The Crazy Programmer

MARCH 16, 2021

Used by some of the most prominent market players like Netflix, Reddit, LinkedIn, PayPal, Amazon and more, there is no doubt that Node JS is a premier web application architecture. It did not take much time for Node JS to become one of the most preferred web development frameworks by companies and developers across the world. Thanks to its amazing capabilities, stability and functionalities, over 43% of the Nodejs developers out there use the programming language to develop solid enterprise appl

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 29, 2021

Is Scrumban just adding a Kanban board with a few other ornamental changes, or are there deeper issues that need to be addressed? What advantages do you expect to achieve by infusing your current practices with Lean Kanban? Hybrids are problematic at best. Without principles guiding your actions, they create indecision about in which direction … Continued.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Nigeria remains a largely cash-dominated country. There are over 100 million adult Nigerians, of which more than half have little or no access to financial services. . Today, Bankly , a Nigerian fintech startup digitizing cash for the unbanked, announced that it has closed a $2 million seed round. Founded by Tomilola Adejana and Fredrick Adams in 2018, Bankly is digitizing the informal thrift collections system known with different names such as esusu or ajo in Nigeria.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 25, 2021

Too many meetings can frustrate productivity and morale. Reduce them to free your team. When your calendar staggers under the weight of too many meetings, start with design thinking, involve your team, and improve your use of asynchronous tools. It’s a refrain […]. The post Too Many Meetings – How to Free Your Team to Build, Create, and Thrive appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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MARCH 23, 2021

Two years after announcing the general availability of its fully-managed blockchain service, Amazon has extended it with Ethereum support. Using Ethereum on Managed Blockchain, developers can easily instantiate Ethereum nodes without […].

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The Crazy Programmer

MARCH 15, 2021

Programming languages are constantly and rapidly evolving in the current world of technology. The year 2021 brings in new hope and changing trends in many industries across the world. The technical world is no exception to this trend. In this article, we will explore the top programming languages, their scope, market demand, and the expected average income when using these languages.

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Confluent

MARCH 30, 2021

At the heart of Apache Kafka® sits the log—a simple data structure that uses sequential operations that work symbiotically with the underlying hardware. Efficient disk buffering and CPU cache usage, […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The proliferation of fintech services across Africa remains in full swing as investors remain bullish about the opportunities that abound in the sector. Today we behold another unicorn: African payments company Flutterwave announced that it has closed $170 million, valuing the company over $1 billion. New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital and U.S. hedge fund and investment firm Tiger Global led the Series C round.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 22, 2021

3 Communication Mistakes That Sabotage Your Influence and Impact When it comes to having better influence at work, words matter. Of course, WHAT you say will instantly influence your credibility and impact. But, what’s REALLY tragic is to see well-intentioned leaders with […]. The post Want Better Influence at Work? Avoid These Communication Mistakes appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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CTOvision

MARCH 30, 2021

Visa Inc (NYSE:V) will start allowing the cryptocurrency USD Coin to be used for payment settlements on its network. It’s the latest sign that mainstream financial companies are starting to accept digital currencies. According to CNBC, Visa launched the pilot program with Crypto.com, a payment and crypto platform. The companies plan to offer the option […].

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DevOps.com

MARCH 24, 2021

Gartner predicts that by the end of 2025, over 65% of development projects will usee low-code builders. The field of low-code continues to expand. But what security implications does low-code introduce? Low-code refers to tools that enable application construction using visual programming models. Adopting drag-and-drop components instead of traditional code, no-code and low-code platforms enables […].

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The Crazy Programmer

MARCH 20, 2021

Landing a job at Google is like a daydream come true! Googlers around the world are highly satisfied with the culture, work-life balance, perks, and benefits that Google offers. However, it’s not easy for anyone to get a job at Google. . Google ranks second in the world’s top four most valuable brands with Amazon (#1), Apple (#3), and Microsoft (#4).

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The Citus Data

MARCH 20, 2021

One of the big new things in Citus 10 is that you can now shard Postgres on a single Citus node. So in addition to using the Citus extension to Postgres to scale out Postgres across a distributed cluster, you can now also: Try out Citus on a single node with just a few simple commands. Shard Postgres on a single Citus node to be “scale-out-ready” Simplify CI/CD pipelines by testing with single-node Citus.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

If there were any doubt about a cryptocurrency boom, we need look no further than at the explosion of growth of certain companies in the space. One such company is BlockFi , which today announced it has closed on a massive $350 million Series D funding that values it at $3 billion. While this news in and of itself is certainly attention-getting, it’s even more impressive when you consider the startup just raised a $50 million Series C last August at a $450 million valuation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 8, 2021

To Gain More Credibility at Work, Think Others First I’m often asked to speak about ways to show up with more confidence and to build credibility at work. There are still a stupid number of places that this is way harder than […]. The post 4 Simple Ways to Gain More Credibility at Work appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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CTOvision

MARCH 2, 2021

Ethereum mining revenue grew 65.1% between January and February. During that time, transaction fees grew 122.1%. Ethereum mining revenue often features a relatively high ratio of transaction fees to block subsidies. […].

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DevOps.com

MARCH 23, 2021

Cloud and DevOps are almost a match made in heaven. Cloud started truly gaining steam in the age of DevOps and Agile, and has adapted – or grown up in it – well, depending on your viewpoint. If not for the combined issues of data gravity and data (im)mobility, we might have gone even farther […]. The post Languages and DevOps: To The Cloud!

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DataRobot

MARCH 10, 2021

Beware the hype about AI systems. Although AI is powerful and generates trillions of dollars of economic value across the world, what you see in science fiction movies remains pure fiction. In this blog post, I will focus on the use of the word autonomous , the dangers of using it with stakeholders, and, in the context of customer experience, the inaccurate perception that all things can be automated, eliminating the need for interactions between employees and customers.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 9, 2021

Programs like AlphaZero and GPT-3 are massive accomplishments: they represent years of sustained work solving a difficult problem. But these problems are squarely within the domain of traditional AI. Playing Chess and Go or building ever-better language models have been AI projects for decades. The following projects have a different flavor: In February, PLOS Genetics published an article by researchers who are using GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) to create artificial human genomes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Jim Jackson developed timber and farmland in Eastern Washington, protected from coastal rains by the peaks of the Cascade mountains, building out a clutch of apple farms and other properties on the state’s sunny side for 40 years. Traditionally, he raised money to expand operations for his farms through his existing network, which meant asking previous investors to pool together and come up with the cash.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 22, 2021

3 Communication Mistakes That Sabotage Your Influence and Impact. When it comes to having better influence at work, words matter. Of course, WHAT you say will instantly influence your credibility and impact. But, what’s REALLY tragic is to see well-intentioned leaders with great ideas getting talked over or ignored, because of HOW they contribute.

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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.

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CTOvision

MARCH 23, 2021

Read why Billy Bambrough favors Ethereum over Bitcoin in the face of probable cryptocurrency launch by the United States Federal Reserve on Forbes : Bitcoin has soared by almost 1,000% […].

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DevOps.com

MARCH 24, 2021

If you want to build a house, you could get a lot done yourself. You could sketch out a simple design, start assembling materials, maybe even nail down some floorboards and install drywall. But to make it truly functional, and to respond to all the unknown fixes — big and small — that would surely […]. The post Why a Low-Code Platform Should Have Pro-Code Capabilities appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Toptal

MARCH 11, 2021

As microservices architecture continues to evolve, interservice communication has become a significant challenge to manage. Service meshes are becoming the standard solution, but how do popular and up-and-coming service meshes compare?

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 10, 2021

In this blog you will learn how to monitor a Spring Boot application. You will make use of Spring Actuator, Micrometer, Prometheus and Grafana. Seems a lot of work, but this is easier as you might think! 1. Introduction. When an application runs in production (but also your other environments), it is wise to monitor its health. You want to make sure that everything is running without any problems and the only way to know this, is to measure the health of your application.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) offer new ways for consumers to collect, wear and trade fashion online, and now that most fashion shows have scaled back or gone virtual , they may become an important tool for the industry. Because some of the most profitable NFTs are produced by celebrities with teams , it makes sense that music corporations, fashion brands and designers are venturing into the NFT market as well.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MARCH 5, 2021

The most significant impact on culture and methods in 2021 is the disruption caused by COVID-19. We see what's needed for good remote and the impact of bad remote bad, how management practices are evolving and the importance of people skills for technologists. Paying attention to ethical issues, diversity and inclusion, tech for good, employee experience and psychological safety are important.

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Battery Ventures

MARCH 4, 2021

Software-company valuations are in the stratosphere these days. The median valuation for a public software-as-a-service (SaaS) company in 2010 was three times forward revenue; now the figure is 15 times forward revenue, according to CapIQ data, with many companies trading above 30 times next-12-months revenue. We sit today at an all-time high. So, why is this happening?

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