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What Is DataOps?

Dataiku

As analytics projects move into production , the rubber meets the road, as they say, and analytics have to perform and help create value. Timely data is a critical driver for this value. Without fresh data, dashboards are out of date, and there are either poor or no predictions from models, causing end users to lose trust. So it should be no surprise that an entire field exists to ensure that production data gets from point A to point B when we need it — it's called DataOps.

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Overcoming One-Size-Fits-All Budgeting

Agile Alliance

Agile transformations can easily be disrupted by a traditional non-Agile budgeting approach that contradicts the flexibility, adaptability, responsiveness, and nimbleness required by Agility. The post Overcoming One-Size-Fits-All Budgeting first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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How To Create A Cloud Strategy: The 3-Step Process

CloudZero

Businesses move to the cloud for several reasons. For some, moving to the cloud means gaining access to the best enterprise-level technology without the associated costs of handling, maintaining, and managing the underlying infrastructure. For others (like startups), the ability to scale quickly and respond faster to market demands are top of the list.

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Nixie’s drone-based water sampling could save cities time and money

TechCrunch

Regularly testing waterways and reservoirs is a never-ending responsibility for utility companies and municipal safety authorities, and generally — as you might expect — involves either a boat or at least a pair of waders. Nixie does the job with a drone instead, making the process faster, cheaper, and a lot less wet. The most common methods of testing water quality haven’t changed in a long time, partly because they’re effective and straightforward, and partly because really, what e

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Lamport Clock

Martin Fowler

Next distributed system pattern from Unmesh is the Lamport Clock. Distributed systems can't assume that time is consistent between servers, and sometimes time goes backwards. Yet it's important to have some way to order events. more….

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15 power tips for Microsoft Power BI

CIO

Power BI is Microsoft’s interactive data visualization and analytics tool for business intelligence (BI). With Power BI, you can pull in data from a wide range of systems in the cloud and on premises and create dashboards that track the metrics you care about the most. You can even drill down into your data and (literally) ask questions about it. Power BI’s rich reports or dashboards can be embedded in reporting portals you already use.

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Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform

TechCrunch

Vercel , the company behind the popular open-source Next.js React framework, today announced that it has raised a $102 million Series C funding round led by Bedrock Capital. Existing investors Accel, CRV, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks Capital and GV also participated in this round, together with new investors 8VC, Flex Capital, GGV, Latacora, Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global.

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Hybrid Clock

Martin Fowler

While a Lamport Clock is often necessary to order events in a distributed system, clients often need to know the actual times too. The Hybrid Clock , Unmesh's next pattern, combines these two demands.

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Arguments vs Parameters in Programming

The Crazy Programmer

In this article, we will study about arguments and parameters used in the programs at the time of function call. Sometimes, along with function names, some variables or values are also used and passed to them which help in the execution of a program. These variables which provide extra information about the function are called arguments. The arguments used in one function cannot be used in other functions as they are specific to a particular function and are used only in that specific function.

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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 Your Employee Recognition Program Can Destroy Morale

Let's Grow Leaders

Avoid These Big Mistakes When Recognizing Employees. A great employee recognition program is a remarkable way to build culture, increase employee engagement and reinforce critical behaviors. Done well, these programs will have a positive impact on culture and can also serve as a vital part of your 5 x 5 communication plan. And yet, so many companies screw this up.

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Crypto finance startup Amber Group raises $100M at $1B valuation

TechCrunch

More mainstream venture capital firms are jumping on the crypto bandwagon as investors increasingly consider bitcoin an investable asset, despite the recent massive price drops of a few major cryptocurrencies. Amber Group, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency trading startup, said on Monday it has raised $100 million in a Series B funding round at a pre-money valuation of $1 billion.

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Versioned Value

Martin Fowler

When a distributed system has mutable data, nodes need to know which is the most recent value, so a versioned value stores a version number with every value. more….

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Building an E2E Software Testing Tool in Python

The Crazy Programmer

Software testing suites and end-to-end testing are critical in software building. These tests make sure that your software runs smoothly by finding problems ahead of time. To do this, testing tools mimic the way a potential user will use the software. And Python is a fantastic programming language to build such testing tools. Python is one of the most popular programming languages out there, and for a good reason.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Leading When Things Break

Let's Grow Leaders

Are you blindsided when things break down, problems happen, or conflict occurs? Great leaders anticipate these breakdowns and know that it’s a matter of when – not if – they’ll happen. Lead your team with a planned recovery and equip them with the skills to overcome these setbacks. Leading When Things Break. 0:22 – Last chance to get your Kindle edition of Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates at a crazy

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Uber to become the sole owner of grocery delivery startup Cornershop

TechCrunch

Uber has reached a deal to become the sole owner of Latin American delivery startup Cornershop, just one year after acquiring a majority stake in the company. The ride-hailing giant said in a regulatory filing Monday that it will purchase the remaining 47% interest in Cornershop in exchange for 29 million shares. The transaction is expected to close in July.

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Report: The State of Cloud-Native Application Security

DevOps.com

The cloud brings tremendous capabilities in terms of increased deployment fluidity and automation. Along with cloud adoption has come the use of cloud-native tools built specifically for developing applications for this domain. However, cloud-native tools carry some nuanced security concerns, such as misconfigurations, known vulnerabilities and leaked secrets.

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4 Habits of Highly Effective Security Operators

CTOvision

For many of us, a habit is all too often construed as an undesirable behavior that we are trying to disrupt. Smoking cigarettes, biting your fingernails, drinking too many Diet Cokes — these are the types of behaviors that often leap to mind when someone is asked to consider their own personal habits. However, just […].

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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The Importance of Written Communication for Engineering Teams

Toptal

While good engineering managers can code, great ones can also communicate. Written communication is integral to the management and scaling of engineering teams, says Juan Pablo Buritica, who has led several successful teams of engineers.

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Autonomous trucking startup Embark to go public in $5.2B SPAC deal

TechCrunch

Five-year old self-driving truck startup Embark Trucks Inc. said Wednesday it would merge with special purpose acquisition company Northern Genesis Acquisition Corp. II in a deal valued at $5.2 billion. Embark takes a different approach to autonomous trucking: As opposed to manufacturing and operating a fleet of trucks themselves, which is the route rival TuSimple is taking, Embark offers its AV software as a service.

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How Containers Simplify DevOps Workflows and CI/CD Pipelines

DevOps.com

DevOps enables organizations to capitalize on the flexibility of cloud resources in real-time, which is a huge game changer. Just as the adoption of Agile methodology can make a development team more responsive, DevOps revolutionizes implementation of IT objectives from end to end, from a waterfall-style process gating company productivity to a dynamic process that […].

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Preparing for Future Supply Chain Success

CTOvision

When we look back on this time in history, we can say with some certainty that the pandemic acted as a great accelerator. It immediately intensified the pressure on a freight network that was already bursting at the seams, and that in turn accelerated our acceptance of new software and automation necessary to streamline our […].

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Purpose-Driven Change Begins with Finding Your ‘Yes’

CEO Insider

Being an entrepreneur, or as I like to consider myself—a serial entrepreneur, one that has tons of ideas—I have to be a dreamer. I’m a dreamer who starts up a company and goes sailing with it. And then I have another dream. And then, another and another. The key is staying focused and that means […]. The post Purpose-Driven Change Begins with Finding Your ‘Yes’ appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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How much to pay yourself as a SaaS founder

TechCrunch

“If you’re the founder of a seed-stage [company and] you’re worried about your electricity staying on this month, then your salary is too low. If you’re saving $10,000/mo, then your salary is probably higher than necessary,” investor Leo Polovets wrote in a Twitter thread. Ultimately, a good test is to ask how you’ll feel if your startup fails: Will you wonder if your salary contributed to its fall?

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Code Ownership Is Key to Accelerate Debugging

DevOps.com

App stability is a fundamental part of every app experience. Broadly speaking, app stability is a measurement of the number of total app sessions that are crash-free or the percentage of daily active users who do not experience an error. End users have little patience for apps that crash or fail. Every application, whether it’s […]. The post Code Ownership Is Key to Accelerate Debugging appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Summary of the US Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 (USICA): Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation For Action

CTOvision

The United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 (USICA), formerly known as the Endless Frontier Act, passed into law on 8 June 2021. It authorizes $110 Billion for basic and advanced technology research over a five year period. It includes investment in: Artificial intelligence and machine learning High performance computing, semiconductors, and advanced computer […].

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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How to Approach Writing an Interpreter From Scratch

Toptal

How source code becomes a running program is often opaque: "Just run the compiler" is all that developers normally need to know. Writing an interpreter from scratch—including its lexer and parser—is an illuminating challenge.

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This QR code startup just raised $5 million co-led by Coatue and Seven Seven Six

TechCrunch

Amazon revolutionized one-click shopping, and it has a nearly $2 trillion market cap to show for the effort. Now, a 10-person startup founded by JD Maresco, who previously cofounded the public safety app Citizen, says it plans to make it a lot easier for retailers who sell directly to their customers to make re-ordering their products just as fast and simple through its QR codes.

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The Data Dilemma and Its Impact on AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences

IDC

Discover the challenges in AI adoption and implementation for healthcare and life science organizations during the industry's recent digital transformation.