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Optimizing Retailer Revenue with Sales Forecasting AI

Toptal

Retailers often face supply and demand issues that cause them to miss out on potential sales or tie up a lot of money in overstocked products. In this article, Toptal Data Scientist Ahmed Khaled explains how retailers can boost revenues and cut costs with sales forecasts backed by artificial intelligence.

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How to Overcome Challenges With AWS Lambda Logging

DevOps.com

Monitoring AWS Lambda can be a complex and potentially costly endeavor. Here’s what you need to know to stay on track and on budget Organizations are already experiencing a shift toward serverless cloud computing. According to the O’Reilly “Serverless Survey 2019,” around 40% of respondents said they had implemented serverless architecture.

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How Deep Does Your Sentence Embedding Model Need to Be?

Dataiku

It’s been over two years now that Google launched Smart Reply , a feature for Gmail that automatically suggests short replies for users’ emails. Behind this technology are many natural language processing (NLP) models that allow this program to process and understand human language.

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What is Blockchain Technology?

CTOvision

Read David Hamilton explain all the nitty-gritty of blockchain technology on Security.io Its been almost ten years since Satoshi Nakamoto first introduced Blockchain technology to the world in his 2008 […].

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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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CVE-2020-2021: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Vulnerable to Critical Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Tenable

Critical authentication bypass vulnerability in PAN-OS devices could be exploited in certain configurations, which are commonly recommended by identity providers. Background. On June 29, Palo Alto Networks published an advisory for a critical vulnerability in PAN-OS. PAN-OS is the custom operating system (OS) that Palo Alto Networks (PAN) uses in their next-generation firewalls.

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Why is Site Reliability Engineering Important?

DevOps.com

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is one of the fastest-growing enterprise roles and set of operational practices for managing services at scale. During the Site Reliability Engineering SKILup Day June 18, I asked a group of the DevOps Institute Ambassadors why SRE was important to them. Below you will find some insightful responses, tips and calls […].

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Agile Alliance Managing Director Phil Brock to Depart Organization

Agile Alliance

After many years of guiding Agile Alliance as its Managing director, Phil Brock has advised the Agile Alliance Board of Directors that he will be leaving the organization in August 2020. Personally, I am saddened to be making this announcement. Having seen the organization from close up as a board member over the past 4 … Continued.

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What EARN IT and LAED mean for encryption

The Parallax

Is encryption the biggest impediment to law enforcement’s ability to stop sexual predators of children? For the advocates of the EARN IT Act, which would loosen the rules protecting Internet services’ use of encryption, it most certainly is. The Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act would create an online commission to prevent the sexual exploitation of children tasked with developing “best practices” that Internet services would be r

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How to Maintain a Steady Stream of Innovation and Solutions

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t let your people feel ignored We were working with a large financial institution that had done an excellent job of cultivating curiosity. They regularly asked people at every level of the organization for their ideas, suggestions for innovation and solutions. They […]. The post How to Maintain a Steady Stream of Innovation and Solutions 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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Join OODA Loop For Competitive Advantage

CTOvision

Since CTOvision and OODA Loop joined forces in January 2019 we have continued to refine and enhance the products and content of both sites. CTOvision is now more focused on […].

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EMA Top 3: Enterprise Decision Guide 2020

OverOps

OverOps is thrilled to share that we have been named an EMA Top 3 Vendor in the DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering – Continuous Reliability category of the EMA Top 3 Enterprise Decision Guide 2020! With all the challenges of 2020, we are always on the lookout for little reasons to celebrate. This week, we are excited to share that we have a BIG reason to celebrate: we’ve been recognized as an EMA Top 3 DevOps & SRE Vendor in the Continuous Reliability Category!

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How to Kill Your Developer Productivity

Dzone - DevOps

There's a lot written about how the way developers structure their daily work can cause unproductivity. An example is when unnecessary meetings are scheduled across the day so nobody can get into deep focus mode. Today I want to look into the biggest killers in developer productivity: the way you configure and setup your DevOps workflow. In almost all situations I've come across there were some quick-wins that help you avoid most of the problems.

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Seeing People Through – Interview with Nate Regier

Let's Grow Leaders

How can understanding yourself help you be more influential with your team? In this episode, Dr. Nate Regier will help you understand, connect with, and lead your team members more effectively by understanding yourself. They may seem different, but look a […]. The post Seeing People Through – Interview with Nate Regier appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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IBM donates machine learning tooling to enable ‘responsible’ AI

CTOvision

IBM Corp. is donating three open-source artificial intelligence development toolkits to LF AI, an organization within the Linux Foundation that maintains open-source machine learning tools. The LF AI Technical Advisory Committee […].

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How to Calculate ROI on Infrastructure Automation 

DevOps.com

Infrastructure and cloud automation. You know you want it. Infrastructure as code and programmable infrastructure are hot topics these days. The possibilities opened by applying software development practices to infrastructure make the vision of transparent infrastructure closer than ever. But before you start automating, you may want to look at the value you get from […].

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API Development in Go Using Goa

Toptal

Your code is described in your API definition using a Golang Domain Specific Language (DSL), then generated using the Goa CLI, and implemented separately from your application source code.

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Bash Wars

Lacework

Whether you’re an engineer or a system administrator, you’ve probably found bash to be a go-to resource for automating your Linux tasks. Bash is so useful that it has become popular among malware authors as well. This is because it can easily perform many tasks that are necessary for malware installation and system persistence. Cryptomining [.]. Read More.

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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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Lenovo Launches Internet of Things Solutions To Make The Workplace Safer During COVID-19

CTOvision

Lenovo has assembled an ecosystem of IoT solutions to help make it easier for customers to get back to work in offices without dealing with the hassle traditionally encountered in […].

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How to Use Microservices To Evolve DevOps Pipelines

DevOps.com

Enterprises are quickly becoming an intricate mesh of many applications. As companies create more and more microservices, their deployment environments are becoming increasingly elaborate. Without proper configurations, a microservices road map could quickly become unmaintainable. According to DeployHub CEO Tracy Ragan, if development teams are pushing points to a cluster continuously, application development can suffer […].

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Deployment Monitoring Tools — Kiali

Dzone - DevOps

Problem Statement…. In Microservices architecture, COE (Container orchestration cluster) will support to run thousands of container. How do we see the Canary deployment strategy progress on graphicle dashboard in each container’s logs, traffic distribution, protocols, service endpoints, service health check, application behavior and distributed tracing.

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Continuous integration for Symfony applications with Behat

CircleCI

Behat is an open-source testing framework that supports Behavior-Driven Development. Focused on requirements communication, it has a reputation for helping engineers build towards great systems, versus building systems and testing their greatness. Symfony remains one of the top PHP frameworks. It is agnostic and allows you to work with any testing framework.

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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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Cloud computing vs. edge computing

CTOvision

Read Nick Offin explain the difference between cloud computing and edge computing on Tech Radar : Cloud computing isn’t exactly a new concept. Its benefits are well known in the […].

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Using Trivy to Discover Vulnerabilities in VS Code Project

Aqua Security

For most of us developers, our container security protocol involves some sort of static image scan for vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, to do this usually involves jumping out of one type of software program, like a code editor, to open a completely separate tool to perform the scanning. Well, the open source team at Aqua recognized the potential advantages of seamlessly merging vulnerability scanning using Trivy (Aqua’s open source scanner) with an Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

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How to train for your next security crisis: Let the wargames begin

TechBeacon

There are two questions that keep security personnel up at night: How will the next attacker breach our organization? And how well will we perform when it happens?

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Businesses Modernizing Apps in Wake of Pandemic

DevOps.com

A survey of 5,000 business decision-makers, IT decision-makers and app developers published suggests organizations are taking advantage of the crisis created by the global COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate the modernizing of apps using DevOps practices. Conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne, the survey finds 80% of respondents said organizations must modernize the technologies […].

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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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AI and Blockchain — Double the Hype or Double the Value?

CTOvision

AI and Blockchain both are topics covered often with breathless hype. Read Ronald Schmelzer’s article in Forbes covering the combination of AI and Blockchain: Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a market […].

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A 6 Month Cultural Transformation with Scrum

Agile Alliance

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Google, Apple, Mozilla enforce 1-year max certificate expiration

TechBeacon

If you use TLS certificates with long validity periods, then listen up. Any cert issued after next month needs to last no longer than a year (plus a month’s grace).

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