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Continuous Reliability: Handling ‘Known Unknowns’ and ‘Unknown Unknowns’

OverOps

Know your unknowns with the help of continuous reliability. Let’s rewind to the year 2002 (this should give you an idea of how long I have been working in software development). Mr Donald Rumsfeld, then United States Secretary of Defense, had this to say in response to a question: . While this statement was not made in reference to software, the underlying principles are applicable to the way we think about software troubleshooting.

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Refactoring: This class is too large

Martin Fowler

Most programmers have personal projects that do important things for them personally, but never have enough time and energy to keep them in good condition. Clare is no exception, and needed to spend time getting such an unruly codebase back into line. Here she shares the first part of her refactoring: breaking down a class that had become too big. It's a messy situation, because that's what real refactoring is like - yet when done in a controlled way, with lots of tiny steps, we can make real pr

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Women in Agile and Tech: Building a Network of Support, Learning, and Growth

Agile Alliance

This story originates sometime back in 2013 – 2014 when I started my journey to become an Agile Enabler in India. When I began, I did not find a single woman to guide me or coach me. Not blaming women for not coming forward. It was maybe because I was a novice and unaware of … Continued.

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Moving from Red AI to Green AI, Part 1: How to Save the Environment and Reduce Your Hardware Costs

DataRobot

Machine learning, and especially deep learning, has become increasingly more accurate in the past few years. This has improved our lives in ways we couldn't imagine just a few years ago, but we're far from the end of this AI revolution. Cars are driving themselves, x-ray photos are being analyzed automatically , and in this pandemic age, machine learning is being used to predict outbreaks of the disease , help with diagnosis, and make other critical healthcare decisions.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

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.

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6 Benefits To Adopting An AWS Multi-Account Strategy

ParkMyCloud

Taking your organization into a full multi-cloud deployment can be a daunting task, but focusing on adopting just an AWS multi-account strategy can provide many benefits without a lot of extra effort. AWS makes it quite easy to create new accounts on a whim, and can simplify things with consolidated billing. Let’s take a look at why you might want to split your monolithic AWS account into micro accounts. 1.

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How to Support Your Team During an Unexpected Layoff

Let's Grow Leaders

My heart has been breaking all day. I’ve been doing the best I can with the onslaught of phone calls, emails, and texts from incredible leaders in the emotional throes of an unexpected layoff. “I’ve been laid off.” “I had to lay […]. The post How to Support Your Team During an Unexpected Layoff appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Agile Alliance Entrevistando a Personajes de la Agilidad Latinoamericana

Agile Alliance

Recientemente me uní al Agile Alliance en mi nuevo rol de Desarrollador de la Comunidad para Latinoamericana. Previamente a este rol serví por seis años como miembro del Board de Directores del Agile Alliance. Mi objetivo en este nuevo rol es doble: primero, crear contenido en castellano, y segundo, crear puentes de comunicación entre los … Continued.

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Tests Show That Voice Assistants Still Lack Critical Intelligence

CTOvision

Read Ronald Schmelzer’s article about the Cognilytica Voice Assistant Benchmark and how far voice assistants need to go to become adequately intelligent. Increasingly, voice assistants from vendors such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others are starting to find their way into myriad of devices, products, and tools used on a daily basis. While once […].

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Debunking Five Common Automated Testing Myths

DevOps.com

There is little argument that automated testing has emerged as an industry best practice. Yet, there remains a wide variety of adoption and maturity in the market. While automated testing is imperative for DevOps maturity and success, I see in my work several popular canards that often stand in the way. Reject these five common […]. The post Debunking Five Common Automated Testing Myths appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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JavaScript Picture-in-Picture API

David Walsh

As a huge fan of media on the web, I’m always excited about enhancements to how we can control our media. Maybe I get excited about simple things like the <video> tag and its associated elements and attributes because media on the web started with custom codecs, browser extensions, and Flash. The latest awesome media feature I’m excited about on the web is Picture-in-Picture, a native web API that displays docked video.

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Digital transformation, fast forward: Time to adjust—and accelerate

TechBeacon

As technologists and business strategists emerge from the immediate scramble of scaling up distributed workforces in response to the COVID-19 crisis, they're confronting the even more daunting task of adjusting digital strategies and business models for sustainability in a post-pandemic world.

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What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.5

Confluent

On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0. The community has created another exciting release. We are making progress […].

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JFrog Makes Free DevOps Resources Available for COVID-19 Projects

DevOps.com

JFrog is providing free access to cloud-based DevOps tools to teams or organizations that have launched projects to actively research and fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Ido Green, vice president of technology for JFrog, said this initiative will be made available via its FrogCare program mainly to nonprofit organizations. The goal is to make it easier […].

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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ANNOUNCEMENT — Stackery Expands Serverless Security and Continuous Delivery Capabilities

Stackery

Today, Stackery is announcing enhanced security and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) capabilities that enable teams to automate delivery best practices from laptop to production. With additional audit capabilities, scoped IAM permissions, and secrets management for automated verification and deployment pipelines, Stackery helps teams scale serverless usage and accelerate modernization and innovation projects.

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DevOps Tutorial | DevOps With Docker, Kubernetes and Azure DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

In this article, we focus our attention on the DevOps. What is DevOps? How is it different from Agile? What are the popular DevOps Tools? What is the role of Docker, Kubernetes and Azure DevOps in DevOps. Let’s get started with a simple use case.

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CyRC Vulnerability Advisory: CVE-2020-7958 biometric data disclosure vulnerability in OnePlus 7 Pro Android phone

Synopsys

Read the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center’s ( CyRC ) analysis of CVE-2020-7958, a biometric data disclosure vulnerability in the OnePlus 7 Pro Android phone. The post CyRC Vulnerability Advisory: CVE-2020-7958 biometric data disclosure vulnerability in OnePlus 7 Pro Android phone appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Five Major Mistakes to Avoid in Enterprise Multi-Cloud Strategies

DevOps.com

Employing a multi-cloud strategy is not as straightforward as it seems for enterprises due to the huge amounts of data and applications involved. Hence, mistakes are common in multi-cloud implementations. What are these mistakes and what can enterprises do to avoid them? The Growth of the Multi-Cloud The multi-cloud is now a staple in most […].

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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How to Build Your Team’s Confidence

Let's Grow Leaders

You’re in a unique position to develop your team’s confidence (or erode it). In this episode, we discuss one of the most important ways leaders help teams to develop confidence and belief in themselves. The post How to Build Your Team’s Confidence appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. You’re in a unique position to develop your team’s confidence (or erode it).

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Zoom #fails grow: 530,000 passwords leaked, details for sale by hacker

TechBeacon

Zoom can’t seem to catch a break. The latest bad press for the videoconference service is about reused username/password pairs. It seems hackers have discovered half a million compromised, reused credentials matching Zoom accounts.

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Scrum Core Roles – An Insight

SCRUMstudy

It is imperative for each member of a project team to know what he/she is supposed to do in a project. Not just that, each member should also be aware of what other members on the team are supposed to do. Explicit definition of roles and responsibilities is mandatory for the successful delivery of any project and delivering projects using Scrum is no exception.

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Splunk Adds Remote Workforce Metrics Dashboard

DevOps.com

Splunk has made available a Remote Work Insights dashboard designed to help IT administrators track and identify the most relevant IT metrics for a workforce that is working from home to help combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Company CTO Tim Tully said the dashboard is initially configured to track virtual private network (VPN) […]. The post Splunk Adds Remote Workforce Metrics Dashboard appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

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.

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A Secure Vault System for Internet of Things Devices

CTOvision

Read James Morra explain what a secure vault system for Internet of Things devices is and how it can secure your data on Electronic Design : The Internet of Things is one of the most vulnerable targets for hackers trying to infiltrate computer networks, loot information, or remotely control of factory equipment and critical infrastructure. […].

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Key requirements for a successful DataOps initiative

TechBeacon

Most large- and medium-size organizations are engaged in some level of digital transformation. It is vital for those organizations to be able to work with data at scale and respond to real-world events as they happen.

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Learn How to Accept Money on Jamstack Sites in 38 Minutes

Netlify

Is it possible to sell products on the Jamstack? Absolutely! Jason and Thor pair programmed on an episode of Learn With Jason where we learned how to add Stripe Checkout to a Jamstack site using Netlify Functions. This post is a cleaned up version of the code we wrote live on the show. tl;dr. You can sell products on Jamstack sites using Stripe Checkout to process payments and Netlify Functions to securely create Checkout sessions.

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GitLab Responds To GitHub Making Teams Free – We All Win

DevOps.com

Microsoft’s GitHub recently announced that it was going to make a change to its product lineup by making the team version of GitHub free and lowering the price on a full-featured version. The move seemed aimed squarely at matching GitLab’s offering. Well, now GitLab has responded to GitHub. While both of these excellent offerings compete […]. The post GitLab Responds To GitHub Making Teams Free – We All Win appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Small businesses unprepared for remote working, most don’t provide cybersecurity training

CTOvision

Stay-at-home orders for more than 40 states have forced millions of businesses to establish remote workforces that rely solely on internet-enabled applications and products to conduct business. The overnight move to a “virtual workplace” has increased cybersecurity concerns for small business owners, but many still have not implemented remote working policies to address cybersecurity threats, […].

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Encryption vs. tokenization vs. whatever: What you need to know

TechBeacon

Terminology in the data protection world is often surprisingly imprecise. "Encryption" is something we all understand, or at least think we do: "A reversible algorithm that uses a key [some secret material] to make data unusable.".

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Talent Management and Preparing Leaders Correctly with Piet Hein Merckens

N2Growth Blog

I recently sat down with Piet Hein Merckens , Former CEO of Aviko and leadership influencer to discuss a shocking talent management trend that was exposed in a 2018 global leadership survey… In this survey, the results stated that over 80% of CEOs say they do not have the talent within their organizations to execute upon their current corporate strategy.