CIO
MARCH 21, 2024
US government agencies have ramped up their efforts to hire AI talent, filling newly created chief AI officer positions and aggressively seeking out AI-related skills. The Justice Department hired its first chief AI officer in February. That addition came on the heels of other recent CAIO appointments at the Education Department, the General Services Administration, and the Housing and Urban Development Department.
Xebia
MARCH 21, 2024
As we all know, monday.com is constantly evolving and providing us with new features every month. We’ve highlighted a few new features below that can help you get the most out of monday.com. 1. Unified automations and integrations center Automations and integrations have been rolled into one unified location to make it even easier to power up your work.
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CIO
MARCH 21, 2024
The German-speaking user group for enterprise software giant SAP says that customers’ willingness to invest in the company’s S/4HANA cloud product is rising, but still lags behind flagship ERP products like ECC 6, and some customers see the need for more discussion on SAP’s prolonged move to the cloud. DSAG, a group representing SAP users in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, also released data from a survey of its members.
Xebia
MARCH 21, 2024
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a useful tool to understand different activities in software delivery and identify bottlenecks. One of the best parts of this exercise is that everyone tends to understand this visualization, so that there’s a common understanding of the software delivery flow. Over the past years, I’ve used a variation on the value stream map.
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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
MARCH 21, 2024
In 2018, the day after his employer publicly announced it was being acquired, Lynn Lovelady, then VP of IT at Energen, received a pivotal phone call that would reshape his career. It was from Charlie Nowlin, then CFO at McWane, who for more than a year had been searching for the company’s first chief information officer. After a long courtship that included lunches with members of McWane’s C-suite to ensure a cultural fit, Lovelady signed on to helm IT as CIO at the global manufacturer of duc
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CIO
MARCH 21, 2024
In a rapidly evolving global landscape, Indonesia acknowledges the crucial role of the digital economy in driving sustainable development and promoting inclusive growth. As such, Golden Indonesia Vision 2045 places a strong emphasis on leveraging digital technologies to enhance productivity, competitiveness, and resilience across all sectors of the economy.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2024
It’s common to experience imposter feelings when taking on a new, more senior role. That negative self-talk can feel justified when you were originally rejected from the job. But you can use this second chance as an opportunity to become a better leader. The author presents four strategies to quiet the imposter syndrome voices in your head if you weren’t the first pick for the job.
CIO
MARCH 21, 2024
Indian enterprises are more likely to see Chief Digital Officers CDOs) and data science heads fill the upcoming position of Chief AI Officer (CAIOs), analysts and experts have said. “The role of a Chief AI Officer might be combined with other existing roles, such as a Chief Digital Officer or a head of data science. The CAIO role might also have to shoulder the responsibility of being a Chief Analytics Officer, especially in India,” Dr Shailendra Singh, head of data science and analytics at TV
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2024
More and more organizations are looking to create flatter, less hierarchical models to increase collaboration, agility, and employee empowerment. But recent research at a food processing company in Colombia outlines some stumbling blocks companies might face when trying to change their structure. Specifically, the researchers and company CEO highlight a series of structural and people dynamics leaders should look out for in their own efforts.
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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
Lacework
MARCH 21, 2024
I like to compare cybersecurity to tug of war. Two opposing sides trying to claim victory over the other in a show of strength. However, in cybersecurity, the fight is not of brute force but of technical and intellectual superiority. There are no ropes here — only keyboards, minds, and wills. And, of course, the stakes are much, much higher. Tug of war and cybersecurity are all about gaining leverage, and in modern cybersecurity, the advantage often goes to the side that finds the best ways to a
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2024
Although conventional wisdom suggests that companies should look for growth opportunities close to their core businesses and capabilities, the author points out that diversification can be an effective growth strategy, as long as you follow four rules: 1) focus on the business unit; 2) let the business units drive their own strategies; 3) appoint business units leaders who will act like a CEO and take initiative; and 4) foster a culture in which it is safe to take chances.
Confluent
MARCH 21, 2024
Learn the best practices for using Confluent Schema Registry, including using schema IDs, understanding subjects and versions, using data contracts, pre-registering schemas, and more.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2024
Surprisingly, the EV market has stalled in recent years. Why? Because the market has reached a difficult point in the technology-adoption lifecycle. Specifically, automakers and policymakers alike can no longer make plans based on what early adopters of EVs want. Instead, if they want to boost sales and reach a much broader segment of the market, they’re going to have to cater to a different set of interests and concerns — which will probably mean offering consumers more hybrids and plug-ins as
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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.
Crunchbase News
MARCH 21, 2024
Shares of Reddit shot up 64% in early trading Thursday, a day after the company raised $519 million in an IPO that priced at the top of the projected range. The IPO is a long time coming for San Francisco-based Reddit. The company, known for its lively online communities and colorful discussion threads, was co-founded by CEO Steve Huffman and venture investor Alexis Ohanian more than 18 years ago.
Perficient
MARCH 21, 2024
If you were to pop open any social media platform or news app right now and scroll through a couple dozen posts, you’ll easily get the feeling that everything is #%&$ falling apart. Everyone is mad at something. We now use the term “doomscrolling.” In the past we had Yellow Journalism and we are there once again. As humans we tend to get addicted to outrage and drama.
Ooda Loop
MARCH 21, 2024
On Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against two 46-year-old Russian nationals. Sanctions were also placed on the respective companies they own. These sanctions were enacted due to engaging in cyber influence operations.
DevOps.com
MARCH 21, 2024
DevSecOps requires teams to collaborate and enable the organization to deliver safer applications to customers without compromising security.
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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.
Ooda Loop
MARCH 21, 2024
The U.S. National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology publicly released its first report in January of this year - with ideas and recommendations "they will be advancing throughout 2024.culminating in a comprehensive report to Congress in December 2024." Find a summary and analysis of the interim report here.
InfoWorld
MARCH 21, 2024
Microsoft has introduced.NET Smart Components, AI-powered UI controls intended to make it easier to add AI features to existing software. These components are currently experimental and not officially supported. Announced March 20 ,NET Smart Components can be added to.NET apps without developers having to redesign their UX or researching machine learning and prompt engineering , Microsoft said.
CableLabs
MARCH 21, 2024
Consistent with the strategy outlined in a recent blog , CableLabs has recently launched two new working groups related to fiber to the premises (FTTP). Information on one of the working groups — Optical Operations and Maintenance — can be found here. The subject is this blog is the provisioning and management of passive optical networking (PON) in cable access networks.
InfoWorld
MARCH 21, 2024
With KubeCon Europe taking place this week, Microsoft has delivered a flurry of Azure Kubernetes announcements. In addition to a new framework for running machine learning workloads, new workload scheduling capabilities, new deployment safeguards, and security and scalability improvements, Microsoft has placed a strong emphasis on developer productivity, working to improve the developer experience and helping reduce the risks of error.
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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.
Crunchbase News
MARCH 21, 2024
Foundry came out of stealth with a fresh $80 million to help companies harness the power of AI. The round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners , with participation from Redpoint , Microsoft Ventures (M12) , Conviction , NEA and others. The round was at a reported $350 million valuation The Palo Alto, California-based startup is developing a public cloud purpose-built for ML workloads.
InfoWorld
MARCH 21, 2024
Rust 1.77, the latest version of the Mozilla Research-founded programming language focused on safety, speed, and concurrency, adds support for C-string literals. C-string literals in Rust expand to a null-byte terminated string in memory of type & ‘static CStr. This makes it easier to write code that will interoperate with foreign language interfaces that require null-terminated strings.
Crunchbase News
MARCH 21, 2024
This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. It’s become difficult to hear a CEO talk about their company or read a description of a business in a press release that doesn’t mention how it’s “AI-infused,” “AI-enhanced” or some other AI descriptor. While that verbiage may be shrugged off by most, it seems like some people who get paid to keep an eye on such claims are looking very closely at what companies tell folks — especially potential investors — a
InfoWorld
MARCH 21, 2024
When working on applications, you will often need to represent a group of constants in the business logic and even in the domain layers. However, you should avoid using enumeration types, or enums, in the domain layer and instead use alternatives such as record types. Why? In this article, we’ll explain the downsides of using enumerations in the domain layer. [ Also on InfoWorld: The best new features in C# 12 ] Create a console application project in Visual Studio First off, let’s create a.NET
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Dzone - DevOps
MARCH 21, 2024
NCache Java Edition with distributed cache technique is a powerful tool that helps Java applications run faster, handle more users, and be more reliable. In today's world, where people expect apps to work quickly and without any problems, knowing how to use NCache Java Edition is very important. It's a key piece of technology for both developers and businesses who want to make sure their apps can give users fast access to data and a smooth experience.
InfoWorld
MARCH 21, 2024
JetBrains has cleared up confusion over its plans for dependency injection (DI) support in Ktor, which it revealed last week in its 2024 roadmap for the Kotlin-based framework. The company is now assuring users that there will be no requirement to use a DI framework with Ktor. In a Kotlin blog post published March 18 , Garth Gilmour, JetBrains’ developer advocate, said a lot of questions have arisen regarding DI since the roadmap was published on March 12.
Ruby on Rails
MARCH 21, 2024
Hey everyone, Happy Weekend! Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails. Let’s dive in. Rails guides gets a facelift Rails guides has a received a big design update! Check out the Edge Guides to see these changes. If you find a bug or wish to submit a suggestion, you can open a discussion on GitHub. This also marks the beginning of trying out GitHub discussions, alongside the current Forum Two new official gems Solid Queue , a DB-based queuing backend for Active Job, has graduated
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