Agile Alliance
JUNE 21, 2021
Simon Sinek is well-known as a writer and commentator on Inspirational Leadership. In this article we look at how Sinek’s ideas can be applied to Agile and Scrum and look at how we, as Agile leaders, can become more inspirational. Sinek is highly visible on social media and has written five books. An excellent overview … Continued. The post Be an Inspirational Agile Leader first appeared on Agile Alliance.
TechCrunch
JUNE 21, 2021
Uber has reached a deal to become the sole owner of Latin American delivery startup Cornershop, just one year after acquiring a majority stake in the company. The ride-hailing giant said in a regulatory filing Monday that it will purchase the remaining 47% interest in Cornershop in exchange for 29 million shares. The transaction is expected to close in July.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 21, 2021
Avoid These Big Mistakes When Recognizing Employees. A great employee recognition program is a remarkable way to build culture, increase employee engagement and reinforce critical behaviors. Done well, these programs will have a positive impact on culture and can also serve as a vital part of your 5 x 5 communication plan. And yet, so many companies screw this up.
TechCrunch
JUNE 21, 2021
Ubco, the New Zealand-based electric utility bike startup, has raised $10 million to fund a global expansion focused on the U.S. market and scale up its commercial subscription service business. . Ubco’s hero product, the Ubco 2X2, is an all-wheel drive electric motorbike that looks like a dirt bike but rides like a moped. What began as a solution for farmers to get around pastures and farms easily, safely and quickly has expanded to include an urban version of the bike that caters to fleet ente
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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.
Xebia
JUNE 21, 2021
The world around us is changing quickly. Organizations need to rapidly respond to a changing world. In a knowledge intensive world, pressured by hypercompetition, new forms of organization are required to keep up. Especially around the topic of enabling value delivery, organisations need to balance the paradox of steering. Either steering via management (coordination) or empower teams to organise themselves.
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Xebia
JUNE 21, 2021
The world around us is changing quickly. Organizations need to rapidly respond to a changing world. In a knowledge intensive world, pressured by hypercompetition, new forms of organization are required to keep up. Especially around the topic of enabling value delivery, organisations need to balance the paradox of steering. Either steering via management (coordination) or […].
TechCrunch
JUNE 21, 2021
The Exchange is back after its brief hiatus. Anna and I have some really neat stuff planned, so stick with us every morning this week. — Alex. Building a consumer-facing fintech company is expensive. And if you want to build one in a sector crowded by both incumbent companies and richly funded startups, it can be super expensive. That was the lesson we learned in late 2020 by examining operating results from a number of neobanks.
DevOps.com
JUNE 21, 2021
App stability is a fundamental part of every app experience. Broadly speaking, app stability is a measurement of the number of total app sessions that are crash-free or the percentage of daily active users who do not experience an error. End users have little patience for apps that crash or fail. Every application, whether it’s […]. The post Code Ownership Is Key to Accelerate Debugging appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
JUNE 21, 2021
Sari-sari stores are neighborhood stores in the Philippines that usually sell daily necessities and sometimes serve as community hubs, too. Today GrowSari , a startup that is digitizing sari-sari stores with features like pricing tools, inventory management and working capital loans, announced it has raised a Series B from several notable investors that brings its total funding to $30 million.
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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
Dzone - DevOps
JUNE 21, 2021
Is there a difference between incident response and incident management? Virtually every SRE will tell you there is. However, the exact nature of the differences depends on whom you ask. There are several takes out there on the meanings of incident management and incident response. If you’re an SRE, understanding the surprising amount of variation surrounding definitions of each term can be helpful for thinking about how different types of organizations approach incident response and incident ma
TechCrunch
JUNE 21, 2021
Fintech startup Revolut has filed some financial results and is sharing details with the press. In 2020, the company reported $361 million in revenue (£261 million) — that’s a 57% increase compared to 2019 revenue of $229 million (£166 million). Interestingly, those revenue figures have been adjusted to include fair value gains on cryptocurrency assets — it means that Revolut holds some crypto assets on its balance sheet.
Dataiku
JUNE 21, 2021
While some automation in machine learning (ML) models is productive and necessary, taking a human-centric approach to machine learning and AI is essential. Humans have to be part of the ML workflow, included in the feedback loop, and more. This blog post will outline the importance of the human element and walk you through some of the benefits of maintaining a healthy balance between human involvement, machine automation, and AI.
TechCrunch
JUNE 21, 2021
Music licensing marketplace Songtradr this morning announced a $50 million Series D. The oversubscribed round — which features Regal, Aware Super, Perennial, Argo and Greencape — follows a $30 million raise last August , bringing the Los Angeles company’s total funding to north of $100 million. The platform licenses music to high-profile names for advertising, films, TV, gaming and the like, including Disney, Netflix, Apple, Coca-Cola, Amazon and Google.
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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.
DevOps.com
JUNE 21, 2021
The Linux Foundation is making available a set of free tools for building software bills of material (SBOMs) based on the software data package exchange (SPDX) file format it curates. Backed by more than 20 organizations, SPDX is an effort to standardize the way metadata describing the contents of a software package is described. The […]. The post Linux Foundation Makes Available Software Manifest Tool appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
JUNE 21, 2021
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.
DevOps.com
JUNE 21, 2021
Some months ago, AWS evangelist Corey Quinn wrote a short blog post titled “Right Sizing Your Instances Is Nonsense.” As usual, Corey was spot-on in his takedown of cost-reduction-magic-AI industry hype. But his piece only scratches the surface. I would take the argument a step farther and say that anyone who tells you they can […]. The post Automatic Right-Sizing is Magical Thinking appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
JUNE 21, 2021
As podcasting continues to gain ground among mainstream consumers as a digital media platform alongside music, video, and the printed word, a startup that made a name for itself through building content for the medium has closed a round of funding to help it explore what comes next. WaitWhat , co-founded by two of the people who helped conceive of and build the TED digital media empire, has closed a round of $12 million, led by Raga Partners, with Laurene Powell Jobs’ firm Emerson Collecti
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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.
Dzone - DevOps
JUNE 21, 2021
I think it is a fair statement to convey that software engineers in 2021 are not only working hard but working smart. Building upon lessons learned over the last five years, applications and services are now created as dynamic as possible and are designed to meet laser-focused business needs. This same approach has found its way into the DevOps spectrum, where what I often refer to as “* as code” allows components to be created declaratively.
TechCrunch
JUNE 21, 2021
MFast founders Phan Thanh Long and Phan Thanh Vinh. MFast , a mobile app that lets Vietnamese users in remote areas access financial services, announced it has raised a $1.5 million pre-Series A today. The round was led by Do Ventures, with participation from JAFCO Asia. . Launched in 2019 by fintech company Digipay, MFast says it has been used by 600,000 people to date.
David Walsh
JUNE 21, 2021
While I enjoy small details that make user interfaces more elegant, I also believe that less is more, especially when it comes to native behavior. One native behavior I dislike is that <input type="number" /> elements only show the increment and decrement arrows when the input is focused. It’s a needless focus change — just show those controls all the time.
TechCrunch
JUNE 21, 2021
The IPO rush of 2021 continued this week with a fresh filing from NoSQL provider Couchbase. The company raised hundreds of millions while private, making its impending debut an important moment for a number of private investors, including venture capitalists. According to PitchBook data , Couchbase was last valued at a post-money valuation of $580 million when it raised $105 million in May 2020.
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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.
CTO Academy
JUNE 21, 2021
We live in a dynamic era one in which a new trend today can become a way of life tomorrow. Those who don’t adapt to these changes are at risk of falling significantly behind. It can be worse for organisations because those who don't adapt are at risk of perishing. The post 5 Ways An Organisation Can Fail Its Digital Transformation appeared first on CTO Academy.
TechBeacon
JUNE 21, 2021
The pandemic—and its impact on companies and their workers—has accelerated the overall transformation of most businesses. The shift of data and applications to cloud is a prime example. While IT budgets fell by more than 4% in 2020, spending on public cloud was up 19%, and spending on cloud security rose 33%, said the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
DevOps.com
JUNE 21, 2021
Google is proposing organizations adopt a framework for securing the integrity of software artifacts across a software supply chain. Kim Lewandowski, a product manager for open source software security at Google, said the Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) is based on an internal framework, known as binary authorization for Borg, that the company […].
Netlify
JUNE 21, 2021
The Netlify engineering team runs our end-to-end tests with Cypress. For a long time, we’ve run our Cypress tests using a GitHub action. Recently, we’ve run into a couple issues with that workflow, and decided to migrated our logic to a Netlify Build Plugin. In this blog, we’ll talk about why we decided to migrate from GitHub actions to a Netlify Build Plugin, and how the migration went.
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DevOps.com
JUNE 21, 2021
Click to read Best Practices for Modern IT Incident Management. The post Best Practices for Modern IT Incident Management appeared first on DevOps.com.
Aqua Security
JUNE 21, 2021
The availability of AWS CloudFormation Public Registry makes it possible to manage Aqua components using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) workflows just as easily as AWS resource types. You can now seamlessly automate how you deploy and update Aqua as native resource types across multiple accounts and regions.
Ivanti
JUNE 21, 2021
In my introduction to this blog series , I talked about why Unified Endpoint Manager (UEM) is more relevant than ever before. While reading this blog put your own experiences into perspective with how you and your company were forced to work during COVID-19. R – Remote Control, Remote Access, Remote Workers, Remote Execution, Remote Control Tunnel, Replication, Rugged Devices, Rollout Projects, Rogue devices, Ransomware, Raspbian (RaspberryPi).
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