TechCrunch
AUGUST 20, 2021
The process of digitizing the operations of mom and pop stores in Nigeria is serious business right now. In fact, it might be the second-best thing after fintech at the moment. Today’s news is from Alerzo , a little-known B2B e-commerce retail startup based in Ibadan, Nigeria. The company is announcing a $10.5 million Series A round led by New York-based Nosara Capital.
The Crazy Programmer
AUGUST 14, 2021
What are the most vital characteristics that developers seek in a JavaScript framework? There is no definitive answer, but there might be some insight to glean from exploring performance, speed, and popularity. For starters: Performance (how long it takes for your application’s code to execute), Speed (how long does it take you to get something running on your browser?
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Agile Alliance
AUGUST 17, 2021
Agile leaders need a variety of tools in their toolbox that allows them to respond to the people and situations at hand. The post Stretch Your Leadership Muscles: Leading Up, Down, and Across! first appeared on Agile Alliance.
Martin Fowler
AUGUST 10, 2021
We often need to access APIs from foreign codebases, and these foreign codebases usually have different vocabularies to ours. I've found it useful to encapsulate this interaction with a gateway that translates between our code and foreign code.
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CIO
AUGUST 19, 2021
The Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) is a credential for business analysts offered by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA). IIBA is a nonprofit professional association founded in 2003 to promote the field of business analysis. The organization describes CBAP as a credential that “recognizes seasoned BA professionals who have over five years of practical business analysis work experience.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2021
Ahmer Inam. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ahmer Inam is the chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO) at Pactera EDGE. He has more than 20 years of experience driving organizational transformation. His experience includes leadership roles at Nike Inc., Wells Fargo, Sonic Automotive and Cambia Health Solutions. With the fourth quarter now upon us, every industry faces a challenge in managing a holiday production calendar that will deliver the goods.
CTOvision
AUGUST 6, 2021
Read Jeremiah Lam’s commentary about Palantir Technologies, Inc. and its products like Gotham, Foundry, and Apollo on his blog : A brief background on Palantir – it is typically described as a company that focuses on big data analytics by writing software that enables effective analysis against complicated, data-driven problems. This is done by unifying […].
TechBeacon
AUGUST 27, 2021
Digital transformation has taken hold in many enterprises, but many chief information security officers (CISOs) remain concerned about the security implications. The emergence of easy-to-use cloud-native technologies such as containers and Kubernetes made the shift almost unstoppable, and this year, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated enterprises' digital journeys.
Aqua Security
AUGUST 24, 2021
A key element in building secure containerized applications is to ensure that the base image that you use is well-maintained and secure. A common piece of advice is to use the Docker Official Images for this purpose. However, our research reveals that you need to be careful when using these images, as some are no longer fully maintained.
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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.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 25, 2021
Delivering a seamless customer experience (CX) has become a top priority for companies undergoing digital transformation initiatives, as 85% of buyers are willing to pay more for a great customer experience. However, customers aren’t only willing to pay more for a positive experience–they’ll go elsewhere if their experience isn’t positive.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 30, 2021
Many people find it easier to be a human-centered leader when everything’s going well. But when you’re stressed and anxious, it’s easy to snap at your team, lose your temper, and undermine the culture you’ve worked so hard to build. If you have too many of these freak-out moments, your people will conclude that kindness is only for the easy times. Stress and anxiety are unavoidable, but you can lead through these times to build a stronger and more productive team. 5 Steps to be a Human-Centered
TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
In the world of robotic startups, acquisition is often as good an outcome as any. And when it comes to robotic tractor startups, you could do worse than being acquired by John Deere. The agricultural technology giant announced today that it’s set to acquire Bear Flag Robotics for $250 million. The Bay Area-based firm, which specializes in autonomous farming heavy machinery, was founded in 2017.
CTOvision
AUGUST 6, 2021
Read Jack Wallen explain how you can deploy Elastic NV’s Elasticsearch cluster on Ubuntu Server 20.04 on the Tech Republic: Elasticsearch is a very powerful search and analysis engine that can scale extremely well. With this tool, you have the foundation for visualizing massive amounts of data. But when you start to scale Elasticsearch to […].
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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo
Toptal
AUGUST 20, 2021
Data inundates us like never before—how can we hope to analyze it? Graphs (networks, not bar graphs) provide an elegant approach. Find out how to start with the Python NetworkX library to describe, visualize, and analyze "graph theory" datasets.
InfoQ Culture Methods
AUGUST 20, 2021
The introduction of next-gen technologies like AI, Big Data, Robotics and IoT have quickly redefined the way the world looks at software technology. Some of the biggest impacts of these changing trends can be seen in the software testing industry. This article discusses how these emerging technologies need some new approaches, and changes to existing approaches to software testing.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 19, 2021
Enterprises across all industries are facing mounting pressure to deliver business value with speed and agility. In the digital age, companies that can’t keep pace often fall to the wayside, especially in light of increasing customer expectations and dynamic regulatory requirements. Speed has become table stakes. And business leaders have risen to the challenge across […].
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 13, 2021
You’ve got a clear focus on what matters most, and your team seems to work well together, but then you get a call. Hey, I need to talk to you about a conflict, a disagreement, a clash of personalities. What you do next will reinforce your leadership and influence or erode your credibility. Team conflict can feel like quicksand and a distraction from your work, but it can also be an excellent opportunity for your team to grow.
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The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 19, 2021
As one of four general partners at Andreessen Horowitz who are investing the venture firm’s new $2.2 billion crypto fund, Arianna Simpson is very focused on how to return that capital and much more to the firm’s limited partners. Toward that end, she has been more focused of late on startups that combine crypto with gaming. Last month, for example, her team co-led an investment in Virtually Human Studio , the startup behind a digital horse racing service Zed Run, wherein users buy, s
CTOvision
AUGUST 25, 2021
Read why Bill Zettler says that data is the future of technology and Palantir Technologies, Inc. is right in the middle of it on Seeking Alpha : Palantir (NYSE:PLTR) is one of the more controversial stocks on Seeking Alpha right now with 25 articles being published just in June. Much of the analysis is concentrated […].
David Walsh
AUGUST 23, 2021
Hooks are essential for the functional component pattern in React. One frequent logic comparison with class components was comparing a previous prop value with a current prop value via lifecycle methods. So what’s an easy pattern for duplicating previous value comparisons in functional components? The useRef and useEffect hooks allow us manage that same functionality in functional components via a custom hook — usePrevious : import { useEffect, useRef } from 'react'; export function
InfoQ Culture Methods
AUGUST 13, 2021
This article explores what sustainability exactly means, the current status of sustainability of the major agile organizations (Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance), and the impact of software development on sustainability. The main focal point of this article is using the principles of the Agile Manifesto to guide actions that contribute to more sustainability.
Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera
Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
DevOps.com
AUGUST 17, 2021
To fully grasp how to measure success and gauge progress toward goals in any digital transformation, it’s important to understand the shifting expectations of CIOs who must report these objectives and outcomes. The pandemic has substantially changed the role of the CIO, giving them heftier goals and a shift away from IT. Today’s CIO is […]. The post How CIOs Can Measure Digital Transformation ROI appeared first on DevOps.com.
CEO Insider
AUGUST 10, 2021
You’ve put customer experience at the core of your contact center strategy, and you want to be sure that what you’re doing is on the correct track? Here are five indicators that you must be aware of in order to create a dashboard that accurately reflects your priorities, progress, and the influence of your activities […]. The post Top 5 KPIs to keep in mind for excellent customer experience appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 6, 2021
Assembling a startup team is harder than assembling 10 IKEA dressers, and the stakes are much, much higher. Starting with the assumption that 90% of startups will fail and the most successful ones take an average of six years to IPO, founders must make careful decisions about whom they invite to join the core team. Will that stellar engineer become a great CTO?
CTOvision
AUGUST 2, 2021
Read Katie Brockman explain which is a better investment option, Bitcoin or Ethereum on Motley Fool : Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH) have had a rollercoaster of a year so far. Over the past 12 months, Bitcoin’s price has surged by nearly 300%, and Ethereum is up by more than 900% — and that’s despite […].
Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University
You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar, and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.
Kentik
AUGUST 5, 2021
An evolving legal dispute involving AFRINIC, Africa’s regional internet registry, has led to the freezing of the organization’s bank account and concerns about the stability of the continent’s internet operations. How did we get here? What Are the RIRs? The global internet is administered by five regional internet registries (RIRs): APNIC, ARIN, RIPE NCC, LACNIC and AFRINIC.
Tenable
AUGUST 5, 2021
Cisco releases patches for Critical vulnerabilities in its line of Small Business VPN Routers. Background. On August 4, Cisco released several security advisories , including an advisory for two vulnerabilities in a subset of its line of Small Business VPN Routers. CVE Description CVSSv3 CVE-2021-1609 Web Management Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability 9.8 CVE-2021-1610 Web Management Command Injection Vulnerability 7.2 The table below lists which routers in the Small Busine
DevOps.com
AUGUST 16, 2021
Developing an accessible software development life cycle (SDLC) requires a commitment to inclusion from everyone at the beginning of every project. By committing to developing accessible products, you will avoid costly and timely remediation prior to deployment at the end of your product roadmap. Creating An Accessible Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) An accessible SDLC […].
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