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Are you ready for MLOps? 🫵

Xebia

Introduction MLOps has survived the hype cycle and is gaining in maturity. But are we looking at MLOps for answers for the right things? No matter how valuable MLOps can be for you, without proper building blocks in place MLOps cannot live up to its full potential. What are the prerequisites for MLOps? What parts of MLOps should you focus on? When should you even start thinking about MLOps, or when is plain DevOps wiser to focus on first?

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Reimagining Agile: Passing the baton

Agile Alliance

Agile Alliance announces it has taken over the ongoing effort to reimagine Agile, building on the foundation laid by the Reimagining Agile Launch Group. The post Reimagining Agile: Passing the baton first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Generative AI: Eight fundamental security risks and considerations

CIO

As new technologies emerge, security measures often trail behind, requiring time to catch up. This is particularly true for Generative AI, which presents several inherent security challenges. Here are some of the key risks related to AI that organizations need to bear in mind. 1. No Delete Button The absence of a delete button in Generative AI technologies poses a serious security threat.

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GenAI Patterns: Fine Tuning

Martin Fowler

While RAG is the most common way to focus a foundation model on material outside its training set, Bharani Subramaniam and I now finish our current batch of patterns by examining our experience with Fine Tuning where we learned to prioritize curating high-quality data.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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How to store your Docker registry credentials in 1Password using a credential helper

Xebia

In the blog you will see how you can store the Docker registry credentials in 1Password. I want to do this because I am in the process of removing all clear text credentials from the configuration files, into 1Password. Docker Registry Credentials Docker normally keeps all credentials for container registries stored in ~/.docker/config.json, as shown below: { "auths": { "ghcr.io": { "auth": "bXlsb25ndXNlcm5hbWU6YXZlcnlsb25ncGFzc3dvcmQ=" } } } As you can see, the c

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CIO hiring on the rise: How to land a top tech exec role in 2025

CIO

Early returns on 2025 hiring for IT leaders suggest a robust market. For some recruitment firms, job growth for tech executive positions is at great heights. Were seeing record growth in our search firm almost immediately in 2025, says Kelly Doyle, managing director at Heller Search Associates, an executive recruiting firm in Westborough, Mass., specializing in CIOs, CTOs, VP-level senior technology leaders, and executive technology talent.

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A Strategic Bridge Between Africa And Europe: Tunisia’s Role In The Innovation Ecosystem 

Crunchbase News

By Alberto Onetti Tunisia, often overlooked in discussions of Africa’s burgeoning tech scene, quietly boasts a vibrant ecosystem ripe with potential. While giants such as South Africa and Nigeria command headlines, the small North African nation is strategically positioning itself as a vital bridge between Africa and Europe. With a surge in startups, increasing government support, and a unique geographical advantage, Tunisia is poised to become a key player in the continent’s innovat

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Data trends in 2025

Xebia

The data landscape is constantly evolving, making it challenging to stay updated with emerging trends. That’s why we’ve decided to launch a blog that focuses on the data trends we expect to see in 2025. The Future of Data products: Empowering Businesses with Quality and Governance As GenAI is in transition from a hype to a mature product, the realization of the value of data quality has re-emerged.

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The CEO Agenda: 5 Critical Priorities Shaping Business in 2025

IDC

CEOs are focused on five critical areas that will define business success in the coming years as organizations navigate economic uncertainty, technological disruption, and shifting regulatory landscapes. From automation and AI-driven transformation to ESG and customer experience, todays leaders are making strategic investments to ensure long-term resilience and growth.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Salesforce and Google expand partnership to bring Agentforce, Gemini together

CIO

Salesforce and Google expanded their strategic partnership on Monday to enable Salesforce customers to use Google Gemini to build Salesforce Agentforce AI agents and to deploy Salesforce on Google Cloud. The partners said the new agreement will give customers more choice in the models and capabilities they use to build and deploy AI agents, noting that customers will be able to develop AI solutions tailored to their specific needs while avoiding lock-in to AI model providers.

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Using Generative AI to Build Generative AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

On April 24, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. If youre in the trenches building tomorrows development practices today and interested in speaking at the event, wed love to hear from you by March 5.

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DeepSeek Unveiled — Exposing the GenAI Risks Hiding in Plain Sight

Palo Alto Networks

The generative AI (GenAI) landscape is evolving at breakneck speed, and with it, the challenges for enterprise security. DeepSeeks R1 model, released on January 20, 2025, gained rapid popularity due to its high performance and cost-efficiency. It rivaled established AI models at a fraction of the cost. The open-source nature of DeepSeek also allowed AI developers to use it for free, contributing to its swift rise in app stores and industry rankings.

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There Are 7 Potential CEOs in Your Organization. Are You One of Them?

CEO Insider

I still remember the moment vividly: I was sitting at a table during a sold-out conference, scanning the articles sent in advance. One caught my eye & I paused. Did I read that right? It was just a brief mention, but it struck a chord: In any given organization, there are seven potential CEOs. Those […] The post There Are 7 Potential CEOs in Your Organization.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Is your business data forward enough to capitalize on what’s coming?

CIO

Being in IT has never been just about technology. For us, its about driving growth, innovation and engagement through data and technology while keeping our eyes firmly on the business outcomes. Early in our careers, we both made the mistake of getting caught up in the day-to-day tasks keeping the lights on, troubleshooting issues and maintaining operations.

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AMD in everything

David Heinemeier Hansson

Back in the mid 90s, I had a friend who was really into raytracing, but needed to nurture his hobby on a budget. So instead of getting a top-of-the-line Intel Pentium machine, he bought two AMD K5 boxes, and got a faster rendering flow for less money. All I cared about in the 90s was gaming, though, and for that, Intel was king, so to me, AMD wasn't even a consideration.

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How to Build an AI Agent: A Step-by-Step Guide

Openxcell

In today’s technology-driven world, machines do more than follow commandsthey think, learn, and adapt intelligently. From chatbots handling customer interactions to AI-driven automation organizing business operations, intelligent agents are transforming the way we work and live. According to AI business , by 2025 , AI-powered agents are expected to drive 95% of customer interactions, reducing operational costs by 30%.

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Anthropic Nears Closing Of $3.5B Funding At $61.5B Valuation — Report

Crunchbase News

Anthropic , a ChatGPT rival with its AI assistant Claude, is finalizing a fresh $3.5 billion funding round that would value it at $61.5 billion, per The Wall Street Journal. Investors in the new megaround would include Lightspeed Venture Partners , General Catalyst , Bessemer Venture Partners and Abu Dhabi-based investment firm MGX. Anthropic was last valued at $18.5 billion in February 2024.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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How CIOs can help the future suck less than the present

CIO

CIOs who want to prosper in the future must escape a less-than-celebrated present. Technology in general has slipped out of favor. Science fiction has been taken over by dystopia and apocalyptic scenarios. Public discourse frequently devolves into argumentation over end times. Everyone appears to think that the future is going to suck. Long gone are the good feelings engendered by IT enabling the remote work that kept food on the table and the economy going during the pandemic.

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Use Azure Cosmos DB as a Docker Container in CI/CD Pipelines

Dzone - DevOps

There are many benefits to using Docker containers in CI/CD pipelines, especially for stateful systems like databases. For example, when you run integration tests, each CI job can start the database in an isolated container with a clean state, preventing conflicts between tests. This results in a testing environment that is reliable, consistent, and cost-effective.

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Implications of the India Union Budget for the Technology Sector in India

IDC

On the 1st of February, Indias Finance Minister delivered the 8th consecutive Union budget. While the focus of several earlier budgets was to boost the economy via large Government Capital Expenditure (Capex) plans while setting the stage for the Private sector Capex to follow, the 2025 budget adds a new dimension. The focus of this [.

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Crafting Win-Win Partnerships: Structuring Corporate-Startup Relationships That Last

Crunchbase News

By Lucas Tesler Industries are transforming faster than ever, and companies that dont evolve risk being left behind. Thats why nearly 60% of corporations are working directly with startups to stay competitive. Startups bring exactly what corporates need: agility, fresh ideas and cutting-edge tech. But making these partnerships work takes more than good intentions.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Bridging the gap between mainframe data and hybrid cloud environments

CIO

A high hurdle many enterprises have yet to overcome is accessing mainframe data via the cloud. According to a study from Rocket Software and Foundry , 76% of IT decision-makers say challenges around accessing mainframe data and contextual metadata are a barrier to mainframe data usage, while 64% view integrating mainframe data with cloud data sources as the primary challenge.

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OpenTelemetry Metrics Explained: A Guide for Engineers

Honeycomb

OpenTelemetry (often abbreviated as OTel) is the golden standard observability framework, allowing users to collect, process, and export telemetry data from their systems. OpenTelemetrys framework is organized into distinct signals , each offering an aspect of observability. Among these signals, OpenTelemetry metrics are crucial in helping engineers understand their systems.

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Identity Security Is the Missing Link To Combatting Advanced OT Threats

Tenable

Sophisticated OT threats, like living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks, exploit identity vulnerabilities to infiltrate critical infrastructure. Find out how robust identity security and unified exposure management can help you detect, prioritize and mitigate risks across IT and OT environments. The attack surface that todays security leaders have to defend is growing at an unprecedented rate, and the situation is particularly challenging for organizations managing critical infrastructure: almost 70%

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Confidently Incorrect – Learning, Leading, and AI

Perficient

A friend recently shared a research paper from Oxford Academic about Large Language Models (LLMs) and their human-like biases. I found it fascinating. The article explains how some groups use LLMs to simulate human participants. Since these models are trained on human-generated data, they can emulate human responses across diverse psychological and behavioral experiments.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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How to avoid the hidden costs of onboarding

CIO

For employees, onboarding shapes their first impression of the company, helping them feel welcome and confident in their decision to join. For employers, onboarding involves numerous costs both monetary and less quantifiable that can make or break the bottom line. I truly believe that onboarding is an art. Each new employee brings with them a potential to achieve and succeed.

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L4S in Wi-Fi: A Path to Seamless Interactive Experiences

CableLabs

Modern networks deliver impressive speeds often reaching gigabits per second yet they still suffer from unpredictable delays that can disrupt interactive applications. Whether its video conferencing, cloud gaming or remote collaboration, these inconsistencies can lead to frustrating user experiences. As network operators strive to enhance reliability and responsiveness, a more effective solution is needed.

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The Week’s Biggest Funding Rounds: NinjaOne Cuts To The Top 

Crunchbase News

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the weeks top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out the biggest funding rounds of last week here. After a couple of blistering weeks, large funding rounds slowed down to a crawl, with only two rounds hitting nine figures.

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