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Getting Your IoT Projects Off The Ground By Building On Azure

Xebia

With the popularity of the Internet of Things, new proof of concepts and prototypes are starting everywhere. If you’re contemplating getting started with IoT or need a nudge in the right direction, this article will highlight some great options to get you started. Now, some projects go nowhere, with others end up being very successful. But even in the latter case, a new IoT platform will still fail if the wrong choices were made in the technology selection, right at the project’s inception

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Applying Automation to DevOps

DevOps.com

In the book, “Life and the Art of Engineering,” author Haresh Sippy said, “Automation is cost-cutting by tightening the corners, not cutting them.” Today, businesses and organizations are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve productivity while reducing inefficiencies across their operations. Automation has emerged as the natural answer as it addresses these issues while […].

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Three Ways Your Data is Leaking in Advertising and How to Avoid It

CEO Insider

Fully 62% of business leaders say their companies need to do more to protect data, according to KPMG. Surveys show more consumers are worried about unlawful data sharing, such as through online advertising, than data breaches. In our work with nearly 100 clients representing 75,000 websites, there are three common online advertising blindspots: misunderstanding the […].

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Brazilian proptech startup Loft, which was valued at $2.9B last year, lays off 380 employees

TechCrunch

Loft , a Brazilian proptech unicorn, has laid off about 380 employees , or 12% of its workforce, the company announced today. The layoff marks the company’s second round of cuts this year so far. In April, Bloomberg Linea reported that Loft had cut 159 jobs. That would mean that Loft has let go of nearly 540 workers this year so far. It currently has about 3,200 employees.

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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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IFS to acquire enterprise asset management firm Ultimo

CIO

To help meet demand from enterprises that are shifting asset management methods from legacy applications to cloud-based technology, ERP provider IFS has signed an agreement to acquire Netherlands-based enterprise asset management (EAM) software firm Ultimo. IFS, which is based in Sweden and has customers globally, says that it is acquiring Ultimo because it believes that the company’s SaaS offering can provide high levels of flexibility and configurability for customers.

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Being Agile vs. doing Agile – what’s the difference?

Agile Alliance

Companies of all sizes are racing to adopt Agile ways of working. But, to truly reap the benefits of Agile methodology, organizations need to shift from ‘doing’ Agile to 'being' Agile. The post Being Agile vs. doing Agile – what’s the difference? first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Roe reversal weighs heavily on emerging tech cities in red states

TechCrunch

On June 24, Khadijah Robinson planned to offer a woman a job. As founder of the Atlanta-based tech startup Nile , she spent three years scaling the platform, which connects consumers to Black online businesses. That Friday, she was thrilled to finally find someone willing to relocate from California to Georgia to help grow the company. By early afternoon, the offer was on hold.

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Python Check if String is Integer

The Crazy Programmer

In this article, we will write a program in python that will check if a string is an integer or not. We will create a function that will take a string as input and returns a Boolean value (true or false) based on the condition if it is an integer or not. We will take the input from the user and call the function. After storing the result, we will print on the console whether the string is an integer or not.

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Building An Employer Brand: Everything You Need To Know

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The future is now! Every aspect of handling a business has seen a significant change in recent years and quite a lot of it is due to a storm of post-COVID technological advancements. From AI, and machine learning, to HR tech, every aspect of running a business is being revolutionized. The recruitment industry is no different – the strategies used by HR professionals to recruit skilled candidates are currently seeing a massive change.

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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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Data-Driven product management: how your business profits

Agile Alliance

In navigating new, unprecedented change, disruption, and fluidity, teams simply can’t rely on guesswork and second-hand interpretations. To succeed, teams need to embrace data-driven product management. The post Data-Driven product management: how your business profits first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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AI chipmaker Rebellions gets $22.8M Series A extension from Korean telco company KT 

TechCrunch

South Korean AI chip developer Rebellions has raised a $22.8 million (30 billion KRW) extension to its Series A financing from a strategic investor KT , one of the largest telecom companies in South Korea. . Last month, TechCrunch reported on Rebellions closing on $50 million in funding that valued the company at an estimated $283 million. At that time, Rebellions CEO and co-founder Sunghyun Park told TechCrunch that the startup wrapped up its initial Series A, which was oversubscribed, in less

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Top 10 Computer Science Universities in UK 2022

The Crazy Programmer

You’ll need a degree in computer science from a UK university if you want to shape businesses and organizations. As a result of new software and development kits and new programs, you’ll be able to learn more about IT and game creation. Several departments in the UK’s universities conduct computer science research for the world’s major companies.

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CPG Hiring Trends

N2Growth Blog

The evolution of new technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic have greatly influenced consumer habits worldwide, consumers are becoming more demanding, and companies are working on efficiencies to offset the negative impact of inflation on their P&Ls. Leaders are working on efficiencies to offset these challenges. This article will examine how new technologies, consumer habits, and the pandemic have influenced consumer expectations, how companies are working to meet changing consumer expectati

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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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DevOps Is Not a Role — It’s a Culture

DevOps.com

The full-stack developer is becoming increasingly rare these days. Due to the accelerating complexity of modern software development, programmers often specialize in specific languages, frameworks or levels of the software stack, such as frontend or backend. These same fractures seem to be occurring within DevOps, too. Nowadays, large companies no longer have one strain of […].

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Raising capital for robotics startups with Bee Partners and Rapid Robotics

TechCrunch

Jordan Kretchmer founded Rapid Robotics with the mission of simplifying robotics for manufacturing by providing out-of-the-box automation solutions. Founded in 2019, the company quickly gained the attention of top VCs, including Bee Partners, which led Rapid Robotics’ seed round and participated in each of the following rounds. Hear Rapid Robotics’ pitch and hear from Kira Noodleman, partner at Bee Partners, to learn why robotic companies are quickly (and easily) gaining VC money.

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Article: It’s Time to Start Growing No-Code Developers

InfoQ Culture Methods

It’s time to start training and promoting people to be “business application no-code developers.” Why? Because everyone who manages a system is now a “developer,” whether they were trained that way or not. And if you don’t do this, your company will run into insurmountable problems when scaling its systems. Read this advice from a CTO on how your org can catch up.

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Ruby on Rails Examples to Consider for Your Developmental Journey

Coding Dojo

Ruby on Rails continues to be an extremely powerful yet developer-friendly solution for tackling all manner of web projects, and … Read more >>. The post Ruby on Rails Examples to Consider for Your Developmental Journey appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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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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Why Your DevSecOps Initiative Will Fail

DevOps.com

When you’ve been in and around the security industry for long enough, you get used to the industry hype machine turning a cool innovation into, uh, meh. This hype cycle starts at the RSA conference each year, and folks like me look for new hot stuff on the show floor. For perhaps only the second […]. The post Why Your DevSecOps Initiative Will Fail appeared first on DevOps.com.

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As Deezer goes public via SPAC, is the blank-check boom really over?

TechCrunch

From the next big thing to rueful error, the global SPAC market has had a big few years. So-called blank check companies, which take a skeleton corporation public with the aim of later merging with a private entity, can offer a quick path to the world’s stock markets. They can also, as we’ve relearned in recent quarters, incinerate shareholder wealth and potentially expose retail investors to outsized risk.

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Risk, Roles, and Realities of AI Governance

Dataiku

In a recent Dataiku Product Days session, Krishna Vadakattu, Senior Product Manager at Dataiku, interviewed Sulabh Soral, Chief AI Officer Deloitte Consulting, U.K. This blog summarizes and shares Soral’s perspective on the risk, roles, and realities of AI Governance from the session.

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Building An Employer Brand: Everything You Need To Know

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Building An Employer Brand: Everything You Need To Know. The future is now! Every aspect of handling a business has seen a significant change in recent years and quite a lot of it is due to a storm of post-COVID technological advancements. From AI, and machine learning, to HR tech, every aspect of running a business is being revolutionized. The recruitment industry is no different – the strategies used by HR professionals to recruit skilled candidates are currently seeing a massive change.

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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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Environments-as-a-Service: Free Your Devs

DevOps.com

Environments are the bane of a DevOps engineer’s existence and have been since the invention of the server. They can create giant bottlenecks that hamper productivity and suck the life and motivation out of developers. But they’re also completely necessary. DevOps teams spend a ton of time building and maintaining their development environments.

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So are we in a startup recession or what?

TechCrunch

I don’t know what is going on in the startup market and it’s a bit of a pain in the ass. The larger American economy, home to the largest technology startup and venture capital markets in the world, could be in a recession right now. We don’t know. To reach a technical recession, we need two successive quarters of negative GDP growth.

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8 Tips for Avoiding Your Leadership Blindspots

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Today’s post is by Robert Bruce Shaw, author of Leadership Blindspots: How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses That Matter ( CLICK HERE to get your copy). Leaders are faced with two conflicting needs. The first is to act with a deep confidence in their abilities and the strategies they are implementing. This allows them to pursue audacious goals and persevere when faced with adversity.

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Python vs. R: Syntactic Sugar Magic

Toptal

Python and R empower data scientists to solve problems using elegant syntactic sugar, simplifying coding and solution exploration. Each language brings its unique capabilities and approach to bear.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Dev Job Phisher Steals $540M | Patch OpenSSL NOW | Systemd Dev Joins Microsoft

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: Spear-phishing causes $540 million loss, a high severity bug in OpenSSL might be “worse than Heartbleed,” and Lennart Poettering is now working for Microsoft. The post Dev Job Phisher Steals $540M | Patch OpenSSL NOW | Systemd Dev Joins Microsoft appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Happeo lands $26M to provide a central intranet portal for employees

TechCrunch

As companies adopt new tools to accommodate remote ways of work, it’s becoming tougher for their workforces to keep track of and manage information across internal services. It’s not just the C-suite that’s being challenged — lower-level employees, too, are having to wrestle with employers’ now-sprawling catalogs of apps. According to Statista, the average enterprise uses 110 software-as-a-service apps today, up from eight in 2015.

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Building Your Company Culture: The Key To Being Lean And Successful With Angel Sanchez

Steve Farber

A lot of companies fail to scale because they think the key to scaling is to be lean. The real key is to develop your company culture. Have a culture where people are excited. Read more. The post Building Your Company Culture: The Key To Being Lean And Successful With Angel Sanchez first appeared on Steve Farber.

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