Mon.Jul 10, 2023

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6 business execs you’ll meet in hell — and how to deal with them

CIO

Everyone, at some point in their career, has endured a bad boss or bad business colleague. Someone further up the chain or a lateral colleague who lacks basic interpersonal skills, demands the impossible, flies off the handle at the slightest provocation, or throws you under the bus the moment a project goes south. Aside from causing personal angst, executives run amok can also wreak lasting damage to the organizations they work for by driving away talent and squandering business opportunities.

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What You’re Reading So Far: The Most Read Leadership Articles of 2023

Let's Grow Leaders

Navigating Workplace Gossip, Better Meetings, Know-it-Alls, Passive Aggressive Co-workers, and More… It’s that time of year when we pause to review what you’re reading here on Let’s Grow Leaders. We inventory the most-read leadership articles of 2023 and here’s what you’re most interested in so far. We would love to hear from you.

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3 tough decisions for IT leaders to achieve a successful digital transformation

CIO

The digital transformation journey for any enterprise is protracted and complex. Technology leaders often underestimate the complications associated with it. For such initiatives to conclude successfully, enterprise technology decision makers must overcome inertia, build momentum, and bring about changes across their large organizations. To bring about enterprise-wide changes, CIOs at times need to take tough decisions that may not go down well with employees.

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Perficient Recognized by Sitecore for Excellence in Business Impact

Perficient

Each year, Sitecore recognizes the achievements of their most deserving partners through the Sitecore Global Partner Awards. Today, we’re proud to announce Sitecore has recognized Perficient with a 2023 Partner Award for Excellence in Business Impact. The award recognizes Perficient for driving business impact and value for many of our shared customers.

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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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Edmunds sets stage for AI with data infrastructure consolidation

CIO

For a decade, Edmunds, an online resource for automotive inventory and information, has been struggling to consolidate its data infrastructure. Now, with the infrastructure side of its data house in order, the California-based company is envisioning a bold new future with AI and machine learning (ML) at its core. “We’ve solved most of the consolidation challenges,” says Greg Rokita, assistant VP of technology at Edmunds.

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With greater personalisation comes greater security

CIO

It can often feel as though trust and authenticity are in short supply these days. As we all know, content is becoming easier to create, manipulate and disseminate. Technology, such as Generative AI, has given marketers the power to create more engaging and uniquely personal offerings. This has reinforced concerns around data privacy and security. Today, anyone providing a digital experience has an increasingly tough job on their hands.

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers.

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3 examples of organizations improving CX with self-composed AI

CIO

Most business leaders don’t need convincing about the power of AI: nearly 60% surveyed last year by Zendesk said they plan to increase their investment by at least 25% this year. The most powerful applications of AI help organizations do more with less without compromising – rather in many cases enhancing – their customer experience, from AI-powered bots that accelerate problem resolution to AI digital co-workers that supercharge agent performance.

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Article: Adaptive, Socio-Technical Systems with Architecture for Flow: Wardley Maps, DDD, and Team Topologies

InfoQ Culture Methods

Designing for adaptability sounds easier than done. How do you design and build systems that can evolve and thrive in the face of constant change? This article provides a high-level introduction to combining Wardley Mapping, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Team Topologies to design and build adaptive, socio-technical systems optimized for a fast flow of change.

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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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Executive Search Market and Its Growth in Saudi Arabia

N2Growth Blog

The executive search market in Saudi Arabia is poised for significant growth, with an estimated value of $2.2 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 6.4%. Several factors drive this growth, including multinational companies seeking qualified executives, the high demand for talent in the oil and gas, construction, and healthcare sectors, and the increasing use of technology in executive recruitment.

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Loft Labs Makes Tool for Creating Dev Environments Open Source

DevOps.com

Loft Labs' DevPod enables DevOps teams to programmatically create developer environments using a tool that runs entirely on a local client.

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6 Ways to Become a More Collaborative Leader

Harvard Business Review

In today’s fast-paced corporate landscape, most highly experienced leaders entering an organization are driven by a desire to make a significant impact and drive meaningful change. However, the approach they adopt in championing new ideas becomes the differentiating factor between success and failure. Unfortunately, when faced with resistance, some leaders become frustrated and disengaged or even choose to leave the organization.

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Addressing Skills Gaps in Your DevOps Team

DevOps.com

DevOps skills gaps hinder productivity, stifle innovation and can lead to missed opportunities. Here's how to address them.

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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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Implementation Architecture of Istio and API Gateway

Dzone - DevOps

With the advent of microservices, cloud, and containers, architects and the DevOps team need to reimagine and rethink how to simplify the network complexity and achieve zero-trust network security before one is in deep waters. There are limitations to API gateways in the app modernization journey when we consider Istio versus API gateways. However, this article will discuss different scenarios to implement Istio with your existing API gateway infrastructure.

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In Uncertain Times, Embrace Imperfectionism

Harvard Business Review

Change is accelerating, with uncertainty and threat of disruption in every industry segment. The pace of change and rise of global winner-take-all competition means that conventional product-market-structure approaches to strategy, as well as core competencies thinking, are difficult to implement in practice and may yield misleading answers. Under today’s conditions, the authors argue that real-time problem solving should be the heart of strategy development rather than theoretical frameworks, a

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How DevOps Teams Can Boost Kubernetes Performance

Dzone - DevOps

Kubernetes (also called K8s) remains the most in-demand container for developers. Originally developed by engineers at Google, K8s has achieved global fame as the go-to solution for hosting across on-premise, public, private, or hybrid clouds. Insights from Statista show the Kubernetes market share of the public cloud went from 16% in 2021 to 45% in 2022.

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Can the Construction Industry Be Disrupted?

Harvard Business Review

Construction is often maligned as the industry that technology left behind. Industry observers routinely deride the lack of technological sophistication in the construction industry, and have pigeon-holed it as old-fashioned and lagging behind more forward-looking and purposeful industries such as manufacturing. But that view ignores where the industry has advanced — specifically, in information management systems that have created significant gains.

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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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The differences between reactive vs proactive incident response

xmatters

Most commonly, businesses take a reactive approach to incident management. After all, the concept of incident response seems inherently reactive. However, it is possible—and often necessary—to take more proactive measures. This entails identifying potential problems and taking steps to remediate them before they become incidents. Let’s explore both proactive and reactive incident response methods, the strategies that differentiate the two approaches, and how you can use them concurrently to prev

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Reflections from Infosec 2023: The Growing Interest in Asset Management and Discovery

Firemon

Reflections from Infosec 2023: The Growing Interest in Asset Management and Discovery FireMon recently had the privilege of attending the Infosec 2023 conference in London. It was a whirlwind of knowledge sharing, networking, and insightful discussions, with asset discovery and management emerging as some of the hottest topics of the event. Our team was blown away by the number of conversations on the subject, which is why we wanted to share some key takeaways for those who weren’t able to atten

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Benefits of React Native for Mobile App Development

Xicom

Are you looking to develop a mobile app? React Native is the ideal choice for you! React Native is an open source JavaScript framework used to develop cross-platform mobile apps. It is based on React, Facebook’s JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

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ChatGPT+ Privacy Update

Crafty CTO

Recently, I wrote a short essay about an unpleasant discovery I made with ChatGPT’s dark pattern whereby, if you want to turn off “train your models using my chats,” you need to disable one of ChatGPT’s nicest features, chat history. Here’s the dialog in question: The update is that there may be a workaround. On the Data Controls FAQ , buried two screen-scrolls down, there’s a section that says: What if I want to keep my history on but disable model training?

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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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How to boost flow efficiency in enterprise engineering teams

Allstacks

It’s safe to say humans have been trying to be more efficient dating back to the dawn of time. If it were easy, we’d already be there. So when organizations approach the concept of more efficient engineering teams, there’s almost always trepidation or worse. Developers don’t want to be time-tracked, but the C-suite wants results, and let’s not even go into how demanding customers can be.

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How To Use GitLab for Simultaneous Execution of Jobs (Part 2)

Dzone - DevOps

In part one of this series — How To Use GitLab for Simultaneous Execution of Jobs — the reader was introduced to the basics of GitLab, as well as continuous integration and continuous deployment/delivery.

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Tenable Cyber Watch: Study Finds Many CISOs Are Unqualified to Serve on Boards, How Cybersecurity Boosts Business, and more

Tenable

Interested in taking a deep dive into the operations of LockBit Ransomware? Want to know how you can boost revenue and lower costs with cybersecurity? Curious to know why one study shows many CISOs are “unqualified” to serve as board members? We’ve got you covered in this week’s edition of the Tenable Cyber Watch, our weekly video news digest highlighting three cybersecurity topics that matter right now.

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Unlocking Efficiency and Seamlessness: Workato Integration for On-Premise Systems

Perficient

Introduction: In today’s technology-driven world, businesses often rely on a combination of cloud-based and on-premise systems to meet their unique requirements. However, many organizations still rely on on-premises systems to maintain control over sensitive data or adhere to specific regulatory requirements. The challenge lies in bridging the gap between cloud and on-premises systems, ensuring seamless integration and automation.

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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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Advanced Govern: Customize Your Analytics & AI Governance

Dataiku

In late 2021, Dataiku released Govern which was designed to support organizations to secure their MLOps practices. Our goal was to provide Dataiku users with the foundations for analytics and AI Governance that could be leveraged by relevant teams and individuals, supporting them to safely scale their analytics and AI projects while prioritizing efficiency, enforcing trust, and providing oversight.

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Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Salesforce Marketing Cloud Investment?

Perficient

Your brand now has Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) – congratulations! SFMC is a leader in the email marketing industry and extremely powerful for marketing communications. To ensure your brand is maximizing all capabilities is a full-time job, and leveraging the following can help. Maximize the available data This includes integrating your CRM data and utilizing it for personalized content within SFMC.

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We Did it Again: We’re a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for APM & Observability for the Second Year in a Row

Honeycomb

When the Gartner Magic Quadrant Report came out in 2022, we did the professional equivalent of a spit take, then cheered wildly. NOT ONLY did they include observability for the first time ever in their newly revamped 2022 Magic Quadrant for APM & [now] Observability , but they also put us in the Leader Quadrant—our debut appearance! Moreover, it was clear that Gartner was very thorough in its research.