Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Retrospectives are a key element for effective software initiatives, as they allow a team to learn and improve. However, like any good practice, it's easy for teams to make mistakes that undermine their value. Aino Corry has many years facilitating retrospectives and has run into many common problems and how to solve them. Three of these skipping generating insights, getting lost in things you can't change, and being dominated by a loudmouth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It would appear that OpenAI’s Chat GPT allying with Bing will not be the only threat to Google’s search business model in the future. With its release of WhatsApp Business app (WAB), Meta is effectively building a sort of rival search engine to Google to keep us all inside the app. While this may not trouble U.S. businesses too much — where iMessage retains the lion’s share of messaging habits — in Europe and large swathes of the “rest of the world” WhatsApp has sup

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Host 20 meetings, record everything and report to your boss, find 10 developers for a brand-new project, help newcomers find their place in the office…sounds like a lot, but it’s an ordinary working day for the modern recruiter. So, how to find time for all of that? Thankfully, nowadays, there are lots of automation tools to plan, optimize and ease your workflow.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

You.com founder Richard Socher knows that his company has always been a David going after the Goliath in search, Google, and to a lesser extent Microsoft. He likes to point out that his company built search based on generative AI in December, several months before the other giant search players made their announcements. Today, the company is announcing it’s taking that head start and building on it with multimodal search.

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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.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Fiberplane today announced it is extending the reach of a real-time collaboration notebook designed for DevOps teams by making available tools for building plug-ins based on the WebAssembly (Wasm) framework. Micha Hernandez van Leuffen, Fiberplane CEO, said these plug-ins, dubbed providers, will make it much simpler for anyone to connect the Fiberplane notebook to other […] The post Fiberplane Adds Wasm Plug-in Framework for DevOps Notebook appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

There are two main consumer group memberships in Apache Kafka®. Here’s how static and dynamic consumer groups work, how they affect rebalancing, and which to choose for your application.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

At Andreessen Horowitz’s recent American Dynamism summit, Hadrian founder and CEO Chris Power painted a picture of the country in peril. “I’m here to talk to you about an existential risk to the future of the Republic and how Hadrian is trying to solve it,” he began. His words – a mix of rationalism and Marcus Aurelius – were not out of place at the event, which brought together a blend of investors, founders, policymakers and other Washington officials to discuss issues facing the country.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A survey of 879 enterprise developers and architects from Vaadin, a provider of framework for building Java applications, found that, as part of modernization efforts, the pace at which Java applications are moving to the cloud is now accelerating. The survey found more than one-third (36%) of Java applications are already deployed in the public […] The post More Java Apps Are Migrating to the Cloud appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ali Ahmed Contributor Share on Twitter Ali Ahmed is a serial tech entrepreneur with expertise in on-demand delivery and robotics. More posts by this contributor How to win in the autonomous taxi space In the crypto world, there’s a popular maxim called the Blockchain Trilemma, which refers to the difficulty of simultaneously achieving three desirable properties in a blockchain network: security, scalability and decentralization.

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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.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Quali today announced enhancements to its Torque automated infrastructure platform to add support for security scans and Open Policy Agent (OPA) software being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). OPA enables organizations to implement cybersecurity policies as code. The challenge many organizations have encountered is that not many developers have […] The post Quali Update Strengthens Infrastructure Security appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

When talking to investors, you’re answering the what (product), why (mission), where (if relevant) and how (strategy and go-to-market). But founders often ignore another important question: Why now? Why wouldn’t it have been possible to have built the company five years ago? Why would five years from now be too late? The answer is often related to something that is shifting and changing, either in the market or with the technology layer.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The move to the cloud and microservices has introduced new challenges in managing permissions. Software has been broken down into small, independently-deployable microservices, each with its own unique set of permissions. These permissions make it excruciatingly hard to ensure and track correct access. While this technological shift is challenging, it pales in comparison to the […] The post Watching the Watchers: Solving the Problem of Meta-Permissions appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Naked , a South African insurtech company that helps consumers to insure their cars, homes, and valuables, has raised $17 million in Series B funding led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The round welcomed participation from the German Development Finance Institution (DEG), and earlier investors, Yellowwoods and Hollard. The news follows the Naspers-led $11 million Series A round that the South African insurtech announced in August 2021.

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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.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In recent years, the rapid development of cloud-based networking, network abstractions such as SD-WAN, and controller-based campus networking has meant that basic, day-to-day network operations have become easier for non-network engineers. The result we’re starting to see today is a sort of consolidation of networking tasks, leading to a need for only a small number of highly skilled network engineers to handle the less frequent heavy lifting of advanced design and troubleshooting.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Manufacturers face a dizzying array of potential problems around the products they produce, and it’s challenging to track down issues. This isn’t just nice to know. It’s crucial information, often tracked manually today by human auditors in spreadsheets. In some cases, failing to understand when there is a faulty part could result in costly recalls, and in the most extreme cases, deaths and lawsuits.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

We here at DevOps.com do sometimes suffer from The Curse of Knowledge. We write about DevOps regularly for an audience that is doing or managing DevOps. We assume knowledge, but there are still a fair number of people and organizations who are unclear about some of the terminology/technology that we talk about. So if you […] The post Back to Basics appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In 2024, a number of new EU regulations are expected to come into force, which will tighten the obligation of electric vehicle manufacturers and resellers to recycle batteries at the end of their natural lifespan. German battery recycling startup Cylib leapt at the opportunity, raising a total of €11.6 million ($12.6 million) to build a recycling factory. “For too long, battery recycling hasn’t been efficient enough for companies to take advantage of,” said co-founder and COO at Cyli

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This article was co-authored by Eduardo da Silva and Nick Tune based on our individual and collective experiences. FThis article describes a pattern we have observed and applied in multi-team-scope architecture modernization initiatives, the Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET). An AMET is a type of architecture enabling team that coordinates and upskills all teams and stakeholders in the modernization initiative.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

French startup Brigad just raised a new $30 million funding round (€28 million) as well as more than $5 million in debt. The company operates a marketplace for restaurants, caterers, private clinics, retirement homes and hospitals so that they can find freelancers for short-term missions. Balderton Capital is leading the round, with Wendel Group, Serena Capital and Square Capital also participating.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A well-told story can help employees and other stakeholders understand how your business works and where it’s heading.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Layoffs. They’re everywhere throughout Silicon Valley. While it seems like every company is cutting, some industries are on an upward swing, including cybersecurity. I’m excited to have Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo and Sequoia partner Andrew Reed to speak on Vanta’s growth, particularly around hiring when everyone else is firing. Christina Cacioppo started Vanta in 2016 and has raised $202.95 million to date including a $150 million Series B it closed in October 2022.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Abstraction is a process of hiding the internal details of an application from the world and showing only functionality to the user. Example – A man driving a car. The man only knows that applying brakes will stop the car, but he does not know about the inner mechanism of the car or the implementation of brakes that how it is working in the car.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Apkudo , a Baltimore-based startup developing a platform to help manage, sell and test connected devices like smartphones and laptops, today announced that it raised $37.5 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Closed Loop Partners’ Leadership Fund and Piper Sandler Merchant Banking with participation from MissionOG, Harbert Growth, Grotech Ventures, Lavrock Ventures and Point Field Partners.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

There are two major types of goals you can set for your business unit: quantitative and qualitative goals. When you set goals, there are commonly two types: quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative Goals When you set goals that are quantitative, they’re going to focus on things like financial results, operational metrics, customer dynamics, or quality.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor Dear Sophie: Will published articles better my odds of getting an O-1A or H-1B visa?

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Planbox

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Anyone leading in innovation will tell you that managing the complete idea lifecycle is an uphill battle. Case in point: Planbox’s 2022 State of Corporate Innovation report reveals that the top three roadblocks innovation professionals encounter in managing their innovation pipeline are: Turning the best concepts into tangible business outcomes Governance and decision-making Getting people to submit, collaborate on and develop ideas It’s really no surprise considering that innovation management

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

When you’re dealing with health issues, worrying about how you’re going to pay for care can be a major additional stressor. This can be compounded when you’re facing major illnesses, such as receiving treatment for cancer or having surgery. Chris Ellis and Adam Stevenson had the unfortunate experiences of losing parents to cancer at a young age. During those emotionally painful times, they also saw firsthand how difficult it was to manage the process of paying for care.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This month’s #ClouderaLife Spotlight features software engineer Amogh Desai. Here we discuss his background, how he got started at Cloudera, and his recent win at the Cloudera 2022 Global Hackathon. Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat Amogh and his fellow hackathon team members felt the rush of victory after winning Cloudera’s 2022 global hackathon in the product development category.

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