Sat.Mar 07, 2020 - Fri.Mar 13, 2020

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Why organizations should commit to innersource in 2020

Github

Even if you’ve never heard the term “innersource” to describe how teams build their software, you’ll probably still recognize some of the principles behind it. They’re powering code at the world’s most influential companies, and they might even be important practices on your team. Innersource isn’t a novel concept. Instead, it describes how the processes and principles developers have used for decades to build large-scale open source software (think Git, Linux, or Python) can apply to closed sou

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What is the Recommended Scrum Team Size?

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Nearly every client I work with asks me this question at some point. The Scrum Guide offers very limited guidance, suggesting 3-9 people per team (exclusive of ScrumMaster and Product Owner), without giving reasons or context for those numbers. There isn’t one, universally correct answer for optimal team size, but there are a number of factors and tradeoffs worth considering when figuring out what will work best for your team.

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Digital Transformation and Cloud Migration Initiatives Shouldn’t Leave Security Behind

Firemon

Digital transformation can be a nebulous term, but for FireMon customers , it typically means shifting workloads to the cloud and streamlining business processes. . This transformation should emanate from the inside out and is not simply adding transformational technology at the edge or remotely. Strategic initiatives around digital transformation should contribute to as many of the below areas as possible : .

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Scrum Masters are People Too – Give ‘Em a Break, and a Hand

Agile Alliance

There are great Scrum Masters and lousy Scrum Masters. There are also great and lousy managers, developers, testers, salespeople, and neighbors. People are people – no matter what their profession or role in life. Scrum Masters are people too. And just like every profession, most people grow and improve with time and experience. Some grow … Continued.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Women and the Digital Divide

TechSoup

In the NGO sector, many are concerned with how to include those who are marginalized and excluded from the world of digital innovation. In fact, certain organizations seek to bridge the digital divide with regard to gender by working with women all over the world to ensure that they have access to better tools, education, and opportunities.

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Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost

Erik Bernhardsson

Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I've found that neither malice nor stupidity is the most common reason when you don't understand why something is in a certain way. Instead, the root cause is probably just that they didn't have time yet.

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Coping with Covid-19, part 2

Martin Fowler

As the Covid-19 outbreak continues to spread, we at ThoughtWorks continue to react. In China we're slowly restarting our office work, with some significant protective measures. Elsewhere it's all about a rapid shift to more remote work and plans to respond to the economic impact.

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Top Six Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes and Docker

DevOps.com

Kubernetes and Docker are two of the most commonly heard buzzwords in modern DevOps conversations. Docker is a tool that enables you to containerize and run your applications, and Kubernetes provides you with a platform to orchestrate or manage these containers—since managing thousands of containers manually using the Docker CLI would be a practical nightmare. […].

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How to Lead a Team That Suddenly Has to Work From Home

Let's Grow Leaders

This week we’ve received so many calls from leaders trying to figure out remote working contingency plans and from managers faced with implementing these new work from home policies. If you’re also trying to make the best of a new work-from-home scene, perhaps […]. The post How to Lead a Team That Suddenly Has to Work From Home appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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3 new rules of cloud-native application security

TechBeacon

Just when the CISO and IT security team think they've locked down the network perimeter, they discover that it has shifted again. Two decades ago, mobile workforces punched holes in it when employees began demanding the ability to connect their laptops and phones to the corporate network while working remotely.

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Ready for changes with Hexagonal Architecture

Netflix Tech

by Damir Svrtan and Sergii Makagon As the production of Netflix Originals grows each year, so does our need to build apps that enable efficiency throughout the entire creative process. Our wider Studio Engineering Organization has built more than 30 apps that help content progress from pitch (aka screenplay) to playback: ranging from script content acquisition, deal negotiations and vendor management to scheduling, streamlining production workflows, and so on.

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Survey Finds IT More Challenging to Manage Than Ever

DevOps.com

A survey of 415 IT executives published today shows IT teams are struggling to keep up as the number of platforms that need to be managed continues to expand rapidly. Conducted by Propeller Insights on behalf of Volterra, a provider of a distributed computing platform, the survey finds 97% are planning to distribute workloads across […]. The post Survey Finds IT More Challenging to Manage Than Ever appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Thinking About Coronavirus? Don’t be like the Mayor of Amity Island

CTOvision

Among the many reasons JAWS was such good fiction is how realistic Mayor Vaughn’s character was. The stubborn politician refused to listen to reason or facts. If he would have taken action he could have avoided disaster. Here is a short clip that makes this point: Lesson for you: Don’t be like the […].

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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The state of authentication: It's time to move on from passwords

TechBeacon

Passwords continue to be a massive security headache, so the time has never been better for applications to adopt strong authentication. And with continued efforts to push industry standards for strong web authentication, developers have a clear path forward.

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Tips for Working Remotely and Enjoying It!

David Walsh

With the coronavirus spreading and employers telling employees work from home if possible, there are scores of people getting their first taste of working remotely. Depending on your experience and discipline levels, this could be a welcomed change or a complete culture shock. The amount of freedom your find yourself in can be similar the leaving high school — no one telling you what to do, where to go, etc — but don’t let that freedom cost you your job.

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Why Organizations Are Adopting or Avoiding Serverless

DevOps.com

For the inaugural O’Reilly survey on serverless architecture adoption, we were pleasantly surprised at the high level of response: More than 1,500 respondents from a wide range of locations, companies and industries participated. The high response rate tells us that serverless is garnering significant mindshare in the community. Below we examine three of the most […].

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The Impact of a Great Leader

N2Growth Blog

I am always surprised by the impact that just one person can have on a team or an organization. In particular, the speed which that effect takes place. I have seen examples in multinational enterprises, where the appointment of a new CEO resulted in a change of atmosphere within a few weeks. This phenomenon happened not just to the people working closely with the CEO, but also with people who had never even met the new CEO.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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CVE-2020-0796: "Wormable" Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block SMBv3 (ADV200005)

Tenable

Critical unpatched “wormable” remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3), dubbed EternalDarkness, disclosed by Microsoft. Background. On March 10, Microsoft published ADV200005 , an advisory for a critical RCE vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3). Details about this vulnerability were originally disclosed accidentally in another security vendor’s blog for March’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday.

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How to meet privacy requirements with your PII

TechBeacon

Organizations are in a race to understand their risk from regulations for the protection and use of personal data, which are on the rise worldwide. With the GDPR in Europe, the CCPA in California, KVKK in Turkey, and several other regulatory actions being enacted around the world, corporations now face serious fiscal consequences and reputational damage that might follow a potential data breach.

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Enterprise AI Books to Read This Spring

DevOps.com

If you are anything like me, and curious about how new enterprise tools will transform our relationship with work and business-technology, then you are probably reading a lot about artificial intelligence. There’s likely no other topic that’s been written about in more depth in recent years, yet much of it is unrealistic or poorly reasoned […].

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Hackers’ delight: Small businesses investing more in Internet of Things, less on cybersecurity

CTOvision

Investing in technology is top of mind for small business owners — with 44% saying they plan to invest in resources related to the Internet of Things, or IoT-connected devices, for their business in 2020, according to new research from the latest CNBC SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey. That’s more than twice the number who say […].

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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How does IAST fit into DevSecOps?

Synopsys

IAST, a new generation of application security testing that bridges the gaps between SAST, DAST, and pen testing, seems to have been made for DevSecOps. The post How does IAST fit into DevSecOps? appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Why You Should Be Adopting a DevOps Culture in 2020?

Dzone - DevOps

The year 2020 has arrived, and its arrival brings a lot of innovations and transformations in the Information and Technology (IT) sector and especially to DevOps technologies. The study conducted by experts at Grand View Research says that the DevOps market is anticipated to be worth 12.85 billion USD by 2025. You may also like: DevOps Adoption Practices.

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Better Apps and Better Security When You Shift Left

DevOps.com

Tens of thousands of people and hundreds of cybersecurity vendors descended on San Francisco at the end of April. While the RSA Conference was the primary draw, there are a number of peripheral events that go on throughout the week as well, such as the Cloud Security Alliance Summit, the CIO/CISO Interchange, BSides San Francisco […]. The post Better Apps and Better Security When You Shift Left appeared first on DevOps.com.

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What is the Recommended Scrum Team Size?

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Nearly every client I work with asks me this question at some point. The Scrum Guide offers very limited guidance, suggesting 3-9 people per team (exclusive of ScrumMaster and Product Owner), without giving reasons or context for those numbers. There isn’t one, universally correct answer for optimal team size, but there are a number of factors and tradeoffs worth considering when figuring out what will work best for your team.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Sharpening your Stream Processing Skills with Kafka Tutorials

Confluent

In the Apache Kafka® ecosystem, ksqlDB and Kafka Streams are two popular tools for building event streaming applications that are tightly integrated with Apache Kafka. While ksqlDB and Kafka Streams […].

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Assessing the skills gap in the Internet of Things – and how smart recruitment is helping

CTOvision

Read James Bourne explain the skills gap in the Internet of Things space and how to address it on IoT News : If you look at various technologies, from cloud computing to development, the agreed theme is one of a skills gap. Too many openings; not enough skilled candidates to take them up. The Internet of […].

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Catch Emerging Security Risks Earlier by Leveraging Kubernetes Audit Logs

DevOps.com

When a Kubernetes deployment suffers a security breach, it can be difficult for security teams to diagnose and identify the source of the intrusion and its impact. Each Kubernetes cluster may host multiple applications, and each application may be composed of dozens or even hundreds of interacting microservices deployed as pods. The complex and dynamic […].