, and services that can adapt to new and evolving business models.

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Institutional Innovation - I Have a Dream

Edge Perspectives

Everyone talks about transformation these days, but the term is used so loosely that it’s begun to lose all meaning. I recently wrote a blog post suggesting that the ultimate test of transformation is whether the caterpillar became a butterfly – is it so different that it’s unrecognizable? That’s a useful metaphor, but many have asked me to make it more tangible in the world of institutions.