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Support for Purpose: Situational Awareness for Change Leaders

Agile Alliance

This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people become more Agile. We have seen Agile transformations being disrupted by lack of awareness that the transformation is a journey that needs different support in each particular context and situation.

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Remember, your data will be with you, always

Beyond B2B

Industry 4.0, a new hope…. It is a period of intense economic rivalry…. New entrants, leveraging the power of global cloud services, have won their first victory against mature incumbents….

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To buy time for a failing startup, recreate the engineering process

TechCrunch

Jason Meller. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jason Meller is the founder and CEO of Kolide , an endpoint security solution for teams that value productivity, transparency and employee happiness. In non-aerobatic fixed-wing aviation, spins are an emergency. If you don’t have spin recovery training, you can easily make things worse, dramatically increasing your chances of crashing.

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10 Best Chairs for Programming in India 2021

The Crazy Programmer

Are you looking for a list of the best chairs for programming? Here, in this article, we have come up with a list of the 10 best chairs for programming in India since we care for your wellbeing. You almost spend much of the workday sitting in a chair as a programmer, software developer, software engineer, or tester. Programming is a tough job, especially for the back in particular.

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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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Allison Pollard, Conscious Capitalism and Social Justice Conversation

Agile Alliance

For a very long time I'd loath the fact that I'd been born a girl. I was like I should have been born a boy then I would be able to have more rights and I could do more stuff because that was what I had been exposed to. So I've always been in essence a feminist, right? I'm going to fight for the female voice, so this was great, it was a cause. Yes. I'm going to make another female, go on the CST cut.

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Payments, lending and neobanks rule fintechs in emerging markets, report says

TechCrunch

Tech investments in emerging markets have been in full swing over the past couple of years and their ecosystems have thrived as a result. Some of these markets like Africa, Latin America, and India, have comprehensive reports by publications and firms on trends and investments in their individual regions. But there’s hardly a report to compare and contrast trends and investments between these regions and rightfully so.

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What’s Going to Happen Next?

Let's Grow Leaders

What’s Going to Happen? – It Will Be Predictably Unpredictable. If only you had a crystal ball to know what’s going to happen. The planning, the decisions, the choices would be so much easier. But you don’t. And those decisions and tradeoffs aren’t easy. Will office work remain fully virtual, or move to a hybrid model? Is that project still realistic with all this uncertainty?

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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Darrin Williams , CEO of Southern Bancorp, may have been a little surprised when a world-class business school professor came knocking at his door. He wasn’t used to that kind of attention deep in the heart of Arkansas. Yet, he could no longer fly under the radar. Professor Rebecca Henderson , an esteemed professor of management at Harvard Business School and a world-leading expert in reimagining capitalism, was interested in the Bank’s trajectory and purpose.

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UiPath: Blazing A Trail Toward Delivering Robotic Process Automation To The Enterprise

CTOvision

In one of the largest software IPOs of the year thus far, a company with the jaw-breaking name of UiPath (PATH) went public on April 20. The IPO price was set at $56; the shares closed their first day of trading at $69 and are trading about 18% higher as of Monday morning, April 26. […].

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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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Sony announces investment and partnership with Discord to bring the chat app to PlayStation

TechCrunch

Sony and Discord have announced a partnership that will integrate the latter’s popular gaming-focused chat app with PlayStation’s own built-in social tools. It’s a big move and a fairly surprising one given how recently acquisition talks were in the air — Sony appears to have offered a better deal than Microsoft, taking an undisclosed minority stake in the company ahead of a rumored IPO.

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How to Bring DevOps and Security Teams Closer Together

DevOps.com

More often than not, there seems to be friction between DevOps and security teams. Despite having the same end goals of creating the most secure code and preventing any potential security pitfalls, these groups of professionals often lack the unity needed to accomplish these end goals effectively and efficiently. In the interview below, Naomi Buckwalter, […].

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Not All Advice is Good Advice

David Walsh

From the time we’re children, we’re trusting people. We rely on those close and older than us to point us toward success and “the right way” One of the toughest days of our lives is when we realize our parents, or people we look up to, aren’t always perfect, aren’t always right, and worst of all, are completely wrong.

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Crypto Ecosystem Evolves: Avalanche (AVAX) integrates with The Graph (GRT)

CTOvision

Decentralized smart contracts platform, Avalanche, has integrated with The Graph to expand querying and indexing on the platform. According to a press release shared with Coin Rivet, developers building on Avalanche can easily query custom on-chain data requests, without having to run a full node, via subgraphs, which are indexes of specifically defined blockchain data. […].

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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How Duolingo became fluent in monetization

TechCrunch

As its meandering route to monetization will demonstrate, Duolingo isn’t mission-oriented, it’s mission-obsessed. Co-founders Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker never wanted to charge consumers for access to Duolingo content, a purpose imbued throughout the company’s culture. For years in order to work at Duolingo, you had to be comfortable with joining a company in Pittsburgh that was in no rush to make money.

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5 Steps to an Open Source DevOps Strategy

DevOps.com

Open source technology thrives during times of mass disruption, and this pandemic has been no different. Across the board, companies are accelerating their digital transformation and DevOps strategies, looking to open source technology as a way to streamline operations. While deploying open source software (OSS) in DevOps can help organizations lower costs and avoid vendor […].

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Spark on Kubernetes – Gang Scheduling with YuniKorn

Cloudera

Apache YuniKorn (Incubating) has just released 0.10.0 ( release announcement ). As part of this release, a new feature called Gang Scheduling has become available. By leveraging the Gang Scheduling feature, Spark jobs scheduling on Kubernetes becomes more efficient. What is Apache YuniKorn (Incubating)? Apache YuniKorn (Incubating) is a new Apache incubator project that offers rich scheduling capabilities on Kubernetes.

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Bitcoin will soon be available through hundreds of US banks in a partnership with crypto firm NYDIG, report says

CTOvision

Bitcoin will become available to customers of hundreds of banks in the US this year, according to a CNBC report Wednesday. Crypto custody firm NYDIG has teamed up with fintech company Fidelity National Information Services to enable banks to offer the cryptocurrency in the coming months, CNBC reported, citing the two firms. Banks are requesting bitcoin […].

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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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How a bot-fighting test turned into edtech’s most iconic brand, Duolingo

TechCrunch

Luis von Ahn, an entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to scaling free education, has probably annoyed you more than once. In fact, you’ve likely been annoyed by his work dozens and maybe hundreds of times over the years. A decade before he co-founded the whimsical and language-learning app Duolingo , one of the most popular education apps in the world with over 500 million downloads and 40 million active users, he was building the technology that would become CAPTCHA, those human-annoying b

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‘Old Man Yells At Cloud’

DevOps.com

These days, software programmers are increasingly estranged from hardware. Most millennials and Generation Z developers have never had to mount physical servers. They have never been lulled by the gentle hum of a server room chugging along in synchronous harmony. Today, you don’t even necessarily have to build your own PC or worry too much […].

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Article: The Rise of Asynchronous Collaboration and What It Means for Development Teams

InfoQ Culture Methods

Drew Falkman from @modus-create shares his perspective on Zoom fatigue and the rise of asynchronous collaboration tools. He offers tips for how to get the most out of the tools his team uses -- like Miro, a virtual whiteboard platform, and Trello, a project management tool. He explores the pros and cons of different tools and approaches. By Drew Falkman, Jay Garcia.

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Bryson Bort – Innovations in Threat Emulation

CTOvision

David Lee interview Bryson Bort, CEO and founder of SCYTHE. Topics discussed include Bryson’s journey from serving the US Army to becoming a two-time security company founder, how the security industry has evolved from its IT origins, and some of the interesting innovations SCYTHE has made in threat emulation. For more see : Scythe.io.

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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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How much product room will fintech giants leave for startups?

TechCrunch

I was going to wait until after Square reported its Q1 results today to dig into the world of fintech earnings and what they might mean for startups, but something got stuck in my craw that matters more than what Jack’s team may have up its sleeve: How much space is being left in fintech when the major players are growing rapidly in categories where startups are doing their best to make a dent?

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Low-Code/No-Code and Simple APIs

DevOps.com

In recent years, implementing AI and IoT technologies has been top priority for many organizations as their leading-edge capabilities have become a requisite for digital transformation – but the speed of their adoption is greatly influenced by the flexibility of supporting software. Enter low-code, no-code programming and truly open APIs. Low-code/no-code platforms are a promising […].

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India’s COVID-19 Crisis – A Crisis For Everyone

CEO Insider

As per the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s latest data, India has 3,268,710 active coronavirus cases. As of Friday night, close to 211,853 people have died in the country. This is an international public health emergency impacting millions. India makes up for 1.36 billion population which is roughly 17.7% of the world’s population. Based on […].

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It is interesting to note a fundamental change in the way Chainlink’s market is operating

CTOvision

Read why Jude Lopez says that there is a change in the way Chainlink price movements have emerged during the recent price correction on Amb Crypto : Akin to many in the altcoin market, Chainlink too witnessed a substantial price correction in the past week, after having shed over 27 percent of its trading price […].

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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5 investors discuss the future of RPA after UiPath’s IPO

TechCrunch

Robotic process automation (RPA) has certainly been getting a lot of attention in the last year, with startups, acquisitions and IPOs all coming together in a flurry of market activity. It all seemed to culminate with UiPath’s IPO last month. The company that appeared to come out of nowhere in 2017 eventually had a final private valuation of $35 billion.

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Survey Illuminates Long Dark Road to Hybrid Cloud

DevOps.com

While hybrid cloud computing will play a critical role in enabling digital business transformation it turns out most IT organizations lack the skills and technologies required to achieve it. A survey of 108 IT executives conducted by the research firm Pulse on behalf of CloudBolt Software, a provider of a cloud management platform, finds 94% […].

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Article: Key Metrics to Track and Drive Your Agile Devops Maturity

InfoQ Culture Methods

To promote DevOps and Agile process improvement a meaningful set of metrics should be tracked. In this article we will discuss which metrics are appropriate based on the stage of the culture change. Coupling these metrics with strong support from leadership will ensure the best improvements in team measures such as cycle time, deployment frequency, and software quality.

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