Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
If you’re interested in Business Agility, here is some upcoming news, and an event that you will want to keep an eye out for. The post Interested in Business Agility? first appeared on Agile Alliance.
IDC
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
IDC's Joe Pucciarelli breaks down why it's imperative for CIOs and IT execs to deliver an objective and relevant suite of metrics and KPI performance dashboards.
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Coding Dojo
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
If you read just one of the best programming books this year you’ll be a step ahead of nearly everyone … Read more >>. The post The 9 Best Programming Books to Read Right Now if You Want to Distinguish Yourself appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
In the past year, Kubernetes adoption exploded, with over 5.6 million developers using the cloud-native tools — an increase of 67% from the year prior. For those who need a refresher on Kubernetes, it is an open source container project created by Google in 2014 to automate, monitor and run applications. Kubernetes is one of the most-used tools by cloud-native developers and can be challenging as a company grows, but Kubecost aims to alleviate some of those growing pains through its open source
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Are hybrid workplaces compatible with the workflow teams are trying to achieve, or does it help or hinder them from living up to Agile values and principles? The post The Rise of Hybrid Work and What it Means For Agile first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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The Crazy Programmer
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
APILayer is the cloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) market leader and API service provider. . Let’s know more about their recent launch, but before that, we will go a step further and know what “API Marketplace” is and understand more about it. What is API Marketplace? API marketplace is the user-friendly hub for the public where API providers publish their APIs for partners and developers to consume. .
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
The UK’s cost of living crisis has been making grim headlines for months — with no respite in sight. Just this week, newspapers reported that inflation had hit 5.5%, a 30-year high, further pushing up prices for everyday essentials like food. Worse is yet to come as an energy price cap will end in April, when bills are projected to rise by more than 50%.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
In physics, there’s a difference between “Speed” and “Velocity” While the first is a scalar quantity (the quantity itself plus the unit of measurement), the second is a vectorial quantity (quantity, unit of measurement plus direction). A metric called Velocity is used to measure the deliveries’ effort. In this short talk, I relate the physics … Continued.
N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
By Sandra Burmeister and Kelli Vukelic. Early figures and forecasts show that the mining sector is in for one of the most robust years off the back of the soaring demand for commodities and the industry’s impressive rebound in the second half of 2021. Even so, the sector is still grappling with a plateful of hot-button issues, including social restructuring, environmental protection, and the global push for de-carbonization placing particular pressure on the coal and platinum industries.
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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
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
OpenStack, described as the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud software, will mark its 10-year anniversary milestone later in 2022. In September 2012, the OpenStack Foundation launched as an independent organization to manage and promote the technology—a watershed moment for a project announced just two years earlier. Today, with contributions from more than 34,000 […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, February 18, 2022! First, a note that much of TechCrunch is off Monday for a U.S. holiday, so some regular stuff might land a day later than usual. But we’re a global team, so we will not be quiet to start next week.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Does your product team find the time to improve as a community of practice? Or does your team schedule every available moment for status meetings? Do you fail to create feedback loops that grow an individual's capabilities? When a team does eventually prioritize learning, does it end up being boring and ineffective? This is because … Continued.
N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
The process of sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding an executive continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Many corporations are overhauling their approach to hiring executives and are more open-minded to change than ever before. I recently had coffee with a newly retired HR executive for a Fortune 500 healthcare company and learned The Great Resignation had worked its way up to the executive shelf.
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.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
In this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office. The post IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Big-data analytics unicorn Databricks is back in the news, disclosing a new revenue figure and its 2021 growth rate. TechCrunch has been tracking the company for years, curious about its growth and what its rising worth said about its market. Today we’re revisiting its last private round measured against its most recent financial data. But to do that, we have to do a little background work first.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast." But what is culture and how can we shape it? Let's explore why emotional culture matters to building a more high performing and connected team in a more human and empathetic way. You will leave this talk with an understanding of a framework to engage leaders, teams and individuals in … Continued. The post Emotional culture – what is it and how to co-create it?
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
DevOps has come a long way, and Kubernetes is quickly taking over the technology world. Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestrator system: it automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It is a powerful tool to manage distributed clusters of containers economically and reliably. While it is considered a sophisticated tool, it can throw challenges at you if it’s not configured correctly.
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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.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
DevOps is not just about technology. In many ways, the technology aspect of DevOps is finite but the people, organizational and cultural aspects are infinite. We see many clients get so focused on the tools and technology that they forget about the impact beyond the technology. An important part of building a world-class DevOps process […]. The post The DevOps Journey: Continuous Mindset Starts With Cultural Change appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
African fintech Flutterwave has raised $250 million in a Series D round that tripled the company’s valuation to over $3 billion in just twelve months. In March 2021, the San Francisco-headquartered and Lagos-based startup raised $170 million in a Series C round from Tiger Global and Avenir at a valuation of $1 billion. The latest financing, which confirms a Bloomberg scoop from October, brings Flutterwave’s total raise since its inception six years ago to $475 million (it raised a $35 million Se
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
When the broader organization just isn’t agile, teams can get stuck. They’re waiting for their knight in shining armor - the “enlightened” executive - to transform it all. What happens when the hero isn’t coming? Is it possible to realistically accept an organization’s limitations without killing morale? Can a manager or coach “shield” a team … Continued.
Honeycomb
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
At the time of writing this post, I have officially been at Honeycomb for one year as a site reliability engineer (SRE). I had shared my initial experiences and impressions in this post and thought it would make sense to check back in now that I’ve had the opportunity to spend time learning about the team, the culture, and the code base more in depth. .
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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.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
What is the purpose of sprints? We break work into sprints so we can more easily monitor, estimate and predict what we want to ship and when. Over the years, engineering teams have gotten used to moving quickly from one sprint to the next, but I think it’s important to be more thoughtful in how […]. The post Best Practices to Improve your Engineering Sprints appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Mini-apps are lightweight programs that run within a larger app and serve as additional sources of user engagement and revenue. They became popularized by “super apps” like WeChat, Alibaba and Grab. But not all developers have these tech giants’ resources. Based in Singapore, Appboxo wants to level the playing field. The startup’s platform lets developers turn their apps into super apps, either by building their own mini-apps or accessing them through Appboxo Showroom, a marketplace for th
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
Immersive Learning Dojos are an Agile staple that consistently yield longstanding success in terms of skill building and habit development. A major contributing factor to Dojo success is collocation. Think hyper-collocation?an open space concept filled with whiteboard walls, oversized monitors, pairing stations, and busy collaboration. But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the worldwide lockdown suddenly … Continued.
CircleCI
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
CircleCI’s Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 Linux virtual machine (VM) images will be temporarily unavailable in late March 2022 and late April 2022, and they will be permanently unavailable as of May 31, 2022. If you are using either of these images, update your config with a newer Ubuntu machine image before the 14.04 and 16.04 images are removed at the end of May 2022.
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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.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Professional software development is a feedback-based process — each new iteration is informed by past results. Feedback is powered to a considerable degree by tests. Slow tests affect development. Engineering teams lose momentum and become frustrated because they can’t meet their goals. A slow test suite puts the brakes on CI/CD, making release and deployment more difficult.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. Founded by Sheel Mohnot and Jake Gibson in November of 2019, San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures ( BTV ) has allocated $150 million to invest in startups at the pre-seed and seed stages.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
This session is called "The Pencil Challenge." Can you pass your pencil to other team members on a Zoom chat? Watch to see what problems a simple exercise such as this presents to teams. MEMBER? PLEASE LOG IN. To view the content on this page, you must be a Member of the Agile Alliance. Learn … Continued. The post The Pencil Challenge first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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