October, 2021

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A Scrum Flight Checklist

Agile Alliance

Are you concerned that your team might have strayed from the foundational principles of Scrum? This checklist will help you stay on track. The post A Scrum Flight Checklist first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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A Blueprint for Securing Software Development

DevOps.com

Software development has changed dramatically in recent years, as technologies like DevOps, application containers, and cloud-native transform how software is built and distributed. Unfortunately, attackers have been paying close attention to these changes, and have retooled their attack strategies to take advantage of relatively weak security controls in software development and build environments.

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Mobile gaming startup Homa Games raises $50 million

TechCrunch

Just days after Voodoo acquired Beach Bum , another French mobile gaming company has news to share. Homa Games is raising a $50 million Series A round led by Northzone. The company partners with indie game studios and acts as a publisher. Other investors in today’s funding round include Singular, King, the founders of FuboTV and Daniel Ek’s family office.

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Responsible Tech Playbook

Martin Fowler

Those of us developing software don’t need to be told what a big impact it’s had on humanity this century. I’ve long maintained that this places a serious responsibility on our profession. Whether asked to or not, we have a duty to ensure our systems don’t degrade our society. But in the tumult of so many software projects, it can be difficult to step back and understand the implications of our work.

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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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Cloud-based Per-Title Encoding Workflows (with AWS

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If you work with video on the internet, you know how resource-intensive encoding can be. While moving from in-house to cloud-hosted servers can save you a lot of money, that doesn’t change the fact that processing large videos with modern codecs takes significant computing power.

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Digital transformation fails: Are you automating the wrong processes?

TechBeacon

Process mining is the secret sauce in digital transformation: A recent survey of 1,220 IT decision makers worldwide shows that many organizations have automated the wrong procedures, wasting time and money.

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Humans and AI: Bargaining Power

DataRobot

I have a confession to make—I’m a back-seat driver! When sitting in a taxi, I can’t help but grumble when the ride isn’t smooth, or the driver chooses the slowest lane of traffic. I have to fight the urge to take control. When it comes to shopping, I passively accept what is offered for sale. But my wife, who grew up in Asia where haggling is part of the culture, is different.

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Heart to Heart raises $750K to bring sweet, sweet flirtation to your ear holes

TechCrunch

Radio has long been described as the most intimate of media. Quips about putting radio on the internet aside, the persistent popularity of podcasting and the cockamamie climb of Clubhouse shows that audio-based platforms will continue to echo around the upper echelons of the ecosystem for a while yet. Joining the fray is Heart to Heart , an audio-first dating app aiming to bring back some intimacy to the process of finding the right person for your next foray, whether that’s a saucy encoun

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Foreword to "The Art of Agile Development"

Martin Fowler

James Shore has revised his book "The Art of Agile Development". I'm pleased to write a foreword for this book as it is solid guide to learning how to get past faux-agile and develop the skills you need to get the benefits of the agile way of work.

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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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Everything you need to know about Video Watermarki

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In the last 10 years, over 100 unique streaming services have launched around the world, with a mass acceleration of new services launched in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. This growth in new services shows no indication of slowing any time soon, as new niche verticals like eLearning, faith-based services, fitness, and entertainment (live music/theater) are building out their own services to expand their reach and monetize their content.

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How Do I Build Leadership Tenacity and Grit?

Let's Grow Leaders

How do you tap into the grit and tenacity when you are exhausted? In this week’s Asking for a Friend I speak with World Class Ultra Triathlete, Kurt Madden, who is also CEO of The Collaborative, about leadership tenacity and grit. What is tenacity? And where does it come from? I love this definition of tenacity : “The state of holding on to an idea or thing very strongly.” Because if you’re a leader, who really believes in the “ the idea or thing” you’r

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What 30 Years of Linux Taught the Software Industry

DevOps.com

Linux has become the largest collaborative development project in the history of computing over the last 30 years. Reflecting on what made this possible and how its open source philosophy finally imposed itself in the industry can offer software vendors valuable lessons from this amazing success story. The web may not have reached full adulthood […].

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Facebook’s historic outage, explained

Kentik

Yesterday the world’s largest social media platform suffered a global outage of all of its services for nearly six hours. Facebook and its subsidiaries, including WhatsApp, Instagram and Oculus, were unavailable to its 3.5 billion users in what can arguably be considered the most impactful internet service outage in modern history. When we first heard about problems with Facebook, we checked Kentik’s OTT Service Tracker, which analyzes traffic by over-the-top (OTT) service.

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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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Vendease gets $3.2M to help hotels and restaurants buy food supplies in Africa

TechCrunch

Vendease , an online marketplace that allows restaurants and other food businesses to buy supplies straight from manufacturers and farms, has raised a seed round of $3.2 million, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The news is coming seven months after TechCrunch announced that the company, founded in January 2020, took part in Y Combinator’s winter batch that included nine other African startups.

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CVE-2021-41773: Path Traversal Zero-Day in Apache HTTP Server Exploited

Tenable

The Apache HTTP Server Project patched a path traversal vulnerability introduced less than a month ago that has been exploited in the wild. Background. On October 5, the Apache HTTP Server Project patched CVE-2021-41773, a path traversal and file disclosure vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server, an open-source web server for Unix and Windows that is among the most widely used web servers.

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3 Practices to Help Build a Strong Data Culture

Dataiku

Let’s be frank — creating a lasting data culture in your company isn’t going to happen overnight. No technology you install or datasets you gather will do that for you. You need time and, as we’ve seen across pop culture, it usually takes a new idea or innovation (or an old idea packaged as new) to change culture. This change usually falls on data leaders to drive because they have a unique perspective across data, technology, and the organization.

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How To Help Your Team Think Like an Entrepreneur

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team. Back in her Verizon days, one of Karin’s favorite questions to ask a team member whom she was encouraging to think like an entrepreneur was: “If this was your company, would you _ (make this decision, hold this meeting, spend money in this matter, invest in this project)?” As you can imagine, the answer was often. “Errr, well, no, but …” The conversation after that “but” is at the heart of teac

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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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Closing the Education Gap for IoT Developers

DevOps.com

The most common thing I hear from developers who are building internet of things (IoT) solutions is: It isn’t easy. And it’s not. Not because of a lack of skill—the developers I interact with are incredibly talented. There’s also no shortage of technologies to choose from for deploying an IoT solution. The challenge often comes […]. The post Closing the Education Gap for IoT Developers appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Is bad test data killing DevOps?

TechBeacon

Test data used throughout the application lifecycle is stale, dirty, or polluted. The lack of adequate test data is eating into productivity gains from agile and DevOps investments because testing failures are slowing down the speed of software delivery.

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TripleBlind secures $24M for a new approach to enterprise-level, privacy-preserving data sharing

TechCrunch

Organizations that have made the leap into using big data to drive their business are increasingly looking for better, more efficient ways to share data with others without compromising privacy and data protection laws, and that is ushering in a rush of technologists building a number of new approaches to fill that need. In the latest development, a startup called TripleBlind — which has devised a way to encrypt data so that it can be shared without ever being decrypted or even leaving the

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We Are Testing Software Incorrectly and It's Costly

Dzone - DevOps

Many engineers believe that for every public method of every class, they must create a corresponding "unit test.". That is wrong. That wasn't what many meant by "unit" when the term "unit testing" was first used.

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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: The Three Symptoms of Toxic Leadership and How to Get Out of It

InfoQ Culture Methods

None of us are born toxic leaders, but anyone can easily become one. In the past several year’s workplaces have started to feel the effects of “Toxic Leadership.” Now is the time to educate everyone on the importance of speaking right, doing right, treating each other right in the workplace, and above all, being a nontoxic leader. By Raj Subrameyer.

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Humanity Works Better with Debbie and Kate

Let's Grow Leaders

Humanity. It works—and it works better. In this heartfelt and moving conversation, Debbie Cohen and Kate Roeske-Zummer help you chart a path that brings humanity (yours and your teams) to work through awareness, choice, and courage. They’ll help you build a healthier, more productive work environment that draws the best—rather than squeezes the most—out of people.

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The Role of APIs in Mainframe Modernization

DevOps.com

Mainframes are historically clunky systems. They are incredibly secure and can process impressive calculations, yet they are complex to manage and challenging to extract data from. This reality is at odds with modern cloud-native infrastructure, which emphasizes distributed computing and portable microservices. So, how can existing mainframes adapt to this connected, data-driven economy?

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5 principles for your cloud-oriented open-source strategy

TechBeacon

Many companies are still trying to work out strategies to incorporate cloud services and open-source software, two of the most significant developments to hit enterprise IT in the past decade.

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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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Nubank files to go public

TechCrunch

This morning Brazilian neobank Nu, better known as Nubank, announced that it has filed to go public. Today its S-1 filing remains private, but the announcement of its existence implies that Nu is on track to go public soon, perhaps inside of 2021. The company filed with both the American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) in Brazi, it saidl.

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How to Scale Engineering Processes w/ Twitter's VP of Engineering

Dzone - DevOps

Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering for Strategy and Operations at Twitter. She joins a special livestream of the Dev Interrupted podcast to share her career journey, her strategies for sustainably scaling engineering teams and the three pillars of engineering processes. In a first for the Dev Interrupted podcast , I hosted this episode live in front of a virtual audience during the INTERACT engineering leadership conference.

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Hybrid IT: Cloud and legacy tech must live together in peace

DXC

Are you trying to introduce new ways of working and deliver new value to your business via cloud while having to cope with legacy technologies (which will potentially be around for years to come)? Are you trying to fit your old ways of working onto your new technologies? These are situations that we typically see, […]. The post Hybrid IT: Cloud and legacy tech must live together in peace appeared first on DXC Blogs.

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