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For tech firms, the risk of not preparing for leadership changes is huge

TechCrunch

Jason Dressel. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jason Dressel is president of History Factory , which helps companies use their history and heritage to enhance and transform strategy, positioning, marketing and communication. Every week over the past three and a half years, an average of three CEOs have exited tech companies in the U.S. That tally is higher — in good times and bad — than in any of the other 26 for-profit sectors tracked by executive search firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

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A Minute to Think with Juliet Funt

Let's Grow Leaders

How to reclaim your creativity, conquer busyness, do your best work, and be your best self. If you feel like you’re constantly reacting and don’t have a moment to think about what you’re doing, much less why you’re doing it, this episode is for you. Juliet Funt gives you practical suggestions (as well as the permission) to regain control of your workday, create the space you need in order to do your best work and lead your team well.

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The best way to grow your tech career? Treat it like an app

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Raj Yavatkar. Contributor. Share on Twitter. As CTO, Raj Yavatkar is responsible for charting Juniper Networks ' technology strategy through the execution of the company’s innovations and products for intelligent self-driving networks, security, mobile edge cloud, network virtualization, packet-optical integration and hybrid cloud. Software developers and engineers have rarely been in higher demand.

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The Ultimate Guide To Social Recruiting

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Since the pandemic first hit in 2020, it has shuttered offices and industries had to adapt on the fly to continue working remotely. The tech industry needed to throw out ancient processes and discover newer avenues, especially in the field of tech recruiting. If you guessed where I’m heading with this, then you are on the right track! Yes, I am talking about social media, its massive reach, and one form of recruiting that has shot into the limelight – Social Recruiting.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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White-label SaaS shipping startup Outvio closes $3M round led by Change Ventures

TechCrunch

Outvio , an Estonian startup that provides a white-label SaaS fulfillment solution for medium-sized and large online retailers in Spain and Estonia, has closed a $3 million early-stage financing round led by Change Ventures. Also participating were TMT Investments (London), Fresco Capital (San Francisco) and Lemonade Stand (Tallinn). Several angels also joined the round, including James Berdigans (Printify) and Kristjan Vilosius (Katana MRP).

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Robinhood’s CFO says it was ready to go public

TechCrunch

Robinhood priced at $38 per share this week, opened flat and closed its first day’s trading yesterday worth $34.82 per share, or a bit more than 8% underwater. The company posted a mixed picture today, falling early before recovering to breakeven in late-morning trading. It wasn’t the debut that some expected Robinhood to have. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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How No-Code Will Transform DevOps

DevOps.com

In the years that low- and no-code development tools have been available, the movement has been slow to gather pace. Until recently, the vast majority of app and workflow development has remained firmly in the hands of professional coders. That is about to change—and fast. Gartner forecasts that the global low-code development technologies market is […].

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Design expert Scott Tong outlines 4 concepts founders should consider when designing products

TechCrunch

In the last decade, high-quality design has become a necessity in the software space. Great design is a commodity, not a luxury, and yet, designing beautiful products and finding great designers continues to be a struggle for many entrepreneurs. At Early Stage 2021, design expert Scott Tong walked us through some of the ways founders should think about design.

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Bad news CEOS: You’re less important for your company’s success than you think

CEO Insider

Earlier this year, Glencore legendary CEO Ivan Glasenberg retired after 18 years at the helm of the largest mining company in the world. During his tenure, the company’s stock went up and down, with an overall performance between 2002 and 2020 of -16.8% on a cumulative basis (Glasenberg is also credited with taking the company […]. The post Bad news CEOS: You’re less important for your company’s success than you think appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Platform as a service startup Porter aims to become go-to for deploying, managing cloud-based apps

TechCrunch

By the time Porter co-founders Trevor Shim and Justin Rhee decided to build a company around DevOps, the pair were well versed in doing remote development on Kubernetes. And like other users, they were consistently getting burnt by the technology. They realized that for all of the benefits, the technology was there, but users were having to manage the complexity of hosting solutions as well as incurring the costs associated with a big DevOps team, Rhee told TechCrunch.

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Protecting Data Integrity in Confluent Cloud: Over 8 Trillion Messages Per Day

Confluent

It’s about maintaining the right data even when no one is watching. Last year, Confluent announced support for Infinite Storage, which fundamentally changes data retention in Apache Kafka® by allowing […].

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Growth is not enough

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We were a smaller team this week, with Natasha and Alex joined by Grace and Chris to sort through a week that brought together both this quarter’s earnings cycle and the Q3 IPO rush. So, it was just a little busy!

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DevOps Unbound: DevOps Unicorns

DevOps.com

What should you look for when choosing a DevOps vendor? What criteria are others in your industry using to inform their decisions? How do you choose a vendor that is a good fit for your organization? And how do you know if you made the right choice? In this episode of DevOps Unbound, host Alan […]. The post DevOps Unbound: DevOps Unicorns appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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#ClouderaLife Spotlight: Vinicius Cardoso, Sr Solutions Engineering

Cloudera

Meet Vinicius Cardoso, better known as Vini. . He is a Sr. Solutions Engineer (SE) working in Australia. . In his role, customers are at the center of everything he does. Wearing the hat of Enterprise Architect, he dives deep to understand customer’s organization goals, initiatives and requirements in order to identify the key capabilities that need to be delivered. .

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DevOps and Its Key Principles

Dzone - DevOps

Background. Software development includes several processes like defining scopes, requirement specifications, and use cases, designing solution architect, converting use cases to tasks, writing code, testing and validations, managing releases, and deployments, and then maintenance. These tasks are repetitive and can be highly manual processes which can significantly be prone to errors.

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Warfighter Summit

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AGILE OFFENSE FOR BETTER DEFENSE. Join us for the 2021 Military Agility Forum. . . Brought To You By: Join the conversation where top leaders in the defense sector . dominate new territory using agile implementation. . . This will be a dynamic dual in-person and virtual experience featuring a mix of lectures and working sessions designed to generate new understanding and thought leadership targeted towards advancing the agile implementation skill set.

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2 steps to creating a modern data platform

TechBeacon

Over the past year, the pandemic has influenced and transformed industries in unprecedented and unpredictable ways. Organizations have had to make decisions to survive in the short term while planning for long-term resiliency. In the consumer products and retail (CPR) industry, for example, an increase in e-commerce and digital interactions forced companies to quickly understand and translate data points about consumers into new insights on how to serve them and their changing demand trends.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Jinkies! Let's Use Dataiku to Determine the Best Member of the Mystery Gang!

Dataiku

Exploratory Data Analysis, or EDA, can be both exhilarating and daunting. Exhilarating because you hold the world at your fingertips — it is exciting to look at a dataset for the first time and begin to imagine all of the interesting insights you might find. It is also extremely daunting to look at a dataset for the first time and not know where to start or worry if the path you decide to take will tell you anything useful at all.

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4 biases that can sabotage your success and brand

CEO Insider

Do you consider yourself an open-minded, rational and logical person? Chances are, you probably aren’t. Like it or not, we’re all controlled by cognitive biases: a series of beliefs, prejudices and preconceived ideas that help us process information quickly and make decisions – though not always the right ones. While this doesn’t have too great […].

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How Risk-based VM Can Help Address the Most Commonly Exploited Vulnerabilities Today

Tenable

Tenable's analysis of the 29 vulnerabilities highlighted in a recent CISA alert reveals key differences between CVSS and our Vulnerability Priority Rating. Attackers continue to exploit known and prevalent vulnerabilities. Last year, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a joint alert identifying the top 10 most commonly exploited software vulnerabilities between 2016-2019.

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Why Was Facebook Vulnerable to an Authentication Exploit?

DevOps.com

What Happened: As part of a bug bounty program, the AppSecure cybersecurity research team found a vulnerability on the authentication mechanism of Facebook. It gave them the ability to potentially gain full control of the social media giant’s more than 1 billion users. The team won a $15,000 bounty for its discovery. This vulnerability was […].

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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Jenkins Tutorial: Get Started Quickly and Easily With CI

Dzone - DevOps

Introduction. What's the first thing you think of when someone refers to continuous integration (CI)? For many people, it's Jenkins®. Originally developed just for CI, Jenkins manages and controls software delivery processes throughout the entire lifecycle. It's now the most widely used software process automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery tool in the world.

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Rocket Open Source Languages and Tools for z/OS Forum

DevOps.com

Join the Rocket Open Source Languages and Tools for z/OS forum. A place where you can ask questions about our open source languages and tools and get answers from other mainframe professionals like yourself, as well as members of the Rocket team. As a Forum member you can engage your peers, learn how they’re using […]. The post Rocket Open Source Languages and Tools for z/OS Forum appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Networking with a Service Mesh

Dzone - DevOps

Service mesh technology emerged with the popularization of microservice architectures. Because service mesh facilitates the separation of networking from business logic, it enables you to focus on your application’s core competency. Microservice applications are distributed over multiple servers, data centers, or continents, making them highly network-dependent.

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Convert Guest To Customer Magento 2

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In normal e-commerce websites, customers do not like to register before placing orders. Customers like to do easy checkout by selecting their product so they prefer to do direct guest checkout. Magento supports Guest checkout but when a customer wants to order the same product that time he/she is not able to order the same product. Our Guest to Customer blog for Magento2 quickly and seamlessly.

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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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Prometheus HA With Thanos Sidecar or Receiver?

Dzone - DevOps

Prometheus has been the flag bearer for monitoring systems for a long time now. It has proved itself as a go-to solution for monitoring and alerting in Kubernetes systems. Though Prometheus does have some general instructions to achieve high availability within itself, it comes with its own limitations in data retention, historic data retrieval, and multi-tenancy.

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How To Create A Cloud Center Of Excellence (CCOE)

CloudZero

Establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) is an important milestone in every company’s cloud computing journey. While it is usually not the first milestone — which is focused on delivering value to customers — this milestone is reached as the company grows and scales.

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Member of the Band – Jesús Ruiz, QA Automation Engineer

Gorilla Logic

Much like a pod of whales or a pack of wolves, did you know that a group of gorillas is called a band? In this blog series, we’re going to introduce you to members of our band—engineers, technical recruiters, PMs, designers, and more who make up the most important asset in Gorilla Logic…our talent! Are you Gorilla material? Join the band today! Jesús Ruiz — QA Automation Engineer.