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5 Common Misconceptions About Serverless in 2019

Stackery

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Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model

Erik Bernhardsson

Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It’s hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something. One pet theory I’ve had for a really long time, is that some of this is really just a statistical artifact.

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Meet ‘misinfosec’: Fighting fake news like it’s malware

The Parallax

VANCOUVER—The last thing Emmanuel Vincent expected to do with his Ph.D. in oceanography and climate science was fact-checking news reports. But he found a compelling reason to dive into the fraught world of online journalism: He wanted to stop fake news. As founder and lead scientist of Climate Feedback , a site through which a network of scientists share assessments of media coverage related to climate change, one of Vincent’s most recent victories was in getting the conservative news site The

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How Much is Poor Quality Software Costing You?

OverOps

Earlier this month, Herb Krasner, an Advisory Board member of the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) joined our VP of Solution Engineering Eric Mizell for a webinar examining the cost of poor quality software. A recent CISQ report [1], The Cost of Poor Quality Software in the US: A 2018 Report , aggregates publicly available data from a wide variety of sources to highlight the devastating financial impact of poor quality software.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Building a High-Performance Team: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their thoughts about building a high performance team. We’ve expanded the Frontline Festival to include other formats such as podcasts and artwork and are always looking for new thought […]. The post Building a High-Performance Team: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Remote Pair Programming: A Guide for Distributed Teams

Agile Alliance

Learn how to implement remote pair programming so that you can realize the benefits of pairing and address some challenges of distributed development.

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R vs Python for Machine Learning

The Crazy Programmer

There are so many things to learn before to choose which language is good for Machine Learning. We will discuss each and everything about R as well as Python and the situation or problem in which situation we have to use which language. Let’s start. Python and R are the two most Commonly used Programming Languages for Machine Learning and because of the popularity of both the languages Novice or you can say fresher are getting confused, whether they should choose R or Python language to commence

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How to Take Charge of Your Remote Meetings

Let's Grow Leaders

Lead remote meetings that get results and build relationships Tired of shadowy silhouettes, screechy feedback, and multitasking participants? It doesn’t have to be that way. Remote meetings are a daily fact of life for most leaders. When you lead them well, they […]. The post How to Take Charge of Your Remote Meetings appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Launch Your First Ansible Hands-On Lab For Free

Linux Academy

What are Hands-On Labs? Hands-On Labs is a key feature when it comes to learning practical skills. Instead of simply watching videos, Hands-On Labs deploy real environments with real-world scenarios for you to complete. By completing those scenarios, you are building skills that can be used directly on the job. If you have a paid membership at Linux Academy, you can launch any of the 700+ Hands-On Labs available on our platform for as many times as you want, at no additional cost.

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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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FlexDeploy Loves APEX : Continuous Integration for APEX

Flexagon

Oracle Application Express (APEX) is a popular application development tool and is also used to develop custom extensions for Oracle E-Business Suite. FlexDeploy is a DevOps platform for Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Release Automation which supports Oracle APEX out of the box. FlexDeploy strives to eliminate scripting requirements and provide in-depth support for many open.

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Infographic: AI powered Chatbots

CTOvision

Chatbots are rapidly becoming part of our every day lives and proving to be a very valuable tool for companies across a wide range of industries. As such, AI-enabled chatbots are increasingly being used on the front line of customer engagement. They can be integrated into customer support service teams to answer common or basic […].

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Leaders: Welcome to the Hope Business

Let's Grow Leaders

Leadership is the belief that together, we can have a better tomorrow. Are you in the hope business? The post Leaders: Welcome to the Hope Business appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Leadership is the belief that together, we can have a better tomorrow. Are you in the hope business?

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Micro-promotions and mentorship: the big impact of small actions in an engineering culture

CircleCI

For the last decade, I have worked in male-dominated environments. While during this time I’ve encountered many nitwits and detractors, I’ve also been fortunate to encounter many proponents and advocates. Although no company is perfect, at CircleCI I’ve had opportunities to grow my career in an environment I enjoy. Some of that is thanks to me, and a good slug of that is thanks to my coworkers.

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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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7 Useful JavaScript Tricks

David Walsh

Just like every other programming language, JavaScript has dozens of tricks to accomplish both easy and difficult tasks. Some tricks are widely known while others are enough to blow your mind. Let’s have a look at {x} JavaScript tricks you can start using today! Get Unique Values of an Array. Getting an array of unique values is probably easier than you think: var j = [.new Set([1, 2, 3, 3])] >> [1, 2, 3].

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Monitoring the DevOps Toolchain

DevOps.com

DevOps has grown in popularity among many companies seeking greater agility and higher-quality code. When using different tools for automation, these organizations need monitoring and tracking of these tools and metrics from different portals on a common dashboard. Toolchain monitoring helps to bring all reports into a common portal. Enabling monitoring tools from a centralized […].

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A Remarkably Easy Way to Get Better Customer Feedback

Let's Grow Leaders

Do you have a good way to tap into the customer feedback your employees are hearing every day? Are your frontline employees trained and equipt to be true customer advocates? Do they feel like their voice is being heard? If you’ve been […]. The post A Remarkably Easy Way to Get Better Customer Feedback appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lessons from the Kubernetes flaw: Why you should shift your security upstream

TechBeacon

The flaw in the Kubernetes orchestration engine uncovered late last year should serve as a reminder of the value and mission-critical nature of open source in the enterprise—and the care you must take to secure upstream open-source projects.

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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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Why You Should Learn Python

Coding Dojo

Python is one of the most loved programming languages by developers, data scientists, software engineers, and even hackers because of … Read more >>. The post Why You Should Learn Python appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Focusing on the True DevOps North Star: Continuous Improvement

DevOps.com

When we look beyond the fundamentals of tearing down silos and establishing greater collaboration, communication and transparency, DevOps is a label assigned to a framework of best practices and technologies that organizations leverage to deliver systems faster, more efficiently and without sacrificing quality. The best practice within that framework is continuous improvement, which provides stakeholders […].

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Lessons from Warren Buffett’s Investment Strategy and His Mistakes

Toptal

Warren Buffett’s reputation as an investor has become legendary. What can an individual investor learn from Warren Buffett’s investment style, his philosophy, and some of his past mistakes?

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Five red flags your IT project is failing

TechBeacon

Many organizations embarking on IT transformation bite off more than they can chew, with predictable results. A survey last year by IDG Research Services found that just about half of the polled organizations (51%) had portions of their transformation initiatives that were either stalled or abandoned entirely.

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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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What Cyber Security and Game of Thrones Have in Common

Zayo

By: Eric Rhoades, VP of Internet Solutions. We live in a hyper-connected world: enterprises are required to be online, available and responsive at all times. As global cyber threats become more and more sophisticated, network protection is a top priority for 2019 and half the battle is understanding the architecture of cyber security. Picture the Wall, in the Game of Thrones.

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DevOps and Security: Be Ready to Shield Your Application

DevOps.com

All of us have heard of continuous improvement/continuous delivery (CI/CD). There are many benefits to implementing CI/CD, as it helps seamless integration from end to end for development and deployment processes. CI/CD helps in rapid improvement, shorter release cycles and more, but it also helps with the challenge of handling security effectively at DevOps speed. […].

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Laravel Zero Downtime Deployment

Toptal

Updating live applications used to be a tedious and somewhat risky affair, but with the emergence of modern development frameworks and tools, updates and deployment are becoming straightforward. In this article, Toptal Java Developer Elene Latsoshvili explains how you can update a Laravel app with zero downtime, and how this can be done for most PHP applications.

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IoT security market to reach $35.2 bn by 2023: Report

CTOvision

According to a new market research report published by MarketsandMarkets, the global Internet of Things (IoT) Security Market size is expected to grow from USD 8.2 billion in 2018 to USD 35.2 billion by 2023, at CAGR of 33.7 percent during the forecast period. Major factors driving the growth of the market are the increasing number […].

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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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Machine learning models can’t always handle reality (but most humans can)

DXC

A growing number of enterprise leaders view artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) as transformational technologies that can enable better decision-making, increase efficiency, eliminate human error, and lower costs. For many enterprise workers, however, the relentlessly consistent performance promised by intelligent machines looms as a threat to their jobs.

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CloudBees Acquires Electric Cloud to Advance Continuous Delivery

DevOps.com

CloudBees announced it has acquired Electric Cloud as part of an effort to extend the reach of its DevOps portfolio further into the realm of continuous delivery and application release automation (ARA). Announced at the CloudBees Days event in San Francisco, the deal follows CloudBees’ acquisition of Codefresh, a provider of a cloud-based continuous integration/continuous […].

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7 Debugging Techniques To Speed Up Troubleshooting in Production

Toptal

Providing production support to an application is one of the most challenging aspects of software development. In this article, Toptal Freelance Java Developer Flavio Pezzini shows us techniques that can prevent bugs and make finding issues in production much faster.