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Save on Your AWS Bill: Tips to Optimize Your Cloud Costs

Mentormate

MentorMate has clients across a variety of industries with very specific technology needs. Our Cloud Center of Excellence, on its part, helps fintech, healthcare, and education companies — among others — achieve a well-architected environment. As specified in the AWS Well-Architected framework , there are five distinct pillars in this regard: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization.

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Branching Patterns: Hotfix Branch

Martin Fowler

Hotfix Branch: A branch to capture work to fix an urgent production defect. more….

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Decoding NLP Attention Mechanisms to Understand Transformer Models

Dataiku

Arguably more famous today than Michael Bay’s Transformers (at least among the deep learning community), NLP transformer architecture and transformer-based models have been breaking all kinds of performance records across an array of NLP tasks.

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Resilience And Innovation: Lessons From Pandemic

CEO Insider

Leaders have a lot on their plates right now. Pandemic presents a multi-dimensional challenge: Public health, operational, and economic crises, all rolled into one. Wrestling this three-headed beast is the metaphorical equivalent of having to walk, chew gum, and juggle chainsaws at the same time. Adding complexity, each crisis demands short- and long-term strategic responses. […].

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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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Self-Service Data Protection at Scale, Brought to You by Dataiku, Snowflake and Protegrity

Dataiku

Ever heard of Doorstep Dispensaree Ltd? Probably not. But in December 2019, they became the first-ever company in the UK to be fined for failing to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Branching Patterns: Release Train

Martin Fowler

Release Train: Release on a set interval of time, like trains departing on a regular schedule. Developers choose which train to catch when they have completed their feature. more….

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Developing a Ride-Sharing App? Here are Some of the Most Essential Features

Xicom

Do you own a collection of taxicabs? Feeling the weight from taxi aggregators like Uber and ola? All things considered, the perfect method to keep up the significance of your image and remain above water is to construct an application that includes the experience offered by these taxi providers. Be that as it may, how might one copy the achievement that these on-request specialist co-ops have made?

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Decoding the Self-Healing Kubernetes

DevOps.com

A business application that fails to operate 24/7 would be considered inefficient in the market. The idea is that applications run uninterrupted, irrespective of a technical glitch, feature update or a natural disaster. In today’s heterogeneous environment where infrastructure is intricately layered, a continuous workflow of application is possible via self-healing.

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How to Tap into Past Moments of Courage to Cultivate More

Let's Grow Leaders

The best way to find courage, is to remember that last time you did the right thing and how it made you feel. Small moments of courage make it easier the next time. “All courage is a threshold crossing. Often there is […]. The post How to Tap into Past Moments of Courage to Cultivate More 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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Branching Patterns: Environment Branch

Martin Fowler

Environment Branch: Configure a product to run in a new environment by applying a source code commit. This pattern is a bad smell, only useful as a jerry-rigged mechanism for an application lacking that design, but then should be a high priority for removal with a sustainable alternative. more….

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Solve SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

The Crazy Programmer

How many of us are Python Programmers here? I hope many of us and I hope almost all of us might have come across SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing and we might have tried to look for it somewhere online. But do you exactly know what is this error all about and how we can remove it from our python code? So, what exactly an EOF is? EOF stands for End Of File.

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Webinar Recap: Tools for Effective Remote Agile Teams

Agile Alliance

Sprint planning. Product backlog refinement. Daily stand-ups. Sprint review. Demos. And then the retrospective. How you adapt these practices to meet the needs of your suddenly distributed team can make the difference between daily success and just making it through another day on the calendar. On April 30, four Agile and collaboration experts got together … Continued.

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5 Can’t-Miss Virtual Events for the DevOps Community

OverOps

Network and collaborate with your fellow software development and delivery peers at one of these virtual events. The COVID-19 pandemic is changing a lot about how the software engineering community operates – including how we exchange ideas and best practices. If you were looking forward to a packed calendar of conferences and meetups this summer, have no fear!

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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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Branching Patterns: Release-Ready Mainline

Martin Fowler

Release-Ready Mainline: Keep mainline sufficiently healthy that the head of mainline can always be put directly into production. The recent patterns I've published are useful, but keeping a release-ready mainline is often the simplest and best choice. more….

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How to Start Your Next Zoom Meeting In a More Meaningful Way

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you noticed that most zoom meetings start one of two ways? Friendly banter. “Hey Lauren, why did you choose Tiger King as your virtual background?” “Oh my gosh, I need a haircut.” “Haha, not me. There are some advantages to […]. The post How to Start Your Next Zoom Meeting In a More Meaningful Way appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Amazon launches cognitive search service Kendra in general availability

CTOvision

Amazon today launched Kendra, an AI and machine learning-powered service for enterprise search, in general availability. Kendra debuted in preview last December during Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2019 in […].

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Change Management for Reopening Offices

Change Starts Here

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, change happened overnight. Offices and other locations closed, and people were forced to work from home. Now, in some areas, offices are starting to open back up again.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Pitching it to the Team!

Agile Alliance

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Apache Kafka Needs No Keeper: Removing the Apache ZooKeeper Dependency

Confluent

Currently, Apache Kafka® uses Apache ZooKeeper™ to store its metadata. Data such as the location of partitions and the configuration of topics are stored outside of Kafka itself, in a […].

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Learn OPSWAT’s Unique Contributions To Cybersecurity 13 May 2020: From SDP to Endpoint Configuration Control In One Well Thoughtout Approach

CTOvision

Register now for a 13 May 2020 virtual panel I’ll be participating in with Bob Flores, former CTO of the Central Intelligence Agency and Michael Hylton of OPSWAT as we […].

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A Short on How Zoom Works

High Scalability

Zoom scaled from 20 million to 300 million users virtually over night. What's incredible is from the outside they've shown little in the way of apparent growing pains, though on the inside it's a good bet a lot of craziness is going on. Sure, Zoom has made some design decisions that made sense as a small spunky startup that don't make a lot of sense as a defacto standard, but that's to be expected.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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The Secure Software Development Life Cycle: Syncing Development and Security

DevOps.com

Over the last five to 10 years, the nature of software development has shifted dramatically. Whereas large software releases occurred every six to 18 months in the past, current release schedules have become much more frequent. The waterfall model of software development has morphed into what we now know as the DevOps model. As a […]. The post The Secure Software Development Life Cycle: Syncing Development and Security appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Building a Telegram Bot Powered by Apache Kafka and ksqlDB

Confluent

Imagine you’ve got a stream of data; it’s not “big data,” but it’s certainly a lot. Within the data, you’ve got some bits you’re interested in, and of those bits, […].

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Common Sense Comes Closer to Computers

CTOvision

Read John Pavlus explain how researchers are working to build AI with common-sense reasoning, such as the COMET system, which combines symbolic reasoning and neural language modeling on Quanta : […].

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What your DevOps team needs to know: 4 lessons from exploited vulnerabilities

TechBeacon

In March 2019, an online intruder discovered that cloud storage used by financial giant Capital One suffered from a vulnerability in the firm's application firewall and storage servers, allowing the attacker to send commands from one to the other.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Leading And Managing During Times Of Crisis

CEO Insider

As uncertainty plagues our communities and the economy, strong and authentic leadership is crucial to finding our own way through this crisis. Organizations need effective leaders at all levels to create a clear and inspiring vision, earn trust, and demonstrate compassion. Having built an award-winning company that employed well over 100 people and built more […].

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Domain-Driven Design on an Agile project: How it helped to implement a loyalty program

Agile Alliance

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Blockchain ‘has significant use cases for 5G’

CTOvision

Jiang Wei, the chairman of China Telecom Blockchain and Dig­i­tal Econ­omy Joint Lab­o­ra­tory, explained in an interview published on a Chinese news portal, Cebnet, that blockchain technology has significant use […].