CIO
JULY 11, 2023
Consultants aren’t always held in the highest regard. The 90% who are bad, the old joke goes, ruin it for the rest of us. Knowing the 90%’s tricks of the trade is the canny CIO’s first line of defense. Here are seven of the most pernicious consulting misdeeds you will encounter as an IT leader. 1. Fixing anecdotes Bad stuff happens in even the best-run IT organization.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
JULY 11, 2023
There’s a lot of angst about software developers “losing their jobs” to AI, being replaced by a more intelligent version of ChatGPT, GitHub’s Copilot, Google’s Codey, or something similar. Matt Welsh has been talking and writing about the end of programming as such. He’s asking whether large language models eliminate programming as we know it, and he’s excited that the answer is “yes”: eventually, if not in the immediate future.
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CIO
JULY 11, 2023
Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Ignoring the potential of generative AI to increase productivity is a surefire way to fall behind as an individual, a team, and an organization. You should put it to work as an “eager intern” or “autonomous agent” (or both) ASAP. But positioning yourself, your team, and your organization to get ahead requires some strategic thinking.
Tenable
JULY 11, 2023
Microsoft’s July 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 130 CVEs (CVE-2023-36884) Microsoft addresses 130 CVEs including five that were exploited in the wild as zero-day vulnerabilities and guidance on the malicious use of Microsoft signed drivers. 9 Critical 121 Important 0 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft patched 130 CVEs in its July Patch Tuesday release, with nine rated as critical and 121 rated as important.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
CIO
JULY 11, 2023
As CIO of Anglo-South African international banking and wealth management group, Investec, Shabhana Thaver has a multi-purpose approach to tech trends. On the one hand, there are foundational forces, which protect the existing business and include talent, information security and modernization. Then, on the other, there are pioneering forces, which drive business growth and include information, interaction and computation.
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CIO
JULY 11, 2023
Balfour Beatty finances, develops, builds, and maintains vital infrastructure projects – such as airports, hospitals, schools, and office buildings – on three continents. The company was responsible for Britain’s largest road project, the £1.5 billion A14 improvement, and built the $429 million North Metro Commuter Rail Line in Denver, Colorado. It’s an enormous operation and, given the size and scope of Balfour Beatty’s business, delivering services to its 24,500+ global employees is complex.
Dzone - DevOps
JULY 11, 2023
GraalVM, as the name suggests, represents the Holy Grail of modern cloud-native development by boosting the performance of Java applications and, at the same time, making highly efficient and seamless polyglot programming a reality. But what exactly lies behind these claims? In this article, we will look into the platform’s evolution and prospects to understand why you will benefit from integrating the technology in production.
CIO
JULY 11, 2023
In a relatively brief time span, technologies like cloud, edge computing, artificial intelligence, and IoT have taken center stage, and new innovative technologies keep emerging. We’re now navigating a technological landscape that’s growing exponentially more complex and rapidly changing, one that increasingly exceeds the ability of human intelligence to keep pace.
Apiumhub
JULY 11, 2023
Innovation and pragmatism are two contrasting approaches in software development, each with its own merits and considerations. Let’s explore pragmatic innovation more in-depth in this article. Software innovation Innovation refers to the pursuit of novel ideas, creative solutions, and cutting-edge technologies in software development. It involves pushing the boundaries, exploring new possibilities, and challenging conventional practices.
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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.
Ivanti
JULY 11, 2023
This month is going to be a painful one, with: Multiple zero-day exploits being resolved by Microsoft , Some operational changes for Kerberos and Netlogon vulnerability resolutions , and A large lineup of third-party updates releasing on and after July’s Patch Tuesday – including Oracle's quarterly CPU and Java updates. Kerberos and Netlogon Vulnerability Changes July is going to be a big month from an operational perspective.
CableLabs
JULY 11, 2023
With its blazing fast speeds, incredibly low latency and enhanced reliability, 10G plays a crucial role in fostering innovation and supporting entrepreneurial endeavors. The network of the near future provides a solid foundation for the development and deployment of emerging technologies that improve the way we live, work, learn and play. Last fall, CableLabs announced the winners of the 10G Challenge , a competition built on behalf of the cable industry to inspire the creation of applications t
DevOps.com
JULY 11, 2023
Tricentis has acquired Waldo to expand the scope of the automated testing capabilities it provides for mobile applications.
Palo Alto Networks
JULY 11, 2023
Modern Network Security Is Crucial With digital transformation accelerating, protecting the modern network has never been more important. From connected enterprises, to the internet of things (IoT) and the critical infrastructures supporting the world, today’s network is the lifeline of the global organization. To keep pace, modern enterprises must turn to Zero Trust as the way forward, to see and secure users, apps and data anywhere — from headquarters to branch offices, from data centers to th
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
John Snow Labs
JULY 11, 2023
Version 1.16.0 of Finance NLP releases new demo apps for Question Answering and Summarization tasks and fixes documentation for many models. New demo apps We release new demo apps for Question Answering and for Summarization , showing examples using the latest models of the library. New Flan T5 based models for Question Answering: New Flan T5 based models for Summarization: Now, interested users can check the capabilities of the newest models that were recently released in our demonstration apps
DevOps.com
JULY 11, 2023
Roadie today made generally available a tool that automatically tracks and reports how software development teams are performing against engineering standards defined by a DevOps team. The Tech Insights tool is an addition to Roadie’s implementation of the open source Backstage developer portal and is delivered via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.
Dzone - DevOps
JULY 11, 2023
Navigating the journey from building machine learning (ML) models to deploying them in production can often be a rocky road. It’s an essential yet complex process where data scientists and engineers must bridge their knowledge gap. Data scientists, adept at creating models, might stumble when it comes to production deployment. On the other hand, engineers may struggle with the continuous iteration of ML models, leading to inefficient, error-prone operations.
DevOps.com
JULY 11, 2023
Stack Overflow's 2023 developer survey reveals insights into programming language and tooling preferences and the use of AI in the development workflow. Here's what these trends could mean for DevOps.
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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
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2023
Decades of business strategy have urged leaders to concentrate the bulk of their business efforts on the customer experience. While prioritizing customers over employees can drive short-term revenue growth, it will cost companies in long-term employee retention and engagement. The author and colleagues conducted a new study of thousands of employees and executives from around the world and across multiple industries.
CableLabs
JULY 11, 2023
Consumers are demanding increasingly immersive, interactive media experiences that require faster speeds, lower latency, increased network reliability and enhanced security. The future of the cable industry relies on interoperability to deliver what consumers need. That’s the goal of the industry’s full-court press toward 10G deployment, and it starts with DOCSIS® 4.0 compliance.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2023
Plummeting flows of trade, capital, and people at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic prompted a wave of speculation about the end of globalization, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brought even more predictions of a retreat toward national self-sufficiency. But, according to research for the latest DHL Global Connectedness Index, international flows show no signs of a sustained downturn.
DevOps.com
JULY 11, 2023
BigPanda added generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to analyze incidents surfaced by its AI for IT operations (AIOps) platform.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2023
Thanks to the increasing availability of AI, including machine learning algorithms, deliberately creating customer data feedback loops is now possible for most products and services. This means that as a firm gathers more customer data, it can feed that data into machine learning algorithms to improve its product or service, thereby attracting more customers, generating even more customer data.
Netlify
JULY 11, 2023
Generate and deploy websites to Netlify seamlessly with just a ChatGPT prompt using the Netlify Drop ChatGPT plugin. Try it now!
Dzone - DevOps
JULY 11, 2023
In my previous article , we looked at platform engineering: what it is, how it became a thing, platform engineering vs. DevOps, and how it could help improve security. Today, let's get hands-on and build a developer portal from scratch!
DevOps.com
JULY 11, 2023
These four tips will help ensure the developer experience is not your Achilles heel in fueling business performance.
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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.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
JULY 11, 2023
Overcoming attitudes about competition and turf is a key to innovation. Here are some ways to ignite a bold future. Today’s guest post is by Scott Cochrane, author of Your Creative Mind: How to Disrupt Your Thinking, Abandon Your Comfort Zone, and Develop Bold New Strategies (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Last weekend I was out for a mountain ride on my adventure motorcycle.
The Daily WTF
JULY 11, 2023
C. Wiles has the "joy" of working on a SAS application for a large health insurance company. This snippet was extracted some time ago, but the application continues to live on. It has one job: pad the month part of dates to two digits. Let's see how it's done. %macro yearmonth ; if year_month = '2010-1' then year_month = '2010-01' ; else if year_month = '2010-2' then year_month = '2010-02' ; else if year_month = '2010-3' then year_month = &
Crafty CTO
JULY 11, 2023
I think everyone on the podcast was in danger of hyperventilating. Many interesting facts and hacks came to light. The show notes are a novella and worth reading as swyx recaps exhaustively and does a useful executive summary.
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