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The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise

CIO

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. To become a software-powered organisation, companies must first identify and address the concerns of its developers in areas such as developer experience, developer velocity and software security.

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Fintech in 2022: A story of falling funding, fewer unicorns and insurtech M&A

TechCrunch

If you thought the fourth quarter of 2022 felt slow when it came to investment activity in the fintech space, that’s because it was. In fact, the three-month period marked the lowest quarter for U.S. fintech funding since 2018, according to CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 Report. But overall, while total fintech funding globally was down markedly last year compared to 2021, numbers were still higher than 2020.

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Delegation: The biggest test for transformational CIOs

CIO

Two events influenced Schneider Electric CIO Elizabeth Hackenson to distribute more decision-making authority throughout the company’s IT organization. “During the pandemic we needed to have people make as many local decisions as possible,” which she says was essential to keep operations moving across the 100 countries in which the company operates.

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German teens went crazy for this ‘compliments’ app, and now VCs are backing its next phase

TechCrunch

The teenage market for apps is a tough nut to crack and stay relevant in. Just ask Snapchat. Equally, teens are going through a stage in life where almost every social interaction seems to carry portent of some kind of other. This would explain in part why apps like SendIt, NGL, and Nocapp (some are Snapchat connected tools) took off as ways for teens to anonymously comment on each other.

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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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CIO Wendy Pfeiffer on getting hybrid work right

CIO

Wendy M. Pfeiffer is a technology leader who’s as dedicated to excellence in operations and delivery as she is to maintaining a focus on innovation. She joined Nutanix as SVP and CIO following a successful career leading technology teams at companies like GoPro, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, and Robert Half. Highly regarded by her industry peers for her courageous transparency and candor, Pfeiffer also serves on the boards of Qualys, SADA Systems, and the American Gaming Association (AGA).

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How Well-established Enterprises Can Achieve Innovation without Disruption

CIO

Before any innovation initiative starts, there are questions (and usually lots of them). What is innovation and, more importantly, what does it mean for your organization? What fears or misperceptions hold innovation back? If you haven’t yet, check out this blog before reading this follow-up piece. Decades ago, Netflix mailed DVDs to homes and a copy of the Yellow Pages was next to every landline phone.

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Teach yourself growth marketing: How to boot up an email marketing campaign

TechCrunch

Jonathan Martinez Contributor Share on Twitter Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor Teach yourself growth marketing: How to launch a paid acquisition channel Teach yourself growth marketing: How to set up a landing page Without customers, there can be no business.

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CIO Leadership live with Derek Cullen, CIO of Stikeman Elliott

CIO

Derek Cullen, CIO, Stikeman Elliott discusses the evolving role of the CIO as a leader and business partner. He also discusses supporting career development through networking and volunteering.

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Zitti soaks up some funding sauce so restaurants can manage their food supply chain

TechCrunch

Getting a handle on food costs at an independent restaurant is a constant challenge for owners, and there is a long list of startups, like MarginEdge , OneOrder , TouchBistro , PreciTaste , ConverseNow , Fudo , Owner.com , that have stepped with their solutions. Zitti’s app shows food pricing insights. Image Credits: Zitti Zitti ’s co-founder Dante DiCicco is coming at this problem, but from a unique standpoint: as a restauranteur.

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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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Leveraging Cybersecurity to Supercharge Retail’s Frontline

CIO

By Ravi Balwada, CTO of Guitar Center In retail, we don’t have the luxury of thinking about security as an afterthought. We have to think about security early in the innovation process and make sure our security best practices, governance and architectures are taken into account when we are designing our solutions—everything from defining what a container needs to look like when we deploy something to what sort of access controls we have.

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Copilot lands $10M to help service businesses build digital customer experiences

TechCrunch

Copilot , a platform aimed at helping companies, including marketing agencies, accounting firms and law firms, run and grow their businesses, today announced that it raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by YC Continuity and Lachy Groom at a $100 million post-money valuation. Co-founder and CEO Marlon Misra said that the funds will be put toward expanding Copilot’s team, particularly on the engineering and product organization side, to build a “Shopify-like” app st

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. The authors state that the target audience is technical people and, second, business people who work with technical people. The audience is very broad when described that way. Nevertheless, I strongly agree.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Scrintal’s $1M seed deck

TechCrunch

There’s no shortage of tools for brainstorming, collaboration and keeping all your knowledge in one place. Still, judging from the number of new tools that come to market on a regular basis, it seems that people are frustrated with the available tools. Scrintal recently raised $1 million to build its visual collaborative knowledge base tool and shared its deck for us to take a peek under the hood.

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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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Article: Finding Adequate Metrics for Outer, Inner, and Process Quality in Software Development

InfoQ Culture Methods

Implementing a feature can be measured. Quality is harder to measure. This article explores how to balance improving quality and adding new features. It dives into different domains of quality: Outer quality which is owned by the product people (e.g. product owners, testers), inner quality owned by the developers, and process quality owned by managers.

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Dry-cleaning robotics startup Presso pulls in another $8M

TechCrunch

In late-2020, Presso pivoted. It made a lot of sense at the time. People weren’t traveling much and therefore weren’t particularly hung up on getting their business attire dry-cleaned. Certainly the hospitality industry — which had been identified as a major potential revenue sort –0 had effectively ground to a screeching halt. Around that time, the film industry was looking for a quick, safe and efficient way to clean wardrobes at the height of the pandemic, and as it happens, Press

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Optimizing the Developer Experience in 2023

DevOps.com

2022 was a banner year for innovation, but not only in the traditional “churning out new features” way. Many organizations started thinking about their processes and how to amplify them to maximize efficiency and employee retention. And when they started digging, companies realized that the developer experience was a major pain point that could be […] The post Optimizing the Developer Experience in 2023 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Indian food delivery giant Swiggy to cut 380 jobs

TechCrunch

Swiggy plans to lay off 380 jobs and shut down its meat marketplace as the Prosus Venture and SoftBank-backed Indian food delivery giant looks to navigate the market downturn that has forced firms to become leaner and more disciplined. In an email to employees on Friday, Swiggy co-founder and chief executive Sriharsha Majety said the startup has advanced its plans for profitability and needs to make difficult decisions to conserve cash.

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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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8-Bit Floating Point for AI/ML? | Amazon and Microsoft Shed Tech Jobs

DevOps.com

In this week’s #TheLongView: New ideas bring low-power ML inference, and more big-tech jobs are going. The post 8-Bit Floating Point for AI/ML? | Amazon and Microsoft Shed Tech Jobs appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Connect and collaborate with new founders at TechCrunch Early Stage 2023

TechCrunch

Successful startup founders do not spring fully formed from the head of whatever god or goddess keeps tabs on entrepreneurs. It takes time to educate yourself, learn essential skills and acquire a smart, connected network. Here’s the great news — TechCrunch Early Stage, taking place April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts, is designed to help both early and future founders accelerate the learning curve.

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Complexity is Still With Us

DevOps.com

We have come a long way and had a lot of improvements over the years, but we still struggle with the ability to simplify things faster than we create complexity. It isn’t enough that each new wave of Really Important Bits™ comes with its own issues and layers and complexity; we also haven’t been cleaning […] The post Complexity is Still With Us appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Daily Crunch: Amazon cancels charitable donation initiative so it can focus on ‘programs with greater impact’

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Thursday! This week has just flown by, and we’re still reeling from the excitement that a company is leaning into compliments. Compliments? In this day and age? Is there actually hope for us after all?! Well, we have a compliment for ya, Mike — thank you for spreading some joy into our day today!

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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5 Things SecOps Can Learn from Dungeons & Dragons

TechBeacon

Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) has been experiencing a cultural renaissance thanks to the popularity of TV shows such as Stranger Things , web series such as Critical Role, and clothing lines such as Death Saves. The tabletop role-playing game leans heavily on fantasy tropes such as wizards and warriors, elves and goblins, and the eponymous dungeons and dragons.

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4 Motives Every Individual is Guided By: Money, Ideology, Compromise, and Ego

CEO Insider

The relationship that exists between producers and consumers, both striving for well-being, is what guides a fascinating subject known as economic behavior. This subject comprises the psychological, emotional, financial, social, and cultural views of the transfer of wealth. The fact that each individual is unique and has free will means that there is room for […] The post 4 Motives Every Individual is Guided By: Money, Ideology, Compromise, and Ego appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Apiumhub becomes a partner of the Global Summit for Node.js 23

Apiumhub

Geekle’s online conference, “Global Summit for Node.js 23,” is back this year, and Apiumhub is a proud partner. This conference will be held on January 25 and 26. If one of your New Year’s intentions was to attend more online or in-person tech industry events, this is a great place to start, especially if you work in the roles of CTO, team lead, backend developer, or Node JS developer.

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Why Every Fintech Company Needs DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

Fintech companies need the DevOps software development approach to ensure they are delivering safe, high-performance apps. Development and operations, or DevOps, is a software development method that combines traditionally siloed teams into one unit. This change allows for faster releases and updates, improved app performance, easier compliance and auditing, and stronger security.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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How to Connect to Salesforce with Postman

Perficient

What is Postman? Postman is an API development environment that is used to test an API, create and run automated tests, examine responses and do a lot more stuff. As a Salesforce Developer or Admin, you can use Postman to test APIs and their responses. So, let’s see how to set up Postman with Salesforce org to test your APIs. Setting Up Salesforce Org: First, we need to set up a connected app in our org.

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Research: The Unintended Consequences of Right-to-Repair Laws

Harvard Business Review

A model assessing their potential impact suggests manufacturers might flood the market with cheap goods, raise prices, or both.

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OWASP Top 10: Broken access control

Synopsys

Listed as #1 on the OWASP Top 10 list, broken access control is when an attacker can gain unauthorized access to restricted information or systems.

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