Mon.Sep 05, 2022

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Unpacking Murray & Roberts’ turbulent journey to the cloud and back again

CIO

It was only a few years ago when ‘digital transformation’ was on every CIO’s agenda, and businesses started to understand how cloud could deliver real value. They stopped asking whether they should move to the cloud and started asking what they needed to do to get there. This was the case for Murray & Roberts’ CIO Hilton Currie in 2016, when the cloud services market in South Africa was booming.

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How to Build a High-Performing Team: Ten Vital Conversations

Let's Grow Leaders

Invest One Hour a Month to Help Your Team Perform Even Better. Every truly high-performing team has one thing in common: They spend time in candid conversation talking about what’s working and consistently look for ways to improve. They look at the work they’re doing and ask “how can we” do this EVEN BETTER? And they enjoy and celebrate their success.

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Metaverse Magna raises $3.2M at a $30M valuation to build Africa’s largest gaming DAO

TechCrunch

This February, Africa and emerging market-focused Nestcoin raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club and gaming guild Metaverse Magna (MVM). Nine months after its launch last December, the latter has completed a seed sale token round of $3.2 million at a $30M fully diluted valuation. .

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Classic WTF: Security By Oblivity

The Daily WTF

It's a holiday in the US, so once again, it's time to reach back into the archives. Two-Factor Authentication is pretty standard these days, but once upon a time, it felt far more cumbersome to use. This story from 2006 highlights some… unique solutions to the problem. Original -- Remy. Laptops are blessing for many corporate workers: never before has it been so easy to bring work home and neglect one's family to get in a few extra hours of unpaid overtime.

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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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SkorLife gives control of credit data back to Indonesian consumers

TechCrunch

Indonesia’s credit bureaus currently have about 92 million credit records, but the founders of SkorLife say many people have trouble accessing their own data. That’s why they built the app, which not only lets people see their credit histories for free, but also gives personalized advice on how to improve data. The Jakarta-based startup announced today it has raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding.

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Docquity, a community for healthcare professionals, raises $44M Series C

TechCrunch

A call between doctors can save lives. That’s what Docquity co-founder Indranil Roychowdhury learned when his father was hospitalized with a life-threatening condition in India. An emergency room doctor initially told him that there was no chance of survival, but then another doctor called one of his peers in the United States, and they came up with an alternative treatment plan that worked.

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From BumbleBee to Cobalt Strike: steps of a BumbleBee intrusion   

Darktrace

In April 2022, Darktrace observed threat actors using the loader known as ‘BumbleBee’ to install Cobalt Strike Beacon onto target systems. This blog provides details of the steps threat actors took during their intrusions, along with details of the network-based behaviours which served as evidence of their activities.

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Have you marked down your portfolio yet? You are running out of time to hide

TechCrunch

To mark down your portfolio or not mark down your portfolio? That is a question many venture capitalists are grappling with right now. But first, what does that mean? VCs keep a running tab of the value of each fund and entire portfolio based on the prior valuations each company raised at. The value of each company generally only gets updated when it raises a round at a new valuation, and firms typically do a full valuation audit at the end of each year.

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Why Does The FinTech Sector Need AIOps?

Daffodil Software

Dated or legacy tools, systems, and operational methods are not enough to deliver the quality of optimized and innovative financial services that today's digitally savvy customers expect. So, multitudes of financial organizations are leveraging Artificial Intelligence to raise the growth rate and dynamism of IT operations through AIOps.

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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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4 Ways to Help Work and Life Coexist

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Studies show that the happier your team is, the more productive they will be. Here are simple strategies to keep them energized. Today’s post is by William Vanderbloemen, author of Culture Wins ( CLICK HERE to get your copy). More and more studies are showing that how we feel about our work impacts how we feel about ourselves, our personal and professional relationships, and our job performance.

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Is AI the future of QA testing?

Apiumhub

Introduction. As we all know QA testing and software development go hand in hand. The rapid evolution of software development has forced quick advances in the testing field, we can see this in the quantity of testing tools techniques, and processes that exist today. Quality assurance helps a company create products and services that meet the needs, expectations, and requirements of customers.

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What is Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare and How to Measure it?

Daffodil Software

With healthcare organizations (HCOs) shifting toward patient-centered care, it is important to consider and measure the factors that impact or influence the quality of care. That is why, HCOs value patient satisfaction, as much as they value patient safety and clinical workflow improvements.

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Why You Should Warn Customers When You’re Running Low on Stock

Harvard Business Review

Research suggests that transparency up front will improve customer satisfaction in the long run.

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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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Solidifying Exadel’s Thought Leadership in the Polish IT Market

Exadel

Janusz Fajkowski, CEO of Exadel Poland, elaborates on the opportunities presented by the Polish IT market. “Poland is among the most attractive countries for investment as it enjoys a stable and healthy economy, has a dynamically-growing IT market, has US and EU standards in IP protection, and is close to the major European financial centers. It also has high-quality tech infrastructure and offers similar work culture and work ethics as Western countries.”.

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Are You Afraid to Identify as a Leader?

Harvard Business Review

New research sheds light on what might be holding you back.

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You Asked. We Listened.

Dataiku

How often is it that you leave a suggestion for how to improve a product you love and the suggestion actually gets implemented? The answer is probably very rarely, if ever. You might even think to yourself, “I wonder if anyone will even read this comment or if this form is simply to make it look like the company listens to customer feedback?” Sigh.

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The cyber security shortages holding back Africa and the Global South

Darktrace

Many emerging markets in the Global South suffer from ineffective cyber legislation and crippling skill shortages. For the organizations in these countries to remain attractive to investors, they will need to adopt tools which will secure them against new and sophisticated threats. Discover what steps are already being taken, and what organizations should be looking to do next.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Coding Dojo vs Hack Reactor: Which Is for You?

Coding Dojo

There is a growing demand across all industries for UI/UX designers, software engineers, cybersecurity professionals, and machine learning engineers. This … Read more >>. The post Coding Dojo vs Hack Reactor: Which Is for You? appeared first on Coding Dojo.

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Introducing Getting Along

Harvard Business Review

How to curb a colleague’s bad behavior that’s wearing you down.

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Solar Foods wants to replace industrial animal farming with a high-tech protein harvest

TechCrunch

Fermentation has a long, rich history in food production, from beer and wine, to yogurt and cheese, leavened bread and coffee, miso and tempeh, sauerkraut and kimchi, to name just a few of the tasty things we can consume thanks to a chemical process thought to date back to the neolithic period. But if this 2017-founded Finnish startup, Solar Foods , has its way fermentation could have a very special place in the future of human food too.

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John Mccarthy Biography – Father of AI

The Crazy Programmer

John McCarthy is a pioneer of AI or Artificial Intelligence and a popular computer scientist. He made huge contributions in mathematics and the computer science and made significant inventions in the field of artificial intelligence & interactive computing systems. Early Life. McCarthy was born in 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, Patrick McCarthy, was a Catholic who became a labor organizer and Business Manager of the Daily Worker, a national newspaper that was owned by the Commun

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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3 views: Meetings are bad, yo. Choose emails

TechCrunch

It’s a long weekend here in the United States, meaning office workers, at least, get a three-day break from the dreaded meeting. We wanted to take this time to offer up an impassioned defense of … email. Hear us out. It’s conventional wisdom that meetings are killers of productivity and morale and happy work environments. So why not write an email? We know email has its drawbacks, too — it’s hard to manage and riddled with spam.

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