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How do you explain the unreasonable effectiveness of cloud security?

High Scalability

With the enormous attack surface of cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP, why aren't there more security problems? Data breaches and cyber attacks occur daily. How do you explain the unreasonable effectiveness of cloud security? Google has an ebook on their security approach; Microsoft has some web pages. Both are the equivalent of that person who is disgustingly healthy and you ask them how they do it and they say "I don't know.

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What Is Kubernetes? A Guide to Containerization and Deployment

Toptal

As we start transitioning to microservice-based architectures, a question arises: What should I choose to make my service stable as well as easy to manage and deploy? The short answer is: Use Docker!

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There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security

Coding Horror

Remember "cybersecurity"? Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy. things! Who knows what kind of naughty digital mischief they might be up to? Unfortunately, we now live in a world where this kind of digital mischief is literally rewriting the world's history. For proof of that, you need look no further than this single email that was sent March 19th, 2016.

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Frustrated or Focused – Leadership Tips for Managing Emotions

Let's Grow Leaders

“David, I know I shouldn’t take this personally, but I’m so frustrated and I just want to yell at my team and walk away. I need help managing emotions or I’m going to have a meltdown.” Amanda is a team leader for […]. The post Frustrated or Focused – Leadership Tips for Managing Emotions appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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To prevent EHR breaches, stop using them (Q&A)

The Parallax

The idea behind electronic health records seems sound: Bring a patient’s paper chart into the Digital Age. But the reality, says Twila Brase, a public-health nurse who is also the president and co-founder of the patient advocacy group Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom, is that EHRs are a disaster for patients and doctors alike—and in more ways than we might suspect.

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5 ways to fix software entropy for startups

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

“A ‘startup’ is a company that is confused about – 1. What its product is, 2. Who its customers are 3. How to make money.” – Dave McClure, Founder 500 Startups . During its journey, a tech startup has three levers of success: cost, speed, and quality. Unfortunately, you can choose only two at a time. So, if you pick speed and cost, you might have to sacrifice quality.

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Splunk.conf 2018: The Top 7 Sessions You Can’t Miss

OverOps

Splunk conference is just around the corner, and we’ve got your back with the top news and sessions you won’t want to miss out on. Splunk Conference 2018 is opening its gates in the most magical place on earth: Disney World. While Mickey and Minnie are attractions on their own, Splunk is offering some worthy contenders that’ll catch your attention, and teach you a thing or two about your application, workflow, logs and much more.

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Ransomware attacks against hospitals: A timeline

The Parallax

Ransomware attacks are serious business for hackers?and often completely avoidable. Hospitals and health care systems, now in the business of collecting patient data as a side effect of treating physical maladies, struggle to keep that information secure. While there’s no ransomware-specific cost estimate to the health care business, Verizon’s annual Data Breach Report for 2018 estimates that ransomware is included in 85 percent of the successful malware attacks against hospitals.

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Practical Ideas for Fostering True Collaboration: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

This months topic, collaboration, is particularly poignant for me, as the Frontline Festival has now been an active collaborative adventure including thought leaders around the world for five-and-a-half years. In March of 2013, while still working at Verizon and having been blogging […]. The post Practical Ideas for Fostering True Collaboration: A Frontline Festival 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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Flow of Value and Forecasting: An Interview with Daniel Vacanti

Agile Alliance

This is an interview with Daniel Vacanti, Co-founder and CEO at ActionableAgile. Daniel, along with Pradeep Singh, who presented the experience report, Ultimate Kanban: Scaling Agile Without Frameworks at Ultimate Software. We discuss flow and how paying attention to the amount the work you have in progress can lead to dramatic improvements in what you are able to deliver.

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Django Project Tour

The Crazy Programmer

In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look on each file that exists in our django project folder. Let’s say, we’ve created a project named as my_website on our desktop. Now open that folder you can see another folder (directory) with the same name inside our project folder. Along with this directory, we’ve other two files db.sqllite3 and manage.py.

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A guide to modern mobile app development strategy

OTS Solutions

A guide to modern mobile app development strategy. Digital communication and marketing have been changing a lot over the past decade. One of the areas that a lot of focus has been laid on is mobile application development. This is informed by the fact that close to 90 percent of the population, which translates to 6 billion people, have access to mobile phones.

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Artificial Intelligence Sells, But Machine Learning Delivers

CTOvision

There is an old adage in the world of computing. If you want money for your project say it is Artificial Intelligence. But if you want talent to deliver on your capabilities remember to hire Machine Learning experts. Seems Artificial Intelligence sells. But Machine Learning Delivers. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning are all […].

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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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No Estimates

Agile Alliance

Estimates in software are ubiquitous. Some love estimates, some hate estimates. Woody asks questions. This is an invitation to find the right questions.

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A Guide to Effective Web Design for E-Commerce

The Crazy Programmer

As anyone who has ever bought anything on Amazon will know, there’s money to be had in ecommerce. In 2017 alone, global ecommerce sales amounted to over 2.3 trillion dollars , and that number is expected to more than double by 2021. It’s a giant pie, and one that everyone can have a piece of if they’re savvy enough and possess a certain know-how, and a certain eye.

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Tips for a Productive Design Critique

Toptal

Design critiques are a key part of the product design process that encourage collaboration and improve ideas. This guide will help designers conduct productive, efficient critiques for actionable feedback.

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The AI Industry Series: Top Healthcare AI Trends To Watch

CTOvision

CB Insights sets the standard when it comes to analysis of the tech industry. We love their views on all things tech. Here is some recent insightful AI work: The importance of artificial intelligence in healthcare is a subject of research but that is not stopping companies and individuals from investing in healthcare AI startups. […].

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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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What is prioritization in SCRUM?

SCRUMstudy

The Scrum framework is driven by the goal of delivering maximum business value in a minimum time span. One of the most effective tools for delivering the greatest value in the shortest amount of time is prioritization. Prioritization can be defined as “Determination of the order and separation of what must be done now, from what needs to be done later”.

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4 Books to Help You Grow Professionally

Women on Business

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Unearthing ClojureScript for Front-end Development

Toptal

ClojureScript and its multiparadigm approach (with an emphasis on functional programming) may sound esoteric to some front-end developers. But it's amazing to work with, and getting started with it is far simpler than one might imagine. In this tutorial, Toptal Freelance Clojure Developer Luke Tomlin shows off some key features, getting straight into a React demo using Reagent and the Hiccup syntax.

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9 essential cybersecurity tips to protect your small business

CTOvision

Read Jareth’s tips on how small and medium businesses can protect themselves from hackers on Security Boulevard : As a small enterprise owner, it’s easy to fall into the trap of assuming that cybercriminals won’t target you. After all, why would anyone waste their time going after your business when there are much juicier fish […].

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Three Concurrent Paths to Influence Change at Work

Change Starts Here

All the different things we do to influence change at work can seem convoluted. But when you break it down, there are only three paths for driving change from the current state to the future state. The following ways to influence must happen concurrently to get real results. Path 1: Create Conditions that Influence Change […].

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How to Survive Your First Year in Business

Women on Business

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Ditch MVPs, Adopt Minimum Viable Prototypes (MVPr)

Toptal

Learn the value of minimum viable prototypes (MVPr), a quick and affordable way to create, launch, test, and improve digital products based on real-world insights.

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Don’t Worry, We Now Have Three Old Ideas for Solving the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

CTOvision

The Wall Street Journal proves once again that anyone can claim to be an expert in cybersecurity challenges and even provide us with solutions to enduring problems. One enduring problem is that businesses need more cybersecurity talent. The Wall Street Journal cites a career website for cybersecurity professionals in saying there are 300,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs […].

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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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Adhering to the 7 RESTful Methods

Coding Dojo

Are you an organized developer who keeps codes simple and clean? Do you use Controllers properly? Do you adhere to … Read more >>. The post Adhering to the 7 RESTful Methods appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Being Brave Enough to Charge What We’re Worth

Women on Business

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Another Open-Source IPO Shows the Market Power of “Free” Software

Battery Ventures

Last week brought more evidence that open-source software has gone mainstream—and that the IPO market for business-focused tech companies is back. Open-source company Elastic, whose software helps big companies like Uber, Walgreens, Adobe and Merck build search functionality into their online products, on Wednesday filed papers to go public. The company’s technology has been downloaded over 350 million times since 2013, according to the company’s S-1 filing.