Martin Fowler
JANUARY 18, 2024
At the turn of the century, I was lucky to involved in several projects that developed the practice of Continuous Integration. I wrote up our lessons from this work in article on my website, where it continues to be a oft-referenced resource for this important practice. Late last year a colleague contacted me to say that the article, now nearly twenty years old, was still useful, but was showing its age.
CIO
JANUARY 18, 2024
By all accounts, 2024 will be a good year on the CIO hiring front. Global spending on technology is predicted to be up by virtually all forecasts. Most midsize and large organizations are spending significantly on cloud capabilities. Cybersecurity has been pegged as a top priority for funding in many industries. And nearly every company seems poised to adopt artificial intelligence in some fashion.
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Xebia
JANUARY 18, 2024
Deploy Secure Public Web Endpoints Welcome to Building Resilient Public Networking on AWS—our comprehensive blog series on advanced networking strategies tailored for regional evacuation, failover, and robust disaster recovery. Here’s a summary of this engaging journey: Revisiting networking concepts from the client’s perspective: If you missed our exploration of fundamental networking concepts in the first installment, catch up here.
CIO
JANUARY 18, 2024
No one questions the tremendous impact generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) platforms and tools will have on the future of work. The impending disruption is obvious even before the effects materialize. The question IT and business leaders must ask is, How do we leverage this sea change rather than drown in it? Half of CEOs say their organization is at least somewhat unprepared for AI and machine learning (ML) adoption, according to Workday’s C-Suite Global AI Indicator Report.
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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.
Xebia
JANUARY 18, 2024
Simple, Complicated, Simple A Transitional Journey in Code A few years ago, I took up the hobby of making slow coffee. The art of manually brewing coffee is involved and complicated but potentially offers a fantastic reward: an experience in a porcelain cup. The start was simple: just me, a stovetop coffee maker, and some ground coffee. The results?
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DevOps.com
JANUARY 18, 2024
Experts offer insight into the trends, transformations and breakthroughs that will redefine the DevOps landscape in 2024.
CIO
JANUARY 18, 2024
New research 1 underscores the common challenges many enterprises face in advancing their Value Stream Management (VSM) maturity levels for digital transformation, emphasizing the crucial need for effective guidance. Recognizing this need, we have created a cutting-edge VSM maturity model. Drawing upon our extensive experience facilitating successful VSM initiatives within large-scale enterprises, this model serves as a compass, offering insights into their current VSM maturity and providing pra
Crunchbase News
JANUARY 18, 2024
Modern humanity’s carbon-spewing ways probably have their roots in manufacturing. If it’s not the things we mass-produce, then it’s likely the processes used to make them. Or, in many cases, both are to blame for emitting copious quantities of CO₂. Given this state of affairs, it’s not surprising that founders and venture capitalists have taken an interest in greener manufacturing.
CIO
JANUARY 18, 2024
In industries such as manufacturing, logistics, transportation, agriculture, and energy exploration, extreme and ever-changing conditions illustrate the critical need for robust and reliable connectivity. Whether an enterprise’s use cases demand 4G LTE connectivity or the unprecedented speed and low latency of 5G, private wireless networks are helping keep devices, networks, and people connected and able to share and access data in real or near-real time.
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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.
The Hustle
JANUARY 18, 2024
It’s a tale as old as time: a beloved relic of the past pushed aside by newer, shinier things. Today, it seems the latest victim of the tech takeover might be the model train hobby industry, which is nearing the end of the line. The situation was dire even back in 2016 when the National Model Railroad Association said the average age of its ~19k members was 64, up from 39 in the mid-’70s.
CIO
JANUARY 18, 2024
Each new iteration of technology development creates renewed hope to be a vehicle for good and empower those in need. But it’s not the technology type that enables such work but its application. Scottsdale-based charity Both Ends Believing (BEB) is just such an example. Through the right intentions and business technology leadership, BEB has placed 3,133 orphans with families since it began in 2010.
Ooda Loop
JANUARY 18, 2024
Last year, OODA CTO Bob Gourley spoke with MITRE Futurist Charles Clancy on our Quantum Enabled Future. During that conversation, Clancy also shared some research he and and his team on Web3 and the Future of the Internet, which dovetailed nice into our Digital Self-sovereignty research efforts. Following is another valuable contribution from the MITRE reseach team.
CIO
JANUARY 18, 2024
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) utilises innovation and disruptive technologies in detecting leaks in the water transmission underground pipelines. This helped DEWA save 243 million gallons of water and AED 9.66 million in 2023. DEWA’s Smart Ball technology detects leaks that are usually difficult to detect using traditional techniques.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 18, 2024
Generative AI has the potential to reinvent work, freeing us to unleash our creativity on the problems that really matter. But in order for this to happen, companies need to build people’s trust in the technology. The author, who has spent years researching trust, recommends asking four questions to assess the trustworthiness of your company’s generative AI efforts.
CIO
JANUARY 18, 2024
It’s a frustrating situation facing many organizations that are far along their “digital transformation” journeys: they want and need more and more connected devices to optimize operations and enable data-driven decision-making, but they operate in environments where it’s too hard to scale traditional Wi-fi and wired connectivity. This is an all too common challenge for industries such transportation, utilities and mining sectors, which are instead turning to private wireless 5G networks to ov
CEO Insider
JANUARY 18, 2024
In a recent article for CEOWORLD magazine, I wrote about making 2024 the year you substitute setting (and often failing to achieve) New Year’s Resolutions for choosing one word to frame the year you want to experience. A word that will act as your true north so that you stay on track. A word that aligns […] The post Have you chosen your word for 2024?
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 18, 2024
While recent years have seen back-to-work mandates following the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, they’ve also seen a growing number of workers shift to fully or partially remote. Perhaps you’re considering making this shift, too. Many factors make hybrid work schedules appealing — including caring for young children or aging parents, or the stress of long commutes — but flexible work is new and unfamiliar territory for most employers.
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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
Ooda Loop
JANUARY 18, 2024
Approximately 6,700 WordPress websites have been infected with the Balada injector malware, after using a Popup Builder plug-in with a cross-site vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-6000.
Crunchbase News
JANUARY 18, 2024
Online discussion platform Reddit is moving forward with detailed plans for a March 2024 IPO, Reuters reported Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The San Francisco-based company has been considering an IPO for at least three years. It filed confidentially for a going-public offering in December 2021, but like many private technology companies, delayed those plans as the business climate turned south the following year.
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 18, 2024
In the world of containerization, Docker stands out as the leading platform for building, shipping, and running applications within containers. One of the essential components of Docker is the storage driver. Storage drivers are the backbone of container file systems, enabling efficient data management and optimizing container performance. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the significance of storage drivers in Docker, how they work, the different types available, and best practices f
InfoWorld
JANUARY 18, 2024
As creators and IP holders argue with generative AI companies over the correct protocol to use data for training generative AI systems, a new non-profit firm, Fairly Trained, is offering certifications to companies who train their generative AI models on “consented” data. “We believe consumers deserve to know which companies think creator consent is important and which don’t.
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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.
The Hustle
JANUARY 18, 2024
Highway signs are losing their sense of humor. Or rather, the US Federal Highway Administration is. The DoT organization’s updated Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways is replacing road signs that display cheeky messages — like “Seatbelts always pass a vibe check” — with signs that are “simple, direct, brief, legible, and clear.
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 18, 2024
As the title says, this article will list my cheat sheet for ModelMapper. It will not provide any deep-dive tutorials or fancy descriptions, just some use cases. Models Used for This Article Any time you see User , UserDTO , LocationDTO in the code, refer to this section.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 18, 2024
Hybrid clouds cater to the strategic shift toward more agile, responsive and cost-effective IT operations.
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 18, 2024
Achieving agility, scalability, efficiency, and security is paramount in modern software development. While several cultural methodologies, tools, and approaches are sought after to achieve the above-mentioned, GitOps, Kubernetes, and Platform Engineering are keystones of this transformation. In this comprehensive guide, you will learn what GitOps, Kubernetes, and Platform Engineering are, unraveling their significance, working principles, and what makes this trio the powerhouse of modern DevOps
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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.
InfoWorld
JANUARY 18, 2024
When working on applications, you will often need to convert one type to another. Object mapping is the process of mapping a source object to a destination object, where the types of the source and destination objects might differ. For example, you might need to create an instance of one class from an instance of another class, then copy the data from the source object to the destination object.
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 18, 2024
In this post, you will learn how you can integrate Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities into your Java application. More specifically, how you can integrate with LocalAI from your Java application. Enjoy! Introduction In a previous post , it was shown how you could run a Large Language Model (LLM) similar to OpenAI by means of LocalAI. The Rest API of OpenAI was used in order to interact with LocalAI.
The Hustle
JANUARY 18, 2024
Livestreaming “Diablo IV” we understand, but getting canned from your job? A recent viral storm occurred when Brittany Pietsch, a former account exec at Cloudflare, recorded her firing, during which no one involved could explain how she failed to meet performance expectations. While many viewers commended Pietsch for standing up for herself, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince defended the firing as one of ~40 across its sales team, despite admitting it was done poorly.
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