Sat.Dec 24, 2022 - Fri.Dec 30, 2022

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Scope 3 is coming: CIOs take note

CIO

Even though sustainability can be an amorphous organizational pursuit, it’s becoming more of an urgent priority all industries must clearly define. Whether that’s through internally motivated ESG efforts or imposed regulations, CIOs, in particular, find themselves increasingly central figures in sustainability initiatives. And scope 3 reporting—an account of carbon emissions across the supply chain to build equipment, provide professional expertise, or deliver a subscription service—may be the m

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Redefining ‘founder-friendly’ capital in the post-FTX era

TechCrunch

Blair Silverberg. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital , a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. More posts by this contributor. The right questions to ask investors when fundraising in a down market. 8 steps for building a financial model to calculate your fundraising needs.

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ASCII vs UNICODE – Difference Between Both

The Crazy Programmer

Unicode and ASCII are now the two-character encoding systems that are most extensively used worldwide. We can process, share and store text in any language through unicode encoding, as opposed to ASCII, which is used to represent text in computers as symbols, characters, and numbers. What is ASCII? American Standard Code for Information Interchange is referred to as ASCII.

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How to manage AWS Transfer Server host keys with CloudFormation

Xebia

The AWS Transfer Server provides a SFTP as a service. If you want to migrate from an existing SFTP server, you can add your own host keys. Unfortunately, host keys are not supported with Cloudformation. This custom provider add host keys and allows you to define the set of active keys of the server. Add transfer server host key To add a Transfer Server host key in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax: TransferServerHostKey: Type: Custom::TransferServerHostKey Properties: Se

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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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The platform that allows Royal Opera House CTO to stream events into homes

CIO

Covid-19 had an instant impact on London’s West End, and the Royal Opera House (ROH) was no exception. In March 2020, the company took the decision to close the building in Covent Garden and approximately 163 shows were cancelled in the first year of the pandemic. So when James Whitebread joined in June 2021, he could’ve been forgiven for wondering what kind of future lay ahead.

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How to Control CSS Animations with JavaScript

David Walsh

When it comes to animations on the web, developers need to measure the animation’s requirements with the right technology — CSS or JavaScript. Many animations are manageable with CSS but JavaScript will always provide more control. With document.getAnimations , however, you can use JavaScript to manage CSS animations! The document.getAnimations method returns an array of CSSAnimation objects.

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How to export Sql Server tables to Cloud Storage

Xebia

Recently I needed to export table data from a Sql Server backup. Since Cloud Sql for Sql Server has no feature for this, this blog shows how to export tables using a Cloud Build job. Understanding The Extraction Job The export process takes a Sql Server backup (BAK-file), restores the backup and queries the database to export all table data. The table data, finally, is copied to Cloud Storage for further usage.

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The Best Leadership Articles of 2022 (according to you)

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. Every year, we count down the best leadership articles of the year, according to your reading and sharing. Thanks so much for being a part of our human-centered leadership development community and for all you do to encourage courage! We would love to hear from you in the comments. Which leadership article resonated most with you and why?

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Daily Crunch: 2 weeks after extended system failure, Alibaba CEO takes over company’s cloud division

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. We’re almost there, folks. It’s the last Thursday of 2022, and today we have some news for you out of Alibaba and Spotify, as well as some crypto news out of India. And as always, we give you some goodness from TC+, our premium membership program.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Detecting Fonts Ready

David Walsh

Knowing when resources are loaded is a key part of building functional, elegant websites. We’re used to using the DOMContentLoaded event (commonly referred to as “domready”) but did you know there’s an event that tells you when all fonts have loaded? Let’s learn how to use document.fonts ! The document.fonts object features a ready property which is a Promise representing if fonts have been loaded: // Await all fonts being loaded await document.fonts.ready; // Now d

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Best of…: Best of 2022: Special Validation

The Daily WTF

Ah, password validation, how can that possibly go wrong? Original -- Remy. Ah, routers. The one piece of networking hardware that seems inescapable; even the most tech-illiterate among us needs to interface with their router at least once, to set up their home network so they can access the internet. Router technology has changed a lot over the years, including how you interface with the admin portal: instead of having to navigate to a specific IP address, some of them have you navigate to a URL

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How Tracking Kubernetes Costs Over Time Reveals Important Context

CloudZero

Your company may receive a monthly bill that includes the storage, network, and compute used to run Kubernetes applications. At this point, you can see how much you’ve spent on Kubernetes as a whole.

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5 promising fusion startups that aren’t unicorns — yet

TechCrunch

The biggest news last week wasn’t another of Elon Musk’s Twitter tantrums, but the announcement that scientists had finally cracked one of fusion power’s biggest challenges — successfully getting more energy out of a controlled fusion reaction than they had put in. Fusion power, which has always seemed like science fiction and just about as plausible, suddenly took a very tangible step toward reality.

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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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JavaScript print Events

David Walsh

Media queries provide a great way to programmatically change behavior depending on viewing state. We can target styles to device, pixel ratio, screen size, and even print. That said, it’s also nice to have JavaScript events that also allow us to change behavior. Did you know you’re provided events both before and after printing? I’ve always used @media print in stylesheets to control print display, but JavaScript provides beforeprint and afterprint events: function toggleImages

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Best of…: Best of 2022: Crappy Wiring

The Daily WTF

The Daily WTF would like to take this chance to remind you: wash your hands. Original. -- Remy. Ellen had just finished washing her hands when her phone buzzed. It vibrated itself off the sink, so there was a clumsy moment when it clattered to the restroom floor, and Ellen tried to pick it up with wet hands. After retrieving it and having another round of hand washing, Ellen read the alert: the UPS was in overload.

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Websocket beginner guide

InnovationM

What is WebSocket? WebSocket provides a way to exchange data between the browser and server via a persistent connection. The data can be passed in both directions as “packets”, without breaking the connection and the need for additional HTTP requests. Where can we use WebSocket? we use WebSocket where we need real-time data sharing i.e. online trading platforms, games, and social media platforms.

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Is Instacart a forerunner of bad news?

TechCrunch

As much as we like to end the year with some good news , what we are hearing from grocery delivery company Instacart is not exactly that. According to The Information , citing “two people familiar with the situation,” Instacart has cut its internal valuation to around $10 billion. That’s 20% lower than its October 2022 valuation — and a 75% cut compared to its March 2021 peak.

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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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Document.elementFromPoint

David Walsh

Reacting to events with JavaScript is the foundation of a dynamic experiences on the web. Whether it’s a click event or another typical action, responding to that action is important. We started with assigning events to specific elements, then moved to event delegation for efficiency, but did you know you can identify elements by position on the page?

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Best of…: Best of 2022: Padded Mailers

The Daily WTF

Managing whitespace is one of those things that feels harder than it should be. It gets even harder when you do it wrong… Original. -- Remy. Veteran developer and frequent contributor, Argle , once worked for a company which handled shipping. On April 3rd, 1988, a C function which used to work stopped working. What's so special about April 3rd of that year?

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When you or someone on your team gets sick, how do you approach the situation?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: When you or someone on your team gets sick, how do you approach the situation? Stay home, stop working and only focus on getting well 31.81%. Stay home but stay in touch on major deliverables 29.69%. Stay home and keep current on as much work as you can 30.03%. Power through and go to work for important tasks 3.88%. Power through, take medicine and get back to work 4.59%.

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The rise of platform engineering, an opportunity for startups

TechCrunch

More than half of professional developers have CI/CD, DevOps and automated testing tools and services available at their organization, Stack Overflow’s 2022 developer survey uncovered. However, Stack Overflow noted, only 38% of the 34,906 respondents reported having a developer portal to make it easy to find tools and services. Similarly, data observability tools are only available to a minority of developers.

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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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Top 10 Reasons Service Mapping Can Accelerate your IT Service Management Capabilities

Ivanti

Service mapping is an essential tool for IT service management, as it allows you to gain a clear and comprehensive understanding of the various components and dependencies that make up their IT services. Service mapping focuses on discovering data center devices, infrastructure, application dependencies and the corresponding relationships. This enables your organization to manage and optimize their IT operations, improve service delivery and more effectively reduce disruptions and outages risk.

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12+ Kubernetes Labels Best Practices To Apply ASAP In 2023

CloudZero

Scalability is one of the main reasons for using Kubernetes. Yet, scaling Kubernetes systems can reduce visibility into critical components. To overcome this, you have to organize your Kubernetes resources in a way that helps you find and track them more easily.

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Partner-to-Partner: Delivering Managed Services Without Overhead Cost

Palo Alto Networks

Due to staffing shortages, skill gaps and compliance concerns, more customers are moving to a managed services model to achieve their business needs. To meet this changing model, more partners are looking to deliver managed outcomes to their customers. However, creating a managed service practice can be a costly investment for partners. Partners need to ensure they have the right systems, processes and technology in place to create and scale their Security Operations Center (SOC).

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How to spin up an investing network from scratch as a first-time founder

TechCrunch

Building an investor network from scratch sounds daunting. This is true particularly if, like many founders, you don’t happen to be part of a social or economic circle where striking up early conversations with potential investors is a no-brainer. We recently sat down with three VCs who have also been founders to talk about different ways founders can approach this problem, how to land that first term sheet and what that term sheet should contain.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

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

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How to Wean Squeaky Wheels on Your Team

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

The key to weaning squeaky wheels is to boost their confidence and make them more independent. Your high-cost producers are in the upper-left corner of the leadership matrix. They deliver great results, but they consume a lot of your time and energy. The squeaky wheel is the epitome of a high-cost producer. They need to be weaned off of taking up all of your time.

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Detect Browser Bars Visibility with JavaScript

David Walsh

It’s one thing to know about what’s in the browser document, it’s another to have insight as to the user’s browser itself. We’ve gotten past detecting which browser the user is using, and we’re now into knowing what pieces of the browser UI users are seeing. Browsers provide window.personalbar , window.locationbar , and window.menubar properties, with the shape of { visible : /*boolean*/} as its value: if(window.personalbar.visible || window.locationbar.visibl

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Is Your Oracle EBS Ready for DevSecOps?

Flexagon

Businesses everywhere are modernizing through digital transformation. Upgrades bring faster services and new features, increasing the need to introduce innovation earlier in the development process. However, this transition can be difficult for organizations running Oracle EBS. So, are you ready for new approaches to DevSecOps? Adopting DevSecOps in Oracle EBS is quite feasible if you use the right technology.

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