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7 Considerations for Creating the Perfect Hybrid Work Environment

CEO Insider

The world has changed quite a bit since COVID-19 hit. People moved, many to different states. Babies were born. Companies have grown and changed. It’s likely that the way we think about work will never be the same again. Forcing everybody back into the office in today’s marketplace is a foolish idea. Bearing this in […]. The post 7 Considerations for Creating the Perfect Hybrid Work Environment appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design

Henrik Warne

I really liked A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. It is compact and short, only 170 pages, so it is a quick read, but it contains many good ideas. The focus is on how to structure systems to make them easy to understand and work with. The author is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford, but he has also spent 14 years developing commercial software.

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What impact will Apple’s buy now, pay later push have on startups?

TechCrunch

Bloomberg broke news earlier this week that Apple, the consumer hardware giant with a rising services focus, is building a buy now, pay later (BNPL) service that will integrate with its Apple Pay system. The news sent shares of Affirm down just over 10% by the end of the day, and it shed 2.5% of its value yesterday. It’s off a little more than 61% from the highs it set after debuting earlier this year.

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Hackathon Survival Guide: What You Need To Know Going Into A Hackathon

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

There’s nothing quite like walking into a campus cafeteria, a large conference room, or endless halls stacked together for a weekend-long hackathon. Developers of all skill levels, with various backgrounds in countless programming languages and areas of expertise, all coming together for one purpose: to build something new. This is exactly what we talked about in Episode 3 of the Tech Stack Playbook , Are Hackathons Just for the Pros ?

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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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Zoho enters self-service BI market with focus on usability, data prep

CIO

Productivity SaaS provider Zoho has entered the business intelligence (BI) platform market, announcing an AI-powered, self-service platform that combines the new Zoho DataPrep application with an enhanced version of Zoho Analytics. The Chennai, India-based multinational is betting that it can win over business users with a combination of features focused on ease-of-use, support for data preparation, and the ability to blend internal data with outside data sources.

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With open banking on the horizon, the fintech-SME love story is just beginning

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). The fintech sector has been hugely successful (and hugely profitable) for much of the last decade, and even more so during the pandemic. But it might come as a surprise to learn that many in the industry believe that the story is just beginning and the sector is poised to achieve much more, wit

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The Problem With Sandwich Feedback Video (and what to do instead)

Let's Grow Leaders

The sandwich method of giving feedback has long been taught as a coaching and feedback technique. What is the Sandwich Feedback Technique? You start by telling them something great about their performance. Then you give them the constructive feedback you really want them to hear. And you follow it up, with some more positive feedback. Why the sandwich technique doesn’t work.

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IBM and Palantir join forces on ‘low-code’ AI data processing for enterprises

CTOvision

Read Mike Robuck explain how IBM and Palantir Technolgies, Inc’s low code AI data processing will help small and medium businesses on Fierce Telecom : IBM and Palantir have teamed up on a new enterprise offering designed to simplify how businesses build and deploy AI-based applications. The partnership merges AI, via IBM Watson, operational technology, data […].

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Scrum for Digital Marketing—Control the Chaos and Deliver Value

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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Yummy raises $4M, aims to be ‘super app of Venezuela’

TechCrunch

Yummy, a Venezuela-based delivery app on a mission to create the super app for the country, announced Friday it raised $4 million in funding to expand its dark store delivery operations across Latin America. Funding backers included Y Combinator, Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen, Canary, Hustle Fund, Necessary Ventures and the co-founders of TaskUs. The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020.

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How to Choose Who You Promote into Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

Who you promote into leadership sends a clear message of what matters most in your culture and business. Promote leaders aligned with your culture and you build momentum. Get this wrong and you’ll undo all the good you’ve done. In this episode, you’ll get two essential criteria to examine when considering who you promote into a leadership role.

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How supply-chain innovation can bolster U.S. security

CTOvision

Read Alan Estevez, Peter Heron and Kelly Marchese analyze whether it is a good idea from a security viewpoint to let military and defense organizations invest in supply chains on Fast Company : The mandate for military and defense organizations to invest in advancing supply chains is more urgent every day. In its 2021 National […].

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Hidden Bugs in The Mines: Examining Vulnerabilities within Cryptocurrency Miners

Lacework

Key Points XMRigCC vulnerabilities enable rogue clients/compromised hosts/victims to attack upstream servers. Vulnerabilities include: Arbitrary file writing w/ specific extension of “_config.json“ Default configuration overwrite via client “worker-id” leading to potential client takeover. Persistent XSS via client “worker-id”. Remote Denial of Service via client “worker-id”.

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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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Nym gets $6M for its anonymous overlay mixnet to sell privacy as a service

TechCrunch

Switzerland-based privacy startup Nym Technologies has raised $6 million, which is being loosely pegged as a Series A round. Earlier raises included a $2.5 million seed round in 2019. The founders also took in grant money from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research fund during an earlier R&D phase developing the network tech. The latest funding will be used to continue commercial development of network infrastructure, which combines an old idea for obfuscating the metadata of data

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How to Deal with Team Conflict

Let's Grow Leaders

Handling team conflict well distinguishes outstanding leaders. You’ve got a clear focus on what matters most, your team seems to work well together, but then you get that call: “I need to talk to you about…” It’s conflict, a disagreement, or a clash of personalities. What you do next will reinforce your leadership and influence—or erode your credibility.

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Cryptocurrency Could Buy You a 101-Carat Diamond at Sotheby’s

CTOvision

International auction house Sotheby’s will accept payment in Bitcoin or Ether at the sale of a 101.38-carat diamond this Friday, marking another milestone in the adoption of cryptocurrencies. The pear-shaped flawless diamond could fetch as much as $15 million in the single-lot sale in Hong Kong, the most expensive physical object ever publicly offered for purchase […].

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7 things devs hate about being developers

TechBeacon

Being a developer comes with many benefits. Often, there's the opportunity for continued on-the-job learning, a high salary, and the ability to work remotely means developers can live wherever the cost of living gives them the biggest bang for the buck. But programming isn't all fun and games.

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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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Investors don’t expect the US startup funding market to slow down

TechCrunch

Now in the opening weeks of the third quarter, The Exchange is taking a look back at the Q2 2021 venture capital market. Data indicate that it was incredibly active, with global and regional records shattered during the three-month period. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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Thinking About Glue

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In Glue: the Dark Matter of Software , Marcel Weiher asks why there’s so much code. Why is Microsoft Office 400 million lines of code? Why are we always running into the truth of Alan Kay’s statement that “Software seems ‘large’ and ‘complicated’ for what it does”? Weiher makes an interesting claim: the reason we have so much code is Glue Code, the code that connects everything together.

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Worsening Computer Chip Crisis Shows Supply Chains Are Still At Risk

CTOvision

Read Edward Segal explain how the latest computer chips shortage shows exactly how the supply chains are still at risk on Forbes : The semiconductor chip crisis that hit companies around the world shows no signs of ending any time soon and will continue to impact the supply chains for many industries. Indeed, some organizations […].

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No Estimates at Scale in the US Federal Government

Agile Alliance

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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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ZoomInfo drops $575M on Chorus.ai as AI shakes up the sales market

TechCrunch

ZoomInfo announced this morning it intends to acquire conversational sales intelligence tool Chorus.AI for $575 million. Shares of ZoomInfo are unchanged in pre-market trading following the news, per Yahoo Finance data. Sales intelligence, Chorus’s market, is a hot space that uses AI to “listen” to sales conversations to help improve interactions between salespeople and customers.

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Tyrannical Data and Its Antidotes in the Microservices World

Confluent

Data is the lifeblood of so much of what we build as software professionals, so it’s unsurprising that operations involving its transfer occupy the vast majority of developer time across […].

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Gamifying cybersecurity key to preventing attacks

CTOvision

Gamifying cybersecurity is the key to preventing attacks, according to new reports from Balbix. Cybersecurity incidents have increased exponentially in recent months, with Cybersecurity Ventures predicting cybercrime damages will total $6 trillion globally in 2021 – about $190,000 every second. Read more about the new report by Balbix, Inc. which reveals that gamifying cybersecurity to mitigate […].

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A Yogi’s Take on Stress and Burnout

CEO Insider

With the normal pressures of work compounded by the pandemic, stress and burnout are proliferating in the business world. Even before Covid-19, stress and burnout were ravaging the health of Americans. The number of hours worked is said by the non-profit American Institute of Stress to be the main source of job stress and this […]. The post A Yogi’s Take on Stress and Burnout appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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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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Digital lending platform Blend valued at over $4B in its public debut

TechCrunch

Mortgages may not be considered sexy, but they are a big business. If you’ve refinanced or purchased a home digitally lately, you may not have noticed the company powering the software behind it — but t here’s a good chance that company is Blend. Founded in 2012, the startup has steadily grown to be a leader in the mortgage tech industry. Blend’s white label technology powers mortgage applications on the site of banks including Wells Fargo and U.S.

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Create a Data Analysis Pipeline with Apache Kafka and RStudio

Confluent

In Data Science projects, we distinguish between descriptive analytics and statistical models running in production. Overall, these can be seen as one process. You start with analyzing historical data to […].

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Palantir Co-Founder Joe Lonsdale On Mega-Cap Stocks And Crypto

CTOvision

Joe Lonsdale, founding partner at 8VC and co-founder of Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE:PLTR), provided insight on mega-cap stocks and cryptocurrency Thursday on CNBC’s “TechCheck.” Mega-Cap Regulations: Although there are a lot of people complaining about mega-cap technology companies like Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc, and Facebook Inc, it doesn’t look like anything will be done to negatively […].