CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

In an IT marketplace marked by turbulence, inflation, and economic uncertainty, the process of contracting with vendors for technology products and services has gotten significantly more challenging for CIOs. IT leaders may find that prices are going up without an accompanying increase in benefits, with technology providers — less dependent on any one industry or geography — taking a harder line on deals, says Achint Arora, a partner in the pricing assurance practice at Everest Group.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Keith Putnam-Delaney Contributor Share on Twitter Keith Putnam-Delaney is the founder and CEO of Primer , a platform that offers hyperprecise targeting for B2B marketers. Growing a B2B business is becoming increasingly complex. The market is inundated with products thanks to the explosion of SaaS, it’s getting harder to leverage ad platforms and email, and identity management is Byzantine.

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

One of my client’s business analysts solicited my opinion: “Is this a good specification document?” he asked. Long ago I’d learned — the hard way — the wisdom of the adage “When someone asks for advice, they’re usually looking for an accomplice.” So I answered his question with a question of my own, asking him why he had asked. “I gave this to a developer, who told me it was a bad spec.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Shares of Silicon Valley Bank are down sharply Thursday in the wake of the company’s announcement that it is raising additional capital by selling stock , taking a charge to roll over an asset portfolio to higher-yielding assets and extending its term-borrowing capacity. Venture firms are advising portfolio companies to move money out of SVB Given recent banking-related carnage in the tech and tech-adjacent worlds, there’s concern in the market that not all is well at SVB.

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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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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

Leading a technically complex initiative can feel like you’re climbing Mount Everest. Find out what it’s actually like to scale the world’s tallest peak – and how it really does relate to your digital journey – from extreme adventurer Jamie Clark. Clark will join prominent IT leaders from around the region at CIO’s FutureIT Dallas conference, taking place March 29 at the Tower Club of Dallas.

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Xebia

MARCH 9, 2023

This article was originally published at 47deg.com on February 11, 2021. At Xebia, we care a lot about domain modeling to describe our domain as precisely as possible. The goal of functional domain modeling is to describe your business domain as accurately as possible to achieve more type-safety, maximize the use of the compiler with our domain and, thus, prevent bugs and reduce unit testing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Some of Silicon Valley Bank’s customers are struggling to transfer funds out of their bank accounts, numerous sources tell TechCrunch. The seeming wave of attempted withdrawals comes after SVB announced yesterday that it lost $1.8 billion in the sale of U.S. treasuries and mortgage-backed securities that it had invested in, owing to rising interest rates.

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

Large IT projects are hard to execute, particularly when in-house staff are often pulled into their day jobs and distracted by other priorities. This can be costly for organizations. In fact, McKinsey suggests that early cost and schedule overruns can cause projects to cost twice as much as anticipated. One common resolution to this challenge is for companies to seek outside support to ensure success.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Wheel the World wants to open the world up to people with disabilities and has made it its mission since 2018 to provide travel accommodations and experiences that fit their needs, both in the United States and worldwide. Today, the company announced two new booking tool features, including guaranteed accessibility for hotel rooms booked from its website and a price match offer.

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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

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a PwC report , one in three consumers (32%) say they will walk away from a brand they love after just one bad experience. Unlike personal relationships, loyalty in the consumer world can be surprisingly transitory. This gets worse in the digital world where it takes just a few clicks and minutes to uninstall one app and replace it with a competitor’s app.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Move over, software. Prompts may well be the new oil. Writing the text strings that instruct AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 to generate essays, articles, images and more has become a veritable profession, commanding salaries well into the six-figure range. Anyone can come up with prompts, of course. But only certain prompts (e.g. “Create a watercolor of a solider standing in the middle of a field, in the style of John Singer Sargent) accomplish very specific, desirable (or undesirabl

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

CIOs have a significant opportunity to drive a transformation and innovation agenda in 2023. Despite the global economic outlook pointing to ongoing market disruption, inflation, and recession in many parts of the world, organisations are going to want to continue to invest in technology, and this will benefit both employees and customers. Research in the The Human-Centered Insights To Fuel IT’s Vision 2022 report, conducted by Reach3 for Lenovo, 2024, shows that 20 per cent of the Global 2,000

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Mythic , an AI chip startup that last November reportedly ran out of capital, rose from the ashes today with an unexpected injection of fresh funds. Mythic this morning announced that it closed a $13 million financing round led by existing investors Atreides Management, DCVC and Lux Capital alongside new investors Catapult Ventures and Hermann Hauser Investment.

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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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Xebia

MARCH 9, 2023

It all started with my attendance at Brian Sam-Bodden’s presentation at Spring IO 2022, which raised a great curiosity about how powerful Redis could be as a primary database. The main reason was speed. A writing operation takes less than a millisecond to be performed due to Redis data being stored in memory. I needed to test this. And since I’m a Kotlin and Spring utilizer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

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DevOps.com

MARCH 9, 2023

New Relic today added a free CodeStream module to its observability platform to give developers access to metrics and telemetry data that will enable them to write higher-quality code faster. Peter Pezaris, group vice president and general manager of strategy and experience for New Relic, said this capability is part of an effort to shift […] The post New Relic Adds Module to Surface Code Metrics appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Welcome to our 40th Pitch Deck Teardown! Goodness, time flies. Of those 40, just three were angel rounds, so today, we’ll take apart the angel deck of MiO Marketplace , a platform for media publishers and buyers. The company raised $550,000 at a $3.6 million pre-money valuation. Breakdown of the pitch deck teardowns to date. Image Credits: TechCrunch / Haje Kamps We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do tha

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DevOps.com

MARCH 9, 2023

A survey of 600 C-suite and IT decision-makers published today found the majority of organizations are trying to make increased IT budgets stretch even further as costs rise and the number of workloads deployed continues to increase steadily. Conducted by SoftwareOne Holding AG, a provider of software and IT services, the survey found 93% of […] The post IT Teams Need to Do More With Increased Budgets appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

It’s not every day that banking news is the big story in the startup world, but here we are. Yesterday the previously crypto-friendly Silvergate Bank announced that it would “wind down operations and voluntarily liquidate” itself. The company’s stock had been under massive pressure in recent months, exacerbated by a note from the bank on March 1 that its earnings data would be delayed due to possible internal controls issues.

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Perficient

MARCH 9, 2023

Next.js is a wonderful framework and paired with its vendor platform ( Vercel ) it indeed provides exceptional capabilities for building natively headless applications. That unfortunately shadows out another great SDK for headless implementations – NET Core Renderings, which in my opinion is undervalued. So, I decided to give it some more care by making it work with XM Cloud.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Bach, an app for planning bachelorette trips and group travel experiences, has announced $9 million in Series A funding led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital. The app, available on the Google Play Store and the iOS App Store , is designed to help users plan a group trip with their friends from start to finish. Launched in 2020, Bach aims to solve the hassle behind coordinating group travel by allowing groups to discover, plan and book trips all in one place.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 9, 2023

Developers and security experts are now tasked with bolstering, extending and adjusting cloud and Kubernetes security to protect against cyberattacks that are ever more complex, volatile, and frequent. To foil attacks and create a secure foundation for applications and infrastructure from the beginning, DevSecOps (development, security and operations) has become the trending development and operations […] The post DevSecOps Provides a Modern Security Model for Modernization appeared first

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Last month, Chicago-based Chalo Ventures surpassed 100 LPs. For founder and general partner Haris Khurshid, it was a notable milestone toward the firm’s goal of hitting 1,000 LPs, a number that would likely make most legacy investors wince. But while there are a number of potential annoyances or issues that come with having a larger LP base — more people means more opinions, after all — it seems that newer funds are raising cash from more LPs than ever before.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 9, 2023

Most development teams want to increase the pace of their software delivery. As such, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) has grown in importance, helping push code from build to production as seamlessly as possible. CI/CD pipelines often loop in many elements and may comprise a diverse stack of tools, automations and various languages. But because […] The post Tips For Securing CI/CD Pipelines appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Social music streaming startup Stationhead announced today that it’s launching a new live commerce tool that allows select artists and hosts to sell digital tracks to fans during livestreaming parties on their stations. The startup says artists including BlackPink, Niall Horan, TXT and 5 Seconds of Summer have already used the feature during live release parties on the platform.

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TechSoup

MARCH 9, 2023

Search engine optimization (SEO) can be an intimidating topic for nonprofits, especially as there seems to be constant debate about what search engines are actually looking for. However, it's surprisingly logical when you break it down.

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Lacework

MARCH 9, 2023

If you’re curious about a career in cybersecurity but unsure if you have the right experience, I have some great news for you. This past weekend, I went to Google’s Women Techmakers conference in Belfast and heard presentations from many talented women in tech.

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CableLabs

MARCH 9, 2023

CableLabs congratulates Capgemini , Fujitsu , GXC , Lions Technology , Mavenir , NewEdge Signal Systems and Radisys for being selected as contestants in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) and Department of Defense’s 5G Challenge. The competition is hosted by CableLabs , and contestants will compete for up to $7 million in cash and in-kind prizes.

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