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Making Privacy an Essential Business Process

Cloudera

Canada is poised to become a world-leader in privacy regulation and with new regulation comes record-breaking fines for those who can’t keep up. . In November, Canada introduced the Digital Charter Implementation Act. If passed, companies could face fines of up to five percent of global revenue or $25 million CAD — whichever is greater — for violating Canadians’ privacy.

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What is Threat Modeling and its role in developing secure systems?

Daffodil Software

To protect something, identifying and understanding the threats to it is crucial. Threat Modeling does just that. Be it software, networks, applications, distributed systems – threat modeling can be used across technologies and products barring a few.

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Data Mesh Principles and Logical Architecture

Martin Fowler

Last year, my colleague Zhamak Dehghani introduced the notion of the Data Mesh , shifting from the notion of a centralized data lake to a distributed vision of data. Based on more thinking, and the lessons of a year's worth working with clients, she's now written an article outlining four foundational principles of a data mesh, and how they drive a logical architecture.

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What to make of Stripe’s possible $100B valuation

TechCrunch

This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for the email here. Welcome to a special Thanksgiving edition of The Exchange. Today we will be brief. But not silent, as there is much to talk about. Up top, The Exchange noodled on the Slack-Salesforce deal here , so please catch up if you missed that while eating pie for breakfast yesterday.

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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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Don’t Miss AgilityToday 2021 Fest!

Agile Alliance

Let’s cultivate some hope and scrub out the layer of gloom and despair. Let’s open the doors to many new possibilities, the ones we haven’t imagined. Let’s thrive when it’s looks hard to even survive <3 In the times when we can’t meet our community, go out without fear, travel to that much-awaited event. When … Continued. The post Don't Miss AgilityToday 2021 Fest!

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FlexDeploy Loves Salesforce: Build and Deploy Salesforce DX Apps

Flexagon

FlexDeploy is an Enterprise DevOps platform with fully integrated support for Salesforce apps, metadata customizations, integrations and more. This is the fourth article in a blog series that will help you understand what makes FlexDeploy a perfect choice to implement DevOps, CI/CD, and release automation with Salesforce. Here is a summary of the FlexDeploy Loves Salesforce series.

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How Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile worked without becoming the joke

TechCrunch

In the past decade, celebrity interest and investment in tech companies has significantly increased. But not all celebrity investments are created equally. Some investors, like Ashton Kutcher , have prioritized the VC pursuits. Some have invested casually without getting overly involved. Others have used their considerable platforms to market their portfolio to varying degrees of success.

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Tracy and Sabrina Treacy: Social Justice Family Experience

Agile Alliance

The post Tracy and Sabrina Treacy: Social Justice Family Experience first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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How to Help Your Boss Give You a Better Performance Review

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re dreading your performance review, we invite you to be the leader you want your boss to be and take a bit of initiative. “But that’s not my job,” you might say. Perhaps – we could debate that all day, but […]. The post How to Help Your Boss Give You a Better Performance Review appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Cloud security and analytics: 4 lessons for data security teams

TechBeacon

Last year, a cloud-savvy hacker found a way to bypass the web application firewall protecting Capital One's credit card applications. The result: The attacker collected more than 100 million individuals' records, and the firm eventually paid an $80 million fine.

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Jio Platforms backs SF-based AR gaming startup Krikey

TechCrunch

Jio Platforms, the biggest telecom operator in India and which has raised over $20 billion from Facebook, Google and other high-profile investors this year, is leading a financing round of a San Francisco-based startup that develops augmented reality mobile games. Jio has led the Series A fundraise of Krikey, founded by sisters Jhanvi and Ketaki Shriram, the Indian firm said on Wednesday.

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Demystifying the Low-Code Category

DevOps.com

The low-code category is estimated to grow substantially in the coming years. By 2024, Gartner projects 75% of large enterprises will have adopted four low-code or no-code tools for both IT application and citizen development needs. But what exactly is low-code, and what are the scenarios in which it is needed? Low-code, like so much […]. The post Demystifying the Low-Code Category appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Pulumi infrastructure-as-code tool adds.NET language support

CTOvision

Pulumi has added.NET language support to its open-source tool for Kubernetes and cloud provisioning and management. The Pulumi infrastructure-as-code tool now allows developers to declaratively provision cloud infrastructure using […].

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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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4 best practices for AI in the SOC

TechBeacon

TechBeacon ’s Essential Guide to AI and the SOC lays the groundwork for choosing an artificial intelligence system for your organization. It explains why these tools are essential for today’s distributed systems, explains how AI is being applied to security, and provides criteria for considering AI-powered tools for your security operations center.

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YC-backed LemonBox raises $2.5M bringing vitamins to Chinese millennials

TechCrunch

Like many overseas Chinese, Derek Weng gets shopping requests from his family and friends whenever he returns to China. Some of the most wanted imported products are maternity items, cosmetics and vitamin supplements. Many in China still uphold the belief that “imported products are better.” The demand gave Weng a business idea. In 2018, he founded LemonBox to sell American health supplements to Chinese millennials like himself via online channels.

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How to Foster Collaboration Between DevOps and Security

DevOps.com

DevOps is on the rise. Back in 2018, MarketsandMarkets wrote that it expected the DevOps market to grow to $10.31 billion by 2023. That’s up from $2.90 billion in 2017, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) at 24.7% projected for the forecast period. Demand for DevOps solutions and services in response to the need […]. The post How to Foster Collaboration Between DevOps and Security appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Mythic does the ‘impossible’ with the Analog Matrix Processor

CTOvision

Mythic has announced its Analog Matrix Processor (Mythic AMP) which delivers an analog compute claimed to perform comparably to digital devices. The M1108 AMP opens possibilities for device deployment at […].

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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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Adversarial machine learning: 5 recommendations for app sec teams

TechBeacon

In 2016, Microsoft released a prototype chatbot on Twitter. The automated program, dubbed Tay, responded to tweets and incorporated the content of those tweets into its knowledge base, riffing off the topics to carry on conversations.

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Space startup Aevum debuts world’s first fully autonomous orbital rocket launching drone

TechCrunch

Launching things to space doesn’t have to mean firing a large rocket vertically using massive amounts of rocket-fuel-powered thrust — startup Aevum breaks the mould in multiple ways, with an innovative launch vehicle design that combines uncrewed aircraft with horizontal take-off and landing capabilities, with a secondary stage that deploys at high altitude and can take small payloads the rest of the way to space.

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Antipatterns That Hurt DevOps Implementations

DevOps.com

Avoiding these DevOps antipatterns can help organizations reap the benefits of implementations faster It’s a given that all organizations at some point will suffer from poor development practices when trying to find the perfect balance between software development and IT operations. The good news, however, is that implementing DevOps can help you improve these processes […].

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The Future Of The Shipping Industry Is Digital

CEO Insider

The shipping industry is one of the most traditional sectors of the economy. As time passes and technology rise undoubtedly the future of the shipping industry goes through digital transformation. However, even today, digitization in the shipping industry is treated occasionally and is characterized by a lack of a holistic approach to its transformation.

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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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Wormable RCE/PE flaw in iPhone Wi-Fi code: In a word, ‘incredible’

TechBeacon

This week we learn of a “breathtaking” critical vulnerability in an iOS kernel driver. AWDL is Apple’s proprietary protocol used for stupid things such as AirDrop and other ad hoc nonsense.

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Stripe announces embedded business banking service Stripe Treasury

TechCrunch

Fintech startup Stripe has announced an ambitious new product today called Stripe Treasury. The company is partnering with banks to offer a banking-as-a-service API. In other words, Stripe clients will be able to provide bank accounts to their customers — the service is invite-only for now. This is part of a bigger trend called embedded finance. Essentially, instead of separating banking services from other services that you use, embedded finance products provide financial services as close as p

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The DevOps Long Tail of Salesforce’s Slack Buy

DevOps.com

While most of the focus on the acquisition of Slack this week by Salesforce for $27.7 billion clearly revolves around digital business transformation initiatives, the implications of the deal for DevOps teams that have been employing Slack to collaborate for years is significant. Salesforce owns both Heroku and Force.com in addition to providing developers with […].

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Article: The Complexity of Product Management and Product Ownership

InfoQ Culture Methods

Doug Talbot discusses the confusion surrounding Product Ownership / Product Management. He provides some advice on tackling the complexity of creating your own contextualised and personalised product value stream for your organisation or team and using systems thinking and Cynefin for complexity. By Douglas Talbot.

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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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AIOps in the enterprise: 6 trends to watch in 2021

TechBeacon

Modern IT environments—increasingly distributed, heterogeneous, and dynamic—show no signs of becoming easier to monitor and manage. In fact, the opposite is true, as organizations deepen their use of cloud computing, containers, and microservices. Faced with mounting IT complexity and legacy monitoring tools that fall short, IT leaders are turning toward AIOps — the application of artificial intelligence to IT operations.

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Singapore-based mental health app Intellect reaches one million users, closes seed funding

TechCrunch

Theodoric Chew, co-founder and chief executive officer of mental health app Intellect. Intellect , a Singapore-based startup that wants to lower barriers to mental health care in Asia, says it has reached more than one million users just six months after launching. Google also announced today that the startup’s consumer app, also called Intellect, is one of its picks for best personal growth apps of 2020.

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Governance, Quality Critical in the New Digital Norm

DevOps.com

The shift to digital is certainly not new. But the speed of digital adoption has been accelerated as organizations react to the COVID-19 pandemic and implement remote working and contactless or self-service channels for customers. What’s more, the evidence shows that trend is here to stay. Analyst Gartner’s CIO Agenda 2021 report shows that 76% […].