CEO Insider

APRIL 21, 2021

Hiring the right person is always a bit of a gamble. They’ll either become a valued part of the team that offers insights and collaboration, or they’ll slow down innovation and disrupt the customer experience. Increasing the odds of finding the right people is vitally important because most ventures survive or wither due to the […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Five Steps to Refine Staffing and Recruiting Departments are those of the author Rachel Neill alo

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Henrik Warne

APRIL 18, 2021

For the past few months, I have been interviewing with several companies. In all cases, one or more coding tests were included. I have also been on the interviewing side, evaluating a coding test. Here are my thoughts on the process. Are coding tests needed? When I started out as a software developer, nobody did coding tests as far as I know. You just talked to the hiring manager for an hour, and if they liked you, you got an offer.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

The last five years have seen a plethora of fintech applications in Nigeria (and Africa, in general) grow at an astonishing rate. But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. This, in turn, creates a bottleneck when onboarding and verifying customers. Since 2019, Plaid-esque companies, but with different twists to their offerings, have emerged to solve these issues.

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Erik Bernhardsson

APRIL 18, 2021

Software infrastructure (by which I include everything ending with *aaS, or anything remotely similar to it) is an exciting field, in particular because (despite what the neo-luddites may say) it keeps getting better every year! I love working with something that moves so quickly. In the last few months, I've thought a lot about where it's going in the next 5-10 years and an wishlist has taken shape in my head.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

APRIL 22, 2021

The intern hiring season (beginning in February) usually serves as a breath of fresh air, and offers an undisturbed, fresh talent pool for companies. Throwing a full-fledged spanner in the works, however, last year’s pandemic led to nation-wide lockdowns, and shuttered campuses and offices. Hiring for interns on Glassdoor for April 2020 fell as much as 39% when compared to April 2019.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Your clients might not demand 24/7 customer service yet, but they’re certainly hoping for it. But how can a startup with a lean staff provide round-the-clock customer care? There are several options available, but more than ever, outsourcing is one of them. When should your startup consider outsourcing its customer care? And what should you look for in a provider?

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Agile Alliance

APRIL 20, 2021

April 18-24th, 2021 is Volunteer Week in the US and Canada, and at Agile Alliance we recognize that much of our work and service to the community is accomplished through the hard work of many volunteers. As a member-supported organization, we want to give a round of thanks to the people who keep all of … Continued. The post A Huge Thank You to Agile Alliance Volunteers first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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CTOvision

APRIL 17, 2021

The launch of Bitcoin over a decade ago opened up opportunities for the development and launch of a ton of other cryptocurrencies, Ethereum being the foremost. Often compared to Bitcoin, Ethereum 2.0 is a truly decentralized P2P (peer-to-peer) blockchain-powered cryptocurrency. Transitioning from the energy-consuming and inherently flawed proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to the proof-of-stake (PoS), Ethereum […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 22, 2021

Support Your Team with Career Development Even When You’re Busy. You want to help your team with career development, but time is limited. How do you support your team? Today, on Asking For a Friend , I talk with Julie Winkle Giulioni , author of Help them Grow or Watch Them Go about how managers can support development when there is pitifully little time.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Things have been looking up for Belfast since the end of the Troubles. The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen steadily in the city since 2016, according to Northen Ireland’s Department for the Economy.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 21, 2021

Engineers at fast-paced startups often wear both Dev and DevOps hats. Early in my career, as a developer at a sentiment-analysis startup, I was tasked with writing scripts to spin up servers, configure them, install necessary software and deploy the code we wrote. My custom shell scripts, Python scripts and cron jobs did all the […]. The post DevOps Trends to Watch in 2021 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2021

Chainlink has released a new whitepaper called Chainlink 2.0: Next Steps in the Evolution of Decentralized Oracle Networks. The new whitepaper outlines an ambitious vision for the future of smart contracts. We talk with Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov who explains the implications for the next generation of blockchain ecosystems. Read/hear the podcast of Chainlink co […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 19, 2021

This technique will get your team talking about hopes and fears. You want to get your team talking about their concerns, but if they’re like so many of the employees in our courageous cultures research , they are likely holding back. In fact, 40% of the employees in our research said they lacked the confidence to share their ideas that would improve the business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Gleb Polyakov. Contributor. Gleb Polyakov is co-founder and CEO of Nylas , which provides productivity infrastructure solutions for modern software. Gleb studied Physics at Georgia Tech and enjoys chess, motorcycles and space. Previously, he worked in finance and founded an IoT coffee company. When the world flipped upside down last year, nearly every company in every industry was forced to implement a remote workforce in just a matter of days — they had to scramble to ensure employees had the r

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TechBeacon

APRIL 20, 2021

Whether you’re reviewing a team member’s pull request, pairing, or even reviewing your own code before deploying, code review provides a moment to step back from the code and ask yourself the important questions.

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2021

Read Patti Domm explain how slowly but surely Bitcoin movements are getting interconnected with mainstream stocks on CNBC : The correlation between bitcoin and the stock market could grow as more institutions become involved with cryptocurrency and the number of equities linked to digital currencies grows, strategists said. For now, the link is loose: sometimes high, […].

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DevOps.com

APRIL 20, 2021

While modern business software solutions unlock organizational efficiencies, agility and the ability to deliver new value to customers, such tools were not available when applications deployed on mainframe systems were being developed. Today, many of the Fortune 500 companies, the world’s largest banks and insurance companies and several of the largest retailers in the U.S. […].

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Dott has raised a new $85 million Series B funding round — this round is a mix of equity and asset-backed debt financing. Belgium-based investment company Sofina is leading the investment. Dott is a micromobility startup that is better known for its colorful electric scooters that you can find across several European cities. The company operates a fleet of 30,000 electric scooters in five cities.

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David Walsh

APRIL 19, 2021

Improving the user experience of web applications has always been a priority of mine. I always come back to the same though I’ve had for 20 years: “users expect a web app to work — let’s make the app a joy to use.” Over the years we’ve employed JavaScript to improve the UX, but over time those strategies either become clunky or get baked into the web languages themselves.

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2021

Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, recently announced new capabilities and updates across Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Elastic Cloud in the 7.12 release. The new features are designed to enable users to uncover insights and drive action with their data through the power of search. The new frozen data tier makes object stores like […].

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TechBeacon

APRIL 21, 2021

Most organizations today collect far more data than they require for their business operations, simply because they can. By my company's estimates, on average, some 60% of the data that organizations collect is unused because it is either redundant, obsolete, or trivial. By eliminating this data—or by not collecting it in the first place—businesses can cut down on storage requirements and costs while also supporting sustainability objectives by using less energy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

As content moderation continues to be a critical aspect of how social media platforms work — one that they may be pressured to get right, or at least do better in tackling — a startup that has built a set of data and image models to help with that, along with any other tasks that require automatically detecting objects or text, is announcing a big round of funding.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 19, 2021

The DevOps world has quietly turned its focus to solving an essential challenge: enabling software teams to innovate quickly while meeting high customer expectations for quality. In other words, to build useful things faster with fewer mistakes. This tension has been growing for years, but 2020 added the challenges of remote work and accelerated digital […].

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2021

This video captures context from a meeting with Peter Thiel, Mike Pompeo, and Robert C. O’Brien (Ambassador) at the The Richard Nixon Foundation. Peter provides insights into the history of Silicon Valley, what Bitcoin means for China and US, and a net assessment on China/US relations. Mike Pompei also has interesting thoughts about the bilateral […].

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 19, 2021

During the first weeks of February, we asked recipients of our Data & AI Newsletter to participate in a survey on AI adoption in the enterprise. We were interested in answering two questions. First, we wanted to understand how the use of AI grew in the past year. We were also interested in the practice of AI: how developers work, what techniques and tools they use, what their concerns are, and what development practices are in place.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals. Now, a startup out of Romania that is building tools to help the incumbents respond with better services of their own is announcing a significant round of funding as its

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DevOps.com

APRIL 22, 2021

The massive shift to remote work necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic kickstarted many companies’ digital transformation. While this transition had already begun for most organizations, the pandemic sped up the timeline. These events also had an impact on how storage and backup is done. Let’s look at why the right storage solution is key to […].

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2021

Read Bryce Welker explain how entrepreneurs can make use of the smart contracts, NFTs, and DeFi using the Ethereum platform on Entrepreneurs : As Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies make headlines year after year, bystanders experience FOMO reading stories about other people becoming millionaires. Unfortunately, many of these stories have less to do with the […].

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