Wed.Nov 09, 2022

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Agile Pricing, Agile Uptake

DevOps.com

It is pretty amusing, the number of software vendors that are selling us tools to work in our Agile and/or DevOps infrastructure but are not at all agile in their sales cycle implementation. Top-line vendor hint: If you have a page titled “pricing” and there are no prices on it, you’re doin’ it wrong. Let’s […]. The post Agile Pricing, Agile Uptake appeared first on DevOps.com.

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5 tips for excelling at self-service analytics

CIO

Data-informed decision-making is a key attribute of the modern digital business. But experienced data analysts and data scientists can be expensive and difficult to find and retain. One potential solution to this challenge is to deploy self-service analytics, a type of business intelligence (BI) that enables business users to perform queries and generate reports on their own with little or no help from IT or data specialists.

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Google and Twitter veteran maps out a Twitter alternative

TechCrunch

Twitter’s new CEO and owner Elon Musk is rattling the cage at his social network and ruffling a lot of feathers both inside and outside of the company. But while some in the tech world describe that kind of chaos as a garbage fire, others see it as something very different: an opportunity. Years-old federated social networks, legacy social platforms that have their own issues and a cacophony of pre-existing fringe efforts are all emerging as possible alternatives to Twitter.

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Salesforce announces hundreds of job cuts

CIO

Cloud-based CRM software provider Salesforce has become the latest technology company to announce mass layoffs, cutting at least hundreds of jobs from its 73,000-person workforce. “Our sales performance process drives accountability. Unfortunately, that can lead to some leaving the business, and we support them through their transition,” Salesforce said in a statement confirming the layoffs.

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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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Daily Crunch: Meta decimates its staff as the social media giant lays off 11,000

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. Whooo-weee interesting times for crypto land, as Bitcoin crashes down to under $17,000 for the first time in a while. Wild, given that the cryptocurrency was trading at $65,000 or so a year ago. That’s a 74% decrease. What kind of winter is this — are we seeing a crypto cold snap or crypto permafrost?

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The bottom keeps dropping for software valuations

TechCrunch

Another day, another 52-week low. It seems that instead of finding fresh support, the value of software companies keeps discovering new basement levels to descend into. This afternoon, software stocks were off 3% or so, while the broader Nasdaq composite was down around 2% in mid-afternoon trading. The dramatic collapse in the value of software stocks has been a key story starting when the trend began in late 2021.

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Business or IT: Who Drives Results with Your Data?

CIO

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax One of the most painful – and pained – statements I’ve heard in the last two years was from an IT leader who said, “my team is struggling to find ways that our company’s data could be valuable to the business.” Contrast this with what a financial services CIO told me: “Our CEO told every line of business general manager you now have a second job: you’re the general manager of the data produced in your line of business.

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Why mobile subscription management platforms are enjoying tailwinds

TechCrunch

Game engine company Unity and adtech company IronSource finalized their merger this week, aiming to “create an end-to-end for developers to build and monetize games,” TechCrunch reported. While there’d be a lot to say about the deal from the perspective of game developers, we’d like to look at this from a different angle and wonder who might one day do the same, but for non-gaming apps.

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Rust vs Python – What Are The Differences

The Crazy Programmer

Software engineering has come a long way since the 1980s. From BASIC to C, Python, and Java, people can write much more complicated programs. Programming languages have diverged and evolved, helping to shape our current software industry. Despite all of the advances in programming languages, it is still common for new programmers to get stuck when learning a new language.

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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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Gaming company Kabam lays off 7% of its workforce to better align with goals

TechCrunch

Kabam , the gaming company that has developed mobile games in partnership with entertainment brands including Disney, Marvel and Universal, has laid off about 7% — around 35 people — of its workforce, TechCrunch has learned from sources and confirmed with the company over email. The Vancouver-based company informed the affected employees about the move earlier this week, a person familiar with the development said. “As we at Kabam reviewed our strategic priorities, we made the decision to

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How to Make an Even Better Career Elevator Pitch

Let's Grow Leaders

Use this Simple Technique for a Better Career Elevator Pitch. Do you ever think of exactly the right thing to say — your perfect career elevator pitch — the moment you walk away from the conversation? Do you want to make a better impression when you have only a few moments to share your ideas or ask for something you need? Today on Asking for a Friend , we go old-school and talk about a very practical, and easy-to-implement technique for getting people’s attention and making an

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With new capital, Adapty is betting it can help app devs make more money

TechCrunch

Mobile developers earned more than $260 billion on Apple’s App Store between its launch in 2008 and the end of 2021. And yet, Apple doesn’t provide an easy way for companies to maximize how much they make from their apps — and neither does Google, which owns the rival Google Play Store. Enter New York City-based Adapty , which hopes to help developers earn more from their apps.

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CIO Leadership Live with Ivneet Kaur, Chief Technology Officer at Silicon Valley Bank

CIO

Ivneet Kaur, Chief Technology Officer at Silicon Valley Bank, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They discuss the evolving digital customer experience, secure cloud migrations, agile-first, API-first strategies, competing for tech talent and more.

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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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Airly fights air pollution with a network of affordable sensors

TechCrunch

Cleantech startup Airly wants to help communities around the world improve air quality with affordable sensors and software that provides actionable insights. Based in London and Krakow, the startup announced today it has raised $5.5 million. The round was led by firstminute capital and Pi Labs, with participation from returning investors like the Sir Richard Branson Family Office, AENU and Untitled.

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Climate Innovators in the Information Age

CIO

Doing good for the planet is not inversely proportional to doing good business. Today it can actually mean better profit, stronger customer loyalty, and longer company sustainability. First, offices are finding paper less necessary than they used to. Recent surveys show a drop in paper consumption since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Work-from-home and remote offices have played a part in the drop, but even as employees reenter the office full-time or in a hybrid arrangement, paper consumption sti

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3 tips for managing a remote engineering team

TechCrunch

Greg Soh. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kuan Wei (Greg) Soh is a technology entrepreneur and angel investor who enjoys building world-class technology teams. Previously, he worked in financial services, the hedge fund industry and at high-growth startups. Remote work is not for every business and it may not be everyone’s cup of tea. When my co-founder and I decided to build a distributed engineering team for our startup, numerous questions raced through our minds: Will they be productive?

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Checking out LiveViewJS

Xebia

Recently we stumbled upon a serverside oriented web framework called LiveViewJS. It’s inspired by Phoenix LiveView , a well known web framework written in Elixir. We ( Arjan Molenaar and Albert Brand ) decided to take it for a spin during one of our Innovation afternoons. TL;DR: it’s not ready yet for production usage, but it’s promising. In the serverside framework space many new paradigms have been popping up.

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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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Power up with our partners at TC Sessions: Crypto

TechCrunch

We’re packing our bags and getting pumped about flying to Miami for TC Sessions: Crypto on November 17. What about you? Don’t miss your chance to rub elbows with the kings and queens of blockchain, cryptocurrency, DeFi, NFT and web3 — the current rulers and the up-and-coming contenders for the crown. Buy your pass today and join the royal courtiers of the cryptoverse.

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A DevOps Reset for a Multi-Cloud World

DevOps.com

In the world of DevOps, only two things really matter: To release applications and updates as quickly as possible To have access to resources (processing, storage, networks) able to run those apps, as cost-effectively as possible. The measures used to achieve these twin goals should work together seamlessly–otherwise, you’re inefficient. But software development and IT […].

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Equals secures $15M investment to supercharge spreadsheets

TechCrunch

Equals , a New York-based startup ambitiously aiming to challenge Excel’s dominance with a supercharged spreadsheet, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Craft Ventures, Box Group, Worklife and Combine. Co-founded by Ben McRedmond and Bobby Pinero, two former Intercom employees, Equals claims its spreadsheet is one of the few with built-in connections to databases, versioning and collaboration feat

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JavaScript security best practices for securing your applications

Synopsys

JavaScript, like other programming languages, are not without security challenges. These JavaScript security best practices will help you build more-secure code. The post JavaScript security best practices for securing your applications appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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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Next acquires Made.com’s brand and IP as the online furniture retailer enters administration

TechCrunch

We knew it was happening, but U.K.-based online furniture and home accessories retailer Made.com has officially entered administration , confirming previous reports with the appointment yesterday of PricewaterhouseCoopers as administrators. While Made.com had revealed that it was in discussions with potential buyers, nothing materialized in time and the company ceased taking new orders in late October, with none of the interested parties able to “meet the necessary timetable” for clo

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GitHub Previews Free CI/CD Migration Tool Due in 2023

DevOps.com

At its GitHub Universe event, GitHub today unveiled a bevy of updates to its cloud service, including a forthcoming set of migration tools. The tools will automate migrations from legacy continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions Importer is already being used by a small group of enterprise IT organizations to migrate […].

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How to Generate Extent Reports in Selenium WebDriver

Dzone - DevOps

We will learn how to generate Extent Reports in Selenium WebDriver in this tutorial. What Exactly Are Extent Reports? Extent Reports is an open-source reporting framework that can be used for test automation. It may be seamlessly connected with popular testing fabrics like JUnit, NUnit, TestNG, and others. These reports are HTML documents with pie maps that show the results.

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CloudBees Demos Orchestration Capabilities of ReleaseIQ Platform

DevOps.com

At the online DevOps World 2022 event today, CloudBees demonstrated for the first time the capabilities of the application release management platform it gained last month through the acquisition of ReleaseIQ. Shawn Ahmed, chief marketing officer and interim chief product officer at CloudBees, told conference attendees that the ReleaseIQ platform will provide application development teams […].

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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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#ClouderaLife Spotlight: Timur Nersesov, Senior Manager of Professional Services Strategy

Cloudera

We celebrate Veterans and Remembrance Day by honoring those who have served in the military. To commemorate this special occasion, we will spotlight Clouderan Timur Nersesov. . Timur was nine when he immigrated to the US. His first memory upon entering the country was a view of the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Center from the portal window of a plane.

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Cribl Simplifies Telemetry Data Analytics

DevOps.com

Cribl today announced general availability of a search capability that makes it simpler to query observability data where it resides without having to first collect and centrally store it. Nick Heudecker, senior director for market strategy for Cribl, said Cribl Search makes it possible to analyze telemetry data at its point of origin or when […].

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Unit 42 Strikes Oil in MITRE Engenuity Managed Services Evaluation

Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Managed Services team delivered outstanding results in the face of MITRE Engenuity’s first-ever ATT&CK® Evaluations for managed services. Our elite security experts at Unit 42 delivered a comprehensive threat report that provided quick and accurate attribution of the adversary and the tactics they used to accomplish their malicious objectives.

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