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How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: 7 Principles

QAspire

I recently re-read the book “How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci” by Michael Gelb and realized how profoundly the book impacted my thinking about creativity, learning and well being back in time. The book offers really valuable ideas into the mind and works of one of the history’s greatest thinkers and my inspiration, Leonardo Da Vinci – a true Neo-Generalist.

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Design for DevOps: Using AI in App Design and Enhanced CI/CD Pipelines

DevOps.com

In my recent article Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps with AI-Engineered Tools, I explained that design-for-DevOps practices, a DevOps pillar, involves designing software in a way that supports the DevOps model and CI/CD pipelines. This can include aspects like microservices architecture, modular design and considering operability and deployability from the earliest stages of design.

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The Impact of Microservices: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Dzone - DevOps

Reliance on technology has come full circle since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The increased utilization of digital applications for needs such as banking, shopping, and especially healthcare services during the past three years has ushered in a need for consumers to trust technology to assist them in all aspects of daily living. Not coincidentally, the demands placed on app engineers, developers, and designers today require them to offer a level of versatility within their software that

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How do you feel about your team members or colleagues having “side gigs”?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How do you feel about your team members or colleagues having “side gigs”? I’m totally fine with it as long as it doesn’t impact their day to day work performance 72.19% I don’t like it but I’ll tolerate it as long as it doesn’t impact performance 21.80% I’m strongly against it — all their focus should be on their primary job 6.01% Focus on core job performance.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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Equip Your Library's Computer Lab

TechSoup

One of the core community services offered by many libraries is public-access computer labs. As you'll know if your library has one, setting up and maintaining a computer lab can be expensive, with an overwhelming range of hardware and software options to choose from.

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Top 5 Organization Policy Services for Google Cloud

Xebia

Top 5 Organization Policy Services for Google Cloud The Google Cloud is a cloud service that enables users to create and manage virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters, store data, and run applications. When using Google Cloud, it’s important to implement technical boundaries that enforce your company’s security and privacy policies. Just as office buildings are secured with locks and by limiting access to certain areas, your cloud environment needs to have safeguards in place to maintain secur

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AWS launches no-code service AppFabric with generative AI assistance

CIO

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday unveiled a new no-code offering, dubbed AppFabric, designed to simplify SaaS integration for enterprises by increasing application observability and reducing operational costs associated with building point-to-point solutions. The fully managed AppFabric offering, which has been made generally available, is designed to help enterprises maintain SaaS application interoperability without having to develop connectors or workflows in-house while offering added se

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Building Boba AI: Some lessons and patterns learnt in building an LLM-powered generative application

Martin Fowler

While it's fascinating to work directly with a Large Language Model, such as ChatGPT, it takes some skill and practice to learn how to prompt it effectively. My colleague Farooq Ali has been working on a co-pilot tool, Boba AI, for using an LLM to help generate ideas for product strategy. From this experience he as proposed eight patterns which he judges will be generally useful for building these kinds of AI co-pilot applications.

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Compassionate Accountability with Nate Regier

Let's Grow Leaders

Compassion and accountability are too often in tension – leaders feel they have to pick one or the other when in fact, practicing compassionate accountability can lead to a thriving organizational culture. Solely prioritizing accountability can create toxic work environments that drive away good talent. On the other end of the spectrum, being too nice can compromise performance and productivity.

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12 Reasons Snowflake Costs Get Out of Control — And How to Solve It

With no barriers to entry you can get started with Snowflake for next to nothing, but as you may already know, costs can quickly spiral out of control. While usage costs can be better managed for your internal BI use case, Snowflake costs skyrocket for SaaS providers because the need to deliver real-time, interactive analytics in a multi-tenant environment is always on.

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Automate your workload insights

Xebia

Managing more than one AWS accounts can become challenging. AWS Organizations provides a way to manage many accounts. You can automate account creation and management. If you use a naming schema you can leverage landingzone-organization ! Naming schema? Using a naming schema improves your ability to find the correct account faster. For example, let say your company Xebia has some workloads.

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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

CIO

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Meyercord parlayed an engineering degree into a two-decade consulting track at Accenture, where a focus on large-scale transformation projects opened the door to the global CIO role at Salesforce during its critical revenue growth period.

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Introducing KBOM – Kubernetes Bill of Materials

Aqua Security

SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) is an accepted best practice to map the components and dependencies of your applications in order to better understand your applications’ risks. SBOMs are used as a basis for vulnerability assessment, licensing compliance, and more. There are plenty of available tools, such as Aqua Trivy , that help you easily generate SBOM for your applications.

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Why Your Data Lake Strategy is Broken for Observability

DevOps.com

Someone once said, “Life is better at the lake.” That may be true in the physical world, but when it comes to using data lakes for observability, that’s not typically the case. Just about every organization in every industry has a digital presence, whether it’s a website, an app or another digital service.

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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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No Turning Back: AI Everywhere Causes a Seminal Shift in the Tech Market

IDC

The tech industry is at a seminal moment. The combination of executive and board level interest, clearly defined outcomes, and the sheer speed of adoption makes Generative AI unlike anything we have seen before.

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3 things that make a CIO-CFO dream team

CIO

“There are plenty of good CIOs and plenty of good CFOs,” says Jim McGittigan, Research VP in the CIO Research group of Gartner. “Part of what makes them good is they understand one another. When they work well together, it has a huge impact on the effectiveness of the organization.” CIOs and CFOs who have this chemistry know that the relative success of the relationship runs along three dimensions: The reporting structure : “Where the CIO reports should fit the nature of the business,” says McGi

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How Do I Build Better, More Meaningful, Work Relationships?

Let's Grow Leaders

Strong Work Relationships Start Better Questions I’m so excited to share this week’s Asking for a Friend all about work relationships. I hosted Michael Bungay Stanier live on LinkedIn for a conversation about how to have better relationships at work and talk about his new book, “How to Work with (Almost) Anyone.” If you loved his book “The Coaching Habit,” I know you’re going to dig this conversation.

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Bionic Extends Application Security Posture Management Platform

DevOps.com

Bionic this week added a pair of tools to its application security posture management (ASPM) platform that make it simpler to triage threats based on severity and attach a risk score.

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Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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What Is an Event in the Apache Kafka Ecosystem?

Confluent

Get an introduction into the world of events and event-driven architecture in Apache Kafka. Learn what events are and the role they play in event design, event streaming, and event-driven design.

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Hate being more productive? Ignore AI agents

CIO

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Bill Gates has seen (or, for that matter, caused) some profound advances in technology, so I don’t take a contrarian position lightly, but I think the way he describes his epiphany about the importance of AI is only half right. After being “awed” by OpenAI’s GPT model acing the AP Bio exam, the model was asked a non-technical question: “What do you say to a father with a sick child?

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When Values Clash: Overcome an Invisible Barrier to Great Corporate Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

To build a great corporate culture, don’t ignore the conflict between values When it comes to building a great corporate culture, one of the most common frustrations we hear from senior leaders and executives is that “We involved everyone. We worked together to define our values. And we talk about them regularly. People seem to appreciate the messaging.

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Tabnine Unveils Beta of Generative AI Automated Testing Tool

DevOps.com

Tabnine this week made available in beta a tool that enables developers to use natural language to interact with the artificial intelligence (AI) models embedded within its test automation platform.

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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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Buyer’s Folly – Why Buying a Company is More Complicated than You May Think

CEO Insider

The acquisition minded executive is the norm in the business world. Most executives I’ve talked to are either actively seeking acquisitions or, to use their common turn of phrase, they’re “opportunistic.” In other words, if the right deal falls into their laps, they might be stirred into action. As I point out in my book […] The post Buyer’s Folly – Why Buying a Company is More Complicated than You May Think appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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What is a project manager? The lead role for project success

CIO

What is a project manager? Project managers play the lead role in planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing out projects. They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project. To succeed in their role, project managers must be adept at coordinating resources, managing budgets, measuring and tracking project progress, and communicating with team members and stakeholders.

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Accelerating Headless Commerce with Perficient’s SAP Commerce Composable Storefront Accelerator

Perficient

Headless Commerce: An Innovative Strategy for E-commerce Success In the highly competitive e-commerce landscape, businesses are constantly striving to deliver exceptional digital experiences to their customers. One innovative strategy that is rapidly gaining traction is headless commerce. By decoupling the front-end presentation layer from the back-end commerce logic, headless commerce enables organizations to operate with heightened agility, facilitating faster time-to-market through agile deve

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How AI Addresses DevOps Monitoring and Observability Challenges

DevOps.com

AI can support monitoring and observability by analyzing logs and metrics to predict potential system failures or performance degradation.

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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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Announcing Complete Azure Observability for Kentik Cloud

Kentik

Today, the phrase “cloud migration” means a lot more than it used to – gone are the days of the simple lift and shift. Kentik customers move workloads to (and from) multiple clouds, integrate existing hybrid applications with new cloud services, migrate to Virtual WAN to secure private network traffic, and make on-premises data and applications redundant to multiple clouds – or cloud data and applications redundant to the data center.

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What makes a CIO truly great?

CIO

Whenever one talks about high-performance or leadership there is a tendency to break out a list. For example, Major League Baseball scouts are in constant search for rare “5 tool” players who can hit for power, hit for average, field, throw, and run. Is there such a list for high-performance CIOs? If so, how long might it be? I asked a group of executives for the most important adjectives they would use to describe successful CIOs.

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Import Data From Merlin to Finish Your Migration to Sitecore

Perficient

In previous posts, I shared my journey with Sitecore Data Exchange Framework and using Merlin to migrate your site to Sitecore. Learning how to use Merlin was only one part of migrating a site. In this post, I’ll share my powershell script to pull in data from Merlin and populate your content tree. I’ll continue to use the blogs.perficient.com site to show some examples.