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What is the Difference between Network Architecture and Application Architecture?

The Crazy Programmer

Are you looking to set up your own IT network? When you are planning to build your network, there is a possibility you may come across two terms “Network Architecture and Application Architecture.” Although it is quite clear that both things are very important, the difference between the both is not. In today’s blog, we will look at the difference between network architecture and application architecture in complete detail.

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GitHub Copilot: A Paradigm Shift For Coding With AI

Coforge

The world of coding is about to experience a paradigm shift. A few years ago, what seemed like something from The Matrix is now a part of our everyday reality. AI assistants, once belonging only to Hollywood, have become an integral part of our technological landscape. In 1966, an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created the first chatbot. He cast it in the role of a psychotherapist.

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GenAI Engineering: A Game Changer for Growing Tech Vendors  

IDC

This blog post delves into why GenAI Engineering matters for tech vendors and startups and how it can be a cornerstone of your growth strategy.

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Announcing Durable Caching

Netlify

Netlify brings ISR to any framework by launching a new cache primitive that enables persisting a response in a global object store and serving this as a static response for any cache miss from Netlify edge CDN servers.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Workplace Communication: Stop Asking “Do You Understand?” (and do this instead)

Let's Grow Leaders

High-performing teams invest in clear workplace communication by ensuring shared understanding. When your organization or team communicates effectively, you’re nimble. You can respond to change quickly. But if your organization doesn’t invest in effective workplace communication, you’ll face a constant series of misunderstandings that waste time, create conflict, and drag down everyone’s performance.

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Funding To European Startups Rose In Q2, Exceeding Investment To Asia For The First Time

Crunchbase News

Funding to European startups rose in Q2, reaching close to $16 billion. Overall, funding was up 31% quarter over quarter and 17% year over year, based on an analysis of Crunchbase data. Both early and late-stage funding was up — with a notable increase in late-stage funding. For the first time in a decade, quarterly funding to European startups was higher than in Asia.

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Best practices for integrating AI in business: A governance approach

CIO

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has great potential to revolutionize business operations, to drive efficiency, innovation, and improved customer and employee experiences. However, integrating AI into business processes requires careful, intentional planning and robust governance to ensure ethical, legal, and effective use. As a leader in enterprise customer experience (CX), Avaya has a nuanced understanding of the link between thoughtful AI governance and its impact on CX.

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Mastering Salesforce OmniScript: A Comprehensive Guide to Streamlined Workflows

Perficient

Introduction to Salesforce OmniScript Salesforce OmniScript is a powerful tool within the Salesforce ecosystem designed to streamline and enhance the user experience through guided, interactive workflows. It is part of the Salesforce OmniStudio suite, which also includes tools like FlexCards and Integration Procedures. OmniScript allows organizations to create seamless, step-by-step processes for their users, ensuring data accuracy and process compliance.

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Millions Impacted by Breach at Advance Auto Parts Linked to Snowflake Incident

Ooda Loop

Advance Auto Parts says the personal information of 2.3 million was compromised in the Snowflake incident earlier this year.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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The Iceberg of Organizational Knowledge: How to Unlock Tacit Knowledge

QAspire

Knowledge in organizations flows “across” people and teams. Real knowledge resides in the network of people and its interactions. Everything that is found in documents, systems, process flows and tool kits is “explicit” knowledge that is useful to sustain the business and keep the “status quo”. That is the tip of the iceberg – visible and accessible.

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GenAI sticker shock sends CIOs in search of solutions

CIO

The early bills for generative AI experimentation are coming in, and many CIOs are finding them more hefty than they’d like — some with only themselves to blame. “We’re getting back into this frenetic spend mode that we saw in the early days of cloud,” observed James Greenfield, vice president of AWS Commerce Platform, at the FinOps X conference in San Diego in June.

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Elevate Your Revenue Game: N2Growth’s CRO Executive Search

N2Growth Blog

The Role of a Chief Revenue Officer The Chief Revenue Officer, or CRO, is absolutely essential for propelling business growth. They are responsible for managing and optimizing all revenue generation processes within an organization, and their decisions can significantly impact the company’s financial success. CROs oversee marketing, sales, and customer relationship teams to ensure they work together effectively.

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Three Gorges Dam Could Break: Potential for large humanitarian crisis

Ooda Loop

The iconic Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, has been under significant pressure from floods for the last several months and is reaching crisis levels.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Cybersecurity Funding Jumps 144% In Q2

Crunchbase News

Venture funding to cybersecurity startups had its best quarter since Q1 2022 — surging 144% year to year — and seemingly building off a strong start to the year. The increase in venture dollars was mainly due to a significant jump in nine-figure rounds — illustrating that even as investors may be pulling back on investing in young startups, they are willing to double down on more mature companies looking for growth rounds.

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CIOs are stretched more than ever before — and that’s a good thing

CIO

The CIO role is in a constant state of flux. What was a thorough set of roles and responsibilities a few years ago is far from adequate today, so the operationally focused CIO of the last decade isn’t the digital leader of the future, says Omer Grossman, global CIO at technology specialist CyberArk. “Some CIOs just try and keep the lights on,” he says.

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Netlify + Astro are partnering!

Netlify

Netlify announce sponsorship of Astro as their Official Deployment Partner to help fund the development of the open source project. Additionally, we’ll be announcing several new core primitives from both Netlify and Astro, aimed at making the whole web ecosystem stronger.

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Why and How to Go All-In on GitOps 

DevOps.com

When you can manage every cloud native deployment using a GitOps approach, as a consequence, declarative and automated processes become baked into your culture and transform your business.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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Latin American Startup Funding Rebounds After Deep Slide

Crunchbase News

Funding to Latin American startups rose in the second quarter, led by a resurgence in late-stage dealmaking. Altogether, companies in South and Central America raised $791 million in reported seed- through growth-stage financing in Q2 of 2024, per Crunchbase data. That’s a rise of 25% from the prior quarter and 17% from a year ago. Recent gains follow an unusually weak Q1, in which funding to the region hit a multi-year low.

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The CIO role today: Change agents need only apply

CIO

If you’re not yet an agent of change at your organization, your career as CIO may be at risk of falling behind. That’s because the majority of CIOs now see themselves as innovators and champions of change rather than technologists, according to a recent survey of people holding the job. While the drumbeat for CIOs to be strategic thinkers has been building for some time, the survey , conducted by Deloitte in February and released in June, marks a watershed moment of sorts: About 54% of CIOs now

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Transforming Customer Engagement: The CMO’s New Mandate

N2Growth Blog

With the rise of the digital revolution, the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) role has undergone significant changes. CMOs are no longer limited to traditional roles like branding and advertising. They have evolved into key strategists in the boardroom, steering the organization towards digital transformation, personalized customer experiences, and customer-centric strategies.

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Pair of Surveys Surface Primary Developer Productivity Challenges

DevOps.com

A survey of 900 developers finds well over two-thirds (69%) said developers are losing eight or more hours of their working week to inefficiencies created by, for example, technical debt, insufficient documentation and flawed build processes.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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DreamBig Latest Chip Startup To Go Big — Raises $75M 

Crunchbase News

Semiconductors are on a pretty good run right now. San Jose, California-based DreamBig Semiconductor became the second chip startup this week to raise big — locking up a $75 million equity round co-led by the Samsung Catalyst Fund and Sehat Sutardja. On Monday, Santa Clara, California-based Halo Industries , a developer of a laser manufacturing technology platform for the semiconductor industry, raised an $80 million Series B led by U.S.

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SAP security holes raise questions about the rush to AI

CIO

Cloud security firm Wiz has probed SAP defenses as part of its tenant isolation research on AI service providers, and on Wednesday published a lengthy list of shortcomings. SAP says that they fixed all of the problems before Wiz published. Most deal with either a lack of meaningful segmentation or network components trusting other components without any authentication — a violation of the basic tenet of Zero Trust.

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Secure by Design Principles Are More Important Than Ever

Ivanti

The concept of Secure by Design, which means designing software with security built in before it leaves the drawing board, is fundamentally changing how software is developed. Software has often been designed with what’s known as “bolt-on security,” added after products are developed. But that means security is not inherent within the solution. Where there's a conjunction between the core product and a bolt-on, that’s an inflection point for an attack.

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AI-Powered Solutions for Azure DevOps Pipelines

DevOps.com

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into Azure DevOps pipelines transforms the manual software development and delivery process.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Why Netlify selected Astro for its developer hub and marketing site

Netlify

Learn how Netlify decided on Astro as the preferred frontend framework to power some of its key web properties, including its marketing site and developer hub.

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Microsoft Recall: Everything IT can get wrong about AI in a single feature

CIO

AI is the new “Digital.” That is, vendors are slapping the AI label on their wares regardless of whether their wares’ capabilities warrant it, aided and abetted by the complete and utter lack of a reliable definition of AI. It’s just as they did with “Digital” a few years back. But sometimes a product deserves the AI label. That makes its description accurate, which is quite a different matter from it being a good idea.

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Sustainability-Focused Startup Equity Funding Fell In H1 2024 

Crunchbase News

Those of us who follow climate change news are used to seeing the bad tidings outweigh the good. We’re slogging through what’s shaping as the hottest summer on record. Glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. And fossil fuel consumption continues to grow. Now, here comes another grim data point: Equity funding to startups focused on cleantech and sustainability is down this year.