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Let’s Talk About Data Visualization! Featuring Tableau’s Director of Data Science & ML

Dataiku

In this episode of the Banana Data Podcast, our hosts are joined by Nathan Mannheimer (Director of Data Science and ML at Tableau) as they unriddle the value of data visualization, explore what can go right and what can go wrong, and search for an answer to inquiries surrounding the future of data visualization.

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Low-Code: Bridging the Gap Between DevOps and Business

DevOps.com

The need to innovate faster, manage multiple environments, optimize an application’s life cycle and achieve continuous delivery are aspirational goals that a successful DevOps team strives for. But there are loads of challenges, as meeting these goals increases the pressure on DevOps teams to adopt improved application architecture, new tools and developer workflows.

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Google’s Africa Investment Fund makes first investment in Uganda’s SafeBoda

TechCrunch

Internet giant Google announced today that it has made the first investment from its Africa Investment Fund in Ugandan super app SafeBoda. The undisclosed investment comes two months after Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced the tech giant’s intentions to commit $1 billion over the next five years in “tech-led initiatives”, which includes a $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at early- and growth-stage startups on the continent.

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How the advice process works in practice

Martin Fowler

Andrew finishes his article on how to scale software architecture by looking at how this technique works in practice , and also outlines how things can go wrong. more….

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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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3 Tips To Help You Make The Shift Towards Remote Hiring In 2022

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

2020 changed the way the globe went to work. While business continuity plans were quickly activated to offset the volatility of the pandemic, and people grew accustomed to the new normal of virtual meetings and remote working, talent hiring, on the whole, presented a challenge for HR and other people teams. . In the face of it all, remote hiring turned out to be a convenient, efficient, cost and time-effective option for both recruiters and candidates.

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Indonesian insurtech startup Fuse gets $25M Series B extension to expand further in Southeast Asia

TechCrunch

Indonesia-based insurtech startup Fuse announced today it has secured $25 million of Series B extension round as it plans to enter more countries including Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. The startup has closed three funding rounds of Series B within the past six months, bringing the company’s total raised to over $70 million. The fresh capital was led by an undisclosed global fintech fund with participation from existing investors East Ventures, GGV Capital, eWTP and Emtek. .

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A tech landscape and current climate sensing tool - Your own Tech Radar

Martin Fowler

Andrew's fourth supporting element for the Advice Process is using a tech radar to capture and map out your local version of the technology trends you see across your organization. more….

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On Code Reviews

Henrik Warne

There seems to be an established truth in programming that code reviews find a lot of bugs. An example is chapter 18 (Modern Code Review ) in the book Making Software. This is however not my experience – I rarely find outright bugs when reviewing changes. But I still think code reviews are useful. Below are my thoughts on the value of code reviews, and how to make the process efficient.

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Product-led agility: moving beyond feature delivery to define success

Agile Alliance

Gone are the days where the deployment of a user story was the ultimate signal of an achieved goal. Successful agile teams now look beyond the acceptance criteria and production environments to learn if a feature, or an entire release, is worth the effort of building it. This shift requires a candid look into the … Continued. The post Product-led agility: moving beyond feature delivery to define success first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Backed by former Facebook and Twitter execs, Tagg launches social branding app for Gen Z

TechCrunch

Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. A “social branding” app for creative teens and twenty-somethings, Tagg is announcing a $2 million seed round today from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Facebook’s former VP of International Growth Ed Baker, TripAdvisor founder Stephen Kaufer, Pillar VC and more.

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Treat integration as strategic to your business

Martin Fowler

Brandon finishes his article on how we should look at integration by arguing that it is a strategic element of an enterprise's infrastructure. You can buy the best products in the world but "none of it will make you competitive in a digital world if you continue to treat integration as a tactical nuisance to overcome so you take advantage of those new systems.". more….

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6 Best Monitors for Programming in India 2022

The Crazy Programmer

When programming and coding for a longer time frame, it is very important to have a comfortable monitor that does not strain your eyes much. It is very important to get the monitor that’s the right size, with sufficient screen size to have several windows open and work comfortably without any squint. You must consider a flicker-free monitor since backlight flicker will cause eye strain and headaches with longer use.

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Fortress Agile: nurturing and growing healthy practices in a hostile environment

Agile Alliance

When the broader organization just isn’t agile, teams can get stuck. They’re waiting for their knight in shining armor – the ‘enlightened’ executive – to transform it all. What happens when the hero isn’t coming? Is it possible to realistically accept an organization’s limitations without killing morale? Can a manager or coach ‘shield’ a team … Continued.

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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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Fuzey takes in $4.5M to charge up its management tools for service-based businesses

TechCrunch

Fuzey , a London-based company providing what it calls a “digital one-stop shop” for small businesses and independent contractors, raised $4.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by byFounders with participation from Flash Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Ascension and a group of angel investors, including Index Ventures’ venture partner Stephane Kurgan and Amplo VC founder and CEO Sheel Tyle.

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Addressing Problems with Your Peers

Let's Grow Leaders

What do you do when you see a problem and you want to bring it to your colleagues’ attention, but you’re worried it might create problems? This topic came in as a question from a member of the Let’s Grow Leaders community and it’s a fantastic opportunity to address some leadership challenges that everyone can empathize with. In this episode, you get three steps to use to address problems with your peers.

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Overcoming Challenges to Automating DevSecOps

DevOps.com

In the last few years, DevSecOps has been widely adopted among organizations looking to get proactive with their security. Traditionally, development teams would continuously implement and deploy new applications into the enterprise and security was an additional bolt-on at the end. However, as the threat posed by cybercrime has increased, organizations have been ‘shifting left’ […].

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The Next Wave

Agile Alliance

We have reached the point where some mid-career developers have never known anything but agile (or some definition of agile). I wonder, on balance, though, how they feel about the way they work. Do they feel pride in their work? Do they feel a sense of accomplishment when they release software on a regular cadence? … Continued. The post The Next Wave first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Former Twitter India head leaving firm to start an edtech platform

TechCrunch

Manish Maheshwari, the former head of Twitter India who recently moved to San Francisco to work at a different division within the company, is leaving the firm to launch an edtech startup, according to nine people familiar with the matter. Maheshwari and Twitter didn’t respond to a request for comment two weeks ago. Sources requested anonymity as the details are private.

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How to Empower Your Team During Times of Uncertainty (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Start here to empower your team, even when you don’t have all the answers. “Karin, there’s so much uncertainty these days. I feel like I’m caught in a constant wait-and-see sea of indecision. What can I do to empower my team to keep moving?” #AskingForaFriend. Lessons from Gail: Tips to Help Empower Your Team. 1. Create real clarity about what matters most and why.

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Managing Active Directory Objects With Azure AD Provider for Terraform

Dzone - DevOps

The Azure AD provider for Terraform can be used to manage your Azure Active Directory resources declaratively. This allows you to do things like: Automatically provision users and make sure they belong to the correct groups. Manage Azure compute permissions via Azure AD groups. In this post, you will learn what the Azure AD Terraform provider is used for, how to authenticate and grant permissions and see examples of what you can do with it.

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Threat Alert: Tracking Real-World Log4j Attacks

Aqua Security

This blog was co-authored with Ori Glassman, a security researcher at Aqua Security. Until last week, Log4j was just a popular Java logging framework, one of the numerous components that run in the background of many modern web applications. But since a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) was published, Log4j has made a huge impact on the security community as researchers found that it’s vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.

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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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Target Global leads $3.5M pre-seed in Nigerian online learning platform Edukoya

TechCrunch

For years, offline test preparation centers in Nigeria have provided after-school guidance and tutoring to students who seek to pass entrance examinations. Edtech platforms such as Edukoya have sprung up with the intent to take these models online and maintain affordability for students. Today, the Lagos- and London-based startup, which builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents, raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding led by European VC firm Target

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How to Bring Your Hybrid Meetings to the Next Level

CEO Insider

The COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed how companies around the globe operate their businesses. As a result, many large and small organizations are working to find a balance somewhere between in-office and at-home models, known as hybrid models. Meetings are a key component of the workday, yet hybrid meetings have not proven to be the […]. The post How to Bring Your Hybrid Meetings to the Next Level appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Kubernetes Version 1.23 Is Out: Everything You Should Know

Dzone - DevOps

The Christmas edition of Kubernetes comes with 45 new enhancements to make it more mature, secure, and scalable. In this blog, we’ll focus on the critical changes grouped into the Kubernetes API, containers and infrastructure, storage, networking, and security. Let's start with the “face of Kubernetes”, which makes it scalable and expandable.

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Extending GitOps to the Enterprise

DevOps.com

GitOps is a relatively new term, but it continues to gain momentum as more organizations embrace the paradigm. In DevOps, GitOps lands on the software engineering side of the development and operations continuum. Even though GitOps is more likely to be adopted by smaller organizations, larger enterprises can successfully implement GitOps with just a few […].

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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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Full Harvest targets food waste by finding homes for imperfect, surplus produce

TechCrunch

Food waste is a $2.6 trillion problem globally as some 40% of food is wasted annually. Full Harvest believes this is a distribution problem that can be solved by digitizing the produce supply chain. The San Francisco-based company’s produce business-to-business marketplace provides a way for produce buyers and sellers to quickly close deals on surplus or imperfect crops in just a few clicks.

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Lacework Labs Identifies Log4J Attacks

Lacework

Key Takeaways CVE-2021-22448 is being adopted by opportunistic attackers. Mirai and Kinsing are being distributed via this attack vector. Overview Lacework Labs is constantly monitoring for attackers adopting new vulnerabilities into their toolkits through their honeypots. Lacework Labs has identified opportunistic attackers leveraging the recent Log4J vulnerability (CVE-2021-22448).

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How to Become a DevOps Engineer

Dzone - DevOps

With the term "DevOps" gaining popularity every day, there is increased curiosity as to how one can become a DevOps Engineer. If you are curious as to how to become a DevOps Engineer, this article goes on to detail on DevOps, the skills required for a DevOps Engineer, roles and responsibilities teamed with interview questions and average salary expected.

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