What Are CI And CD In DevOps And How Do They Work?
The purpose of continuous delivery is to put a packed item into production. The
whole delivery process, including deployment, is automated using a CD. CD tasks
may involve provisioning infrastructure, tracking changes (ticketing), deploying
artifacts, verifying and tracking those changes, and ensuring that these changes
do not occur if any problems arise. Certain parts of continuous delivery will be
used by some firms to help them maintain their operational duties. A good
example is employing a CD pipeline to handle infrastructure deployment. Some
organizations will leverage their CD pipelines to coordinate infrastructure
setup and configuration using configuration management automated processes such
as Ansible, chef, or puppet. A CI/CD pipeline may appear to be overhead, but it
is not. It is essentially an executable definition of the procedures that any
developer must take in order to deliver a new edition of a software product.
Without an automated pipeline, developers would have to complete these processes
manually, which would be significantly less productive.
Why You Need to Be an Influencer Brand and the 3 Rs of Becoming One
Of course, brands creating content has been around for decades. Content
marketing is creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content
to attract/retain an audience, driving profitable action. The difference is that
influencer brands have shifted their entire orientation to a consumer-centric
integrated marketing communications (IMC) mindset. Influencer brands go beyond
blogs, infographics, eBooks, testimonials, and how-to guides that appeal to the
head. They have learned to appeal to the heart of their audience. This comes
from seeing the world from the target's perspective. A shift that can be seen
following the three Rs of influence to direct brand content creation. For
example, the focus of Yeti Coolers' content and engagement isn't selling
coolers. It is selling a lifestyle that the coolers help enable. For example,
they organize products so customers can shop by activity. Images and copy lead
with stories of the adventures their audience can have with the gear — fishing,
hunting, camping, by the coast, in the snow, on the ranch and in the rodeo
arena.
3 certification tips for IT leaders looking to get ahead
If leveraged properly, certifications can also assist IT decision-makers in
their key leadership responsibilities. For example, Puneesh Lamba, CIO of Shahi
Exports, an apparel manufacturing company, acknowledges that “certifications
have helped him perform better in board meetings, thereby making it easier to
get approvals on IT spending.” “Typically, CIOs from large technology companies
have strong IT skills but poor communications skills, while it’s just the
opposite for CIOs in customer facing B2C companies. These technology leaders
need to get certified in areas that they lack. While CIOs push their team to get
certified, they need to come out of their comfort zones and follow suit,” says
Chandra. But the benefits of certifications won’t accrue automatically. IT
leaders seeking to advance their skills and careers need to build a strategy
aimed at squeezing the maximum value out of what certifications can offer. Here,
four CIOs share their experiences in pursuing certifications and offer advice on
how to make the most of these valuable career advancement tools as an IT leader.
Magnetic superstructures as a promising material for 6G technology
The race to realize sixth generation (6G) wireless communication systems
requires the development of suitable magnetic materials. Scientists from Osaka
Metropolitan University and their colleagues have detected an unprecedented
collective resonance at high frequencies in a magnetic superstructure called a
chiral spin soliton lattice (CSL), revealing CSL-hosting chiral helimagnets as a
promising material for 6G technology. The study was published in Physical Review
Letters. Future communication technologies require expanding the frequency band
from the current few gigahertz (GHz) to over 100 GHz. Such high frequencies are
not yet possible, given that existing magnetic materials used in communication
equipment can only resonate and absorb microwaves up to approximately 70 GHz
with a practical-strength magnetic field. Addressing this gap in knowledge and
technology, the research team led by Professor Yoshihiko Togawa from Osaka
Metropolitan University delved into the helicoidal spin superstructure CSL.
Don’t fall into the personal brand trap
While you can try to emulate the positive qualities of branding, the truth is
that rulebook wasn’t designed with you in mind. Brands are static creations,
while you must be a dynamic participant in your life and career. Brands let the
consensus of others dictate their values and meaning, while you must discover
both for yourself. Brands chase consistency by reorienting to match the
expectations of “consumers,” while you must have reserve room to grow and
develop without a sense of self-fraudulence. Take the personal-branding
prescription too far, and you run the risk of cementing your identity to the
brand. New passions are unexplored. Fears and struggles must be ignored over
concerns of not being “on brand.” And your life endeavors are filtered through
the lens of marketability rather than the pursuit of their intrinsic worth.All
of which can be counterproductive to your sense of authenticity. As one
meta-analysis found, authenticity had a positive relationship with both
well-being and engagement. But to achieve that, you must meet yourself as you
are today, not who you were 10 years ago when you settled on your personal
brand.
Is NextJS a Better Choice Than React in 2022?
If you know, React, you kind of know NextJS. This is because Next is a React
framework.
You have components just like in React. CSS has a different
naming convention, but that's the biggest change. The reason Next is so good is
that it gives you options. If you want a page to have good SEO, you can use
ServerSideProps. If you want to use CSR, you can use UseEffect to call your
APIs, like React. Adding typescript to your Next project also is very simple.
You even have a built-in router and don't have to use React router. The option
to choose between CSR, SSR, and SSG is what makes Next the best. You even get a
free trial on Vercel for your Next project. Now that you're convinced that you
should Next.js, you might wonder how to change your existing website to Next.
Next.js is designed for gradual adoption. Migrating from React to Next is pretty
straightforward and can be done slowly by gradually adding more pages. You
can configure your server so that everything under a specific subpath points to
the Next.js app. If your site is abc.com, you can configure abc.com/about to
serve a Next.js app. This has been explained really well in the Next.js docs.
How machine learning AI is going to change gaming forever
Obviously, machine learning techniques have broad implications for almost every
sector of life, but how they will intersect across gaming has potentially some
of the broadest implications for Microsoft as a business. One problem the video
game industry generally faces right now pertains to the gap between expectations
and investment. Video games are becoming increasingly complex to make, fund, and
manage, as they explode in exponential complexity and graphical fidelity. We've
seen absolutely insane Unreal Engine demos that showcase near-photorealistic
scenes and graphics, but the manual labor involved to produce a full game based
on some of these principles is truly palpable both in terms of time, and
expense. What is typically thought of as "AI" in a gaming context generally
hasn't been AI in the true sense of the word. Video game non-player characters
(NPCs) and enemies generally operate on a rules-based model that often has to be
manually crafted by a programmer. Machine learning models are importantly far
more fluid, able to produce their own rules within parameters, and respond
dynamically to new information on the fly.
Reflections about low-code data management
As more people began using the Internet, better tools and resources became
available. Today, the market is full of low-code Content Management Systems
(CMS) and drag-and-drop website builders (WordPress, HubSpot, Shopify,
Squarespace, etc.) that make it easy to create a professional-looking website
without any coding knowledge. While there are still a handful of very specific
use cases where you would need to code a website from scratch, organizations
realized that using a low-code CMS or drag-and-drop builder was a much better
option in the vast majority of cases. This shift has led to a dramatic decrease
in the amount of time and effort required to build a website. In fact, you can
now create an entire website in just a few hours using these low-code tools.
With every great shift comes some level of resistance. At first, web developers
were skeptical of (or outright opposed to) low-code tools for the following
reasons:Fear of Replacement: Developers saw these tools as a threat to their
jobs. Power & Flexibility: Developers were unconvinced that they would
be powerful, flexible, or customizable enough to produce the same quality of
work.
Inside the Metaverse: Architects See Opportunity in a Virtual World
“The metaverse is not an escape, and it's not a video game,” Patrik Schumacher,
principal at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), told RECORD. “It will become the
immersive internet for corporations, for education, for retail, and also for
socializing and networking in more casual arenas. Everything we are doing in the
real world could potentially be substituted or augmented or paralleled with
interactions in the metaverse.” ZHA was one of the first major firms to take the
plunge into metaverse design. In early March, the firm announced that it would
build an entire metaverse city—a digital version of the unrecognized, and as yet
unbuilt, sovereign state “Liberland'' that was founded seven years ago by the
right-wing Czech politician Vít Jedlička. “At the time, I was very frustrated
with planning regulations and overbearing political constraints on city
development,” says Schumacher, who has long fought against government
intervention in urban development.
5 social engineering assumptions that are wrong
Users may be more inclined to interact with content if it appears to originate
from a source they recognize and trust, but threat actors regularly abuse
legitimate services such as cloud storage providers and content distribution
networks to host and distribute malware as well as credential harvesting
portals, according to Proofpoint. “Threat actors may prefer distributing
malware via legitimate services due to their likelihood of bypassing security
protections in email compared to malicious documents. Mitigating threats
hosted on legitimate services continues to be a difficult vector to defend
against as it likely involves implementation of a robust detection stack
or policy-based blocking of services which might be business relevant,” the
report read. ... There’s a tendency to assume that social engineering attacks
are limited to email, but Proofpoint detected an increase in attacks
perpetuated by threat actors leveraging a robust ecosystem of call
center-based email threats involving human interaction over the telephone.
“The emails themselves don’t contain malicious links or attachments, and
individuals must proactively call a fake customer service number in the email
to engage with the threat actor. ...”
Quote for the day:
"The ability to stay calm and polite,
even when people upset you, is a superpower." -- Vala Afshar
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