Agile Alliance
JULY 13, 2022
Product Ownership Analysis or POA is a researched and studied discipline with a set of practices, processes, and procedures to create successful outcomes. Here are five quick tips to add to your toolkit. The post 5 quick tips for successful Agile outcomes first appeared on Agile Alliance.
DevOps.com
JULY 13, 2022
I try not to write about ongoing work—if it is important enough to blog about then it is important enough to write about in the work product, and blog about something else. But every once in a great while, the need overrides my simple rule. After all, zealous adherence to rules is not really a […]. The post The Other Reasons for Password Management appeared first on DevOps.com.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 11, 2022
There will be times when you face outcomes you intensely dislike. A seeming no-win scenario is also a chance to distinguish yourself, earn people’s trust, and innovate. Here are seven ways to lead through these tough circumstances, build your credibility, and sleep well at night: Reframe. Own the UGLY. Collaborate. Win with Values. Choose a Different Time Frame.
TechCrunch
JULY 11, 2022
European insurance tech startup Wefox has raised $400 million in a series D round of funding, giving the German company a post-money valuation of $4.5 billion. This represents a 50% increase on last year’s $3 billion valuation at its Series C round. Founded out of Berlin in 2015, Wefox sells various insurance products through a combination of in-house and external brokers, bypassing the direct-to-consumer model of insurtech competitors which include rival German startup Getsafe.
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.
CIO
JULY 12, 2022
Servant leadership has emerged as a popular management method that replaces command-and control-style leadership with empathy and empowerment. The management approach prioritizes the growth, well-being, and empowerment of employees. It aims to foster an inclusive environment that enables everyone in the organization to thrive as their authentic self.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 15, 2022
The 21st century hasn’t started the way that many of us expected it would. We’re looking at a potent mix of a global pandemic, global warming, the resurgence of authoritarianism, white nationalism, and war that again threatens to consume the planet. It can feel frustrating and hopeless. And those are just a few of the issues that are pervasive and in people’s consciousness regularly.
TechCrunch
JULY 13, 2022
It seems like every time a demo day ends , there’s a new one waiting around the corner — and as you know, TechCrunch is no stranger to covering them. Oftentimes these events are filled with traditional seed-stage tech companies based in Silicon Valley. But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community.
CIO
JULY 11, 2022
Altering your approach as a CIO is critical in leading digital transformation within healthcare organizations. The goal of healthcare digital transformation is to achieve clinical, financial, and operational strategic goals, but this journey is complex and requires the mobilization of technology, resources, processes, and talent. Every aspect of what healthcare organizations do is affected by digital transformation – from enhancing the patient experience to making data-driven decisions and autom
DevOps.com
JULY 15, 2022
A survey of CEOs and IT professionals involved in application testing finds a significant gap in terms of how acceptable it is to release software that has not been properly tested. The survey, conducted by the market research firm Censuswide on behalf of Leapwork, a test automation platform provider, polled 480 CEOs in the U.S. […]. The post Survey Warns of Looming Software Testing Crisis appeared first on DevOps.com.
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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.
Aqua Security
JULY 12, 2022
Aqua Team Nautilus recently discovered that all Node.js versions earlier than 16.16.0 (LTS) and 14.20.0 on Windows are vulnerable to dynamic link library (DLL) hijacking if OpenSSL is installed on the host. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to escalate their privileges and establish persistence in a target environment. The vulnerability can also provide another way to embed malicious code into packages.
TechCrunch
JULY 13, 2022
Coding school Holberton today announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by African Leadership Group (ALG). The seven-year-old company, with physical schools across the globe in addition to its core online platform, will split in two. Holberton’s technology platform will become part of ALG’s existing ALX online learning platform and the existing 34 physical locations will get spun out to become a stand-alone business under current Holberton COO Florian Bucher.
CIO
JULY 13, 2022
Here’s the secret to creating a board presentation on cybersecurity, according to Victor Shadare, head of cybersecurity at the international publishing giant Condé Nast : “The board doesn’t have time to look at detail as such. They want something that’s going to punch them in the face,” he said. Metrics that create a narrative and show how the business compares to competitors, the wider industry, and globally against all businesses give a clear picture that allows board members to set strategy.
DevOps.com
JULY 12, 2022
Burnout can affect people no matter what their job role, but software developers are particularly vulnerable. Too often, businesses chase profits by chronically relying on heavy workloads delivered by employees in short turnaround times. Developers often undertake intense work and find themselves pushed to meet deadlines under great pressure over and over again.
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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.
InfoQ Culture Methods
JULY 13, 2022
A focus on automation can help to combat the current staffing struggles many organizations have with DevOps roles. Effective automation can reduce the toil experienced by developers. Automation efforts should focus on security operations, deployments, continuous delivery, QA testing, and continuous integration. By Cody Littlewood.
TechCrunch
JULY 10, 2022
Are startups really in danger of suffering a protracted, painful slowdown ? With half the year now behind us, the gathering clouds for startups around the world don’t appear to have broken into storms, leaving us wondering if the market is really that bad today for venture fundraising, and therefore startup health. There are other positive factors to consider: Employment growth in the critical U.S. market remains strong , the value of software stocks may have bottomed out , many startups a
CIO
JULY 14, 2022
CIOs of large enterprises have pain points that are complex, underscoring the need for suppliers to listen intently and understand their predicaments. The challenges of managing data, the lifeblood of any enterprise, are continuously evolving and require attention because ignoring them only makes the “pain points” worse. CIOs and their teams look to the tech industry to solve their problems, develop new, cost-effective technology solutions, and make implementation of new solutions smooth and eas
DevOps.com
JULY 12, 2022
CodeLogic launched today a toolkit that enables developers to scan binaries, runtime application behavior and database connections and then leverage graph technology to identify connections and dependencies in real-time. Brian Pierce, CodeLogic CEO, said the goal is to make it simpler for developers to identify the relationship between application elements to increase overall productivity and […].
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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.
TechBeacon
JULY 12, 2022
There's more to DevOps than methodology. According to a recently released report from Forrester, future DevOps success will require organizations to undergo a mindset shift—embracing new tools, technologies, and practices that support teams working together toward a common goal.
TechCrunch
JULY 9, 2022
Hello, friends! Welcome back to Week in Review , where we quickly recap the most read stories on TechCrunch from the last 7 days. The goal: If you had a busy week, you should be able to skim WiR and still have a pretty good sense of what happened in tech. Want it in your inbox? Sign up here. Many, many thanks to Henry Pickavet for putting WiR together while I took a couple weeks off.
CIO
JULY 15, 2022
What is vendor management? Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. While working with IT vendors can help ease the burden on IT, it also raises concerns, especially around data, risk, and security. A sound IT vendor management strategy can help organizations determine which vendor best fits the company’s needs while keeping in mind relevant features, price, availability, risk and sec
DevOps.com
JULY 15, 2022
Ask most SREs how many incidents they’d have to respond to in a perfect world, and their answer would probably be ‘zero.’ After all, making software and infrastructure so reliable that incidents never occur is the dream that SREs are theoretically chasing. Reducing the number of actual incidents as much as possible is a noble […]. The post Why More Incidents Are Better appeared first on DevOps.com.
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“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.
TechBeacon
JULY 14, 2022
Flutter is a great mobile application framework for developers, testers, and organizations overall. Because it lets you build iOS and Android applications with the same codebase on a user-friendly interface, Flutter makes app development both fast and cost-effective. It also offers availability on different IDEs, performance that is indistinguishable from native mobile apps, ample documentation, and an active user community.
TechCrunch
JULY 15, 2022
While credit cards are ubiquitous in the U.S., they are far less so across Latin America, where people — especially lower-income members of the population — have historically relied on cash for payments. But the market in LatAm has shifted in recent years, and with increased digital adoption, more people are opening their minds to using credit cards for payments.
CIO
JULY 12, 2022
As anybody in IT can attest, the skills gap companies are facing is real, and it’s getting more pronounced. The Great Resignation trend is hitting IT hard. Nearly 90% of all employers either already have a shortage or expect to face one within a few years. And a third say the problem has already grown worse over the past year alone. Employers are approaching the skills issue proactively.
DevOps.com
JULY 11, 2022
Digital transformation is at the center of modern enterprise. Yet, as cloud initiatives take shape and the complexity of connecting systems and applications multiplies, the need to tie everything together and automate processes grows. APIs, otherwise known as application programming interfaces, fuel this automation. These small pieces of code—which connect and interconnect clouds, containers, microservices […].
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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.
Next Level Blog
JULY 12, 2022
One of the leadership communications distinctions I’ve been thinking about a lot this year is the difference between communications that are episodic and those that are longitudinal. Back in January, I wrote a post about how leaders need to pull the thread through so their teams can see how their work fits into the longer arc of the work. Lately, I’ve been advising a lot of clients on how to frame their communications for C-Suite executives who, because of the nature of their jobs, are bombarded
TechCrunch
JULY 14, 2022
Stripe is the latest high-profile fintech company to take a massive valuation cut as the market downturn begins to hit the sector especially hard. Last valued at $95 billion , the payments processor has cut the internal value of its shares by 28%, sources told the Wall Street Journal. The Journal reports that the valuation cut comes from a 409A price change, which means that Stripe hasn’t decreased the value of preferred shares sold in the last round.
CIO
JULY 11, 2022
The shift to a digital business environment in financial services began well before the pandemic pushed it and other sectors to more rapidly embrace digital transformation. As customers have become increasingly digitally savvy, they demand that financial services firms be more responsive to their needs. Those organizations that don’t make that change risk losing their customers to those that adopted an agile, customer-centric approach to business.
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