Sat.Jan 28, 2023 - Fri.Feb 03, 2023

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3 Performance Challenges as Chatbot Adoption Grows

DevOps.com

Today, many organizations are starting to use voice or text-enabled chatbots for the first time or already have chatbot systems in place. In fact, Gartner said 25% of organizations are predicted to make chatbots their primary customer communication channel by 2027. This is because consumer behavior has shifted to primarily digital interactions and away from […] The post 3 Performance Challenges as Chatbot Adoption Grows appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How digital humans enhance the user experience in Metaverse

Coforge

What are Digital Humans in Metaverse?

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2023 Technology Predictions

CableLabs

Technology impacts us in every way, touching our lives, businesses and communities. Over the last few years, we’ve experienced a major transformation in how we work and collaborate, which has introduced many benefits and challenges. But with adversity comes opportunity and innovation. Some of the problems this year’s technology predictions aim to solve are an increased need for remote collaboration, flexible and efficient transportation, personalized technology and secure networks.

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How To Build Anti-Fragile Software Ecosystems

DevOps.com

Just as organisms are susceptible to diseases and viruses, software systems are susceptible to hacks and errors. And within many complex interconnected systems, a minor bug could have a cascading effect across an entire organism, causing it to break. As such, increasing the resiliency of a software ecosystem is something engineers continually strive for.

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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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The Data Leakage Nightmare in AI

Apiumhub

Introduction Nowadays, we think of artificial intelligence as the solution to many problems and as a tool that can help humanity achieve huge things faster and with less effort. Those thoughts are not far from being true, but it is really important to be aware of the issues that may arise until then and how those issues can affect us humans and our environment.

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Networking tips for IT leaders: A guide to building connections

CIO

Networking isn’t just for holiday parties. It’s something you should do all year long and, if approached correctly, it works no matter where you are on the career ladder. The two cardinal rules of networking, according to CIOs and career coaches, are to schedule time to do it for at least an hour every month, and to approach it as something you do to help others in addition to yourself.

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Exploring Mastodon: status for February 2023

Martin Fowler

I haven't posted much on my Mastodon usage in the this year, and that's because the situation has settled down for me. Reading-wise I check both my Twitter and my Mastodon accounts. I'm still posting to both feeds and intend to do that for the foreseeable future. I haven't yet done much analysis to compare activity between them.

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Forecasting 2023 Recruiting Trends With 6 Experts

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

2023 is here, and it is time to look ahead. Start planning your tech hiring needs as per your business requirements, revamp your recruiting processes, and come up with creative ways to land that perfect “unicorn candidate”! Right? Well, jumping in blindly without heeding what this year holds for you can be a mistake. So before you put together your plans, ask yourselves this—What are the most important 2023 recruiting trends in tech hiring that you should be prepared for?

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The latecomer advantage in startups

TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Sometimes, due to the nature of the startup game, we over index on “the new.” Companies want to build for the pain point you never dreamed to disrupt; VCs want to invest in an emerging trend before it becomes a household name; and those breaking into tech are told to lean into their earnestness, because you never k

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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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The connection between EX and CX

CIO

It is no longer a point of discussion that any organization’s success depends on its relationships with its customers and employees. Especially as economies mature towards becoming a service industry, a relentless focus on and alignment between customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) is critical to an organization’s success. Companies that spend time ensuring their employees are engaged outperform their competition by 147%.

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HeadCrab: A Novel State-of-the-Art Redis Malware in a Global Campaign

Aqua Security

Aqua Nautilus researchers discovered a new elusive and severe threat that has been infiltrating and residing on servers worldwide since early September 2021. Known as HeadCrab , this advanced threat actor utilizes a state-of-the-art, custom-made malware that is undetectable by agentless and traditional anti-virus solutions to compromise a large number of Redis servers.

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Automation Challenges Holding DevOps Back

DevOps.com

A survey of 500 IT and engineering leaders in the U.S. published today finds organizations build an average of 6.7 internal applications per year themselves in addition to investing in 7.7 separate platforms to build applications. Commissioned by Internal, a provider of platforms for building application development environments, the survey also found organizations are spending […] The post Automation Challenges Holding DevOps Back appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Disclo aims to inspire inclusive workplaces – starting with disability accommodations

TechCrunch

Disclo CEO and co-founder Hannah Olson was diagnosed with Lyme disease when she was in college. At the time, she didn’t really see herself as someone with a disability, even though it meant spending hours each day hooked up to an IV. When she entered the workforce, she soon was confronted with the difficulties of navigating, disclosing and asking for support around her condition.

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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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Digital transformation – from mainframes to the ‘deeply digital’ organisation

CIO

The next generation of successful organisations will be the ones that embrace the potential of digital transformation, or so it has been said with increasing frequency in the last decade. But is the term as useful in understanding the future of organisations as its advocates claim? While some see digital transformation as a trend that has existed since the 1950s, an alternative view is that today’s digitalisation is a distinct phase because it describes the way technology and data now define rat

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Got Workplace Gossip? Powerful Phrases to Stop Workplace Gossip Before It Spreads

Let's Grow Leaders

Stop Workplace Gossip from Stirring Up Conflict and Distracting Your Team I first heard this frustrating bit of workplace gossip from my wonderful, human-centered executive assistant back in my Verizon days. “I know this isn’t funny. By you have to admit it kind of is (she said with a pause, smile, and big grin). You should probably know the rumor that’s going around about you.” “Oh, do tell…” I wasn’t quite prepared for the absurdity of the work

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Three Trends That Will Transform DevOps in 2023

DevOps.com

The onset of COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation-related initiatives like cloud migration, microservices, observability and CI/CD, giving long-delayed projects the budget and staffing they needed to build momentum. After almost three years of increased investment and accelerating progress, CTOs and software development teams are navigating how to enable the improvements in time-to-market and customer experience that […] The post Three Trends That Will Transform DevOps in 2023 appea

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Sorare teams up with the Premier League for its NFT fantasy football game

TechCrunch

French startup Sorare has signed a four-year licensing partnership with the Premier League. This is an important move for the company as the English football league is one of the most-watched sports league in the world. Sorare is a fantasy sports gaming experience based on NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. In particular, Sorare has partnered with many football leagues so that it can create trading cards representing football players.

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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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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

CIO

The manufacturing industry is undergoing a renaissance, thanks in part to advances in information technology. Two IT leaders who have been on the forefront of that are Kim Mackenroth and Chris Nardecchia. Kim Mackenroth is vice president and global CIO of Textron, a Fortune 302 multi-industry company with around 33,000 employees worldwide. Her global IT organization comprises five business-segment CIOs, as well as shared services provided by the CISO, CTO, and the leader of enterprise business s

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Kubernetes Benchmark Scans with Trivy: CIS and NSA Reports

Aqua Security

One of Trivy’s core features is Trivy Kubernetes for in-cluster security scans of running workloads. This tutorial will showcase how to generate CIS and NSA reports both through the Trivy CLI and the Trivy Operator. Additionally, we will look at how users can add the Kubernetes Specification for their own Compliance Report format to expand the security audits of the Trivy Operator.

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Red Hat Brings Ansible Automation to Google Cloud

DevOps.com

Red Hat today announced that the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now available on Google Cloud to simplify the management of yet another cloud platform. Using the Ansible Automation Platform, it’s now possible for IT teams that invoke Google Cloud to access pre-integrated services such as Google Virtual Private Cloud, security groups, load balancers […] The post Red Hat Brings Ansible Automation to Google Cloud appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Crypto security startup Hypernative raises $9M to help prevent web3 cyber attacks

TechCrunch

Hypernative , a crypto security-focused startup, has raised $9 million in seed funding as it emerges from stealth, co-founder and CEO Gal Sagie exclusively told TechCrunch. The funding round was led by boldstart ventures and IBI tech fund, with strategic investments from Blockdaemon, Alchemy, Borderless, CMT Digital, Nexo and angel investors. The company was started by Sagie and Dan Caspi, who’s also Hypernative’s CTO.

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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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17 professional organizations for Black IT pros

CIO

Despite diversity being a much-discussed topic in the tech industry, representation for Black tech workers is still not where it needs to be, with African Americans holding just 7% of positions in the tech industry, and only 2% of tech executive roles, according to data from the Diversity in High Tech report published by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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Sitecore Honors Six Perficient Colleagues as MVPs in 2023

Perficient

“I’m thrilled to share that six of my colleagues have been named a Sitecore Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for 2023 in the categories of technology, strategy, and ambassador,” Brian Beckham, General Manager, said. “I’ve seen firsthand how hard these individuals have worked over the last year, not only to accelerate their own knowledge but to share their expertise with fellow colleagues at Perficient and the greater Sitecore community.

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OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot | Netflix Blocks Password Sharing

DevOps.com

In this week’s #TheLongView: ChatGPT darling OpenAI wants people to write code in English, and the unintended consequences of blocking shared accounts. The post OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot | Netflix Blocks Password Sharing appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Meet Beek, a startup bringing audiobooks to LatAm with big-name backing

TechCrunch

Growing up in Mexico City, Pamela Valdes says she was a bullied child who was inspired by stories her parents told of other bullied individuals, such as Bill Gates, who went on to be very successful. “Those stories my parents told me in a way created my reality,” she said. Valdes recognized that her upbringing was more privileged than some others in Mexico and throughout Latin America, people who — in her words — heard stories about the drug cartels in their towns.

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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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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations

CIO

As organizations of all stripes continue their migration to the cloud, they are coming face to face with sometimes perplexing cost issues, forcing them to think hard about how best to optimize workloads, what to migrate, and who exactly is responsible for what. It’s an issue that’s coming to the fore with the steady migration to the cloud. A 2022 survey of 850 IT leaders by Foundry found more than two-thirds were accelerating their cloud migration and nearly three-quarters (72%) were defaulting

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Revolutionizing the Way We Pay: The Top Payment Industry Trends You Need to Know in 2023

Perficient

Across industries, consumers are communicating the same demands; they see the thing, they want the thing, and they want it in their hands within hours, if possible. And if it’s not possible, they wonder why not since it usually is through Amazon. Because money is what makes the world go-’round, the payments industry has responded to this heightened sense of urgency from consumers to get ahold of merchandise, services, and funds seamlessly, immediately, and with little to no human interacti

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The Ultimate Guide to Hiring a DevOps Engineer

DevOps.com

The economic downturn, pandemic management challenges, supply constraints and the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war have led to layoffs in many industries. While these events also impact the technology industry, it does not necessarily have to mean disaster for DevOps professionals who find themselves looking for a new role. Tech recruiters are looking for candidates with the […] The post The Ultimate Guide to Hiring a DevOps Engineer appeared first on DevOps.com.

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