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3 Important Lessons When Supervising DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

The cultural philosophy of DevOps requires a paradigm shift in thinking, not just technological processes. The main goal of all the practices that we will look at is to break down the barriers between the development department, managers, and engineers since they usually exist in isolation. This approach previously helped to clearly distribute tasks between groups of performers but excluded interaction as a key factor in high productivity and flexibility.

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Culture, purpose and pay will stem The Great Resignation

CEO Insider

Leaders might feel superhuman powers are needed to retain their employees in 2022, as The Great Resignation rages on. However, my view is that stemming the tide of talent defections is within relatively easy reach for we mere mortal CEOs, so long as our organisations’ values, HR policies and management styles are calibrated in the […]. The post Culture, purpose and pay will stem The Great Resignation appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Working on a product nobody seems to want

Agile Alliance

This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people in becoming more Agile. We have seen Agile transformations being disrupted by the false belief that lacking a specified customer hinders your ability to use an Agile approach. With its explicit mention … Continued.

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Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans

TechCrunch

The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This figure is larger than the 4% average for other careers. One would be out of touch with reality to say they haven’t noticed this phenomenon in Lagos, Africa’s startup capital city, where mid to senior-level engineers are leaving in droves to seek better pay and opportunities in companies outside Africa.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Find out what infrastructure platform customers need

Martin Fowler

Poppy Rowse and Chris Shepherd. continue their advice on building infrastructure platforms by discussing techniques to discover what platform users need and stress the importance of finding the Shortest Path to Value by onboarding them quickly. more….

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Appreciation for the Agile Manifesto and the 17 co-authors

Agile Alliance

A look back in appreciation at the Agile Manifesto's creation 20 years ago in Snowbird, Utah and people who created it. The post Appreciation for the Agile Manifesto and the 17 co-authors first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Fintech Roundup: Better.com workers leaving in ‘droves’ in wake of CEO Vishal Garg’s return

TechCrunch

Welcome to my new weekly fintech-focused column. It’s an incredible time to be a financial technology journalist. Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the many ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. While this pandemic has sucked on 100 different levels, one good thing to have come out of it is that consumers and businesses have forced more fintech to exist, and that’s a good

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Leading Through Rapidly Changing Priorities

Let's Grow Leaders

Help your team master rapidly changing priorities with skillful preparation. Rapidly changing priorities can demoralize and frustrate your team if you’re not prepared to help them navigate the shifting landscape. Effective leaders prepare their teams for changing priorities, create structures to help the team shift, and advocate for their team to ensure their work is meaningful.

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Why Do Organizations Need DevOps? Picking the Right Tool - Kovair Blog

Kovair - DevOps

Get information on - Why Do Organizations Need DevOps? Picking the Right Tool , follow Kovair Blog for letest information and updates on software development and information technology.

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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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Article: Managing Technical Debt in a Microservice Architecture

InfoQ Culture Methods

At QCon Plus, Glenn Engstrand described how Optum Digital engineering devised a method for reliably and predictably paying down tech debt for hundreds of microservices, forming relevant communities and identifying high-risk areas. The communities' collective decisions can be compiled into an actionable roadmap and presented to product managers in a systemic and non-confrontational way.

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Fintech outperformed the market in 2021, and it’s set to do even better

TechCrunch

Dana Stalder. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners. The former commercial chief (Product, Sales and Marketing) at PayPal, he now leads fintech investing at Matrix Partners, where he also invests in consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. More posts by this contributor. The next generation of global payments: Afterpay + Square.

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What Do Highly Successful Virtual Teams Do Differently? (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

The Best Hybrid and Virtual Teams Work on. Connection, Communication, and Stay Curious About New Ways of Working. The best hybrid and virtual teams don’t leave connection and communication to chance. They’re consistently asking “how can we do this better?” They spend time communicating about how they communicate AND make an extra effort to build psychological safety , trust and connection.

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How IoT Impacts The Finance Sector

Daffodil Software

The various applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) have helped companies across the board to automate processes and improve their bottom line. This technology is doing wonders for the finance sector in improving service delivery, making customer transactions more transparent, and making the overall process of money exchange more efficient.

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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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A Deeper Meaning: Topic Modeling in Python

Toptal

Colloquial language doesn’t lend itself to computation. That’s where natural language processing steps in. Learn how topic modeling helps computers understand human speech.

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The truth about management in Silicon Valley: It doesn’t exist

TechCrunch

George Arison. Contributor. Share on Twitter. George Arison is the co-founder and CEO of online used car marketplace Shift. More posts by this contributor. Shift’s George Arison shares 6 tips for taking your company public via a SPAC. If you’re waiting for a self-driving car revolution, keep waiting. The tech industry is home to some of the world’s greatest innovators, most profitable and valuable companies, and incredible startup success stories.

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How Do I Help My Team Make the Most of Failure? (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Be More Wrong: How to Grow From Failure. As a leader, how should you encourage your team to take risks and make the most of mistakes and failure? In this Asking For a Friend episode, Karin welcomes Colin Hunter, author of B e More Wrong , to discuss the journey of failure and growth. How to Grow From Failure (Highlights). Source of Strength. 1:19 Colin shares about his father’s passing and how celebrating his life was actually a source of strength for him, and refers to the experience of f

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JavaScript Class Privates

David Walsh

One of my aspects of JavaScript that drew me to it as a young developers was that its syntax was loose and I could code quickly. As you gain experience as an engineer, you start to realize that some traditional coding structure is a good thing, even if it slows you down. Using Jest or TypeScript to add typing to your JavaScript can save you from maintenance headaches and unexpected errors, for example.

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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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Your cloud migration is complete. Now what?

TechBeacon

Over the past two years, as they tried to survive the pandemic, enterprises were hyper-focused on cost reduction and finding new revenue streams. With a "lift and shift" approach, they cut costs by transitioning applications and technologies to the cloud, and to generate and sustain new revenue streams, they built APIs. These were fast-paced projects, executed out of necessity.

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Lessons from a fintech founder: Solving for C by going B2B

TechCrunch

Jason Wenk. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jason Wenk is CEO and founder of Altruist. Fintech founders that set out to solve big problems for consumers almost always begin with the best intentions — they want to help people. But they often miss that mark by a country mile, which spurs questions about how effective other fintech founders can be at helping consumers.

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Leading a More Resourceful Team

Let's Grow Leaders

During times of stress and change, when you most need a resourceful team, it’s easy to clampdown, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow your team down. In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” It’s tough for teams to be quick and clever in those circumstances.

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RBAC Virtual Verbs: Teaching Kubernetes to Educate Dolphins

Aqua Security

Kubernetes’ role-based access control (RBAC) system is a cornerstone of cluster security. Most clusters use RBAC to determine which users have access to specific operations, and its core elements are well covered in the Kubernetes documentation. However, there are some less well-known features that could be relevant when creating or using tools designed to ensure cluster security.

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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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Taking a DevSecOps Approach to API Security

DevOps.com

An application programming interface (API) is a data transfer approach that enables services within an application to talk to other applications (or other services within a system). Essentially, it enables Service A to talk to Service B in a uniform way. Companies benefit from APIs on a daily basis without even thinking about them. APIs […]. The post Taking a DevSecOps Approach to API Security appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Amira Yahyaoui wants Mos to be a ‘radical’ fintech startup

TechCrunch

Human rights activist and Mos founder Amira Yahyaoui couldn’t afford to go to college, so when she first launched a platform to connect students to scholarships, the innovation felt full circle. Since its 2017 inception, Mos has opened access to a pool of over $160 billion in financial aid to the more than 400,000 students within its community. Now, hoping to tear down yet another financial barrier that she herself faced, Yahyaoui is expanding Mos into a challenger bank.

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Easy Asset Access with the Cloudinary Media Library Browser Extension

David Walsh

Readers of my blog will know that I’ve been banging the Cloudinary drum for years. Their awesome media capabilities allow users to optimally deliver images, video, and audio in any format and to any device. Performance, customization, flexibility, optimized delivery… Cloudinary makes media better for everyone. Another aspect of Cloudinary that I like?

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Common Lies About Leadership: The Hard Truth

CEO Insider

A dear friend and business owner recently sent me a blog defining core leadership skills. While the blog had some useful distinctions that I found smart and interesting, it also included some traits that are not, in fact, essential to effective leadership. They are actually personality traits that, to an American sensibility, determine good character […].

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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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Linux Foundation Survey Sees Rise in SBOM Use

DevOps.com

A global survey of 412 organizations published today by the Linux Foundation found nearly half of respondents (47%) producing or consuming software bills of material (SBOMs), and more than three-quarters said they expected to produce or consume them in 2022. SBOMs have become a bigger area of focus in the wake of a series of […]. The post Linux Foundation Survey Sees Rise in SBOM Use appeared first on DevOps.com.

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With a plan to decarbonize home heating with hydrogen, Modern Electron raises $30M

TechCrunch

A huge amount of energy use on our planet goes toward creating heat, and not only that, but a large amount of that energy is wasted and byproducts like CO2 blasted into the atmosphere. Modern Electron could change that with a new system that captures the emissions and produces clean hydrogen, right inside a home or building. $30 million in Series B funding will power its upcoming push to become a household name.

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Never Applied for a Grant? Here's What You Need to Know

TechSoup

Maybe you've just started a nonprofit, either on your own or with a small team. Perhaps your experience comes from an activism or for-profit business field, and you've got a groundbreaking idea, but no experience in fundraising. Or maybe you're stepping into your first fundraising job, and you're struggling to know where to start. Whether you're working alone or as part of a larger organization, your first grant is probably your hardest.

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