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4 Ways to Simplify Cloud Performance Monitoring

DevOps.com

Over the past 18 months, technologists across the globe have played a crucial role in the survival of brands and organizations via digital strategies. Across all industries, their skill and dedication have enabled businesses to rapidly launch innovative new digital services to meet huge fluctuations in customer needs and allow entire workforces to operate from […].

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Diving Into Digital Transformation With Deloitte Consulting’s Managing Director of Applied AI

Dataiku

As the competitor and consumer spaces shift to adapt to emerging innovations, companies have developed a thirst for machine learning (ML) investment, hoping to apply ML as a prime AI enabler. Organizations are jumping to fill their digital canvases, but many are struggling to define exactly what that looks like and approach the journey with clarity.

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AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again

TechCrunch

Ralf Haller. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ralf Haller is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at NNAISENSE. SaaS, PaaS – and now AIaaS: Entrepreneurial, forward-thinking companies will attempt to provide customers of all types with artificial intelligence-powered plug-and-play solutions for myriad business problems. Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions.

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Ship / Show / Ask: A modern branching strategy

Martin Fowler

I've written a fair bit about how using pull requests can encourage a low integration frequency, reducing cycle time and discouraging refactoring. Rouan Wilsenach has had success using an approach that categorizes changes as Ship/Show/Ask - using this classification to decide whether and how to use pull requests.

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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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Agile Experience Reports: A Fresh Look at Timeless Content

Agile Alliance

Explore the newly designed experience report section of Agile Alliance, now organized by topic as well as by conference. The post Agile Experience Reports: A Fresh Look at Timeless Content first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

TechCrunch

Sindhya Valloppillil. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sindhya Valloppillil is the founder and CEO of Skin Dossier, a venture partner at Next Gen Ventures, a freelance writer and formerly a beauty industry executive and marketing professor. More posts by this contributor. It may not be as glamorous as D2C, but beauty tech is big money. We have been raised to believe in recycling, but it has mostly been a sham — only 9% of all plastic waste produced in 2018 was recycled.

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Wait, Did AS8003 just disappear?

Kentik

There has been a new development in The Mystery of AS8003. As you may recall, this was the AS number registered to a defunct company in Florida that appeared earlier this year in the global routing table announcing over 175 million IPv4 addresses belonging to the US Department of Defense. Well, that just changed. At 17:05 UTC (1:05pm) on Tuesday, 7 September 2021, all but one of the 765 prefixes previously announced by AS8003 were moved to a new origin, AS749 belonging to the US Department of De

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From Collaboration to Solitude and Back: Experiences with Remote Pair Programming during COVID-19

Agile Alliance

Along with the increasing popularity of agile software development, software work has become much more social than ever. Contemporary software teams rely on a variety of collaborative practices, such as pair programming, the topic of our study. Many agilists advocated the importance of collocation, face-to-face interaction, and physical artefacts incorporated in the shared workspace, which … Continued.

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How Do I Balance Empathy and Execution? with Sara Canaday (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Balancing Empathy For Employees Needs with Execution and Accountability. How do I balance empathy and execution? On this week’s Asking For a Friend, I talk with Sara Canady, leadership expert and author of Leadership Unchained. 5 Ways to Think About Empathy at Work. (Read more in her article Leadership Expectations: How to Juggle the Demands of Empathy, Expectations, and Inclusion).

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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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Sequoia Heritage, Stripe and others invest $200M in African fintech Wave at $1.7B valuation

TechCrunch

Francophone Africa has its first unicorn, and if you’ve been following tech on the continent, you will be very unsurprised to hear that it’s coming from the world of fintech. Wave , a U.S. and Senegal-based mobile money provider, has raised $200 million in Series A round of funding. The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 billion.

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Article: Technical Debt Isn't Technical: What Companies Can Do to Reduce Technical Debt

InfoQ Culture Methods

In this article, three experts discuss some of the key findings of the “State of Technical Debt 2021” report including the impact of technical debt on engineering teams, the pros and cons of dealing with maintenance work continuously, the future of technical debt and what each engineering teams can do to communicate the importance of dealing with technical debt to companies’ leadership.

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Broken promises – how to keep your word and your sanity too

Agile Alliance

How often in your working life do you or your team break your promises? Javascript promises are about committing to a particular action. But asynchronicity demands that they make no assertion about WHEN the promise will be fulfilled. When we are asked to make software delivery estimates and commitments, we don't get the same leeway. … Continued.

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Leadership Development that Works with Jennifer Mackin

Let's Grow Leaders

Leadership development is one of the most important investments you can make in your organization’s success. Unfortunately, there are many ways to do it poorly. The results are lost time, money, credibility – and worst of all, poorly trained leaders. In this episode, Jennifer Mackin, author of Leaders Deserve Better, gives you the roadmap to effective leadership development.

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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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Fintech is transforming the world’s oldest asset class: Farmland

TechCrunch

Artem Milinchuk. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Artem Milinchuk is the founder and CEO of FarmTogether , a fintech platform channeling funding into natural assets, starting with U.S. farmland. Farmland as an asset class has proven itself to be a stable investment decade after decade. Farmland’s negative correlation with the Dow Jones Industrial Average sits at an eye-popping -43% for a three-year hold period, making it an excellent hedge against market volatility.

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3 Building Blocks for Enterprise Digital Transformation

DevOps.com

DevOps has gone from a new idea to a buzzword in every boardroom over the last decade. With society increasing its reliance on digitization and pushing their preferences for speed and convenience, enterprises of all types have had to change their business culture to help their teams to work together with greater speed and autonomy. […]. The post 3 Building Blocks for Enterprise Digital Transformation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How a Psychologically Safe Working Environment Can Help Your Organization to See More Innovation and Growth

Agile Alliance

This talk covers the following topics: 1) What, why and how and OKR - Psychological Safety check for Agile teams helped our organization 2) Quick tips and best practices to improve the Safety net for your agile organization MEMBER? PLEASE LOG IN. To view the content on this page, you must be a Member of … Continued. The post How a Psychologically Safe Working Environment Can Help Your Organization to See More Innovation and Growth first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Courage at Work: How to Be More Courageous (and Why it Matters Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

You want to be more courageous , but sometimes the stakes can just feel too high. So, how do you know the difference between courage and stupidy? “Courage is every virtue at its testing point” -C.S.Lewis. In this week’s, Asking for a Friend, Karin speaks with Jim Detert, author of Choosing Courage , about what it means, and what it takes, to be a bit more courageous at work.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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AI-driven voice assistant PolyAI raises $14M round led by Khosla Ventures

TechCrunch

“Conversational AI” startup PolyAI , based out of London, has raised $14 million in a funding round led by Silicon Valley’s Khosla Ventures, with participation from existing investors (Point72 Ventures, Amadeus Capital, Sands Capital Ventures, Passion Capital and Entrepreneur First). This follows their $12 million Series A, and will provide resources for further U.S. expansion beyond its existing U.S. team.

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Muhstik Takes Aim at Confluence CVE 2021-26084

Lacework

Key Takeaways In line with USCYBERCOM’s warning, publicly available Confluence exploit scripts are being integrated into opportunistic attackers’ toolkits. Muhstik, a known threat actor targeting cloud and IoT, is one of these opportunistic attackers targeting vulnerable Confluence servers to spread their botnet. Lacework Labs observed bash droppers with zero detections on VirusTotal being used [.].

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Customer-Focused C-Suite Appointments Bolster DataRobot’s Executive Leadership Team

CTOvision

DataRobot announced three key additions to its executive leadership bench, welcoming Sirisha Kadamalakalva as the company’s first Chief Strategy Officer and Steve Jenner, who steps into the role of Chief Customer Officer. DataRobot veteran Jay Schuren has been elevated from SVP of Customer Success and Enablement to Chief Data Science Officer, representing the deep talent […].

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3 Pillars of Autonomous IT Ops

DevOps.com

Imagine a future where human IT operators and intelligent systems work together in a virtual operations room; the systems do the heavy lifting while the humans supervise. This may seem like science fiction, but the truth is we are already on the way to that future with AIOps. While actual AI-augmented teams are still quite […]. The post 3 Pillars of Autonomous IT Ops appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Squad Mobility eyes shared platforms as target for its compact solar electric quadricycle

TechCrunch

Squad Mobility’s vision of the perfect urban vehicle is a low-cost EV equipped with solar panels, swappable batteries and enough zip and range in its diminutive 6.5-foot package to meet the needs of city drivers. The early-stage Dutch startup, which recently revealed the final design of its quadricycle, is now assembling working prototypes in Breda, the Netherlands.

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3 best practices for locking down your hybrid cloud security approach

TechBeacon

Most organizations are pursuing a hybrid or multi-cloud strategy these days, for several reasons, including integration of multiple services, agility, accelerated innovation, and business continuity.

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Leo Sun on Where Will Palantir Be in 5 Years?

CTOvision

Read Leo Sun from Motley Fool explain where he sees Palantir Technologies, Inc. heading in five years on NASDAQ Blog : Palantir (NYSE: PLTR) is a divisive stock. The bulls believe the data mining firm will continue to expand across the government and commercial sectors, while the bears believe it’s too dependent on government contracts, […].

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The Next Phase of Pandemic Tech Transformation

DevOps.com

Last spring, we were inundated with headlines, tweets and Medium posts applauding the rapid digital transformation that businesses were going through—almost overnight—due to the pandemic and the shift to remote work. It made for an interesting feel-good narrative at the time, but it didn’t paint the full picture. Companies were thrown into the deep 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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Printify bags $45M, led by Index, to ride the custom printing boom

TechCrunch

The creator economy loves merch which is great news for on-demand custom printing startups such as Latvia-based Printify — today it’s announcing a $45 million Series A round, led by Index Ventures, off the back of rising demand for its services. The mission: To keep growing its global marketplace of print shops to meet rising demand for custom wares, shipped.

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PYSA Ransomware Gang adds Linux Support

Lacework

Key Take Aways The first Linux version of ChaChi, a Golang based DNS tunneling backdoor, was recently observed on VirusTotal. The malware is configured to use domains associated with ransomware actors known as PYSA, aka Menipoza Ransomware Gang. PYSA’s ChaChi infrastructure appears to have been largely dormant for the past several weeks, mostly parked and [.].

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A Closer Look Into the NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guide

Aqua Security

In August, the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released their Kubernetes Hardening Guidance. As Kubernetes continues to rapidly gain adoption, it’s good to see government organizations, such as the NSA, providing guidance on how to secure this critical technology. This blog post takes a high-level look at the most important points in the guide while also providing commentary on how to implement them.