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5 Essential Skills You Need To Be A Great Digital Leader

UruIT

A modern digital leader must adapt and step into new roles to propel their teams into an increasingly tech-centric future. Indeed, those pursuing leadership careers today are also expected to possess certain essential skills that can help organizations thrive in the digital era. 1. Tech-driven adaptability. Chief among these skills is tech adaptability.

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Change the word, “CHANGE.”

CEO Insider

As you read the title of this article, I know this may feel somewhat counter intuitive. We have used the word when leading and managing “change” for decades. When instigating a project we expect things to develop from one place to another or introducing something new to a system or process and maybe to take […]. The post Change the word, “CHANGE.” appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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AI startup investment is on pace for a record year

TechCrunch

The startup investing market is crowded, expensive and rapid-fire today as venture capitalists work to preempt one another, hoping to deploy funds into hot companies before their competitors. The AI startup market may be even hotter than the average technology niche. This should not surprise. In the wake of the Microsoft-Nuance deal , The Exchange reported that it would be reasonable to anticipate an even more active and competitive market for AI-powered startups.

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How do I Admit We Were Wrong? (with Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

“Hey Karin, I’m so proud of my team. We had such an incredible pivot. We accomplished some incredible things. AND as it turns out we made some faulty assumptions, and we’re going to need to pivot. How do I admit we were wrong without discouraging the team? #AskingForaFriend. Gain Big Credibility With Your Team, Even if You Have to Admit You Were Wrong.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Making Sense of the Competitive Environment

CTOvision

OODA members have access to a wide range of premium content and research designed to enable optimal decisions in competitive situations. For speed of access members can use the search function or can find relevant research based on the categorization below: Cybersecurity Sensemaking: Strategic intelligence to inform your decisionmaking The OODA leadership and analysts have […].

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6 career options for ex-founders seeking their next adventure

TechCrunch

David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. More posts by this contributor. How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds. 5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. Hey, founders between gigs: What now? If you exited your last company for airplane money and are now independently wealthy, congratulations!

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Leading Performance Conversations without Losing Your Cool

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s easy to take things personally and get upset when you need to lead a tough performance conversation. In this episode, we’ll take a look at what might cause you to get upset and five steps you can take to keep your cool and have a productive conversation. Leading a Performance Conversation without Losing Your Cool. 0:58 – Be sure to pick up your discounted copy of Courageous Cultures through the end of June 2021. 2:00 – Why leading a performance conversation without l

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This Magecart skimmer has been redesigned for mobile

CTOvision

Magecart operators have modified a popular credit card skimmer to only target mobile users as consumers are doing more of their online shopping from their smartphones as opposed to their computers. According to a new report from RiskIQ, the Inter Skimmer kit is one of the most common digital skimming solutions worldwide. Several different groups of […].

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25 Kubernetes experts you should follow on Twitter

TechBeacon

While running apps on bare metal is more traditional, deploying programs using containers provides loads of benefits. And for keeping track of all those containers, Kubernetes (known as K8s in shorthand) is an extremely popular open-source management platform. It's scalable, extensible, and portable.

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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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Yousign raises $36.6 million to build a European alternative to DocuSign

TechCrunch

French startup Yousign has raised a $36.6 million Series A funding round (€30 million). Lead Edge Capital is leading the round and eFounders is investing once again in the company. Yousign, as the name suggests, is an e-signature provider that complies with European regulation on digital signatures. While the company was originally founded in 2013, Yousign teamed up with startup studio eFounders in 2019.

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Article: Reawakening Agile with OKRs?

InfoQ Culture Methods

Corporate agile often represents an improvement over what went before but falls short on delivering the high performance management want and quality engineering environment developers dream of. The backlog becomes tyranny. Could OKRs - objectives and key results - reawaken the radical side of agile? Or do OKRs represent a return to command and control?

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Guggenheim To Launch A New Fund, With Potential Bitcoin Exposure

CTOvision

Guggenheim Partners, a $315 billion investment firm, could be looking for further access to the crypto market through a new fund, a Tuesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission suggests. According to this week’s filing, the firm registered the Guggenheim Active Allocation Fund, which will invest in financial products, such as derivatives, whose value tracks […].

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Code as Infrastructure

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A few months ago, I was asked if there were any older technologies other than COBOL where we were in serious danger of running out of talent. They wanted me to talk about Fortran, but I didn’t take the bait. I don’t think there will be a critical shortage of Fortran programmers now or at any time in the future. But there’s a bigger question lurking behind Fortran and COBOL: what are the ingredients of a technology shortage?

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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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4 women in engineering discuss harassment, isolation and perseverence

TechCrunch

Women engineers often face workplace and career challenges that their male colleagues don’t because they remain a minority in the profession: Depending on how you count, women make up just 13% to 25% of engineering jobs. That inequity leads to a power imbalance, which can lead to toxic working environments. One of the more infamous and egregious examples is Susan Fowler’s experience at Uber.

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Learning ‘The Second Way’ of DevOps – Continuous Feedback

DevOps.com

As indicated in my prior blog Learning the ‘First Way’ of DevOps–Continuous Flow, many organizations are struggling to realize well-engineered DevOps, even the ‘first way’ of DevOps – continuous flow. The first way of DevOps, continuous flow, is the foundation for DevOps. Once mastered, an organization will naturally want to master the second way of […].

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5 Global Supply Chain Security Threats (and How to Handle Them)

CTOvision

Read C.J. Haughey explain the top five global supply chain threats and how to mitigate them on Security Intelligence : In December 2020, a nation-state attack on the SolarWinds network management system compromised the supply chains of over 18,000 organizations, including the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security. With costs likely to run into […].

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How to Better Manage Apache Kafka by Creating Kafka Messages from within Control Center

Confluent

Managing Apache Kafka® clusters can be tricky sometimes. To solve this problem, Confluent Control Center helps you easily manage and monitor your clusters and interact with other Confluent components, such […].

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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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The air taxi market prepares to take flight

TechCrunch

Twelve years ago, Joby Aviation consisted of a team of seven engineers working out of founder JoeBen Bevirt’s ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains. Today, the startup has swelled to 800 people and a $6.6 billion valuation, ranking itself as the highest-valued electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) company in the industry. As in any disruptive industry, the forecast may be cloudier than the rosy picture painted by passionate founders and investors.

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Securing Vital Machinery Underpinning the American Way of Life, June 17, 2021, 11 AM (EST)

Dots and Bridges

The United States’ critical infrastructure sectors are under continuous attack, and humanity is at risk. Collectively, our Government, Commercial, and Academic partners recognize the need for trusted partnerships and mature technologies. Context-aware analytics, cloud computing, and intelligent automation can foster a reliable, resilient, and next-gen architecture.

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1.3% of Bitcoin’s supply has now been wrapped onto Ethereum

CTOvision

Read Tim Copeland take a look at how nearly 1.3 percent of Bitcoin’s supply is now being utilized on the Ethereum Blockchain and turned in Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) on The Block Crypto : A considerable percentage of Bitcoin’s circulating supply has now been locked up to be utilized on the Ethereum blockchain. According to The Block’s […].

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Hybrid Project Management: A Middle Ground Between Agile and Waterfall

Toptal

Agile project management strives for adaptability, while Waterfall strives for predictability. A hybrid approach that marries the two can be challenging to implement but beneficial for some projects.

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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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5 questions startups should consider before making their first marketing hire

TechCrunch

Jamie Viggiano. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jamie Viggiano is the chief marketing officer at Fuel Capital , an early-stage venture capital firm investing in consumer, SaaS and infrastructure businesses. “Who should my first marketing hire be?” This is (by far) the most common question I’ve received since starting as Fuel’s CMO, and for good reason.

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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

Netflix Tech

By Alok Tiagi , Hariharan Ananthakrishnan , Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan Netflix has developed a network observability sidecar called Flow Exporter that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time. At much less than 1% of CPU and memory on the instance, this highly performant sidecar provides flow data at scale for network insight.

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Q&A: Modernizing Data Management: What Works and What Doesn’t

CTOvision

If you’re managing today’s new data realities and the push for digital transformation using yesterday’s data management techniques, you’re headed for trouble. Aerospike’s Lenley Hensarling offers suggestions for what to do and how to get started. With the growing importance of real-time data, the move to the cloud, and customer demands, it’s no wonder that […].

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It’s never too late to add unit tests to legacy code

TechBeacon

Most developers believe in the value of unit tests, even if they don't always like writing them. Most of them are okay with writing unit tests while doing new development work or practicing test-driven development (TDD), but it's easy to be disciplined with greenfield development.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Compose.ai raises $2.1M to help everyone write faster

TechCrunch

In today’s GPT-3 world, it’s not uncommon to hear about new software services that deal with text. Compose.ai is one such company, though it built its own language model to help folks write faster. Its early product work was enough for it to land a $2.1 million seed round led by Craft Ventures, it announced this morning. Compose.ai is essentially an auto-complete function that works wherever you browse the web.

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React 18 Alpha is out! Now what?

Netlify

Hello! They kept us in Suspense long enough, but HECK React developers have some new features to play with!! The best part: Almost all of the benefits of the upgrade don’t require major code changes. The New Root API. React has always had to have some kind of root. You’re probably used to seeing something like this at the top level of your applications: import ReactDOM from ‘react-dom’; import App from 'App'; ReactDOM.render(document.getElementByID('root'), ); Pretty normal, right?

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Security Risks With No-Code/Low-Code Tools

DevOps.com

As the popularity of no-code and low-code tools grows, so, too, do security concerns The demand for new applications is growing at a rapid rate. Many individuals and business units will not tolerate delays. As a result, citizen developers are stepping in, some of whom may be sanctioned by the company while essentially operating as […]. The post Security Risks With No-Code/Low-Code Tools appeared first on DevOps.com.

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