June, 2021

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Lamport Clock

Martin Fowler

Next distributed system pattern from Unmesh is the Lamport Clock. Distributed systems can't assume that time is consistent between servers, and sometimes time goes backwards. Yet it's important to have some way to order events. moreā€¦.

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AI startup investment is on pace for a record year

TechCrunch

The startup investing market is crowded, expensive and rapid-fire today as venture capitalists work to preempt one another, hoping to deploy funds into hot companies before their competitors. The AI startup market may be even hotter than the average technology niche. This should not surprise. In the wake of the Microsoft-Nuance deal , The Exchange reported that it would be reasonable to anticipate an even more active and competitive market for AI-powered startups.

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Kids Need to Learn Coding Fundamentals from the Start

The Crazy Programmer

All parents know that the jobs of tomorrow will rely on STEM skills and programming knowledge and that itā€™s necessary to get ready for this today. But if you donā€™t have these skills yourself, how can someone recognize the best coding instructors from the rest? Itā€™s crucial to find an online coding camp for kids today that imparts programming fundamentals.

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Be an Inspirational Agile Leader

Agile Alliance

Simon Sinek is well-known as a writer and commentator on Inspirational Leadership. In this article we look at how Sinek’s ideas can be applied to Agile and Scrum and look at how we, as Agile leaders, can become more inspirational. Sinek is highly visible on social media and has written five books. An excellent overview … Continued. The post Be an Inspirational Agile Leader first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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. Itā€™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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How To Build Safe And ā€˜PROUDā€™ Workplaces ā€“ A Personal Story

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

ā€œAlignment begins with a constituency of one. These are the individuals whose substance is real, pure and nonnegotiable. They share their vulnerabilities and fears in complement to their strengths. They are comfortable weaving all parts of their lives together in an integrated way. Our level of effectiveness, contribution, and integrity of work and life are in direct correlation with our level of integration, self-actualization and total alignment of body, mind and spirit.ā€.

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On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing

Martin Fowler

There are arguments about whether a testing portfolio should be a pyramid or more like honeycomb. My second biggest issue with this argument is that it's rendered opaque by the fact that it's not clear what people see as the difference between unit and integration tests.

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Nixieā€™s drone-based water sampling could save cities time and money

TechCrunch

Regularly testing waterways and reservoirs is a never-ending responsibility for utility companies and municipal safety authorities, and generally ā€” as you might expect ā€” involves either a boat or at least a pair of waders. Nixie does the job with a drone instead, making the process faster, cheaper, and a lot less wet. The most common methods of testing water quality haven’t changed in a long time, partly because they’re effective and straightforward, and partly because really, what e

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Silicon Valley Defense Group: Securing Democracy Through Innovation

CTOvision

The Silicon Valley Defense Group (SVDG) seeks to align and connect the people, capital and ideas that will ensure allied democracies retain a durable techno-security advantage. From their website: The United States is lagging in the global techno-security competition and lacks effective policy, education, and coordination to compete with its rivals.

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Report: The State of Cloud-Native Application Security

DevOps.com

The cloud brings tremendous capabilities in terms of increased deployment fluidity and automation. Along with cloud adoption has come the use of cloud-native tools built specifically for developing applications for this domain. However, cloud-native tools carry some nuanced security concerns, such as misconfigurations, known vulnerabilities and leaked secrets.

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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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Article: How to Spread Technical Practices Like TDD in an Organization

InfoQ Culture Methods

One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). Itā€™s not something that just happens by itself, and many of the ā€œusualā€ ways of introducing change fail for TDD. This article outlines some of the things that actually do work and explains ā€œSamman,ā€ which is a coaching method used with developers.

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Calm the Chaos and Help Your Team Regain their Focus

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s a challenge common to many leaders and managers: Last-minute customer requests, emergencies, interruptions, and distractions make it hard to stay focused on your M.I.T.s (the Most Important Thing ). If you’re not careful, reactivity can become a permanent way of life. In this episode, you’ll receive practical steps you can take to calm the chaos and help your team regain their focus.

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25 Kubernetes experts you should follow on Twitter

TechBeacon

While running apps on bare metal is more traditional, deploying programs using containers provides loads of benefits. And for keeping track of all those containers, Kubernetes (known as K8s in shorthand) is an extremely popular open-source management platform. It's scalable, extensible, and portable.

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Faction raises $4.3M to deploy 3-wheeled EVs for driverless delivery

TechCrunch

Faction Technology founder and CEO Ain McKendrick didn’t have the $1 billion or the time that a typical automotive program might need to design and manufacture an EV that could be used for driverless delivery. So, he turned to power sports to fulfill his vision of a micro-logistics service that can be used for driverless delivery or rented and operated by a human for jaunts around the city.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If youā€™re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache CassandraĀ®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether youā€™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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Supply Chains Are Strained. These Companies Are Best Prepared.

CTOvision

Read Rick Wartzman and Kelly Tang take a look at the companies that are best positioned to take advantage of the strained supply chains across the world on Wall Street Journal : Cargo ships stacked up at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Inventories of lumber, aluminum cans, tires, cardboard and plastic all […].

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Thereā€™s No Innovation Without Automation

DevOps.com

Companies of all sizes and across virtually every industry today have ready access to hyperscale compute, storage and myriad other technologies ā€” without needing the significant budget or technical expertise of a hyperscale cloud provider like AWS. This is a boon for innovation. Cloud opened the door to cost optimizations, previously out-of-reach cloud-native tools, security […].

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Microservices on AWS [Video]

Dzone - DevOps

Introduction. In this tutorial, I will explain different CI/CD concepts and tools provided by AWS for continuous integration and continuous delivery. I will be creating a Spring Boot microservice and deploy it to AWS EC2 instances running behind an application load balancer in an automated way using the AWS Code Pipeline. In this tutorial, you will have hands-on experience in developing a spring boot microservice and how it can be deployed in the cloud.

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Article: Enhance Your Testing Strategy with Mind Map-Driven Testing

InfoQ Culture Methods

Mind map-driven testing can enable testers to focus on test idea generation, it exposes you to your thinking and enables you to brainstorm and organize your ideas effectively. This article shares ideas and knowledge about mind maps and shows how they can be used as lean documents to plan, organize, record, present, and report on testing. By Prashant Hegde.

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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 youā€™ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzingā€™s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Make your product compliant with privacy laws: A new framework

TechBeacon

As public concern over privacy grows, protecting data and complying with a changing regulatory environment can be challenging. Not only are privacy laws proliferating, but measures such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in the United States frame their requirements in language that might be well understood by lawmakers and lawyers, but less so by members of information security and development teams.

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Solar concentration startup Heliogen basks in $108M of new funding

TechCrunch

Sunlight is a great source of energy, but it rarely gets hot enough to fry an egg, let alone melt steel. Heliogen aims to change that with its high-tech concentrated solar technique, and has raised more than a hundred million dollars to test its 1,000-degree solar furnace at a few participating mines and refineries. We covered Heliogen when it made its debut in 2019 , and the details in that article still get at the core of the company’s tech.

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Making Sense of the Competitive Environment

CTOvision

OODA members have access to a wide range of premium content and research designed to enable optimal decisions in competitive situations. For speed of access members can use the search function or can find relevant research based on the categorization below: Cybersecurity Sensemaking: Strategic intelligence to inform your decisionmaking The OODA leadership and analysts have […].

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How Containers Simplify DevOps Workflows and CI/CD Pipelines

DevOps.com

DevOps enables organizations to capitalize on the flexibility of cloud resources in real-time, which is a huge game changer. Just as the adoption of Agile methodology can make a development team more responsive, DevOps revolutionizes implementation of IT objectives from end to end, from a waterfall-style process gating company productivity to a dynamic process that […].

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics wonā€™t cut it in todayā€™s data-driven applications ā€“ not for your end users, your development team, or your business. Thatā€™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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Kinda a big announcement

Joel on Software

The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before he was born, everyone knew that COM was already so deeply obsolete that it was impossible to find anyone who knew enough to work on it. And yet they still have this old COM code base, and they still have one old programmer holding onto their job by being the only human left on the planet with a brain big enough to manually manage multithreaded objects.

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How to Design for Maximum Product Trust

Toptal

We make split-second decisions about whether to trust people; the same is true about trusting digital products. Companies can develop product trust and loyalty online by using design to signal that a website or app is safe and secure.

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How to use containers to enable microservices in your DevOps

TechBeacon

Are you trying to shift from a monolithic system to a widely distributed, scalable, and highly available microservices architecture? Maybe you've already moved to agile delivery models, but you're struggling to keep up with the rate of change in the technologies of these systems.

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Orum raises $56M to help speed up interbank transfers

TechCrunch

Orum , which aims to speed up the amount of time it takes to transfer money between banks, announced today it has raised $56 million in a Series B round of funding. Accel and Canapi Ventures co-led the round, which also included participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures, Inspired Capital, Homebrew, Acrew, Primary, Clocktower and Box Group.

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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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Palantir Awarded $111m Contract to Provide Mission Command Platform for the United States Special Operations Command

CTOvision

Palantir Technologies announced today it had been selected by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to continue its work as their enterprise data management and AI-enabled mission command platform as part of the Mission Command System/Common Operational Picture program. The contract is valued at a total of $111 million, inclusive of options, with $52.5 […].

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Then and Now: The Evolution of DevOps Culture

DevOps.com

There are many available resources dedicated to delivering better business value faster. Based on this advice, many organizations and teams are adopting common software delivery practices ā€” even outside the usual use case of providing software (take, for example, SpaceX teams using agile, or leadership teams that use scrum practices and have daily stand-up calls). […].

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Article: Reawakening Agile with OKRs?

InfoQ Culture Methods

Corporate agile often represents an improvement over what went before but falls short on delivering the high performance management want and quality engineering environment developers dream of. The backlog becomes tyranny. Could OKRs - objectives and key results - reawaken the radical side of agile? Or do OKRs represent a return to command and control?

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