Wed.Dec 29, 2021

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Moving From Good BI to Better BI to Even Better AI

Dataiku

Many organizations believe that they need to have all their data ducks lined up before they attempt AI analytics. They believe they need to have conquered traditional or business intelligence (BI) analytics first, including data catalogs, data lineage, master data management, big data, etc. before planning for AI. While this conventional thinking has merits, it results in high opportunity costs and carries risks.

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3 views: How due diligence will change in 2022

TechCrunch

A few years ago, VCs were expected to perform extensive due diligence on startups. Investors dove into financials, called customers and vetted founders. But power has now shifted toward the founders after a long run of investors holding more than half the power thanks to the commoditization of capital. The pace at which deals were done increased, and the time to reach what VCs love to call “conviction” fell sharply.

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CVE-2021-44832: New Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Log4j

Aqua Security

This holiday season, adversaries aren’t taking a vacation, massively exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in Log4j, a highly popular Java logging library. Amid the ongoing efforts of organizations to patch their vulnerable systems, a new Log4j vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-44832, has been discovered. It allows for an arbitrary code execution via JDBC Appender when an attacker can modify the logging configuration.

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TuSimple completes its first driverless autonomous truck run on public roads

TechCrunch

Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple has completed its first autonomous truck run on open public roads without a human in the vehicle, according to the company. TuSimple’s Autonomous Driving System (ADS) navigated 100% of the 80-mile run along surface streets and highways between a railyard in Tuscon, Arizona and a distribution center in Phoenix, which took place with no human intervention, marking a milestone for the company that aims to scale its technology into purpose-built trucks by 2

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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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Improving Development Velocity Using Ephemeral Environments

Dzone - DevOps

Velocity is a measurement of how many story points a software development team can finish within a sprint (usually one or two weeks). These points are set by the software development team when they review a ticket and estimate how complex the ticket is. When a team measures this output over a period of time, generally they have a consistent amount of story points they can deliver in a sprint and their velocity is known.

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40 predictions for 2022

TechBeacon

With 2022 just around the corner, IT professionals are wondering whether the new year will remain as challenging as this year and last.

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9 Nonprofit Website Trends for 2022

TechSoup

With a rapidly changing industry, nonprofit marketers and organizations have needed to become more effective and efficient in their strategy and implementation. Changes are occurring so quickly that 89 percent of nonprofit marketers have already changed their digital engagement strategy in the last year.

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From Log4j to the Future of Business: Our year in review

Lacework

Here at Lacework we’ve had a really busy and wonderful year. Our editorial team, Lacework Labs and our leaders have been busy writing about everything from Jay Parikh joining Lacework as co-CEO, to the Log4j vulnerability and everything in between. We wanted to make sure you had a chance to catch up on our whereabouts [.]. Read More. from From Log4j to the Future of Business: Our year in review.

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Vite JS – The Installation Guide

Radixweb

In the first article from the Vite JS introduction series, we have covered what Vite JS is, its advantages, features, and how to build an app. In case if you did not get a chance to walk through the basic introduction, well, you can read on Vite JS – the next-gen frontend build tool.

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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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21 Financial KPIs Every SaaS Company Should Be Monitoring

CloudZero

Since the first software-as-a-service (SaaS) company entered the market in 1999 , Salesforce, the industry has exploded. Experts are predicting that the industry will exceed $600 billion by 2023 at an 18% compound annual growth rate.

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Manage and Authenticate Users with Netlify Identity

Netlify

Throughout December we’ll be highlighting a different Netlify feature each day. It might just be the thing you need to unlock those creative juices, and dust off that domain you registered but never deployed! Keep an eye on the blog and on Twitter for each feature! “Authenticating users is a no-brainer”, said no one ever. Managing user data, creating a login process, setting roles, gating content, these things are hard.

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Best of…: Best Of 2021: Totally Up To Date

The Daily WTF

2021 has been a year that flew by so quickly it's hard to keep up. But keeping up with changes can frequently be harder than it seems. The year was 2015. Erik was working for LibCo, a company that offered management software for public libraries. The software managed inventory, customer tracking, fine calculations, and everything else the library needed to keep track of their books.

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4 Ransomware Resolutions For a More Secure 2022

Arcserve

What a year it’s been. 2021 will go down in history as a challenging year thanks in no small part to the ongoing pandemic. But it’s been an especially tough year for IT pros and cybersecurity experts. We saw ransomware take down the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S.—Colonial Pipeline—leading to shortages across the East.

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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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What The Future Holds For CloudOps In 2022

Daffodil Software

Discussions about the future of cloud implementation always involve the building and operating of DevOps platforms in cloud-native environments, which is also known as CloudOps. However, the proper know-how to fully grasp the long-term impact, challenges, and solutions of this technology are quite limited in the software industry.

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Securing Software in the Fast, Feature-Driven SDLC

Security Innovation

For the past 18 months, I've had the pleasure of hosting dozens of technology and cybersecurity experts on Ed TALKS , a moderated discussion about today's security strategies. This Ed TALK featured executives from the three principal stakeholders of product security - product management, engineering, and security. While they all worked in different industries and took varying security approaches, each had the same corporate charter: get feature-rich solutions to the market quickly with the right

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Reddit Careers That Use Physics

SCRUMstudy

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A Brief History of Monero Explained

Strategy Driven

Among the top cryptocurrencies in the world, Monero (XMR) made a name for itself as one of the best digital currencies for anonymous transactions. Its focus on privacy and security attracted a large number of users from all sides of the legal spectrum. While Monero is one of the most well-known coins in the realm of crypto, it may be surprising to some people that the famous privacy-oriented currency started as a humble grassroots movement in 2014.

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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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Story Points and Planning Poker: How to Make Estimates in Scrum and Agile

Altexsoft

“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future!”. Niels Bohr, the Nobel laureate in Physics. Do you know the story of Sagrada Familia – the famous cathedral in Barcelona? It’s the most well-known unfinished project in the world, whose construction started in 1882 and the completion date has been postponed many times due to wars, vandalism, pandemic, and so on.

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My New Year’s Resolution: Going Passwordless!

Ivanti

What is your New Year’s resolution for 2022? Well, it is that time of year again! My resolutions are not necessarily new, but a continuation of several that I have made in prior years. Eat healthier foods, lose weight, and save money are the ones that immediately come to mind. Another best practice that I started several years ago was to adopt a passwordless authentication initiative for all my internet connected personal devices.

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Top 5 benefits of DevOps!

Openxcell

DevOps has drawn the attention of the IT industry, and that too for all the right reasons. The information technology industry is frequently growing and transforming. As a result, DevOps was born out of the desire to produce high-quality output with few post-production defects. DevOps come among the many new, trendy ideas businesses have adopted. In the easiest terms, DevOps collaborates with the development and operations teams in the service lifestyle, and it closely examines all procedures.

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The Clinical Trial Technical Challenge: Programmability and Extensibility at Scale

Dzone - DevOps

Clinical trials are an extraordinarily complex and vitally important undertaking. These are enormous projects, with the cost of developing a single new drug averaging $2.6 billion. A phase-3 clinical trial — the final stage before approval — will involve thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, of participants. Hundreds, even thousands, of data points for each participant must be tracked over time for years.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Dear Sophie: Will the H-1B lottery be based on the highest wages?

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’s allowed between a K-1 visa and a green card?

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