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Why AI Is Essential to the New Energy Model

Dataiku

Between energy diversity, climate challenges, and growth in electricity consumption, energy producers and suppliers must constantly optimize their processes and anticipate demand in order to adjust their offers, a strategy based on massive data collection and the deployment of AI solutions. Today it is impossible to master the complexity of the energy ecosystem without using data science.

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Struggling with Machine Learning? You’re Not Alone

DataRobot

Today’s organizations are up against a great machine learning paradox. Most are investing more than ever in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), but far too few have implemented ML models or realized the business impact that AI/ML promises. With businesses pouring resources into AI and machine learning, why are results still so elusive?

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TripleBlind secures $24M for a new approach to enterprise-level, privacy-preserving data sharing

TechCrunch

Organizations that have made the leap into using big data to drive their business are increasingly looking for better, more efficient ways to share data with others without compromising privacy and data protection laws, and that is ushering in a rush of technologists building a number of new approaches to fill that need. In the latest development, a startup called TripleBlind — which has devised a way to encrypt data so that it can be shared without ever being decrypted or even leaving the

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How Do I Build Leadership Tenacity and Grit?

Let's Grow Leaders

How do you tap into the grit and tenacity when you are exhausted? In this week’s Asking for a Friend I speak with World Class Ultra Triathlete, Kurt Madden, who is also CEO of The Collaborative, about leadership tenacity and grit. What is tenacity? And where does it come from? I love this definition of tenacity : “The state of holding on to an idea or thing very strongly.” Because if you’re a leader, who really believes in the “ the idea or thing” you’r

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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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A Blueprint for Securing Software Development

DevOps.com

Software development has changed dramatically in recent years, as technologies like DevOps, application containers, and cloud-native transform how software is built and distributed. Unfortunately, attackers have been paying close attention to these changes, and have retooled their attack strategies to take advantage of relatively weak security controls in software development and build environments.

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Element Finance raises $32 million for its DeFi fixed rate protocol

TechCrunch

Element Finance has raised a $32 million Series A round at a $320 million valuation. The company has been building a new DeFi (decentralized finance) protocol on top of the Ethereum blockchain. It lets you earn predictable returns on investments thanks to fixed rates over a predetermined period of time. Polychain Capital is leading today’s funding round.

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Overcome Kubernetes Data Gravity and Accelerate Digital Transformation

CEO Insider

The need for remote work solutions prioritized a shift to the cloud – and for some organizations, that meant choosing short-term or patchwork solutions jerry-rigged out of existing legacy technologies just to get through the crisis. However, IT professionals recognize that application effectiveness in this new multi-cloud environment requires a redesign of their enterprise applications […].

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Microservices and COBOL: 4 steps to modernize your apps for DevOps

TechBeacon

DevOps and mainframes are like peanut butter and chocolate—each great on its own, but both better together. When organizations move to DevOps, they often struggle with integrating mainframe applications into the new process. Too often, they expect to need to go through all sorts of gyrations to incorporate the mainframe applications and data. But there's a better way.

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Article: Takeoff: What Software Development Can Learn from Aviation

InfoQ Culture Methods

A lot of professions have been around way longer than software development and have developed "best practices" to handle typical problems and challenges. Software developers can benefit from taking a closer look at aircraft maintenance or a pilot’s processes to learn from them, optimize our processes. and last but not least, try to reduce some of the stress that we experience over and over again.

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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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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

TechCrunch

Nothing has been automatic about the success of Automattic. Today, to those who haven’t been paying attention, the company looks a bit like an overnight success story. WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. Automattic’s e-commerce plugin, WooCommerce , which it purchased in 2015 , is believed to run more than a quarter of all online storefronts.

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Building Trust in a Climate of Constant Change

CEO Insider

Two significant challenges exist for leaders in maintaining the trust of their employees. One is the reality of the old saying, “The only constant is change.” The second is effective performance management in the midst of constant change. For example, in the international school setting, where schools experience a high percentage of staff turnover, the […].

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Spring for Apache Kafka 101

Confluent

Extensive out-of-the-box functionality, a large user community, and up-to-date, cloud-native features make Spring and its libraries a strong option for anchoring your Apache Kafka® and Confluent Cloud based microservices architecture. […].

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Ransomware's evolution: 6 key trends to watch

TechBeacon

Ransomware has become a global menace, that costs organizations billions of dollars in extortion payments, and even more in downtime. The NCC Group reported a 288% increase in ransomware attacks from the first quarter to the second quarter of this year, due in part to the shift to remote work.

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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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Udemy targets valuation of $4B in major edtech IPO

TechCrunch

Online education company Udemy this morning set an initial IPO price range for its upcoming debut. The San Francisco-based edtech unicorn — backed by Learn Capital, Insight Partners and Norwest, among others — expects to price its IPO between $27 and $29 per share. The company could be valued at more than $4 billion at the upper end of its price range.

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Building a Holistic Security System for DevOps Projects

Dzone - DevOps

DevOps aligns the work of software developers and other IT professionals to ensure better quality, faster time to market, and increased productivity. It emphasizes communication, collaboration, integration, and automation of all aspects of software delivery, from development to testing to deployment. A DevOps approach to software development enables an organization to have systems in place that support the production of software in a fast, reliable, and incremental way.

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Walking the Data Security vs Data Privacy Tightrope

Kaseya

Protecting personal, sensitive information from falling into the wrong hands is increasingly one of the top reasons SMBs turn to MSPs for guidance and assistance. What had once seemed like a distant, existential threat is now startingly real for businesses of all sizes as well as the individuals who entrust their private information to them. MSP customers – and their customers’ customers – have seen enough headlines about security breaches to realize the problem is widespread.

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The shift from DevOps and security to DevSecOps: 5 key roadblocks

TechBeacon

Do a Google News search on “cybersecurity” and you'll get tens of millions of results. Of course, that doesn’t mean there were that many cybersecurity incidents in the last week or so, but it sure does feel that way. The application supply chain is a prime target for this onslaught of cyberattacks, which is what makes DevSecOps—building app security into development from end to end—so critical.

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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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PayPal said to be exploring potential acquisition of Pinterest

TechCrunch

In what would be a blockbuster acquisition, PayPal is reportedly exploring the purchase of social media company Pinterest, according to Bloomberg. According to the publication, San Jose, California-based PayPal has “recently approached” Pinterest about a potential buyout. Citing an anonymous source, Bloomberg said PayPal could pay around $70 a share, which would value Pinterest at about $39 billion.

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What Every Executive Needs to Know About the Day Facebook Disappeared From the Internet

Toptal

Leading Toptal engineering and finance experts analyze the social network’s epic outage and distill key takeaways for business leaders. Find out what you can do to protect your company from a costly service interruption.

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Dos and Don’ts to Successfully Adopt Test Automation in DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

Gone are the days when releases to the production environment were rare. To outmaneuver the uncertainty caused by the pandemic, roll out software briskly while turning clients into brand advocates for life, businesses are continuously improving delivered IT products by releasing several and more times a day. For that, the process of ensuring high build quality should accelerate substantially and take minutes, not hours.

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Atlassian Survey Shows Lack of Collaboration in Software Development

DevOps.com

A survey of 750 IT and engineering leaders found that while a full 83% of respondents agree that interdepartmental communication is critical for successful software development, only 41% of respondents view cross-collaboration to be a priority. The survey gathered responses from within organizations that generated more than $50 million in annual revenue and was conducted […].

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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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The future of remote work is text

TechCrunch

It’s impossible to talk about Automattic without talking about remote work. The company is a role model and innovator in this area: It has been entirely remote since 2005, and at 1,700 employees, it has helped prove that a remote workplace culture can succeed at scale. But “remote” has taken on a different meaning than it denoted two years ago. Since COVID-19 began, companies that never planned on working remotely have moved millions of employees online.

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The 15 Best Container Monitoring Tools For Kubernetes And Docker

CloudZero

There are many tangible benefits to using containers for your computing needs. Containers help break large applications into smaller packages that are more agile, scalable on-demand, resilient, cost-effective, and less resource-hungry than monolithic apps or workloads running on traditional virtual machines (VMs) or bare metal servers.

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How These Female Sales Leaders Are Blazing Their Own Trail: Meet Doreen, Natália, and Rachel

Dataiku

Ever wanted to know more about the people behind your favorite Everyday AI platform? You're in luck — every few weeks, meet some of the humans at Dataiku working to ensure customers and users find success as they systemize the use of data and AI in their organizations. This week, we spoke with three sales leaders: Doreen, RVP Inside Sales EMEA; Natália, RVP UK&I; and Rachel, VP Sales and General Manager Central Europe.

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Why Observability and Monitoring Matter to SREs

DevOps.com

Site reliability engineers, or SREs, do many things. They help developers build reliability into applications. They manage SLAs and SLOs. They play a leading role in incident management and incident response. For all of these tasks, SREs draw heavily on observability and monitoring. Although other parts of the IT organization also typically help to manage […].

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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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Republic may build a secondary exchange for digital securities, fueled by $150 million in new funding

TechCrunch

There’s plenty of frustration in the world of startups over when a digital asset does and does not constitute a security in the eyes of the Securities & Exchange Commission. Where many see regulatory murkiness, the five-year-old, New York-based investing platform Republic sees opportunity. Indeed, while many outfits grapple with whether to distance themselves from certain digital assets, Republic — whose CEO, Kendrick Nguyen, started his career in securities litigation with Goodw

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11 Ways to Improve Your Retrospectives

Agile42

Retrospectives provide the opportunity for a team to look back and see how they can improve. They can be a catalyst for organizational change as well as team change. . Continue reading 11 Ways to Improve Your Retrospectives at agile42.

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Externalizing Your Configurations With Vault for Scalable Deployments

Dzone - DevOps

Table of Contents: Introduction. The Solution. Setting Up Vault. Creating API Admin Policy. Creating Read-Only user policy. Creating Token attached with API read-only policy. 1. Linux Shell Integration. 2. Java Integration. 3. Python Integration. 4. Nodejs Integration. 5. Ansible Integration. Conclusion. Introduction: To implement automation for microservices or applications deployed to a large number of systems, it becomes essential to externalize the configurations to a secure, scalable, centr