Fri.Feb 18, 2022

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Think You’re Achieving Full Cloud Cost Savings With Tools? Think Again.

IDC

48% of enterprises plan to keep spending steadily on cloud, according to IDC research, making cloud costs a focus for IT leaders. And, the majority of organizations believe they’re overspending on cloud. The first blog in this two-part series described how tools may provide an opportunity to reduce costs. But as many organizations are aware [.].

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Coatue backs Kubercost’s goal of supply data to millions of Kubernetes developers

TechCrunch

In the past year, Kubernetes adoption exploded, with over 5.6 million developers using the cloud-native tools — an increase of 67% from the year prior. For those who need a refresher on Kubernetes, it is an open source container project created by Google in 2014 to automate, monitor and run applications. Kubernetes is one of the most-used tools by cloud-native developers and can be challenging as a company grows, but Kubecost aims to alleviate some of those growing pains through its open source

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Fortress Agile: nurturing and growing healthy practices in a hostile environment

Agile Alliance

When the broader organization just isn’t agile, teams can get stuck. They’re waiting for their knight in shining armor - the “enlightened” executive - to transform it all. What happens when the hero isn’t coming? Is it possible to realistically accept an organization’s limitations without killing morale? Can a manager or coach “shield” a team … Continued.

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This UK startup got $9M so you’ll pay it to shrink your household bills

TechCrunch

The UK’s cost of living crisis has been making grim headlines for months — with no respite in sight. Just this week, newspapers reported that inflation had hit 5.5%, a 30-year high, further pushing up prices for everyday essentials like food. Worse is yet to come as an energy price cap will end in April, when bills are projected to rise by more than 50%.

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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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6 Must-Haves for Maximizing Virtual Dojo Engagement

Agile Alliance

Immersive Learning Dojos are an Agile staple that consistently yield longstanding success in terms of skill building and habit development. A major contributing factor to Dojo success is collocation. Think hyper-collocation?an open space concept filled with whiteboard walls, oversized monitors, pairing stations, and busy collaboration. But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the worldwide lockdown suddenly … Continued.

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Check for Understanding: A Leadership Communication Best Practice (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Save Days, Weeks, Even Months of Lost Time. with a Quick Check for Understanding. What is a Check for Understanding? All communication involves a send and a receive. A check for understanding is a simple confirmation that the message you intended to send is what the receiver heard. In other words, is your team picking up what you’re putting down?

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For startups, the message is clear: Grow fast or die

TechCrunch

News that Databricks crossed the $800 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) threshold last year was impressive , but more notable was its growth rate of greater than 80% during the same period. That’s a wild expansion pace for a company of Databricks’ size, and it backed up its CEO’s general vibe that his team could weather any change in market conditions regarding the value of software startups, provided that he keeps the growth flowing.

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Exploring the Ethics of Agile Coaching

Agile Alliance

Have you ever been in a gnarly situation where you really struggled to make a decision? Should I go left or should I go right? Should I go over or should I go under?? Should I stay or should I go??? How the heck do you navigate these messed up situations?! And at the end … Continued. The post Exploring the Ethics of Agile Coaching first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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ICON raises $185M in Tiger-led round to build more homes with its 3D printing tech, now approaching $2B valuation

TechCrunch

ICON, which creates homes using 3D printing, has raised an additional $185 million in a round led by Tiger Global Management, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. The financing is said to be an extension of ICON’s $207 million Series B that was announced last August. While the Austin-based company confirmed the latest raise, it declined to comment on its valuation or provide further details.

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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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Codefest, a celebration of getting things done

Agile Alliance

Codefest is two tremendously productive days of focus, teamwork and coding in an enterprise environment, resulting in a significant development leap - without compromising work-life balance. Codefest might be just what you need to get a project kicked off properly as a joint effort or to overcome a particularly hairy step in a project. Two … Continued.

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Agility Robotics and Playground Global join TechCrunch Live to speak on fundraising robotic delivery

TechCrunch

Delivery has become one of the fastest growing verticals for robotics investments amid pandemic-related shutdowns. There’s been plenty of interest in the category over the years, but COVID-19 has accelerated interest on all sides of the equation. Among this category, however, Agility stands out — in more ways than one. Born out of research from Oregon State University’s Dynamic Robotics Laboratory, the firm has developed a bipedal robot capable of conquering the arch nemesis of its wheeled

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Escaping Legacy

Agile Alliance

When you already have an application that is in the hands of your users, delivering value, it can be quite a challenge to get back in control of quality. So while most examples start from nothing and show how to build up to a high-quality app, in this talk I show an existing app and … Continued. The post Escaping Legacy first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

TechCrunch

LG’s innovation center — LG Nova among friends — today announced that it has selected the first 50 companies for its Mission for the Future global challenge competition. From 1,300 applicants, the company picked its first cohort to start building opportunities with the startups. Nova itself is a counterpoint to profit-focused corporate venture capital outfits, and is instead focusing on abilities to collaborate with the LG conglomerate across the board, in a few key verticals:

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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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Against all odds

Agile Alliance

This experience report recounts a part of my work as a consultant in the fields of organisation development and management methods. It is dedicated to consultants as well as coaches who engage in organisational change and who at times might feel like the odds have turned against them. I have distilled and refined the subject … Continued. The post Against all odds first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Build a versatile startup team to make pivots easier

TechCrunch

Steve Blank’s definition of a startup is “a temporary organization in the search of a repeatable business model” Temporary, because as soon as you have built a machine where you pour $10 into the top of it, and $11 falls out of the bottom, you’re no longer a startup. Or, if you run out of cash, and the whole thing collapses like a poorly-built house of cards, well, that’s the end of your company as well.

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The Past, Present and Future of OpenStack

DevOps.com

OpenStack, described as the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud software, will mark its 10-year anniversary milestone later in 2022. In September 2012, the OpenStack Foundation launched as an independent organization to manage and promote the technology—a watershed moment for a project announced just two years earlier. Today, with contributions from more than 34,000 […].

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Do you want your paycheck in crypto?

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, Natasha and Alex and Mary Ann got together with Chris and Grace to rock our regular Friday news roundup. This time, however, with extra zip, as we’re staring down a long weekend that, let’s be clear, everyone needs.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Best Practices to Improve your Engineering Sprints

DevOps.com

What is the purpose of sprints? We break work into sprints so we can more easily monitor, estimate and predict what we want to ship and when. Over the years, engineering teams have gotten used to moving quickly from one sprint to the next, but I think it’s important to be more thoughtful in how […]. The post Best Practices to Improve your Engineering Sprints appeared first on DevOps.com.

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5 DevOps Tools To Add to Your Stack in 2022

Dzone - DevOps

DevOps has fundamentally changed the way software is developed. It has further paved the way for creating faster, flexible, and more collaborative development and delivery processes. Thus, new and exciting DevOps tools emerge each year to improve existing workflows or introduce new functionality to the DevOps process. In this article, let’s have a look at five DevOps tools you can add to your tech stack in 2022.

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Bringing Your Own Monitoring (BYOM) with Confluent Cloud

Confluent

As data flows in and out of your Confluent Cloud clusters, it’s imperative to monitor their behavior. Bring Your Own Monitoring (BYOM) means you can configure an application performance monitoring […].

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How to Manage Cultural Differences at Work: Tips from Exadel

Exadel

Cultural background plays an important role in people’s outlooks and approaches to their work. Having a diverse workplace is a strength, but it can also present some logistical problems, especially with communication. Decoding cultural differences in communication is the key to preventing chaos and misunderstanding. What does cultural diversity mean?

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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 FP&A Teams Can Tame Cloud Costs: 4 KPIs For Success

CloudZero

At a growing SaaS company, cloud costs can change dramatically from month to month depending on the software you’re building, the number of customers you have, and how products are performing.

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Finding Peace of Mind for K-12 IT Staff

Dell EMC

Providing comprehensive hardware support for K-12 students means considering all the possible scenarios that keep IT staff up at night.

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Ivanti Security Appliance (ISA) Series: Built for Secure Access

Ivanti

As the Everywhere Workplace continues to expand across the world, businesses demand the solutions they choose have the security, speed, reliability and the power to handle larger and ever-more complex data while remaining easy to manage, easy to deploy and easy to maintain. As the work-from-home movement continues to ripple across every industry, ensuring employees have the tools and connectivity they need anytime, anywhere is the key to success.

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AI Governance: Perspectives on Taking Concepts to Practice

Dataiku

As AI pushes the traditional analytics lifecycle to evolve, traditional risk management is not usually equipped to address all of its implications. Companies are now embarking on a journey to upgrade existing governance frameworks to account for these new methodologies and technologies. Let’s dive into the challenges, realities, and road ahead with key takeaways from our recent Dataiku Product Days session , Aligning AI With Enterprise Governance , which clarifies the in’s and the out’s of AI Go

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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What Is UX Design? A Complete Guide for 2022

Coding Dojo

What Is UX Design? Jobs in tech are always changing, which usually means you have plenty of options if you’re … Read more >>. The post What Is UX Design? A Complete Guide for 2022 appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Why CHANGE Management is a Disaster to Business – Be Chanformational™ & WIN Every Time!

CEO Insider

It’s a billion-dollar industry and at the top of everyone’s mind and the tip of everyone’s tongue… CHANGE. From change management, change initiatives, change innovation, managing change, implementing change, leading in change, and change discipline, we have all been through CHANGE! I’m not about to win the debate for a shift from CHANGE doctrine to […].

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How to Find a Reliable Property Management Company to Trust Your Property

Women on Business

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