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NHL turns to venue metrics data to drive sustainability

CIO

To reduce its carbon footprint and mitigate climate change, the National Hockey League (NHL) has turned to data and analytics to gauge the sustainability performance of the arenas where its teams play. In October, the league, with partner SAP, launched NHL Venue Metrics, a sustainability platform that teams and their venue partners can use for data collection, validation, and reporting and insights.

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Two CEOs is better than one with Henrique Dubugras from Brex

TechCrunch

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Brex co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras to chat about his corporate credit card and expense management startup. Henrique talked about what made him and his co-founder ( Pedro Franceschi ) decide to launch the company and why the friends, who met online as teenagers, decided to be co-CEOs.

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PureGym’s new CIO Andy Caddy plans for international expansion

CIO

Andy Caddy, formerly the group CIO at Virgin Active and group CTO at Whitebread, joins CIO UK Leadership Live to discuss his return to the CIO hotseat at low-cost gymnasium group PureGym, his development as a technology leader over a 30-year career, avoiding a race to the bottom in a low-cost fitness market, and why his year ahead is about scalability, standardisation and start-ups.

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3 ways PE firms can ensure relevant due diligence for M&A targets ahead of a recession

TechCrunch

Corey Massella. Contributor. Corey Massella is a partner at UHY LLP and is managing director at UHY Advisors. He has more than 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, tax and business adviser, and as a specialist in SEC accounting and audit services. Economic uncertainty, market volatility, rising interest rates, inflation and the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict affected the M&A market in the third quarter of 2022 to the point that deal volumes declined across the globe.

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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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Immersion Day on Agile – Costa Rica

Agile Alliance

Most of us have witnessed how a conference or event can become a transforming, eye-opening experience. Whether it happened at the beginning or at some point along our Agile journey, we are lucky and blessed to have had that experience. The post Immersion Day on Agile – Costa Rica first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Ken Thompson Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Kenneth lane Thompson was born on 4th February 1943 in New Orleans Louisiana, U.S. He is a computer scientist. Thompson worked for a long time at Bell Labs. He designed the original Unix operating system and also implemented it while working at bell labs. Thompson was the co-winner of the Turing award in 1983. He is famous for his work on Unix operating system.

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5 tips for healthcare startups fundraising in a down market

TechCrunch

Dr. Galym Imanbayev. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dr. Galym Imanbayev joined Lightspeed in 2020 as a partner focused on the healthcare sector. In fundraising, a founder’s greatest challenge is not selling any particular product or strategy. Instead, it is often unwinding and realigning the investor’s biases. The competition is not your market competitor or incumbent.

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Use EventBridge to handle API requests

Xebia

At AWS re:Invent I attended SVS312 Building Serverlesspresso. This talk was about how you can create event-driven architectures. I am a fan of event-driven architectures. So I wanted to highlight a interesting technique using EventBridge shown in this talk. In the past I used a similar technique that I talked about in an AWS Meetup. Here I used an API Gateway to post the request to a SQS Queue.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Normalizing down rounds, 2023 climate trends, term sheet basics

TechCrunch

The “Pineapple Express” that dropped several inches of rain over the Bay Area last week left the ground saturated. The next storm front expected to arrive tomorrow is expected to bring disruption and destruction on a massive scale. It’s a decent metaphor for our startup ecosystem: Just as there aren’t enough sandbags in San Francisco to keep everyone’s house dry, rising interest rates, skittish investors and looming economic uncertainty are poised to bring valuation

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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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Best Business Schools In The World For 2023

CEO Insider

The Wharton School takes the prestigious title of the world’s business school for 2023, according to the CEOWORLD magazine. London Business School earned itself a respectable second place, with MIT Sloan School of Management ranked third. The 2023 rankings placed Harvard Business School in fourth ahead of Saïd Business School (Oxford Saïd or SBS) in […].

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Popular Software Engineering Conferences in 2023

TechBeacon

In today's constantly evolving tech industry, attending conferences can help you keep up to date with the latest trends and innovations in software engineering. These events offer you the opportunity to refine and maintain your skills as well as learn about best practices. And now that the majority of events are again being held in person, you'll be able to network with your peers and develop strong professional relationships.

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How You Start Your Day is How You Start (and End) Your Year

Next Level Blog

How you start your day is predictive of how your day is going to end. And a consecutive series of good starts is predictive of not just how your year is going to start but also how it ends. Over the weekend, I saw a quote from country star and fellow native West Virginian Brad Paisley that inspired this post – “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book.

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DevOps Must Embrace Automation in 2023

DevOps.com

A survey of 500 engineering and software development professionals in the U.S. suggests more DevOps teams than ever need to resolve to embrace automation at a deeper level in the new year. The survey, sponsored by Chronosphere, a provider of an observability platform, found engineers spend, on average, more than 10 hours per week attempting […].

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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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The Future of the Hospitality Industry is Technology

CEO Insider

The hospitality industry is highly competitive, so it’s important that it moves with the times. Additionally, customer expectations are always shifting based on new technologies that are introduced. Obsolete systems will have a negative impact on your bottom line. Whether you’re a hotel owner or you run a restaurant, it’s crucial that you stay ahead […].

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent […].

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Inspiration and Strength: What Inspires You and Give You Hope?

Let's Grow Leaders

Human-Centered Leadership Experts. Share Their Sources of Inspiration and Strength. As 2022 draws to a close, I’m curious, what’s been a source of inspiration and strength for you this year? In our final #askingforafriend of the year, I share some savvy inspiration from human-centered experts, and I’d love to add yours to the mix.

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The CFP is open for Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023

The Citus Data

For those of you looking to give a talk at a Postgres conference, some good news: the CFP is open for Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023. Citus Con is a free and virtual developer event happening next April, hosted by the Postgres and Citus teams at Microsoft. Carpe diem, as the CFP will close on Feb 5, 2023 at 11:59pm PST. Videos of all of the Citus Con talks will be published online for the world to see, including on YouTube—so the reach of your talk is not limited to the day of the event.

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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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How to Determine a JavaScript Promise’s Status

David Walsh

Promises have changed the landscape of JavaScript. Many old APIs have been reincarnated to use Promises (XHR to fetch , Battery API ), while new APIs trend toward Promises. Developers can use async / await to handle promises, or then / catch / finally with callbacks, but what Promises don’t tell you is their status. Wouldn’t it be great if the Promise.prototype provided developers a status property to know whether a promise is rejected, resolved, or just done?

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Visibility of the Unknown: Understanding EASM and How It Can Help

Tenable

External attack surface management (EASM) is difficult and oftentimes confusing, especially in a world of poor inventory controls and a growing attack surface. This blog discusses what’s required to do EASM successfully. Questions abound about what external attack surface management is, partly because new acronyms and terms emerge frequently in this market segment: attack surface management (ASM), asset discovery, external attack surface management (EASM), cyber asset attack surface management (

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Cybersecurity Research Center Developer Series: The OWASP Top 10

Synopsys

In this new Cybersecurity Research Center series, we analyze the OWASP Top 10, which is a list of the most common vulnerabilities in web applications.

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Dell Technologies Introduces More “World’s First’s” Collaboration Tools

Dell EMC

Maximize productivity with the world’s first 6K monitor with IPS Black and world’s first Zoom certified collaboration keyboard.

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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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Are Our Brains Wired to Quiet Quit?

Harvard Business Review

Neuroscience has found that passive acceptance is a natural response to prolonged stress.

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Concept Nyx and Explorations for the Future of Connection

Dell EMC

Reimagining the future of connection with Concept Nyx and an ecosystem of intelligent peripherals and solutions.

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New Year’s Resolutions: Customers Share Challenges and Goals for 2023

Darktrace

As the new year begins, Darktrace customers look forward to tackling industry-specific challenges, using the time Darktrace saves them to launch new projects, and seeing how new tools can further benefit their environments.

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Clutch Names Perficient Latin America As One of The Clutch 1000

Perficient

We’re thrilled to announce that Perficient Latin America was recently named as one of the top 1000 Global companies for 2022. Clutch is a company that provides ratings and reviews of leading IT, marketing, and business service companies. Clutch is a data-driven field guide for B2B buying and hiring decisions. Once your company is listed, Clutch uses a unique verification process to qualify reviews that clients provide.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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CodeSOD: Customer Needs

The Daily WTF

Code changes over time. As business requirements change, you need to update your code to reflect that, and the best way to do that is to structure your code and plan for changes before you even know what changes you need to make. Making your code flexible and changeable without making it meaninglessly abstract is the real art of software development.

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Maximizing Build Monitoring with Optimizely B2B Commerce Cloud: A Look at Two Powerful Approaches

Perficient

Have you ever found yourself in the following situations: When you pushed your Extension changes in the Sandbox branch and wondering whether your build was deployed on Sandbox, Whether TeamCity picked up the right change-sets from the last build you pushed on the Sandbox branch, What happens when multiple team members pushed extension DLLs in the last 10 minutes and what TeamCity picked up, or.

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How to Grow Your Top Line in a Down Market

Harvard Business Review

You can’t just cut your way to prosperity. Try these three actions to improve sales and margins.