Erik Bernhardsson
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a tiny data team (~4 people) at a mid-stage startup (~$10M annual revenue), although this story could take place at many different types of companies.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
In February, Disha , a Nigeria-based platform that allows digital creators to curate, sell digital content, create portfolios and receive payments from their audience globally, announced that it was closing shop. Before the news, Disha had bootstrapped to more than 20,000 users; at some point, it claimed to have a monthly growth rate of about 100%. Three days after announcing its shutdown, however, Disha did an about-face and said it was thinking of new options for the company and would share an
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Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Good technical design decisions are very dependent on context. Teams that regularly work together on common goals are able to communicate regularly and negotiate changes quickly. These teams exhibit a strong force of alignment, and can make technology and design decisions that harness that strong force. As we zoom out in a larger organisation an increasingly weak force exists between teams and divisions that work independently and have less frequent collaboration.
The Crazy Programmer
NOVEMBER 6, 2021
IT or Information technology is the industry that has registered continuous growth. It was in a better situation even in the COVID-19 situation than other industries. However, the ever-growing IT industry has encouraged the young generation and current professionals to find their ideal career opportunities. Hence, if you are also one of those willing to grow a professional career in the IT field.
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CTO Universe Submitted Awards Articles
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Rapid digitalization of the world and wide access to the Internet cause an immense growth of online participants in all areas of business and life. In contrast to this, keeping track of all the interactions became significantly harder. This is one of the reasons to implement the blockchain approach in order to keep data safe and fresh, while maintaining a record of its history.
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Agile Alliance
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
In our May 2021 event celebrating 20 years of Agile technical practices, we rediscovered some forgotten facts from the early days of agile. We were reminded that security professionals have been part of the Agile community since the earliest days of XP. In this panel, we’ll explore the history of security and Agile technical practices. … Continued.
Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Within each normal-sized team, limit the choice of alternatives for any class of technology to three. These are: the current sensible default, the one we're experimenting with as a trial, and the one that we hate and want to retire. The conversation goes like this: We want to introduce a new messaging technology. How many do we have already in place?
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
How do I have more impact and influence at work? For this Asking for a Friend, I talk with Liz Wiseman, Thinkers 50 award winner and author of Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger and Multiply Your Impac t about what it means to be an impact player instead of an ordinary contributor. Liz Wiseman’s book is based on research conducted with a variety of companies including Adobe, LinkedIn, SAP, to determine what behaviors affect someone’s influence at work.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Socure , a company that uses AI and machine learning to verify identities, announced today that it raised $450 million in funding for its Series E round led by Accel and T. Rowe Price. . The round brings the company’s valuation to $4.5 billion, up from $1.3 billion this March when it raised $100 million for its Series D. Its new valuation makes Socure the highest-valued private company in the identity verification space, according to the company.
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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.
InfoQ Culture Methods
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
The amazing progress made in technology has led to blindly following the technical imperative at the cost of the social and human dimension. Social sciences can help us create a work environment where people feel more at home and proud of what they produce. An organisation designed using open sociotechnical systems theory will be a more humane one where people are more engaged.
TechBeacon
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Securing applications in these times of high-velocity digital transformation is an uphill battle. The challenges of developing secure applications within a DevOps pipeline continue to exist, and new issues arise when infrastructure and code are deployed automatically.
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
“My team lacks urgency. I’ve got to follow up on everything or we miss deadlines. I’m tired of babysitting. How can I ensure things get done on time?” Sound familiar? In this episode, you’ll get five ways to help get things moving. Paradoxically, sometimes leaders with a high internal sense of urgency can struggle with this the most.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
After a challenging year for location-based virtual reality startups due to COVID-19, Sandbox VR , a location-based VR startup, is making a comeback with a plan to expand its operations further across the globe. Sandbox VR aims to be an immersive social experience through a combination of full-body motion capture and VR technologies. It allows players to step into another world and go anywhere with their friends. .
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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.
Dzone - DevOps
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
It’s a technique that we all love! PoC or Proof of Concept approach is a trend in software development to create a demo of a project in advance. It’s a fairly new method, especially when compared to old-school alternatives such as RFP (i.e. Request for Proposal). However, the big question to address is “ how essential is the PoC approach in SDLC? ”.
InfoQ Culture Methods
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
The Continuous Documentation methodology is a useful paradigm that helps ensure that high-quality documentation is created, maintained, and readily available. Code Walkthroughs take the reader on a “walk” — visiting at least two stations in the code — describe flows and interactions, and often incorporate code snippets. By Omer Rosenbaum, Tom Ahi Dror.
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 7, 2021
“Karin, our team is growing. Fast! How do I lead well now?” “Leading was easy when our team was small, but now our team is growing. What do I do now?” “How do I scale my leadership influence as my team size grows?” These are “ Asking for a Friend” questions I hear frequently in our leadership development programs. .
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Investor interest in African fintech continues to grab headlines with large fundraises. Today, Africa’s largest digital payments network MFS Africa joins the fray. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $100 million in Series C financing — split between $70 million equity and $30 million debt. Private equity fund AfricInvest FIVE co-led the Series C round with existing investors Goodwell Investments and LUN Partners Group.
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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.
Synopsys
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
A vulnerability was discovered in the named DNS server implementation contained in the development branch builds of BIND 9. The post A stitch in BIND saves nine appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.
Dzone - DevOps
NOVEMBER 7, 2021
In the digital world, business agility and speed are imperative for IT organizations, given the pace at which the business and technology landscape is evolving. They are obliged to respond and deliver at speeds greater than the pace of digital disruption. And, DevOps has emerged as the panacea to these challenges. DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, processes, and tools that increase an organization's ability to deliver software faster while maintaining excellence in quality.
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Cultivate team commitment with answers to deep questions. Trust takes time, but sometimes you need to get everyone working together quickly. You can accelerate team commitment by focusing on critical leadership behaviors that answer key questions your team is asking. Start with Shared Purpose. Be Real and Transparent. Care for Your Team and Have Their Back.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
Lorna Mitchell. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. With World Mental Health Day just behind us, I thought about how the tech industry can be a difficult place to stay mentally well. Working remotely, especially under unprecedented circumstances, can make a difficult situation worse.
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TechBeacon
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Applications that use artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques present unique challenges to testers. These systems are largely black boxes that use multiple algorithms—sometimes hundreds of them—to process data in a series of layers and return a result.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 7, 2021
What if we could use an artificial intelligence (AI) engine to predict the next lines of software code to build? What if machine learning (ML) could trigger the creation of automated test cases to validate our solutions? Automation has been a focus for the information and communications technology (ICT) industry for years, and there are […]. The post Driving Software Delivery Automation With AI/ML appeared first on DevOps.com.
Toptal
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Testing doesn’t have to be tedious. With these automated testing best practices and tips, software engineers can leverage automated tests to boost their productivity and make their work more enjoyable.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Nestled in Rivian’s S-1 IPO filings was a note that there the EV company’s “cornerstone investors” had “indicated an interest” in buying up to $5 billion worth of its stock at its IPO price. One of those parties was Amazon, and the American e-commerce giant appears to have pulled the trigger Friday afternoon on its buy.
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Confluent
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
How does Confluent provide fine-grained operational visibility to our customers throughout all of the multi-tenant services that we run in the cloud? At Confluent Cloud, we manage a large number […].
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
A lot of enterprises migrate to the public cloud because they see everyone else doing it. And while you should stay up on the latest and greatest innovations—which often happen in the cloud—you need to be aware of the realities and understand different migration strategies. You need to know why you’re moving to the cloud. […]. The post Debunking 6 Stubborn Public Cloud Myths appeared first on DevOps.com.
Dzone - DevOps
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Do you know when you install Git Bash on windows what exactly you are installing? Most of the time, developers think they are only installing Git. But that's not true. Let me repeat it: actually, you are installing Git Bash.
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