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Organisational Dysfunctions Mirrored as Architectural Complexity

Strategic Tech

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Evolving Regional Evacuation

Netflix Tech

Niosha Behnam | Demand Engineering @ Netflix At Netflix we prioritize innovation and velocity in pursuit of the best experience for our 150+ million global customers. This means that our microservices constantly evolve and change, but what doesn’t change is our responsibility to provide a highly available service that delivers 100+ million hours of daily streaming to our subscribers.

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The Secret to Digital Transformation is Human Connection

DevOps.com

We know digital transformation is no longer an option for today’s organizations–it’s a requirement. End-users have come to expect an easy, digital-native experience, whether they are ordering a pizza or automating an entire network infrastructure, which is why businesses and governments are throwing trillions of dollars at new technologies and related services.

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Devs still struggle with app sec: 3 ways to get your team up to speed

TechBeacon

The security features of web application frameworks are fairly complex, and correctly using code to implement security in an application is often difficult. No wonder, then, that 94% of applications tested in 2018 contained a vulnerability in a security feature, according to Micro Focus Software Security Research's 2019 Application Security Risk Report.

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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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Quality pattern 1: Treat your acceptance criteria as tests

Xebia

This is the first blog in the series after my last week’s introduction to the five quality patterns in Agile development, to deliver the right software with great quality. This blog is about a pattern that I think is absolutely necessary for a team to accelerate, deliver with quality and keep on doing this over […]. The post Quality pattern 1: Treat your acceptance criteria as tests appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Leadership – No Talent Required

N2Growth Blog

While not all leaders will develop their talents and abilities to the same level, all successful leaders more or less begin with the same foundation. Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. Clearly the difference possessed by all great leaders is that they refine, develop and build from their foundation – they don’t ignore it or take it for granted.

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A First Team Mindset

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Episode 22. When you as the manager treat your peers, other managers in the organizations as your first team, it changes your stance. It changes the way you work. It creates intentionally a set of allies you can problem-solve, people problem-solve with, people you can collaborate with. This is a little bit different idea than my first team of the people that work for me.

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Top 3 Challenges of DevOps Adoption

DevOps.com

Customer expectations continue to relentlessly rise as new technological opportunities emerge. Today, organizations demand products and application features are delivered and implemented wherever and whenever needed. Everywhere you look, execution is at risk of falling behind imaginations and business imperatives. That is, of course, unless DevOps is starting to wield a strategic and philosophic influence. […].

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BSIMM 10: DevOps is changing how software teams approach security

TechBeacon

DevOps is transforming how software teams handle security. That's just one of the key takeaways from BSIMM 10, the newest version of an annual analysis by Synopsys of security activities at more than 100 companies.

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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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Highlights from the Strata Data Conference in New York 2019

O'Reilly Media - Data

People from across the data world came together in New York for the Strata Data Conference. Below you’ll find links to highlights from the event. AI isn’t magic. It’s computer science. Rob Thomas and Tim O’Reilly discuss the hard work and mass experimentation that will lead to AI breakthroughs. Watch “ AI isn’t magic. It’s computer science. “ Staying safe in the AI era.

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Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice

Erik Bernhardsson

No one asked for this, but I’m something like ~12 years into my career and have had my fair share of mistakes and luck so I thought I’d share some. Honestly, I feel like I’ve mostly benefitted from luck. Some of the things I did on a whim turned out to be excellent choices many years later. Some of the things were clear blind spots in hindsight.

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How to Help All Your People Contribute Great Ideas

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t Let Assumptions Limit People Who Can Contribute Great Ideas “I’m looking at my people and I just don’t think they can get there from here.” Vivian was a gung-ho CEO exploring what it would take to build a more Courageous Culture […]. The post How to Help All Your People Contribute Great Ideas appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Critical Skills Developers Need to Avoid Getting Left Behind

DevOps.com

Burnout is a recurring theme at DevOpsDays events around the world. The modern developer faces constantly and rapidly-evolving challenges: the agile movement reducing the development lifespan, the DevOps movement shifting production operational responsibilities into development processes and the complexity of cloud offering new architectures from SaaS through to FaaS, as well as microservices.

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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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Delivering the enterprise data cloud

O'Reilly Media - Data

This is a keynote highlight from the Strata Data Conference in New York 2019. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O’Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event.

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Cybersecurity’s Emerging DevOps Challenge in 2020

Dzone - DevOps

Without properly shifting left, security will be left in the lurch. As cloud technologies evolve and businesses jostle to become Agile, it’s time for cybersecurity to join the evolutionary race. Virtualization enabled physical data centers to transform, and cloud-based operating systems and application infrastructures served as the foundation for developers to access software resources without the headache of managing infrastructure.

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The state of vulnerability reports: What the CVE surge means

TechBeacon

For more than a decade, the number of vulnerabilities reported in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) was fairly stable, varying annually between 4,000 and 8,000 reported issues and for the most part decreasing or increasing by only 10% to 20%—and in only one case, by half—in any given year.

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DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Arms Race Heats Up

DevOps.com

A massive amount of capital is pouring into DevOps companies as organizations finally begin to realize the extent to which they depend on software. While Marc Andreesen may have penned his famous “Software Is Eating the World” opinion piece way back in 2011, it’s only now that many organizations are starting to realize they are […]. The post DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Arms Race Heats Up appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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How to Prepare for a Better Development Discussion (Free Tool)

Let's Grow Leaders

Development discussions always go better when your employee comes prepared to engage in conversation. We’ve designed this guide to help your team members think more deeply about their development goals and key actions. Give it to them in advance and ask them […]. The post How to Prepare for a Better Development Discussion (Free Tool) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Why Outsourcing Software Development Works: 15 Benefits of Outsourcing

VironIT

Outsourcing is a strategy that can really boost your business. In this article, you will learn what it is, some of its pros and cons, as well as look at a “How-to-start” guide. Contents 1 What is Outsourcing in Software Development? 2 What is Meant by Offshore, Onshore and Nearshore Development Process? 3 The Pros […].

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How analytics bolster SIEM for a better SOC

TechBeacon

Security operations teams need appropriate tools and techniques to process and correlate the enormous amount of historical and real-time security data that's sent to them every day. Without such tools, your teams won't be able to get the insights they need to keep your organization's data secure.

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How AI and Microservices Create a Reliable Enterprise of the Future

DevOps.com

The Rise of Microservices Enterprise adoption of microservices is continuing to rise. Its popularity is so strong that 86% of development professionals internationally expect microservices to become the default application architecture within the next five years. Looking out even longer, nearly all professionals see microservices becoming their company’s default application architecture.

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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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With Zero Trust Security, No One Gets a Pass in The Network

Symantec

Zero Trust is the future of enterprise security, offering government agencies the potential to substantially change and improve their abilities to protect systems and data

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An interview with dr hab. Pawe? Czarnecki, HM Rector Collegium Humanum

CEO Insider

“GOOD MBA DEGREE SHOULD CONNECT THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE” Professor dr hab. Pawe? Czarnecki, HM Rector at the Collegium Humanum, is talking to CEOWORLD Magazine Editor-in-chief dr Milena Golda about what constitutes good MBA programmes, deliberating how much their ranking depends on the university’s exclusive ability to create independent and innovative paths of education, […].

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Application Security Risk Report 2019: 6 takeaways for your app sec team

TechBeacon

Automated testing tools are allowing researchers to look for more types of security flaws in more software products than ever before, which has resulted in a sharp increase in the number of bugs reported to the National Vulnerability Database.

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DevSecOps Becomes a Higher Cloud-Native Priority

DevOps.com

At the Cloud Native Security Summit, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) today revealed the results of a survey of 600 senior IT leaders that finds organizations are looking at DevSecOps as a way to address the complexities of managing and securing cloud-native applications. According to the survey results, 43% of respondents said their biggest challenge with […].

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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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Apriori Algorithm

The Crazy Programmer

Today we are going to learn about Apriori Algorithm. Before we start with that we need to know a little bit about Data Mining. What is Data Mining ? Data Mining is a non-trivial process of identifying valid, novel, potentially useful and ultimately understandable patterns in data. Apriori Algorithm is concerned with Data Mining and it helps us to predict information based on previous data.

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Five Tips to Build Influence and Create an Impact as a Leader

CEO Insider

An interview with Vin Lee, CEO of family office Grand Metropolitan, a $7 billion AUM privately-held luxury goods holding company with a 100-brand portfolio, by Megha Hamal, opinion columnist at the CEOWORLD magazine. American author John C. Maxwell once said that leadership is influence. That is, leadership is more about impact and inspiration and less […].

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Use experience-level agreements to elevate IT service satisfaction

TechBeacon

Imagine that you and a friend go to a beautiful restaurant and the server comes over—not with a menu, a glass of water, and a cheery welcome, but with a service-level agreement (SLA) containing 25 key performance indicators (KPIs) that the restaurant intends to meet over the course of the next hour.

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