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5 Steps to More Sustainable DevOps

DevOps.com

The rise of remote workforces, cryptocurrencies and super-sized data centers brings to the forefront a concern in tech development that doesn’t get enough attention: The impact of computing and advanced technologies on the environment. About six months into the pandemic, people began to notice cleaner air, clearer water and an overall calming effect on the […].

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Working time is a strategic asset. How is your organisation investing it?

CEO Insider

It’s understandable if business leaders feel ready for some respite from the turmoil and challenges of leading organisations during the past few years; first Brexit caused untold headaches, then COVID-19 struck, now we are facing the disruption of global supply chains and the threat of a new war across Europe. Many executives can look back […].

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

CIO

Despite national conversations about a lack of women in tech, women remain largely underrepresented in STEM roles , according to a study by the National Science Foundation. And the pipeline doesn’t suggest a near-term correction, as only 19% of computer science degrees were awarded to women in 2016, down from 27% in 1997. Women also typically make less than their male counterparts in science, engineering, mathematics, and computer science occupations — with an average median salary of $66,000 pe

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Agile Business: A Special Report in The Times

Agile Alliance

Today, Agile Alliance is excited to share a special report on Agile Business, produced in partnership with Raconteur and published in The Times of London. The post Agile Business: A Special Report in The Times first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Failure is complex, especially in the world of startups

TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. As I hear about more startups struggling amid shifting market conditions, the great resignation and the general inflection point that begins once a company hits growth stage, it’s worth addressing an elephant in the room that comes around often in the tech versus media debate.

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Courageous Questions: How to Make It Easier to Get Better Insights

Let's Grow Leaders

If you want better insights, ask clearer questions. Particularly during times of uncertainty and change, one of the easiest ways to know what’s really going on is to (1) get clarity about what you don’t know and (2) ask your team some courageous questions. Courageous questions are specific, vulnerable questions that get right to the root of the matter.

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Learning Over Delivery – How Companies Become Learning Organizations with Dojos

Agile Alliance

Pull back the curtain on organizations’ strategic plans and you’re likely to find one or more transformation initiatives. These include adopting Agile methods, modern engineering practices, DevOps, API design, microservices, and cloud architectures. Successful transformations require learning that is hard to achieve through traditional approaches to training.

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Colabs gets $3 million seed to expand across Pakistan, launch back-office SaaS solution

TechCrunch

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. It also plans to hire more staff, which will include increasing the product team for its SaaS workspace business service that is emerging from the beta phase.

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6 things to look for in your coding assessment tool

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Two years of the world adapting to new ways of working and the tech industry has pretty much seen it all. From working fully remote to transitioning to hybrid work models , recruiters know what kind of technology they need to streamline their hiring processes. Be it virtual coding assessment tools or online coding interview tools , the recruitment tech stack has vastly been improved to keep up with the ever-changing hiring landscape.

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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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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Second, there is no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture (the second principle is a corollary of the first). The challenge is to build common ground between business and architecture so as to translate business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs.

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Improving technical quality with Mob Programming and collective habits

Agile Alliance

Do you believe you and your team could release new features to production 2 times a day with no bugs discovered in production over a year and a half? In this talk I will tell you my team and I formed the important habits that took us from hundreds of bugs in production, to zero … Continued. The post Improving technical quality with Mob Programming and collective habits first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Ramp confirms new $8.1B valuation after ‘a nearly 10x’ YoY increase in revenue

TechCrunch

Corporate management startup Ramp confirmed that it has secured $550 million in debt and $200 million in equity in a new financing that doubles its valuation to $8.1 billion. In early February, The Information reported on the then-unconfirmed raise and new valuation. . The approaching decacorn valuation is quite remarkable, given that less than one year ago Ramp had just reached unicorn status with a $115 million round.

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Engineering a Successful New Car: Starting a New F1 Season with McLaren Racing

DataRobot

The 2022 season ignited a world of changes for McLaren Racing and Formula 1 with the biggest reengineering in modern F1 history. Each team now has a budget cap, and significant rule changes have been introduced, altering strategies and adding excitement for the fans. Another change that we’re thrilled about is that DataRobot is one of McLaren’s newest partners.

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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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Scan IaC Code in Dev with Trivy’s Extensions for VS Code and JetBrains

Aqua Security

When developing new software, a key element of improving security is providing security feedback as early and seamlessly as possible. One way to do this is embed security tools directly into the development environment. Recently, Aqua’s open source scanner Trivy has added this functionality, integrating with popular developer tools Visual Studio Code and JetBrains to provide infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scanning as you write your software.

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Innovating During Times of Uncertainty: Turning Adversity Into Vision

Agile Alliance

COVID-19 is unsettling for everyone, but the impact is even greater for underserved communities. Black people are dying from the virus at a higher rate – in fact, cities like Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago, and New Orleans have reported more than 50% of virus deaths were black. Business and government leaders hold an important role in … Continued.

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It’s a fintech world, and we’re just living in it

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. It was a live recording this week, which was good fun. Our co-host Natasha was off, so Mary Ann and Alex teamed up with Grace to hammer our way through the news of the week live, with friends on Hopin, Twitter Spaces, and other locations on deck to hang out and ask questions.

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How CEO leadership style can change a company

CEO Insider

Extensive research has shown that the characteristics of CEOs can have a large impact on the life and performance of an organization. For better or worse, an organization eventually starts to resemble the leader at the top and adopt their leadership style. While all CEOs are very successful and experienced individuals, the way they reached […].

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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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Harness Acquires ChaosNative to Meld Chaos Engineering, DevOps

DevOps.com

Harness this week announced it acquired ChaosNative as part of a plan to more deeply integrate chaos engineering with DevOps workflows. At the same time, the company added a Harness Service Reliability Management (SRM) and Harness Security Testing Orchestration capability to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Chaos engineering, as a discipline, refers to experiments […].

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The Organisations missing link to Business Agility

Agile Alliance

Flight Levels take off - literally. More and more organisations are moving away from local agile sub-optimisation. They are using Flight Levels to enable the entire organisation to act agile in the market. In this session, I will present how you can use Flight Levels to implement the corporate strategy to make sure that the … Continued. The post The Organisations missing link to Business Agility first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Captain’s contractor lending tool aims to speed up home repairs after natural disasters

TechCrunch

Repairing a home that’s been destroyed in a hurricane, tornado, flood or fire can take quite a while, displacing homeowners during that time. Captain founder and CEO Demetrius Gray noted that following storms, like the Katrina and Sandy hurricanes, the average primary recovery period was 14 months. Smaller storms can still take up to five months for financing and repairs to be completed as the homeowner works with their mortgage company, insurance provider and contractor to get the work complete

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The future of work: What workplace trends are on the rise?

CEO Insider

As we’re approaching better times ahead, employers are planning for the future of work. There are a lot of questions and conversations surrounding workplace trends and how organizations plan to move forward. Prior to the pandemic, there may have been employers who were reluctant to initiate a work-from-home culture/policy for several reasons. One of them […].

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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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8 Skills Cloud Architects Need to Succeed

DevOps.com

For cloud architects, a deep understanding of cloud tools and technologies is only the starting point in terms of skills that need to be mastered. Enjoying a successful career as a cloud architect requires much more, including certain skills that are typically not associated with the tech industry. Architecture and Design The cloud architect needs […].

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How to Plan the Minimum Viable Product

Agile Alliance

MVP, short for Minimum Viable Product is a concept that emerged in Silicon Valley and became very famous from many successful stories such as Facebook, Zappos, Dropbox, amongst many others. The post How to Plan the Minimum Viable Product first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Open source project Tea is brew2 for web3

TechCrunch

Open source code is integral to tech stacks at many large companies, but its authors rarely get recognized — let alone compensated — for their work. . Max Howell claims the package manager software he created, Homebrew, is the most contributed-to open source software program in the world. Still, companies including Square and Google that have leveraged Homebrew haven’t acknowledged Howell’s contributions to their product in any meaningful way, he told TechCrunch — though he not

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The Telecommunications Service Provider Journey – From Telco to Techco

Cloudera

Earlier this month, the multi-national carrier MTN announced a rebranding, and along with its logo refresh, announced that it was moving to focus on being a technology provider. The new look, “aligns with our evolution from a telecommunications company to a technology company,” said Nompilo Morafo, Chief Corporate Affairs officer at the company. Across APAC too, telcos are looking at the shift to becoming technology companies, and last week’s TMForum Leadership Summit “ The Tech Driven Telco ” s

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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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Securing APIs at the Speed of DevOps

DevOps.com

In the 2021 State of DevOps Report, 83% of IT decision-makers told Puppet that their organizations were in the process of implementing DevOps practices to improve the quality of their software, the speed of their delivery and the security of their systems. Those DevOps organizations varied in their stages of evolution, however. For example, respondents […].

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Leading Multi-Cultural Change

Agile Alliance

Leading global transformation engagements is always a challenge. The issues are not just a matter of international geography, time zones and language. Even when we can agree on a common language for the engagement, we find that native and non-native speakers do not speak the same language. Divisions within the same company may feel like … Continued.

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Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens

TechCrunch

Smartphone cameras have gotten quite good, but it’s getting harder and harder to improve them because we’ve pretty much reached the limit of what’s possible in the space of a cubic centimeter. Glass is a startup looking to fundamentally change how the camera works, using a much bigger sensor and an optical trick from the depths of filmmaking: anamorphic lenses.

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