July, 2022

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Myth Busting: 5 Misconceptions About FinOps

DevOps.com

Over the years, moves to the cloud have happened in several different ways and at various speeds. The reality is that today most enterprises are spending massive amounts on their cloud environments, and many teams are struggling to contend with the governance implications of this reality. Fundamentally, teams struggle with an either-or proposition: Either they […].

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How CIOs can unite sustainability and technology

CIO

As technology continues to take a larger role in corporate sustainability practices, CIOs can play a key role in driving both business value and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. In fact, creating and implementing a comprehensive sustainable technology strategy must now be the core mission of a purpose-driven CIO. Every executive in Accenture’s recent sustainable technology survey agreed that technology is critical for achieving sustainability goals.

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Wefox grabs $400M at $4.5B valuation to buck the insurtech downturn trend

TechCrunch

European insurance tech startup Wefox has raised $400 million in a series D round of funding, giving the German company a post-money valuation of $4.5 billion. This represents a 50% increase on last year’s $3 billion valuation at its Series C round. Founded out of Berlin in 2015, Wefox sells various insurance products through a combination of in-house and external brokers, bypassing the direct-to-consumer model of insurtech competitors which include rival German startup Getsafe.

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Curiosity at Work: 5 Opportunities to Show Up a Bit More Curious

Let's Grow Leaders

I am a HUGE proponent of showing up with genuine curiosity at work. Need to have a performance feedback conversation with an under-performing employee? There’s no better place to start than with curiosity. Need a solution to a seemingly no-win scenario with a customer? Again, a bit of curiosity goes a long way. And yet, I know I’m guilty of this.

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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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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

Part Four –Tangential Opportunity; a Balancing Act in P.E. Hiring. In the previous three parts of this series, we realized the challenging factors around searching for and placing an ideal candidate to lead a private equity portfolio company. This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate.

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How DevOps Teams Can Defend Against API Attacks

DevOps.com

Remember when ransomware was the main security threat that DevOps teams needed to worry about? Those days are over. Ransomware attacks are certainly still happening, but API security breaches—which increased by a whopping 600% in 2021—are now poised to become the top attack vector for threat actors, according to Gartner. That’s the bad news. The […].

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IT spending projected to grow despite economic headwinds

CIO

Plummeting sales of printers and PCs and a growing inflation crisis aside, IT spending will remain strong through 2022, rising 3% year-over-year to a total of $4.5 trillion, according to projections released by Gartner Research. The 3% increase in total IT spending represents slower growth than in 2021, as the economy as a whole and the IT sector in particular began to recover from the effects of the pandemic, and growth will largely be driven by cloud services and the data center, Gartner said.

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Meet the newest crypto builders from web3 accelerator Alliance DAO’s demo day

TechCrunch

It seems like every time a demo day ends , there’s a new one waiting around the corner — and as you know, TechCrunch is no stranger to covering them. Oftentimes these events are filled with traditional seed-stage tech companies based in Silicon Valley. But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community.

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How to Lead Through a No-Win Scenario

Let's Grow Leaders

There will be times when you face outcomes you intensely dislike. A seeming no-win scenario is also a chance to distinguish yourself, earn people’s trust, and innovate. Here are seven ways to lead through these tough circumstances, build your credibility, and sleep well at night: Reframe. Own the UGLY. Collaborate. Win with Values. Choose a Different Time Frame.

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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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What the evolution of API management means for DevOps

TechBeacon

With resources stretched and margins getting thinner, application programming interfaces and the API economy will continue to play a critical role in connecting services, applications, and clouds.

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CVE-2022-32223 Discovery: DLL Hijacking via npm CLI

Aqua Security

Aqua Team Nautilus recently discovered that all Node.js versions earlier than 16.16.0 (LTS) and 14.20.0 on Windows are vulnerable to dynamic link library (DLL) hijacking if OpenSSL is installed on the host. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to escalate their privileges and establish persistence in a target environment. The vulnerability can also provide another way to embed malicious code into packages.

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Survey Warns of Looming Software Testing Crisis

DevOps.com

A survey of CEOs and IT professionals involved in application testing finds a significant gap in terms of how acceptable it is to release software that has not been properly tested. The survey, conducted by the market research firm Censuswide on behalf of Leapwork, a test automation platform provider, polled 480 CEOs in the U.S. […]. The post Survey Warns of Looming Software Testing Crisis appeared first on DevOps.com.

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IT leaders get creative to fill data science gaps

CIO

For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. To deal with this hiring problem, they’ve had to get creative. They’re not just offering remote work and flexible hours.

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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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African Leadership Group acquires coding school Holberton

TechCrunch

Coding school Holberton today announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by African Leadership Group (ALG). The seven-year-old company, with physical schools across the globe in addition to its core online platform, will split in two. Holberton’s technology platform will become part of ALG’s existing ALX online learning platform and the existing 34 physical locations will get spun out to become a stand-alone business under current Holberton COO Florian Bucher.

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How Do I Ask Better Questions: Asking For a Friend with Chad Littlefield [VIDEO]

Let's Grow Leaders

Want to Ask Better Questions? Stop Asking Why. Here’s Why… In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I talk with Chad Littlefield, Co-Author of Ask Better Questions. Chad and I met at an industry conference where we were both speaking and discovered many shared interests including creating psychological safety and encouraging deeper, more meaningful conversations and swimming.

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Article: Using DevOps Automation to Combat DevOps Workforce Shortages

InfoQ Culture Methods

A focus on automation can help to combat the current staffing struggles many organizations have with DevOps roles. Effective automation can reduce the toil experienced by developers. Automation efforts should focus on security operations, deployments, continuous delivery, QA testing, and continuous integration. By Cody Littlewood.

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The future of DevOps

TechBeacon

There's more to DevOps than methodology. According to a recently released report from Forrester, future DevOps success will require organizations to undergo a mindset shift—embracing new tools, technologies, and practices that support teams working together toward a common goal.

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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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DevOps Is Not a Role — It’s a Culture

DevOps.com

The full-stack developer is becoming increasingly rare these days. Due to the accelerating complexity of modern software development, programmers often specialize in specific languages, frameworks or levels of the software stack, such as frontend or backend. These same fractures seem to be occurring within DevOps, too. Nowadays, large companies no longer have one strain of […].

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Feeding America turns to data to feed the hungry

CIO

More than 38 million people in the United States, including 12 million children, are facing hunger despite the country producing more than enough food to feed everyone. One organization, Feeding America, the country’s largest domestic hunger relief organization, is turning to information technology to help, having hired three years ago its first IT chief to transform how its network of 200 food banks serve the food insecure.

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Once a key driver of global venture activity, fintech investment slows around the world

TechCrunch

As venture capital grew around the world , tracking the fintech market was a fine way to understand the general health of the VC world; when venture was getting bigger, so too was fintech fundraising. Worth around a fifth of all venture dollars invested last year, fintech startups raised nearly unfathomable sums of capital but with good reason. While companies around the world turned to software during the pandemic to ensure that they could keep operating , accelerating the digital transformatio

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How to Create a Compelling Narrative That Connects with Senior Execs

Next Level Blog

One of the leadership communications distinctions I’ve been thinking about a lot this year is the difference between communications that are episodic and those that are longitudinal. Back in January, I wrote a post about how leaders need to pull the thread through so their teams can see how their work fits into the longer arc of the work. Lately, I’ve been advising a lot of clients on how to frame their communications for C-Suite executives who, because of the nature of their jobs, are bombarded

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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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Article: It’s Time to Start Growing No-Code Developers

InfoQ Culture Methods

It’s time to start training and promoting people to be “business application no-code developers.” Why? Because everyone who manages a system is now a “developer,” whether they were trained that way or not. And if you don’t do this, your company will run into insurmountable problems when scaling its systems. Read this advice from a CTO on how your org can catch up.

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COBOL's youth culture

TechBeacon

COBOL isn’t something new. It’s not thought of as something emerging or disruptive. Yet slowly, almost out of necessity, it’s building a youth culture. A new generation is taking hold of the language and starting to chart a path forward.

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Applying Automation to DevOps

DevOps.com

In the book, “Life and the Art of Engineering,” author Haresh Sippy said, “Automation is cost-cutting by tightening the corners, not cutting them.” Today, businesses and organizations are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve productivity while reducing inefficiencies across their operations. Automation has emerged as the natural answer as it addresses these issues while […].

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8 servant leadership do’s and don’ts

CIO

Servant leadership has emerged as a popular management method that replaces command-and control-style leadership with empathy and empowerment. The management approach prioritizes the growth, well-being, and empowerment of employees. It aims to foster an inclusive environment that enables everyone in the organization to thrive as their authentic self.

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. But most products fail to do so. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook. He will explain his Product-Market Fit Pyramid and The Lean Product Process, a 6-step methodology that guides you through how to: Determine your target customer Identify underserved customer needs Define your

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Africa’s startup market is bucking the global slowdown

TechCrunch

Parsing the latest data on the startup fundraising market in Q2, TechCrunch has explored the global perspective , taken a closer look at fintech , asked how much dry powder VCs have and brought the latest from unicorn land. But we are not yet done. Later this week, we’re looking at the European venture market, which is faring a little better than many other major startup hubs.

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Top 3 Barriers to Entry for AI in Health Care

Dataiku

When many people hear the phrase “AI in health care,” they may think of doctors being replaced by robots or machines. Not exactly a positive connotation, both on the patient and on the physician side of the equation, and also far from a realistic goal or measure of success. The potential for AI in health care is so much more diverse and, in many ways, complex.

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Ruby on Rails Examples to Consider for Your Developmental Journey

Coding Dojo

Ruby on Rails continues to be an extremely powerful yet developer-friendly solution for tackling all manner of web projects, and … Read more >>. The post Ruby on Rails Examples to Consider for Your Developmental Journey appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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