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Cyber resilience: A business imperative CIOs must get right

CIO

With ransomware at an all-time high, companies need to understand that being cyber resilient means going beyond compliance to considering all aspects of a business, from operational continuity to software supply chain security.

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How You Can Encourage Courage and Better Conversations as a Team Activity

Let's Grow Leaders

Psychological Safety and Courage: Two Sides of the Same (Immensely Valuable) Coin Does psychological safety take away the need for courage? Or does courage take away the need for psychological safety? The answer to both questions is a resounding NO. Both are– and will continue to be needed in a complex and uncertain world.” –Dr. Amy Edmondson (in her foreword to Courageous Cultures) If you want real psychological safety on your team, you need people to feel safe and encouraged

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Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications

Martin Fowler

Juntao Qiu is a thoughtful front-end developer experienced with the React programming environment. He's contributed a couple of useful articles to this site, describing helpful patterns for front-end programming. In this article he describes patterns for how single-page applications fetch data. This first installment describes how asynchronous queries can be wrapped in a handler to provide information about the state of the query.

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Mastering software quality with Agile collaboration

Agile Alliance

How the Swiss Post team successfully overcame quality assurance challenges in software development by adopting Agile practices, emphasizing teamwork, and maintaining clear roles and responsibilities. The post Mastering software quality with Agile collaboration first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Is Your Mindset About Generative AI Limiting Your Professional Growth?

Harvard Business Review

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has garnered immense publicity over the past few months. Some believe it’s a passing fad or a threat to human creativity. For young professionals, it’s the source of a unique dilemma: Do you “buy into the hype” of AI and use it as a guidepost for your professional development and ambitions? Or do you stick to the beaten path, focusing on building more traditional skills and pursuing more conventional trajectories?

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Parallel Data Fetching

Martin Fowler

The second pattern in Juntao Qiu's series on data fetching is on how to avoid the dreaded Request Waterfall. Parallel Data Fetching queries multiple sources in parallel, so that the latency of the overall fetch is largest of the queries rather than the sum of them.

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Three Reasons DevOps Should Consider Rocky Linux 9.4

DevOps.com

The new version of Rocky Linux includes security improvements, better cloud images, and the latest developer tools. All those features should interest any DevOps pro.

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AI, Web3 And E-Commerce Led For New Unicorns In April 2024

Crunchbase News

Eleven companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in April 2024 — a big jump up from the six companies that joined in April 2023 but still a fraction of the 40 added to the board in April 2022. The AI, Web3 and e-commerce sectors each added two companies to the board, Crunchbase data shows. Of the 11 new unicorns created last month, six are U.S.-based, with one each from Germany, France, Brazil, Cayman Islands and Australia.

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Your Social Media Presence Can Help You Land (or Lose) a Job Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

Your digital footprint and online activities can have a big effect on how attractive and visible you are to potential employers. How do you notify your network about your job search without sounding too desperate or needy? And if you’re currently employed, how do you walk the tightrope between subtly reaching out to your social media contacts and not setting off alarm bells with your employer?

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12 Reasons Snowflake Costs Get Out of Control — And How to Solve It

With no barriers to entry you can get started with Snowflake for next to nothing, but as you may already know, costs can quickly spiral out of control. While usage costs can be better managed for your internal BI use case, Snowflake costs skyrocket for SaaS providers because the need to deliver real-time, interactive analytics in a multi-tenant environment is always on.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO

It seems anyone can make an AI model these days. Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source. And there are an insane number of variants.

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#783 Becoming a Leader that Crushes Technical Debt with Juan Orlandini, CTO at Insight

Modern CTO

Today we’re talking to Juan Orlandini, CTO at Insight of North America. We discuss what he’s realized recently as a CTO coach, what he’s learned about aging, and just spend time catching up with an old friend of the show. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! To learn more about Insight, check out their website here. Have feedback about the show?

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Error'd: ABQ is the bomb

The Daily WTF

This week we have an unusual number of submissions involving dates or timestamps. That is, the usual sorts of error'ds, but unusually many of them. Gerald E. chuckled "I do love the back to the future movies. But now I can see Beck from the future." Steven J. Pemberton , as his mother calls him, snarked about Utilita: "I received this letter from my energy supplier on 10th May, telling me they were going to install a smart meter at my house on 3rd May.

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Kinsing Malware Hides Itself as a Manual Page and Targets Cloud Servers

Tenable

Background Cloud cryptomining has become an emerging trend in recent years, powered by the scalability and flexibility of cloud platforms. Unlike traditional on-premises infrastructure, cloud infrastructure allows attackers to quickly deploy resources for cryptomining, making it easier to exploit. One of the most common cryptomining threats for cloud environments is the Kinsing malware.

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Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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Your Personal Brand Needs a Refresh. Here’s Where to Start.

Harvard Business Review

In a fast-changing world, it requires both a strategy and disciplined execution to stand out and remain relevant. And since your own career interests, goals, and objectives are likely changing more rapidly than ever, don’t assume that your internal state of mind is reflected in your public brand. Indeed, there’s often a lag between our self-perception and how others view us, and we have to consciously focus on closing that gap to achieve the brand or reputation we seek.

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State of IT jobs: Mixed signals, changes ahead

CIO

IT is an ever-changing industry, a truism that 2023 underscored, thanks in large part to the meteoric rise of generative AI. The industry saw unprecedented growth in certain areas — such as AI and ML — alongside massive layoffs from tech vendors and cooling (or even contracting) salaries for a wide range of IT roles. And in the adjustment to a post-pandemic workforce, employees and employers have found a new battleground, with IT pros continuing to seek remote and flexible work opportunities, wh

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Criminal IP and Quad9 Collaborate to Exchange Domain and IP Threat Intelligence

DevOps.com

Torrance, California, May 13th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Criminal IP, a renowned Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine developed by AI SPERA, has recently signed a technology partnership to exchange threat intelligence data based on domains and potentially on the IP address to protect users by blocking threats to end users.

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The State Department’s Cyber Strategy Seeks to Build Coalitions Against China

Ooda Loop

At the RSA cybersecurity conference, the Secretary of State announced the release of the Department’s new International Cyberspace & Digital Policy Strategy whose four goals are to advance economic prosperity; enhance security and address cybercrime; promote human rights, democracy, and the rule of law; and other transnational challenges.

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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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Microsoft’s May 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 59 CVEs (CVE-2024-30051, CVE-2024-30040)

Tenable

1 Critical 57 Important 1 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 59 CVEs in its May 2024 Patch Tuesday release with one critical vulnerability and three zero-day vulnerabilities, two of which were exploited in the wild. Microsoft patched 59 CVEs in its May 2024 Patch Tuesday release, with one rated critical, 57 rated as important and 1 rated as moderate.

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Use Active Listening to Help a Colleague Make a Hard Decision

Harvard Business Review

Imagine a colleague is faced with a high-stakes decision. They’re likely stressed, conflicted, and overwhelmed. In these situations, many of us default to the role of problem-solver. We try to support our colleague by providing our opinion or offering a solution. But to effectively support decision makers in your organization, you need to step back from your own ego and just listen.

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3 ways to break out of AI ‘pilot purgatory’

CIO

American humorist Mark Twain once said, “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” Today we worry this phenomenon is playing out with enterprise adoption of generative AI. On their digital transformation journeys over the last decade, many enterprises spent time mired in “pilot purgatory,” taking as long as years to move from concept to executing on use cases.

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vFunction Adds Real-Time Observability and GenAI Tool to Migration Platform

DevOps.com

vFunction, the AI-driven architectural observability platform today added real-time observability and GenAI assistant. vFunction today added an ability to observe IT architectures in real-time to a platform that automatically converts monolithic application code into a set of microservices.

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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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Scoring Big: The Intricacies of an Athletic Director Search

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Role of an Athletic Director The role of an athletic director is crucial for an athletic program’s success and overall operation. This esteemed position involves more than just overseeing athletic teams and facilities. An athletic director is a strategic leader responsible for managing budgets, developing policies and procedures, and promoting a positive and inclusive athletic culture.

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Feedback Fundamentals: Effective Strategies from Experienced Executive Coaches

Next Level Blog

Three Common Feedback Challenges There probably aren’t many people in the world who are more involved, more often in giving and receiving feedback than executive coaches. As a two decade plus coach myself, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve prepared, delivered and supported my clients in receiving colleague feedback. It’s easily over 2,000 times.

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How to Talk to an Employee Who Isn’t Meeting Expectations

Harvard Business Review

Approaching a conversation about improving an employee’s performance requires preparation, empathy, and a focus on collaboration. Even though hearing the truth about their current performance will be tough and potentially hurtful, it’s a teaching moment managers must embrace to help them become more resilient and adept at problem-solving and developing professional relationships.

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How can CIOs build an effective Generative AI strategy?

CIO

Growing out of control? If 2023 was the year of AI exploration, then 2024 will be the year of action. According to Forrester , investment in AI software will grow 50% faster than the wider software market. A recent PagerDuty survey also found that 71% of businesses are looking to expand investments in AI and machine learning (ML) in the next year.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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No Country for No-Code: Are We Heading Towards a Wild West of Software Security?

DevOps.com

The specter of an untrained employee creating applications is alarming: No-code/low-code platforms empower employees with no application security knowledge to develop programs that security teams don’t know exist.

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Crafting a Legacy: The Importance of Succession Planning in Family Businesses

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Concept of Succession Planning Succession planning is a critical aspect of organizational management. Its primary purpose is to prepare for and replace key leaders or business owners without disrupting the workflow. It is a proactive strategy that ensures an organization is ready to handle sudden or planned departures of critical workforce elements.

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Navigating Trust and Data in Healthcare Marketing

Perficient

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, trust reigns supreme. As consumers increasingly rely on data to inform their decisions, the healthcare industry faces a pressing need to not only meet but exceed expectations. With disruptive forces emerging from various corners, healthcare organizations find themselves in a race to create personalized experiences that foster lasting engagement and trust.