Mon.Feb 12, 2024

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From fear to abundance: Rethinking job security in the age of generative AI

CIO

By Chet Kapoor, Chairman & CEO at DataStax Along with the exciting possibilities of generative AI (genAI), there have been concerns around job (in)security and displacement. Leaders are feeling the pressure to implement genAI quickly and automate as much as possible. Some will see this as an opportunity to “get lean” and reduce headcount. Others will keep the people they have and find new ways to become super efficient.

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Feeling Invisible? What to Say When You’re Feel Invisible or Ignored

Let's Grow Leaders

Powerful Phrases to Move From Feeling Invisible to Invincible If you feel invisible at work you’re in good company. Recent research by Work Human found that nearly 30% of workers have felt invisible at work and 27% have felt ignored. Their research also identified certain “invisible skills” going unnoticed in the workplace. Ironically, the ignored skills are some of the most necessary for productive conflict i n the workplace: empathy and compassion (27.4%), a sense of curiosity, (19.8%), and li

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SAP has a new succession plan

CIO

The changing of the guard at the top of SAP’s supervisory board is anything but smooth. The German software company has announced that Punit Renjen, who it originally intended would become chairman of the supervisory board, is to be replaced. They have mutually decided to go their separate ways, SAP said in a statement. The reason given for the sudden separation was “a difference in perspective” about the role of the future chairman of the supervisory board.

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No Google Account? Not a problem!

Xebia

As a non-Google user, until now you were able to join video calls in Google Meet on your desktop. But people that are on the road a lot were left behind. Not anymore, because Google now made it possible for anyone to join Google Meet video meetings on a smartphone, even without a Google account. Excellent to use on the go You can now quickly join a meeting as a guest without signing into a personal or work Google account or creating a new Google account.

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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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Optical technology enabling the growth of artificial intelligence

CIO

We face complex and dire challenges in today’s world. The only certainty is change. In order to predict future developments for the good of all, we will need to absorb and analyze information on an unprecedented scale. Artificial intelligence (AI) has a pivotal role to play. But in order for AI to expand, we need new networking technology that boosts transmission speeds and improves responsiveness.

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9 traits of great IT leaders

CIO

IT leaders have gotten the message: To successfully perform their jobs, they need more than technical skills. They also need general business acumen, industry knowledge, and accounting talent. Some expertise in marketing, operations, cybersecurity, and other functional areas is important, too. That has been the message coming from veteran CIOs, executive advisors, and management consultants in recent years.

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What Boards of Public Companies Can Learn from Private Equity

Harvard Business Review

Public company boards are typically focused on oversight, supporting the management team while keeping a respectful distance from day-to-day operations. In contrast, boards of companies owned by private equity tend to be much more hands-on. Often populated by former CEOs, these boards are more likely to get involved in shaping strategy and culture, providing information to the company, and actively engaging with future CEO candidates further in advance of succession.

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Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization

CIO

By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale. How could any CIO or application manager resist the call to the cloud when companies started sharing the huge successes they were having with their migrations and overall digital transformations?

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Do You Have a Phone Addiction?

Harvard Business Review

In our digital age, smartphones have become a double-edged sword, offering boundless information at our fingertips while silently ensnaring us in a web of overdependence. Unchecked phone use can erode our mental well-being, dull our professional edge, and disrupt our most cherished relationships. Yet, by recognizing the stealthy creep of phone addiction, we can begin to redraw the boundaries and be more intentional about when we engage.

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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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SAP 2024 outlook: 5 predictions for customers

CIO

SAP customers have a lot to navigate in 2024. A host of new product and feature launches, questions about SAP’s plans for managing commitments to legacy platform customers, and the acceleration of generative AI in popular products such as SAP RISE are just a few of the major issues enterprise SAP customers will need to keep on top of in the year ahead.

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Funding Is Still Flowing Strong To Water-Focused Startups

Crunchbase News

Funding to startups working on water purification- and conservation-related technologies has not dried up in recent quarters, even amid a broad global contraction in venture investment. That was the finding from an analysis of Crunchbase data for funding to water industry categories. Investment totals for 2023 were actually higher than during the much bubblier startup financing climate of 2021.

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Digital transformation: nei progetti a tutto campo la chiave è il change management

CIO

“Per noi è arrivato il momento di realizzare un forte cambiamento: una trasformazione del modo di operare abilitato dalla tecnologia”. Quanti CIO annunciano con parole simili la ‘svolta’ che imprimono alla loro azienda grazie alla digitalizzazione? “Il digitale è riconosciuto come forte leva di business”, conferma Alessandra Luksch, Direttore dell’Osservatorio Digital Transformation Academy e dell’Osservatorio Startup Thinking del Politecnico di Milano, che dal 2016 mappa i trend della spesa ICT

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Addressing the Developer Skills Gap

DevOps.com

Cloud architecture investments are rising, but the developer and database market is experiencing a severe skills shortage.

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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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CIO?API????????????

CIO

ほとんどの企業は、よりソフトウェア中心へと移行しており、この変革に伴い、アプリケーション・プログラミング・インターフェース(API)が急増している。同時に、API標準は膨れ上がる技術カタログの中で実施するのが難しくなっており、APIガバナンス、つまり一貫した設計、バージョン管理、アクセス制御を保証するポリシーを定義し、実施することの実践がより重視されるようになっている、とGartnerのソフトウェアエンジニアリング担当副社長アナリスト兼リサーチ主任のマーク・オニール氏は言う。 ノーコード自動化プラットフォーム企業WorkatoのCIOであるカーター・ブッセ氏は、APIは現在、ビジネスプロセス内の大規模な言語モデル(LLM)を統合し、相互作用させるための重要な接続組織であると付け加える。「企業がこれらのデジタル頭脳を入力し、活用し、ビジネスに組み込みたいのであれば、LLMを様々なビジネス・アプリケーションに接続するAPIが必要になる」と彼は言う。

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Crowdsourced Security Startup Bugcrowd Locks Up $102M

Crunchbase News

Hackers-for-hire platform Bugcrowd locked up $102 million in fresh funding led by General Catalyst. The San Francisco-based platform allows companies of all sorts to hire freelance hackers and coders for “bug bounty” programs, helping those companies find problems in software code. In the past 12 months, Bugcrowd has nearly reached the 1,000-client milestone, added more than 100 new people to its staff, and grown its overall business more than 40%. “Over the past year, more than 200 new cl

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Is AI making our code stupid?

InfoWorld

Coding tools like GitHub Copilot can help developers author code 55% faster, according to GitHub. Hurray! Right? Well, maybe not. GitClear analyzed 153 million lines of changed code between January 2020 and December 2023 and now expects that code churn (“the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored”) will double in 2024.

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Taming the Cloud Cost Beast With Kubecost 2.0

Dzone - DevOps

As Kubernetes adoption accelerates, so too do cloud costs. The flexibility and scalability of Kubernetes come with a confusing maze of virtual machines, load balancers, ingresses, and persistent volumes that make it difficult for developers and architects to understand where their money is going. Cloud cost monitoring tools aim to provide clarity, but most are tailored to traditional infrastructure-as-a-service workloads.

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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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How many private islands does a dude need?

The Hustle

Sure, being a billionaire seems fun — hydrofoiling , bow hunting , casually building airships — but there’s a dark side: extreme peer pressure to buy up private islands. Google co-founder Larry Page is routinely upping that pressure. When Business Insider outed him as the secretive buyer of Cayo Norte, a $32m floating gem off Puerto Rico, it noted that Page is now known to own five private islands.

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Go language hits top 10 in the Tiobe index

InfoWorld

Google’s Go language, or golang, has reached its highest position ever in the Tiobe language popularity index. The language, now in the eighth ranked position for language popularity, has been on the rise for several years. Go , which is probably best known as the language used to develop Docker and Kubernetes , climbed to the top 10 in the Tiobe index a year ago , but its current position is the highest ever.

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Consistency in Leadership: How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Consistency allows you to be a leader who is predictable and reliable. Today’s guest post is b y Joe Judge, coauthor of Leadership is Overcoming the Natural: 52 Maxims to Move Beyond Instinct. I once had to give an employee constructive feedback about being too impatient, irritable, and unmotivated at work. He shrugged, apparently unwilling to acknowledge the problem.

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Choosing between public and private LLMs

InfoWorld

Large language models (LLMs) continue to command a blazing bright spotlight, as the debut of ChatGPT captured the world’s imagination and made generative AI the most widely discussed technology in recent memory (apologies, metaverse). ChatGPT catapulted public LLMs onto the stage, and its iterations continue to rev up excitement—and more than a little apprehension—about the possibilities of generating content, or code , with little more than a few prompts.

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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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Coffee and weed — sure, why not?

The Hustle

Wake and bake typically implies getting really high first thing in the morning, but a partnership between two startups suggests a pairing of cannabis with another plant: coffee. Seth Rogen — actor, producer, ceramics enthusiast — founded Houseplant in 2019 with Michael Mohr and screenwriter Evan Goldberg. The lifestyle brand offers cannabis and home goods, including ashtrays, vases, sake cups, and candles.

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Implementing CI/CD Pipelines With Jenkins and Docker

Dzone - DevOps

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become critical practices for software teams looking to accelerate development cycles and improve product quality. By automatically building, testing, and deploying application updates, CI/CD pipelines enable reliable and efficient software delivery. This article will discuss best practices for implementing robust CI/CD workflows using popular open-source tools like Jenkins and Docker.

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Leading the Way Through Data Protection Industry Changes

Dell EMC

Dell Technologies stands by its customers with steadfast support and innovative solutions for an ever-increasing threat landscape.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS): A Comprehensive Suite of Cloud Services

Dzone - DevOps

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a renowned cloud computing platform that provides a varied range of services to meet the needs of businesses and organizations. AWS has established itself as a prominent player in the cloud computing business due to its enormous infrastructure, powerful tools, and diverse variety of cloud solutions. In this post, we will look at Amazon Web Services’ core cloud services and their benefits for organizations. 1.

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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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Bots for tots: AI-powered children’s toys are talking back

The Hustle

When we were younger, talking to an imaginary friend was the best way to pass the time. But for today’s kids, make-believe is getting revamped. AI-powered toys are flooding the market to chat with children while they play, per Forbes. Today’s AI toys are pricey, but promise personalized education and entertainment: Moxie is a $799 robot designed to help kids ages 5-10 hit developmental milestones through conversation.

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Implementation Best Practices: Microservice API With Spring Boot

Dzone - DevOps

Technical Architecture First, let's turn to the architecture, which will be explained in detail. Let's look at each of these tiers in detail. Let me explain the architecture in detail. These components are commonly associated with the architecture of applications that follow the principles of Domain-Driven Design ( DDD ) and Model-View-Controller ( MVC ) or similar architectural patterns.

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Top 18 Python Frameworks for Web Application Development

Daffodil Software

Python has gained a lot of popularity in recent years and it doesn't seem to be losing momentum anytime soon. According to current trends, Python is currently ranked as the second most popular programming language, with a significant increase in usage over the past year. And we anticipate another 50 percent increase in its ranking by the end of 2024.