thoughtLEADERS, LLC
MARCH 9, 2022
Learn what a cross-functional team is and why they can be so rewarding to manage. Imagine an orchestra made up of nothing but trumpets. Imagine a baseball team of all catchers. Imagine a medical team that’s nothing but radiologists. Those aren’t good situations. A cross-functional team is a group of people with different functional expertise working toward a common goal.
TechCrunch
MARCH 7, 2022
Global financial transactions are facilitated mainly by payment processors such as Visa or Mastercard. They are responsible for communication between banks and fintechs to settle transactions for consumers and businesses swiftly. Africa has it different. It’s not a predominantly card continent. Telecoms and banks lead the majority of online financial transactions carried out in the region via mobile money wallets and bank accounts.
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Martin Fowler
MARCH 9, 2022
Tim Cochran and Carl Nygard finish their examination of the tech debt bottleneck by looking at how to get out of it. This includes close collaboration betwen product and engineering, a strategy for the four phases of a startup's journey, and empowering teams to fix the tech debt problems. more….
Agile Alliance
MARCH 9, 2022
In 2000 Quicken Loans was the first company to do mortgages online and launched its Rocket Mortgage product in 2016 during the Super Bowl, quickly becoming the largest mortgage originator in the US. With more than 17,000 team members and a culture of being obsessed with finding a better way, the leadership team at Quicken … Continued. The post How Rocket Mortgage Used Scaled Agile and Scrum to Dominate the Mortgage Industry first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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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.
The Crazy Programmer
MARCH 7, 2022
There has been a tremendous shift in how we watch television and read newspapers for the last years. These days many people prefer getting instant news updates online. The best part is many people are now turning to the internet as an essential source of current information. It is pretty clear, online content and news are the big business today. The question is: where does this content come from?
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Martin Fowler
MARCH 8, 2022
In its early days, a startup searches for a good product-market fit. When it finds one it looks to grow rapidly, a phase known as a scaleup. At this time it's growing rapidly along many dimensions: revenues, customer, headcount. At Thoughtworks, we've worked with many such scaleups, and our work has focused on how to help them overcome various bottlenecks that impede this growth.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 7, 2022
How I Learned the Secret to Better Results the Hard Way. Before I share this secret to getting better results, I’d like you to think back to your senior year in high school. Do you remember being really sensitive to all the “lasts?” The last big game. The last show you were in. Or, the last summer night before you and your friends all went their separate ways?
Agile Alliance
MARCH 9, 2022
Here’s the story of a once industry-leading organization that fell into the pitfalls of success: complacency, bureaucracy and aging technology. Through acquisition and merger, it was given the opportunity to be reborn itself as a nimble, agile organization. Keen to find out how a once-successful company reinvents itself through agile, so as to stay relevant … Continued.
TechCrunch
MARCH 10, 2022
100ms , the live video conferencing infrastructure startup based in India, has raised $20 million in Series A funding to power the next generation of live video apps, coming barely five months after they closed the seed round. This latest round was led by Falcon Edge’s Alpha Wave Incubation, with participation from Matrix Partners India and LocalGlobe, and existing investors Accel and Strive.vc.
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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
Martin Fowler
MARCH 10, 2022
The second bottleneck in the series looks at talent, and how scaleups struggle to hire enough good people. Tim Cochran and Roni Smith explain how the small network and informal processes that allow early stage startups to grow begin to fail during the scaleup phase, and what signs indicate a new approach is needed.
The Crazy Programmer
MARCH 11, 2022
Can a well-optimized site have an attractive design? High-quality text content, relevant keywords, competent internal linking, and backlinks from authoritative sites – all this helps to promote Internet resources. However, what about design? Many people focus on SEO optimization, forgetting that visitors come to the site, and for them, the design of the resource plays an essential role.
Agile Alliance
MARCH 9, 2022
As a Technical Lead and Systems Engineer for the Department of Defense (DoD), I took a one year career broadening assignment to be an external change agent at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) with the task of leading a change management effort within the Engineering organization. For years, the organization faced the challenge of … Continued.
TechCrunch
MARCH 8, 2022
Spotify and Discord both appear to be down. TechCrunchers and the Twittersphere alike are experiencing difficulty logging in to Spotify. Folks are reporting on Twitter that opening the Spotify app on mobile leads to a login flow, but even the correct username and password results in a failed attempt to in fact log in. The music streaming company confirmed the issue on Twitter: Something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it.
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.
Xebia
MARCH 10, 2022
Suppose you have a web application for which you would like to write browser tests using Playwright. This web application contains a login screen and after successful authentication, all functionality is loaded. This means that in order to test the application, each test requires an authenticated user. Because each test runs in isolation, each test needs to authenticate.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
MARCH 9, 2022
Ever since the pandemic hit, employers have had to fill positions without requiring candidates to go through an extensive in-person interview process. As a result, many companies have turned to virtual hiring programs as well as hackathons to reach their recruiting goals. A study found that 40% of companies use a hackathon hiring process as part of their recruitment strategies.
Agile Alliance
MARCH 8, 2022
A central benefit of doing test-first development is getting a suite of behavioral tests to regress code and support refactoring efforts. But when doing test-first development in practice, many developers write too many tests and implementation-dependent tests that break during refactoring. They spend more time rewriting tests than refactoring code.
TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
The global thirst for an up-charged pair of Yeezy’s or limited edition Jordan’s combined with a growth in a digital ecosystem is creating new opportunities, particularly in the sneaker resale market, for companies like Kicks Crew , a Los Angeles- and Hong Kong-based sneaker and apparel platform. The company just raised a $6 million Series A round, led by Gobi Partners, Pacific Century Group and Complex China, to strengthen its foothold in the U.S.
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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.
Xebia
MARCH 10, 2022
In my previous blog I wrote how embracing failure can be a viable strategy , depending on the current quality level. Before we can determine this quality level, we first need to understand what quality is and ask the question “why do we even want quality?”. . Many books have been written on the concept of quality and the Wikipedia page on quality provides the following summary: . “ Quality is a perceptual, conditional, and somewhat subjective attribute and may be understood differe
DevOps.com
MARCH 9, 2022
Let’s look at three distinct disciplines—DevOps, MLOps and DataOps. In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously proclaimed that software was “eating the world.” A little more than a decade later, it’s all but impossible to argue with his premonition as software has embedded itself into virtually every industry. But now another shift is underway and AI is gobbling […].
Aqua Security
MARCH 8, 2022
A new CVE in the Linux kernel was released this week. CVE-2022-0847, aka “Dirty Pipe”, is a vulnerability that allows users on a Linux system to overwrite the contents of files that they can read but shouldn’t be able to write to. Looking at this vulnerability from the perspective of hosts using containerization software such as Docker, it was possible to modify files from container images on the host, from inside a container — something that generally shouldn’t be possible.
TechCrunch
MARCH 7, 2022
Online mortgage lender Better.com is poised to lay off roughly 50% of its staff of about 8,000 this week, according to sources familiar with internal happenings at the company. TechCrunch first reported on February 18 that the new round of layoffs were coming. . The move comes just over three months after the New York-based startup laid off 9% of its staff — or 900 people — during a Zoom call that went viral and led to a number of top executives resigning and a flurry of bad publicit
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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.
TechBeacon
MARCH 9, 2022
Countless CIOs have told me that their software and IT teams are "doing agile," and my response is always the same: "But are you being agile?".
DevOps.com
MARCH 8, 2022
“Works on my machine!” We’ve all had that co-worker. I have had one at pretty much every company I’ve worked for. At several jobs, it devolved into a running joke. There is a belief that containers alleviate this issue. And they may—or they may simply mask the issue. The choice is up to IT. Inevitably, […]. The post DevOps and Containers appeared first on DevOps.com.
Confluent
MARCH 9, 2022
Imagine your team wants to design a data streaming architecture and you’re in charge of creating the prototype. Within a few minutes, you provision a fully managed Apache Kafka® cluster […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 7, 2022
The world over, the popularity of telemedicine spiked during the Covid pandemic, growing 78 times in April 2020, a few months after the disease struck, according to a McKinsey study. In some parts of Africa, it was a great opportunity for telemedicine to make new inroads. But in Uganda, the industry had already taken off, albeit slowly, through Rocket Health , a startup working to transform the delivery of medical care using technology.
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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.
Dzone - DevOps
MARCH 5, 2022
When are you smarter than your playbooks, and when are your playbooks smarter than you? That’s a question that engineers rarely step back to consider. The rational, disciplined parts of our minds tell us that the playbooks we are supposed to follow were carefully designed and tested and that we should stick to them at all costs.
DevOps.com
MARCH 6, 2022
Keeping an eye on the bigger picture is important when doing just about anything. This adage holds true when testing software, too. There’s no doubt that the QA testing process for software is essential. It makes sure everything is running smoothly and as it should. But generally speaking, it doesn’t always fully take into account […]. The post Why Software Usability Testing is Essential appeared first on DevOps.com.
Aqua Security
MARCH 7, 2022
The devastating events in Ukraine have already impacted millions of lives and organizations, with profound consequences extending far beyond the region. As the conflict continues to unfold, companies in the US and around the world are facing the growing risk of aggressive Russian cyberattacks. In the face of these threats, CISOs and CIOs need to ramp up their cybersecurity strategies and defenses to prepare for whatever may come next.
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