Mon.Feb 19, 2024

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO

Officials at the North Carolina Department of Information Technology found themselves in a position familiar to most IT organizations: aware of the need to do more to attract IT workers given that they — like most employers — faced fierce competition for talent. They also believed they needed to take more responsibility for increasing the diversity of workers in their IT ranks.

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AWS Lambda Benchmarking

Xebia

In this blog post, we examine the relative costs of different language runtimes on AWS Lambda. Many languages can be used with AWS Lambda today, so we focus on four interesting ones. We made the complete project available on GitHub because any benchmarking claims we make are frivolous without the supporting code for potential peer review. Meet the contestants Rust : According to StackOverflow, Rust has been developers’ most loved programming language since 2016.

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Build trust to win out with genAI

CIO

Over the past 12 months, generative AI has generated fervor and fear in almost equal measure. We’ve all marveled at the tech’s ability to pass bar exams or create award winning photography. But that level of ingenuity is deeply unsettling for many consumers, who perhaps prefer to know that the humans are still at the wheel. This presents a conundrum for many of today’s business leaders.

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How to Make Peace with a Company Decision You Don’t Like

Harvard Business Review

In our work, there are times when we lead but there are also times when we must follow — and we may not always agree with the path we’re told to follow. We may feel “stuck” in anger, anxiety, and confusion. But, we want to demonstrate resilience to our team and we want to maintain a good relationship with management. So, how do we forge ahead and follow with grace?

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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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La convergenza tra IT e business: ecco come i CIO reinterpretano il loro ruolo con l’aiuto dell’IA

CIO

Analisi dei dati, addestramento dei nuovi modelli di intelligenza artificiale , sviluppo software, ammodernamento dei sistemi legacy, partecipazione alla definizione del budget, dialogo con le funzioni di business, relazione con i fornitori: i compiti del CIO si moltiplicano ogni giorno di più. Non è una sorpresa: mentre le aziende si digitalizzano, la tecnologia si integra in ogni attività, e il Chief Information Officer è sempre più coinvolto nella creazione di valore basata sui dati e l’IA.

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CIO

ITリーダーはメッセージを受け取っている: 仕事を成功させるために必要なのは、技術的なスキルだけではない。仕事を成功させるには、技術的なスキルだけでなく、一般的なビジネス感覚、業界知識、会計の才能も必要だ。マーケティング、オペレーション、サイバーセキュリティ、その他の機能分野での専門知識も重要だ。 近年、ベテランCIOやエグゼクティブ・アドバイザー、経営コンサルタントからは、このようなメッセージが聞かれる。 しかし、このようなアドバイスは、CIOがIT部門を成功裏に管理するために必要なこと、つまりオペレーショナル・エクセレンスを実現し、主要な業績要件を満たすために必要なことだけを語っている。真に際立った存在となるためには、他のトップ・エグゼクティブと同様、優れたCIOもまた、指導者としての心得を備えていなければならない。

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The Future of Next-Gen AI Smartphones

IDC

The smartphone industry is moving fast to embrace next-generation AI chips that will drive new and exciting features and interaction modes.

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Why Data Breaches Spiked in 2023

Harvard Business Review

In spite of recent efforts to beef up cybersecurity, data breaches — in which hackers steal personal data — continue to increase year-on-year: there was a 20% increase in data breaches from 2022 to 2023. There are three primary reasons behind this increased theft of personal data: (1) cloud misconfiguration, (2) new types of ransomware attacks, and (3) increased exploitation of vendor systems.

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How generative AI will benefit physical industries

InfoWorld

In recent years, artificial intelligence has undeniably revolutionized various sectors in the digital economy such as retail, customer service, and even art. Large language models , like ChatGPT , are changing communication and have offered innovative solutions for businesses. However, there is a critical segment of our economy that has yet to fully embrace AI’s potential—the physical economy.

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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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Line-cutting businesses are putting a price on your patience

The Hustle

Cutting someone in line? Rude. Cutting someone in line if you’re, like, really wealthy? Now that sounds like a good business idea. OK, so it’s not that straightforward, but there is a growing group of businesses making money off of helping people skip the wait, per CNN. Clear membership lets people forgo airport security lines for $189 a year. The program now has ~19m members.

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Top Secrets Management Tools for 2024

Dzone - DevOps

Managing your secrets well is imperative in software development. It's not just about avoiding hardcoding secrets into your code, your CI/CD configurations, and more. It's about implementing tools and practices that make good secrets management almost second nature. A Quick Overview of Secrets Management What is a secret? It's any bit of code, text, or binary data that provides access to a resource or data that should have restricted access.

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This industry should never get off its high horse

The Hustle

“YOU’VE BEEN PATIENTLY WAITING — AND NOW IT’S FINALLY HERE!” You could have 500m guesses at what this breathless website copy is plugging and you would not get it. The words accompany the release of the American Horse Council’s 2023 Equine Economic Impact Survey, which, as advertised, is “FINALLY HERE!” Turns out, its super-excitable promo copy was actually quite merited: The equine industry added $177B to the US economy last year, up from $122 billion in 2017.

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Five Ways To Make Innovation Teams More Successful

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Gain insights on the unique nature of innovation teams and the implications for building and supporting them. Today’s guest post is b y Helene Cahen, author of FIRE UP INNOVATION: Sparking And Sustaining Innovation Teams. When working with or in an innovation team, it is essential to consider the unique nature of innovation and its implication in building and supporting the team.

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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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Empowering AI: The Critical Role of Dell Connected PCs

Dell EMC

Experience a new era and explore the synergy of Connected PCs, 5G speed and AI redefining technology.

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#759 Cultivating a Top Tier Work Ethic & Leading Tech Teams with Gil Feig, Co-Founder at Merge

Modern CTO

Today we’re talking to Gil Feig, Co-Founder at Merge. Gil shares his tech startup journey, emphasizing the significance of addressing genuine problems, the value of diverse feedback for idea validation, and leadership insights on prioritizing motivation in hiring to shape company culture. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

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New Google Initiative to Foster AI in Cybersecurity

Ooda Loop

Google has announced a new initiative aimed at fostering the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in cybersecurity. The internet giant believes that AI is pivotal for digital security, having the potential to provide defenders with a definitive advantage over attackers and to upend the Defender’s Dilemma.

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Keeping a Cool Head with #1 DLC Server Supplier

Dell EMC

Embracing and cooling the latest high-performance GPU and CPUs for AI is hot topic in more ways than one.

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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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CodeSOD: Merge the Files

The Daily WTF

XML is, arguably, an overspecified language. Every aspect of XML has a standard to interact with it or transform it or manipulate it, and that standard is also defined in XML. Each specification related to XML fits together into a soup that does all the things and solves every problem you could possibly have. Though Owe had a problem that didn't quite map to the XML specification(s).

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6 Transformative Mainframe Predictions for 2024

DevOps.com

The success of organizations in today’s digital economy demands speed — the ability to quickly respond to market trends with new applications and services, instant access to critical data, and resolution of issues even before they affect service.

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Digits: A bot’s mistake, a persuasive word, and more weird numbers

The Hustle

14%: Decline in US-produced scripted original series in 2023. There were still 516 adult TV shows made last year, so it’s not like there wasn’t a ton of new TV, but that number marks the biggest annual slump in 20+ years and follows a record high of 600 TV shows in 2022. The cause? Five months of strikes across Hollywood’s writers’ and actors’ guilds, plus budget cuts among streaming platforms. 47%: Share of Americans who say they’re “very” satisfied with their personal lives, per an annual Gall

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Will The AI Safety Institute – and the Consortium Model – Insure an AI-safe Future?

Ooda Loop

Consistent with our recent analysis of government regulation (or overregulation?) of AI, and the introduction of the concept of the "decontrol" of AI, the recent launch of the AI Safety Institute (organized as a public/private consortium) begs the same questions: although a public/private collaboration, is the AI Safety Institute an extension of an overall climate of over-regulation of AI in the U.S.?

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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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Exploring the Power of Laravel Eloquent Join?

Php,Mysql,Jquery Tutorial And Interview Question

We’ll explore different join methods of Laravel eloquent with examples. The join helps to fetch the data from multiple database tables by establishing relationships between them. What is ORM Laravel’s Eloquent ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) is an ActiveRecord implementation that simplifies database communication with PHP applications. It allows developers to interact with database tables using PHP […] The post Exploring the Power of Laravel Eloquent Join?

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at DISH, Autodesk, Zscaler and more!

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Is the CDO (Chief Digital Officer) Actually the DCO (Digital Culture Officer)?

Coforge

When legendary management guru Peter Drucker penned the above line, he could very well have had the data and analytics revolution in mind! In recent years, the ‘data mindset’ has been dictating business strategy. Data and its ability to drive transformational business outcomes is at the forefront of a paradigm shift today.

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#758 Navigating Telecom Frontiers in Brazil with Denis Monteleone, General Manager at China Telecom Brasil

Modern CTO

Today we’re talking to Denis Monteleone, the General Manager of China Telecom Brasil. In this episode, Denis offers pivotal leadership advice, emphasizing the role of empathy and innovation in shaping Brazil’s telecom future with China Telecom. He underscores the transformative potential of 5G and IoT technologies under visionary leadership. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

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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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Navigating the Complexities of Airline PSS Migrations

Coforge

For any airline, embarking on a passenger service system (PSS) modernisation is akin to a transatlantic crossing – a bold journey brimming with potential, yet fraught with navigational challenges. The PSS, the beating heart of an airline's operations, houses a universe of information – from intricate inventory systems to fares & availability to passenger history and preferences.

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Python Function Pipelines: Streamlining Data Processing

Dzone - DevOps

Function pipelines allow seamless execution of multiple functions in a sequential manner, where the output of one function serves as the input to the next. This approach helps in breaking down complex tasks into smaller, more manageable steps, making code more modular, readable, and maintainable. Function pipelines are commonly used in functional programming paradigms to transform data through a series of operations.

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Navigating Store Fulfillment Challenges

Perficient

The rise of omnichannel operations has redefined the landscape, placing new demands on the roles of VP of Supply Chain, VP of Store Operations, and Directors of Omnichannel Operations. The introduction and expansion of same-day delivery services have particularly spotlighted the intricate balance between customer expectations and operational feasibilities.

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