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The Next Evolutions of DevOps

DevOps.com

As society continues to recover from the global COVID-19 pandemic and some semblance of normal starts to return, technology continues to move forward. The pandemic certainly changed what normal means and people, processes and technologies all have adapted and evolved to meet those challenges. The narrative that the pandemic caused of your organization’s digital transformation […].

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A thinking and recording tool: Decision Records

Martin Fowler

The Advice Process works when supported by four elements. Andrew describes the first of these, Decision Records , which act as a tool for thinking about and recording the decision process. more….

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors 1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Other pure-software providers will build all the stuff on top of it. Databases, running code, you name it. We currently have cloud vendors that offer end-to-end solutions from the developer experience down to the hardware: What if cloud vendors focus on the lowest layer, and other (pure software)

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Bolt makes first acquisition with Tipser, launches ‘Remote Checkout’

TechCrunch

The ability to purchase something at the point of discovery from digital content exists, but checkout technology company Bolt has the opportunity to give that its “one-click” treatment. It announced Monday that it made its first acquisition in Tipser , a Swedish-based technology company enabling direct checkout on any digital surface. San Francisco-based Bolt is fresh off of raising $393 million in Series D funding in October, bringing total capital raised to date to $600 million.

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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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5 Reasons For Bad Candidate Experience In Tech Interviews

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In 2022, the one thing on top of the mind of any tech organization should be aiming for happier employees. Happier employees are more productive and more likely to stay longer in their current jobs. You may argue that this has nothing to do with the bad candidate experience faced by developers who are not even your employees yet. But it has everything to do with making a good impression on developers who may or may not become a part of your company, someday.

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Benefits and Challenges of Adopting SAFe – An Empirical Survey

Agile Alliance

During the last two decades, turbulent business environments tempted firms to adopt agile methods to cope with the ever-changing customer demands. The success of agile methods in small and co-located teams inspired companies to apply them to large-scale endeavors. Agile scaling frameworks, such as the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) have been proposed by practitioners to … Continued.

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With $3B expected in 2021, Singapore is becoming a fintech capital

TechCrunch

Lee Li. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lee Li is a project manager and B2B copywriter with a decade of experience in the Chinese fintech startup space as a PM for TaoBao, MeitTuan and DouYin (now TikTok). More posts by this contributor. With open banking on the horizon, the fintech-SME love story is just beginning. Investment in fintech is surging back following a brief but notable drop during the COVID pandemic.

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Leading Other Leaders to Solve Problems

Let's Grow Leaders

Take the initiative with confidence and humility to lead other leaders. This question came in from a member of the Let’s Grow Leaders community and it’s such a fantastic opportunity to lead that we wanted to share it with you. The question is about leading other leaders without excess drama. Here’s how Maria describes the situation: “We work in a 24 x 7 environment with multiple shifts.

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You Can't Buy Integration

Martin Fowler

“Build versus buy” decisions are everywhere today, and rightly so. Building software is risky and expensive, and software product companies can spread that risk and expense across multiple customers. But my colleague Brandon Byars argues that the kinds of tools that are available to buy for systems integration are not products that directly solve a business problem.

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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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Agile at scale: A transformation journey leveraging SAFe

Agile Alliance

70% of executives are increasing their organization’s digital transformation. ServiceNow product leader, Thom Gray, Sr. Principal Product Manager, will sit down with Damaris Sevilla, Director, Agile Enablement Office at Assurant, to discuss their digital transformation journey. Assurant, a global fortune 500 company, will share how digital transformation helped them to improve their delivery to market … Continued.

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Fundbox, a fintech focused on SMBs, raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation

TechCrunch

Fundbox, a company that offers loans and financial products to small businesses, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series D round at a valuation of $1.1 billion. Or more simply, the company aims to solve SMBs’ working capital needs through its credit and payments offerings. It is particularly focused on B2B-focused small businesses. “We use artificial intelligence to deliver financial products that small business owners use to better run and grow their businesses,” CEO Prashant Ful

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JSON Minify Online

The Crazy Programmer

Welcome to JSON minifier online free tool. This awesome tool will help you to minify your JSON data. All you need to do is just paste your data in the below box, click on the button, after that you will instantly get the compressed JSON. For making your work easier we have also provided a copy and a clear button. ?. It helps you to compress or minify JSON.

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Put most of your energy into building clean interfaces

Martin Fowler

While we have historically drawn up our project plans and costs around the boxes—the digital products we are introducing—the lines are the hidden and often primary driver of organizational tech debt. They are the reason that things just take longer now than they used to. more….

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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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And That’s Agile, Jack!

Agile Alliance

Ever had two tacos at Jack in the Box? Ever wonder what goes in to every decision of how to source, price, prepare, and deliver that taco to you? There’s a lot of data that feeds those questions. Jack in the Box sells a million+ tacos per day, so we’re also talking BIG transactional data … Continued. The post And That’s Agile, Jack! first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Social app IRL makes its first acquisition with deal for digital nutrition company AaBeZe Labs

TechCrunch

IRL, the SoftBank-backed social app and recent unicorn , is today announcing its first acquisition. The company is purchasing, for an undisclosed sum, the “digital nutrition” company AaBeZe Labs and its portfolio of IP with the goal of making IRL a healthier and more ethically designed social networking app. AaBeZe’s founders Michael Phillips Moskowitz, the former “Global Chief Curator” of eBay, and former Medium Product Lead Brad Artizinega, along with other member

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What is Tailgating in Cyber Security

The Crazy Programmer

Want to know what tailgating is in cyber security? Tailgating or piggybacking is one of the hacking techniques hackers use. The main goal of tailgating is to enter the local place with no proper authentication. So, do you want to know more about tailgating in-depth? You must read this article because here I have explained it in detail. You will also understand various ways to prevent such hacking efforts from hackers.

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Transforming Fear with Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas

Let's Grow Leaders

Most of us have seen fear drive short-term results, but it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover. Winning organizations know how to reframe fear into opportunities for learning and growth. They create resilient cultures of unfear. In this episode, Gaurav and Mark, authors of Unfear , give you the rundown about the impact and archetypes of fear in the workplace and provide strategies, techniques, and actions you need to bring about an unfear transformation.

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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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Agile Conferences and Communities -Then & Now

Agile Alliance

You are attending this Agile2021 conference. Ever wonder how it got started? How it has evolved? The conference actually has two beginnings, as the Agile2005 conference was the merger of the Agile Development Conference and XP/Agile Universe. Todd Little was one of the co-founders along with Alistair Cockburn who brought forth the Agile Development Conference … Continued.

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Don’t let new hybrid workplaces keep the old systemic racism

TechCrunch

Donald R. Cravins Jr. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Donald R. Cravins Jr. is the executive vice president of the National Urban League. Systemic racism is nothing new in America, and the effects of unconscious racial bias have long created inequity in the workplace. So why — when presented with the task of developing new “normal” hybrid workplaces — are we allowing the same systemic problems that boxed generations of Black and brown people out of the workforce to exist?

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Is TypeScript the New JavaScript?

DevOps.com

While JavaScript is frequently the language of choice for all sizes of frontend and backend applications, it’s not the only option; nor is it necessarily the most efficient or cost-effective. Increasingly, TypeScript is becoming the go-to language for app development—particularly for larger apps. The time- and cost-saving benefits are significant enough that some organizations are […].

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Anima Anandkumar: What’s in the Future for AI?

DataRobot

Anima Anandkumar joined Ben Taylor, Chief AI Evangelist at DataRobot, on the More Intelligent Tomorrow podcast to discuss the future direction of AI technology and its possible enhancement by the addition of more human capabilities. Bren Professor of Technology at California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Anima joined Nvidia three years ago as the Director of Machine Learning Research.

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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 Hero’s Dilemma: Today’s Digital CIO

TechBeacon

Many of the heroes of science fiction have a similar task: navigating the landscape of new technologies while trying to reshape society. Similarly, CIOs must lead their organizations to new technology opportunities without breaking what has made them successful so far.

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Picsart acquires R&D company DeepCraft in seven-figure deal to aid video push

TechCrunch

SoftBank-based digital creation platform Picsart , which recently hit uniciorn status , announced today it’s acquiring the research and development company DeepCraft. The deal is a combination of both cash and stock and is in the seven-figure range, but the exact terms aren’t being disclosed. Picsart today offers a range of digital creation and editing tools aimed at both consumers and professionals alike that make photo and video editing more fun and approachable.

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Why Trust and Integrity are Critical to IoT

DevOps.com

We hear a lot about how the IoT is transforming people’s work and daily lives, but for me, its impact goes deeper. As a Type I diabetic, I depend on data from an IoT device to stay healthy. If I can’t trust my latest blood sugar reading, the results can be catastrophic. Health care use […]. The post Why Trust and Integrity are Critical to IoT appeared first on DevOps.com.

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A Guide to Stream Processing and ksqlDB Fundamentals

Confluent

Event streaming applications are a powerful way to react to events as they happen and to take advantage of data while it is fresh. However, they can be a challenge […].

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Rethinking Teamwork with Range

Dzone - DevOps

" Where is the future of work" is almost as important a question as, " What is the future of work?". That's why the minds behind Range are on a mission to keep teams connected, focused and productive no matter where they're working.

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Mexican BNPL player Kueski secures $202M in debt & equity as it nears $100M+ in ARR

TechCrunch

Kueski , a Mexico City-based “buy now, pay later” and online consumer lender, announced today it has secured $202 million in equity and debt funding. StepStone Group (which recently acquired Greenspring Capital) led the $102 million equity round and Victory Park Capital led the $100 million debt financing. StepStone was joined by other new investors including One Prime Capital and Glisco, as well as existing backers Altos Ventures, Cathay Innovation, Richmond Global Ventures, Rise Capital, Tuesd

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Is the Scrum Master a Full-Time Role or Not?

scruminc

Is the Scrum Master a Full-Time Role or Not? by Robert Woods | December 3, 2021 | Blog. There is always a lot of debate about if Scrum Master is a full-time role. . And I mean a lot. . Some camps reference the Scrum Guide, others refer to LinkedIn posts, and yet others base their opinions on this question purely on experience. . So, who’s right? Does this role require someone to be dedicated full-time?

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