Techxit Britain

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BT’s press office has reported some “worrying” findings as part of its Skills for Tomorrow programme, designed to “close the digital skills knowledge gap that exists between parents and children”. It found that a quarter of parents don’t know what TikTok is and over half of them need to …READ MORE

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What to expect from Appian World 2020

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The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is attending Appian World 2020, a conference and exhibition designed to showcase Appian’s approach to enterprie low-code software platform application development.

This year’s event is staged from March 8-11 at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood,…READ MORE

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The future of enterprise application consumption: an adoption paradigm shift

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This is a guest blogpost by Mark Armstrong, GM and GVP EMEA, Rimini Street.

In the next 5-10 years I see three business and societal trends that will potentially lead to a radical shift in how we adopt and use enterprise applications. Ultimately, I believe this will lead to enterprises consuming …READ MORE

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Deploy Containers on AWS: With EC2, ECS, and EKS

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Deploy Containers on AWS: With EC2, ECS, and EKS by Shimon Ifrah

Excerpts from Amazon:

Start deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications into AWS container infrastructure using Docker on Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS…READ MORE

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Recent releases

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Recent releases of interest include:

PowerShell v7 Release Candidate 2. No significant changes from RC 1 – see

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.0.0-rc.2

Windows Terminal v0.8.10261. Bug fixes – see https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases/tag/v0.8.10261.0…READ MORE

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Monetizing IoT: Approaches to tie it together

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This article is the final in a six-part series about monetizing IoT. Find the previous article here.

In earlier articles, I evaluated the monetization framework’s three levers that impact pricing: monetization models, monetization metrics, and product structure and packaging. The series also d…READ MORE

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Reboot Clears Defender Error 0x80070643

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As I performed my usual test systems check this morning, I encountered an error. On my Surface Pro 3, it appeared in Settings → Update & Security → Windows Update. In downloading an update to the Defender antimalware platform, error  0x80070643 got thrown. “Good,” I thought, “now I can down…READ MORE

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Happy (featherlite) clacky: Logitech MX Keys keyboard

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The Logitech MX Keys keyboard is a nice keyboard.

It’s actually the nicest keyboard we (the virtual Inspect-a-Gadget) team has used, possibly ever.

It should be, it’s not cheap.

This unit comes in at around £100 and it’s built to work with a super-light (almost featherlite) touch. 
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Apple, FBI Encryption Fight Continues

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The FBI is getting on Apple’s case about iPhone encryption again, after a mass shooter in Pensacola, Fla., reportedly has two encrypted iPhones to which the FBI wants access.

As you may recall, this has been going on ever since Apple and Google imposed encryption as a default in their phones in…READ MORE

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Salesforce seeks DevOps street cred with CD Foundation

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Salesforce recently joined the Linux Foundation’s Continuous Delivery Foundation to help grow the CI/CD ecosystem. This move seems to have gone unnoticed by many, but two things stood out to me about it.

I wasn’t aware that Salesforce had its own DevOps tool, Salesforce DX, which enables develope…READ MORE

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Parsing the Iaas and PaaS divide for microservices

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By Alan Earls

Infrastructure as a services (IaaS) and platform as a services (PaaS) are both potential deployment paths for microservices. But there are big differences, and picking the right path for your project or organization involves a range of tradeoffs.

The problem with PaaS is that it …READ MORE

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What AWS and Azure’s cloud market growth says about IT

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Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud market revenues continue to grow at a torrid pace, reflecting IT departments’ increased comfort and reliance on cloud computing services.

Azure revenue, which is counted among Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud business division, grew 73% in Q1 2019. Intelligent Cloud sa…READ MORE

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Open source licence series - Rancher Labs: Why vendor ‘strip-mining’ is an opportunity, not a threat

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Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software is licenced is still the stuff of some debate.

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team now f…READ MORE

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The bad interview question

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It’s been a rough decade for interviewers.

First, we found out that the classic way of hiring a juggler, of asking them where they went to school without asking them to juggle, wasn’t so great. Instead, it might be better to do a skills-based interview. We rejected “gotcha” questions like “why ar…READ MORE

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AWS month in review: An AWS re:Invent recap of overlooked roll outs

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At the 2019 re:Invent, AWS added a host of tools and features, raising the cloud provider’s portfolio to more than 175 services — many of which flew under the radar due to the sheer number of rollouts at the annual conference.

Flashier announcements took up much of the spotlight at re:Invent, …READ MORE

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Why Startup Still Need Phone Lines

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Startups need phone lines because you must provide your clients with a simple way to reach out during the day Everyone expects you to have a phone number, and you will disappoint everyone when they find out you do not have a phone line. Look at what happens when you get a phone line, how you can uti…READ MORE

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Make 2020 the year of your programming side hustle

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GoDaddy just sent me a notice to renew the domain names I registered right around this time last year. This micro-aggression was an unwanted reality-check and reminded me that the passion project I worked diligently on for two days during last year’s holiday season has sat untouched ever since. I’ve…READ MORE

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When does the state of quantum computing become relevant for CIOs?

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Is there a reason normal CIOs should be thinking about the state of quantum computing? It depends on how one defines normal, was Brian Hopkins’ answer. Hopkins is a Forrester Research analyst who focuses on emerging tech.

“It’s very much dependent on the industry you’re in. We think the first bre…READ MORE

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Scale-out NAS bounces back to fight for unstructured data against object storage

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There’s a scrap breaking out between object storage and scale-out NAS. The battleground is the market for customers that need to deal with very large amounts of unstructured data.

In October, Cloudian’s CEO Michael Tso told ComputerWeekly.com that object storage is set to go mainstream, that …READ MORE

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SQL Server Performance Tuning Precon

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On April 3rd, 2020 I’ll be presenting a Precon at SQL Saturday Croatia.

In this session, you will learn about SQL Server 2008 R2 through SQL Server 2017 performance tuning and optimization. Industry Expert Denny Cherry will guide you through tools and best practices for tuning queries and imp…READ MORE

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