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Bottleneck #03: Product v Engineering

Martin Fowler

In the third article on the Bottlenecks of Scaleups, Rick Kick and Kennedy Collins talk about the bottleneck that occurs when friction develops between product and engineering. In this first installment they discuss the signs that show this friction is occurring: with finger pointing and engineering lacking a sense of product context, as the teams communicate but don't collaborate.

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What is transformational leadership? A model for motivating innovation

CIO

What is transformational leadership? The transformational leadership approach encourages, inspires, and motivates employees to innovate and create the change necessary to shape the future success of the company. This is accomplished by setting an example at the executive level through authenticity, a strong sense of corporate culture, employee ownership, and independence in the workplace.

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Singapore-based staffing platform Workmate acquired by Persol Asia Pacific

TechCrunch

Workmate , a Singapore-based on-demand staffing platform, has been acquired by Persol Asia Pacific , one of the region’s largest HR service providers. Workmate focuses on frontline and essential workers, and the acquisition will allow it to expand its HR solutions throughout the Asia Pacific. Workmate currently operates in Thailand and Indonesia and is expanding operations into Singapore this month.

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Select the Right Tech for the Right Transformation Task, Huawei Advises

CIO

Huawei kicked off its Huawei Connect 2022 tour in Bangkok as it sets off on a world tour. The massive exhibition brings together ICT leaders, experts, and partners to unleash digital productivity, build stronger digital ecosystems, and promote the digital economy. CIO Editor Andrea Benito visited the exhibition and sat down with Derek Hao, President of Global Marketing, Huawei Enterprise Business Group, on why the key to accelerating digital transformation is matching the right technologies to t

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Growth hacking is really just growth testing

TechCrunch

Jonathan Martinez. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor. Why growth activation matters. To optimize for growth, study your down-funnel metrics. Who knew that “growth hacking,” a term coined in 2010 by Sean Ellis, the first marketer at Dropbox, would become so commonplace in 2022?

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Meilisearch lands $15M investment to grow its ‘search-as-a-service’ business

TechCrunch

Meilisearch , the creator behind the open source search engine project of the same name, today closed a $15 million Series A round led by Felicis, with participation from CRV, LocalGlobe, ESOP, Mango Capital, Seedcamp and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. CEO Quentin de Quelen tells TechCrunch that the new cash will help to expand Paris-based Meilisearch’s marketing and sales teams as the company transitions to an “enterprise-focused” strategy. “For three years, we have created

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Distributed Systems: Turning Networking to Your Advantage

DevOps.com

Whether it’s the office, the classroom, the store or the bank, a great many spheres of human life have moved online. Each day, we grow more and more used to consuming applications on demand that instantly connect us with the rest of the world. Our expanding appetite for the internet depends on an ongoing trend […]. The post Distributed Systems: Turning Networking to Your Advantage appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

TechCrunch

While studying at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford , a group of graduates noticed how difficult it was to get data and information on Africa’s largest economy and their home country, Nigeria. Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti , an economist; Bode Ogunlana , a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim , a data scientist; and Preston Ideh , a corporate lawyer — and in 2017, they launched a media startup to address the dearth of information and data

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BMC Survey Surfaces DevOps Mainframe Progress

DevOps.com

A global survey of 1,000 executives and IT professionals that rely on mainframes found 70% are now employing DevOps processes to build and deploy applications on the venerable platform, with 60% of those respondents now deploying applications faster. A full 80% of respondents also wanted to deploy mainframe applications faster, according to the survey.

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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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Green shoots appear in crypto land as winter reigns

TechCrunch

Now comfortably into Q4 2022, TechCrunch is busy looking at a mountain of data from the third quarter, hoping to solidify our understanding of where the market for startup deal-making was, is right now and where it’s heading next. So far, we’ve seen stronger than anticipated American venture capital results , a somewhat troubling international picture , and we’re keeping tabs on unicorns as well on software companies.

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Endor Labs Applies Graph Analysis to Secure Software Supply Chains

DevOps.com

Endor Labs exited stealth mode today to launch a platform that applies graph analysis to identify the depth of dependencies that exist within an application. Fresh from raising $25 million in funding, Endor Labs CEO Varun Badhwar said the Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform makes it simpler for organizations to manage dependencies within applications that can […].

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Check out all the partner sessions on the TC+ stage at Disrupt

TechCrunch

We’re literally days away from the first in-person TechCrunch Disrupt since 2019 — and we can’t wait to get this party started on October 18. Get ready for three days packed with top-notch speakers and opportunity. No pass? Act fast: Buy your pass before October 14 at 11:9 p.m. (PDT) and you’ll save $700. With so much going on, we want to take a moment to highlight all of the partner sessions taking place on the TC+ stage.

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Article: Why is Everything so Slow? - Measuring and Optimising How Engineering Teams Deliver

InfoQ Culture Methods

As teams grow, they will slow down, but it should not mean that teams stop delivering value that can power future business growth. Avoiding excessive technical debt and ensuring systems are secure and performant becomes increasingly important. As an engineering leader, you can do things to be confident that your team is moving at the fastest and most sustainable pace.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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AgriWebb’s software seeks to boost yields, lower environmental impacts for farmers and ranchers

TechCrunch

AgriWebb is on a mission to help livestock producers feed the world efficiently, profitably and sustainably by providing its comprehensive, ground-truth database for beef production worldwide. The Australian startup, which builds a livestock management platform for ranchers and farmers, wants to digitize farm records and the meat production process from the cow to the consumer and drive the industry’s animal and environmental welfare transparency.

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The 5-point plan to build a fantastic reputation

CEO Insider

In the global digital 24/7 marketplace of today, reputation is all powerful yet as fragile as a flower. And with Harvard Business Review citing 70-80 percent of a firm’s market value coming from intangible assets such as brand equity, intellectual capital, and goodwill, it’s vitally important for all CEOs to proactively manage their reputation given […].

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It’s your last week to save on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt

TechCrunch

We’re on the home stretch, startup fans. TechCrunch Disrupt kicks off in less than 10 days and runs from October 18–20. This message goes out to all the last-minute decision-makers. It’s the final week you can save serious cheddar on a Disrupt pass. It’s go time. Buy your pass b efore October 14 at 11:59 p.m. (PDT) , and you’ll save $700. Disrupt is where the early-startup community — founders, investors, engineers, tech leaders, icons, makers and shakers — come to launch, learn, connect,

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Allstacks Adds Alert Capability to VSM Platform

DevOps.com

Allstacks has added an alert capability to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) value stream management platform that automatically notifies DevOps teams when software project goals and deadlines are likely to be missed. The core Allstacks platform employs machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) models to keep track of pull requests, commits and card changes via a […].

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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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Daily Crunch: After bans by Apple and Google, The OG App ‘will be unable to continue serving users’

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Beep boop, here we go again with another exciting week in tech. Next week is Disrupt, so the TechCrunch Slack watercooler is full of sartorial advice, much to our surprise and confusion. Oh, and Haje has written more than 20 Pitch Deck Teardowns over on TC+ — and he’s running low on decks to review.

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The CompreFace 1.1. Release: What’s New?

Exadel

We’re excited to announce the release of CompreFace 1.1. In this release, we enhanced user experience, added a new Pose plug-in, introduced a service dashboard, and much more! New design. This is our second huge redesign of CompreFace. This time, we concentrated on improving your experience. We interviewed users, asked our UI/UX experts, and spent weeks brainstorming how to make CompreFace more user-friendly.

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Endor emerges from stealth with $25M to secure software supply chains

TechCrunch

An increasing percentage of the code that companies use to develop software is open source. In a 2018 survey by Tidelift, a software supply chain management platform, 92% of professional software developers said that their apps contained open source libraries. While that’s a positive trend — open source confers a wealth of benefits, not least of which transparency — it can have its drawbacks, like low visibility into whether the code might contain vulnerabilities.

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The Power Of Combining Kubernetes And Non-Kubernetes Cloud Spend

CloudZero

Whether you’re new to Kubernetes or a bona fide wizard, it may seem like getting any meaningful cost data out of it is a miracle. This is because many organizations that migrate to Kubernetes unwittingly step into the Black Box of Kubernetes Spend. In pre-Kubernetes life, teams could allocate costs by tagging resources. Post-Kubernetes, applications are decoupled from the infrastructure they run on — and the link between business metrics (products, features, customers) and cloud cost shatters.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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Trendsi secures $25M to help sellers and manufacturers predict demand

TechCrunch

In the traditional business-to-business world, sellers often don’t know how much of a product they should order. Even at well-run companies, anywhere from 20% to 30% of inventory is either dead (i.e. doesn’t sell) or obsolete, according to one source. The impact on profitability can be quite severe. Dead stock costs sellers and manufacturers as much as 11% of their revenue, reports Katana, which develops raw material and bills of material tracking software.

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Continuous Delivery != DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

Continuous Delivery and DevOps are interdependent, not equivalent. Since the publication of Dave Farley and Jez Humble’s seminal book on Continuous Delivery in 2010, its rise within the IT industry has been paralleled by the growth of the DevOps movement. While Continuous Delivery has an explicit goal of optimising for cycle time and an established set of principles and practices , DevOps is a more organic philosophy that is defined as “ aligning development and operations roles and processes in

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Thai beauty platform Konvy raises Series A for international expansion

TechCrunch

Founded 10 years ago, Konvy is now Thailand’s top beauty e-commerce platform. It plans to accelerate its omnichannel and international distribution with a new Series A of $10 million from Insignia Ventures Partners. Konvy was launched in 2012 by Chinese entrepreneur QingGui Huang, who previously managed fashion e-commerce platforms in China. It now works with more than 1,000 brands, representing SKUs of more than 20,000.

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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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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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It would be nice to not talk about Elon Musk for a bit

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Don’t forget that the code “EQUITY” can save you money on Disrupt tickets and TechCrunch+ access. And it makes us here on the show look good! We’re gearing up to take the show on the road in short order, but don’t worry about that this week.

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Reimagining B2B Brand Awareness Through Real Faces: How it Benefits Organizations

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Nurturing employees to be the voice of the brand sustains an ecosystem for innovation, bridging marketing efforts and connecting them with the stakeholders. Today’s post is by Dhanshi Kittusamy Murthi, Regional Head of US Marketing at Vuram, a global hyperautomation services company. Organizations across industries are exploring ways to shape a sustainable work culture that enables their people to perform at their highest levels.

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OG App, what exactly was your end game here?

TechCrunch

A couple of weeks ago, Apple removed the OG App from its app store , and today Google followed suit , booting the app from its platform as well. And I’m left scratching my head wondering what the end game was for the founders of the OG App. As far as I can tell, the company basically made a new version of Instagram that strips the advertising out, and brings back the non-algorithmic feed.

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