CIO
DECEMBER 9, 2022
It has been almost 25 years since McKinsey & Co. introduced the term “talent war” to the world. For almost a quarter of a century CIOs have been locked in a Sisyphean battle to attract and retain the IT talent necessary to create competitive advantage. Every year, “talent” is one of the top challenges facing IT organizations. Every year, lack of critical IT skills is blamed for failure to deliver the full promise of IT investments.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Evan Fisher. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Founder of Unicorn Capital and Minimal Capital, Evan Fisher 's pitching and investor strategy has helped startups raise more than $2.5 billion. More posts by this contributor. The pre-pitch: 7 ways to build relationships with VCs. Don’t send VC a cold deck ever again: Start sending video pitches. There is one trick question that investors almost always ask, and it’s guaranteed to make founders uneasy: “What are your expectations surro
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Martin Fowler
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Tim Cochran completes his tale of how Etsy build a product delivery culture to help clear bottlenecks as they scaled. He discusses lean portfolio management, stronger product and engineering collaboration, and assess the impact of this initiative. more….
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2022
New year. New you. New recruitment trends. And with this, you need to tweak your ongoing strategies to find the best tech talent. Some trends will continue to stay the same while others will want you to multiply your ongoing efforts with a new approach. But to ensure you do all of this the right way, you need to know the recruitment trends that are being forecasted to turn talent acquisition on its head in 2023!
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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.
CIO
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Claus T. Jensen, PhD, is known for boldly initiating and leading complex, multi-year transformation initiatives. The author of six books, including his latest, Digital Transformation for Dummies , Jensen’s career journey spans 20 years of transformational leadership in CTO, CIO, and CDO roles at organizations like Danske Bank, IBM, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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Agile Alliance
DECEMBER 4, 2022
You’ve read enough by now about what the pandemic did to us all. We fled our office spaces trying to stay safe. In-person events were canceled because we all weren’t comfortable attending. Everyone retreated into our homes where we, many of us still to this day, wrapped a cocoon around our homes trying to keep … Continued. The post Why do we need to submit this year?
Erik Bernhardsson
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you run things in the cloud without having to think about infrastructure. Scaling out, scheduling, containerization, using GPUs, setting up webhooks, and all kinds of other stuff. It's primarily meant for data teams. We aren't quite live, but you can sign up for our waitlist.
CIO
DECEMBER 5, 2022
What is project management? Project management is a business discipline that involves applying specific processes, knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools to successfully deliver outcomes that meet project goals. Project management professionals drive, guide, and execute company-identified value-added goals by applying processes and methodologies to plan, initiate, execute, monitor, and close all activities related to a given business project in alignment with the organization’s overall strateg
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Ubie , a Tokyo-based startup providing an AI-powered symptom checker app and hospital SaaS products, has closed a $19 million extension to its previous Series C round. This brings the health tech startup’s total funding to $45.2 million in Series C. The extension round consists of 90% equity and 10% debt financing, according to the co-founder and CEO of Ubie Kota Kuto.
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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
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 5, 2022
How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes New Managers Make. So many new managers don’t receive the training or skills they need to be effective, lead their teams, and achieve meaningful results. As a result, well-intentioned, hard-working new managers often trip into these common mistakes new managers make; unnecessarily frustrating their teams, diminishing their credibility, and curtailing their influence.
The Crazy Programmer
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Decomposition means dividing a large and complex table into multiple small and easy tables. This removes redundancy, anomalies, and inconsistency in a database. This is the first stage of normalization. Suppose we have a relational schema R, in which we have attributes as given below: A 1 , A 2 , A 3 …………A n. So R = {A 1 , A 2 , A 3 …………A n }. If we decompose it into small parts then R will be divided into the following parts: R 1 , R 2 …….Rx.
CIO
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The negative impact of legacy networks can be substantial: increased operational costs, restricted potential for digital transformation and difficulty responding to the demands of the business. NTT’s research finds that two in three organizations confirm their technical debt has accumulated, with 71% saying that low network maturity levels are negatively impacting their operational delivery and ability to meet business goals.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Chipper Cash , an African cross-border payments company valued at $2.2 billion last year, has laid off a portion of its workforce. Yesterday, a few affected and non-affected employees took to LinkedIn to reveal the news. TechCrunch has learned from sources that over 50 employees were affected across multiple departments; the engineering team took the biggest hit, with around 60% of those laid off coming from the department, according to people familiar with the matter. “This morning a sign
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.
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2022
By Vera Sharova & Teodora Cosic. Diversification is not a trend; it is essential for companies to become and remain competitive. With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model.
CIO
DECEMBER 8, 2022
When one company acquires another, it’s typically to enter a new market, gain market share, or obtain a new technology. In all three cases, IT systems and the data they hold are crucial to the realization of those goals. “The biggest mistake most companies make when they’re looking at deals is they tend to minimize the investments necessary to bring the organizations together and drive costs out of the IT function to get those synergies,” says Mike Macrie, CIO of toy maker Melissa and Doug, who
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Artificial intelligence is taking over almost every industry. The investment and finance industry is no exception. In Deloitte’s 2019 report , the firm reveals that AI is transforming the financial ecosystem to reduce costs and make operations more efficient by providing automated insights and alternative data, analysis and risk management. Technology such as AI has digitized the finance sector, ranging from payments and remittances to lending.
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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.
CircleCI
DECEMBER 7, 2022
Earlier today, CircleCI CEO Jim Rose sent the following email to CircleCI employees. Hi all, Today, I am announcing some difficult news for our team. We are reducing our CircleCI workforce by 17% and parting ways with teammates we value and respect tremendously. It was very hard to make this decision, and I know that it will be even harder for those who are leaving our organization.
Lacework
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Hackers may hijack AWS infrastructure for a number of reasons. However, the most common motives are to facilitate illicit cryptomining or spamming. While cryptomining is more profitable on infrastructure owned by somebody else, the same can also be said for SMTP abuse and spam. Over the past year, nearly a third of compromised key incidents observed by Lacework are believed to be for the purposes of spamming or malicious email campaigns.
CIO
DECEMBER 7, 2022
Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Michelle Greene, who was promoted from SVP of EIT of Cardinal Health’s pharmaceutical segment to CIO last August. As technology chief, Greene is now charged with leading IT teams to help the Dublin, Ohio-based distributor and manufacturer of medical and laboratory products innovate new ways to evolve healthcare delivery.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Zeraki , a Kenyan edtech that has built digital learning and school data analytics platforms, has raised $1.8 million seed funding in a round led by Acumen Fund, for product catalog growth and regional expansion. Save the Children Impact Investment Fund, Verdant Frontiers Fintech and Logos Ventures participated in the round, as did the Nairobi Business Angels Network (NaiBAN), and Melvyn Lubega, co-founder of Go1, an Australia-based edtech unicorn.
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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.
DataRobot
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Savvy data scientists are already applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to accelerate the scope and scale of data-driven decisions in strategic organizations. These data science teams are seeing tremendous results—millions of dollars saved, new customers acquired, and new innovations that create a competitive advantage. Other organizations are just discovering how to apply AI to accelerate experimentation time frames and find the best models to produce results.
Netflix Tech
DECEMBER 3, 2022
by Jasmine Omeke , Obi-Ike Nwoke , Olek Gorajek Intro This post is for all data practitioners, who are interested in learning about bootstrapping, standardization and automation of batch data pipelines at Netflix. You may remember Dataflow from the post we wrote last year titled Data pipeline asset management with Dataflow. That article was a deep dive into one of the more technical aspects of Dataflow and didn’t properly introduce this tool in the first place.
CIO
DECEMBER 7, 2022
Welcome to the holiday season. Sure, I know the holiday season’s true start date is sometime in September, but I didn’t want to hurt Halloween’s and Thanksgiving’s feelings. Which is why I’ve refused to start my shopping until after the last of the turkey leftovers and Kit Kat Bars are gone. Once upon a time I delayed my holiday shopping until the middle of December for a more practical reason: procrastination.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Matt Barbieri. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Matt Barbieri is partner-in-charge, Media, Technology and Life Sciences at Wiss & Co. Many founders are reactive when business doesn’t go as planned. They may make knee-jerk reactions like: “If I lose 10% of revenue then I’ll just lay off five people.”. The problem with such approaches is that they don’t always solve the underlying business problem.
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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.
TechBeacon
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The last few years have driven rapid change in digital needs across the spectrum of consumer-facing technologies, remote-work support, and more. To meet these evolving expectations, companies have been rethinking their digital strategies. In a PwC survey in January, 60% of executives reported that investing in digital-transformation initiatives was very important to their respective firms' ability to grow in 2022.
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Modern applications are dynamic. They’re distributed and they’re often born in the cloud. These applications can be developed on the fly, spun up and scaled quickly to meet evolving user and market demands—enabling a level of business agility that allows users to make quick, informed decisions in real-time and take advantage of opportunities as they […].
CIO
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Electric vehicles are sufficiently distinct from their gas-guzzling cousins that auto makers have the chance to toss out decades of legacy manufacturing systems. That can go for their IT infrastructure too. When General Motors named Namo Tiwari CIO of its internal startup BrightDrop, he decided to build an ERP from scratch rather than piggy-back on GM’s existing system.
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