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How to Address a Resume Gap When Switching Careers

Harvard Business Review

The prospect of a new career can hold a sense of excitement. But what should you do if your job search has become a disheartening slog and the gap on your resume just seems to be growing wider by the day? What can you do to protect your mental health and rekindle your optimism for the future? In this article, the author offers practical advice to help you navigate your career switch when you’re worried about a widening gap on your resume.

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO

Like other CIOs, Katrina Redmond has been inundated with opportunities to deploy AI that promise to speed business and operations processes, and optimize workflows. “Everyone is running around trying to apply this technology that’s moving so fast, but without business outcomes, there’s no point to it,” says Redmond, CIO at power management systems manufacturer Eaton Corp.

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Creating Seams in a Mainframe's Batch Pipelines

Martin Fowler

Mainframe processing is often organized into pipelines of batch processes consuming and creating data files. Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave show a couple of ways they found to introduce seams into these pipelines , so that processing could be replaced by steps in a replacement platform.

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Cisco-led consortium to spread AI expertise in the workforce

CIO

Cisco and eight other companies today announced they would form the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, as a venue to share generative AI knowledge and expertise in the workforce, and to help workers gain skills relevant to the newly AI-centric jobs of tomorrow. In an official statement, the companies said that the first order of business would be to create a broad-based report on the state of AI expertise among workers, which would also provide “actionable insights” for companies and their emp

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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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Uncovering Seams in a Mainframe's external interfaces

Martin Fowler

Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave move on to analyzing the internal seams of the application by treating the database as a coarse-grained seam. They describe how they introduced seams into the database readers and writers.

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Mending the rift between business stakeholders and development teams

Xebia

Introduction How often can your organization boast about getting a steady and predictable flow of productivity? In today’s business world, the synergy between stakeholders, product management and development teams are paramount. A pleasant collaboration ensures smooth processes and timely deliveries with high-quality output. However, in practice this desired synergy is often elusive, in worst cases leading to a siloed work environment.

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Amazon downsizes AWS in a fresh cost-cutting round

CIO

In a fresh round of layoffs, Amazon is laying off hundreds in the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The layoffs will affect AWS’ sales, marketing, and brick-and-mortar technology development teams. This move comes as the company seeks to streamline its operations and focus on areas that deliver a better return on investment. “We’ve identified a few targeted areas of the organization we need to streamline in order to continue focusing our efforts on the key strategic areas that

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Quantum Day (aka “Q-Day”) is a Gray Rhino Stridently Galloping Straight at Your Organization

Ooda Loop

"Q-Day" is a scenario where "no more secrets" becomes a reality, as previously secure communications and data could be vulnerable to decryption by entities wielding quantum computational power (also known as "Quantum Supremacy"). Find a breakdown, analysis, and future scenarios here.

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Two great reads (and one listen) to prepare for CIO’s Data, Analytics & AI Summit

CIO

One thing that sets apart Foundry events is that they are informed by the always-insightful editorial coverage from titles such as CIO, CSO, and InfoWorld. Members of the event team are not only avid readers, we pick the brains of the journalists to help guide the event content and invite them to join us as session moderators. At our upcoming Data, Analytics & AI Summit – a virtual event taking place April 11 – attendees will hear from CIO editors and contributors, including Paula Rooney, Lu

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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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How to Discuss the Undiscussables on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Surfacing the undiscussables on your team may be uncomfortable, but it must be an ongoing campaign, or they will sneakily build up in the background and impact your employees’ morale. In this article, the author explains how to spot the classic signs of undiscussables — meetings marked by quick consensus, a lack of productive debate, or uneven participation — and offers strategies on how to uncover those unexpressed thoughts and feelings to help your team work more productively.

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An IT leader’s mission to retrofit the tech foundation at Eon

CIO

Three years ago, Essen-based Eon’s IT function was in the dumps, according to CIO Sebastian Webers’ colleagues when he took on his new role. In his keynote speech at the Hamburg IT Strategy Days in February, Weber looked back on those first three years and the journey he and his team took during that time. At first, Weber made it clear his initial focus wouldn’t be on outstanding chatbot or AI projects, but basic work, or “cleaning up the basement,” as he said.

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Leading the 6-Generation Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Giving each generation — and, importantly, each individual — the opportunity to be seen, understood, valued, and leveraged in the workplace throughout the course of their career is essential for personal, social, and even societal well-being. This author offers five steps leaders can take to create healthy six-generation organizations.

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PwC Middle East and Microsoft launch an AI excellence center in Saudi Arabia

CIO

Artificial Intelligence will be a big game changer in the global economy. We have seen a global shift towards AI and advanced technologies in the Middle East. According to PwCm the Middle East is expected to accrue 2% of the total global benefits of AI in 2030. This is equivalent to 320 billion USD. In absolute terms, the largest gains are expected to accrue to Saudi Arabia where AI is expected to contribute over 135.2 billion USD in 2030 to the economy.

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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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Global Venture Funding In Q1 2024 Shows Startup Investors Remain Cautious

Crunchbase News

The first quarter of 2024 was the second-lowest on record for global startup funding since the beginning of 2018, according to an analysis of Crunchbase data. Global venture funding reached $66 billion in the first quarter, up 6% quarter over quarter but down 20% year over year, Crunchbase data shows. The lowest in the past six years was the previous quarter, Q4 2023.

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Amazon drops ‘just walk out’ technology at its US retail locations

CIO

Amazon’s US-based Amazon Fresh stores will no longer offer customers the option to “just walk out,” and will move to a system of scanners attached to carts instead of the more advanced computer vision system that obviated the checkout process altogether. Amazon confirmed the report, first published this week by The Information , in a statement today, saying that it would prioritize the Dash Cart as the checkout option over “just walk out,” which uses a system of smart vision cameras to track cus

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Three reasons why we’re excited about Google Cloud Next ‘24

Lacework

Tech conferences are by far my favorite. To some people this might seem strange, but I think they can be one of the best experiences for your career. OK, that might be pushing it, but here are three reasons why we are excited about the next big tech conference: Google Cloud Next ‘24. 1. The people: Eager to learn I get it, tech people have a reputation for being somewhat introverted.

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Investire nell’intelligenza artificiale più che nelle persone? Ecco perché può essere un errore

CIO

L’intelligenza artificiale generativa ha il potere di reinventare ogni aspetto di un business. Le aziende si stanno rendendo conto del suo potenziale, ma prima di poter spostare le loro strategie gen AI dallo status di “promesse” a quello di “profitti”, dovranno rispondere a diverse domande legate alla tecnologia: ho il giusto LLM per il mio settore e la mia funzione?

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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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Our Commitment to Security: An Open Letter from Ivanti CEO Jeff Abbott

Ivanti

To Ivanti’s Valued Customers and Partners, Our organization strives to produce the most secure solutions for Everywhere Work. Events in recent months have been humbling, and I want you to hear directly from me about the actions we are taking to ensure we emerge stronger, and our customers are more secure. We and many others in our industry have witnessed, firsthand, the increasing complexity of the threat landscape and the specific evolution of threat-actor tactics.

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Querying Minds Want to Know: Can a Data Fabric and RAG Clean up LLMs?

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 4 minutes Providing timely, intuitive access to information has been top-of-mind for many companies, and their data professionals in particular. Over the past few decades, we have been storing up data and generating even more of it than we have known what. The post Querying Minds Want to Know: Can a Data Fabric and RAG Clean up LLMs? appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Information.

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PgBouncer Connection Pooler for Postgres Now Supports More Session Vars

The Citus Data

PgBouncer is probably the most popular connection pooler for Postgres. It is essentially a transparant middleware between clients and the server. However, it is not %100 transparent in practice. There are a few intricacies that should be taken into account when using PgBouncer. One such consideration is that PgBouncer does not support the use of all session variables in transaction pooling mode.

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Progress Comes Incrementally Then Suddenly

Next Level Blog

The picture that accompanies this post was taken this morning, Thursday, April 4, 2024. It’s the photographic record of my fourth annual birthday handstand. So, this is me at age 63. My yoga teachers would certainly point out ways that I could improve my form, but I’m happy enough with this one. Honestly, if you had told me on my 43 rd birthday that I’d be doing handstands on my 63 rd , I would have politely told you you were nuts.

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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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The Power of AI Assistants and Advanced Threat Detection

Palo Alto Networks

Smarter Security {{interview_audio_title}} 00:00 00:00 Volume Slider 10s 10s 10s 10s Seek Slider “AI’s Impact in Cybersecurity” is a blog series based on interviews with a variety of experts at Palo Alto Networks and Unit 42, with roles in AI research, product management, consulting, engineering and more. Our objective is to present different viewpoints and predictions on how artificial intelligence is impacting the current threat landscape, how Palo Alto Networks protects itself and its custome

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Visual Studio Code finalizes test coverage API

InfoWorld

Microsoft has unveiled Visual Studio Code 1.88, also known as the March 2024 release of the company’s popular code editor. The update brings capabilities such as a test coverage API, custom editor labels, and locked scrolling. Introduced on April 4 , Visual Studio Code 1.88 can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, or Mac from the project website. In this release, Microsoft has finalized its Test Coverage API, bringing native coverage support to VS Code.

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Defering jobs enqueuening to after the transaction commit, queries count in rendering logs and more

Ruby on Rails

Hi, Wojtek here exploring this week’s changes. Rails World 2024 edition website is now live With tickets going on sale in April. Allow to register transaction callbacks outside of a record ActiveRecord::Base.transaction now yields an ActiveRecord::Transaction object, which allows to register callbacks on it. Article. transaction do | transaction | article. update ( published: true ) transaction. after_commit do PublishNotificationMailer. with ( article: article ). deliver_later end end Added Act

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Singapore Sets High Bar in Cybersecurity Preparedness

Ooda Loop

According to a new government survey, Singapore is leading other countries when it comes to cybersecurity preparedness. The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore’s Cybersecurity Health Report 2023 polled organizations across 23 sectors about aspects of their cybersecurity. They focused on breaches faced, business impacts, and measures implemented.

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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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How to build a developer-first company

InfoWorld

At my company, Descope, we are building a customer authentication and identity management product, meaning the end user and the developer are two sides of the same coin. Providing a great developer experience—by enabling our customers to easily add auth flows and user management to their apps—leads to a great end-user experience as the customer’s customers seamlessly and securely log in.

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MWC 2024 Buzz Signals Continuing Momentum for 5G and Other Mobile Technologies

CableLabs

Mobile World Congress ( MWC ) is the flagship conference for the mobile industry, where vendors and mobile operators showcase new products, technologies and solutions. The buzz at the annual trade show translates to the pulse of the mobile industry and offers a sneak peek at its direction. This year at MWC Barcelona , more than 100,000 participants attended from 200-plus countries, and more than 2,700 small and large vendors and operators were on exhibit across eight halls.

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DataStax acquires Langflow creator Logspace to aid gen AI app development

InfoWorld

Database and related services provider DataStax is acquiring Logspace, creator of the open source package Langflow, for an undisclosed sum, in order to help developers build generative AI applications faster, it said Thursday. Langflow is an open-source, web-based no-code graphical user interface (GUI) that allows developers to visually prototype LangChain flows and iterate them to develop applications faster.