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Yes, We Need to Embrace Hard Work. Here’s Why

CEO Insider

In a world where we can get almost everything we need with a few taps on our smartphones, people believe that hard work has become overrated. You’ve probably heard that you should work smarter, not harder. But is this true? Is it even good advice? Back in the ‘90s, when I grew up, I knew all of […]. The post Yes, We Need to Embrace Hard Work.

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Why the next big entrepreneur must come from climate tech

TechCrunch

Peter Gajdoš. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Peter Gajdoš is a partner at Fifth Wall , where he co-leads the Climate Technology Investment team. When I started getting involved in clean tech 1.0 financing back in 2005, “climate change” was some future event. Hurricane Katrina had just happened, and many experts viewed it primarily as a failure of the government to take care of its weakest citizens in the face of a natural disaster, not as climate change’s early shot.

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Use a general purpose language to manage the interface evolution

Martin Fowler

Many commercial integration tools market their ability to own the integration landscape and call out to general purpose languages as needed. While I can appreciate the marketing behind such messaging — it promotes product penetration and lock-in — as architectural guidance, it is exactly backwards. Instead, we should almost always manage the interface evolution in a general purpose language for at least two reasons: so we can better manage the complexity of maintaining a clean inte

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Writing a new playbook for Agile2022 in Nashville

Agile Alliance

A report from the Agile2022 Program Team to the Agile community to provide some background about what was on our minds as we sat down to plan next year’s conference in Nashville. The post Writing a new playbook for Agile2022 in Nashville first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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How to Have a Better Relationship with Your Manager (with Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re looking to have a better relationship with your manager, start here. “Hi Karin, I’ve been applying a lot of the tools and techniques I’ve learned in your leadership development program, and I’m getting some nice momentum. And, now I’m wondering do you think any of these techniques could work in building a better relationship with my boss?

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Team-sourced Architectural Principles

Martin Fowler

Having architectural principles is not new, but in a world of highly-autonomous-teams they become essential because they are the means by which an aligned delivery direction is achieved without the need for control. In the latest installment , Andrew talks about what makes a good principle, and how they work with the Advice Process. more….

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AWS Outage Exposes Weaknesses of DevOps Resilience

DevOps.com

The December 7, 2021 Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage severely disrupted services from a wide range of businesses for more than five hours and highlighted just how reliant businesses have become on internet-delivered services. The outage mostly impacted web services in the eastern U.S., yet the implications are universal: It’s a reminder that many businesses […].

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Appreciative Inquiry with Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres

Let's Grow Leaders

Conversations are the soul of leadership. We all know that conversations influence us, but we rarely stop to think about how much impact they have on our well-being and our ability to thrive. The art of Appreciative Inquiry gives you the ability to have conversations that truly matter, build better relationships, and achieve more together. In this episode, Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres give you 2 practices and 5 principles to create great conversations.

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Use radical objectivity to create and retain an inclusive workforce

TechCrunch

James Nash. Contributor. Share on Twitter. James Nash is CEO and founder of inbeta , a tech-enabled talent specialist using data, social listening and human science to help corporations overcome bias. Today, the age of corporate social justice is dawning. With the business case for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) now more vital than ever, we’re beginning to see organizations truly embrace social activism.

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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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Use commercial integration tools to simplify implementation concerns

Martin Fowler

Thus far, Brandon has has explained why general purpose languages are better for integration. In this latest installment he explains that there are cases when commercial integration tools make sense. more….

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Kubernetes Version 1.23: What’s New for Security? 

Aqua Security

Like clockwork, a new Kubernetes release is upon us, with loads of interesting new features to consider. A couple of the key features in Kubernetes 1.23 are hitting the beta level and will be enabled by default. In this post, we’ll explain what they mean for security, both in terms of improving cluster security and what you need to account for as new clusters are rolled out with this version.

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Diversity Hiring Best Practices: Video with Arthur Woods

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t Miss This Important Opportunity for Diversity Hiring. I’m having to do so much hiring because of the great resignation. I don’t want to miss the opportunity to do it right. What are some diversity hiring best practices? #AskingforaFriend? . Diversity hiring goes beyond checking boxes and percentages. It means looking at processes, language, and consideration of people of all kinds of varied backgrounds.

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Web creator Tim Berners-Lee’s startup Inrupt raises $30 million

TechCrunch

Tim Berners-Lee’s startup, Inrupt, has raised about $30 million in its Series A financing round, a source familiar with the matter said. Forte Ventures led Inrupt’s new round, the two said Thursday, but both declined to disclose the size of the deal. The round saw participation from “all existing investors,” including Akamai Technologies and Glasswing Ventures, as well as new investors Allstate and the Minderoo Foundation’s Frontier Technology Initiative.

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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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Red Hat Brings Ansible Automation to Microsoft Azure Cloud

DevOps.com

Red Hat this week announced that a private preview of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now available on the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Tom Anderson, vice president of Red Hat Ansible automation, said making the Red Hat instance of the open source automation framework available on Azure is the first step toward making it […]. The post Red Hat Brings Ansible Automation to Microsoft Azure Cloud appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Driving digital transformation with Configuration Lifecycle Management

CEO Insider

The manufacturing industry is facing digital disruption on numerous fronts – and this is driving digital transformation. Increasing competition and changing demands means the pressure is on organizations to reduce costs, improve customer experience and increase profitability. All of this means that organizations must rethink how products are designed, manufactured and sold.

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Presenting to Executives: How to Have More Confidence

Let's Grow Leaders

When presenting to executives, don’t forget what makes you an expert. You’ve been working hard, and the project is totally on track. And now, the executive team wants an update. It’s natural to feel nervous. But, if you stumble through the presentation, you’ll likely end up with a pile of action items just to prove the project is in good hands.

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Stacked raises $35M to bring passive investing tools to retail crypto traders

TechCrunch

Stacked , a web-based platform that provides passive investment tools for retail investors interested in crypto, just announced it raised a $35 million Series A co-led by Alameda Research , a crypto trading firm owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda. Fidelity International Strategic Ventures , DRW Venture Capital , Alumni Ventures , and Jump Capital also participated. .

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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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CI/CD is Still all About Open Source

DevOps.com

One of the lessons I’ve learned in my years at the helm of DevOps.com is that the heart of DevOps is CI/CD. And at the heart of CI/CD is open source. While the names have been changed to protect the innocent (and the obsolete), these lessons are as true today as they ever were. CI/CD […]. The post CI/CD is Still all About Open Source appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CVE-2021-44228: Proof-of-Concept for Critical Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Available (Log4Shell)

Tenable

CVE-2021-44228: Proof-of-Concept for Critical Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Available (Log4Shell). Satnam Narang. Fri, 12/10/2021 - 15:44. Critical vulnerability in the popular logging library, Log4j 2, impacts a number of services and applications, including Minecraft, Steam and Apple iCloud. Attackers have begun actively scanning for and attempting to exploit the flaw.

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The double extortion business: Conti Ransomware Gang finds new avenues of negotiation

Darktrace

By constantly shifting tactics, the Conti Ransomware Gang have maintained one of the largest stakes in the increasingly profitable ransomware industry. Discover how Darktrace was able to detect one of their crippling double extortion attacks at its earliest stages.

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3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022

TechCrunch

Jonathan Metrick. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jonathan Metrick is the chief growth officer at Sagard & Portage Ventures , where he helps build some of the world's leading fintech companies. More posts by this contributor. Use cohort analysis to drive smarter startup growth. Simon Lejeune. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Simon Lejeune leads user acquisition at Wealthsimple, the largest fintech in Canada.

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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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5 Ways Low-Code Accelerates Digital Transformation

DevOps.com

Organizations traditionally have struggled with build-versus-buy decisions when digitizing their internal operations and processes. While the build option offered the benefit of using internal teams or outsourcing to external vendors who could satisfy requirements, the downsides are a long wait, higher costs and the constant change and maintenance applications require.

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22 Software Development Trends for 2022

Dzone - DevOps

Believe it or not, the year 2022 is right around the corner! So what does next year have in store for the rapidly changing, ever-evolving software world? From code reviews to DevOps, software testing, and tech companies’ culture, here are 22 software development trends for 2022. 1 – A Rise of Automated Code Reviews. Tech companies increasingly see a well-defined code review process as a fundamental part of the software development process.

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700K more cybersecurity workers, but still a talent shortage

TechBeacon

For the second year in a row, the global shortage of cybersecurity workers has eased, but it's still not time to celebrate, much less relax.

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Coinbase Ventures backs cross-chain infra Router Protocol

TechCrunch

A startup that has built a decentralized exchange as well as a cross-chain infrastructure to facilitate communication across layer 1 and layer 2 blockchain solutions is the latest to receive backing from Coinbase Ventures. Singapore-headquartered Router Protocol said on Friday it has raised $4.1 million in a strategic funding round from Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research, Polygon, Woodstock, Wami Capital, QCP, De-Fi Capital, Maple Block, TeraSurge Capital, Wintermute and Shima Capital, as well

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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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Iterative Adds Experiment Versioning to MLOps Platform

DevOps.com

Iterative today added an experiment versioning capability to an open source platform for managing machine learning operations (MLOps) using GitOps workflows. Dmitry Petrov, Iterative CEO, said the latest version of the Data Versioning Control (DVC) platform makes it simpler to save, compare and reproduce machine learning (ML) experiments at scale without requiring organizations to set […].

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Role of TechOps, DevOps, and NoOps in the SDLC

Dzone - DevOps

The process of product development and software deployment has continually evolved to meet the requirements for speed (increasing demand) and for scalability, and enhanced efficiency (quality of product). Tech companies must constantly learn, unlearn, and adapt to meet changing demands to bring a viable product to market as quickly as possible. Previously, IT departments appeared to be centralized teams, but recently, popular operational concepts have been initiated on organizing your IT teams t

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Serverless Stream Processing with Apache Kafka, AWS Lambda, and ksqlDB

Confluent

It seems like now more than ever developers are surrounded by a sea of terminology—but what does it really all mean? Here, we will take some often heard terms—some considered […].

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