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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO

Looking for your next read? Why not pick up a book that will inspire you to be a more effective leader, help you spot challenges and pitfalls in your IT strategies and processes, or prepare for the future of information technology? I asked CIOs and other high-level IT leaders to recommend books that have impacted their career, whether that has meant inspiring them to be better leaders or helping them navigate a particular challenge.

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Now In Tech: AI, Assessments, And The Great Over-Correction

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

If you are craving some stability and have had enough adventures, then you are definitely not alone. Over the last 3 years, I’ve had enough of rollercoaster rides – metaphorically and literally. Seeing the post-COVID hiring frenzy descend into chaos has not been easy for me or others in the recruiting community. With tech companies laying off more employees in Q1 ’23 (more than the entire 2022), good news has been hard to come by.

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The Complete Guide To Developing Enterprise Applications For Any Business

OTS Solutions

Developing Enterprise Business Applications can help you streamline processes, improve customer experience, and increase profitability while giving you better control over your data. But developing an Enterprise Application can seem like a daunting task for some of us. Where do you start? How can you be sure it meets the needs of your business? What technology do you need to make it happen?

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What’s the Difference Between DevOps and Platform Engineering?

DevOps.com

The DevOps space is buzzing with a new trend—platform engineering. Platform engineering has been gaining steam over the last few years but has really peaked in interest lately. In fact, according to a study conducted by Puppet Labs, 51% of organizations have adopted platform engineering or plan to do so in the next year. But […] The post What’s the Difference Between DevOps and Platform Engineering?

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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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Change Control Doesn’t Work: When Regulated DevOps Goes Wrong

Dzone - DevOps

This week I’ve been reading through the recent judgment from the Swedish FSA on the Swedbank outage. If you’re unfamiliar with this story, Swedbank had a major outage in April 2022 that was caused by an unapproved change to their IT systems. It temporarily left nearly a million customers with incorrect balances, many of whom were unable to meet payments.

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AI in Healthcare: Use Cases, Latest Trends, and Many More

Openxcell

Artificial intelligence in healthcare is gradually changing. AI plays a vital role in the ongoing evolution of healthcare throughout its diverse disciplines in the global economy as a whole. According to the Deloitte study, 85% of healthcare business leaders said their organization would increase their AI spending by 2023. The use of artificial intelligence in healthcare can literally improve the lives of patients, improving diagnostics and treatment, and assisting them in making informed medica

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OpenAI to go Open Source — Elon Musk was a ‘Huge Idiot’ ¦ Mojo Risin’

DevOps.com

In this week’s #TheLongView: Sources say it’s an open source future for OpenAI, and improving AI perf with Mojo. The post OpenAI to go Open Source — Elon Musk was a ‘Huge Idiot’ ¦ Mojo Risin’ appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Breaking Down The Time Management

CEO Insider

Managing time may be an admirable skill, but it is pretty hard to conceive. Good time management has numerous benefits, which is why most employers also appreciate it. How is time management defined, and how can it be achieved through specific steps? Set your goals A good start is only possible by setting up the […] The post Breaking Down The Time Management appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Despite DevOps, Software Supply Chain Security Challenges Persist

DevOps.com

A survey of 397 IT, cybersecurity and application development professionals conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) found that while most respondents work for organizations that have adopted DevOps practices, multiple software supply chain security issues and DevSecOps concerns have yet to be addressed. The survey, conducted on behalf of Data Theorem, a provider of a […] The post Despite DevOps, Software Supply Chain Security Challenges Persist appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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U.S. and Australian Agencies Publish Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on BianLian Ransomware Group

Tenable

U.S. and Australian Agencies Publish Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on BianLian Ransomware Group The FBI, ACSC and CISA have released a joint cybersecurity advisory discussing the BianLian ransomware group. Background As part of the #StopRansomware campaign, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the U.S. and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) released a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA AA23-136A) discussing the BianLian rans

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GitHub Adds Accessibility Improvements for Developers With Disabilities

DevOps.com

GitHub today revealed it added several capabilities to make it easier for developers with disabilities to access its code repository platform. The new capabilities were announced to coincide with Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Capabilities highlighted include a navigation tool and a search tool that can be used with a screen reader that GitHub provides.

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Why is Embedded Finance the Future of Financial Services?

Daffodil Software

FinTech solutions have been revolutionizing financial services as we know them, thanks to their pairing with AI, the blockchain, IoT, and other inventive technologies. The latest technological entrant that is disrupting the FinTech paradigm is Embedded Finance. Embedded finance is increasingly helping simplify the payment processing workflow and opening up newer opportunities for better customer service.

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Simplifying SAP Data Integration With Google Cloud

Dzone - DevOps

Having worked with many clients, I have come to the realization that data integration is a critical component of modern businesses that rely on data-driven insights. The number of enterprise applications, multi-cloud hosted applications, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and on-premises solutions is vast, and the complexity of integrating data from these data sources can be overwhelming.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Change Management Requires a Change Mindset

Harvard Business Review

Our ability to manage change hinges on our ability to manage ourselves, including our fears and anxieties.

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What Is Istio Service Mesh?

Dzone - DevOps

Most organizations prefer to deploy containerized applications into K8s because of its scalability and flexibility. But as the number of microservices increased and application pods are distributed across multiple clusters and cloud providers, managing and scaling them has become complex. While scaling, it is harder to configure complex communication logic between microservices.

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Problem Solving with Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio Management, and Design Thinking Mindset

Perficient

What problems and challenges are we facing today? As an enterprise doing business in today’s dynamic and competitive global market, we are facing a multitude of challenges and opportunities: GRC, legal mandates, and regulatory compliance Cyber security breaching concerns Never-ending competitive products & services released into the market New disrupted technology emerging constantly Continuous customer/employee journey & experience improvement Process optimization/automation, cost reduc

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AWS Multi-Region Resiliency Aurora MySQL Global DB With Headless Clusters

Dzone - DevOps

A headless cluster in Amazon Aurora global database refers to a cluster that has no database instance attached to it. In other words, the cluster only includes the database storage and is used as a backup in case of a failure of the primary cluster. The primary cluster is the one that has a database instance attached to it and is serving the application's read and write requests.

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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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Article: [R]Evolutionize Your Retrospectives with Active Sensemaking

InfoQ Culture Methods

High-quality retrospecting involves embracing unique individual experiences, acknowledging human limitations and biases, and sharing context-rich anecdotes through storytelling within and beyond team boundaries. This article explores how Active Sensemaking can prevent tension or apathy and foster a more productive and harmonious team environment.

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Apache Kafka vs. Message Queue: Trade-Offs, Integration, Migration

Dzone - DevOps

A message broker has very different characteristics and use cases than a data streaming platform like Apache Kafka. A business process requires more than just sending data in real time from a data source to a data sink. Data integration, processing, governance, and security must be reliable and scalable end-to-end across the business process. This blog post explores the capabilities of message brokers, the relation to the JMS standard, trade-offs compared to data streaming with Apache Kafka, and

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Four Employee Influencers to Follow at Dell Technologies World

Dell EMC

We tapped four Dell employees to give an insider's look at what Dell Technologies World is all about.

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Ready to Relive the Excitement of Kafka Summit 2023? Here’s What Went Down!

Confluent

You won’t want to miss this recap of the most exciting keynotes and sessions about all things Kafka, real-time data, and data streaming at Kafka Summit 2023!

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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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TurnKey Featured Commitments

TurnKey Labs

In today’s fast-paced tech industry, between the late nights and pushing for the next milestone, it’s easy to lose focus on what actually makes everything possible… your team! That’s why here at TurnKey, we put so much effort into building a culture that supports diversity and inclusivity.

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Kubernetes Resource Limits: How To Make Limits and Requests Work for You

Dzone - DevOps

Adjusting Kubernetes resource limits can quickly get tricky, especially when you start scaling your environments. The level of waste is higher than you'd expect – one in every two K8s containers uses less than a third of its requested CPU and memory. Optimizing resource limits is like walking on a tightrope.

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Which Factors Decide the Cost of Building a SaaS App?

KitelyTech

If your company wants to develop a SaaS app, one of the first questions will be about the cost. A deeper look at SaaS app development shows that there are several factors that you can examine to get a better idea of what the overall SaaS app development costs will be. Here are the 6 factors that decide the cost of building a SaaS App. Features and Functionality The features and functionality of a SaaS app play a significant role in determining the cost of development.

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Top 10 Offshore Software Development Trends for 2023 You Don’t Want to Miss

TurnKey Labs

I can’t help but get excited about the future of offshore software development. It’s not just a passing trend anymore; it’s becoming the new norm in the software world. The benefits it brings to startups and high-growth companies are undeniable – lower costs, enhanced staff flexibility, and accelerated time to market.

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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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AppSec for the Modern Engineering Ecosystem

Prisma Clud

As engineering becomes a driving force, how must AppSec evolve? Software engineering is changing, becoming a driving force in business and bringing about big changes in how application security (AppSec) is approached. Complexity is gaining the upper hand, with more development languages, and new types of code security issues — such as vulnerabilities in open-source code components — making it even harder for AppSec to provide an overarching security umbrella for the engineering ecosystem.

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Error'd: Twicely Done

The Daily WTF

We received a surfeit of submissions this week. The choices below were selected almost at random, but coincidentally two of them were sent in by regular reader Michael R. to start things off. Said Michael "Reading CodeSOD on 2023-05-15 made me brush up my knowledge of log. Little did I know that it comes with its own defects. Thank you Google." If you were a mathematician, and wanted to build a wooden table, what else would you use?

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Doors and corners in cybersecurity: Protecting against known and unknown threats

Lacework

Huge sci-fi fan here! Maybe when you see or hear the term “known and unknown threats,” you too hear “doors and corners.” Detective Miller from “The Expanse” by James S.A. Corey tells Captain James Holden, “I keep warning you. Doors and corners, kid. That’s where they get you.

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