TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Kuda , the challenger bank based in Nigeria and the U.K., has joined the ranks of tech companies in Africa that are pruning their workforce. The news of the layoffs, which was first disclosed to TechCrunch by sources, was confirmed by Kuda via email, saying it laid off less than 5% of its 450-strong workforce, or about 23 people. The company’s numbers are small compared to other layoffs that have taken place within Africa’s tech ecosystem over the past few months, especially among startups that

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The US financial services industry has fully embraced a move to the cloud, driving a demand for tech skills such as AWS and automation, as well as Python for data analytics, Java for developing consumer-facing apps, and SQL for database work. The push is part of an industrywide trend toward making banking more accessible by giving customers better access to savings accounts, investments, and loans through digital services, according to careers website Dice.com.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

There has been stiff backlash against NFTs in video games since they first started popping up. In general, both gamers as well as industry professionals have disapproved blockchain implementations in video games, mostly over concerns over the environmental impact that the technology has. But NFTs aside, the video game industry is often left out when we talk about industries that have a major impact on the environment.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

With IT leaders increasingly needing data scientists to gain game-changing insights from a growing deluge of data, hiring and retaining those key data personnel is taking on greater importance. Without enough trained, high-level data scientists to fill all the job openings out there, CIOs are working with HR and hiring specialists to find ways to attract applicants.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

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. Today, Haje is particularly psyched that he was able to talk the TechCrunch Plus team into letting him publish one of his Pitch Deck Teardowns without the paywall. If you’re not a TC+ subscriber, and you’re curious what a critique of a $65 million funding round at a $1.7 billion valuation looks like, it’s your lucky day.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

As the broader economy and business environment continues to recover and rebound, there is an opportunity for IT leaders to leverage increased budgets to strategically invest in and prepare for new approaches to enterprise technology. As noted by Spiceworks, the majority of businesses are increasing IT spending, with a particular focus on modernisation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This was a Live Week, meaning that Alex , Natasha and Mary Ann recorded the show on Twitter Spaces, hanging out with a bunch of the Equity family. Good times were had! We also disclosed that we are recording live at Disrupt this year!

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

How has banking evolved during the rapid digitisation of recent years? The answer lies in changing consumer habits, tech-driven disruptions, and cultural shifts—the very trends that are setting the stage for the industry’s future. Millions of customers are going online, while shaping their expectations for digital experiences. They now seek personalised and seamless online experiences, with such demands persisting even as economic activities return to pre-pandemic levels.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Ryan Falvey. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ryan Falvey is the co-founder and managing partner of Financial Venture Studio , an early-stage fintech venture capital firm. More posts by this contributor. Is fintech’s Series A market hot, or just overhyped? Fintech’s $138 billion opportunity. This past year has seen a wholesale shift in how the market feels about fintech.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

If you are at a supermarket, the “dirty dozen” is a list of foods that are considered the most tainted. Similarly, if you are working in an enterprise or for a service provider, the dirty dozen is a list of issues that tarnish IT infrastructure, “contaminating” current enterprise-grade implementations and exposing the dangers and risks associated with them.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Vue components need to be registered before you can use them. This requires a lot of code that you have to maintain. Use unplugin-vue-components plugin to register components automatically. I’ll even tell you how this trick can be applied in Storybook and Jest/Vitest as well. The problem. Let’s say we have this <app-button> component that renders an <app-icon> The Button component template doesn’t know about app-icon , until you register it.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

By David Andrzejek, head of financial services, DataStax. Schrodinger’s Cat is a quantum mechanics thought experiment in which a hypothetical cat can be considered to be both alive and dead simultaneously. I can’t help but think of open banking in the United States — it’s not here, and, at the same time, it’s very much here. Pushed in part by an assault by upstart fintechs and non-financial tech giants like Google and Apple, North American financial institutions are turning to application progra

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

We all know there’s a chronic imbalance when it comes to DevOps talent: High demand and limited supply. Look no further than a 2021 DevOps Institute report which found that while 60% of organizations are hiring for such roles, 64% of IT leaders have a tough time finding skilled DevOps professionals. And it’s not just the […]. The post Solving the DevOps Labor Deficiency appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Technology is becoming ever-more core to the educational experience, with teachers and students alike relying on rich media, deep data and analytics and cloud delivery to drive better educational outcomes. At the same time, education has a specific set of requirements of IT that differentiate it from other verticals. Resilience and true all-day computing is required, as is massive scale as every student and teacher in every classroom needs to be working simultaneously.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

More than two years after the now-infamous hack of the firm SolarWinds, the incident is very much in the foreground of conversations about cybersecurity defense, threat detection and incident response. As evidence of that: The SolarWinds incident was the subject of five separate talks and panels at the recent RSA conference in San Francisco. Dozens […].

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

As the broader economy and business environment continues to recover and rebound, there is an opportunity for IT leaders to leverage increased budgets to strategically invest in and prepare for new approaches to enterprise technology. As noted by Spiceworks, the majority of businesses are increasing IT spending, with a particular focus on modernisation.

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LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In this post, we will discuss some of the challenges with testing in a world of feature flags and provide some recommendations for how to address these challenges.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Amir Arooni, executive vice president and CIO at Discover Financial Services, is a visionary IT leader with a passion for both the business and the human sides of technology. He’s also one of the best capital-D Differentiators I’ve ever met. He’s a strong believer in the importance of empowering people to do great work and developing them to be the kind of innovative anticipators who will continually deliver greater and more differentiated value for customers.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

CodeSee this week launched an enterprise platform based on its codebase visualization and mapping tools that makes it easier for developers to navigate and learn how an application was developed. CodeSee CEO Shanea Leven said this capability makes it simpler to understand how a codebase is constructed, including the application programming interfaces (APIs), without having […].

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Technology is becoming ever-more core to the educational experience, with teachers and students alike relying on rich media, deep data and analytics and cloud delivery to drive better educational outcomes. At the same time, education has a specific set of requirements of IT that differentiate it from other verticals. Resilience and true all-day computing is required, as is massive scale as every student and teacher in every classroom needs to be working simultaneously.

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CloudZero

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Over the past few years, Kubernetes (K8s) has become the preferred method of orchestrating containers and microservices. Its self-healing, high scalability, and open-source nature make it appealing to a wide range of users.

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Dzone - DevOps

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Database change is a tricky part of the application development process: it usually involves multiple databases from different environments and cross-team collaboration, to add on top of it, databases are touch and go. It got us thinking: can we treat databases the same way we treat application code? DORA (DevOps Research & Assessment) pointed out that integrating database work into the software delivery process positively contributes to continuous delivery.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In this episode of Tech. Strong. Women., guest Nicole Dove, head of security at Riot Games, discusses with hosts Charlene O’Hanlon and Tracy Bannon her non-traditional path into IT and ways in which females can unconsciously sabotage themselves, as well as the impact of a strong mentor, regardless of gender. The video is below followed […].

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Dzone - DevOps

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Whether you implement microservices or not (and you probably shouldn't), your system is most probably composed of multiple components. The most straightforward system is probably made of a reverse proxy, an app, and a database. In this case, monitoring is not only a good idea, it's a requirement. The higher the number of components through which a request may flow, the strongest the requirement.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

David Williams, VP of Porduct Strategy at Quali, and Charlene discuss David’s top tips to better governance in DevOps. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Charlene O’Hanlon: Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Techstrong TV. I’m Charlene O’Hanlon, and I’m here now with David Williams, who is the VP of product […].

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Ivanti

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In the late twentieth century, the concept of the digital divide entered our consciousness. At the time, the term referred to people who didn’t have access to a telephone. That is, the Haves in society had telephones. The Have-Nots didn’t. In the early part of the twenty-first century, the definition of the digital divide expanded to include people who didn’t have access to the internet, particularly those who had no access to broadband.

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TechSoup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Google Analytics (GA) is a free tool that shows you how people are using your website or app. You can use it to monitor growth in your site, spot the more popular pages or blog posts, and assess the effectiveness of your marketing strategies. This can help you to tailor your site and strategies towards potential volunteers and supporters, building awareness and growing donations.

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