CIO
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Every IT leader wants to create a fast, efficient, and innovative IT organization. After all, in today’s rapid-paced business world, a creative, productive IT team is vital for staying ahead of the competition, increasing revenue, and becoming a market leader. To establish a high-performing IT culture, IT leaders must be able to push their teams to the limit without crippling morale.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Handle confidential information with candor and care to build trust It can feel like a trap. Someone asks you a direct question about confidential information. Maybe it’s a personnel matter. A sensitive business negotiation or a product launch. In all these scenarios, there are sound ethical reasons for the information to remain secure. If you tell the person what you know, you violate confidentiality.
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CIO
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Mohamed Salah Abdel Hamid Abdel Razek, Senior Executive Vice President and Group Head of Tech, Transformation & Information, Mashreq explains how the bank is integrating advanced technologies and expanding its digital footprint. The company aims to provide customers with a banking journey that is not just efficient and secure, but also innovative, engaging, and memorable.
Xebia
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The term “DevOps” was supposed to be a method to bridge the gap between Developers and Operations and create self-sufficient, autonomous teams. But in practice it’s mostly associated with operations. When an organization is “doing DevOps”, and has employed “DevOps Engineers”, it often means they’re automating deployments and CI/CD pipelines, in addition to generally filling the role of what we used to call “System Administrators”.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
CIO
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
French IT services company Atos has called on a third-party trustee to help it negotiate debt refinancing with its banks after plans to raise €720 million in new capital through a rights issue fell through. It announced it requested the appointment Monday, promising to give an update on the negotiations in due course. Last year, Atos revealed plans to split itself in two , selling off its shrinking legacy managed infrastructure services business, Tech Foundations, while retaining its more profit
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Ooda Loop
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
In our previous post in this series we reviewed some fundamentals in biological science and engineering we recommend all executives and investors be familiar with. In this post we dive into concepts centered around the impact of bioengineering on human health.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Many companies sit on piles of cash, even when rates of return suggest they shouldn’t. Why? Researchers have pointed to multiple reasons, including flexibility for M&A and tax advantages. But new research suggests it’s also a form of insurance, especially for smaller firms. Their likelihood of experiencing an adverse event (measured by the chance of being delisted) is significantly higher when they hold less cash.
Ruby on Rails
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Improving Rails documentation is one of the core pillars of why the Rails Foundation was formed, so we are pleased to share an update on how that mission is progressing. Thanks to organic contributions from the community over the past 20 years, the Rails documentation is already in a fantastic place - arguably one of the most in-depth and robust set of docs in tech.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Digital nomadism has been on the rise, but the implications of this trend go far beyond post-pandemic location flexibility and remote work. A cultural shift is taking place in developed countries that sees swaths of people becoming disillusioned with the lure of the “good life” available to prior generations. Digital nomadism offers an alternative path away from expensive, long-term mortgages and a raft of possessions and instead opens the door for people to maximize their income by living in co
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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
Ooda Loop
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Hugging Face, the New York City-based startup that offers a popular, developer-focused repository for open source AI code and frameworks (and hosted last year’s “Woodstock of AI”), today announced the launch of third-party, customizable Hugging Chat Assistants.
Perficient
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning Migration to the Cloud – July 2023 Go Live! Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. (NYSE: RHP) Business Challenge + Opportunity Migrate existing footprint and well-established business processes from Oracle EBS and NetSuite financials into Oracle ERP Cloud (Fusion), with over 500 custom reports written across different tool sets (FSGs, Discoverer, GL Wand, and other BI type or reports) Achievements: Sunset/Archive Oracle EBS and GL Wand Migrated Receivables and Col
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Developers of a certain age are used to beginning their application development journey by choosing an operating system. Younger developers, by contrast, might start by picking a cloud. One of the most respected voices in tech suggests a different starting point, one that focuses the attention on arguably the most important component of the application stack: the database.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
There are people in the development world who dismiss low-code and no-code platforms as simplistic tools not meant for serious developers. But the truth is that these platforms are becoming increasingly popular among a wide range of professionals, including seasoned developers.
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.
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Another update to the Astro web framework for content-driven websites has arrived. Only weeks since the release of Astro 4.2 , Astro 4.3 brings more control over HTML file output and adds experimental domain support for different international (i18n) locales. Astro 4.3 was introduced February 1. Developers can upgrade Astro using the following command: npx @astrojs/upgrade More control over HTML file output is enabled by a new build.format option, called preserve , that offers more control over
The Hustle
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Every day, a new report details how AI can be used for evil when all we really want is the “Star Trek” replicator. It’s a damn shame, but we cover what we must. Like this: Joseph Cox of 404 Media used a site called OnlyFake to create realistic images of bogus IDs, which he then used to create an account on a crypto exchange. How it works The user enters a name and biographical data, uploads a photo (or chooses one from OnlyFake’s archives), and selects an AI-generated signature.
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
NoSQL databases arose in response to the limitations of using SQL (Structured Query Language) for database queries. NoSQL databases store and manage data in ways that enable high operational speed and a level of flexibility not found in traditional relational database management systems (RDBMSs). A recent report by Allied Market Research notes the demand for NoSQL databases is on the rise.
Invid Group
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
How to Increase Your Business Goals with Chatbots BY: INVID Using cutting-edge technologies is necessary to keep ahead of the competition in the fast-paced world of business. One of those innovative tools is chatbots. Chatbots can revolutionize your company’s operations and help you reach unheard-of success in the first quarter (Q1) of the year by utilizing the power of artificial intelligence.
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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
AI and automation are rapidly shifting our expectations for digital experiences, but the path for businesses to get there isn’t all that clear. When done right, AI and automation can be applied across the entire customer journey so that businesses can quickly and continuously adapt to new demands, both from customers and from the broader market. And with the right architecture, AI and automation can help drive entire operations—creating a self-optimizing organization.
Dataiku
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
We’re back with the final article of our three-part series on building our first predictive model. We’ve laid the groundwork , learned how to build and evaluate the model , and now we want to learn how to interpret it.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam is a highly acclaimed credential for Kubernetes professionals. Kubernetes, an open-source container orchestration technology, is widely used for containerized application deployment and management. The CKA certification validates your knowledge of Kubernetes cluster design, deployment, and maintenance.
Apiumhub
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Software asset management tools are specialized software applications designed to help organizations manage and optimize their software assets throughout their lifecycle. Software asset management tools involve the identification, tracking, and managing of software licenses and usage within an organization to ensure compliance with licensing agreements, reduce costs, and minimize legal risks.
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Dr. Sam Adeyemi describes how empathetic executives and C-suite leaders retain top talent and generate loyalty among employees. Today’s guest post is b y Dr. Sam Adeyemi, author of Dear Leader: Your Flagship Guide to Successful Leadership. (CLICK HERE t o get your copy). Over 97% of employers think social skills can significantly impact an individual’s job performance.
Crunchbase News
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
There was a bit of Lightspeed Venture Partners news that swirled around last week, as it was reported that the firm may start a continuation fund and that one of its large portfolio companies may go public soon. However, the nearly quarter-of-a-century-old venture firm — known for investments in companies such as Snap , Nest and Stripe — actually started to make some more news late last year as it significantly picked up its investment cadence in the final quarter of the year.
Ooda Loop
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
In a new study published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, researchers have demonstrated that robots equipped with the ability to express emotions in real-time during interactions with humans are perceived as more likable, trustworthy, and human-like.
David Walsh
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
One of the HTML elements that frequently comes into collision with CSS is the img element. As we learned in Request Metrics’ Fixing Cumulative Layout Shift Problems on DavidWalshBlog article, providing image dimensions within the image tag will help to improve your website’s score. But in a world where responsive design is king, we need CSS and HTML to work together.
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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
David Heinemeier Hansson
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
On February 5, 2004, we released the first version of Basecamp to the world. It was built to solve our own problems running client projects as an agency where we found email alone to be lacking. The first version was really just the basics: Messages, todo lists, milestones. We didn’t even have file uploads! But it was easy, it was affordable, and it quickly became a success.
Dell EMC
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Consistent program structure to support partners with strong collaboration for joint success.
Modern CTO
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Today we’re talking to Joyce Mullen, President & CEO of Insight. We discuss what it looks like to lead a massive company from Joyce’s perspective, how Joyce is helping to lead internal transformation with GenAI, and how the next generation can make big impacts using new tools. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! To learn more about Insight, visit their website here.
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