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7 Steps of an Effective Software Product Development Life Cycle

KitelyTech

Software product development leads to lucrative new business solutions for the companies that can finish development. There is a process for this called the software product development life cycle. Each step moves the team closer to completing the product in a way that eliminates problems and promotes efficient progress. Here are the seven steps of an effective software product development life cycle. 1.

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Top 10 DevOps Things to Be Thankful for in 2021

DevOps.com

Thanksgiving has been observed in the U.S. since 1861 and was officially designated as an official holiday in 1863 by president Lincoln. Of course, the tradition itself traces its lineage to the early days of the Pilgrims. This past year, of course, has been one of recovery from a pandemic that caused the deaths of […]. The post Top 10 DevOps Things to Be Thankful for in 2021 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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The three forms of CI/CD

Xebia

Many models and perspectives describe the complexity of an organization. In the end, it all boils down to people interacting with technology using processes. Sociologist Dr. Ron Westrum provided a typology of organizational cultures, including a generative type. Key characteristics for a generative culture include: Oriented to performance High cooperation Failure leads to inquiry Share […].

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Data collection isn’t the problem: It’s what companies are doing with it

TechCrunch

Maxim Kharchenko. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Maxim Kharchenko is the director of fintech products at Rakuten Viber and is an expert in product leadership in the financial technology sector. Data is a company’s most powerful asset. Yet, many businesses cannibalize this valuable asset by selling it to third parties when they should be using it to make their businesses stronger and more sustainable.

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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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Measuring Software Delivery Performance using the Four Key Metrics of DevOps

Agile Alliance

While many organizations embark on agile transformations, they lack insight into the actual impact of these transformations across organisational layers. In this paper, we collect new and study existing evidence on the impact of agile transformations on organisational performance across teams, programs, and portfolios. We conducted an international survey collecting the perceptions of agile coaches, … Continued.

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PHP Uses – Applications of PHP

The Crazy Programmer

PHP is known as Hypertext Preprocessor. It is an open-source, server-side scripting language embedded in HTML used to manage databases, development of web applications, session tracking, build e-commerce sites, etc. It is kind of a programming language that is used for writing automated tasks. Many databases such as PostgresSQL, Oracle, Informix, MySQL can be integrated with PHP.

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$10B is the new $1B, and we need a new framework for startup valuations

TechCrunch

What is a startup? It’s a question so picked over at this point that it feels like the only answer is it depends. That’s fair. In the past, we might have said that once a private-market company earns a $1 billion valuation, it is no longer a startup. But with venture capitalists and crossover investors turning an ever-increasing number of less mature startups into unicorns, that demarcation line has lost its rigidity.

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Agile Alliance Initiatives

Agile Alliance

Join the Agile Alliance board of directors to learn more about how Agile Alliance fulfills its mission to support people and organizations who explore, apply and expand Agile values, principles and practices. We’ll also highlight the work done by the following volunteer initiatives, made possible through your membership: Building Future Leaders and Change Agents, Agile … Continued.

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Diversity And Inclusion in 2022: 5 Essentials Rules To Follow

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Enough data is in to inform us that diversity and inclusion are not only worthwhile societal imperatives but also make for good practical business sense. Diversity and inclusion still matter in the workplace in 2022. While knowing what to strive for is great, it’s only half the battle. We have to create and implement strategies that ensure we can effectively reach our objectives.

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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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The three forms of CI/CD

Xebia

Many models and perspectives describe the complexity of an organization. In the end, it all boils down to people interacting with technology using processes. Sociologist Dr. Ron Westrum provided a typology of organizational cultures, including a generative type. Key characteristics for a generative culture include: Oriented to performance High cooperation Failure leads to inquiry Share risks.

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Flowrite is an AI writing productivity tool that wants to help you hit inbox zero

TechCrunch

When TechCrunch asks Flowrite if it’s ‘Grammarly on steroids’, CEO and co-founder Aaro Isosaari laughs, saying that’s the comment they always get for the AI writing productivity tool they’ve been building since late summer 2020 — drawing on early access to OpenAI’s GPT-3 API, and attracting a wait-list of some 30,000 email-efficiency seeking prosumers keen to get their typing fingers on its beta.

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Angela (Yazzie) Marquez – Diné Education and Social Justice

Agile Alliance

"I thought social justice, the idea of social justice is such a funny idea because it’s this need to seek out justice only because injustice have been socially acceptable until recently.". The post Angela (Yazzie) Marquez – Diné Education and Social Justice first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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7 trends changing continuous delivery and release automation

TechBeacon

Many teams have moved their software delivery pipelines to some form of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Some are moving to a fully automated delivery process, while others are still considering and planning for the switch.

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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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Ensuring Network Connectivity With SD-WAN and AIOps

DevOps.com

Recently, Facebook experienced an outage. If companies relied on that app to do business, their IT teams were likely swamped with end-user complaint calls. How would teams traditionally respond? They’d dive deep into the rabbit hole, analyzing issues on a case-by-case basis, asking countless questions, including: Could there be a problem with the enterprise network?

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EU retail giant Schwarz Group snags security startup XM Cyber for $700 million

TechCrunch

Schwarz Group , an EU-based retail company, announced today that it has acquired Israeli security startup XM Cyber for $700 million. It may seem like a strange partnership, as Schwarz is best known as the owners of the Lidl and Kaufland supermarkets, but the company believes that extending into security will ultimately help benefit its retail business.

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Colleen Kirtland: Courage to Travel Outside of My Comfort Zone

Agile Alliance

"I don’t like going and just preaching to people. I like going to make the change.". The post Colleen Kirtland: Courage to Travel Outside of My Comfort Zone first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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DevOps and SRE Words Matter: How Our Language has Evolved

Dzone - DevOps

As the tech world changes, language changes with it. New technologies will always introduce new terms and descriptions to provide a clear understanding. For example, the emergence of the cloud introduced language to describe the changing relationship between servers and clients. Then, of course, product providers will also dictate how their products are to be described, i.e. describing services as “cloud-native”.

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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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Article: A Design Thinking Roadmap for Process Improvement and Organizational Change

InfoQ Culture Methods

How to understand an organization and the problem they want to improve, find solutions to problems, and provide feasible and high value recommendations that significantly transform how the organization operates for many years? This article shows how design thinking techniques have been used at NASA to drive organizational change and process improvement to create an impact on the organization.

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Juicy Marbles gets $4.5M to sizzle up plant-based steaks

TechCrunch

Convincing meat eaters to adopt a climate-friendly diet might get a little easier thanks to Slovenian startup Juicy Marbles , which has come up with a way to create plant-based whole meat cuts, if that doesn’t sound too oxymoronic. ‘Fancy Plant Meat’ is its pithier pitch for a product that aims to provide a vegan alternative to eating a filet mignon steak or other ‘prime’ cuts of (animal) flesh.

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Nicole Spence-Goon: Finding Reflective Mentorship and Sponsorship

Agile Alliance

"I have been motivated to focus on black representation in thought leadership specifically in the Agile community.". The post Nicole Spence-Goon: Finding Reflective Mentorship and Sponsorship first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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DevOps Teams Struggling to Keep Secrets

DevOps.com

A growing number of organizations are suffering security incidents related to exposed secrets in DevOps CI/CD pipelines, according to a recent ThycoticCentrify report. The study paints a troubling picture: Only 5% of survey respondents said most of their development teams use the same secrets management processes and tools. The incidents run the gamut, from secrets […].

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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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Spinning up a Node.js Server in a Container on AWS with EC2

Dzone - DevOps

For a project at work, I needed to get a Node.js Express server running in a Docker container, then deploy that container to an EC2 instance on AWS. I took notes along the way because I was sure I'd need to do something like this again someday. Then, I figured—since I took notes—I might as well share my notes. You can generalize my use case for your own needs.

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India’s Spinny valued at over $1.75 billion in $280 million funding

TechCrunch

Spinny, a Gurgaon-based startup that operates a platform to facilitate the purchase and sale of used cars , is the latest firm to become a unicorn in the world’s second-largest internet market. Spinny has raised more than $280 million in its Series E financing round, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The round, which is co-led by Tiger Global and Abu Dhabi Growth Fund, values Spinny at over $1.75 billion post-money, the source said.

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“Winds of Change”- Approaching an Organization-wide Transformation

Agile Alliance

"The current way of working is perfectly fine. Why do we need to change?" "We are racing towards meeting our milestones and cannot afford to experiment with lean/agile practices now." "Show us where these practices have worked." These statements might seem familiar if you are somebody who is responsible for driving a lean/agile transformation across … Continued.

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GraphQL Editor – The Journey from Initial Release to Version 5.0

David Walsh

From the very beginning of our adventure with GraphQL, we were impressed by how great its community is. The amount of content, libraries and great tools generated by GraphQL users amazed us from the very start. The more time we spent working with GraphQL the more things we saw that could be improved to make working with it easier and better. We also knew that we wanted to give something back to its wonderful community.

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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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Technical user story writing for agile teams: A practical guide

TechBeacon

As a new product owner, application programming interfaces (APIs) and technical stories were my weak spots. I struggled for a long time to know where to start, what to include, how to communicate the necessary things to the development team, and how detailed to be.

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New Culture lands $25 million in seed funding to commercialize its cheesy vegan mozzarella

TechCrunch

Led by sales of cheddar and mozzarella, the U.S. cheese market alone was valued at $34.3 billion in 2019, and is projected to reach $45.5 billion by 2027, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 5.25%, according to Allied Market Research. By comparison, the vegan cheese industry is tiny, measuring around $1.2 billion in size in 2019 and projected to reach $4.4 billion by 2027, per Allied’s findings.

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Microservices Will Save Your Life and Other Lies

Agile Alliance

The software development industry is often the home of grandiose claims, that framework X will change how we all write software, that process Y will solve all of our software development woes, that technology Z will change the world, and others. Sometimes these claims are true. Other times they aren’t. How do you tell which … Continued. The post Microservices Will Save Your Life and Other Lies first appeared on Agile Alliance.