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Cisco Bets on OpenTelemetry to Advance Observability

DevOps.com

Cisco today announced a technology preview of a Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform based on instances of open source OpenTelemetry agent software being advanced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to collect metrics, event, logs and distributed traces. The Cisco Full-Stack Observability platform will be available in June 2023. The platform, announced at a Cisco […] The post Cisco Bets on OpenTelemetry to Advance Observability appeared first on DevOps.com.

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7 Basic Applications of Computer

The Crazy Programmer

Computers play a vital role in all possible fields. Currently, there is hardly any field in which a computer is not being used. Even we can not imagine our life without using computers nowadays. Currently, Managers, Lawyers, Stockbrokers, Accounted, researchers, doctors, and architects, everyone using a computer. From education to healthcare, farming to sending satellites into space, etc computers have discovered their way into almost every aspect of our life.

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Comparing Engagement on Twitter and the Fediverse

Martin Fowler

My colleague Julien Deswaef recently compared engagement data for my Twitter and Mastodon posts. From this we can see that boosts and comments are very similar. Twitter does get significantly more likes, but considering I have nearly 20 times more Twitter followers than Mastodon, it’s a remarkably small difference.

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5 Technologies Powering Cloud Optimization

DevOps.com

Cloud optimization is the process of improving the performance, cost-effectiveness, and reliability of cloud computing resources and services. It involves identifying and addressing inefficiencies in cloud architecture, application design and resource utilization, as well as implementing best practices for security, scalability and disaster recovery.

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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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Why Customer Data Platform is your enterprise’s golden ticket to business growth

Perficient

Today, more than ever, businesses require a direct relationship with their customers across all touchpoints. A Customer Data Platform can help marketers organise their data, improve audience segmentation, manage campaigns, enhance digital experience, streamline cross-channel marketing orchestration and optimise customer analytics. However, the sheer amount of time and effort needed to collect, separate, and segment your customers, leads, and existing clients into the appropriate categories are e

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What is predictive analytics? Transforming data into future insights

CIO

Predictive analytics definition Predictive analytics is a category of data analytics aimed at making predictions about future outcomes based on historical data and analytics techniques such as statistical modeling and machine learning. The science of predictive analytics can generate future insights with a significant degree of precision. With the help of sophisticated predictive analytics tools and models, any organization can now use past and current data to reliably forecast trends and behavi

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Modularizing React Applications with Established UI Patterns

Martin Fowler

I've been working in front-end software for over three decades. A perennial problem has been mixing non-UI logic into the UI framework itself, leading to code that's both hard to understand and near-impossible to test. Despite being the hot new thing, React is just as vulnerable to this problem as Swing and Turbo Pascal. My colleague Juntao Qiu writes about how to untangle such a mess.

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SoftBank loses nearly $6 billion in a quarter as downturn continues

TechCrunch

SoftBank Group’s investment vehicles posted a loss of nearly $6 billion in the quarter that ended in December as the Japanese tech investor continues to bleed through the market downturn and significantly pares back new backings. This is the fourth consecutive quarter in which SoftBank Group has lost money, prompting many to challenge the fundamental thesis of the giant, which has deployed more capital in the tech markets globally than anyone else in the past decade.

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Milestone-Kanban: A hybrid project scheduling technique

Agile Alliance

Milestone-Kanban Schedule (MKS) combines traditional & Agile project management to handle projects where deliverables are clear but time & effort are uncertain. The post Milestone-Kanban: A hybrid project scheduling technique first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

CIO

Black women in technology are burnt out and impatient with an IT industry slow to change. More than a dozen Black women working in technology roles, across a wide range of industries and at varying levels of seniority, spoke to CIO.com on the back of a British Computer Society (BCS) and Coding Black Females (CBF) report— The Experiences of Black Women in the IT Industry , fielded in the summer of 2021 but launched last October—that found that total representation of Black people in the UK IT wor

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An example of modularizing a React application

Martin Fowler

Juntao Qiu illuminates his general description of modularizing a React application with a small example of presenting a user a dynamic set of choices.

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From shipping container to table: Adapt brings urban mushroom farms to US

TechCrunch

Canadian vertical farming startup Adapt AgTech is partnering with Reef Technology to bring its mushroom-growing shipping containers to major cities across the United States, starting with Austin. Reef transforms urban real estate like parking lots into mobility and logistical hubs and currently operates over 8,000 locations across hundreds of cities.

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What to look for in a certifying organization

Agile Alliance

Are you considering getting an Agile certification? Before jumping into this, consider what factors comprise a good certification program and how it fits your goals and objectives. The post What to look for in a certifying organization first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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8 steps to turning around a toxic IT culture

CIO

Despite greater emphasis on empathy and inclusivity, toxic behavior is still an issue for many IT organizations. And when toxicity takes root, friendliness, kindness, and basic civility quickly fall by the wayside, replaced by selfishness, harassment, and even outright emotional and physical abuse. Identifying and neutralizing an emerging toxic IT culture before it can begin damaging team members, projects, and overall organization performance is every CIO’s responsibility.

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Advice for M&A success in 2023

CEO Insider

While it didn’t reach the record highs of 2021, 2022 continued to exceed historical levels for M&A activity — PwC even predicted that it would still end up as one of the strongest years on record. Perhaps this sounds surprising since so many companies cut back significantly on their cost structures due to continued macro-economic […] The post Advice for M&A success in 2023 appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Drone imagery firm DroneBase rebrands to Zeitview, lands $55M investment

TechCrunch

Zeitview , the company formerly known as DroneBase , today announced that it raised $55 million to further develop its air and ground data capture tech. Led by Valor Equity Partners with participation from Union Square Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Euclidean Capital, Energy Transition Ventures and Hearst Ventures, the tranche — which brings Zeitview’s war chest to $114 million — will be put toward product expansion, customer acquisition and ongoing recruitment efforts, CEO Dan Bu

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Getting Things Done with Mob Programming

Agile Alliance

Andy Kwong, Rei Pamintuan, Aaron Griffith, and Austin Chadwick share not only horror stories of things not getting done in their past, but also joyous stories of things actually getting done today – with Mob Programming. The post Getting Things Done with Mob Programming first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Insurance IT leaders herald new era for digital customer experience

CIO

The insurance industry is undergoing a sea change, with IT playing a crucial role in rolling out digital customer experiences for policyholders and agents, as in-person meetings all but vanish in the post-pandemic era. This pivot to digital customer experiences has become a new insurance industry imperative, as John Aflac, Liberty Mutual, MassMutual, MetLife, and a host of other insurers have embraced digital strategies for interacting with and delivering new services to customers — in some case

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Apache Kafka Beyond the Basics: Windowing

Confluent

Learn what windowing is, the difference between the four types of windows (hopping and tumbling, or session and sliding), and how to create them.

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AI is the next frontier — but for whom?

TechCrunch

A few weeks ago, a founder told me it took three hours of endless clicking to find an AI-generated portrait of a Black woman. It reminded me, in some ways, of a speech I saw three years ago when Yasmin Green , the then-director of research and development for Jigsaw, spoke about how human bias seeps into the programming of AI. Her talk and this founder, miles away and years apart, are two pieces of the same puzzle.

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The Differences Between DevOps and GitOps

DevOps.com

The transition to a DevOps model has been welcomed by many organizations that are looking to implement more efficient development processes. However, there are multiple models to choose from, with GitOps a popular choice for many. So what is the difference, and which one is better? In this article, we will discuss what each model […] The post The Differences Between DevOps and GitOps appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Coaching IT pros for leadership roles

CIO

When you’ve spent your career mastering complex technologies, stepping into a leadership role might not be the first item on your wish list. As a CIO, you’ve already made this transition. But how do you prepare others on your team for this next career step? This is one of the more challenging steps in any IT career. It requires you to hesitate when you know the answer, let others make mistakes, and convince someone who has spent decades getting to the apex of a technical skillset to let it go an

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Regulation: Hurdle or Driver for Data Analytics in Financial Services

Teradata

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, service providers have been subject to increasing rules & requirements. To what extent has this climate held back advances in data analytics?

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How to manage third-party cybersecurity risks that are too costly to ignore

TechCrunch

Jon Siegler Contributor Share on Twitter Jon Siegler , co-founder and chief product officer of LogicGate , has over a decade of experience in designing customer-centric enterprise risk and compliance systems. Many cybersecurity professionals, if not all, have experienced that “after the breach” feeling — the moment you realize you’ll have to tell your customers their personal information may have been compromised because one of your vendors had a data breach.

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What’s new in Citus 11.2 for Postgres, plus Patroni HA support for Citus

The Citus Data

Our goal for the Citus extension is for you to be able to use all PostgreSQL features at any scale, with a seamless scaling experience. Distributed tables (or more generally “Citus tables”) are a powerful tool to get high performance at any scale. There are only a few remaining limitations when distributing a PostgreSQL table, but we are determined to solve them all.

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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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Broadcom: 2023 Tech Trends That Transform IT

CIO

At Broadcom, we see challenges companies face first-hand, and in turn how technology trends impact the world’s largest companies. We’re sharing the top 5 predictions that you should be planning for in 2023. Stay tuned for future blogs that dive into the technology behind these predictions from Broadcom’s industry-leading experts: AI and automation will play an even more expanded role in technology Whether in chips, software, or services, Broadcom believes artificial intelligence and automation g

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Three Ways to Personalize the Medical Product Experience

Perficient

“Personalization” has been one of the hottest buzz words and approaches in the digital commerce space over the last five years. But personalization isn’t new- it’s been around as long as humans have been conducting commerce. Think about it. Even before the onset of eCommerce and digital buying channels, brands were personalizing ads and products to attract certain types of customers – which is, personalization at its roots.

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How to think about your business model as part of a VC pitch

TechCrunch

Startups usually run at a deficit while designing and building the product. But companies are designed to make money, and over time, as unit economics and customer acquisition costs improve, you’ll probably tip into the blue. Maybe. Hopefully. At the very least, that’s what your investors will be betting on. So that means your business model slide needs to paint a picture that shows where you’re at now and how the business can grow over time.

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