Sat.Jul 03, 2021 - Fri.Jul 09, 2021

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8 Security Considerations for CI/CD

DevOps.com

In the software development enterprise, CI/CD refers to the combined practices of continuous integration and either continuous delivery or continuous deployment. CI/CD enables organizations to bridge the gap between development, operation activities and teams by the use of automation when building, testing and deploying applications. How do you maintain quality and security with frequent deployments?

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Cryptocurrency company Circle to go public in SPAC deal

TechCrunch

Circle has announced that it plans to become a public company. The cryptocurrency company will merge with Concord Acquisition Corp, a SPAC. Circle is better known as one of the founding members of the Centre consortium with Coinbase. Along with other crypto partners , they have issued USD Coin (USDC), a popular stablecoin. A SPAC is a publicly traded blank-check company.

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Testing Assumptions at the Minimum Viable Conference

Agile Alliance

A quick recap of our Minimum Viable Conference event, a warm-up to THE Agile event of the year, Agile2021, happening online around the world from July 19-22, 2021. The post Testing Assumptions at the Minimum Viable Conference first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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How Do I Maintain Productivity as I Return to the Office? (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like so many managers we’re talking with, working from home enabled you to be surprisingly more productive. So, how do you maintain these new levels of productivity when you head back to the office? How do you “land in the and” to support your team without burning out. 7 Ways to Maintain Productivity as I Return to the Office #AskingForaFriend. 7 Tips for staying productive as you return to the office (or move to hybrid work. ).

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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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Palantir Has Quietly Become a Major SPAC Investor

CTOvision

Read Eric J. Savitz explain how Palantir Technologies, Inc. is quietly becoming a major Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) on Barrons : The big data analytics company Palantir Technologies has quietly become an aggressive investor in companies going public via SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies. A SPAC is basically a management group that raises capital […].

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Datavail Achieves AWS Service Delivery Designation for Amazon RDS

Datavail

Datavail has reached an exciting milestone : We’ve achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Delivery Designation for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). This achievement recognizes that Datavail follows best practices and has proven success delivering AWS services to end customers. AWS created the AWS Service Delivery Program to highlight AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners that have an exceptional level of expertise in delivering its services.

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Share Your Ideas: Practical Ways to Ensure Your Voice is Heard

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Overcome FOSU (Fear of Speaking Up) and Share Your Ideas. You want to share your ideas to improve the business, but if you’re like many employees we work with sometimes it’s hard to know just how or when to share them. Maybe you’ve had a bad experience before and it feels safer to stay silent. Or, perhaps you’re not quite sure if your idea is a good idea.

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How can a business ensure the security of their supply chain?

CTOvision

Read Kevin Reed analyze how businesses can ensure the security of their supply chains on Help Net Security : Since the SolarWinds’ supply chain attack, there has been an increased focus on how organizations of all sizes ensure the security of their suppliers. Large and small organizations alike have been victims of supply chain attacks. […].

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MAGIC Fund raises $30M to scale its global founders-backing-founders fund

TechCrunch

Influential entrepreneurs like Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant always preach the need for startups to have founders-turned-investors on their cap table. As Ravikant puts it, “founders want to know that the people they are taking money from have first-hand experience.” . His platform AngelList has helped individual founders-cum-investors source and participate in deals via collectives.

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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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How cyber-attacks take down critical infrastructure

Darktrace

Operational technology does not need to be directly targeted to be shut down by an attack. This blog discusses how cyber-attacks can disrupt the continuity of operations by creating safety concerns, as well as the limits of securing IT and OT in isolation on today’s threat landscape.

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Leading from the Middle with Scott Mautz

Let's Grow Leaders

If you have a boss and are a boss, you’ll be very familiar with the messy middle. Leading from the middle requires a special mindset and specific leadership skills. In this episode, former P&G senior executive and author Scott Mautz, gives you practical skills and the mindset to thrive and transform your organization. Have something ready to write with – you’ll want to take notes!

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Palantir appoints former Cerner boss to cement place in UK health sector

CTOvision

Palantir has moved to further cement its place in the UK health sector by appointing a managing director for the country. Dr Justin Whatling joins the global tech firm from US health IT supplier Cerner. His main role will be to provide guidance to Palantir’s health and life sciences clients, including NHS England. He will continue his […].

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ManoMano raises $355 million for its home improvement e-commerce platform

TechCrunch

French startup ManoMano has raised a Series F funding round of $355 million led by Dragoneer Investment Group. The company operates an e-commerce platform focused on DIY, home improvement and gardening products. It is currently available in six European countries. Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $2.6 billion. In addition to Dragoneer Investment Group, Temasek, General Atlantic, Eurazeo, Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund, Aglaé Ventures, Kismet Holdings and Ar

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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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Build wicked fast sites with Astro: An Introduction

Netlify

One of the hot new frameworks on the scene is Astro , and it’s all about shipping less client-side JavaScript. I decided to give in a whirl and was pretty pleased with being able to write React, and see the immediate performance benefits when loading scripts only when I want to. Astro is still early in its life (version 0.16.1 at the time of writing), but already has a great community going of folks playing with it.

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Big Gains Are Made In The ‘Last Mile’ of DevOps

DevOps.com

A new study by mabl found a correlation between complete, fully automated test coverage and a significant increase in customer happiness and DevOps maturity. In contrast, those with moderate DevOps maturity and nearly automated testing coverage tend to experience a sharp decline in end-user satisfaction. Mabl recently released its 2021 State of Testing in DevOps […].

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OODA on Mitigating Cyber Risks In The Age of Continuous Crisis

CTOvision

In early May we began a discussion with our OODA Network members that started with an observation. About six months prior we had been through the Solar Winds attack, which from our perspective was clearly one of the most damaging attacks/espionage operations in history. Soon after that, the attack series named Hafnium by Microsoft was […].

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Cloud security platform Netskope boosts valuation to $7.5B following $300M raise

TechCrunch

Netskope , focused on Secure Access Service Edge architecture, announced Friday a $300 million investment round on a post-money valuation of $7.5 billion. The oversubscribed insider investment was led by ICONIQ Growth, which was joined by other existing investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel, Sequoia Capital Global Equities, Base Partners, Sapphire Ventures and Geodesic Capital.

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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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Remote, not re-moat

Toptal

In the name of “returning to normal,” companies are forcing employees back into the office, locking out both themselves and their employees from working remotely—and all of the benefits that it brings.

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A Data-Driven Approach to DevOps: Tips for Improving Speed and Scale

DevOps.com

Data has an undeniable power in a business context — it can sway stakeholders, help identify pain points, and demonstrate how changes are making an impact on the company. As the creator of Jenkins, Kohsuke Kawaguchi has noticed from his conversations with business leaders in the industry that implementing a data-driven mindset can be a […]. The post A Data-Driven Approach to DevOps: Tips for Improving Speed and Scale appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Investing in Ethereum? What you need to know about it and why it’s not just another bitcoin

CTOvision

Read why Tanaya Macheel says Ethereum is a very good investment choice and explains how it differs from Bitcoin on CNBC : As institutional investors become more comfortable with bitcoin, many have also taken an interest in ether, the native currency of the most widely used blockchain-based development platform, as they seek further diversification beyond […].

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Nextdoor’s SPAC investor deck paints a picture of sizable scale and sticky users

TechCrunch

The SPAC parade continues in this shortened week with news that community social network Nextdoor will go public via a blank-check company. The unicorn will merge with Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. II, taking itself public and raising capital at the same time. Per the former startup, the transaction with the Khosla-affiliated SPAC will generate gross proceeds of around $686 million, inclusive of a $270 million private investment in public equity, or PIPE, which is being funded by a collection

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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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DevSecOps resilience: Leverage compliance to boost your security

TechBeacon

When you look at your business strategy from a high level, everything seems straightforward and easy. Goals can be clear and express business value, the road map can push your teams with achievable goals, and key performance indicators (KPIs) can be selected to measure and promote success. At a high level, combining business and security is both achievable and commonsensical.

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Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 1)

DevOps.com

This blog series explains how to engineer applications for DevOps. Topics covered in this blog series: • Factors to consider when deciding whether an application is a good candidate for DevOps. • Best practices for engineering designs for DevOps • DevOps applied to enterprise apps and software services • DevOps applied to COTS systems. • […]. The post Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 1) appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Announcing Open 3D Engine (O3DE)

CTOvision

Amazon has shifted its Lumberyard game engine to open source. This is big news not just for the gaming industry, but for any industry that can benefit from 3D modeling, 3D simulation, 3D planning/design. For more see: For more see : Amazon Web Services aka AWS.

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What I learned the hard way from naming 30+ startups

TechCrunch

Drew Beechler. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Drew Beechler is the director of marketing at High Alpha , a venture studio that creates and funds B2B SaaS companies. There’s a lot wrapped up in a name: feelings, emotions, connotation, unconscious bias, personal history. It’s an identity — it gives something meaning and importance. In leading marketing and brand at High Alpha , I think about naming quite a bit.

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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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Uptime Is For Amateurs

Dzone - DevOps

You’ve probably heard of Site Reliability Engineering, but what does it really mean? My good friend Brian Murphy knows. As the SRE Manager at G-Research, Brian has spent his career building and managing successful SRE teams. He joins me on Dev Interrupted to explain how SRE teams operate, what success looks like, and why uptime isn’t the most important metric.

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A New DevOps Database Platform is Needed

DevOps.com

The diverse number of database platforms, deployment environments and data variants needed to support the plethora of applications and services required for rapid DevOps continuous delivery lead times, coupled with the challenges of integrating database changes for application pipelines, is a growing challenge for many organizations as they strive to accelerate their DevOps transformations.

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Supply Chain Finance, the Next Wave of Business Growth

CTOvision

Read Steve Murphy explain how supply chain financing is emerging as a next big business growth sector on Payments Journal : The use of working capital management tactics gained some further credibility during the past 16 months as certain industries, and many small businesses struggled to keep afloat amidst lockdowns. This was/is applied globally since […].

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