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Launch to the Future: Quantum Internet

CTOvision

Watch as the U.S. Department of Energy joins science leaders from University of Chicago to announce a new national initiative to accelerate research in quantum science and technology. From the […].

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Good Logging

Henrik Warne

To check if a program is doing what it should, you can inspect the output from a given input. But as the system grows, you also need logging to help you understand what is happening. Good log messages are crucial when troubleshooting problems. However, many developers don’t log enough information in the right places. I look at logs when I troubleshoot a problem.

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10 Best Practices to Secure PostgreSQL AWS RDS/Aurora

Datavail

AWS supports PostgreSQL versions 9.4 through 12 on RDS and 9.6 through 11 on Aurora. Many organizations are migrating to PostgreSQL RDS or Aurora in order to take advantage of availability, scalability, performance, etc. and are doing it as either a heterogeneous or a homogeneous migration. Security and Compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer: AWS is responsible for security “OF” the cloud.

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How AI can be a COVID-19 game-changer

TechBeacon

With most US states now reporting sustained increases in new coronavirus cases, fear about the pandemic's resurgence is on the rise. That is placing renewed pressure on the key elements in this healthcare battle, including early detection, containment, triage and diagnosis, and vaccine development.

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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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Serverless Computing: Taking DevOps to the Next Level

DevOps.com

Serverless computing enables you to outsource information, thus freeing teams to focus on front-end work. Organizations choose serverless when they look for faster and easier ways to release updates and patches. DevOps teams often use serverless when they are looking to automate infrastructure tasks. However, each provider offers different capabilities, and each service does require […].

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Mega-Agile

The Daily WTF

A long time ago, way back in 2009, Bruce W worked for the Mega-Bureaucracy. It was a slog of endless forms, endless meetings, endless projects that just never hit a final ship date. The Mega-Bureaucracy felt that the organization which manages best manages the most, and ensured that there were six tons of management overhead attached to the smallest project.

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What People Don't Tell You About Being a Data Scientist

Dataiku

This is a guest blog post by Dataquest, an online learning platform that teaches data science skills, by helping students to work with real datasets. There’s been a lot of hype around the data scientist role in recent years and it’s definitely true that there’s a lot to get excited about -- high-paying salaries, growing demand, the potential for interesting work, and did I mention high-paying salaries?

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Employability Should Be Top of Mind in Agile Education

Agile Alliance

In this interview I had the pleasure of talking to Juan Garbajosa, Deputy Vice Rector at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain. Juan has also been involved in organizing the XP Conference in Europe for many years and is the chair of its steering committee. During his tenure in academia, he has been a … Continued.

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How to Check Python Version in Windows, Linux and Mac

The Crazy Programmer

This post is all about how to check Python version on your computer. But before getting started, let’s know a bit about Python. Python is one of the most popular programming languages. And due to its awesome developer community, you can easily see a lot of different versions getting released quite frequently. There are two most popular versions of Python as of now, one is Python 2.7.x and the other is Python 3.8.x.

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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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How to Help Your Team Navigate Their Concerns About Culture Change

Let's Grow Leaders

When you’re working hard on culture change, it’s natural for your team to feel skeptical. After all, you’ve been thinking about this for a while. You’re committed to engagement and making a difference. You may wonder why your team isn’t breathing a […]. The post How to Help Your Team Navigate Their Concerns About Culture Change appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Beyond Anonymous: Where Hacktivism is going in 2020

The Parallax

Hacktivism is alive and well, if a bit weird, in 2020, says Gabriella Coleman, a cultural anthropologist specializing in hacker culture at McGill University. At the end of June, Twitter banned the account of the hacker collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) and blocked links to “ BlueLeaks ,” the group’s data trove of 270 gigabytes of data containing internal records from more than 200 police departments.

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Effective Product (Software) Teams

Agile Alliance

I had the pleasure to interview Eduardo Ferro from Madrid-Spain Eduardo is a software crafter with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations of different sizes to build good quality software products. Eduardo has worked in different startups and these days he is working as Platform Engineering Manager for Clarity AI. Eduardo started the … Continued.

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The Short Story From Arthur C. Clarke Every Officer in Space Force Should Read and Heed

CTOvision

Like so many others in the national security domain I am tracking what I can about the new US Space Force, the newest US military force. I believe their mission […].

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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How to Convince Your Boss You Have a Great Solution

Let's Grow Leaders

You see a problem and you have a great solution. But, no one asked you for your opinion. If you’re like many of the employees in our Courageous Cultures research, you might even be a bit nervous about speaking up, particularly if […]. The post How to Convince Your Boss You Have a Great Solution appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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MLOps: Methods and Tools of DevOps for Machine Learning

Altexsoft

When speaking of machine learning, we typically discuss data preparation or model building. Much less often the technology is mentioned in terms of deployment. Living in the shadow, this stage, according to the recent study , eats up 25 percent of data scientists time. In other words, they dedicate a quarter of their efforts to infrastructure — instead of doing what they can do best.

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About the Agile Alliance Board 2020 Nomination Process

Agile Alliance

The Agile Alliance Board of Directors has received many questions over the nominations process for new Board Members. We would like to share some of the changes we introduced over the past year. A little background and history Agile Alliance Board members are elected for a 3 year term, with the option to put themselves … Continued.

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observIQ Lauches Open Source Log Agent Project

DevOps.com

Blue Medora, after selling its core monitoring integration platform to VMware, today changed its name to observIQ and launched an open source agent project that will serve as the foundation of a log management tool to be delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. Company CTO Mike Kelly said the observIQ agent, which is written in […].

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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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What to Do when You Can’t Use a Team Member’s Idea

Let's Grow Leaders

When you get an idea you can’t use, it’s an opportunity to help people think more deeply and to get even better thoughts. In this episode, you’ll get specific leadership techniques you can use to build more strategic thinking and relevant […]. The post What to Do when You Can’t Use a Team Member’s Idea appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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A Complete Guide to Testing React Hooks

Toptal

A relatively recent addition to React, Hooks have already changed React development for the better through improved code readability and state management. But how do we test them? In this article, Toptal React Developer Avi Aryan outlines why it is crucial to test hooks and introduces us to his React Hooks testing routine.

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What’s Happening with Agile Coach Camp Worldwide

Agile Alliance

If you aren’t aware, thanks to COVID-19 Agile Coach Camp Worldwide has gone virtual with the Home Edition. This gives an opportunity to have even broader participation across the globe. Agile Coach Camps are targeted at Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, Managers, Execs, really anyone that is interested in taking a coaching approach to helping others … Continued.

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APIs: The Secret Sauce for Low-Code Platforms?

DevOps.com

As companies become increasingly talent-strapped, APIs are helping spur a low-code movement to help them remain competitive Low-code platforms have the potential to alter how software is built and delivered. By focusing on visual flows and drag-and-drop UIs, low-code platforms dramatically lower the barrier to software development. Yet, anyone with a toe in the no-code […].

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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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What Is the Real Cost of a Data Breach?

CTOvision

Read Dan May take a look at the intangible costs of a data breach on CPO Magazine : When contemplating a cybersecurity framework for a business, it’s vital that company-owners […].

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Doing Good with Data: Teradata's COVID-19 Resiliency Dashboard

Teradata

To help our customers navigate the world's new normal, our teams have created a business-centric, execution-focused tool – we call it the Resiliency Dashboard.

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It’s all about Agility – Introducing Portfolio Analysis for Product Ideation

Agile Alliance

Why and how we embarked on this interesting transformation journey, how we went on to improve the portfolio analysis framework iteratively to make it more impactful for product ideation and ultimately for business outcomes. PLEASE LOG IN To view this content must be a Member of the Agile Alliance. To become a Member, please visit … Continued.

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Balancing UX and Privacy With IoT

DevOps.com

As more IoT devices track data to improve customer UX, privacy concerns are becoming more prevalent. How can developers strike a balance? The internet of things, or IoT, is a system that has changed the way we perceive technology. While it has made the usage of technology easier than ever, it does come with its […]. The post Balancing UX and Privacy With IoT appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Counting on AI: The right time for researchers to embrace Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

While Artificial General Intelligence, or “singularity” as they call it, may be decades away, we have already reached a point where AI can significantly augment our intelligence and help us […].

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Trends Predicted in 2020 to Shape Autonomous Digital Enterprises

Dzone - DevOps

The DevOps market had generated two and half billion dollars profit in 2017, and it is estimated that it would make a profit of nearly $7 billion dollars by 2022. By the above statistics, one can identify the growth of the technological trend of the present era. According to Statista, a German online market portal, the DevOps Market had grown into a 3.5 billion dollar industry by 2018.

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Value Stream Mapping: How to See Where You’re Going By Seeing Where You Are

Agile Alliance

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