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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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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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12 Reasons Snowflake Costs Get Out of Control — And How to Solve It

With no barriers to entry you can get started with Snowflake for next to nothing, but as you may already know, costs can quickly spiral out of control. While usage costs can be better managed for your internal BI use case, Snowflake costs skyrocket for SaaS providers because the need to deliver real-time, interactive analytics in a multi-tenant environment is always on.

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Agile2021: With a Little Help from Our Friends

Agile Alliance

As we put the finishing touches on Agile2021, let’s take a moment to acknowledge the contributions of the people and organizations who help to make this event so special. The post Agile2021: With a Little Help from Our Friends first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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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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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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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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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 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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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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12 Reasons Snowflake Costs Get Out of Control — And How to Solve It

With no barriers to entry you can get started with Snowflake for next to nothing, but as you may already know, costs can quickly spiral out of control. While usage costs can be better managed for your internal BI use case, Snowflake costs skyrocket for SaaS providers because the need to deliver real-time, interactive analytics in a multi-tenant environment is always on.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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No Estimates at Scale in the US Federal Government

Agile Alliance

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Maximizing Capabilities and the Importance of Value Stream Management

DevOps.com

Even if we don’t use them to the full extent, applications shape our entire lives. And more than half the time we have no idea what our applications are capable of. On a daily basis, the average person uses seven to eight apps on their mobile phone. Throughout the week, the average person uses 30 […]. The post Maximizing Capabilities and the Importance of Value Stream Management appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

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.

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5 advanced-ish SEO tactics to win in 2021

TechCrunch

Mark Spera. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Mark Spera is the head of growth marketing at Minted. He's the co-founder of growth marketing blog Growth Marketing Pro and content generation tool GrowthBar. More posts by this contributor. 5 companies doing growth marketing right. In nearly every Google algorithm update in recent memory, Google has rewarded old, megatraffic sites, sending their search rankings soaring at the expense of smaller, newer sites.

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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 […].

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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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Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 5)

DevOps.com

This blog series explains how to engineer applications for DevOps. Topics covered in this blog series: • Factors to decide whether an application is a good candidate for DevOps. • Practices to engineer designs for DevOps. • DevOps applied to enterprise apps and software services. • DevOps applied to COTS systems. • DevOps applied to […]. The post Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 5) appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Ex-Plaid employees raise $30M for Stytch, an API-first passwordless authentication platform

TechCrunch

There are far fewer annoying things than managing one’s passwords. There are a bunch of companies out there to help you attempt to do that. And there’s also a number of companies that want to go a step further and eliminate the password completely. One such company, Stytch , just raised $30 million in a Series A round of funding as it launches out of beta with its API-first passwordless authentication platform.

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Improve supply chain security with intelligence

CTOvision

Read Tyler Logtenberg explain how companies can improve their supply chain security through threat intelligence from surface, deep and dark web on Security Intelligence : It would be comforting if the only cyber-risks organizations had to worry about were the ones that smacked up against their firewall and endpoint security solutions. But in the interconnected […].

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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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