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Chip-to-Cloud IoT: A Step Toward Web3

DevOps.com

During the first six months of 2021, IoT devices were breached 1.51 billion times, a significant increase from only 639 million breaches observed for the entirety of 2020. This problem can be attributed to the widespread adoption of the internet-of-things (IoT) and the Windows Server Message Block (SMB), and neither can be avoided in the […]. The post Chip-to-Cloud IoT: A Step Toward Web3 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Walmart is acquiring Memomi, an AR startup powering virtual try-on for eyewear

TechCrunch

Walmart is expanding its array of virtual try-on services for shoppers with today’s news that it’s planning to acquire Memomi , an AR optical tech company and current Walmart partner offering virtual try-on experience for eyewear. Deal terms were not disclosed, but Memomi has enabled digital measurements for all Walmart and Sam’s Club customers since 2019, the retailer said.

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Uncover the unknown with Gemba Troika Consulting

Agile Alliance

Knowledge sharing in large groups of Scrum Masters is a challenge. Prior to the Covid-19 outbreak it was an issue in SimCorp, and the pandemic did not improve this situation at all. All collaboration happened online, and the challenge for SimCorp’s 40 Scrum masters grew. The post Uncover the unknown with Gemba Troika Consulting first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Top 10 Computer Science Universities in USA 2022

The Crazy Programmer

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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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10 women in cybersecurity predict software security trends

TechBeacon

Rounding the corner into the second half of the year offers a good opportunity for security strategists to reevaluate the state of their cybersecurity plans as they match them with the realities of the threat landscape.

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The Art of Splitting an ART

Agile Alliance

When organisations use the Scaled Agile Framework® [Scaled Agile Framework] they may come to the point where their Agile (ART) Release Trains have grown too big. This report is about our journey of splitting an ART using ideas from Team Topologies and the principle of self-selection. The post The Art of Splitting an ART first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Python Program to Find Prime Factors of a Number

The Crazy Programmer

If a number p is fully divisible by another number q, then q is said to be a factor of p. Here q will be greater than 1 and less than or equal to p. So, if a number p is fully divisible by another number q and q is a prime number then q is said to be a prime factor of p. Prime numbers are those numbers that are only divisible by 1 and themselves. In this article, we will see the code to find the prime factors of a number.

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The Two Types of Code Vulnerabilities

DevOps.com

Spell checkers, grammar checkers and predictive keyboards all help reduce errors in written communication, but in a creative medium where writers need to innovate new expressions, nothing can eliminate all errors. The same is true in the code we write. Of course, your code is probably perfect but, on average, all code has bugs. Some […]. The post The Two Types of Code Vulnerabilities appeared first on DevOps.com.

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AI-powered photo stock startup Wirestock lands partnership with Getty Images

TechCrunch

As a stock photographer, taking great photos is often only just a tiny part of the job. To run a successful business, keywording, categorizing, captioning, and all the other admin that goes with it can take up almost as much time. That’s the problem Wirestock is solving, and the company just landed an important deal with Getty Images to broaden its content distribution.

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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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User Experience design: a true part of SAFe or a patch?

Agile Alliance

This experience was derived during our transformation to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in Demant, started in January 2021 and ongoing. In this report we share our experiences and sum up what we did wrong and learned about building high-performing Design Teams under the SAFe umbrella. The post User Experience design: a true part of SAFe or a patch? first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Why open source matters for developers

TechBeacon

Organizations' use of open source is continuing to increase. In fact, in 2021, some 77% of companies reported that they were using more open-source software, while 36% said they were using significantly more open-source tools.

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What Is User Acceptance Testing and Why Is it so Important?

DevOps.com

Anyone involved in software development knows how important it is to ensure a positive end-user experience. One way to do that is through the use of user acceptance testing (UAT). UAT is one of the types of testing that you can execute as part of your overall quality assurance process. Source It’s essential in helping […]. The post What Is User Acceptance Testing and Why Is it so Important?

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Fintech Klarna reportedly raising at a $6.5B valuation, giving new meaning to the phrase ‘down round’

TechCrunch

In a sign of the times, Swedish buy now, pay later giant Klarna is reportedly close to inking a new round of funding that would slash its valuation to $6.5 billion — about 1/7 of what the company was valued in June of 2021. The Wall Street Journal reported today, citing anonymous sources, that Klarna was “negotiating to raise about $650 million mostly from existing investors led by Sequoia Capital.

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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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Using a chatbot to do DevOpsCust

Agile Alliance

How do you re-invent great customer experience in a 230-year-old compliance regulated conservative company -whose products are the least sexy you can buy, and whose customers identify your brand with an old man in tweed? This is a story about combining courage, girl power, experimenting with agile methodologies and conversational AI and how we succeeded in 2 mont.

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Don’t Blow Past Your Strengths

Next Level Blog

Between the leaders I’ve worked with in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program and the individual executives I’ve coached over the last 20 plus years, I’ve delivered around 2,000 colleague feedback reports. And there’s one thing I’ve seen again and again in so many of those feedback conversations. High achieving, ambitious leaders want to blow right past the strengths that have enabled their success and dive right into what they need to “fix.”.

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6 Habits of successful entrepreneurs

CEO Insider

Over the past few years, the success of leading businesses and entrepreneurs has been thrust into the spotlight like we haven’t seen for many years with company values and profits surging. While no two businesses or entrepreneurs are the same, there are common traits that many of these most successful people exhibit. These range from […]. The post 6 Habits of successful entrepreneurs appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Binance taps TikTok’s mostly silent superstar Khaby Lame to explain how crypto works

TechCrunch

Khaby Lame is quite literally on top of the world (if TikTok follower counts are the world). After attending his first VidCon and surpassing Charli D’Amelio as the most followed TikToker, the Italian-Senegalese comedian signed on as an ambassador for Binance , the world’s largest platform for buying and selling cryptocurrencies. Just last week, Binance snagged a partnership with soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, who wants to “ change the NFT game.” These high-profile partner

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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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Agile from the Frontlines: Overcoming Inertia in the Federal Government

Agile Alliance

Agile Transformation initiatives need not originate at the senior management level. By examining the successes and failures along the journey of a mission-critical system for the United States Federal Government, this experience report discusses how the business and IT established a true partnership to effect organizational change from the grassroots level.

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Survey Reveals High Cost of Application Modernization

DevOps.com

A survey of 250 software developers and architects in the U.S. found nearly three-quarters of respondents (74%) reported that the average cost of an application modernization project is nearly $1.5 million, with 79% noting that at least one of these projects has failed. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of vFunction, a provider of a […].

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CodeSOD: If You Switch

The Daily WTF

Switches are great. Given a value, you can switch to different code paths based on that value. The problem is… what if you have other conditions too? Well, Hubert 's co-worker found a way around that. Here's a heavily anonymized version of the pattern. switch(someValue) { case A: if (boolX) { case B: doStuff(); } else if (boolB) { case C: doOtherStuff(); } else { doYetMoreStuff(); } break; case D: // blah, blah }.

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Marketing automation startup Retail Rocket nabs $24M for expansion

TechCrunch

Retail Rocket , a retention management platform for brands, today announced that it raised $24 million in a Series A round led by Cyprus-based private equity fund Flintera. In addition to the fundraising, Retail Rocket revealed that it acquired SailPlay, a startup developing software to help retailers build loyalty programs and send mass message campaigns.

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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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Agile Approaches to Policy Development

Agile Alliance

To both understand the implications of EU’s proposed AI Act and involve relevant stakeholders in the process we have adopted an agile approach to policy development. The post Agile Approaches to Policy Development first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Dynatrace Adds Synthetic Tests to Validate App Experiences

DevOps.com

Dynatrace today extended the application release management capabilities it provides to include synthetic tests for validating and assuring user experiences. Saif Gunja, director of product marketing for Dynatrace, said the user experience validation and user experience assurance (UXA) capability spans everything from application availability and performance to actual engagement with specific features based on the […].

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CodeSOD: Fizzy

The Daily WTF

Suri was about to add some new functionality to an existing application, and since it was a relatively big change, she spent a few hours tidying up the codebase. Sitting in there, in the code actually running in production, she found this: /** * The VehicleConfigurationModel class. */. public class VehicleConfigurationModel { public static void main (String[] args) { for ( int counter = 0 ; counter <= 20 ; counter++) { if (counter % 3 == 0 ){ System.out.print( "Fizz" ); } if (counter

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Get 50% off a year’s subscription to TechCrunch+ to mark Independence Day

TechCrunch

Hello, TechCrunch friends! As the United States marks Independence Day and rests up for the second half of the year, TechCrunch+ has been busy hiring, reporting, and publishing to keep you up to speed. And to celebrate, we’re offering 50% off a full year’s access to our plethora of analysis and in-depth coverage at TechCrunch+! The goal of TechCrunch+ is to thread discrete news items into trends, dive deep into what’s happening in the startup world, and collect operating insigh

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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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New for Agile2022: The Hobby Hall!

Agile Alliance

Agile2022 in Nashville will feature a new and exciting component: Hobby Hall! Hobby Hall is a place where we Agilists can showcase, geek out together, and share with each other all the things that fill our cups outside of Agile. The post New for Agile2022: The Hobby Hall! first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Reflections on Authenticity This Pride Month at Dataiku

Dataiku

What is a queer, woman of color to speak about when given a platform to make an impact at Dataiku? When approached by the Dataiku Queer Employee Resource Group (ERG) to write this blog post, the opportunity left me personally excited and a little overwhelmed to achieve. Do I speak about identity, intersectionality, community, or acceptance? Those are a few important topics that come to mind.

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Correlation Between Fast TTM and Containers

Dzone - DevOps

TTM and Software Architecture. One of the critical factors for business success is Time to Market (TTM). TTM is the length of time from the moment of idea creation, which could be a new product or business, to launching the final product or service to customers. Markets move fast and delayed TTM may ruin the whole business idea. Therefore it is no surprise that TTM is a metric all product owners and businesses are concerned with.

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