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How Reliable Is Cable Internet? Here’s How Our Networks Are Performing

CableLabs

Starting in mid-March, the world experienced a sudden surge in internet usage driven by the widespread COVID-19 stay-at-home orders that caused many of us to switch to working and studying at home in a matter of days. Cable broadband networks not only withstood this sudden surge in internet usage; they excelled. For example, for the week of June 27–July 4, 99.9 percent of U.S. cable broadband users saw no material impact on customer experience.

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning: What’s the Difference?

Daffodil Software

Over time, there has been an astronomical rise in the number of ways Artificial Intelligence can be utilized for the betterment of everyday lives. The technology is almost everywhere- in traffic predicting Google Maps, in video surveillance cameras, in face recognition apps, in speech recognition & language translation solutions, etc. In fact, AI is one of the trending technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Features or Quality? App Survey Shows Surprising Results

DevOps.com

Software is an essential part of our everyday lives, but that doesn’t mean that people are always happy with the app experiences that they’re having. We at DeepCode conducted a survey to learn more about what people really think about software quality today. Is it getting better or worse? How important are bugs and security […]. The post Features or Quality?

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Microservices Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Microservices seem to be everywhere. Scratch that: talk about microservices seems to be everywhere. And that’s the problem. Thinkers as dissimilar as Plato , Robert Boyle , and Keith Richards tend to agree about one thing: Talk is cheap. So we wanted to determine to what extent, and how, O’Reilly subscribers are empirically using microservices. In other words, how long have people been using them?

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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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How to Become a Data Scientist in India?

The Crazy Programmer

First, we should know that how is scope in Data Science, So let me tell you that If you searched top jobs on the internet, in that list Data Science will be also present. So you can say this time Data Scientist has one of the most opportunities to become his career. So, here we will discuss how to become a Data Scientist in India, and how much time need to become a Data Scientist.

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Has the Pandemic Made DevOps Tougher or Easier?

DevOps.com

How has COVID-19 impacted the way DevOps professionals approach their work? The current, unpredictable economic climate as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a glaring need for organizations to be able to do more with less. They have fewer resources and even less margin of error now to maintain customer relationships, keep […].

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EventStorming; Core concepts, glossary and legend

Xebia

Recently on Twitter Chris Richardson asked if anyone has created a consistent and comprehensive glossary for EventStorming core concepts. I replied saying that #EventStorming is fuzzy by design. There are standard core concepts, and depending on the context, we use different words for the post-its. Because with that fuzziness, you get more insights.

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Insight everywhere: The state of analytics in 2020

CIO

The world bought into the idea of continual improvement ever since Japanese car companies embraced it in the ‘70s and ate Detroit's lunch. But you can’t improve what you can’t measure – which is why analytics now envelops the entire enterprise, crunching every data set it can find to get a clear view of current reality and suggest a better road ahead.

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Leaders Share about Mentoring: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Are you looking to be a better mentor? Or, perhaps you’re looking for a mentor. In this month’s Frontline Festival, top leadership experts share their perspectives and insights on mentoring. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic […]. The post Leaders Share about Mentoring: 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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DevOps Was Supposed to Kill Developer Jobs. Here’s Why it Didn’t

DevOps.com

The rise of DevOps is more an evolution than a revolution, and developer jobs aren’t going anywhere Development died a long time ago and was replaced by DevOps. Or, at least that was the way it was supposed to happen. In reality, developers are doing just fine. There are currently almost 150,000 development jobs right […]. The post DevOps Was Supposed to Kill Developer Jobs.

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AI in testing: What it is, and why it matters

TechBeacon

AI in testing is becoming mainstream. Some 21% of IT leaders surveyed said they are putting AI trials or proofs of concept in place, according to the 2019-2020 World Quality Report. Speaking to longer-term trends, only 2% of respondents said AI has no part in their future plans.

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Lennox enlists BI to anticipate COVID-19 supply chain disruptions

CIO

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly disrupted supply chains across the globe. This is especially true in the manufacturing industry, where supply chain managers must track and analyze the pandemic’s impact in every region that effects their business: Is it safe to bring staff into factories? Are suppliers still shipping — or even still in business?

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How to Scale Best Practices Without Frustrating Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

To scale best practices, focus on how they work in different contexts Has this ever happened to you? Your top-performing team seems to have discovered the secret to transforming their productivity, customer relationships, or sales. And then you think, “It’s time to […]. The post How to Scale Best Practices Without Frustrating Your Team 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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Accelerate Your Career and Give Your Company Competitive Advantage with OODA Special Reports

CTOvision

OODA Network Member Resources Resources listed here are available to OODA Network Members. For information on becoming a member please visit our Join OODA Loop page. For more on the […].

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Jump Over the Hidden Barriers to Digital Transformation

DevOps.com

Digital transformation is critical to success in the new normal. Here’s how to achieve it in an uncertain economy Bit by bit, we’re reopening the economy. No one knows how long it’ll take to get the economy back on track or what kind of regulations there will be to keep everyone safe. But we do […]. The post Jump Over the Hidden Barriers to Digital Transformation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Article: Innovation Startups Modeling Agile Culture

InfoQ Culture Methods

Innovation is not only about the most advanced technology, management and processes are the new era of startups' innovation. To mix the power of the data and the importance of people to offer business intelligence is a key point nowadays. The result is not only the most imporant thing, the way you do it more important. To be agile is to adapt to today's market.

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CVE-2020-1350: Wormable Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Windows DNS Server Disclosed (SIGRed)

Tenable

Researchers disclose a 17-year old wormable flaw in Windows DNS servers. Organizations are strongly encouraged to apply patches as soon as possible. Background. On July 14, Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in Windows Domain Name System (DNS) Server as part of Patch Tuesday for July 2020. The vulnerability was disclosed to Microsoft by Sagi Tzadik and Eyal Itkin, researchers at Check Point Research, who dubbed this vulnerability “SIGRed.

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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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5 reasons AI isn’t being adopted at your organization (and how to fix it)

CTOvision

Read Greg Nichols list five reasons why companies are not adopting artificial intelligence and how to fix it on ZDNet : Like most nebulous technologies marketed as the cure-all for […].

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Google Exposes Old Wounds in Open Source Community

DevOps.com

Things boiled over a bit last week with the announcement that Google launched the Open Usage Commons (OUC) consortium (see Mike Vizard’s article here). The announcement and subsequent angst it has caused has upset what had been a pretty stable environment that helped open source software become the dominant force in development and IT. While […].

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Apache Kafka Native MQTT at Scale with Confluent Cloud and Waterstream

Confluent

With billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, achieving real-time interoperability has become a major challenge. Together, Confluent, Waterstream, and MQTT are accelerating Industry 4.0 with new Industrial IoT (IIoT) […].

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Hygiene matters: 5 steps for thorough data cleaning

TechBeacon

Strangely enough, the importance of hand washing during the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded me of the importance of data cleaning for effective data science. Similar to hands, data can be trusted only when it has been cleaned thoroughly and methodically.

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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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Stay vigilant against these 5 data security risks

CTOvision

Read Jessica Hubbard list five data security risks for the finance sector companies on Financial Management : With corporate data breaches making news headlines almost every other day, it is […].

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Solving the DevOps Dilemma in the COVID Era 

DevOps.com

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing businesses to double down on DevOps transformation initiatives across the enterprise, pushing companies to be more agile and implement software changes throughout their organization at a much faster rate. However, too many IT departments rely on older, complex processes to approve software changes coming from DevOps teams and simply cannot […].

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Top 5 Reasons to Attend Kafka Summit Virtually

Confluent

The first-ever virtual Kafka Summit 2020 kicks off next month in the comfort of your home office, couch, spare bedroom, living room, outbuilding, lanai, veranda, or in-home portico, featuring an […].

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The Importance of DevOps in the Workplace

Dzone - DevOps

It is a well-known fact that automation is extremely important in the digital workplace. It helps to save time, resources, and finances. One of the most efficient enablers of process automation includes DevOps which is known for delivering apps and software faster, allowing companies to release them sooner with a more reliable end-product. What Is DevOps?

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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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OODA Special Report: A CTO’s Perspective on Technology Debt in M&A

CTOvision

Technical due diligence is designed to identify the risks and opportunities of technology, including the technology developed and sold by the firm being evaluated, but also the technology being used […].

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How to Source Vulnerability Data for True DevSecOps

DevOps.com

Open source comes with code vulnerabilities that must be considered in the DevOps process The war between open source and “only proprietary code” is long over. Open source won the day by convincing the opposition of the benefits of joining the open source community. “Vulnerabilities in the Core,” a report published by the Linux Foundation […].

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5 Best Ways to Boost Your Customer Retention Rate

Women on Business

As we’re halfway through the year, entrepreneurs across the globe are preparing themselves to rise above the negative impact of COVID-19 and hoping to get a strategic jump on crucial business aspects such as customers. It’s often perceived that gaining new customers is like hitting a home run. Although this notion is true, no business […].

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