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The Evolution of Incident Management

DevOps.com

Have you ever thought about the history of incident management? If you’re an SRE, you might be so caught up in the day-to-day work of managing reliability and responding to incidents that you never take time to step back and reflect on the evolution of your role and your responsibilities. And that’s a shame because […]. The post The Evolution of Incident Management appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Nigerian healthtech startup Reliance Health raises $40M led by General Atlantic

TechCrunch

There’s no denying the growth of healthtech globally over the past three years thanks to the pandemic. The event has accelerated the use of telemedicine, virtual care, and drug delivery, thus fuelling investor interest in the sector. Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. Lagos- and Texas-based digital healthcare provider Reliance Health is the latest beneficiary and is doing so in grand style, raising $40 million.

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Winning the Concept to Cash Game with Feature Teams

Agile Alliance

Transforming a large organization to Agile is messy work and requires changes in organizational structure as well as mindset. On one hand we argue for a “bottom’s up“ approach requiring team self-organization; yet on the other hand, we talk about how organizational buy-in is necessary to achieve our (Shu-Ha-Ri) Ri-state nirvana. The reality is that … Continued.

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Communicating the technical vision of an infrastructure platform

Martin Fowler

The next installment of Poppy Rowse and Chris Shepherd's article on infrastructure platforms looks how to communicate the technical vision of platform. and how to understand the platform from the users' point of view. more….

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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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How Programming Teams are Making Remote Work Functional

The Crazy Programmer

The world of work post-pandemic has shaken up offices across the globe, moving people out of their normal workspaces and into their homes. This caused a lot of disruption for a number of companies, but more so for the programming teams that are so used to working in close proximity to each other daily. Being pushed to isolate or just work remotely has made it difficult for teams to use the typical methods of teamwork that they would normally.

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Change Agents and the Four Tendencies

Agile Alliance

Using concepts from Gretchen Rubin's book The Four Tendencies, learn how knowing each agile team member's individual tendency helps to enable change. How can you best encourage a teammate who is an Upholder to commit to a change in course? What information does a Questioner need before embracing a new idea? Why are Rebels great … Continued. The post Change Agents and the Four Tendencies first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Day in the Life of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

DevOps.com

By now, most of us are familiar with the concept of site reliability engineering (SRE). The term was originally coined by Google and SRE has been gaining traction in recent years as a role dedicated to increasing the resilience of digital ecosystems. To accomplish this, a big part of the SRE doctrine is “automating your […]. The post Day in the Life of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Securing GitHub Actions with Trivy and Cosign

Aqua Security

One of the advantages of automated CI/CD pipelines is that they’re a great place to implement regular security controls and checks. Using GitHub Actions, it’s easy to improve the security of your containers by automating vulnerability scanning and digital signing of container images on a regular basis. In this post, we’ll go over how to set up and secure a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, Cosign, and Trivy.

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RedRoute wants answering customer service calls to be as easy as using ‘Alexa’

TechCrunch

RedRoute , a voice-based customer service experiences and conversational artificial intelligence startup, is going after an emerging $350 billion customer service automation sector. When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating.

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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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One Year of Remote Mob Programming

Agile Alliance

Mob programming is an extremely effective way to develop software, not only in-person, but also remotely. Over the past year, my team and I have been exploring ways to collaborate while working remotely. While there are some requisites to make remote mob programming effective, I have found it to be a surprisingly productive way to … Continued.

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Three Ways to Improve your Customer Experience by Reducing Friction

CEO Insider

And how your security process may be driving customers away. It’s a common scenario these days: Your customer is returning to take advantage of your spring offers, so they go to log in, but they can’t get in right away. Your site or mobile app now requires them to verify themselves—even though they’ve been a […]. The post Three Ways to Improve your Customer Experience by Reducing Friction appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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8 Best (FREE) Web Development Courses for Beginners

Coding Dojo

Perhaps one of the most exciting prospects about entering a field like web development is the ability to simply get … Read more >>. The post 8 Best (FREE) Web Development Courses for Beginners appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Republic’s metaverse real estate arm spins off, rebrands as Everyrealm

TechCrunch

Over $500 million worth of real estate was sold on the top four metaverse platforms in 2021, data shows. Traditional real estate companies are amongst the many investors flocking to stake their claim on plots of land in virtual worlds like Decentraland and Sandbox. Although important questions remain about which platforms and use cases will win the day in the metaverse craze, one thing is clear — capital is flowing fast into the metaverse, and “unreal estate,” so to speak, is n

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Curiosity, Kids, and Coding: Natural Agility

Agile Alliance

What do you get when you mix a curiosity for learning, kids, and coding? You get the opportunity to create a learning organization that achieves natural Agility through a creative iterative experimentation process at all levels that breaks down the traditional hierarchy that so often constrains these forces and activities. I have a background working … Continued.

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Identify Security Risks in AWS CloudFormation Templates with Trivy

Aqua Security

Aqua Security’s open source project Trivy now includes scanning of AWS CloudFormation templates to help developers better identify and remediate security issues within infrastructure as code (IaC) templates. Building on the technology and rule sets behind our popular open source project tfsec, Trivy now allows developers to evaluate AWS CloudFormation code, either locally or within their pipeline, for configuration issues and violations of best-practice policies.

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Irreconcilable Differences: DevOps Grapples With Issues

DevOps.com

DevOps issues can be a thorny subject. The coming together in harmony of Dev (developer) and Ops (operations) represents an arranged marriage of sorts that, for some, will never have a ‘happily ever after’ ending as both parties ultimately grapple with irreconcilable differences. But despite the naysayers, the very existence of DevOps as a portmanteau […].

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eAgronom closes $7.4M Series A to create a farming-based carbon credits platform

TechCrunch

There are plenty of competitors in so-called FMS (Farm Management Software), but so far no global dominant leader has emerged. Agrivi has raised $7.3 million, Granular $24.9 million and FarmLogs $37 million. So there’s clearly plenty of scope for more. Now Estonia-based eAgronom , another FMS startup, has closed a $7.4 million Series A round led by Yolo Investments and ZGI Capital.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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The Evolving Role of Manager in Agile Environment

Agile Alliance

As organizations adopt Agile, they are faced with few challenges. One of the issues that they face early on, is re-defining some of the traditional roles, like that of a people manager. We have lived through an agile adoption journey and have taken active roles in shaping the roles and responsibilities of people managers in … Continued. The post The Evolving Role of Manager in Agile Environment first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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#ClouderaLife Spotlight: Marque Blackman, Director of Global Workplace

Cloudera

As we celebrate Black History Month, for this Employee Spotlight I sat down with Marque Blackman, co-lead of the Cloudera Black Employee Network (CBEN). We discussed his experience at Cloudera, his career transitions, and what he learned along the way. We also discussed his work with CBEN and his perspective on Black History Month. Meet Marque Blackman, Director of Global Workplace .

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How DORA Metrics Can Measure and Improve Performance

DevOps.com

A technology company’s most valuable assets are its people and data, especially data about the organization itself. By knowing what data to track over time, engineering leaders can measure how efficiently their DevOps teams are operating and enable them to maximize their value stream to deliver the best possible product to end users. After years […].

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Vietnam-focused investment app Infina boosts its seed round to $6M

TechCrunch

Retail investment apps in Southeast Asia attracted a lot of funding last year , and the trend looks set to continue with Vietnam-focused Infina announcing that it has added $4 million to its seed funding. Along with the $2 million it announced in June, this brings the round’s total to $6 million. Investors include Sequoia Capital India’s Surge program, Y Combinator, Saison Capital, Starling Ventures, Alpha JWC and AppWorks.

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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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From pyramid to communities: How pharma company reinvented themselves using Scrum

Agile Alliance

A pharmaceutical company (Roche Pharma Finland Oy) decided to transform their Operating model in late 2018. The implementation phase of the new Operating Model started in November 2019. The CEO of the company had three primary goals for the change: To become more customer-driven instead of being product-centric To transform the organisation from a pyramid … Continued.

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Identifying active vs. dormant Log4j vulnerabilities

Lacework

The vulnerability landscape is changing rapidly with the adoption of cloud-native computing. Services previously hidden to the outside world may now be accessible, and cloud services may be accessible due to complex configurations. The Log4j vulnerability (reported in Dec 2021) is a recent example of a critical vulnerability that may exist widely (e.g. java using bundled Log4j jars), but where the actual number of actively exploitable processes is much smaller.

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5 Nonprofit Podcasts Helping Their Organizations Grow

TechSoup

If you work at a nonprofit, it's likely that you've heard the words, "I think we should start a podcast" over the past year or so, and perhaps with good reason. Podcasts can maintain an audience's attention over time and build intimacy between host and listener, both of which help nonprofits nurture relationships with prospective supporters. Podcasting is gaining strength as a channel for nonprofits to reach existing and new audiences.

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Korean micromobility startup Swing grabs $24M for growth, expands to Japan 

TechCrunch

Swing , a South Korean electric scooter and micromobility startup, announced today it has raised $24 million in a Series B round to spur its growth and expansion to Japan. . The funding was led by White Star Capital, which also invested in Berlin-based Tier Mobility, and included existing backer Hashed, among others. With the fresh capital, Swing has raised a total of approximately $33 million (40 billion KRW) since its inception in 2019. .

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Coaching & Storytelling – Stories that we like to listen

Agile Alliance

We all remember stories told to us as kids. Some inspired us to build our own world of imagination. Stories are such a powerful and effective tool to convey a message. As Agile Coaches we get opportunities to be part of so many stories that we can use, to share with others. This can then … Continued. The post Coaching & Storytelling – Stories that we like to listen first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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SecOps and XDR: Why trusted digital operations centers are essential

TechBeacon

Security operations are evolving from a purely technical capability to a key contributor to business resiliency, with cybersecurity becoming an imperative for organizations that have become keenly aware of the need to enable their digital future.

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A New Language for Digital Transformation

DevOps.com

Charlene O’Hanlon and Rich Nanda discuss a new Deloitte study, “A New Language for Digital Transformation,” which explores why so many transformations fail to deliver concrete impact. The video is below followed by a complete transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. Charlene O’Hanlon: Welcome back to Techstrong TV.

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