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10 CTO Tools Every Tech Leader Should Be Using (Updated 2021)

CloudZero

Managing technology isn't your only responsibility as a CTO. You could be the CIO, Digital Enabler, Data Officer, and Engineering Leader all rolled up into one, whether you work at a startup, scaleup, or enterprise. Your role as a C-suite executive for engineering requires you to research and implement the newest, most efficient technologies.

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Why is mentorship so important?

Agile42

Mentors can guide us through challenges we face, help us grow, and support our lifelong learning process. In this article, Ninja Granzow shares her experiences of mentorship, choosing the right mentor, and setting mentoring goals. Continue reading Why is mentorship so important? at agile42.

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Heart to Heart raises $750K to bring sweet, sweet flirtation to your ear holes

TechCrunch

Radio has long been described as the most intimate of media. Quips about putting radio on the internet aside, the persistent popularity of podcasting and the cockamamie climb of Clubhouse shows that audio-based platforms will continue to echo around the upper echelons of the ecosystem for a while yet. Joining the fray is Heart to Heart , an audio-first dating app aiming to bring back some intimacy to the process of finding the right person for your next foray, whether that’s a saucy encoun

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4 Reasons Why Coding Interviews Are Broken

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Spoiler alert: I’m not a coder. And I’ve never had a coding interview. But I work for a company whose flagship product for sale is a coding interview tool. So knowing a little bit about the ABCs of conducting great coding interviews that candidates love helps me do my job better. Which is what this blog is all about. Making sure your developer talent does their best work on the job.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Foreword to "The Art of Agile Development"

Martin Fowler

James Shore has revised his book "The Art of Agile Development". I'm pleased to write a foreword for this book as it is solid guide to learning how to get past faux-agile and develop the skills you need to get the benefits of the agile way of work.

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Vendease gets $3.2M to help hotels and restaurants buy food supplies in Africa

TechCrunch

Vendease , an online marketplace that allows restaurants and other food businesses to buy supplies straight from manufacturers and farms, has raised a seed round of $3.2 million, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The news is coming seven months after TechCrunch announced that the company, founded in January 2020, took part in Y Combinator’s winter batch that included nine other African startups.

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The Benefits of a Chief Transformation Officer for Growth

N2Growth Blog

As executive search consultants, we focus on understanding and optimizing businesses’ intended transformations and how they are shaping strategic responses to industry-level changes. While our clients focus on strategic planning, we place a great deal of our focus on the board advisory and strategic alignment with the execution of their needs. Especially implementation challenges of transformation affecting the organizational design.

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Digital transformation fails: Are you automating the wrong processes?

TechBeacon

Process mining is the secret sauce in digital transformation: A recent survey of 1,220 IT decision makers worldwide shows that many organizations have automated the wrong procedures, wasting time and money.

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Humanity Works Better with Debbie and Kate

Let's Grow Leaders

Humanity. It works—and it works better. In this heartfelt and moving conversation, Debbie Cohen and Kate Roeske-Zummer help you chart a path that brings humanity (yours and your teams) to work through awareness, choice, and courage. They’ll help you build a healthier, more productive work environment that draws the best—rather than squeezes the most—out of people.

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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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Nubank files to go public

TechCrunch

This morning Brazilian neobank Nu, better known as Nubank, announced that it has filed to go public. Today its S-1 filing remains private, but the announcement of its existence implies that Nu is on track to go public soon, perhaps inside of 2021. The company filed with both the American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) in Brazi, it saidl.

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What 30 Years of Linux Taught the Software Industry

DevOps.com

Linux has become the largest collaborative development project in the history of computing over the last 30 years. Reflecting on what made this possible and how its open source philosophy finally imposed itself in the industry can offer software vendors valuable lessons from this amazing success story. The web may not have reached full adulthood […].

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We Are Testing Software Incorrectly and It's Costly

Dzone - DevOps

Many engineers believe that for every public method of every class, they must create a corresponding "unit test.". That is wrong. That wasn't what many meant by "unit" when the term "unit testing" was first used.

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Leading Through Disruption with David Giersdorf

Let's Grow Leaders

Is there any industry that’s been disrupted more at a global level over the past twenty years than the cruise lines? In this episode, David Giersdorf, a former senior executive in the global cruise, travel, and marketing services industry, gives the roadmap for leading through disruption. It’s optimistic, encouraging, and full of opportunities to help you navigate your company, career, team, and life through the fog of disruption.

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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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Malaysia-based Poladrone raises $4.29M seed round to protect crops

TechCrunch

Rhinoceros beetles are one of the greatest threats to oil palm crops , attacking plants while they are young and potentially lowering a farm’s yield for years. They also affect workers’ health, since pesticides need to be sprayed frequently. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Poladrone wants to change the way farms use pesticides with a combination of drones and automation and analytics software.

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Hiring When You’re Not FAANG

DevOps.com

Most of us are not FAANG, and we shouldn’t act like we are. Instead of using that, I’m going to use the term we used to use to refer to them: “Web Monsters”, which isn’t 100% accurate, but includes more than just the five FAANG members (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google) for this article. […]. The post Hiring When You’re Not FAANG appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Hybrid IT: Cloud and legacy tech must live together in peace

DXC

Are you trying to introduce new ways of working and deliver new value to your business via cloud while having to cope with legacy technologies (which will potentially be around for years to come)? Are you trying to fit your old ways of working onto your new technologies? These are situations that we typically see, […]. The post Hybrid IT: Cloud and legacy tech must live together in peace appeared first on DXC Blogs.

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What No One Tells You About Starting Your Own Fintech Startup

CEO Insider

These days, there is a global surge in technological awareness as many people are becoming more conversant with technology and its use in solving critical issues. Especially in the commercial industry, where customers’ needs are being satisfied from any corner of the world with the touch of a button. Now, people perform financial transactions locally […].

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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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DeHaat raises $115 million in the largest agritech round in India

TechCrunch

DeHaat, an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers in India , has raised $115 million in what is the largest funding round for an agritech startup in India, where farm produce yields two-thirds of the country’s $1 trillion in annual retail spending. Sofina and Lightrock co-led the 10-year-old startup’s Series D financing round.

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Securing Your Software Development Pipelines

DevOps.com

Earlier this year, it was announced that the attack on IT management software provider SolarWinds had been used to compromise other organizations, including parts of the United States government. There were several reasons for alarm because of this news, but one of the biggest was the revelation that attackers breached SolarWinds’ software development process and […].

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Cut Out Time Estimates on Roadmaps: Get Into a Product Delivery Rhythm

Honeycomb

All of the business of software, but especially the delivery of product capabilities, is inextricably bound up in questions about time. What’s the estimate? If we have N people working on it, how long will it take? When will we ship? Putting a finer point on it, if you’re building products iteratively, incorporating customer feedback from early prototypes, tacking and jibing your way toward the right solution, there’s no way you’ll be able to accurately estimate the work it will take to get ther

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Dataiku’s Role in the Modern Data Stack

Dataiku

Any small or midsize business (SMB) that’s serious about making the use of data, analytics, and AI everyday behavior for everyone is using a version of the modern data stack architecture. It can even make sense in the enterprise context for teams just getting started on their AI journey.

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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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Social Chat launches with $6M to bring brands closer to their customers

TechCrunch

When brands sell through social media and other third-parties, they often spend millions of dollars to advertise on those platforms, yet have little or no knowledge of who their customers actually are. Social commerce startup Social Chat is out to change that. Frost Li, the former head of growth at Wish, founded the company in May to create software that leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence for personalization, recommendations and live customer service — all to enable brands to

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Codenotary Uses Immutable Database to Verify Software Artifacts

DevOps.com

Codenotary today unfurled a free notarization and verification service for open source artifacts and containers to enable IT organizations to track the provenance of the components that make up their applications. Dennis Zimmer, Codenotary CTO, said the Community Attestation Service is based on an immutable open source immudb database that cryptographically attaches an identity to […].

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Kafka Streams Fundamentals

Confluent

Kafka Streams is an abstraction over Apache Kafka® producers and consumers that lets you forget about low-level details and focus on processing your Kafka data. You could of course write […].

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Here's the right way to test links in your web apps

TechBeacon

For a web application to run as expected, all clickable links should forward users to specific and correct URLs. Unfortunately, there can sometimes be thousands of clickable and navigable links in a web app, making it tiresome (and potentially unreliable) to check all of them manually. And as we will discuss below, some link testing methods are not dependable.

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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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Learn what happens after you sell your startup at TC Sessions: SaaS on Wednesday

TechCrunch

Seems like the goal of every startup is to exit via IPO, and if you can’t do that, by way of acquisition. In many cases, a sale gives a founder the opportunity to pay back investors and reward long-time employees, but what happens after the ink dries on the contract, and the reality of being owned by a larger company settles in? We’re going to get the inside scoop from three founders who sold their companies, on a panel called ‘What Happens After Your Startup is Acquired’

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AsyncAPI: Transparency as a Value

DevOps.com

History has been marked by opaque and totalitarian power systems. Aided by prisons and walls that keep out the light. The concentration of power in the hands of a few individuals has marked human evolution. From feudalism to fascism, the annulment of the rights of individuals has been based on obscurantism and ignorance. Information has […]. The post AsyncAPI: Transparency as a Value appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Chef 101: Getting Started With Automation

Dzone - DevOps

In this blog post, you’ll take a look at some practices that can help you get a running start with your Chef automation and the principle of Policy as Code. It’s intended for any IT professional or Chef newcomer. Prologue: What Do I Need To Know? This post is designed to be beginner-friendly. You don’t need any coding experience to follow along — just an interest in automation, and curiosity about how best to implement it with Chef.

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