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How to Help Your Team Think Bigger

Let's Grow Leaders

Help your team think bigger by engaging, equipping, and encouraging. The other day we were chatting with a group of senior leaders deeply committed to building a courageous culture. They shared a frustration we hear all the time: “Our managers think too small! How do we help people REALLY CONSIDER what they’re doing–to look for better ways to work smarter?

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What Does AIOps Mean for SREs?

DevOps.com

It seems SREs are of two minds when it comes to AIOps. On one hand, AIOps’ potential is pretty exciting. By automating complex workflows and troubleshooting processes, AIOps could make your life as an SRE much easier. But on the other hand, some SREs may choose to view AIOps with disdain and distrust. They might […]. The post What Does AIOps Mean for SREs?

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Series B is the attention-seeking middle child of financing rounds

TechCrunch

?. Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week our comrade Mary Ann was off, so Natasha and Alex teamed up with Grace on the dials to chat through the week’s biggest news. Here’s what our dynamic duo got into: Webflow’s new round: Nine-figures of capital at a revenue multiple north of 40x?

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Under-commitment leads to higher sprint velocity

Agile Alliance

A practice of under-commitment creates a motivated team that has the time and mental space to stretch within the sprint and achieve higher levels of task completion. The post Under-commitment leads to higher sprint velocity first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Investing in the hiring process

Martin Fowler

Tim Cochran and Roni Smith complete their article by looking at how scaleups need to invest in the hiring process to overcome the talent bottleneck. They add a case study from our experiences with talent acquisition at Thoughtworks. more….

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Cowbell raises $100M to build out its AI-based cyber insurance platform for SMBs

TechCrunch

Cybercrime is on the rise, and today an insurance startup that’s built an artificial intelligence-based platform to help manage the risks from that is announcing a big round of funding to meet the opportunity. Cowbell Cyber, a full-stack insurance company that provides cyber insurance to SMEs, has closed a Series B of $100 million, which it will be using to continue investing in its data science and “risk engineering”, as well as underwriting tech, claims management, its reinsu

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The Future of Agile in a Hybrid World

Agile Alliance

Remote and hybrid work could be an incredible opportunity for agile practitioners around the world. In this panel conversation, we explore the impact of hybrid work environments on Agile work. The post The Future of Agile in a Hybrid World first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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How to get out of the talent bottleneck

Martin Fowler

Tim Cochran and Roni Smith explore how scaleups can get out of the hiring bottleneck by using technology and innovation as a hiring differentiator, hiring T-shaped and non-senior developers, and embracing remote working. more….

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Survey Finds Widespread Adoption of DevOps in Mainframe Sites

DevOps.com

A survey of IT leaders by the market research firm Global Surveyz found a full 100% of respondents are modernizing their mainframe applications, but the reasons behind and approaches to achieving that goal vary widely. The research was conducted on behalf of Model9, a provider of tools for migrating mainframe data, and polled 100 companies […].

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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 much is ‘link in bio’ real estate worth? Linktree’s new valuation says $1.3 billion

TechCrunch

Who would’ve thought that an entire swath of startups would spring up all because Instagram, TikTok and Twitter only let you link to one website in your bio? Apparently, Linktree co-founder and CEO Alex Zaccaria did. “We started back in 2016 with a really clear use case to solve this problem for musicians and artists that needed a better way to link out of socials to all their different revenue streams, and we really needed to unify that experience for them to help drive monetization

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Communication Chaos vs. Communication Champions

Agile Alliance

Teams want to do high-quality work as quickly as possible – when we implement a few tweaks, we can help our teams go from suffering communication chaos to being communication champions! The post Communication Chaos vs. Communication Champions first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Defending Your Organization from Cybercrime

TechSoup

Cybercrime poses an increasing threat to all organizations, and nonprofits can be more vulnerable than most. To keep your organization and clients' information safe, it's important to be vigilant and proactive in defending your data from cyberthreats. Cyberattacks can disrupt your operations and prevent you from fulfilling your mission.

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Secure Software Summit: The State of OSS Supply Chain Security

DevOps.com

The open source software (OSS) supply chain is under attack. As evidenced by the recent Log4Shell vulnerability, the OSS supply chain is increasingly a focus for attackers seeking to exploit weak links in security. A number of research reports have recorded a significant increase in so-called ‘next-gen software supply chain attacks‘ over the past decade. […].

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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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Plantish fishes for restaurant partners to try plant-based salmon filets

TechCrunch

Alternative seafood startup Plantish believes it is close to initial distribution of its whole-cut salmon filet via restaurants. The Israeli company is only a year old, but has already tackled the structure of the whole cut, which is complex, co-founder and CEO Ofek Ron told TechCrunch. Its first product, Plantish salmon, mimics cooked salmon in taste, texture, appearance and structure, and has similar nutritional value of high protein and Omega-3.

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Strawberry Jam with Tasty Lumps

Agile Alliance

The processes that have grown up around “Agile” are all capable of being spread too thin, of being understood so poorly that they deliver only mediocre results at best. The post Strawberry Jam with Tasty Lumps first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Remarks From The Edge of The War Zone

CEO Insider

This is not a typical CEOWORLD magazine article. Still, there are events whose significance cannot be ignored. My text – written in Warsaw, Poland, not far from the Ukrainian border – follows up on Dr. Joe Zamit-Lucia’s article “Tomorrow The World Will Not Return To Normal” (CEOWORLD Magazine, March 7, 2022). Facts Ukraine (approximately 44 […].

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Why the Linux Kernel is Still Important

DevOps.com

Last year, the Linux kernel turned 30. If you’re someone who’s been immersed in the Linux world since Y2K like I am, it may feel a bit surreal that so much time has passed since the kernel’s inception. As a training architect at A Cloud Guru (ACG), I teach courses about all things Linux and […]. The post Why the Linux Kernel is Still Important appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Getir is now worth nearly $12 billion after raising another $768 million

TechCrunch

Instant delivery startup Getir has announced that it has closed a new $768 million Series E founding round. Following this deal, the company has reached a valuation of $11.8 billion. Mubadala Investment Company is leading the founding round with Abu Dhabi Growth Fund (ADG), Alpha Wave Global, Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global also participating. Originally from Turkey, Getir has quickly expanded its service across Europe and the U.S.

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The Bullseye Framework, Family, Friends, and Allies

Agile Alliance

The Bulls Eye Framework is an Agile Practice that enables any organization that has adopted Agile or wants to adopt Agile and intends to start its Agile journey or is on its path toward agility. It is a customizable Agile Delivery Framework (ADF) for any organization. About the Framework Designed from scratch, positioned to be … Continued. The post The Bullseye Framework, Family, Friends, and Allies first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Leadership. What’s the Same. What’s Changed.

CEO Insider

In a recent article for CEOWORLD Magazine, I recounted my experience with Warden Exchange. The principals asked me to lead a program that connected the five exemplary practices from The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner with the frameworks from my most recent book, Peernovation: What Peer Advisory Groups Can Teach Us About […].

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CSS-Tricks Sells Out | Peloton Spins Out | ARM Axes 1,000

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: CSS-Tricks gets bought by DigitalOcean, Peloton fiddles while its business burns, and Arm lays off up to 15% of staff. The post CSS-Tricks Sells Out | Peloton Spins Out | ARM Axes 1,000 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Tortoise co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko: ‘You can’t do too many things at the same time’

TechCrunch

For a company named after a slow reptile, Silicon Valley startup Tortoise has made some quick pivots into new business models over the past year. Co-founded in 2019 by ex-Uber executive Dmitry Shevelenko, the company began with a mission of being the operating system for micromobility vehicles , one that uses remote operators to reposition shared electric scooters to locations where prospective riders are or send them back to the warehouse for a charge.

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Human Centered Agile Experience Report

Agile Alliance

Supercharge your Agile with Human-Centered Design We combined Human-Centered Design (HCD) with Agile for a “best of both worlds” approach that achieved striking results. Challenges were : 1. These professions have different mindsets and often struggle to speak to one another. HCD Practitioners are used to spending most of their time in the problem space … Continued.

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How to Effectively Bridge the DevOps – R&D Gap Without Sacrificing Reliability

Dzone - DevOps

DevOps culture revolutionized our industry. Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration made six sigma reliability commonplace. 20 years ago we would kick the production servers and listen to the hard drive spin, that was observability. Today’s DevOps teams deploy monitoring tools that provide development teams with deep insight into the production environment. “ O brave new world That has such people in’t!

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CircleCI Report: Pipeline Optimization Best Practices

DevOps.com

CircleCI today published a report that found most successful software engineering teams have average workflow durations of five to 10 minutes, with any failed run being fixed or reverted in under an hour. The report was based on two years of data gathered from more than a quarter-billion workflows and collected from nearly 50,000 organizations […].

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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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Sleek wants to be the last shopping check-out form you ever fill out

TechCrunch

One-click checkout continues to stretch out its moment, and Sleek is the latest startup to get in on the venture capital action, where similar companies like Ownit , Bolt , Checkout.com , OurPass and Rapyd have collectively raised over $3 billion in investments within the past 18 months. Toronto-based Sleek, which was part of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 batch, is developing a browser extension enabling one-click checkout and cash-back savings.

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How Will 2020 Shape the Future of Agility

Agile Alliance

In the summer of 2020, the Agile Alliance responded by convening a four-month series for its membership base, on how to grow equity and diversity in the Agile community. During this conversation, we're exploring what outcomes from those conversations, and how those events will shape 2021 and beyond. MEMBER? PLEASE LOG IN. To view the … Continued.

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CVE-2022-0811: CRI-O Vulnerability Could Allow Container Escape

Aqua Security

A newly discovered vulnerability in the container runtime tool CRI-O could allow for attackers who are able to create pods in a Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster that uses the software, to break out to the underlying cluster node, effectively escalating their privileges. While, as ever, the best way to address this issue is to apply the appropriate security patch, some other measures can be taken to mitigate attacks that exploit this until patches can be deployed.

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