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Escaping the Death Spiral of Your Agile Transformation

Agile Alliance

This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people become more Agile. Almost all of us have seen Agile transformations being disrupted by external factors. For example, a new strategy, new CEO, a market disruption, or a pandemic can bring a … Continued.

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Bitemporal History

Martin Fowler

It's often necessary to access the historical values of some property. But sometimes this history itself needs to be modified in response to retroactive updates. Bitemporal history treats time as two dimensions: actual history records what history should be given perfect transmission of information, while record history captures how our knowledge of history changes.

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Streamlit nabs $35M Series B to expand machine learning platform

TechCrunch

As a company founded by data scientists, Streamlit may be in a unique position to develop tooling to help companies build machine learning applications. For starters, it developed an open-source project, but today the startup announced an expanded beta of a new commercial offering and $35 million in Series B funding. Sequoia led the investment with help from previous investors Gradient Ventures and GGV Capital.

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Rethinking data management for faster time to value

CIO

As enterprises move ahead in their digital transformation journey, the massive trail of data from digital transactions is growing steadily, but for many organizations extracting intelligence from data remains a pipe dream.

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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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Advancing Your Agile Career Through Speaking

Agile Alliance

We are still accepting speakers for Agile2021, but time is running out! Please see our submissions page to learn how you can become a speaker. As we near the close of the submission process for Agile2021, we wanted to continue to build on our commitment to expand and attract content that is from a … Continued. The post Advancing Your Agile Career Through Speaking first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Snorkel AI scores $35M Series B to automate data labeling in machine learning

TechCrunch

One of the more tedious aspects of machine learning is providing a set of labels to teach the machine learning model what it needs to know. Snorkel AI wants to make it easier for subject matter experts to apply those labels programmatically, and today the startup announced a $35 million Series B. It also announced a new tool called Application Studio that provides a way to build common machine learning applications using templates and predefined components.

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pdflayer API Review – HTML to PDF Conversion API for Developers

The Crazy Programmer

pdflayer is an API used by developers for seamless automated conversion of high-quality HTML to PDF on any platform (websites, applications). The lightweight RESTful API enables developers to generate highly customizable PDFs from URLs and HTML. Additionally, the platform offers a robust and sturdy infrastructure with simple and straightforward integration.

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Agile in Color Q1 2021 Update

Agile Alliance

Q1 2021 has been a busy quarter for the Agile in Color initiative with Agile Alliance. After spending the last six months of 2020 coming together following Agile Alliance’s Growing Racial Equity in the Agile Community for Black Lives, our group of dedicated Agilists and Co-Conspirators launched Agile in Color in 2021. Our group presented … Continued.

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Inclusive Leadership – Get comfortable with discomfort

Let's Grow Leaders

Building inclusive leadership requires getting comfortable with discomfort, taking daily small steps, and being selective with the feedback you listen to. The first time you presented to the executive team—you stuttered a bit, but you got through it. Discomfort doesn’t mean anything’s wrong. It means you’re growing. As you do the work to lead inclusively, you’ll return again to these moments of discomfort.

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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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Twitter said to have held acquisition talks with Clubhouse on potential $4B deal

TechCrunch

Twitter held talks with Clubhouse around a potential acquisition of the live drop-in audio networking platform, with a deal value somewhere around $4 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. TechCrunch has also confirmed the discussions took place from a source familiar with the conversations. While the talks occurred over the past several months, they’re no longer taking place, though the reason they ended isn’t known according to the report.

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Torvalds’ Bug Warning is a Lesson for Linux Users 

DevOps.com

Linux does, occasionally, raise security concerns. While many users see it as the most secure, robust and versatile operating system available — that’s this writer’s opinion, as well — security precautions still have to be taken. A recent, widely publicized case illustrated this point; Linux creator himself, Linus Torvalds, warned against the use of the […].

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27 JavaScript experts to follow on Twitter

TechBeacon

Among the bevy of programming languages out there, JavaScript (JS) remains one of the most popular. The object-oriented scripting language is often used for web development. It's versatile enough to handle simple website and app features or advanced programming such as interactive elements on a page.

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Kafka Migration and Lessons Learned

Honeycomb

Over the last few months, Honeycomb’s platform team migrated to a new iteration of our ingest pipeline for customer events. Our migration to this newer architecture did not go too smoothly, as can be attested by our status page since February. There were also many near-incidents where we got paged and reacted quickly enough to avoid major issues. We’ve decided to write a full overview of all the challenges we had encountered, which you can can download.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Clubhouse launches payments so creators can make money

TechCrunch

Clubhouse, a one-year-old social audio app reportedly valued at $1 billion , will now allow users to send money to their favorite creators — or speakers — on the platform. In a blog post, the startup announced the new monetization feature, Clubhouse Payments, as the “the first of many features that allow creators to get paid directly on Clubhouse.”.

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Low-Code and DevOps: Friends or Foes?

DevOps.com

What does low-code mean, and who is it really for? Over the last few years, I’ve seen many articles associating “low-code” with “citizen developers” or with people who don’t have deep development skills. Users can arrange visual elements, or fill in forms with key information and publish the result as an application. But tools for […]. The post Low-Code and DevOps: Friends or Foes?

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Continuous management platforms: The key ingredient for digital transformation

TechBeacon

If you ask a great cooks why their food is so good, you will often find that there is one necessary ingredient in a recipe that makes all the difference. In the pursuit of digital transformation, that ingredient is a well-chosen continuous management platform.

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Crypto-mining malware: Uncovering a cryptocurrency farm in a warehouse

Darktrace

Cyber AI discovered an extensive crypto-mining campaign in cardboard boxes in a disused warehouse. This blog discusses the rise in cryptocurrency farms and what this signals for the international cyber-threat landscape.

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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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Singapore-based career platform Glints gets $22.5M in Series C funding

TechCrunch

Glints , the Singapore-based career platform, announced today it has raised $22.5 million in Series C funding led by Japanese human resources management firm PERSOL Holdings. The new capital will be used on Glints’ expansion in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan and hiring for its product and engineering teams. Glints co-founder and chief executive officer Oswald Yeo said this is the largest funding round to date for a talent platform in Southeast Asia, and brings the startup’s total raise

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Enterprise ML Investments on the Rise

DevOps.com

The second wave of enterprise artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) adoption is building, and is expected to crest in 2021, as many organizations increased and accelerated their investments in tools and people. That was one of the unmistakable conclusions of our 2021 enterprise trends in machine learning report: 83% of the companies we surveyed […].

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Go data-driven with your DevOps: 5 tips for improving speed and scale

TechBeacon

One of the side benefits of leading the Jenkins automation server project over the years is that I’ve had the opportunity to interview numerous companies on their workflows and practices. In some cases, I’ve found regular people who achieved extraordinary results through ordinary means.

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3 Vulnerabilities to Plug to Secure Your Customers’ Remote Workforce

Kaseya

The migration to a remote workforce hit fast forward in the past year as businesses around the world asked employees to do from home what they used to do in the office. For some companies, this was an expansion of existing remote work activities, while it was a sudden shock for others. But after a year of attending business meetings in pajamas and zero-minute commutes, many employees are eager to keep their current work-from-home arrangements, at least some of the time, even after the pandemic i

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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No-code publishing platform Shorthand raises $8M

TechCrunch

Shorthand , the Australian startup behind a no-code platform that allows publishers and brands to create multimedia stories, has raised $10 million Australian (just under $8 million U.S.) from Fortitude Investment Partners. CEO Ricky Robinson told me via email that this is Shorthand’s first institutional round of funding, and that the company has been profitable for the past two years. “We’ve been lucky enough to grow to where we are today through an entirely inbound, organic m

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NASA is so Much More than “Rockets”, April 8, 2021, 11:00 AM (EST)

Dots and Bridges

Background. The public and private sectors share a symbiotic relationship; one that requires continuous dialogue in order to effect mission enablement, workforce development, and technology optimization. However, well-intentioned efforts to collaborate tend to focus on a buy-sell paradigm versus a seeker-solver opportunity. The Dots and Bridges Thought Leadership Consortium understands, appreciates, and values participatory, transparent, and cooperative discussion.

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Where are you on the DevSecOps Maturity Model continuum?

TechBeacon

Applications are organizations’ lifeblood, and the DevOps model enables companies to develop, deploy, run, and update products and services quickly. But if your code is not secure, it’s going to get thrown back over the wall by the security team, negating any efficiencies gained by DevOps in the first place. This is where DevSecOps comes in.

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Low-Code Makes API Testing More Accessible

DevOps.com

APIs are rising both in quantity and business value. But with that growth comes an increasing number of vulnerabilities, which could affect cloud service dependencies and internal APIs. Functionality and uptime could also suffer as cloud services evolve their APIs with new versions. Thus, API endpoint testing is critical to ensure a reliable back end. […].

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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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ShareChat valued at $2.1 billion in $502 million fundraise

TechCrunch

ShareChat said on Thursday it has raised a new financing round that values it at over $2 billion, joining four other local startups in attaining the unicorn status this week. The Indian social network said it has raised $502 million in a new financing round — Series E — led by Tiger Global that valued ShareChat at $2.1 billion, up from about $650 million last year.

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Build Strong Working Relationships with Executives at Work

Career Advancement

“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.” – Ben Stein. Getting to know the key executives in your company will propel your career forward. Those influential leaders need to know who you are, what you do, and the value you bring. When they understand how much you contribute and truly like and believe in you, they will want to see you succeed.

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Computer science degrees: Still relevant but not required

TechBeacon

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, about one-quarter of IT workers in the United States do not hold a bachelor’s degree or higher. And while many businesses will interview only candidates with a certain level of education, most do not specify what type of degree is needed in their job descriptions, which range from software engineering to DevOps roles to software test automation engineers.