Tue.Jan 30, 2024

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Onboarding bottleneck: more steps for good onboarding

Martin Fowler

Tim and Premanand continue outlining the steps for an effective onboarding process.

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Oracle plans to expand its cloud region across the Middle East

CIO

Oracle’s annual flagship event, CloudWorld Tour returned to the UAE for the second consecutive year to share the company’s latest AI innovations to power UAE’s Digital Economy and its plans across the region. The company that just turned 35 years old in the UAE will continue to invest in local infrastructure to bring cloud capabilities that will help the UAE Government entities and private sector.

Cloud 344
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A Simple Question to Help Your Team Define Success

Harvard Business Review

Despite its critical importance, most executive teams are not in agreement around the foundational question: What does success look like in X years? The challenge lies in developing a clear collective understanding of what winning as a team looks like and then aligning efforts, resources, and strategies toward these common goals. In this article, the authors offer guidance on how to prepare for and lead a success-defining discussion with your team.

Strategy 130
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Trust: The foundation for successful digital transformation

CIO

In today’s dynamic, digitally evolving business landscape, establishing a strong foundation of trust within an organization is more vital than ever. In this article, we look at why trust is so critical in an enterprise and offer some key approaches for establishing a solid foundation of trust. Trust is critical and difficult to maintain In an enterprise, trust can be fragile.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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It turns out people spend free money on rent

The Hustle

Bring up the idea of giving people money for nothing, and it’s difficult for some to shake the idea that they work hard while others spend government cheese on caviar bumps. But increasingly, pilot programs across the US and elsewhere have found that recipients — even without limitations — will spend their funds on housing and basic needs. First, some vocab Universal basic income (UBI) gives every citizen the same stipend, regardless of employment or income status.

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Benefits of the LLM Mesh, Part 2: Enforcing a Secure API Gateway

Dataiku

With Generative AI top of mind for many companies, IT leaders have been tasked with figuring out how to make the most of this new technology through pilot use cases and experimentation.

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Today’s best CIOs are strategy wranglers

CIO

When we started this century the buzz in IT was “everything is going to have a chip.” Twenty-plus years in, CIOs have discovered that, when it comes to IT, everything is going to need a strategy. As CIO, you need a data strategy. You need a cloud strategy. You need a security strategy. If you want to sell anything to anyone under 40, you will need a compellingly composed and authentically executed sustainability strategy.

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Build Scalable and Reliable Node.js Apps with Ease: Introducing NestJS

Perficient

If you’re interested in learning a robust, efficient, and scalable enterprise-level server-side framework, you’ve landed on the right blog ! We’ll start with a quick introduction, and in this post and the ones to follow, we’ll dive straight into the practical part. Together, we’ll build an application that covers various Nest JS fundamental and advanced topics, such as Services, Controllers, Modules, Repository, Pipes, Dependency Injection, and database connectivi

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Generative AI is earning good grades in education

CIO

As Nelson Mandela opined, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Teachers and access to education play a crucial role in our future. Teachers educate the next generation by sharing knowledge, fostering critical thinking skills, managing parents, and developing children. At the same time, teachers face an increasingly difficult professional challenge, often feeling overworked and under-supported, spurring the threat of widespread teacher shortages.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Why Nautical Investors Are Pouring Capital Into Better, Lower-Carbon Ships And Boats

Crunchbase News

Most of us spend our days on dry land and devote little thought to boats, ships, and their associated propulsion systems and carbon footprints. If we did, however, shipping-focused investor Stephen Petranek of venture firm Ocean Zero has some troubling statistics to share. First off, we might consider the roughly 100,000 fuel-guzzling cargo ships that traverse the world’s oceans.

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CloudBolt Commits to Applying AI to FinOps

DevOps.com

Over the coming year, CloudBolt plans to infuse AI into the FinOps capabilities it provides via its IT management platform.

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Building a Startup in a Tough Funding Environment

Harvard Business Review

Successfully launching and scaling a new business venture has never been easy. When fundraising dries up and uncontrollables become more prevalent, the challenge is even greater. But founders increase their odds of success by proving product-market fit on a budget, conservatively fundraising, and focusing on culture and governance early on.

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Confluent Partner Awards 2023

Confluent

We’re celebrating excellence across the Data Streaming ecosystem. In this blog post, we announce the global and regional categories that Confluent will recognize across its 2023 Partner of the Year award winners.

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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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Anima Adds Ability to Personalize Generative AI Code

DevOps.com

ANima added an ability to personalize the code its generative AI platform creates based on how an app is described.

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How to Stop Dwelling on Your Stress

Harvard Business Review

People are feeling more stressed than ever, and it’s affecting our well-being. Many of us dwell on stressful situations, which only serves to compound the uncomfortable feelings that stress brings. The good news is that you can exit the headspace of stress. By improving your ability to stay present, you can set aside stressful issues that you can’t immediately solve, whether that’s a nagging problem at work or a personal conflict.

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Platforms in Action — Three Companies That Supercharged Risk Posture

Palo Alto Networks

Today’s organizations face cybersecurity challenges on multiple fronts. Many applications and workloads have moved to the cloud while employees now work in hybrid and remote environments – connecting to the network from anywhere and on any device. What’s more, new threats continue to emerge as attacks grow more sophisticated every week, often with AI as a driving force.

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Jenkins and JenkinsX in 2024

DevOps.com

This article is a response to “The Future of Jenkins in 2024” article, published late last year. If you’re a software developer, it is practically impossiblee that you haven’t at least heard of Jenkins.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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Most cloud-based genAI performance stinks

InfoWorld

I’ve been asked if generative AI systems are always slow. Of course, I reply, “Slow, as compared to what?” The response I always get is funny. “Slower than we thought it would be.” And the circle continues. Performance is often an afterthought with generative AI development and deployment. Most deploying generative AI systems on the cloud, and even not the cloud, have yet to learn what the performance of their generative AI systems should be, take no steps to determine performance, and end up co

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In An Uncertain Market, Survival Mode Is Not Your Only Option

Crunchbase News

By Marc Schröder Despite small glimmers of hope, the market turnaround has not yet materialized , putting startup founders in a challenging position as they decide how to optimize resources. The vast majority of the founders I talk to are focusing on slashing costs to extend their runways — they’re in survival mode. While this is certainly the default option, there are drawbacks to it, and I’m not seeing enough founders pushing to consider the viable alternatives.

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Protecting against software supply chain attacks

InfoWorld

Last year’s MOVEit and 3CX vulnerabilities offered a stark reminder of the risk software supply chain attacks pose today. Threat actors exploit vulnerabilities to infiltrate a software provider’s network and modify the software’s original functionality with malicious code. Once the infected software is passed on to customers, typically through software updates or application installers, the breach opens the door to unauthorized tasks, such as exfiltrating sensitive information or hijacking data.

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Is the US Government Over-Regulating Artificial Intelligence?

Ooda Loop

Maybe it is time to start thinking of ways to decontrol our AI. Here are some reasons why.

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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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TypeScript 5.4 beta arrives

InfoWorld

TypeScript 5.4, a planned update to the strongly typed JavaScript variant from Microsoft , has reached beta availability. New capabilities include preserved narrowing within function closures created after the last assignment and a NoInfer type to block inferences to valid but unwanted types. Released January 29, TypeScript 5.4 can be accessed via NuGet or NPM.

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DORA Metrics in DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) is a research group in Google Cloud. They conduct a long-running research program trying to assess and understand the velocity and reliability of the software development process. They try to capture what makes teams move fast, how to measure these KPIs automatically, and finally, how to improve based on the captured data.

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Achieving Trusted AI in Manufacturing

Cloudera

In the dynamic landscape of modern manufacturing, AI has emerged as a transformative differentiator, reshaping the industry for those seeking the competitive advantages of gained efficiency and innovation. As we navigate the fourth and fifth industrial revolution, AI technologies are catalyzing a paradigm shift in how products are designed, produced, and optimized.

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Israeli forces kill three Palestinian fighters in West Bank hospital raid

Ooda Loop

Israeli forces killed three members of Palestinian armed groups in. hospital in the occupied West Bank. Footage showed a unit was disguised as medics and other civilians making their way through the hospital with rifles.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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The Next Major Shift in Enterprise Software Engineering: From Platforms to “Platformless”

Dzone - DevOps

The evolution of enterprise software engineering has been marked by a series of "less" shifts — from client-server to web and mobile ("client-less"), data center to cloud ("data-center-less"), and app server to serverless. These transitions have simplified aspects of software engineering, including deployment and operation, allowing users to focus less on the underlying systems and more on the application itself.

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GenAI: A Dual-edged Sword for Cybersecurity

Dell EMC

GenAI applications introduce new security challenges while promising enhanced threat response and operational efficiency.

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Using LLMs to Automate Pipeline Conversions From Legacy to Tekton

DevOps.com

There have been many technological advancements in the market today, but the main hindrance is the cumbersome process of switching from the existing technology/framework to the new one. This is where teams and organizations are left behind in the tech curve.

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