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7 AWS Migration Strategies That Can Help Prevent Overspending

CloudZero

Many companies don’t know where to begin when migrating to AWS. Some worry their data will leak, while others don't know the most efficient migration strategy for AWS. Another group worries about overspending when moving to AWS.

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Connection helps you excel – in biking and in business

Beyond B2B

I truly believe that when you have a passion in life, you work as hard as you can to make it a success.

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6 cloud trends to watch in 2022

TechCrunch

Josh Berman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Josh Berman is president of C2C , an independent and vetted Google Cloud community with a unique pulse on the cloud market. The past two years have been exciting periods of growth for the cloud market, driven by increased demand for access to new technology during COVID-19 and the proliferation of the “work-from-anywhere” culture.

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A chance to share your Agile story at Agile2022

Agile Alliance

We’re looking for talks and workshop submissions on designing, developing, and caring for great products. We all have unique experiences and stories to tell - even you! The post A chance to share your Agile story at Agile2022 first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Does Your Team Ignore Your Feedback?

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you heard this from your managers (or said it yourself)? “My people aren’t coachable. They’re defensive, it’s like they have a wall up. They ignore feedback and just won’t listen.” Sometimes people can’t grow because they’re not in the right position or they are actually incapable. Leaders take responsibility for the legitimate reasons people might ignore feedback.

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Anyplace raises $5.3M to provide a home (office) away from home

TechCrunch

In this era of remote work, people want as much flexibility as possible to live where they want, when they want. It’s no surprise that we’ve seen a flurry of startups emerge to give people more options for long-term stays. Anyplace is one such startup. A self-described “digital nomad,” Satoru Steve Naito says he co-founded San Francisco-based Anyplace in 2017 because he wanted the product for himself.

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A message from new Agile Alliance Board Chair, Heidi Musser

Agile Alliance

New Agile Alliance Board Chair, Heidi Musser greets the Agile community with a message of hope for the future of our non-profit member organization. The post A message from new Agile Alliance Board Chair, Heidi Musser first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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What you need to know about China's AI ethics rules

TechBeacon

Late last year, China's Ministry of Science and Technology issued guidelines on artificial intelligence ethics. The rules stress user rights and data control while aligning with Beijing's goal of reining in big tech. China is now trailblazing the regulation of AI technologies, and the rest of the world needs to pay attention to what it's doing and why.

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Investing in Artificial Intelligence: How MLOps Drives Enterprise AI Wins

DevOps.com

Insight Partners had a banner year in 2021, with more than $50 billion in capital commitments across over 200 investments. While we invest in founders across a wide spectrum of businesses, this series focuses on outlining our theses on four verticals that we’re particularly excited about in 2022: Artificial intelligence (AI), fintech, cybersecurity and healthtech. […].

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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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Klarity lands $18M to read scores of documents so you don’t have to

TechCrunch

Reviewing repetitive documents is, well, repetitive, but Klarity believes people don’t have to do all of that and is building an artificial intelligence tool, targeting finance and accounting departments, that turns documents into structured data. Document automation is not a new concept. There was an original wave of companies working on partial document automation, which still needs a human review, but Ondrej Antos, Klarity’s co-founder and CEO, explained that the full document automation mark

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Big New Things [Video]

Agile Alliance

What's new and exciting in Agile? As members of the Agile community from the beginning, James Shore and Arlo Belshee have seen it all—or have they? Join Arlo and James for a fireside chat about the new and innovative Agile ideas they've been exploring recently. Possible topics include scaling team sizes with FAST, executive-level strategies … Continued.

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Tips for installing Citus and Postgres packages

The Citus Data

Citus is a great extension for scaling out Postgres databases horizontally. You can use Citus either on the cloud on Azure or you can download Citus open source and install it wherever. In this blog post, we will focus on Citus open source packaging and installation. When you go to the Citus download page to download the Citus packages—or you visit the Citus open source docs —many of you jump straight to the install instructions and the particular OS you’re looking for.

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The World’s Most Influential CEOs And Business Executives Of 2022

CEO Insider

?CEOWORLD magazine has revealed its annual list of the most influential CEOs and Business Executives in the world. The issue features CEOs and top business executives, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Tech honchos like Apple CEO Tim Cook, and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. Unsurprisingly, Tim Cook came first in the CEOWORLD magazine’s global ranking […].

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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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Quan raises $1.15M from YC to tackle post-pandemic employee burnout

TechCrunch

With post-pandemic burnout on the rise, the shift to remote working, and the “Great Resignation” now passing into the lexicon, companies are struggling to hold onto talent. Culture platforms like Culture Amp and Glint were built for a different era, offering insights and reports to HR, but many are less tailored to 2022. And employee well-being is still going up the agenda.

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Unity AI Development: A Finite-state Machine Tutorial

Toptal

Ever wonder how game developers deliver entertaining interplay with the non-player characters they create? Learn how to develop them yourself in our finite-state machine tutorial.

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4 Ways to Combat the DevOps and Security Workforce Shortage

DevOps.com

Most people are painfully aware that security breaches have increased in recent years, while at the same time becoming much more sophisticated in their approach. Additionally, ever-expanding application environments and continuously evolving workloads have created more opportunities than ever for attackers. What’s not so apparent to those outside of the tech bubble: The world is […].

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Designing Uber

High Scalability

This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypotheses on Amazon product pages using reinforcement learning techniques.

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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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CausaLens gets $45M for no-code technology that introduces cause and effect into AI decision making

TechCrunch

One of the most popular applications of artificial intelligence to date has been to use it to predict things, using algorithms trained with historical data to determine a future outcome. But popularity doesn’t always mean success: Predictive AI leaves out a lot of the nuance, context and cause-and-effect reasoning that goes into an outcome; and as some have pointed out (and as we have seen ), this means that sometimes the “logical” answers produced by predictive AI can prove di

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TypeScript vs. JavaScript: Your Go-to Guide

Toptal

Considering you can include as much plain JavaScript as you like in your TypeScript project, what factors should you consider when choosing TypeScript for your application? Let's explore.

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Measuring Technical Debt

DevOps.com

What is enterprise technical debt? Technical debt slows down organizations and hampers their ability to deliver. Studies show that technical debt can triple the cost of support for technical products and services. Beyond this, technical debt can cripple a company’s ability to make the rapid changes needed to compete in today’s marketplace. Those all describe […].

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Making the web better. With blocks!

Joel on Software

You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long list of potential blocks that you can insert into this page: This kind of “insert block” user interface concept is showing up in almost every blogging tool, web editor, note-taking app, and content management system.

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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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Esusu becomes unicorn with SoftBank Vision Fund 2-led $130M funding

TechCrunch

More than 100 million Americans spend an average of $1,100 (over $1.4 trillion per year) on their largest monthly household spend: rent. But reports say 90% of these people don’t get credit for paying their rent on time. On a sub-level, over 45 million people in the U.S. don’t have credit scores, according to a 2020 report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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The best agile and lean development conferences of 2022

TechBeacon

This year some organizers are holding their agile and lean development conferences in person, some are opting to present their events online, and still others are offering hybrid events.

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Embracing Security by Design in Development

DevOps.com

The number of data breaches publicly reported in 2021 far exceeded the total for 2020, making 2021 a record year. With cyberattacks on the rise and bad actors and ransomware gangs demanding millions in ransom, cybersecurity has taken on new urgency. In addition to more sophisticated hacking techniques, the rapid pace of tech adoption during […].

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What makes Warren Buffett the most successful investors in the world?

CEO Insider

Warren Buffett is a successful American business magnate, one who has invested in multiple and various successful business lines operating locally and internationally. According to CEOWORLD magazine Billionaire’s Index, Buffett is ranked as the top 10 wealthiest people in the world with a net worth of about US$111 billion. His high net worth reflects his […].

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Tanzanian fintech NALA raises $10M seed to build Revolut for Africa

TechCrunch

NALA , a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round. The seed round is coming almost three years after NALA secured a seven-figure pre-seed round led by Accel in 2019. In that time, NALA built a mobile money service in East Africa and scaled it to more than 250,000 users.

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Implement Chaos Engineering in Kubernetes

Dzone - DevOps

Chaos Mesh is an open-source, cloud-native Chaos Engineering platform built on Kubernetes (K8s) custom resource definitions (CRDs). It can simulate various types of faults and has an enormous capability to orchestrate fault scenarios. You can use Chaos Mesh to conveniently simulate various abnormalities that might occur in development, testing, and production environments and find potential problems in the system.

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DevOps for Salesforce: CI/CD Challenges

DevOps.com

DevOps encompasses a wide variety of technical and social practices for improving the development, delivery and operation of IT systems. Salesforce has become more than a CRM system; it evolved into a full-featured ecosystem and a low-code platform that made development far simpler and more approachable than traditional code-based platforms. Cross-functional teams build on Salesforce […].

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