O'Reilly Media - Ideas
JANUARY 25, 2024
This has been a strange year. While we like to talk about how fast technology moves, internet time, and all that, in reality the last major new idea in software architecture was microservices, which dates to roughly 2015. Before that, cloud computing itself took off in roughly 2010 (AWS was founded in 2006); and Agile goes back to 2000 (the Agile Manifesto dates back to 2001, Extreme Programming to 1999).
CIO
JANUARY 25, 2024
Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with contacts in many leading enterprises, including businesses across a wide range of industries and regions. This experience has given me a unique vantage point, enabling me to see those specifics that are unique to each team and organization—as well as common themes that apply to broad swaths of the market.
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Martin Fowler
JANUARY 25, 2024
I’ve been using Emacs for many years, using it for any writing for my website, writing my books, and most of my programming. (Exceptions have been IntellJ IDEA for Java and RStudio for R.) As such I’ve been happy to see a lot of activity in the last few years to improve Emacs’s capabilities, making it feel rather less than a evolutionary dead end. One of the biggest improvements to my Emacs experience is using regexs for completion lists.
CIO
JANUARY 25, 2024
IT leaders are more integral to a company’s business success than ever and that brings pressure to expand their roles, better understand and collaborate with the business, and launch major initiatives. To master the various aspects of leadership, it’s often helpful to get professional help. That’s where executive coaching comes into play. As technical people move up the ranks, going from coders and admins to managers to CIOs, they need to learn how to do a lot more than build great software, con
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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.
Ooda Loop
JANUARY 25, 2024
“When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash” is a seering insight attributed to cultural theorist Paul Virilio - and is oft quoted here at OODA Loop. We review here some of the new "inventions" that are part and parcel of the emergence of AI as a general application technology across any and all global industry sectors and societal systems.
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N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 25, 2024
The Essence of Narrative in Business In the realm of business, storytelling transcends mere entertainment. Ernst Gleijm , a seasoned expert from N2Growth, emphasizes its dual role: internally galvanizing and externally captivating. Amidst the ubiquity of Excel and PowerPoint, the art of crafting compelling narratives stands unparalleled. Storytelling doesn’t just convey a direction; it breathes life into the organizational journey, clarifying both the destination and the purpose. “St
CIO
JANUARY 25, 2024
Organizations investing in artificial intelligence should never lose sight of one constraint: Capturing value from the technology ultimately comes down to the skills of people tasked with using it. With two decades of experience as a human resources leader, Deepa Subbaiah, a senior director for HR at Freshworks, has deep expertise in exploring how enterprise teams can get the most out of workplace tech, from first-generation SaaS applications in the early 2000s to today’s AI-powered chatbots.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 25, 2024
How can boards better understand the potential impacts of AI? The authors suggest six scenarios that all boards must consider — and then act upon — ranging from predicting extreme operational changes, to anticipating new strategic ways to compete, to foreseeing existential threats that could obviate one’s business.
CIO
JANUARY 25, 2024
Software developers, no matter how skilled, face tasks they’re not very good at. For Geoffrey Bourne, cofounder of Ayrshare (“airshare”), a New York-based startup that automates and manages social sharing for corporate clients, it’s using what’s called regular expressions—tools used in virtually every programming language to identify patterns of text.
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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
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 25, 2024
Many leaders become territorial and overprotective of their teams, client relationships, and resources to preserve their ability to succeed. It’s not uncommon for talented leaders to compete internally with their peers for people, investment, and attention; in fact, it’s often that individual drive that made them successful in the first place. However, when you’re looking to scale your leadership and reach the C-suite, this “fend for yourself” mentality will stop you in your tracks.
CIO
JANUARY 25, 2024
How do you lose the AI race? By not entering. So says Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. “When a technology this powerful comes along where you have to learn by doing, finding reasons not to do it is a pretty big error,” he says. Despite the mass embrace of generative AI in its first year of release, most organizations remain cautious about mass adoption.
David Heinemeier Hansson
JANUARY 25, 2024
Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a big, revealing moment to a lot of people. Folks who perhaps didn’t think Apple would be “that kind of company”. That they wouldn't so blatantly threaten developers into compliance with such overtly onerous and punitive terms. But they did. And now they’re doubling down.
CIO
JANUARY 25, 2024
Enterprise spending on consumer-facing generative AI tools will grow from $40 billion in 2023 to $1.3 trillion by 2032, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence analysis. Where will companies pour those hundreds of billions? More than 80% of business leaders believe that the best bang for their gen AI buck is in chatbots for automating customer service and improving knowledge management, according to a Capgemini survey of 1,000 companies in 13 countries.
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.
Crunchbase News
JANUARY 25, 2024
Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on the state of seed startup investing at the start of 2024. Read Part 1, which looked at seed funding trends over the past decade and the median time period between seed and Series A funding, here. Seed funding to startups has grown into its own asset class over the past decade, with round sizes trending larger, and a bigger pool of investors backing these nascent startups.
CIO
JANUARY 25, 2024
The AI hype cycle has peaked: Tens of thousands of companies helped get it there with generative AI in 2023, with two-thirds now reporting they have deployed GAI tools to their workforce. For enterprise executives in 2024, that means right-sizing those expectations and getting to work: justifying the right use cases, forming teams, and tracking progress and ROI.
The Hustle
JANUARY 25, 2024
What does a dragon need gold for? They live in caves for free and eat cattle they don’t buy. A dragon needs its treasure hoard as much as a corpse needs its life savings, and yet… … some big shots are hoping to cryogenically freeze themselves to not only achieve immortality, but wake up wealthy, per a fascinating report from Mother Jones. What exactly happens when you’re frozen?
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 25, 2024
The Power of Culturally Diverse Perspectives: Exploring the Benefits of International Coaching in Global Leadership Mastery In today’s global business landscape, the ability to navigate and effectively lead across cultures is becoming increasingly vital for success. As companies expand their operations into new markets and collaborate with diverse teams, leaders must adapt their leadership styles to accommodate different cultural perspectives.
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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.
Crunchbase News
JANUARY 25, 2024
By Umesh Padval As we bid goodbye to a tumultuous 2023 , marked by macroeconomic uncertainties and geopolitical tensions, the private markets stand at a crossroads in 2024. Despite headwinds, the year concluded on a strong note, witnessing record highs in stock markets and a gradual easing of interest rates and market volatility. As a venture capitalist, I find myself contemplating the implications of these shifts on the private markets and predicting the year ahead.
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 25, 2024
The Importance of Executive Coaching for the Entrepreneur Regardless of their industry or background, the entrepreneur faces unique challenges on their entrepreneurial journey. These individuals are not only responsible for the success of their venture but also for making critical decisions that can impact their team, stakeholders, and the environment around them.
Crunchbase News
JANUARY 25, 2024
This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. While there have been some predictions of a slowdown in venture dollars as it concerns generative AI startups, so far that does not seem to be bearing out — and we got another example this week. Voice AI startup ElevenLabs raised an $80 million Series B at what it called a “unicorn valuation,” though the company did not disclose an exact dollar figure.
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 25, 2024
In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, the ability to efficiently manage resources in cloud-native environments is crucial. Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for orchestrating containerized applications. However, as we delve deeper into the realms of cloud computing, the need for more advanced and dynamic scaling solutions becomes evident.
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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.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 25, 2024
The explosion of new AI APIs, libraries and frameworks has the potential to increase technical debt and, in the process, overwhelm DevOps teams.
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 25, 2024
Welcome to the exciting world of platform engineering, where innovation and adaptability reign supreme! In this ever-evolving digital landscape, businesses are constantly seeking ways to optimize their operations and stay ahead of the curve. One key aspect of achieving this is building cloud-agnostic solutions that offer unparalleled flexibility in choosing cloud providers.
Perficient
JANUARY 25, 2024
This past week was one to celebrate for the Perficient DXP team, as Sitecore awarded us their Order Cloud Specialization. Sitecore takes certification seriously and only recognizes partners with a Specialization if they have proven a deep understanding of the products and a track record of success on relevant projects. The Order Cloud Specialization is the fourth that Perficient has earned in addition to badges for CDP & Personalize , Content Hub and Sitecore XP.
InfoWorld
JANUARY 25, 2024
Deno 1.40, the latest version of the JavaScript runtime positioned as a rival to Node.js , has been launched with a Temporal API for advanced date and time operations. The update was announced January 25. Deno can be accessed from deno.com. The Temporal API is intended to address shortcomings of the existing Date object in JavaScript. It’s available with the –-unstable-temporal flag.
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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.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 25, 2024
Success as a DevOps engineer requires understanding how the field evolved and what are the best practices and skills needed today.
InfoWorld
JANUARY 25, 2024
Project IDX , Google’s experimental, AI-powered, cloud-based developer platform, has added Android and iOS simulators and templates for Go , Python , Node.js , and other languages and development frameworks, the company announced on January 25. An experimental initiative in limited preview, Project IDX is intended to bring an entire full-stack, multi-platform application development to the cloud.
The Hustle
JANUARY 25, 2024
Golf has historically been a boys’ club — literally. But the sport seems to be entering the modern era, with a surge of women showing interest. More than 800k American women started playing golf between 2020 and 2022, according to the National Golf Foundation, representing a 15% increase. And 38% of players under 18 years old today are girls, compared to just 14% in 1986, indicating that this demographic shift might be here to stay.
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