June, 2022

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10 Key Trends of Digital Transformation in Healthcare in 2022

OTS Solutions

The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered healthcare in 2020. Still, in 2021, a new set of problems has emerged, including more potent COVID-19 variations and overflowing hospitals attempting to treat both people with and without the virus. Technology has proven important in maintaining the healthcare industry’s resilience in the face of so many obstacles.

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Product Backlog Building Canvas

Martin Fowler

Many software teams describe desired product capabilities as a product backlog: a list of user stories. These stories capture who needs the work, what the work is, and why it's needed. Too often teams expect a product owner to be the sole source of the backlog, but anyone could (and should) write user stories. Paulo Caroli teaches teams to use a Product Backlog Building Canvas , which provides a simple process to develop user stories, starting with describing personas for product users and the a

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The 10 biggest issues IT faces today

CIO

CIOs are used to rapid change. New technologies hit the market, existing ones evolve, business needs change on a dime, staff comes and goes. All that together, though, is nothing compared to the turbulence that CIOs are seeing today. IT leaders are now contending with continued pandemic-related disruptions, geopolitical instability, and economic volatility — on top of those usual factors.

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FDA orders Juul to stop selling its vaping products in the US

TechCrunch

The axe has fallen for e-cigarette maker Juul. The FDA ordered the company to stop selling and distributing its ubiquitous vaping devices in the U.S. Thursday, a dramatic end for a company that dominated the e-cigarette market and was valued at $38 billion at the top of its game. Juul will no longer be able to sell its vapes nor its 5% or 3% tobacco and menthol-flavored pods in the U.S. without “risk[ing] enforcement action” from the U.S.

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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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Professionalising the Scrum Master Role

Agile Alliance

The global pump manufacturer Grundfos is experimenting with implementing Agile techniques for the development of hardware and software components. This article describes how the authors guided and supported the professional development of the Scrum Masters role and competencies, with an emphasis on challenges encountered and lessons learned. The post Professionalising the Scrum Master Role first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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10 women in cybersecurity predict software security trends

TechBeacon

Rounding the corner into the second half of the year offers a good opportunity for security strategists to reevaluate the state of their cybersecurity plans as they match them with the realities of the threat landscape.

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Survey Shows Correlation Between Open Source, DevOps Skills Demand

DevOps.com

A survey published this week by the Linux Foundation suggested enterprise IT organizations now prefer to hire IT professionals that have both open source software and DevOps experience. Conducted in collaboration with edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc., the survey polled 1,672 open source professionals and 559 respondents with responsibility for […].

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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO

What is data analytics? Data analytics is a discipline focused on extracting insights from data. It comprises the processes, tools and techniques of data analysis and management, including the collection, organization, and storage of data. The chief aim of data analytics is to apply statistical analysis and technologies on data to find trends and solve problems.

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Pear VC’s Anand Iyer goes solo with new $20M fund for crypto developer tools

TechCrunch

Engineers are the bedrock of any tech product, and blockchains are no exception. As the race between different chains heats up, communities of loyalists are duking it out to attract developers to their blockchain of choice in hopes that doing so will turbocharge growth. And competition aside, without adequate infrastructure and tooling, the big ideas and promises of web3 don’t have any shot of seeing the light of day.

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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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Public Travis CI Logs (Still) Expose Users to Cyber Attacks

Aqua Security

In our latest research, we at Team Nautilus found that tens of thousands of user tokens are exposed via the Travis CI API, which allows anyone to access historical clear-text logs. More than 770 million logs of free tier users are available, from which you can easily extract tokens, secrets, and other credentials associated with popular cloud service providers such as GitHub, AWS, and Docker Hub.

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Kinsing & Dark.IoT botnet among threats targeting CVE-2022-26134

Lacework

Details regarding the recent Confluence OGNL ( CVE-2022-26134 ) exploit were released to the public on June 3rd 2022. Shortly following this, Lacework Labs began seeing multiple attacks in the wild from both uncategorized and named threats. While this was expected, there appears to be more widespread exploitation of CVE-2022-26134 compared to previous Confluence vulnerabilities.

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Why open source matters for developers

TechBeacon

Organizations' use of open source is continuing to increase. In fact, in 2021, some 77% of companies reported that they were using more open-source software, while 36% said they were using significantly more open-source tools.

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One Year Out: What Biden’s EO Means for Software Devs

DevOps.com

It has been just over a year since president Biden issued executive order 14028 (EO) to improve the nation’s cybersecurity posture. Despite the Log4j vulnerability and a worldwide increase in ransomware attacks, this EO signaled a major step in improving software security at federal agencies and establishing cybersecurity as a priority for the U.S. government. […].

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’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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Is Your Approach Parent-Child Management or Adult-to-Adult Leadership?

Next Level Blog

Years ago, when I was a rising leader in corporate-land, I worked for a company president who regularly asked a thought-provoking question, “Are we engaging in an adult-to-adult conversation or a parent-child conversation?”. When she asked the question, I don’t think she had in mind the nurturing type of parent-child relationship that most of us would likely prefer, but the type in which the parent is the alpha and the child is the beta.

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6 reasons to invest in startups from Ukraine

TechCrunch

Oleksandr Yaroshenko. Contributor. Oleksandr Yaroshenko is head of investor relations at Headway , an edtech startup based in Ukraine. For more than three months, Ukraine has been engulfed in the flames of a war with Russia. That might look like a red flag from an investor’s point of view, but everything is not so black and white in the country’s tech sector.

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How You Can Become a Listening STAR

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Today’s guest post is written by Brian Ahearn. Brian’s one of the most knowledgeable guys I know on the subject of influencing people (which is why he’s been a guest here before). Brian’s blog, Influence PEOPLE, is followed by people in more than 180 countries. You can learn more about Brian at the end of this post. Enjoy! My wife Jane is an excellent golfer, a poster child for hard work and practice.

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Empathetic Leadership Begins with Love

Steve Farber

Over the past couple of years, our world has lost and gained a lot. We’ve been through an incredibly stressful yet profound experience, and we’ve come out on the other side, scarred but intact and. Read more. The post Empathetic Leadership Begins with Love first appeared on Steve Farber.

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

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How to make low code work long term

TechBeacon

Low-code development's popularity has been steadily increasing for years now, with no signs of slowing down. Its appeal is that it gives users the ability to create software applications through a graphical interface, with little or no need for programming in the traditional sense.

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The Risks of Shadow Code

DevOps.com

As the economy struggles to recover after the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all learned a thing or two about supply chains—and what happens when they break down. But many people do not realize that modern websites also have digital supply chains, third-party ones that can be compromised in myriad ways. […]. The post The Risks of Shadow Code appeared first on DevOps.com.

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WhiteHat brings new dimension to DAST capabilities at Synopsys

Synopsys

The acquisition of WhiteHat Security, the leading the DAST solution provider, is a step toward a more comprehensive, end-to-end portfolio for AppSec. The post WhiteHat brings new dimension to DAST capabilities at Synopsys appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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Athleisure icon Ty Haney raises $9.8M in fresh funding for her blockchain rewards startup

TechCrunch

Outdoor Voices founder Ty Haney made a name for herself by making sportswear the hottest trend among non-athletes. Now, the 33-year-old entrepreneur is betting she can bring together another underrated duo — consumer brands and crypto. Haney joined TechCrunch’s Chain Reaction podcast this week to talk about her latest venture, Try Your Best (TYB).

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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How Low Code Demands More Creativity From Developers

Dzone - DevOps

This is an article from DZone's 2022 Low Code and No Code Trend Report. For more: Read the Report. Yes, engineering is a science, but it's more and more an art, too. Developers must be at least as creative as the next hacker — and they need to cultivate user empathy. That's why organizations benefit from automating the minutia, allowing devs to focus on novel problem-solving.

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GitHub Bug Allowed Third-party Apps to Gain Elevated Permissions

Aqua Security

We learned about a bug in GitHub that for about five days at the end of February allowed connected GitHub third-party applications to generate new scoped installation tokens with elevated permissions. For example, if you connected the Codecov app to your GitHub account with read-only access to your repositories, during that window it could have created a new token with write access to them.

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Why programmers still love COBOL

TechBeacon

The programming language COBOL conjures up images of thin ties, white shirts, spinning tape drives, and all of the glory and pain of the mainframe era. This only makes sense because the language first appeared in 1959 and it was one of the dominant ways to code in the 1960s.

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The Two Types of Code Vulnerabilities

DevOps.com

Spell checkers, grammar checkers and predictive keyboards all help reduce errors in written communication, but in a creative medium where writers need to innovate new expressions, nothing can eliminate all errors. The same is true in the code we write. Of course, your code is probably perfect but, on average, all code has bugs. Some […]. The post The Two Types of Code Vulnerabilities appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

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.

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Harness the Power of WordPress Hooks: Actions and Filters Explained

Toptal

WordPress developers might be tempted to customize this popular website builder directly, but that approach creates ongoing maintenance headaches. Fortunately, there's a clean way to extend functionality: via WordPress hooks, actions, and filters.

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A downturn is nothing new for diverse founders

TechCrunch

From black swan memos and heart-to-hearts to not-so-subtle emails asking for on-the-record confirmations that your startup does, indeed, have revenue, investors have a lot to say about the downturn. Yet, it’s a quieter and more realistic truth that has landed my attention as of late: For diverse founders, the downturn is nothing new. Some investors, largely those who focus on backing historically overlooked founders, say that the crackdown on tech companies isn’t impacting diverse founders as ha

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Is NoOps the End of DevOps?

Dzone - DevOps

Is NoOps really the end of DevOps? To answer this question, you must understand NoOps better. Things are moving incredibly fast in the development world as automation and scaling in the cloud reach new heights every day. You can have “as a service” for almost anything — be it storage, network, in the cloud, compute, or security. Cloud providers are also increasingly investing in their automation ecosystem.

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