Martin Fowler
JANUARY 5, 2021
My colleague Tim Cochran has helped many software engineering organizations transform to respond faster to changing market needs. Often companies struggle with these transformations and a primary reason for these problems is that engineering organization has neglected to provide developers with an effective working environment. The key to to developing an effective environment is to concentrate on feedback loops.
Agile Alliance
JANUARY 5, 2021
The work of an Agile Coach is very versatile. Agile transformations are as well. Each team has its own fingerprint and organisations are one of a kind. This is what makes our work so interesting. One of the challenges of an Agile coach is to stay objective and keep one eye on the horizon. As … Continued. The post 16 Tips to Keep Focused on an Agile Journey first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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KitelyTech
JANUARY 5, 2021
Most business owners know the importance of having a website, as customers often use websites to find out more about a small business or even to place an order. Using relevant search terms, customers can find the website. Without a website, many small businesses might not be found. Before starting the process of building a website, there are some things that small business owners should know.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
Too Good To Go , the startup that lets you buy food right before it goes to waste, is raising a $31.1 million round. blisce/ is leading the round and investing $15.4 million as part of today’s round. Existing investors and employees are also participating. While the company has been around for a while, this is the first time Too Good To Go is raising money from a VC firm.
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.
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 6, 2021
Tim continues his comparison of high and low effectiveness organizations by comparing their key feedback loops. To improve these, organizations need to understand the importance of micro feedback loops, which are often neglected because they are so small. more….
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Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 7, 2021
Lead like it’s the first time to give your team energy. Early in my career, I learned a vital leadership lesson about how to give your team energy. I was working with an education nonprofit that supported children who lived in poverty. […]. The post How to Give Your Team Energy They Need appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 8, 2021
Jumbotail, an online wholesale marketplace for grocery and food items, said on Friday it has raised an additional $14.2 million as the Bangalore-based startup chases the opportunity to digitize neighborhood stores in the world’s second-largest internet market. The five-year-old startup said the new tranche of its Series B financing round was led by VII Ventures, with participation from Nutresa, Veronorte, Jumbofund, Klinkert Investment Trust, Peter Crosby Trust, Nexus Venture Partners and Discov
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 5, 2021
Unmesh has a few more of his Patterns of Distributed Systems ready to share with the world. In this one he looks at the problem of a large cluster, one that is too large to effectively maintain strong consistency, yet needs to maintain some data in a strongly consistent way. It can do this by using a smaller cluster, which he calls a Consistent Core.
Agile Alliance
JANUARY 6, 2021
Mardi Gras in the USA is celebrated every winter along the Gulf Coast from Galveston Texas to Pensacola Beach Florida. The first Fat Tuesday Carnivals took place in Mobile Alabama, but when people think of going down the Mardi Gras they are usually thinking of New Orleans! In New Orleans, Mardi Gras season begins on … Continued. The post Agile Mardi Gras: A Postcard from Louisiana first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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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.
Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 4, 2021
If you want to be a better leader, get curious about what you might still be able to learn. We recently had a very senior leader join a live-online leadership training he had hired us to do with his team. Not in […]. The post How to Be an Even Better Leader appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 4, 2021
Healthcare startup Color has raised a sizable $167 million in Series D funding round, at a valuation of $1.5 billion post-money, the company announced today. This brings the total raised by Color to $278 million, with its latest large round intended to help it build on a record year of growth in 2020 with even more expansion to help put in place key health infrastructure systems across the U.S. — including those related to the “last mile” delivery of COVID-19 vaccines.
CTOvision
JANUARY 4, 2021
I am the CEO and co-founder at Uniphore. My co-founder Ravi and I worked together during our time as students at the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida. We both […].
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 6, 2021
Tim continues his comparison of high and low effectiveness organizations by comparing their key feedback loops. To improve these, organizations need to understand the importance of micro feedback loops, which are often neglected because they are so small. more….
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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.
Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 8, 2021
Conflicting priorities are a fact of life. Growing businesses naturally have tensions and they only become problems when they’re not addressed. In this episode, you’ll get practical approaches to use when there’s a clash in priorities. These moments are a fantastic opportunity […]. The post Leading through Conflicting Priorities appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2021
While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers in the world of autonomous vehicle software has raised some substantial funding to double down on what it sees as a more immediate opportunity: providing technology to industrial companies to build off-road applications. Oxbotica , the Oxford, England startup that builds what it calls “universal autonomy” — flexible technology that it says can power the nav
CTOvision
JANUARY 4, 2021
Google is planning to acquire cloud-focused data protection technology developer Actifio in a move to better protect enterprise workloads both on-premises and in the cloud. Google, which Wednesday unveiled the planned […].
DevOps.com
JANUARY 6, 2021
Enterprise technology adoption trends can be broadly categorized under three pillars: infrastructure, architecture and technology. Let’s explore what these trends are and how they influence DevOps and DevSecOps adoption in tech corporations worldwide. Trends in Architecture In computing, architecture is the collection of protocols encompassing the utility, structure and execution of software applications.
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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.
Netlify
JANUARY 5, 2021
I was 8 years into my career as a Software Engineer before I heard the term “Developer Advocacy.” At the time, I had never written an article, been to a conference, or participated in open source. I thought it sounded amazing. You see, I switched careers from teaching but still had a latent passion that was mainly used to mentor internally at the companies I worked at, however not as much as I would have liked.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 8, 2021
Envisics founder and CEO Dr. Jamieson Christmas launched the startup three years ago to “revolutionize” the in-car experience with its holographic technology. Now, it has a partner that could help it achieve that mission. The U.K.-based holographic technology startup said Friday it reached an agreement with Panasonic Automotive Systems to jointly develop and commercialize a new generation of head-up displays for cars, trucks and SUVs.
TechBeacon
JANUARY 8, 2021
The last decade has seen a relentless push to deliver software faster. Automated testing has emerged as one of the most important technologies for scaling DevOps, companies are investing enormous time and effort to build end-to-end software delivery pipelines, and containers and their ecosystem are holding up on their early promise.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 4, 2021
How can IT organizations make sure they’re equipped to resolve operational issues quickly and drive better business outcomes? That’s where artificial intelligence for IT operations, or AIOps, comes in. With the increasingly vast amounts of data generated by infrastructure and business applications, and teams often working in disconnected silos, managing and improving operations through automation […].
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Synopsys
JANUARY 6, 2021
The total cost of poor software quality in the U.S. is estimated at $2.08 trillion. Learn what contributes to the cost and how security can help minimize errors. The post What is the cost of poor software quality in the U.S.? appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
Challenger banks, incumbent banks and all of the many businesses that are making inroads into any kind of banking service all have something in common: when it comes to launching a new product like a credit line or a deposit or current account, these days many of them are opting not to build from the ground up, but are instead using third-party technology to power these services.
TechBeacon
JANUARY 5, 2021
Digital transformation has been a complex endeavor since businesses first started going down this path, and it's not getting any simpler. The technology landscape runs from mainframe to PC, from mobile to server, and from on-premises operations to the cloud, with most organizations running some combination of the above.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 4, 2021
The rate at which machine learning operations (MLOps) and DevOps best practices are converging is poised for rapid acceleration in 2021. At the recent online AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is adding a bevy of capabilities to Amazon SageMaker, a managed MLOps service, that includes a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) service […].
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
Darktrace
JANUARY 7, 2021
This blog explains how activity related to the SolarWinds hack can be detected without the use of signatures, and why a self-learning approach is the best possible mechanism to catch this Advanced Persistent Threat.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2021
Over the next few weeks, the venture capital industry will compile and release data concerning its Q4 2020 performance, capping a year that saw the world of private capital freeze , thaw and burn. But we can get a peek at a critical part of the VC universe early, thanks to a preview of global fintech investment results from CB Insights. The dataset deals with worldwide investments into fintech companies from the start of October through December 12th.
Cloudera
JANUARY 6, 2021
Introduction. Python is used extensively among Data Engineers and Data Scientists to solve all sorts of problems from ETL/ELT pipelines to building machine learning models. Apache HBase is an effective data storage system for many workflows but accessing this data specifically through Python can be a struggle. For data professionals that want to make use of data stored in HBase the recent upstream project “hbase-connectors” can be used with PySpark for basic operations.
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