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Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile

Agile Alliance

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Cloud gaming service Shadow taken over by OVHcloud founder

TechCrunch

Blade, the French startup behind cloud gaming service Shadow , has been acquired by Octave Klaba’s fund following a commercial court order. Klaba is better known as the founder of OVHcloud , a French cloud hosting company. He’s acquiring Blade (and Shadow) through his investment fund Jezby Ventures — not OVHcloud. Shadow is a cloud computing service for gamers.

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Agile: Harnessing Human Motivation

Agile Alliance

Agile is built on many ideas (Kaizan, Lean, Kanban, etc.), but one of the most important is a body of research into human motivation. This article explores some of these ideas and highlights how it is very easy to adopt Agile but miss out on these motivational factors I often ask organisations why they want … Continued. The post Agile: Harnessing Human Motivation first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Sorbet raises $6M seed led by Viola Ventures to tackle the thorny financials of paid time off

TechCrunch

A U.S./Israeli startup, Sorbet — which is tackling what companies do with the financial risks as employees accrue paid time off (PTO) — has raised $6 million in a seed funding round led by Viola Ventures, with participation by Global Founders Capital and Meron Capital. The economics of paid time off is relatively hidden in the business world, but essentially, Sorbet takes on the burden of this PTO from employers and then allows employees to spend it.

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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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Polish Notation in Data Structure

The Crazy Programmer

In this article, we will look into Polish notation in Data Structures. We will discuss its types along with some examples and the use of such notations in general. Polish Notation is a general form of expressing mathematical, logical and algebraic equations. The compiler uses this notation in order to evaluate mathematical expressions depending on the order of operations.

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Systems Thinking: define the problem, results and behaviour

Xebia

Great landing, wrong airport I read this phrase a while ago and it got to me. It fitted the projects I was working on. <Enter attentional bias> These organisations I was working with were building great solutions (technically). Unfortunately, not always what their customers were expecting. It confirmed for me that Systems Thinking is really important.

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Heirlume raises $1.38M to remove the barriers of trademark registration for small businesses

TechCrunch

Platforms like Shopify, Stripe and WordPress have done a lot to make essential business-building tools — like running storefronts, accepting payments and building websites — accessible to businesses with even the most modest budgets. But some very key aspects of setting up a company remain expensive, time-consuming affairs that can be cost-prohibitive for small businesses — but that, if ignored, can result in the failure of a business before it even really gets started.

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Unlock Your Team’s Best Thinking

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever watched a team member do something clever, solve a problem, or creatively improve a process, then ask them why they hadn’t shared it with the team? Too often, your team’s best thinking remains hidden. Their answer to why they didn’t speak up holds the key to unlocking your team’s best ideas and building a team of micro-innovators, problem-solvers, and customer advocates.

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Optimism reigns at consumer trading services as fintech VC spikes and Robinhood IPO looms

TechCrunch

With the Coinbase direct listing behind us and the Robinhood IPO ahead, it’s a heady time for consumer-focused trading apps. Mix in the impending SPAC-led debut of eToro , general bullishness in the cryptocurrency space, record highs for some equities markets, and recent rounds from Public.com , M1 Finance and U.K.-based Freetrade , and you could be excused for expecting the boom in consumer asset trading to keep going up and to the right.

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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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Infrastructure as Code Pitfalls and How To Avoid Them

Dzone - DevOps

Introduction. Infrastructure as Code. It’s not a totally new concept, but it isn’t something that everyone is doing at this point. Some have been doing it for a long time. Some have just started the journey. And some have no clue what it even is. We’re going to break it down a bit today, and talk about what it is and some of the common issues, or pitfalls, that come along with it.

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The health data transparency movement is birthing a new generation of startups

TechCrunch

Ariel Katz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ariel Katz is the founder and CEO of H1 , a global healthcare platform that helps life sciences companies, hospitals, academic medical centers and health systems connect with providers, find clinical research, locate industry experts and benchmark their organization. In the early 2000s, Jeff Bezos gave a seminal TED Talk titled “ The Electricity Metaphor for the Web’s Future.

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A Day in the Life of an Engineering Manager

Toptal

Engineering managers tend to have a wide range of responsibilities. In this article, Karl Hughes, founder of Draft.dev, shares what a typical day in the life of an engineering manager looks like.

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Sequoia’s Mike Vernal will share how to iterate with tempo at TC Early Stage in July

TechCrunch

TC Early Stage is back in July and we have a fantastic lineup in store that’s laser-focused on marketing and fundraising. That includes, but is not limited to, Sequoia’s Mike Vernal, whose portfolio companies include Citizen, PicsArt, Whisper, Threads, Houseparty and more. Vernal will be leading a discussion on tempo and product-market fit.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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How to Run Parallel Cypress Tests on BitBucket Pipeline

Dzone - DevOps

Do you use BitBucket Pipeline as your CI server? Are you struggling with slow E2E tests in Cypress? Did you know BitBucket Pipeline can run parallel steps? You can use it to distribute your browser tests across several parallel steps to execute end-to-end Cypress tests in a short amount of time. How to Run Tests in Parallel. Distributing tests across parallel steps to spread the workload and run tests faster might be more challenging than you think.

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The second shot is kicking in

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. First and foremost, Equity was nominated for a Webby for “Best Technology Podcast”! Drop everything and go Vote for Equity ! We’d appreciate it. A lot. And even if we lose, well, we’ll keep doing our thing and making each other laugh.

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Article: Why DevOps Culture Matters: Leaders Talk About the Keys to Making Change Successful and Sustainable

InfoQ Culture Methods

A recent Software Delivery Leadership Forum panel discussion shared approaches and tactics for creating a successful DevOps culture. The panel stressed the importance of an aligned culture around the DevOps adoption. This includes setting strategic organizational goals, cultivating psychological safety, and treating your culture as a product. By Shaaron A Alvares.

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Early-bird price ends tonight: Buy your pass to TC Early Stage 2021 and save $100

TechCrunch

Last call, founders. Today is your last chance to save $100 on a pass to TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing & Fundraising. Our last founder bootcamp event of the year takes place July 8-9, and it’s time to call on Saint Expeditus — the patron saint of procrastinators and programmers alike. He’ll help you kick procrastination to the curb, save some cash and gain access to a bevy of top-tier investors, famous founders, marketing magicians, financial wizards and other startup savants.

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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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Turkish Airlines & Turkish Cargo Rise to the Top Amid Coronavirus Pandemi

CEO Insider

For more than a year, the global aviation industry has faced its greatest crisis to date and in 2020, it suffered the heaviest losses in history. Like other global carriers, Turkish Airlines and Turkish Cargo had to adapt quickly to face many challenges – from limitations imposed by countries on domestic and international flights, changes […].

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The paradox of debugging with static logs: Get dynamic or go home

TechBeacon

Debugging with logs is a common practice. But as applications get more complex and more distributed, they also get more difficult to understand. And when something goes wrong (don't kid yourself; that’s "when," not "if"), they're even more difficult to fix.

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Member of the Band – David Moreno Cantero, Senior Java Consultant

Gorilla Logic

Much like a pod of whales or a pack of wolves, did you know that a group of gorillas is called a band? In this blog series, we’re going to introduce you to members of our band—engineers, technical recruiters, PMs, designers, and more who make up the most important asset in Gorilla Logic…our talent! Are you Gorilla material? Join the band today! David Moreno Cantero — Senior Java Consultant.

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Top 2021 Tech Picks for Nonprofits with Small Budgets

TechSoup

For many nonprofits with small budgets, the pandemic tested the limits of what was possible with the resources they had. And still, creative people around the world found ingenious ways to use new tools and techniques to build capacity and continue serving their communities. Technology played a key role in these adaptations. Here we share the top 10 technology offers from TechSoup that we believe can specifically help nonprofits with small budgets of less than $100,000 a year.

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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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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 30th, 2021

High Scalability

Hey, HighScalability is back! This channel is the perfect blend of programming, hardware, engineering, and crazy. After watching you’ll feel inadequate, but in an entertained sort of way. Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to keep this stuff going. Do employees at your company need to know about the cloud? My book will teach them all they need to know.

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Atlassian Extends Open DevOps Ambitions

DevOps.com

At an online Atlassian Team 2021 event this week, Atlassian launched a two-pronged effort to provide organizations with more insights into software development workflows constructed using tools from multiple vendors. Suzie Prince, head of product for Atlassian, said an Open DevOps initiative will tighten integration between the Jira project tracking and management tools provided with […].

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Why Financial Institutions Should Treat Cryptocurrencies as an Opportunity

IDC

Banks need to begin building their product and technology strategies to include cryptocurrencies.

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Dgraph Labs Partners With Capventis To Advance Digital Transformation Through Graph Database Integration

DevOps.com

Industry Partnership Increases Rollout of Dgraph’s Graph Database Technology Through Capventis’ Expansive Global Network PALO ALTO, Calif. and DUBLIN – April 29, 2021 – Dgraph Labs (“Dgraph”), the #1 open source graph database, today announced its partnership with UK-based integration and analytics consulting company Capventis to expand the data unification of global brands.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo

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4 Tips for Personalizing Learning for Today’s K-12 Students

PowerSchool

Updated from an original post by Vicki Davis (11/28/18) This generation of students personalizes their phones, backpacks, and nearly everything else they get their hands on. The same should be true for their education, especially with the necessary flexibility that COVID-19 has prompted for schools and districts. With students learning from various locations, p ersonalized learning create s an incredible opportunity to engage with and relate to the modern student.?

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Make Metrics Matter: Measure What’s Important

DevOps.com

In a data-driven society, organizations rely heavily on sets of metrics to evaluate how they’re doing on a particular task, initiative or resource allocation. Metrics are particularly important to DevOps teams, whose very function is tied to concepts like collaboration and continuous improvement. But, while metrics can help drive efficiencies, they can also drive DevOps […].

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Show us Your Everywhere Workplace. We'll Show You the Prizes

Ivanti

It’s a brave new workplace out there. Employees are roaming free, reimagining what a workplace can look like. It’s not just about WFH anymore. Now it’s about WFE: Work From Everywhere. Ivanti is working to secure the Everywhere Workplace, wherever you are. We love a good couch set-up, but we’re up for more of a challenge. Over the coming weeks, we’re putting forth an #EverywhereWorkplace challenge to see just how far outside the cubicle you can think.

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