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Effective Large-Scale Learning

Agile42

More and more large corporates want and need to embrace agility. Becoming agile starts with achieving a shared understanding of the values, principles, and key practices. Continue reading Effective Large-Scale Learning at agile42.

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Radical Innovation

Agile Alliance

Radical Innovation. Tuning leadership approach to the situation and context – what is holding us back? PLEASE LOG IN To view this content must be a Member of the Agile Alliance. To become a Member, please visit our Membership Options. Username Password Remember Me Forgot Password. The post Radical Innovation first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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How startups can shake up their first idea and still crush the market

TechCrunch

When Quibi announced it was shutting its doors recently after raising $1.75 billion , it begged an obvious question: If the original idea didn’t work, why not adjust its model or do something completely different while it still had capital? It wouldn’t have been the first company to decide to shift gears. Perhaps because of the unusually large amount of money it burned through in just six months of public operation, pivoting wasn’t an option for Quibi, but it has been for count

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Privacy advocates split on California’s Prop. 24

The Parallax

In 2021, technology companies whose businesses are based on the user data they collect might face financial penalties from a new California state agency. Regulatory oversight of consumer privacy is often pushed for and broadly lauded by consumer privacy advocates. Yet some of the most vocal privacy advocates oppose the Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act Initiative (PDF), also known as the California Privacy Rights Act, also known as Proposition 24.

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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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Crypto wallet app ZenGo to launch debit card

TechCrunch

ZenGo , a mobile app to manage your cryptocurrencies, is about to launch a Visa debit card in the U.S. This isn’t the first crypto-powered debit card — Coinbase announced a U.S. expansion for its debit card just last week. But ZenGo is a non-custodial wallet, which means that you’re in control of your crypto assets. When you leave your crypto assets on an exchange, somebody could log in to your account and send your assets to other wallets.

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Mov gives you a chance to win your favorite athlete’s game day attire — sweat, tears and all

TechCrunch

“If it smells, that’s how they’re going to receive it.”. While that claim would likely make most D2C founders cringe, for founder Chris Alston, it’s part of the magic of his company, Mov. The upstart, based in Los Angeles, connects fans to the game-worn apparel of their favorite athletes through a sweepstakes-style model. And in the market of sports memorabilia, authenticity (even if it includes sweat, blood and tears) is everything.

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Findings on Remote Work Study

Agile Alliance

Findings on Remote Work Study. Tuning leadership approach to the situation and context – what is holding us back? PLEASE LOG IN To view this content must be a Member of the Agile Alliance. To become a Member, please visit our Membership Options. Username Password Remember Me Forgot Password. The post Findings on Remote Work Study first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Got the right stuff? Exhibit and pitch at TC Sessions: Space 2020

TechCrunch

Do you find expression “the sky’s the limit” well, limiting? Join a global community of brilliant visionaries, makers and investors on December 16-17 for TC Sessions: Space 2020 , an online conference dedicated to moving beyond the confines of this world through innovative tech and to creating stellar startup opportunities. Speaking of a stellar opportunity, this one lets you navigate your startup into the orbit of the space industry’s leading experts and decisions makers.

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Privacy advocates split on California’s Prop. 24

The Parallax

In 2021, technology companies whose businesses are based on the user data they collect might face financial penalties from a new California state agency. Regulatory oversight of consumer privacy is often pushed for and broadly lauded by consumer privacy advocates. Yet some of the most vocal privacy advocates oppose the Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act Initiative (PDF), also known as the California Privacy Rights Act, also known as Proposition 24.

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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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TNS Taps Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN Solution

CTOvision

Transaction Network Services (TNS), a leader in fintech payment services, recently announced the launch of TNS Secure SD-WAN which leverages Fortinet’s leading Secure SD-WAN solution. In partnership with Fortinet, TNS Secure […].

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How to drive digital transformation with an agile IT service desk

TechBeacon

Practically every organization is either working on digital transformation or has plans to do so, and this trend has accelerated during the pandemic. IT has a big role in any digital transformation, so it is not surprising that a survey by McKinsey shows that having a strong technology organization is widely seen as both a competitive edge and a growth engine.

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Survey Sees Faster Shift to Open Source Software

DevOps.com

A survey of 638 IT professionals finds the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is, like other slumps, driving increased adoption of open source software. Conducted by Tidelift, a provider of commercial support and maintenance for open source projects, the survey finds 44% of respondents reporting their organizations are now more likely to […].

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Article: Dealing with Psychopaths and Narcissists during Agile Change

InfoQ Culture Methods

Psychopathic or narcissistic toxic employees can slow down the adoption of change in the company. Many of the techniques or practices you use with healthy people do not work well with psychopaths or narcissists. This article explores four key areas that can help a change consultant succeed when dealing with toxic people. By Erich Bühler.

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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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New AWS Services Optimize App Development Process

DevOps.com

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is always busy introducing new services, enhancing existing ones and, quite often, driving trends. However, the cloud services provider has upped its game even more in recent months. In the first half of 2020, AWS announced an astonishing number of developments that enable technology interoperability, simplifying legacy feature removal, creating greater […].

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How dark data puts your business in jeopardy

TechBeacon

Long considered a business asset that should be kept no matter what, data has become a liability for many companies.

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Amazon EC2 P4d instances for pushing machine learning boundaries now available

CTOvision

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P4d instances with EC2 UltraClusters capability. The cloud giant has touted the offering as […].

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Cyber resilience: What it is, why it matters—and how to get started

TechBeacon

In a perfect world, an organization's systems would run without problems 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, but we don't live in a perfect world. Things happen. And when they do, your organization's ability to carry on in the face of adversity will depend on the resiliency of its systems.

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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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Anduril Industries: Bringing Silicon Valley ingenuity, speed, and funding to defense and security

CTOvision

Created by tech innovators on a mission to solve critical challenges in national security, Anduril brings Silicon Valley ingenuity, speed, and funding to defense and security. We track Anduril in […].

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Limit Promise Concurrency with pool

David Walsh

Methods like Promise.all , Promise.allSettled , Promise.race , and the rest are really excellent for managing multiple Promises, allowing for our apps to embrace async and performance. There are times, however, that limiting the number of concurrent operations may be useful, like rate limiting or simply not wanting to put a server under massive stress.

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The Value of OpenTelemetry in Observability

DevOps.com

As infrastructure becomes more complex, the quest for better observability continues. With increased containerization, third-party applications and generally increased network complexity, it becomes difficult for organizations to track issues of stability and performance. But OpenTelemetry can be used to improve upon observability throughout a network by enhancing and consolidating reporting throughout all applications and services. […].

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QuintessenceLabs introduces qStream Plus, a quantum entropy management solution

CTOvision

Why should we worry about entropy? Entropy, also known as randomness, is the anchor beneath much of the world’s security. Poor-quality entropy compromises security, while low-speed entropy compromises performance, and […].

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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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StackPath Selects CommScope to Help Expand Global Cloud Capacity

DevOps.com

CommScope Professional Services to upgrade server capacity & network hardware in StackPath data centers around the world HICKORY, N.C. November 3, 2020 — StackPath, a leading edge-computing platform provider, has selected CommScope, a global leader in infrastructure solutions for communications networks, to support expansion of its cloud capacity across twelve global sites.

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Why Intel Corporation Is Buying SigOpt

CTOvision

Intel Corporation announced it is buying SigOpt — which is a San Francisco-based provider of a leading platform for the optimization of artificial intelligence (AI) software models at scale. SigOpt’s […].

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Building a Speaker Verification Model in Dataiku Using GPU-Accelerated Deep Neural Networks

Dataiku

Across multiple industries and use cases, voice fingerprinting is increasingly becoming a viable option for speaker verification. From ATM cardholder validation in financial services to patient identification for telemedicine, accessing sensitive medical records or sensitive treatments (e.g., chemo or radiotherapy) in healthcare, being able to securely authorize and authenticate people for various services has benefits both for the customer and the business.

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Planbox ‘Hempowers’ Community Collaboration for New Zealand Hemp Industries Association

Planbox

Leading agile innovation platform helps NZHIA harness collective creativity to achieve transformational business outcomes. Portsmouth, United Kingdom — Planbox, a pioneer in agile innovation management solutions, today announced its top-ranking platform was selected to launch and run New Zealand’s first-ever Hemp Ideation Challenge by New Zealand Hemp Industries Association (NZHIA), a non-profit society that supports the growth and development of all aspects of the island country’s hemp industry

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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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Log in, Learn, and Uplevel Your Future With Beacon

Palo Alto Networks

The future of work requires learning to be dynamic, virtual, relevant and available on demand. Our customers and partners need to be able to get up to speed quickly and keep pace with the rapid changes in cybersecurity technology through easy-to-use, self-service learning. Beacon is just that – a free, comprehensive learning resource for all Palo Alto Networks customers and partners.

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A Reliable Statistic

DevOps.com

The post A Reliable Statistic appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Coffee with Cloudera Partners: IBM

Cloudera

Featuring: Jerry Green, World Wide Open Source Sales and Strategy Leader at IBM. IBM and Cloudera joined forces to bring the best of both companies to enterprises seeking advanced data and AI solutions. Jerry Green, World Wide Open Source Sales and Strategy Leader at IBM, has been instrumental with the relationship since its inception. We wanted to probe deeper into the man, the myth, the legend, Jerry Green!