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Why do we need to submit this year?

Agile Alliance

You’ve read enough by now about what the pandemic did to us all. We fled our office spaces trying to stay safe. In-person events were canceled because we all weren’t comfortable attending. Everyone retreated into our homes where we, many of us still to this day, wrapped a cocoon around our homes trying to keep … Continued. The post Why do we need to submit this year?

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Social commerce startup Kapu, by ex-Jumia executive, comes out of stealth with $8M funding

TechCrunch

Kapu , a social commerce startup, coming out of stealth today having raised $8 million seed funding, is hoping to help lessen the burden of buying food for Kenyan consumers, many of whom are grappling with the sky-rocketing food prices. Kapu founder, Sam Chappatte , former Jumia Group executive vice president, said the startup has since inception in January this year been building a B2C e-commerce service that enables consumers buy groceries at lower prices, through online and offline channels.

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Decomposition in DBMS – Lossless and Lossy

The Crazy Programmer

Decomposition means dividing a large and complex table into multiple small and easy tables. This removes redundancy, anomalies, and inconsistency in a database. This is the first stage of normalization. Suppose we have a relational schema R, in which we have attributes as given below: A 1 , A 2 , A 3 …………A n. So R = {A 1 , A 2 , A 3 …………A n }. If we decompose it into small parts then R will be divided into the following parts: R 1 , R 2 …….Rx.

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How Tech Recruiters Can Build Better Employer Branding With Marketing

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

An employer brand plays a crucial role in the employee value proposition. It essentially refers to what the organization has successfully communicated as its identity to its current and potential employees. According to Workable, 9 out of 10 candidates would apply for a job when it’s from an employer brand that’s actively maintained. Intrigued about employer branding?

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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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Kotlin vs. Java: All-purpose Uses and Android Apps

Toptal

Kotlin and Java are two powerful general-purpose languages popular for Android and beyond. We’ll discuss their top features and differences, then focus on how to smoothly transition between the two.

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Key Governance Issues in Board Level Search

N2Growth Blog

What’s happening inside the Boardroom has never been more crucial to business outcomes and more visible to interested parties. In today’s uncertain economic conditions and fierce market competition, everyone from shareholders to regulators closely monitor how boards perform and if board members are upholding their fiduciary duty. Because of these factors, board governance continues to be critical for overall business success today.

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Why Disruptive Innovation Is Not The Answer

CEO Insider

Pragmatic, rather than disruptive innovation, is what is driving companies forward. There’s only one word that may be buzzier than “recession,” one that strikes even more fear into the hearts of executives across industries: It’s all about disruption these days, isn’t it? I don’t think so. Just because disruption is taking place, it doesn’t mean that […].

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Purpose-Driven Board Leadership; What to Consider in Your Next Board Recruitment

N2Growth Blog

Today’s boardrooms look less and less like the boardrooms of the past few decades. Boards are increasingly visible to their organizations, stakeholders, and the public. There are high standards for how boards uphold their fiduciary responsibility today and contribute to a future-proof organization for tomorrow. Board accountability is in the spotlight, and diversity in the boardroom is more than just a buzzword.

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Failure Handling in Katalon

Perficient

What is Failure Handling in Katalon? Failure handling settings allow users to specify whether Katalon Studio should continue running in the event of an error during execution. Katalon Studio currently supports the following failure handling options: Option. Description. Stop on Failure. If an error occurs, Katalon Studio will halt execution. The step with errors will be marked as Failed.

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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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How a Board Search Firm Can Support Organizations

N2Growth Blog

Boardrooms today face new, evolving challenges that are increasingly complex to navigate, and they are under immense pressure and scrutiny to operate at maximum effectiveness. In the wake of volatile global economic conditions (which show no signs of stabilizing ), growing pressure from regulators, and complex demands from shareholders, Boards need to be thoughtfully composed, so they can thrive today, achieve their future goals, and understand the levers they can pull to be more impactful and m

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How Business Women Can Beat Self-Doubt and Reach Their Goals

Women on Business

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7 Considerations When Opening An Auto Repair Shop

Strategy Driven

Opening an auto repair shop is both a challenging and exciting venture. It requires careful planning, dedication, and lots of hard work. Before you dive in, there are several considerations to make that will lay the groundwork for success. In this article, we’ll look at seven key considerations when opening an auto repair shop to help you prepare for this rewarding opportunity. 1.

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When a startup’s founders are pretty much its board

TechCrunch

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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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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Zero Trust: Hype or Hope?

CIO

Businesses are always in need of the most robust security possible. As the remote workforce expanded during and post-COVID, so did the attack surface for cybercriminals—forcing security teams to pivot their strategy to effectively protect company resources. Furthermore, the rise of organisations moving to the cloud, increasing complexity of IT environments, and legacy technical debts means tighter security mechanisms are vital.

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Egypt’s SideUp raises $1.2M to grow its e-commerce support platform

TechCrunch

After four years operating primarily as a logistics marketplace, Egypt’s Voo has rebranded to SideUp and transformed its strategy to offer a complete spectrum of e-commerce support services, including payment gateways, API integration for shipping, warehousing, fulfillment, and advisory. The startup has also expanded to Saudi Arabia, where it will be headquartered henceforth, after raising $1.2 million seed funding.

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6 Ways to Improve Your Software Sales

Strategy Driven

With the growing number of software development companies comes competition. For this reason, you need to devise a strategy to stand out from the competition. This involves improving the quality of your software product. It also involves building a well-established marketing plan to attract and convert new clients, encourage existing clients to renew software licenses, and promote additional products to existing clientele.