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Data Lake vs Data Warehouse

The Crazy Programmer

Companies everywhere are handling more data than ever and all these terabytes of data need to be stored somewhere. Should you store the data in a database, a data warehouse, or a data lake? How do you know what is best for your company? Choosing the right data storage solution will depend greatly on how the data is going to be used. While both a data lake and a data warehouse share the goal of the process data queries to facilitate analytics, their functions are different.

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Don’t hate on low-code and no-code

TechCrunch

As far as I can tell, low-code and no-code services are rapidly proving that prior models for products as broad as enterprise app creation and AI-powered data analytics were lackluster. My evidence? A mix of public- and private-market low- and no-code companies are putting up impressive results. The Exchange caught up with Appian CEO Matt Calkins after his enterprise app software company reported its first-quarter performance to discuss the low-code market and what he’s hearing in customer

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Agile2021: Better Together

Agile Alliance

In this podcast, Howard Sublett and I chat about how Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance are working together this year to create a one-of-a-kind experience for the Agile community. Moving Agile2021 online has opened up opportunities for making our annual conference more accessible in ways that were simply not possible before, and we’re both excited … Continued.

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The Intersection of Change Management and Design Thinking

Change Starts Here

I’ve recently partnered with DesignThinkers Group, USA to explore how the disciplines of Design Thinking and Change Management can expand the impact of both. This Venn diagram highlights some of the similarities and differences between Design Thinking and Change Management. I’ll explore these at a high level below.

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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 to Print Address in C

The Crazy Programmer

In this article, we will first look at how can we assign an address to a variable and then print the address using C language. First of all, we will take a look at how addresses are assigned to any variable. Whenever we declare a variable of any data type (int, float, double, char, etc.), some memory is allocated to the variable by the operating system which can be any random number but cannot be negative.

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How to Ask for What You Need (and get it) featuring Heather Hansen

Let's Grow Leaders

Life is full of trials, and sometimes you need a warrior spirit to overcome them. Award-winning attorney Heather Hansen has spent over twenty years fighting on the battlefields of the courts—but even in her fiercest clashes, she’s remained true to herself and her principles. She shares her journey to becoming an Elegant Warrior, and imparts the wisdom she’s learned from her decades on the bar to help you know how to ask for what you need.

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Using Attack, Detect and Respond Tools To Mature Cybersecurity

CTOvision

Security can be enhanced and major risks mitigated by realistic threat emulation. This is needed now more than ever. Professionals in the security community except it as a given that we should all raise defenses, but prepare for breach. Raising defenses means checking for gaps so appropriate controls can be applied. And preparing for breach […].

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The Role of APIs In Digital Transformation

DevOps.com

Digital transformation is increasingly propelled by rapidly changing user expectations. Release frequency is increasing, as is the need to connect a growing number of applications and digital experiences. As a result, 83% of IT specialists consider API integration critical to their business, found the State of API Integration Report. Application programming interfaces (APIs) hold powerful […].

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The motorcycle ride-hailing wars in Nigeria and Uganda is SafeBoda’s to lose

TechCrunch

On April 16, Uganda-based two-wheel ride-hailing platform SafeBoda announced that it had completed 1 million rides in Ibadan, a southwestern city in Nigeria. T his might not seem spectacular from a global perspective because it took the startup a year and two months to achieve but it’s a noteworthy feat in African markets. Ibadan is one of the cities where SafeBoda operates.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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The Hidden Cost of Retaining a Bad Hire

Let's Grow Leaders

Avoid This Huge Mistake with a Bad Hire. As a human-centered leader, you might just be tempted to hold onto an obviously bad hire too long. And, holding onto a bad hire (after you’ve done all you can) is one of the biggest leadership mistakes you can make. We see so many managers hold on to false hope, increasing the agony for everyone. The Bad Hire Question I’ve Asked Hundreds of Times. “When did you know he was a bad hire?

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Aerospike Turbocharges Spark ML Training with Pushdown Processing

CTOvision

Read Alex Woodie explain how Aerospike is pushing Spark machine learning training with pushdown processing on Datanami : Companies that need to access a lot of data in a hurry, such as retraining a machine learning model in Spark, have traditionally had to move that data from the edge to a central repository, such as […].

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Solving Bottlenecks With SQL Indexes and Partitions

Toptal

Indexes and partitioning can help with SQL performance, but they're not cure-alls. Through everyday examples of date range and LIKE queries, find out how to "think like an RDBMS" to make yours run faster.

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Lisbon’s Kitch raises $4M to help restaurants take control of the delivery app mess

TechCrunch

Lisbon-based food delivery startup Kitch hopes to hand back control to restaurants dogged by the mess of food delivery apps today, by aggregating the apps onto one tablet and platform. Restaurants then get one place to manage all their delivery orders, track couriers and update their menus across all the delivery apps. It’s now raised a €3.25 million ($4 million) seed round led by Atlantic Food Labs, with participation from Market One Capital and the company’s initial investors, Seedcamp and Lis

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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How do I Teach my Team Critical Thinking? (With Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical Ways to Develop Critical Thinking on Your Team. “Hey Karin, I want to develop critical thinking I really do. I want to empower them and help them grow. But…you would be surprised some of the decisions they make or things they do. How do I get my team to think more strategically? #AskingFriend. What is Critical Thinking? Critical thinking is a systematic process for gathering, synthesizing, and making sense of information in order to make informed decisions. 4 Ways to Help Y

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Seven Reasons You Shouldn’t Hire a DevOps Engineer

DevOps.com

DevOps is a culture, not a title. Therefore, companies should follow DevOps principles, rather than hiring one savant to fix an entire organization’s delivery model. I recently spoke with Uri Zaidenberg, DevOps Lead at Replix, to understand the current state of DevOps. As more robust DevOps tools emerge and practices proliferate across organizations, developers are […].

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Top 35 Git Commands With Examples

Dzone - DevOps

If you are a new or experienced developer, you have to use source control. And good chances are you are using Git to manage your source code. And to use Git to its full potential, you need to know Git commands. Here you will learn the most helpful Git commands that will take you from one level to another.

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As tech offices begin to reopen, the workplace could look very different

TechCrunch

The pandemic forced many employees to begin working from home , and, in doing so, may have changed the way we think about work. While some businesses have slowly returned to the office, depending on where you live and what you do, many information workers remain at home. That could change in the coming months as more people get vaccinated and the infection rate begins to drop in the U.S.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Our Generation’s Thomas Edison: Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin becomes the world’s youngest crypto billionaire

CTOvision

The price of Ether surged past $3,000 on May 4 making its creator, Vitalik Buterin, the world’s youngest crypto billionaire at the age of 27. Cryptocurrency ether extended gains to another record peak, after breaking above $3,000 for the first time a day earlier as investors bet on its growing utility. Early in Asia trade it […].

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How to Become Your Boss’s Favorite Employee

Career Advancement

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie. Maybe you see yourself as a consistent overachiever—someone who always gets the job done well and on time—but you still have the sneaking suspicion that you’re not one of the boss’s favorite employees. Perhaps one of your coworkers has a much stronger rapport with your boss, even though you always go above and beyond expectations.

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How AI defends critical infrastructure from ransomware

Darktrace

In the wake of the Colonial Pipeline cyber-attack, this blog discusses the many threats facing critical infrastructure, and how Cyber AI disrupted a similar ‘double extortion’ ransomware attack against an electrical utilities supplier.

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The hamburger model is a winning go-to-market strategy

TechCrunch

Caryn Marooney. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Caryn Marooney is general partner at Coatue Management and sits on the boards of Zendesk and Elastic. In prior roles she oversaw communications for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus and co-founded The OutCast Agency, which served clients like Salesforce.com and Amazon. More posts by this contributor.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Converging Technologies Driving Billion-scale Elasticsearch

CTOvision

Read Mark Wright explains how converging technologies are driving up usage of Elasticsearch on EE Times. Digital convergence is happening all around us as technologies that were originally unrelated come together in exciting new ways. The iPhone is a perfect example, combining a phone with a computer, a camera and sensors to deliver an outstanding […].

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Web Application Security is not API Security

DevOps.com

Do you follow the same procedures to secure a web application as you do an API? Is there a difference between the two? We’ve spoken about API security quite a bit in the past few months because we believe that there are critical differences between API security and traditional web application security. A lack of […]. The post Web Application Security is not API Security appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How Do I Build a High-Performing Team (with Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Building a High-Performing Team Takes Rhythm. In this week’s episode of Asking for a Friend, we talk with Virg Palumbo, Regional President at Kforce. A former marine, Virg is an absolute expert in creating an operating cadence to build a high-performing team. In this episode, we discuss. What an operating cadence is (and why it matters). Best practices for establishing your own operating cadence.

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How Duolingo became a $2.4B language unicorn

TechCrunch

At the heart of Duolingo is its mission: to scale free education and increase income potential through language learning. However, the same mission that has helped it grow to a business valued at $2.4 billion with over 500 million registered learners, has led to tensions that continue to define the business. How do you survive as a startup if you don’t want to charge users?

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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4 Mistakes to Avoid When Implementing DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

While many companies are starting to reap the benefits of DevOps, there are also a number of pitfalls companies might step in resulting in a lack of business outcome. Before digging into the mistakes we tend to see in the market, I want to give you a small primer.

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Why DevOps Will Cease to Exist

DevOps.com

Nowadays I feel like there is no need to explain why DevOps as a methodology exists, as it is widely understood and accepted. But the reason DevOps engineers exist is not to ensure the success of its namesake methodology, nor, if we’re being honest, is the practice evolving into a role that’s viable for future […]. The post Why DevOps Will Cease to Exist appeared first on DevOps.com.

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DeepCheapFakes

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Back in 2019, Ben Lorica and I wrote about deepfakes. Ben and I argued (in agreement with The Grugq and others in the infosec community) that the real danger wasn’t “Deep Fakes.” The real danger is cheap fakes, fakes that can be produced quickly, easily, in bulk, and at virtually no cost. Tactically, it makes little sense to spend money and time on expensive AI when people can be fooled in bulk much more cheaply.