Martin Fowler
JANUARY 5, 2021
My colleague Tim Cochran has helped many software engineering organizations transform to respond faster to changing market needs. Often companies struggle with these transformations and a primary reason for these problems is that engineering organization has neglected to provide developers with an effective working environment. The key to to developing an effective environment is to concentrate on feedback loops.
Agile Alliance
JANUARY 5, 2021
The work of an Agile Coach is very versatile. Agile transformations are as well. Each team has its own fingerprint and organisations are one of a kind. This is what makes our work so interesting. One of the challenges of an Agile coach is to stay objective and keep one eye on the horizon. As … Continued. The post 16 Tips to Keep Focused on an Agile Journey first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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KitelyTech
JANUARY 5, 2021
Most business owners know the importance of having a website, as customers often use websites to find out more about a small business or even to place an order. Using relevant search terms, customers can find the website. Without a website, many small businesses might not be found. Before starting the process of building a website, there are some things that small business owners should know.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
Too Good To Go , the startup that lets you buy food right before it goes to waste, is raising a $31.1 million round. blisce/ is leading the round and investing $15.4 million as part of today’s round. Existing investors and employees are also participating. While the company has been around for a while, this is the first time Too Good To Go is raising money from a VC firm.
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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.
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 6, 2021
Tim continues his comparison of high and low effectiveness organizations by comparing their key feedback loops. To improve these, organizations need to understand the importance of micro feedback loops, which are often neglected because they are so small. more….
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Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 7, 2021
Lead like it’s the first time to give your team energy. Early in my career, I learned a vital leadership lesson about how to give your team energy. I was working with an education nonprofit that supported children who lived in poverty. […]. The post How to Give Your Team Energy They Need appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 8, 2021
Jumbotail, an online wholesale marketplace for grocery and food items, said on Friday it has raised an additional $14.2 million as the Bangalore-based startup chases the opportunity to digitize neighborhood stores in the world’s second-largest internet market. The five-year-old startup said the new tranche of its Series B financing round was led by VII Ventures, with participation from Nutresa, Veronorte, Jumbofund, Klinkert Investment Trust, Peter Crosby Trust, Nexus Venture Partners and Discov
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 5, 2021
Unmesh has a few more of his Patterns of Distributed Systems ready to share with the world. In this one he looks at the problem of a large cluster, one that is too large to effectively maintain strong consistency, yet needs to maintain some data in a strongly consistent way. It can do this by using a smaller cluster, which he calls a Consistent Core.
Agile Alliance
JANUARY 6, 2021
Mardi Gras in the USA is celebrated every winter along the Gulf Coast from Galveston Texas to Pensacola Beach Florida. The first Fat Tuesday Carnivals took place in Mobile Alabama, but when people think of going down the Mardi Gras they are usually thinking of New Orleans! In New Orleans, Mardi Gras season begins on … Continued. The post Agile Mardi Gras: A Postcard from Louisiana first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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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
JANUARY 4, 2021
If you want to be a better leader, get curious about what you might still be able to learn. We recently had a very senior leader join a live-online leadership training he had hired us to do with his team. Not in […]. The post How to Be an Even Better Leader appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 4, 2021
Healthcare startup Color has raised a sizable $167 million in Series D funding round, at a valuation of $1.5 billion post-money, the company announced today. This brings the total raised by Color to $278 million, with its latest large round intended to help it build on a record year of growth in 2020 with even more expansion to help put in place key health infrastructure systems across the U.S. — including those related to the “last mile” delivery of COVID-19 vaccines.
CTOvision
JANUARY 4, 2021
I am the CEO and co-founder at Uniphore. My co-founder Ravi and I worked together during our time as students at the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida. We both […].
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 6, 2021
Tim continues his comparison of high and low effectiveness organizations by comparing their key feedback loops. To improve these, organizations need to understand the importance of micro feedback loops, which are often neglected because they are so small. more….
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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.
Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 8, 2021
Conflicting priorities are a fact of life. Growing businesses naturally have tensions and they only become problems when they’re not addressed. In this episode, you’ll get practical approaches to use when there’s a clash in priorities. These moments are a fantastic opportunity […]. The post Leading through Conflicting Priorities appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2021
While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers in the world of autonomous vehicle software has raised some substantial funding to double down on what it sees as a more immediate opportunity: providing technology to industrial companies to build off-road applications. Oxbotica , the Oxford, England startup that builds what it calls “universal autonomy” — flexible technology that it says can power the nav
CTOvision
JANUARY 4, 2021
Google is planning to acquire cloud-focused data protection technology developer Actifio in a move to better protect enterprise workloads both on-premises and in the cloud. Google, which Wednesday unveiled the planned […].
DevOps.com
JANUARY 6, 2021
Enterprise technology adoption trends can be broadly categorized under three pillars: infrastructure, architecture and technology. Let’s explore what these trends are and how they influence DevOps and DevSecOps adoption in tech corporations worldwide. Trends in Architecture In computing, architecture is the collection of protocols encompassing the utility, structure and execution of software applications.
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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.
Netlify
JANUARY 5, 2021
I was 8 years into my career as a Software Engineer before I heard the term “Developer Advocacy.” At the time, I had never written an article, been to a conference, or participated in open source. I thought it sounded amazing. You see, I switched careers from teaching but still had a latent passion that was mainly used to mentor internally at the companies I worked at, however not as much as I would have liked.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 8, 2021
Envisics founder and CEO Dr. Jamieson Christmas launched the startup three years ago to “revolutionize” the in-car experience with its holographic technology. Now, it has a partner that could help it achieve that mission. The U.K.-based holographic technology startup said Friday it reached an agreement with Panasonic Automotive Systems to jointly develop and commercialize a new generation of head-up displays for cars, trucks and SUVs.
TechBeacon
JANUARY 8, 2021
The last decade has seen a relentless push to deliver software faster. Automated testing has emerged as one of the most important technologies for scaling DevOps, companies are investing enormous time and effort to build end-to-end software delivery pipelines, and containers and their ecosystem are holding up on their early promise.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 4, 2021
How can IT organizations make sure they’re equipped to resolve operational issues quickly and drive better business outcomes? That’s where artificial intelligence for IT operations, or AIOps, comes in. With the increasingly vast amounts of data generated by infrastructure and business applications, and teams often working in disconnected silos, managing and improving operations through automation […].
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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.
Synopsys
JANUARY 6, 2021
The total cost of poor software quality in the U.S. is estimated at $2.08 trillion. Learn what contributes to the cost and how security can help minimize errors. The post What is the cost of poor software quality in the U.S.? appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
Challenger banks, incumbent banks and all of the many businesses that are making inroads into any kind of banking service all have something in common: when it comes to launching a new product like a credit line or a deposit or current account, these days many of them are opting not to build from the ground up, but are instead using third-party technology to power these services.
TechBeacon
JANUARY 5, 2021
Digital transformation has been a complex endeavor since businesses first started going down this path, and it's not getting any simpler. The technology landscape runs from mainframe to PC, from mobile to server, and from on-premises operations to the cloud, with most organizations running some combination of the above.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 4, 2021
The rate at which machine learning operations (MLOps) and DevOps best practices are converging is poised for rapid acceleration in 2021. At the recent online AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is adding a bevy of capabilities to Amazon SageMaker, a managed MLOps service, that includes a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) service […].
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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.
Darktrace
JANUARY 7, 2021
This blog explains how activity related to the SolarWinds hack can be detected without the use of signatures, and why a self-learning approach is the best possible mechanism to catch this Advanced Persistent Threat.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2021
Over the next few weeks, the venture capital industry will compile and release data concerning its Q4 2020 performance, capping a year that saw the world of private capital freeze , thaw and burn. But we can get a peek at a critical part of the VC universe early, thanks to a preview of global fintech investment results from CB Insights. The dataset deals with worldwide investments into fintech companies from the start of October through December 12th.
Teradata
JANUARY 5, 2021
By leveraging data to create a 360 degree view of its citizenry, government agencies can create more optimal experiences & improve outcomes such as closing the tax gap or improving quality of care.
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