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How To Put Faith in UX Design

Scott Berkun

Anglerfish are famous for the glowing lure they dangle from their heads that they use to catch small fish. But this is not the most interesting thing about them. Their most fascinating trait is how they mate. Males of the species, who are much smaller, lack a functioning digestive system. To survive they must combine, or fuse-mate, with the females.

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Securing Classified Telework: 3 Principles for Protecting Sensitive Data

Tenable

As pandemic restrictions linger, federal agencies are preparing for a rise in classified telework. Here’s why a continued focus on cybersecurity fundamentals is imperative. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the move to remote work beyond all prior expectations. While there were many exceptions to the rule in the early days of the pandemic response, we are seeing those exceptions decrease as the remote work environment matures.

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Alloy raises $4M to build out its e-commerce automation service

TechCrunch

Alloy Automation , a startup that was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 cohort , announced today that it has closed $5 million across two rounds, the most recent of which brought $4 million to the company in October of 2020. The new funds were raised at a $16 million pre-money, $20 million post-money valuation, Alloy told TechCrunch. The company’s latest fundraising was led by Bain Capital Ventures and Abstract , with participation from Color Capital , BoxGroup and a collection of indiv

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Why Your Membership Matters

Agile Alliance

With everything that’s going on in the world these days, Agile Alliance may be one of the last things on your mind. We get that. Still, as we mark our 20th anniversary, we’d like to remind you that we’re here – and to share what we’re up to. For two decades, Agile Alliance has been … Continued. The post Why Your Membership Matters 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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10 Best Computer Courses After 12th in India 2021

The Crazy Programmer

Today computer courses are becoming a new trend in contemporary times. Such kinds of short-term courses are very popular for the 10th & 12th class students since after appearing in the respective Board exams, students can squeeze in the best computer courses to improve their odds of employability. These computer courses are really good for the 10th & 12th students since after their exams they have two to three months until the starting of their next class.

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4 strategies for deep tech founders who are fundraising

TechCrunch

Jessica Li. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jessica is on the growth marketing team at Zageno, a multi-vendor, online marketplace for life science products, and is head of content at Elpha, a Y Combinator-backed community of 40K+ women in tech. More posts by this contributor. How and when to build marketing teams at deep tech companies. Fundraising is challenging, especially for deep tech founders who need to get investors excited about a complex technology, a complex sales cycle and a complex ri

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Agile Mardi Gras: A Postcard from the UK – Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday

Agile Alliance

Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is Carnival in the United Kingdom. It marks the traditional feast day before the start of lent on Ash Wednesday. The name Shrove comes from the old middle English word ‘Shriven’ Since Lent always starts on a Wednesday, people went to confession on the Tuesday before. This became known as … Continued.

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Difference between MS and M.Tech

The Crazy Programmer

Engineering is one of the highly recognized professions in India. As there is a lot of competition, most of the engineers go for something much more than the BTech degree for giving themselves a push over their competitors. But, many who loves machine can opt for the masters. Then, they have to make a tough choice between MS & M.tech. This is what we are going to discuss in today’s article difference between MS and M.Tech.

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5 Lessons From Running 200 Remote Hackathons

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Hackathons > Lessons from running 200 remote hackathons. Scene from the movie ‘The Social Network.’. A room full of boisterous Harvard undergrads. In the center: a small group of coders hunched over their laptops, typing away at warp speed. Jesse Heisenberg’s character, Mark, explaining to a perplexed Eduardo (Andrew Garfield) that he had walked right into Facebook’s first-ever hackathon.

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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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A look at how proptech startup Knotel went from a $1.6B valuation to filing for bankruptcy

TechCrunch

This week, flexible workspace operator (and one-time unicorn) Knotel announced it had filed for bankruptcy and that its assets were being acquired by investor and commercial real estate brokerage Newmark for a reported $70 million. Knotel designed, built and ran custom headquarters for companies. It then managed the spaces with “flexible” terms. In March 2020, it was reportedly valued at $1.6 billion.

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Leadership Doesn’t Have to Be Lonely

Let's Grow Leaders

You know the cliches: it’s lonely at the top. Leadership is a lonely business. In this episode, David shares a challenging situation where he felt very alone – and what happened that convinced him you’re never as alone as you might feel. […]. The post Leadership Doesn’t Have to Be Lonely appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Digital Threshold Live: Data and Simulation Are Rebuilding the World

CTOvision

Bilal Zuberi, Partner at Lux Capital, has heard a lot of ideas. What separates him from most is how quickly he’s able to separate the truly great and innovative ideas […].

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The state of the cybersecurity job field: 5 key factors you need to know

TechBeacon

Many cybersecurity team leaders continue to face challenges in finding qualified cybersecurity professionals to fill jobs at their organizations, despite the relatively high salaries and stability associated with jobs in the field.

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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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AI Dungeon-maker Latitude raises $3.3M to build games with ‘infinite’ story possibilities

TechCrunch

Latitude , a startup building games with “infinite storylines” generated by artificial intelligence, is announcing that it has raised $3.3 million in seed funding. The idea of an AI-generated story might make you think of hilariously nonsensical experiments like “Sunspring,” but Latitude’s first title, AI Dungeon , is an impressively open-ended (and coherent) text adventure game where you can choose from a wide variety of genres and characters.

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How to Lead a Performance Conversation without Losing Your Cool

Let's Grow Leaders

Leaders play a vital role in employee development and that includes sharing developmental feedback. But an effective performance conversation requires an even temper. Keep these five principles in mind to help you keep your cool. We’d just finished a live online leadership […]. The post How to Lead a Performance Conversation without Losing Your Cool appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Tencent Cloud and MongoDB Launch Global Cloud Partnership

CTOvision

MongoDB, the leading, modern general-purpose database platform, announced the launch of a global partnership with Tencent Cloud that allows customers to easily adopt and use MongoDB-as-a-Service across Tencent’s global cloud […].

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Article: Cynefin Applied: Adapting to Changing Contexts

InfoQ Culture Methods

The book Cynefin: Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of our World by Dave Snowden describes the Cynefin framework and explores how it has developed over the years. It also provides stories where people who have applied Cynefin share their experiences. By Ben Linders, Sonja Blignaut, Zhen Goh, Dave Snowden.

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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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Nigerian digital bank Carbon hit $240M in payments processed last year, up 89% from 2019

TechCrunch

In 2018, Carbon , a Nigerian fintech startup, made its financials public for the first time. Although typical for foreign private startups, it’s almost an anomaly in Africa. There have been rare cases in the past, for instance, when Rocket Internet had to include Jumia’s financials in its yearly reports after going public. At the time, the German investment outfit was a founding shareholder in the African-based unicorn.

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The Future of Learning and Development: Best Practices and Insights

Let's Grow Leaders

Training and Development (TD) award-winning learning and development leaders share their insights from past successes and discuss the future of learning and development on Asking For a Friend Live with Karin Hurt. We ground the discussion in their new book Forward Focused […]. The post The Future of Learning and Development: Best Practices and Insights appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Emerging Technology: The Projected Total Economic Impact™ Of The Aerospike NoSQL Data Platform

CTOvision

Read how Aerospike’s NoSQL database can help businesses in saving costs and at the same time getting maximum results on CIO : Aerospike’s NoSQL Data Platform delivered a consistent performance […].

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Transforming Your Digital Transformation

DevOps.com

Change is difficult, so most companies pull the bandage slowly, hoping to avoid the hard, painful part – especially with regard to digital transformation. But in the corporate world, cautious change inevitably leads to entropy. Progress gets made in one department at a time, at the expense of others. Leaders turn over, priorities shift, plans […].

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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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Why these co-founders turned their sustainability podcast into a VC-backed business

TechCrunch

When Laura Wittig and Liza Moiseeva met as guests on a podcast about sustainable fashion, they jibed so well together that they began one of their own: Good Together. Their show’s goal was to provide listeners with a place to learn how to be eco-conscious consumers, but with baby steps. Wittig thinks the non-judgmental environment (one that doesn’t knock on a consumer for not being zero-waste overnight) is the show’s biggest differentiator.

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Enterprise service management: Which metrics matter most?

TechBeacon

With organizations accelerating their digital transformation initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic, metrics for enterprise service management (ESM) in 2020 were broadly focused on aligning the business and reducing downtime. In 2021, the most important ESM metrics will be those that measure more specific business results, and that do so proactively—especially as organizations extend the application of ESM to other areas beyond IT.

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Elastic: Enabling Enterprises To Search, Observe, Protect

CTOvision

Elastic is the company behind the the Elastic Stack, which is Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, Elastic help people […].

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Best Free Virtual DevOps Conferences to Attend in 2021

DevOps.com

New year, new beginnings and new conferences. It’s that time of the year again, to review and research upcoming events for 2021. Of course, given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we’ll cover only virtual conferences. Here are the top five best DevOps virtual conferences you can attend for free. Just sign up, reserve your seat and […]. The post Best Free Virtual DevOps Conferences to Attend in 2021 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Weights & Biases raises $45M for its machine learning tools

TechCrunch

Weights & Biases , a startup building tools for machine learning practitioners, is announcing that it’s raised $45 million in Series B funding. The company was founded by Lukas Biewald, Chris Van Pelt and Shawn Lewis — Biewald and Van Pelt previously founded CrowdFlower/Figure Eight ( acquired by Appen ). Weights & Biases says it now has more than 70,000 users at more than 200 enterprises.

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5 organizational capabilities you need to drive digital transformation

TechBeacon

To achieve the high-velocity goals of digital transformation, you need to improve your organization's ability to consistently deliver customer value through shared processes.

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Lux Capital: Early stage VC focused on science and technology

CTOvision

Lux Capital is early-stage Venture Capital that focuses on emerging science and technology capabilities. They proudly focus on inventors challenging the status quo and the laws of nature to bring […].