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The Blind Men & The Elephant: An Open Innovation Blueprint

Planbox

Curb Transactional Open Innovation and Embrace an Integrated Ecosystem Strategy “It’s a wall,” “It’s a snake,” “It’s a rope,” “It’s a spear,” “It’s a fan,” no, “It’s a tree,” and so goes the story of “The Blind Men & The Elephant”.

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4 Tips To Plug The Cloud IT Skills Gap

DevOps.com

Technical talent is few and far between. The programming world faces a developer shortage, and with this shortage comes a lack of cloud know-how. By now, most organizations have become multi-cloud, yet 86% of IT professionals believe a lack of these skills will slow down cloud projects. As more teams transition from older architectures to […].

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Do you need another app to discover beautiful places when you travel?

TechCrunch

In the summer of 2019, Timilehin Ajiboye became intrigued with the idea of building a travel app after conversations with a circle of friends. One friend reached out to Ajiboye asking if he knew of any platform where she could find new, aesthetically pleasing places to dine in, visit and take pictures. And then, during a trip to Miami, he and his friends actively sought out beautiful places to eat — and take photographs.

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Empathy interviews for transformational coaching

Agile Alliance

Empathy interviews are an effective technique for both understanding the people involved in a transformation and going beyond individuals to see where patterns emerge. The post Empathy interviews for transformational coaching first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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7 Reasons Your Feedback is Being Ignored

Let's Grow Leaders

Start with yourself to ensure everyone can receive feedback. It’s a frustration we hear all the time. “My people aren’t coachable. They’re defensive. It’s like they have a wall and just won’t listen.” We get it. One of the most frustrating human experiences is feeling ignored or unheard. And sometimes people who can’t grow aren’t in the right position.

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Oraan raises $3M to increase financial inclusion among Pakistani women

TechCrunch

After working as an investment banker in Canada for a decade, Halima Iqbal moved back to Pakistan in 2017 and quickly realized how difficult it is for women to access financial services. “I had a really hard time opening up a basic bank account. It took me about three and a half months,” Iqbal told TechCrunch. She began researching how Pakistani women deal with money—for example, how do they save or take out credit?

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Ensemble Methods: The Kaggle Machine Learning Champion

Toptal

Two heads are better than one. This proverb describes the concept behind ensemble methods in machine learning. Let's examine why ensembles dominate ML competitions and what makes them so powerful.

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Leading Through Invisible Dissent with Kellie Beattie

Let's Grow Leaders

Constructive discussions are essential for good decisions and great results. But how do you create an environment that helps to surface disagreement and overcome the challenges of invisible dissent? In this episode, Kelly Beattie shares practical steps you can take to help every team member engage. Leading Through Invisible Dissent. 3:00 – Why leaders must meet people where they are. 7:51 – How leaders create respectful conversations. 10:51 – The role of clear expectations with

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911, What Are Your Innovation Emergency OKRs?

Planbox

There is a reason why firefighters say be fast or be last: they have 60 seconds or less to act before they have a major house fire on their hands. A home can catch fire entirely in just 4 minutes.

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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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Thailand’s fintech startup Ascend Money lands $150M at a $1.5B valuation

TechCrunch

Ascend Money , the Thailand-based fintech startup behind TrueMoney, an e-wallet service, announced today it has raised a $150 million Series C round at a valuation of $1.5 billion. The Series C round was led by Charoen Pokphand Group , which is a major shareholder of Ascend Money, with participation from Bow Wave Capital Management and returning backer Ant Group.

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Microservices quality issues? A modern DevOps approach can help

TechBeacon

Your team has followed industry trends and shifted from a monolithic system to a widely distributed, scalable, and highly available microservices architecture. But instead of solving all the problems with your fragile legacy architecture, you ended up with a set of federated services that have hidden dependencies maintained by teams that don't talk to each other.

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My Team Doesn’t Like Me, What Should I Do? (With Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

3 Ways to Build Deeper Influence and Connection. Of course, you know that leadership is not who likes you. But it sucks to go to work every day when you know your team would rather be working for someone else. Plus, if your team doesn’t like you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. So, how do you gain respect, when your team’s just not there?

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How to Build a Future-Fit Innovation Portfolio

Planbox

We used to think of the future as something that is far, far away. Time between disruptive changes has become significantly more compressed and how much time we have to prepare for the future is shrinking ever faster. The pressure this places on organizations to continually reinvent themselves is staggering.

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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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Netflix acquires its first games studio, “Oxenfree” developer Night School

TechCrunch

A screenshot from Night School Studio game “Oxenfree” Night School Studio , the independent game developer known for narrative-driven titles like “Oxenfree,” announced today it has been acquired by Netflix. This makes it the first games studio the streaming giant has purchased. In Netflix’s announcement, Mike Verdu, vice president of game development, wrote Night School’s “commitment to artistic excellence and proven track record make them invaluable partners as we build out the crea

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Harnessing the Value of Log Data Analytics

DevOps.com

Each day, the average enterprise’s cloud applications, containers, compute nodes and other components throw off millions of tiny logs. Each log is a file whose data describes an event such as a user action, service request, application task or compute error. Logs also capture messages that applications and other components send to one another. There’s […].

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Automating Smart Contract Development With Docker

Dzone - DevOps

Smart contracts aren't the easiest things to work with. The setup process to start developing involves many cumbersome, error-prone steps, which by themselves lead to hours of developer time wastage. At the end of this article, you'll have yourself an automated Docker setup that will help you: Run smart contract tests with testRPC. Perform deployments on your chosen network.

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ISO 56000 For Innovation Management: Everything You Need To Know

Planbox

ISO 56000 looks like a lot of numbers and letters, but essentially it is the international standard for innovation management. It is a set of standard operation procedures designed to provide a general framework for all organizations, regardless of type, sector or size, toward the successful implementation, maintenance and continual improvement of an innovation management system.

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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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Dance raises another $19.4 million for its e-bike subscription service

TechCrunch

German startup Dance has raised $19.4 million in new funding (€16.5 million). The news comes just weeks after the company started rolling out its e-bike subscription service in Berlin. Eurazeo is leading today’s funding round. HV Capital and BlueYard are also investing, as well as Dave Morin and James Higa from Offline Ventures, Nicolas Berggruen, Roxanne Varza and Verena Pausder.

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Achieving Business Maturity with Database DevOps

DevOps.com

Companies have seen unprecedented change over the past year and a half, with IT teams trying to help businesses weather the storm by meeting customer demands for services and products to be delivered in new ways while adjusting to remote work. As more companies introduced hybrid approaches to their workplace, a particular trend began to […]. The post Achieving Business Maturity with Database DevOps appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Google’s State of DevOps 2021 Report: What SREs Need to Know

Dzone - DevOps

SRE and DevOps deliver the best value when used together. Culture is key to avoiding burnout. You need the cloud more than ever. These are among the main takeaways from Google Cloud’s latest Accelerate State of DevOps report , which examines how companies are using DevOps practices. Based in part on a survey of more than 32,000 professionals, the 2021 report, which was compiled by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), identifies best practices that DevOps and SRE teams can use today to achi

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And FORTRAN, FORTRAN So Far Away

The Daily WTF

A surprising amount of the world runs on FORTRAN. That's not to say that huge quantities of new FORTRAN are getting written, though it's far from a dead language, but that there are vital libraries written fifty years ago that are still used to this day. But the world in which that FORTRAN was written and the world in which we live today is wildly different.

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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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SoftBank-backed Oyo files for $1.16 billion IPO

TechCrunch

Oyo is ready to explore the public markets. The eight-year-old Indian budget hotel giant has filed the paperwork (PDF) with the local market regulator for an initial public offering, in which it is seeking to raise about $1.16 billion. The Gurgaon-headquartered startup — which offers an operating system of sorts to help hoteliers accept digital bookings, payments and determine the best pricing for a room, and integrates with third-party booking services — is seeking to raise about $

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Sumo Logic Extends Observability Scope and Reach

DevOps.com

During the online Illuminate user conference, Sumo Logic revealed how it is integrating capabilities it gained with the June 2021 acquisition of Sensu, a provider of open source monitoring tools, with its continuous intelligence platform in addition to adding support for data collected via open source OpenTelemetry software. Sensu Go, a set of tools for […].

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AWS Web Application and DDoS Resiliency

Dzone - DevOps

Let me start by explaining the term "DDoS" and then we will get into how AWS helps in creating resiliency against these kinds of attacks. DDoS. DDoS stands for ‘Distributed Denial of Service’ attack in which an attacker attempts to disrupt the online services by overwhelming the target with huge network traffic. It is achieved by exploiting multiple machines using malware and then using them for crafting a surge in network requests on the actual target machine which causes the bandwidth to choke

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How We Shipped PostgreSQL 14 on Azure Within One Day of its Release

The Citus Data

Today, we are excited to announce PostgreSQL 14’s General Availability (GA) on Azure’s Hyperscale (Citus) option. To our knowledge, this is the first time a major cloud provider has announced GA for a new Postgres major version on their platform one day after the official release. Starting today, you can deploy Postgres 14 in many Hyperscale (Citus) regions.

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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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Creative capital is the secret sauce, not venture capital

TechCrunch

Brett Lovelady. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Brett Lovelady is the founder of Astro Studios , now a part of PA Consulting, a design-driven company that empowers designers and strives to capture the value of design in the product, brand, experience and company creation process. Around 90% of startups ultimately fail, and the reasons leading to failure are well known: Undercapitalization, scaling challenges, lack of a competitive advantage or realistic IP.

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Transform Mobile DevOps into Mobile DevSecOps

DevOps.com

Mobile developers are mostly focused on adding new features and functionality to their apps. Security features—such as RASP protection, obfuscation, encryption, jailbreak/root prevention and MiTM prevention—are usually addressed at the end of the development cycle if they are addressed at all. Unfortunately, most apps ship with significant vulnerabilities.

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Increase Your DevOps Productivity Using Infrastructure as Low Code

Dzone - DevOps

As an individual developer or a part of a wider software development or IT team, you will find that time is rarely on your side, with many competing priorities throughout the working week. This naturally focuses you to look for ways to increase your productivity through the use of technology and tools to help you achieve more in less time. Throughout this blog post, we’re going to look at DevOps productivity and compare traditional tools with infrastructure as low code tools.

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