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Remote Teams Got You Stressed? Here’s How to Communicate Your Way Out of Conflict

CEO Insider

Despite the many CEOs throwing tantrums over return to office mandates, and the numerous headlines about large companies like JP Morgan Chase demanding full-time office work, the data doesn’t lie. And the data shows that we’ve seen a growth in remote work in recent weeks, according to the latest edition of LinkedIn’s Workforce Confidence Index, […] The post Remote Teams Got You Stressed?

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The next generation of developer productivity

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

To follow up on our previous survey about low-code and no-code tools, we decided to run another short survey about tools specifically for software developers—including, but not limited to, GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT. We’re interested in how “developer enablement” tools of all sorts are changing the workplace. Our survey 1 showed that while these tools increased productivity, they aren’t without their costs.

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The Skills Successful DevOps Pros Need in 2023

DevOps.com

There’s a huge range of knowledge, skills and abilities that DevOps professionals will need to master if they want to thrive in 2023.

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Top 5 Key Considerations for Selecting Your Perfect Technology Platform

Perficient

In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, staying ahead of the curve is crucial, but so is selecting the right platform. If you find yourself overwhelmed by the multitude of options and the complexities involved in the selection process, you’re not alone. To help you make an informed decision and find the ultimate technology platform for your organization, here are the top five factors you need to consider: Prioritize Your Requirements: To ensure seamless alignment with your orga

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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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L4S Technology: A New Congestion-Control Solution for Latency 

CableLabs

In a digital world where every second counts, technologies that enable smooth, efficient transmission of data are paramount to ensuring the quality of our online experiences. Reliable connectivity is a must, and the need for it grows exponentially more essential every day, particularly as more applications harness the power of 10G. The 10G platform is a game-changing, multigigabit network made possible by DOCSIS technologies.

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Actions to sustain cost control for scaleups

Martin Fowler

When scaling up, getting costs under control is vital to stabilizing financial health. But as a weight-loss expert might say, the key to long-term health is to do things that promote a sustainable lifestyle. Sofia Tania and Stefania Stefansdottir now move on to begin to describe these initiatives : federated accountability, visibility, and nudges towards better financial discipline.

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An Agile focus on value

Agile Alliance

If you implement Scrum ceremonies, you are technically doing Scrum, but are you embracing an Agile philosophy? Is your team engaged in productive work valued by the stakeholders? What do we mean by productive? We will define productivity in terms of value. Value has a broader definition than just commercial value. It also makes the … Continued The post An Agile focus on value first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Cruise told by regulators to ‘immediately’ reduce robotaxi fleet 50% following crash

TechCrunch

Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following a crash Thursday night with a fire truck. The California Department of Motor Vehicles, the agency that regulates the testing and deployment of autonomous vehicles in the state, requested the reduction in operations. The state agency said it is investigating “recent concerning incidents” involving Cruise vehicles in San Francisco.

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5 rules that transform outsourcing outcomes

CIO

For organizations seeking a collaborative win-win approach to outsourcing, the Vested sourcing business model is worth consideration. It is the product of nearly 20 years of research at the University of Tennessee, beginning with a deep-dive funded by the United States Air Force on outcome-based outsourcing in 2003. UT’s ongoing research into the world’s most successful outsourcing relationships, including those from Dell’s and the Canadian government , has uncovered five key rules for establish

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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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Bottlenecks of Scaleups Webinar: Sep 7 2023

Martin Fowler

Join Tim Cochran and Rickey Zachery on Thursday, September 7th 1-2pm EST for a webinar on Bottlenecks of Scaleups: Technology mistakes every growing startup makes. They researched Thoughtwork's portfolio to analyze why companies struggle to scale, spanning across Technology, People, and Product. Covering areas such as experimentation culture, overcomplicated architectures, onboarding, developer productivity, product and engineering collaboration, and cost efficiency.

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Reflections on Agile2023: Gratitude and hope

Agile Alliance

Wow! Thank you to all our members, speakers, sponsors, and guests who made Agile2023 another extraordinary Agile conference! The post Reflections on Agile2023: Gratitude and hope first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Musk says X’s ‘block’ feature is going away

TechCrunch

Part of the X (née Twitter) roadmap? Off-handed reply? Simple attempt to get a rise out of people? Time will tell. The one thing we can say for sure is that X’s owner responded to a post on the platform today foreshadowing the potential removal of the block feature. “Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs,” Elon Musk wrote. “Makes no sense.

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How plusserver strengthens cloud capabilities and helps enterprises reduce their carbon footprint

CIO

With four high-performance data centers, including facilities in Cologne, Dusseldorf and two in Hamburg, plusserver is well known for its ability to address the most demanding data sovereignty needs in Germany and throughout Europe – a fact underscored earlier this year when it earned the VMware Sovereign Cloud distinction. The company is also a distinguished participant in the VMware Zero Carbon Committed initiative, an effort plusserver’s CPO Severin Braun says addresses another important comp

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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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Final parts of the cost bottleneck of scaleups

Martin Fowler

Sofia Tania and Stefania Stefansdottir complete their examination of how to overcome the bottleneck that costs impose on a scaleup. In this final installment, they look at how to review and govern the technology portfolio, optimize rates, and provide a general view of cost efficiency initiatives during the life-cycle of a scaleup.

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All-Hands Meeting: How to Ensure Yours is Amazing and Worth the Investment

Let's Grow Leaders

Why All-Hands Meetings are so Important (Particularly Now) Now that “You’re muted'” is the catchphrase of the decade, having a great all-hands meeting or remarkable company offsite is a great way to foster human-centered collaboration. Getting your team together for a strategic team event, especially in person, isn’t just about getting everyone on the same page.

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@Jack (Dorsey) quits Instagram, putting the first-name handle up for grabs

TechCrunch

The @jack handle on Instagram is back up for grabs. Today, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, now Block CEO, announced he has deleted his Instagram account — the one with the coveted first-name handle. Typically, handles like these sell for thousands of dollars on the secondary market, so if the handle becomes available again, someone might make a killing by snagging it.

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Tech leaders weigh in on the upside and flipside of generative AI

CIO

Generative AI is widely regarded as one of the great technology breakthroughs of our time. On the back of thousands of headlines provoked by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, it’s provoked urgent responses from many tech giants and is the theme of, and main topic of discussion at, tech conferences worldwide. But, as with any big new wave, there is a risk of once-promising projects being washed up and there are clear and obvious concerns over governance, quality and security.

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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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TDD with GitHub Copilot

Martin Fowler

At Thoughtworks, we are strong practitioners of Test Driven Development (TDD). Naturally this leads to the question of how generative AI can help with this technique. Paul Sobocinski writes a brief memo explaining how some of our teams have used TDD with GitHub Copilot. As ever, co-pilot can't be relied on to fly the plane, but can suggest some useful ideas for the red and green steps.

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Leveraging Serverless and Generative AI for Image Captioning on GCP

Xebia

Leveraging Serverless and Generative AI for Image Captioning on GCP In today’s age of abundant data, especially visual data, it’s imperative to understand and categorize images efficiently. Whether it’s for enhancing search functionality, assisting differently-abled individuals, or simply summarizing vast galleries, the automation of image captioning is becoming increasingly relevant.

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What is a liquid neural network, really?

TechCrunch

The initial research papers date back to 2018, but for most, the notion of liquid networks (or liquid neural networks) is a new one. It was “Liquid Time-constant Networks,” published at the tail end of 2020, that put the work on other researchers’ radar. In the intervening time, the paper’s authors have presented the work to a wider audience through a series of lectures.

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The CIO’s call to action on gen AI

CIO

Generative AI has taken the world by storm and is being discussed in C-suites and boardrooms daily. Its power and potential are so significant that governments across the globe are trying to figure out how to regulate it. While this “overnight success” has been decades in the making, we’re just now getting a glimpse of the impact and implications of generative AI and the massive disruption that comes along with it.

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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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Strategic directions: minimizing risk and being data driven

Martin Fowler

Time for two more strategic directions from Sarah Taraporewalla. These look at the questions that need to be investigated when reducing cost, minimizing operation risk, and enabling data-driven decision making.

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Reducing costs per contact

Xebia

Lessons Learned From Over 100 Implementations As we have learned in the previous three blogs of this series, from over 100 Freshworks implementations, there are four universal goals: Improved operational control Lower customer contact costs Better customer experience Enhanced employee experience In the previous two blogs, we discussed how to achieve lower customer contact costs.

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X (formerly Twitter) makes X Pro (formerly TweetDeck) a subscriber-only product

TechCrunch

Elon Musk-owned social network X, formerly Twitter, has made X Pro — which was previously known as TweetDeck — a subscriber-only product. Several users noted on the platform that while trying to access TweetDeck they were shown a popup prompting them to buy a Blue subscription. welp tweetdeck finally went bye-bye for me and this popped up and lmao no. pic.twitter.com/z2sWXz18nx — russ bengtson (@russbengtson) August 15, 2023 X has finally killed free access to tweetdeck It’s now officially

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Money Matters: CMS CIO Pushkal Tenjerla on digital revolution in cash management systems

CIO

With a deeply penetrated network of ATMs and cash distribution services across India at over 150,000 business commerce points, CMS Info Systems runs India’s omnipresent ATMs across nearly 97% districts. Committed to increasing the velocity of cash in the economy, they also offer other cash management services such as banking automation, card personalization, IoT monitoring solutions, as well as security and analytics to their clients, making them the number one cash management company in the cou

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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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Strategic directions to build a strong foundation

Martin Fowler

Any business that wants to grow needs to be built on strong and stable foundations. While these strategic directions are often familiar to technical folks it's important that the improvements to engineering align with the themes that resonate with the rest of the organization. Sarah Taraporewalla illustrates how this appears with two strategic directions that consider improvements in efficiency and quality.

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Hackathons vs Conference: Which One Works The Best for Blockchain Industry?

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

One of the most widely used programming languages in the world, C++ is about 4 decades old. In comparison, Blockchain tech only arrived at the scene sometime in 2008, and is still considered comparatively ‘new’. Developers and companies alike are still learning how to adopt Blockchain. One of the ways to disseminate information about the tech is via industry conferences which help Blockchain developers network with and learn from their peers.

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X, formerly Twitter, slowed down access to Threads, The New York Times, Bluesky and more

TechCrunch

X, formerly known as Twitter, was throttling traffic to websites that the social network’s owner Elon Musk publicly dislikes. The platform slowed down the speed it takes when accessing links to a handful of websites, including The New York Times, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, Threads, Reuters and Substack. The platform appears to be reversing the slow access to news sites on Tuesday afternoon.

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