DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Have you ever thought about the history of incident management? If you’re an SRE, you might be so caught up in the day-to-day work of managing reliability and responding to incidents that you never take time to step back and reflect on the evolution of your role and your responsibilities. And that’s a shame because […]. The post The Evolution of Incident Management appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
There’s no denying the growth of healthtech globally over the past three years thanks to the pandemic. The event has accelerated the use of telemedicine, virtual care, and drug delivery, thus fuelling investor interest in the sector. Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. Lagos- and Texas-based digital healthcare provider Reliance Health is the latest beneficiary and is doing so in grand style, raising $40 million.
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Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Transforming a large organization to Agile is messy work and requires changes in organizational structure as well as mindset. On one hand we argue for a “bottom’s up“ approach requiring team self-organization; yet on the other hand, we talk about how organizational buy-in is necessary to achieve our (Shu-Ha-Ri) Ri-state nirvana. The reality is that … Continued.
Martin Fowler
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
The next installment of Poppy Rowse and Chris Shepherd's article on infrastructure platforms looks how to communicate the technical vision of platform. and how to understand the platform from the users' point of view. more….
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The Crazy Programmer
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
The world of work post-pandemic has shaken up offices across the globe, moving people out of their normal workspaces and into their homes. This caused a lot of disruption for a number of companies, but more so for the programming teams that are so used to working in close proximity to each other daily. Being pushed to isolate or just work remotely has made it difficult for teams to use the typical methods of teamwork that they would normally.
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Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Using concepts from Gretchen Rubin's book The Four Tendencies, learn how knowing each agile team member's individual tendency helps to enable change. How can you best encourage a teammate who is an Upholder to commit to a change in course? What information does a Questioner need before embracing a new idea? Why are Rebels great … Continued. The post Change Agents and the Four Tendencies first appeared on Agile Alliance.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Tech recruiting can get a bit dull at times. That’s when I turn to my tried-and-tested source of humor – Dilbert. A laugh-and-a-half helps me remember why I love doing this job – because it matters! I enjoy talking to recruiters and hiring managers and writing about real-life tech hiring problems and their solutions. Here’s a recent Dilbert strip I chanced across while working on this piece.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
By now, most of us are familiar with the concept of site reliability engineering (SRE). The term was originally coined by Google and SRE has been gaining traction in recent years as a role dedicated to increasing the resilience of digital ecosystems. To accomplish this, a big part of the SRE doctrine is “automating your […]. The post Day in the Life of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
RedRoute , a voice-based customer service experiences and conversational artificial intelligence startup, is going after an emerging $350 billion customer service automation sector. When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating.
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Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Mob programming is an extremely effective way to develop software, not only in-person, but also remotely. Over the past year, my team and I have been exploring ways to collaborate while working remotely. While there are some requisites to make remote mob programming effective, I have found it to be a surprisingly productive way to … Continued.
Aqua Security
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
One of the advantages of automated CI/CD pipelines is that they’re a great place to implement regular security controls and checks. Using GitHub Actions, it’s easy to improve the security of your containers by automating vulnerability scanning and digital signing of container images on a regular basis. In this post, we’ll go over how to set up and secure a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, Cosign, and Trivy.
CEO Insider
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
And how your security process may be driving customers away. It’s a common scenario these days: Your customer is returning to take advantage of your spring offers, so they go to log in, but they can’t get in right away. Your site or mobile app now requires them to verify themselves—even though they’ve been a […]. The post Three Ways to Improve your Customer Experience by Reducing Friction appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Over $500 million worth of real estate was sold on the top four metaverse platforms in 2021, data shows. Traditional real estate companies are amongst the many investors flocking to stake their claim on plots of land in virtual worlds like Decentraland and Sandbox. Although important questions remain about which platforms and use cases will win the day in the metaverse craze, one thing is clear — capital is flowing fast into the metaverse, and “unreal estate,” so to speak, is n
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Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
What do you get when you mix a curiosity for learning, kids, and coding? You get the opportunity to create a learning organization that achieves natural Agility through a creative iterative experimentation process at all levels that breaks down the traditional hierarchy that so often constrains these forces and activities. I have a background working … Continued.
Coding Dojo
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Perhaps one of the most exciting prospects about entering a field like web development is the ability to simply get … Read more >>. The post 8 Best (FREE) Web Development Courses for Beginners appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.
Aqua Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Aqua Security’s open source project Trivy now includes scanning of AWS CloudFormation templates to help developers better identify and remediate security issues within infrastructure as code (IaC) templates. Building on the technology and rule sets behind our popular open source project tfsec, Trivy now allows developers to evaluate AWS CloudFormation code, either locally or within their pipeline, for configuration issues and violations of best-practice policies.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
There are plenty of competitors in so-called FMS (Farm Management Software), but so far no global dominant leader has emerged. Agrivi has raised $7.3 million, Granular $24.9 million and FarmLogs $37 million. So there’s clearly plenty of scope for more. Now Estonia-based eAgronom , another FMS startup, has closed a $7.4 million Series A round led by Yolo Investments and ZGI Capital.
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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.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
As organizations adopt Agile, they are faced with few challenges. One of the issues that they face early on, is re-defining some of the traditional roles, like that of a people manager. We have lived through an agile adoption journey and have taken active roles in shaping the roles and responsibilities of people managers in … Continued. The post The Evolving Role of Manager in Agile Environment first appeared on Agile Alliance.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
DevOps issues can be a thorny subject. The coming together in harmony of Dev (developer) and Ops (operations) represents an arranged marriage of sorts that, for some, will never have a ‘happily ever after’ ending as both parties ultimately grapple with irreconcilable differences. But despite the naysayers, the very existence of DevOps as a portmanteau […].
Lacework
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
The vulnerability landscape is changing rapidly with the adoption of cloud-native computing. Services previously hidden to the outside world may now be accessible, and cloud services may be accessible due to complex configurations. The Log4j vulnerability (reported in Dec 2021) is a recent example of a critical vulnerability that may exist widely (e.g. java using bundled Log4j jars), but where the actual number of actively exploitable processes is much smaller.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Retail investment apps in Southeast Asia attracted a lot of funding last year , and the trend looks set to continue with Vietnam-focused Infina announcing that it has added $4 million to its seed funding. Along with the $2 million it announced in June, this brings the round’s total to $6 million. Investors include Sequoia Capital India’s Surge program, Y Combinator, Saison Capital, Starling Ventures, Alpha JWC and AppWorks.
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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.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
A pharmaceutical company (Roche Pharma Finland Oy) decided to transform their Operating model in late 2018. The implementation phase of the new Operating Model started in November 2019. The CEO of the company had three primary goals for the change: To become more customer-driven instead of being product-centric To transform the organisation from a pyramid … Continued.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
A technology company’s most valuable assets are its people and data, especially data about the organization itself. By knowing what data to track over time, engineering leaders can measure how efficiently their DevOps teams are operating and enable them to maximize their value stream to deliver the best possible product to end users. After years […].
Cloudera
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
As we celebrate Black History Month, for this Employee Spotlight I sat down with Marque Blackman, co-lead of the Cloudera Black Employee Network (CBEN). We discussed his experience at Cloudera, his career transitions, and what he learned along the way. We also discussed his work with CBEN and his perspective on Black History Month. Meet Marque Blackman, Director of Global Workplace .
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Swing , a South Korean electric scooter and micromobility startup, announced today it has raised $24 million in a Series B round to spur its growth and expansion to Japan. . The funding was led by White Star Capital, which also invested in Berlin-based Tier Mobility, and included existing backer Hashed, among others. With the fresh capital, Swing has raised a total of approximately $33 million (40 billion KRW) since its inception in 2019. .
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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.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
We all remember stories told to us as kids. Some inspired us to build our own world of imagination. Stories are such a powerful and effective tool to convey a message. As Agile Coaches we get opportunities to be part of so many stories that we can use, to share with others. This can then … Continued. The post Coaching & Storytelling – Stories that we like to listen first appeared on Agile Alliance.
TechSoup
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
If you work at a nonprofit, it's likely that you've heard the words, "I think we should start a podcast" over the past year or so, and perhaps with good reason. Podcasts can maintain an audience's attention over time and build intimacy between host and listener, both of which help nonprofits nurture relationships with prospective supporters. Podcasting is gaining strength as a channel for nonprofits to reach existing and new audiences.
TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Security operations are evolving from a purely technical capability to a key contributor to business resiliency, with cybersecurity becoming an imperative for organizations that have become keenly aware of the need to enable their digital future.
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