Wed.Feb 08, 2023

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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO

The need for efficient software development has taken on greater importance as enterprises introduce more and more digital services and add automation capabilities to enhance business processes. Managing software projects might not be at the top of CIOs’ priority lists , but it is something that IT leaders will have to master. There are plenty of challenges involved in managing software projects, and IT executives who learn how to address these hurdles can help their organizations build better a

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An example of modularizing a React application

Martin Fowler

Juntao Qiu illuminates his general description of modularizing a React application with a small example of presenting a user a dynamic set of choices.

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AI is the next frontier — but for whom?

TechCrunch

A few weeks ago, a founder told me it took three hours of endless clicking to find an AI-generated portrait of a Black woman. It reminded me, in some ways, of a speech I saw three years ago when Yasmin Green , the then-director of research and development for Jigsaw, spoke about how human bias seeps into the programming of AI. Her talk and this founder, miles away and years apart, are two pieces of the same puzzle.

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CIOs Discuss how to Enhance the Digital Experience Across the Business

CIO

Both customer and employee experience have seen an accelerated transformation with the introduction of cloud technologies, were significantly affected by the pandemic, and now see a remarkable shift in terms of new approaches in leadership. In customer experience, the introduction of cloud-based solutions has accelerated automation and enhanced client success prediction accuracy.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Why more startups are getting compliant

TechCrunch

SaaS startups are working on acquiring enterprise clients earlier than they used to, and this is changing their road map. “What I’ve seen is more and more companies are launching with table stakes enterprise features [ … ] whereas those used to be added in at closer to $5 million-$10 million in annual recurring revenue,” tweeted David Peterson, a partner at Angular Ventures.

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Former Salesforce exec Bret Taylor is teaming up with Google AR/VR vet Clay Bavor on mystery startup

TechCrunch

When Bret Taylor announced he was stepping down as co-CEO and co-chair at Salesforce in November, it was easy to be cynical about him saying he wanted to go build again. Well, guess what? He wanted to go build again — and today he and long time Google engineering veteran Clay Bavor announced they were teaming up on a new mystery project. Bavor, who spent almost seven years as the VP of AR and VR at Google as part of an 18 year career with the company, was coy in a LinkedIn post about what

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Episode 2: How AI can help bridge the employee-employer expectations gap

CIO

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella observed last year that every organization in every industry will need to infuse technology into every business process and function so that they can do more with less. But he wasn’t talking about working harder or longer – he was talking about the need to apply technology to augment and amplify what we’re doing across the business, in order to be more resilient and more innovative.

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Fable Foods land Series A for its mushroom-based meat alternatives

TechCrunch

The promise of alternative meat products has been under scrutiny lately, with articles in Bloomberg and the Washington Post questioning if it’ll ever be truly embraced by consumers. Other news like the drop in Beyond Meat’s stock price and mass layoffs at Impossible Foods have cast further questions on the industry’s future. Amid all this scrutiny, however, Fable Food, an Australian startup that makes plant-based meat out of mushrooms, announced its latest funding round, a Series A of $8.5 milli

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How MaRS Discovery District’s André Allen helps nurture a hub of talent

CIO

Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District is a renowned urban innovation hub supporting ventures and startups tackling key challenges in the health, cleantech, fintech and enterprise sectors. And André Allen, MaRS’ VP of IT, chief privacy officer and CISO, is at the center of its growth, ambition, and success. “I’ve been with MaRS for just over a year and a half and I’m responsible for all aspects of information technology, including business systems, software engineering systems, operations, service, d

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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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Sequoia India’s Surge backs engineering analytics startup Hatica in $3.7M funding

TechCrunch

Uber alums’ engineering analytics startup Hatica has raised $3.7 million in a funding round led by Sequoia India and Southeast Asia’s Surge, they said Thursday. The San Francisco-headquartered startup aims to boost the productivity and well-being of developers by helping them better understand how they are spending their time with detailed engineering analytics. “There was no objective way to understand what would be a problem,” said Hatica co-founder and CEO Naomi Copra

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Apache Kafka Beyond the Basics: Windowing

Confluent

Learn what windowing is, the difference between the four types of windows (hopping and tumbling, or session and sliding), and how to create them.

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Dear Sophie: Will published articles better my odds of getting an O-1A or H-1B visa?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor Dear Sophie: What H-1B and other immigration changes can we expect this year?

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What’s new in Citus 11.2 for Postgres, plus Patroni HA support for Citus

The Citus Data

Our goal for the Citus extension is for you to be able to use all PostgreSQL features at any scale, with a seamless scaling experience. Distributed tables (or more generally “Citus tables”) are a powerful tool to get high performance at any scale. There are only a few remaining limitations when distributing a PostgreSQL table, but we are determined to solve them all.

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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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Data observability platform Acceldata raises $50M

TechCrunch

Acceldata , the company behind a data observability platform used by multinational enterprises including Oracle and Verisk, today announced it has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding. Founded in 2018, San Jose-based Acceldata is one of a growing number of companies setting out to help organizations understand the health of their data, and identify any problems with data that may be spread across multiple clouds, applications, and systems.

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The Problem with “We Should”

Perficient

“We Should” is Said a Lot I’ve worked at a handful of companies throughout my career. If you split the years out, half of my time has been working within an agency and the other half has been in-house. The agency work has allowed me to see dozens of other companies as well. I’ve been able to participate in high-level business strategy sessions, company culture discussions, branding efforts, and advertising campaign planning and execution.

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Streamdal wants to bring greater visibility to streaming data architectures

TechCrunch

The rise of streaming architectures — frameworks of software components built to ingest and process large volumes of data from multiple sources — is driving the demand for better reliability and performance. Engineering teams often encode data to improve app performance by using what are known as “message envelopes.” But these add complexity — and tend to be difficult and costly to debug.

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Gathering, Understanding, and Using Traffic Telemetry for Network Observability

Kentik

Traffic telemetry is the data collected from network devices and used for analysis. With traffic telemetry, engineers can gain real-time visibility into traffic patterns, correlate events, and make predictions of future traffic patterns. As a critical input to a network observability platform, this data can help monitor and optimize network performance, troubleshoot issues, and detect security threats.

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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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EV startup Zypp Electric nabs $25M to hit 30 Indian cities by 2025

TechCrunch

Zypp Electric, an Indian startup that offers an EV-as-a-service platform catering to e-commerce companies and gig workers, has received a $25 million investment led by Taiwan’s battery-swapping giant Gogoro. The cash from Gogoro is an extension of a strategic partnership between the two companies, and a signal of Gogoro’s continued commitment to the Indian market.

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Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier

DevOps.com

In this week’s #TheLongView: Alleged theft of GPL code, and Amazon will run its data centers on gas. The post Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Announcing the first group of speakers for TC Early Stage

TechCrunch

TechCrunch Early Stage is the place to be for the founder who is just getting started. On April 20, we’re excited to bring our show to Boston, Massachusetts. We’re bringing together experts from the Northeast and Silicon Valley to chat through myriad startup core competencies — from fundraising to operations to marketing — and outline step-by-step guides on how you can set up and grow your business.

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Appdome Integrates Mobile Security Platform With CircleCI CI/CD

DevOps.com

Appdome this week made available an integration for the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform from CircleCI that promises to make it simpler to secure mobile applications before they are deployed. As a provider of a platform for securing mobile applications running on iOS and Android platforms, Appdome provides a runtime application self-protection (RASP) platform that, […] The post Appdome Integrates Mobile Security Platform With CircleCI CI/CD appeared first on DevO

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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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Former Gemini CTO launches Fierce, a high-yield finance super app

TechCrunch

Managing your finances can be difficult, especially if you want to try something new like investing or even taking out a mortgage for the first time. Now meet Fierce , a new company out to change that. It’s developing a finance super app that is bringing together what founder and CEO Robert Cornish calls “the best of fintech for the customer.” “Five years ago, you couldn’t really do this,” Cornish told TechCrunch.

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We Are Living in an Ephemeral World

DevOps.com

We are lucky to live and work in the times that we do. Oh, we have our challenges, and I talk about them a fair amount here on these pages. But the things we can do in IT today have not been possible in the past, and the change isn’t over. Soon you will be […] The post We Are Living in an Ephemeral World appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CodeSOD: An Exceptional Zero

The Daily WTF

One of the most powerful features of using exceptions for error handling is that they let you create your own exceptions, and thus accurately describe the family of exceptional situations your code could generate. On the flip side, some developers over-specialize, creating custom exceptions for every different place an out-of-range error could happen, for example.

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Report Affirms Continued AWS Cloud Dominance

DevOps.com

A report published this week by Wiz, a provider of a cloud security platform, found more than half of organizations (57%) are using multiple clouds, with 22% currently using three or more platforms. However, the report also noted that 72% of all workloads are running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Among organizations that […] The post Report Affirms Continued AWS Cloud Dominance appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Top 5 Data Science Use Cases You Should Know About

Dataiku

Whether you're exploring a handful or hundreds of data science use cases, the application of data science across the company can seem nearly endless. Let’s explore some of the most common data science use cases and how they can benefit businesses.

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What Is an API Integration Example?

Dzone - DevOps

An API integration is the code that allows one system to transfer data to or from another system while using an API ( a pplication p rogramming i nterface) to securely access the system. Some API integrations may only have an API on one side of the integration, while others might use two or more APIs.

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Technical know-how is no longer enough

CEO Insider

Human skills, often referred to as soft skills, define how we engage with others and often include leadership, communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving, to name a few. Many other cognitive and socio-emotional skills come into play, and these skills often provide the foundation pivotal for high emotional Intelligence or EQ. In a nutshell, EQ is […] The post Technical know-how is no longer enough appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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