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DevOps Security: Your Complete Checklist

DevOps.com

In a fast-paced environment like DevOps, your security strategy needs to be even more agile. While moving fast is great for delivering application features and functionality, speed shouldn’t come at the cost of security. DevOps security incorporates security strategies directly into your DevOps pipeline, creating a culture of pre-secured software deployments that work seamlessly for […] The post DevOps Security: Your Complete Checklist appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Now In Tech: AI, Assessments, And The Great Over-Correction

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

If you are craving some stability and have had enough adventures, then you are definitely not alone. Over the last 3 years, I’ve had enough of rollercoaster rides – metaphorically and literally. Seeing the post-COVID hiring frenzy descend into chaos has not been easy for me or others in the recruiting community. With tech companies laying off more employees in Q1 ’23 (more than the entire 2022), good news has been hard to come by.

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Low Code vs. Traditional Development: A Comprehensive Comparison

Dzone - DevOps

Low code development has gained significant momentum in recent years as a trend in software development. According to MarketsandMarkets , the low code development market is expected to achieve a substantial growth rate of 28.1% and reach a value of $45.5 billion by 2025. This significant growth demonstrates the growing demand and adoption of low-code platforms across various industries and businesses of all sizes.

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Navigate Workplace Conflict: 3 Powerful Phrases to Foster Better Connection

Let's Grow Leaders

Recognize the Humanity in Others as You Navigate Workplace Conflict To effectively navigate workplace conflict, prioritize connecting with the human at the center of it all. Begin by acknowledging the situation and expressing your optimism about finding a resolution collaboratively. Consider using these impactful phrases to start a conversation focused on empathy and understanding as you navigate workplace disagreements. 1.

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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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Kora: The Cloud Native Engine for Apache Kafka

Confluent

Take a tour of the internals of Confluent’s Apache Kafka® service, powered by Kora: the next-generation, cloud-native streaming engine.Kora.

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How to help engineers make time for on-the-job training

Gitprime

Lack of time is technologists' biggest barrier to upskilling. Here's how you can help your engineers make time for on-the-job training.

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SAP takes steps toward ‘green ledger’ for carbon accounting

CIO

SAP wants to give new meaning to the resources in enterprise resource planning, going beyond the boundaries of the enterprise and accounting for its impact on the whole planet. The software provider plans to do that by enhancing existing tools for estimating greenhouse gas emissions due to an enterprise’s activities, and adding capabilities for exchanging that data with partners, bringing it all together in a “green ledger” that will record the climate cost of doing business alongside the financ

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Youth mental health startup Somethings launches with a $3.2M raise led by General Catalyst

TechCrunch

When he was 10 years old, Patrick Gilligan’s childhood struggle with food began. Placed on a caloric-restrictive diet by a doctor, the regime left him feeling ashamed and alone and triggered what would become a more than decade-long eating disorder. “I still look back on all the time that I spent as a teen, crushed by stigma and afraid to talk about mental health with my friends and family,” says the Stanford grad.

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Emacs xref stopped working on Macs with dumb-jump

Martin Fowler

Recently I found that xref in Emacs had stopped working for me on my mac laptop. Today I finally tried to figure out what went wrong. xref is just a front-end, all the work is done by backends. It took a while for me to realize (ie remember) that I was using the excellent dumb-jump package as the backend. dumb-jump uses a range of fast search commands (such as ag and ripgrep) to detect references without using the awkward tags tables that Emacs used to rely on.

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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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Ted Nelson Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Theodor Holm Tedson aka Ted Nelson was born on June 17, 1937, in Chicago Illinois, United States. He is a cyber philosopher, computer scientist, and IT specialist. Name Theodor Holm Tedson Father Ralphan Nelson Mother Celeste Holm Birth Date June 17, 1937 Birth Place Chicago Illinois, United States Awards Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award Known For Hypertext Early Life Ted’s parents are responsible for his productive and creative work.

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Generative AI & data: Potential in cybersecurity if the risks can be curtailed

CIO

Artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023 feels a bit like déjà vu to me. Back in 2001, as I was just entering the venture industry, I remember the typical VC reaction to a start-up pitch was, “Can’t Microsoft replicate your product with 20 people and a few months of effort, given the resources they have?” Today, any time a new company is pitching its product that uses AI to do ‘X,’ the VC industry asks, “Can’t ChatGPT do that?

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5 ways SaaS companies can level up their product-led growth

TechCrunch

Christian Owens Contributor Share on Twitter Christian Owens is executive chairman and co-founder of Paddle , a payments infrastructure provider for SaaS businesses. More posts by this contributor 3 growth levers every SaaS founder should know about Following the valuation collapse of the last 12 months, the phrase “efficient growth” is reverberating around SaaS boardrooms worldwide.

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Expanding the Word Diversity to Be More Inclusive

N2Growth Blog

In the past several years, executive search firm KPIs relied heavily on efforts made in the areas of diversity , equity, and inclusion (DEI), but we have been making progress in the wrong way, and this isn’t what you are expecting. Of course, we should be monitoring success in these areas, but the DEI efforts I am suggesting we track should be more inclusive rather than just the small representation of DEI we see being reported.

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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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What’s the Difference Between DevOps and Platform Engineering?

DevOps.com

The DevOps space is buzzing with a new trend—platform engineering. Platform engineering has been gaining steam over the last few years but has really peaked in interest lately. In fact, according to a study conducted by Puppet Labs, 51% of organizations have adopted platform engineering or plan to do so in the next year. But […] The post What’s the Difference Between DevOps and Platform Engineering?

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO

Looking for your next read? Why not pick up a book that will inspire you to be a more effective leader, help you spot challenges and pitfalls in your IT strategies and processes, or prepare for the future of information technology? I asked CIOs and other high-level IT leaders to recommend books that have impacted their career, whether that has meant inspiring them to be better leaders or helping them navigate a particular challenge.

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Fintech startup Brex was among the bidders for SVB’s early-stage and growth portfolios

TechCrunch

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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Leading with Experiential Intelligence with Soren Kaplan

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you wondered how your past experiences affect your present success and future opportunities? Experiential Intelligence— the mindsets and abilities gained from your personal and professional life experiences– helps uncover just that. While you can’t change what’s happened to you or how you’ve responded to it, within your unique stories are hidden strengths waiting to be discovered.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Nobl9 Adds Tools to Make SLO Queries More Efficient

DevOps.com

At its SLOconf event today, Nobl9 added a Query Tester tool that validates whether queries made against the data its service level objectives (SLO) management platform collects will deliver meaningful results. Nobl9’s SLO management platform collects data in real-time from data sources such as New Relic, Datadog and Dynatrace to help customers meet SLOs.

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SAP to add generative AI, industry smarts to CX tools

CIO

Every software developer is looking at how to incorporate generative AI in its products, even SAP. The ERP vendor, which turned 50 last year , is developing a companion app for its software, to be called SAP Digital Assistant, which will use generative AI to help SAP users provide a better experience to their customers. SAP is also looking to improve its customer experience tools in other ways, providing industry-specific accelerators to help some enterprises roll the software out faster, and he

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All hail the Unicorn Kingdom?

TechCrunch

W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, I look into three topics that don’t have to be an “either/or” situation: France or the U.K.; product-led or sales-led; psychedelics medicine or traditional health care. — Anna Cool or cringe?

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Who Is Going to Regulate AI?

Harvard Business Review

As the world reckons with the impact of powerful new AI systems, governments are jostling to lead the regulatory charge — and shape how this technology will grow.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Infrastructure-as-Code Pitfalls in Platform Engineering

DevOps.com

In the context of cloud operations, the last decade was ruled by DevOps and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). But what is true DevOps? Is it developers running their own operations? Is it operators learning development skills to automate infrastructure provisioning using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform? Though DevOps is widely understood to incorporate both of these, software […] The post Infrastructure-as-Code Pitfalls in Platform Engineering appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Examining the fallout of APAC tech skills shortages

CIO

Recent research from IDC report Enterprise Automation to Mitigate the Digital Skills Shortage found that up to 80% of organizations in the APAC region, excluding Japan, find it difficult or extremely difficult to fill vacancies in IT roles. Some of the hardest roles to fill include security, and development and data professionals. The report also shows that when organizations are able to fill these roles, it’s taking them three to four months longer than it did a year ago.

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Deal Dive: AI relationship coach Amorai offers more questions than answers

TechCrunch

Building and maintaining relationships is hard, and COVID-19 definitely didn’t help. Multiple studies have shown that adults have gotten even more lonely since the start of the pandemic. Founders are trying to find tech solutions. There are many startups looking to combat loneliness — some formed years before the pandemic — including senior-focused ElliQ and Replika , which creates an AI companion, and Infection AI’ s Pi, an emotional support bot.

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Philosophy’s Role in Enhancing Human Decision-Making in an AI-Driven World

CEO Insider

In a world where artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly present in decision-making, it is vital to recognize its limitations. AI algorithms can analyze data and patterns to make predictions and recommendations, but they cannot replicate critical thinking, empathy, and a deep understanding of the perspectives of others. As we advance into a new era of […] The post Philosophy’s Role in Enhancing Human Decision-Making in an AI-Driven World appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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OpenAI to go Open Source — Elon Musk was a ‘Huge Idiot’ ¦ Mojo Risin’

DevOps.com

In this week’s #TheLongView: Sources say it’s an open source future for OpenAI, and improving AI perf with Mojo. The post OpenAI to go Open Source — Elon Musk was a ‘Huge Idiot’ ¦ Mojo Risin’ appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How to incubate a winning innovation program

CIO

When leaders consider how technology has enabled the transformation of business models over the past several years, few would disagree that the world has changed dramatically. Retail, entertainment, music, and banking have largely moved online. It’s a familiar story: Netflix beat Blockbuster; Amazon beat Borders. More recently, Tesla has transformed the experience of buying, owning, and driving a car.

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Jia, a blockchain-based lender of small businesses in emerging markets, raises $4.3 million seed

TechCrunch

Jia, a blockchain-based fintech providing loans to micro and small businesses in emerging markets, has raised $4.3 million seed funding, and an additional $1 million commitment for on-chain liquidity, in a round led by early-stage backer TCG Crypto, with participation from a number of funds including BlockTower, Hashed Emergent, Saison Capital, and Global Coin Research.