Battery Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Three years ago I wrote here about a landmark, but little-understood, piece of U.S. legislation: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. This new law, signed on Oct. 3 of that year, dramatically changed the way the U.S. admitted new immigrants to the country. Instead of relying on strict quotas based on an immigrant’s country of origin—and favoring immigrants from just three European countries—the act called for admitting people based on family ties and their specific work skills.

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The Parallax

OCTOBER 3, 2018

If you were unexpectedly logged out of your Facebook account this past week, you can count yourself as one of more than 90 million people out of the company’s more than 2.5 billion monthly users whose account access it reset. The Friday acknowledgment by the world’s most popular social network of the successful cyberattack that led to the mass account reset dovetailed with the high drama surrounding the explosive Supreme Court nomination hearings for Brett Kavanaugh—and like the hearings, it ala

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 3, 2018

I know it’s painful, but take a minute to consider the most frustrating setback you’ve ever had at work. If you’re like me, you’ve got plenty to choose from. Pick the most gnarly, frustrating one. Chances are you didn’t “deserve” this thing […]. The post How to Overcome a Frustrating Setback at Work appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This article answers the following questions: What are the prerequisites for test automation? What do you achieve by automating tests? What steps do you take to get test automation in place? You’ve decided you need test automation. Awesome! Next phase: Get cracking! You’ve read what considerations to keep in mind when creating a successful automated testing […].

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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

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Toptal

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Top PMs are always in demand in organizations around the globe. This is a list of some really useful habits Top PMs possess. Hopefully, they will help you to become one or check if you already have these habits at your disposal.

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Toptal

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Product managers and project managers are two of the most important roles in every technology company and are crucial to the future of tech. Yet they are often conflated and misunderstood. In this article (Part I in a two-part series), Johnny Chao -- Product Management Vertical Lead at Toptal, and a career product manager -- outlines the similarities and differences between each role, as well as the core skill sets that allow product and project managers to excel.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Alphabet’s DeepMind is partnering with Unity to accelerate machine learning by building virtual environments to develop and test AI algorithms. The collaboration between Unity Technologies (which powers games like Monument Valley and Pokémon Go) and DeepMind will run the software at a giant scale to train algorithms in physics-realistic environments–part of a growing trend in […].

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The Daily WTF

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Corporate Standards. You know, all those rules created over time by bureaucrats who think that they're making things better by mandating consistency. The ones that force you to take time to change an otherwise properly-functioning system to comply with rules that don't really apply in the context of the application, but need to be blindly followed anyway.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2018

You must have read about the latest massive Facebook data breach which could have leaked personal identifiable information including phone numbers of more than 50 million users last week. Luckily for those whose data has been stolen, there have been no signs that the hackers leaked any user data online or published content. However, as […].

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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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Women on Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Education plays a critical role in any program designed to combat insider threats, says Christopher Greany, head of group investigations at Barclays, a British multinational investment bank and financial services company. “We have a big educational awareness campaign within our organization. … That’s about changing the culture and the mindset of people in the organization to […].

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Dell EMC

OCTOBER 3, 2018

“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.” Yes – it’s football season in the U.S. and I’m kicking off this post with a quote from legendary football coach Tom Landry…it’ll make sense in a moment. About a year ago, we took the next step in our Dell Technologies journey in bringing our PC and Infrastructure business under one roof as the Products and Operations organization.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Read Donna Parent explain the hidden costs and impact of a data breach on small and medium businesses on Business2Community : With the volume and velocity of data breaches increasing year-over-year, it’s safe to say no business is safe. Now is the time to be prepared for the myriad of threats to personally identifiable information […].

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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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Toptal

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Bad B2B UX is everywhere—but the situation is not hopeless. By understanding the pitfalls, and having a strategic user-centered design plan, designers can pave the way to saving enterprise software.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Google sister concern Jigsaw has introduced a new security App called Intra that prevents DNS manipulation attacks used by governments to censor the internet. Most governments around the world use DNS manipulation to censor content they think is harmful to their interests. Intra creates an encrypted connection between your phone and DNS servers, which makes […].

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 3, 2018

How should CIOs be thinking about cloud computing? Image Credit: JD Hancock. It goes without saying that every CIO is thinking about cloud computing. We can’t pick up an industry magazine, attend a conference, or even talk with a vendor without being bombarded with cloud-related discussions talking about how it relates to the importance of information technology.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2018

AI is the future but many executives fear the explaining of use of AI in their businesses to the regulators. A new study by IBM reveals that as many as 60% of 5,000 polled execs say they’re concerned with explaining, in order to meet regulatory standards, how AI is using data, up from 29% in 2016. […].

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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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Dell EMC

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Germany alone has 1,000 publicly financed research institutes, not to mention numerous companies and organizations that operate their own research and development centers. So is Germany a paradise for researchers and innovators? We certainly are research champions in many areas, beginning with the automotive industry and the entire high-tech industry, and including some seemingly inconspicuous sectors such as sensor technology.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Read Michael Baxter explain what artificial intelligence really is and what CTOs need to know about it on Information Age : The trouble with the word artificial intelligence is the word intelligence. It misleads — people conjure up images of thinking machines, Stephen Spielberg; Arnold Schwarzenegger coming back from the future and saying: “I’ll be […].

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LaunchDarkly

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Most discussion of feature flagging focuses on binary, on-off flags and how they can reduce friction in shipping software. These simple binary switches can do a lot! When used with targeting rules that specify exactly where and when that flag is on or off, binary switches enable transformative workflows for software development like continuous delivery, progressive delivery and testing in production.

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Coding Dojo

OCTOBER 3, 2018

“It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex thing in … Read more >>. The post Impacts of the Learning Environment on Developer’s Progress appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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“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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VironIT

OCTOBER 3, 2018

As app developers, we try to make our apps more convenient and simple. To provide it we often need the help of third-party services. For this reason, we jumped right into Firebase and now we are ready to share our experience with it. What is Firebase? Firebase is a mobile and web application development platform. […].

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Planbox

OCTOBER 3, 2018

How to manage the transformation to Agile Scrum with success. Agile Scrum methodology has been implemented in many product software companies for quite some time, but even the companies that have not made use of software development are beginning to jump on board the Agile train. . Companies are continually looking for new ways to deliver the most value to their clients in the least amount of time, regardless of their industry.

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TXI

OCTOBER 3, 2018

It’s weird to call a process a perk, but our focus on reusable code is one of my favorite things about working at Table XI. Limiting ourselves to the absolute fewest number of components to build software is a challenge, and it’s one that’s made me a better developer. It’s also a challenge that makes […]. The post How a reusable code audit can optimize performance and design appeared first on Table XI.

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Planbox

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Get those ideas flowing freely. Although the word “innovation” is arguably overused these days, it still remains true that building a culture of innovation is at the top of most corporations’ lists. Employees within a company are, after all, positioned to uniquely understand all the facets of business operations, customer demand, and product development.

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Coalfire

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Recently I happened to be in the market for a baby monitor, so I decided to search Amazon for an affordable device that would fit my needs. A search for “baby monitor” within the “electronics” department brought me to the LeFun WiFi Camera. For $39.99 (at the time of my purchase), this seemed like it could be a good deal. Knowing the reputation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, I was curious about its security.

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Planbox

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Planbox is thrilled to host its 2018 Annual Customer Summit taking place at the Fairmont in picturesque Mont Tremblant from October 10th until October 12th. The 2017 summit was a great success with Planbox customers. The event was led by Planbox subject matter experts as well as innovation leaders from major brands such as Whirlpool , Honeywell , and Great West Life.

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Daniel Bryant

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Last month I published a tutorial on how to implement Zipkin-based distributed tracing using the Kubernete-native Ambassador API gateway and the Java OpenTracing ‘Microdonuts’ application, and after a few requests I wanted to loop back around now and add LightStep support to this. Introducing LightStep [x]PM For those new to LightStep , it is a SaaS-based distributed tracing platform (and more) that is aiming to provide the next generation of Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?

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