Wed.Jul 26, 2023

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Becoming a More Resilient Software and Technology Organization

Tandem

In today’s digital age, the resilience of software and technology is vital to the success of any business. Organizations must continuously adapt and prepare for potential disruptions and system failures. This post will explore ways to achieve greater resilience holistically and encourage a culture of technology resilience. Succeed as a Team and Fail as a Team In a resilient organization, teams and managers prioritize problem-solving and prevention over assigning blame when issues arise.

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Dr. Pankaj Setia on the challenges that will redefine CIOs’ careers

CIO

Dr Setia, also the chairperson of the centre for digital transformation at the business school, teaches graduate-level courses on the leadership of digital organizations, strategic management of digital innovations, and digital transformation. He has previously taught for many years at Michigan State University and the University of Arkansas in the US.

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Exploring Gen AI - The toolchain

Martin Fowler

My colleague Birgitta Böckeler has long been one of our senior technology leaders in Germany. She's now moved into a new role coordinating our work with Generative AI and its effect of software delivery practices. She's decided to publish her exploration in a series of memos. The first memo looks at the current toolchain for LLMs , categorizing them by what tasks they help with, how we interact with the LLM, and where they come from.

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Huawei Unleashes the Power of Technology for a Sustainable, Digital Europe

CIO

Digital transformation is key in building Europe’s resilience and sustainability Huawei As a committed partner of digital Europe, Huawei builds innovative ICT infrastructure and works with customers and partners to accelerate the digital transformation of enterprises, aiming to drive economic prosperity and build a sustainable, digital Europe. — Ernest Zhang, President, Huawei Enterprise Business Group in Europe In Europe, Huawei dives deep into scenarios and works with partners to support the r

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader Without Burning Out

Harvard Business Review

Servant leadership was a crucial stepping-stone to a more humane world of work, but “noble-purpose leadership” is better suited for today’s chaotic environment.

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Discover How Louise Kraus Paves the Way For Success

Perficient

At Perficient, we are proud to work with incredible people who give their time and talent to support our clients and communities. Through our People Promise , we strive to challenge, champion, and celebrate the difference that our colleagues are making. For Louise Kraus, a business coordinator based in New Jersey, each day offers the chance to discover new concepts and continue growing as a leader.

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A forensic look into cloud success with Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan

CIO

Companies moving to the cloud often find themselves at a crossroads near the midpoint of their migrations, spending more than they intended and getting less than they hoped. Often that’s because their IT organization isn’t equipped with the culture, mindset, and skills necessary to capitalize on the cloud. Andy Nallappan has had a long career in IT, including CIO roles, but his current job at Broadcom is managing the company’s external cloud platform, DevOps, and SaaS operations across multiple

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Overcoming Your Fear of Giving Tough Feedback

Harvard Business Review

A lack of constructive feedback is detrimental to your team, depriving them of mentorship and growth opportunities. And workplaces marked by poor communication and unclear expectations are breeding grounds for low trust and disengagement. Giving feedback is essential to being an effective leader. In this article, the author offers five ways to overcome your fear of giving feedback.

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ServiceNow adds new features to its Now Assist generative AI assistant

CIO

ServiceNow is adding new features to its Now Assist generative AI assistant that comes bundled with the company’s Now platform, designed to help organizations automate workflows. The new capabilities of Now Assist, which include case summarization and text-to-code, are compatible with all workflows and are designed to drive productivity and efficiency for organizations, the company said.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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The Evolution of Sampling in Honeycomb: Introducing Refinery 2.0

Honeycomb

Honeycomb’s Refinery is a tool that customers can use to help manage the volume of their telemetry. It’s rare to have too much telemetry—it’s not often that someone says “I wish I didn’t have all this information!” However, telemetry is data, and data is not necessarily information—particularly when you’re drowning in it.

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Best practices for building a single-vendor SASE solution

CIO

Over the past three or four years, the industry has been abuzz with the concept of delivering converged security and networking features via the cloud. Secure Access Service Edge combines networking solutions like SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security like firewall as a service (FWaaS), cloud access security broker (CASB), and secure web gateway (SWG).

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A Pediatric Experience Success Story: Opening a New Digital Front Door

Perficient

While entering a new and highly competitive pediatric market, our client needed to offer an excellent digital experience. The health system partnered with Perficient to build a frictionless and guided experience that patients and families both need and expect. Providing a Truly Patient-centered Experience First, we identified site KPIs, developed target personas, built a digital roadmap, and audited site content.

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How digital humans can make healthcare technology more patient-centric

CIO

One of the biggest issues in healthcare is staffing shortages—and it impacts us all. While healthcare staffing challenges are not new, they are forecasted to reach crisis levels in the coming years. For nursing staff alone, the International Centre on Nurse Migration projects a 13 million shortage by 2030, an increase from 6 million pre-pandemic. And the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that, by 2030, there will be a 15 million shortfall in healthcare workers.

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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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Generative AI: The Path to Impact

IDC

Generative AI has simultaneously captured the attention, imagination, and concern of most tech and business leaders across the world. However, as these technologies become front and center of conversations in the technology industry and beyond, the underlying question being asked by the market is: how do organizations derive value in a meaningful and accelerated fashion?

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Low-Tech Collaboration Emerges as The Key to Protecting Complex Enterprise Infrastructure Environments

CIO

The complexity of today’s enterprise infrastructure environment has created demand for a great variety of dedicated point security solutions, triggering a disconcerting array of alarms and alerts that most organizations struggle to address with current access to talent and staff. While implementing effective strategies that harness automation and security technology remain critical, the most successful organizations tackle complex security challenges by involving different organizational discipl

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Developing Your Team: Building Individual Capabilities

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

One your biggest responsibilities as a leader is helping your team members identify the places they need to grow and then giving them the opportunities to learn those skills. Even though the members of your team might be high performing, they can always achieve the next level of performance. One your biggest responsibilities as a leader is helping them identify the places they need to grow and then giving them the opportunities to learn those skills.

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CDI — Accelerated, award-winning digital transformation with VMware Technologies

CIO

Digitally transforming a business is never a “one size fits all” strategy. Every company has its unique challenges and must solve problems in ways that make sense for their business. CDI, a VMware partner and VMware Cross-Cloud Managed Services Provider, understands the difficulties facing businesses trying to digitally transform. “Organizations often want a digital transformation.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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.

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Volunteer Spotlight: Big Day in the UK!

Cloudera

It was a busy day for Cloudera Cares in the UK on June 21, 2023. Not only did we deliver the EMEA Evolve Flagship event with a first of its kind, volunteer component, we also flew the Cloudera flag at a Cloudera Cares event with Mission Motorsport. Hear from Clouderan, Paul Wooding about his day volunteering at two of Cloudera’s impactful UK-based events.

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Physical experience, digital convenience: The future of retail

CIO

The future of retail is “phygital,” as every retail and ecommerce publication on the internet is screaming right now. If you’ve never heard the term before, it’s a portmanteau of “physical” and “digital” – and represents the merging of the two forms of retail and shopping. Physical retail and ecommerce are increasingly blending together – and becoming indistinguishable in many cases.

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Is Your Start-Up’s Growth Sustainable?

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann and entrepreneur Lindsey Hyde discuss what led to the failure of Hyde’s pet care start-up, Baroo.

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Deloitte and SAP team to create the perfect ware for trade classification

CIO

Suppose you have an international apparel company that manufactures and sells shirts. But let’s focus on just one shirt to start. Following common industry practice, you have the shirt manufactured in one country. The raw materials for manufacturing come from another country. And when the shirt is completed, it’s distributed to a third country to be sold in a store.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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3 Conferences Organized by DevNetwork in August

Apiumhub

August is here, and it is set to be an exciting month for technology enthusiasts, with a range of tech conferences taking place worldwide. These conferences offer invaluable opportunities to connect with industry experts, discover cutting-edge innovations, and gain insights into the latest trends shaping the tech landscape. At Apiumhub , we like to support different tech conferences that aim to contribute to the software development community.

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Alphabet bets on generative AI as cloud boosts Q2 revenue

CIO

Alphabet on Tuesday reported a 7% increase in revenue for the quarter ended June driven by the growth in its cloud computing division, Google Cloud. The company posted revenue of $74.6 billion compared to $69.7 billion in the corresponding period last year. Net income for the company rose to $18.36 billion from $16 billion during the same period last year.

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Megan Rapinoe on Team-First Leadership

Harvard Business Review

The soccer star’s leadership extends beyond making big goals in high-stakes games.

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Why TikTok’s Newly Announced Ecommerce Business Is a Big Deal

Perficient

TikTok – a Chinese social media platform where users can watch and create short video content – has cornered social media over the last few years with an estimated 834 million monthly users worldwide in 2023 and more growth expected in the coming years. With that in mind, TikTok now has plans to launch a program in August that will bring products made in China to consumers in the United States.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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CodeSOD: Fast Conversion

The Daily WTF

Clara had a database of users. The EmailAddress field in the user table was, by design, nullable, but some downstream applications didn't like nulls and wanted something there. Now, it didn't particularly matter what the values were, just that there were some, so Clara wrote up a quick stored procedure that would return the users with the null emails converted to the format BlankEmail_YYYYMMDD , e.g., BlankEmail_20230726.

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Ethan Mollick: "How to Use AI to Do Stuff"

Crafty CTO

I’ve loved a lot of New Microsoft (GitHub, VS Code) and since I’m on macOS + Linux, and have avoided installing Microsoft apps, hadn’t been exposed to that side of the company for years. Recently, though, I’ve installed Office (client driven need), Teams (hoping the native Mac app would be better than running Teams in a browser), and Edge (to work with Bing Chat).

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What Makes Search “Search”? The Anatomy of Modern Search Solutions

Perficient

Search is something we all use nearly every day, and it modifies our lives for the better. In less than 20 years since the public launch of Google, how we find information has changed dramatically. Thanks to modern search, we don’t have to remember facts as much because we know we can “Google it,” and we spend significantly less time researching questions because someone somewhere has answered it online.