Sun.Jul 09, 2017

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DevOps: From Unicorns to Mainstream

Forrester IT

Every day I hear more about the pressure I&O organizations are under to accelerate the delivery of applications and services and the pressure it is placing on the existing resources. As organizations transition, DevOps, formally the purview of unicorns, is now transitioning to mainstream. DevOps, which started as a grassroots approach by development organizations who were looking to extend their agile practices to support the faster deployment of code, has become business as usual across the

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But what's really going on?

IT Toolbox

It goes without saying that mainframes are enormous computing platforms. You?ve got the ability to partition them into a number of smaller computing platforms, and you can run multiple copies of massive subsystems such as CICS, IMS, and DB2. On top of that, you?ve got huge secure networks connecting the applications running on the mainframe to phones, tablets, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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The Linux Migration: July 2017 Progress Report

Scott Lowe

I’m now roughly six months into using Linux as my primary laptop OS, and it’s been a few months since my last progress report. If you’re just now picking up this thread, I encourage you to go back and read my initial progress report , see which Linux distribution I selected, or check how I chose to handle corporate collaboration (see here , here , and here ).

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The Rules of Data Center Migration

IT Toolbox

Well defined and potentially repeatable processes define successful data center migrations. Planning the migration is perhaps the most time consuming portion of the project, and for good reason. It defines the ?foundation? that the success of the migration will rest on - the repeatable (if so desired) plan and underlying processes that will carry the project from kickoff to completion.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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The Linux Migration: July 2017 Progress Report

Scott Lowe

I’m now roughly six months into using Linux as my primary laptop OS, and it’s been a few months since my last progress report. If you’re just now picking up this thread, I encourage you to go back and read my initial progress report , see which Linux distribution I selected, or check how I chose to handle corporate collaboration (see here , here , and here ).

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8 Reasons Everybody Should Be Working with MySQL

IT Toolbox

MySQL is a freeware rival to major database providers like Oracle that uses the Structured Query Language or SQL. This relational database management system is open source and it is growing in popularity for a number of reasons. Here are eight reasons why everybody should be working with MySQL and why it has become a full rival to brand names like Oracle.

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Why are neither the customers of EA nor the architects happy

IT Toolbox

EA makes all stakeholders unhappy today. Customers are unhappy because ea deliverables, when any, are not helping them do their jobs better, that is, coordinate their work, align their strategies, lighten decision making, invest more wisely, evaluate Business Models. Because they don't know what to expect since definitions, approaches, deliverables.

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