CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Black women in technology are burnt out and impatient with an IT industry slow to change. More than a dozen Black women working in technology roles, across a wide range of industries and at varying levels of seniority, spoke to CIO.com on the back of a British Computer Society (BCS) and Coding Black Females (CBF) report— The Experiences of Black Women in the IT Industry , fielded in the summer of 2021 but launched last October—that found that total representation of Black people in the UK IT wor

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Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

My colleague Julien Deswaef recently compared engagement data for my Twitter and Mastodon posts. From this we can see that boosts and comments are very similar. Twitter does get significantly more likes, but considering I have nearly 20 times more Twitter followers than Mastodon, it’s a remarkably small difference.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Despite greater emphasis on empathy and inclusivity, toxic behavior is still an issue for many IT organizations. And when toxicity takes root, friendliness, kindness, and basic civility quickly fall by the wayside, replaced by selfishness, harassment, and even outright emotional and physical abuse. Identifying and neutralizing an emerging toxic IT culture before it can begin damaging team members, projects, and overall organization performance is every CIO’s responsibility.

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Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I've been working in front-end software for over three decades. A perennial problem has been mixing non-UI logic into the UI framework itself, leading to code that's both hard to understand and near-impossible to test. Despite being the hot new thing, React is just as vulnerable to this problem as Swing and Turbo Pascal. My colleague Juntao Qiu writes about how to untangle such a mess.

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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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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

For as long as organizations have been interested in moving resources to the cloud, they’ve been concerned about security. That interest is only getting stronger as cloud usage grows – making it a perfect topic for the latest #CIOTechTalk Twitter chat. The chat brought together a host of security consultants and practitioners who weren’t shy about weighing in with their thoughts on a series of questions around the main topic: how to remain secure during cloud migrations.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In economic uncertainty, it’s natural for executives to explore where to reduce spending, trim the fat , so to speak, and cut enterprising investments as a matter of caution. But this thinking is also counter-productive for all the reasons that make uncertainty so predictable. We can expect that every company is going to react this way in times of uncertainty.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Generative AI reminds me of ball bearings: the technology is relatively inexpensive, highly adaptable and a proven way to reduce friction. Investors have taken notice: CB Insights reports that VCs poured $49 billion into AI last year, a 40% jump from the year before. The hype so far has largely centered on chatbots and avatars, but “ AI’s emergence will cut through material use cases in real estate tech ,” says Kunal Lunawat, co-founder and managing partner of Agya Ventures.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Most people have probably broken their new year’s resolutions by now, but here’s one I plan to stick with: resetting my passwords and rethinking the strategy behind password management solutions. Here’s why. If you work in information security, you already know how severe the LastPass breach of security , announced in late December 2022, was. By at least one account in Wired , the LastPass hack was “ actually a massive and concerning data breach that exposed encrypted password vaults—the crown

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

David J. Bianco Contributor Share on Twitter David J. Bianco is the staff security strategist on the SURGe by Splunk team. Practically every security professional has run across “the defender’s dilemma” sometime in their career. It goes like this: “Defenders have to be right every time. Attackers only need to be right once.” The idea that attackers have all the advantages and that defenders must be passive and wait for something to respond to is practically an axiom of cybersecurity.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Why a CISO can become a CIO: Before working for Petrofac, George Eapen spent 12 years with General Electric where he had multiple IT leadership roles. At Petrofac, Eapen was appointed CISO in 2018 and was promoted to CIO in 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

If you’d like to invest the same way that fintech influencers, including Austin Hankwitz , WOLF Financial , Breyanna Nava and Patrick Meng do, Follow can help you do that. The new social investment platform enables users to subscribe to a creator’s financial feed and set up an investment portfolio that mimics that particular person’s investment strategy.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As someone who has a strong interest in JavaScript, even though I’ve never worked as a full-time JavaScript developer, I always make time to practice and explore various aspects of the language. From working with plugins and jQuery to tackling work-related tasks, I’ve always been dedicated to improving my JavaScript skills. Despite not having an extensive knowledge of all the best practices and market standards, I’ve never let that hold me back.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Amy Jenkins left her post at Outschool, a marketplace for live online classes for kids, when the company decided to focus more on consumers and less on the enterprise — a shift that included numerous rounds of layoffs at the richly backed education unicorn. Now, Jenkins is the COO of Meadow, a platform that aims to make it easier for college students to pay tuition and for universities to stay compliant with financial transparency requirements.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Layoffs in the IT industry are becoming more widespread as companies fight to remain competitive in a fast-changing market; many turn to layoffs as a cost-cutting measure. Last year, 1,000 companies including big tech giants and startups, laid off over two lakhs of employees. But first. What are layoffs in the tech business, and how do they impact the industry?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A few years ago, Richard Schrems was working as a human resources consultant in Riyadh, and at one point sought to implement a tech-solution for his clients to help them better their huge teams, but couldn’t find a localized solution. Shrems told TechCrunch he needed a system that was employee-focused, but found many of the HR software he interacted with to be “very complex”, with “a lot of features, a lot of functionalities focused on making life easier for HR managers”, but with little regard

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Scala 3 landed with new mechanisms and features that enable the derivation of type class instances without using macros or third-party libraries. In Automatically Deriving Typeclass Instances in Scala 3 , we can see how to use these new tools, such as Mirrors, tuples, or inlining, to derive instances of the Show type class. Although these new types and features introduced in the language are very powerful, they are still too low-level.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Nix, the open-source tool for creating reproducible builds and deployments, is becoming increasingly popular among developers, but it’s not always the easiest service to work with. It’s maybe no surprise then that we’re now seeing a new batch of startups that aims to bring Nix to more developers by building the tooling necessary to bring Nix to the enterprise.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Marc Hale, Chief Technology Officer, AIA NZ, on enabling healthier outcomes for customers and his approach to his own career transformation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A clutch of startups is trying to topple Adobe’s dominance in three-dimensional modeling and do more than Canva. A freshly funded player is PixCap , which is entering the fray with a no-code, web-based 3D design tool. Founded in 2020, Singapore-based PixCap just secured $2.8 million from a seed funding round. It was part of the seventh cohort of Surge, Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia’s accelerator, which led the round.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Cisco today announced a technology preview of a Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform based on instances of open source OpenTelemetry agent software being advanced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to collect metrics, event, logs and distributed traces. The Cisco Full-Stack Observability platform will be available in June 2023. The platform, announced at a Cisco […] The post Cisco Bets on OpenTelemetry to Advance Observability appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Automation tech continues to attract funding in an increasingly challenging macroeconomic environment. That’s because of its cash-saving potential, no doubt. In a recent survey by Zapier — not the most unbiased source, granted, given that the company sells automation software — about 44% of employees say that automation saves them time while almost a third (33%) say it enables them to accomplish more with fewer resources.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This article is part one of a series of three on the boom in platform engineering and its role in reducing cognitive load and creating a better developer experience. Developer toil and cognitive load in the cloud-native space is real. The complexity posed by microservices, Kubernetes, and “software-defined everything” almost necessitated that ops needed to […] The post Platform Engineering: Creating a Paved Path to Reduce Developer Toil appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Silvija Martincevic, former chief commercial officer of Affirm , one of the U.S.’s biggest buy now, pay later startups, has been appointed to CEO of shift work management platform Deputy. Based in Australia, Deputy is focused on expanding in the United States and other countries, and Martincevic will oversee its growth strategy. She will also take a seat on Deputy’s board of directors.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“Personalization” has been one of the hottest buzz words and approaches in the digital commerce space over the last five years. But personalization isn’t new- it’s been around as long as humans have been conducting commerce. Think about it. Even before the onset of eCommerce and digital buying channels, brands were personalizing ads and products to attract certain types of customers – which is, personalization at its roots.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Keta Burke-Williams , the founder and CEO of Ourside , a direct-to-consumer fragrance company. Keta talked about what got her interested in disrupting the behemoth — and outdated — fragrance industry and what it has been like to develop a product that each consumer will experience differently.

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Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Cloud optimization is the process of improving the performance, cost-effectiveness, and reliability of cloud computing resources and services. It involves identifying and addressing inefficiencies in cloud architecture, application design and resource utilization, as well as implementing best practices for security, scalability and disaster recovery.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Once upon a time, if you wanted to build a tech startup , you relocated to Silicon Valley. Full stop. While there’s no disputing SV’s place and continued prominence in the startup world, today’s early-stage founders have more geographic freedom and funding options than ever before. While that’s certainly a good thing, it’s still far from easy — especially when you’re facing economic headwinds.

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TechBeacon

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released a chatbot called ChatGPT. Converging conversational AI with generative AI, ChatGPT can chat, create creative and/or functional content, solve math problems, give advice, play games, and even write code.

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