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How to Code Faster: 7 Quick Tips to Increase Productivity

Coding Dojo

Whether you’re currently pursuing a degree in computer science, a veteran using the GI Bill to choose their next mission, … Read more >>. The post How to Code Faster: 7 Quick Tips to Increase Productivity appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Where Has All the Testing Gone?

DevOps.com

Testing has long been a problem child of IT in general, AppDev in particular, and now it is DevOps’ problem. There are things that DevOps can do to improve the chances of tests actually occurring for your application(s). Interestingly, there are some that think we no longer need testing; the argument is that because new […]. The post Where Has All the Testing Gone?

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M-KOPA raises $75M as it clocks 2 million customers across four African markets

TechCrunch

A 2019 World Bank report says 85% of Africans live on less than $5.50 per day. A large percentage of these adults are unbanked and underbanked; thus, they don’t have access to credit and can’t afford important purchases outright. M-KOPA’s financing platform has proved helpful to this set of users since launching as an energy provider in 2011. The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarant

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The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet

Coding Horror

It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for passenger use in major cities. I am betting against , and John is betting for.

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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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An Identity Crisis Averted

Agile Alliance

As an Enterprise Transformation Coach, one of the greatest challenges tends to be bringing teams along a journey that appears to be top-down, even when support exists at a team level. Working with a global financial services provider, once I understood the organisation's vision and path to transformation, I busied myself focusing on individual teams, … Continued.

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Disco gets brands to boogie together on customer acquisition

TechCrunch

As more companies establish an e-commerce presence, the stakes have never been higher for brands to cut through the clutter to land new customers. Disco , formerly known as Co-op Commerce, doesn’t think the cost of acquiring costs should be so reliant on Big Tech platforms. Instead, Conner Sherline, founder and CEO, says that when independent brands come together across partnerships, data and merchandising, they have the buying power to produce results for everyone.

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VPS Hosting – Uses, Advantages, and Disadvantages

The Crazy Programmer

Web hosting is serious business, and if you are new to the game, getting your website up and running on the Internet can come with all sorts of unique challenges. The established industry standards like dedicated or shared web hosting are hard to ignore. Even the latest addition to the team – cloud computing – has a hidden allure that’s hard to resist, especially if you like to test the latest technologies offered.

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Welcoming our new Agile Alliance Managing Director, Teresa Foster

Agile Alliance

We’re excited to announce Teresa Foster as the new managing director for Agile Alliance! Teresa is a visionary leader with extensive experience with non-profit member associations. The post Welcoming our new Agile Alliance Managing Director, Teresa Foster first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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The Most Challenging Person for a Human-Centered Leader

Let's Grow Leaders

To be a human-centered leader requires compassion, empathy, and kindness for someone it’s easy to overlook. If you’re serious about becoming a more human-centered leader, it’s vital to master one specific relationship: the one with yourself. This is a leadership relationship I often overlook. It’s so easy to have compassion and grace for other people while pushing myself for more and holding myself to an unreasonable standard of perfection or achievement.

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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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Source makes greenhouses smarter to secure the future of food supply

TechCrunch

Agtech startup Source.ag today announced it harvested a $10 million investment to make greenhouses smarter. The founders have set their eyes on a horizon where, driven by climate change and a rapid increase in global food demand as population continues to increase, more crops are being forced indoors to secure greater crop yields. You wouldn’t believe the amount of restraint it takes to not make a pun about seed funding in a piece about greenhouses.

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How Startups Can Revamp Their Executive Leadership Talent for Growth

N2Growth Blog

Organizations, particularly startups, require changes in executive leadership talent in the business lifecycle to capitalize on growth potential. Sometimes CEOs are late to make the necessary executive team changes, which comes at a cost. Today, I’d like to share some examples and critical considerations for companies that fit in this category. NerdWallet is an example of when the rapidly growing company missed profitability targets and subsequently changed its leadership team.

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The changing role of the Agile Coach – business agility requires different coaching

Agile Alliance

Striving for business agility requires a different approach from the agile coaches. When organizations proceed on their agile journey their needs shift. I’ll share my experience of how this insight came to me and what this shift meant for us as agile coaches. In my organisation the agile coaches where organised in an CoE. Last … Continued. The post The changing role of the Agile Coach – business agility requires different coaching first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Things The Pandemic Taught Us About Diverse Tech Teams

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Over the last decade, organizations from all over the world were slowly gaining momentum when it came to diversity and inclusion at the workplace. But studies show that ever since the pandemic hit, the importance of diversity and inclusion slowly took a backseat while organizations focused on more pressing issues at hand. Now that the world is slowly easing back into the pre-COVID life, what can you do, as an employer, to make sure your workforce is diverse and inclusive?

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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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Zero Systems gets $12M Series A to bring automation to professional services

TechCrunch

Zero Systems launched seven years ago with an idea to bring automation to professional services like law firms. They wanted to focus on speeding up manual tasks, rather than moving large volumes of information, to help lawyers work more efficiently. They came up with an AI-driven system that can identify work product on a lawyer’s work systems like their inbox or messaging apps, classify it according to client and project and then move the different kinds of information into adjacent syste

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Second, there is no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture (the second principle is a corollary of the first). The challenge is to build common ground between business and architecture so as to translate business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs.

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Using a Low Code Development Environment to Teach the Agile Methodology

Agile Alliance

The Agile development methodology is soaring in popularity in the business world. Companies are turning to Agile to develop products quickly and to achieve digital transformation of their organization. Because of this push, com-panies need employees who understand Agile. Therefore, higher education is obligated to provide an understanding of Agile to students as they enter … Continued.

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3 Things To Know About Remote Proctoring

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Before we get into how to make your proctoring experience fool-proof and hassle-free, let us take a look at what remote proctoring is. Remote proctoring is a way in which candidates can appear for tests remotely, from any location of their choosing, instead of arriving at a traditional test center. . Instead of an in-person invigilator as in traditional tests, a person or remote interview software proctors the test virtually from another location.

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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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MyPlace raises $5.8M to scale its private home-sharing social network

TechCrunch

New York-based MyPlace , a social network designed to help friends share their private homes, has raised $5.8 million in seed funding led by Freestyle Ventures. The platform was originally launched in 2019 by entrepreneurs Zach Bell and Rameet Chawla as a way for them to share their private homes with their friends. Since then, the platform has grown into a social network used by thousands of people in 86 countries.

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Privilege Escalation from Node/Proxy Rights in Kubernetes RBAC

Aqua Security

One of the side effects of Kubernetes’ rich API and extensive functionality is that sometimes there are security implications to granting users permissions. Security architects should be aware of these side effects when designing platforms that use Kubernetes. In recent research with Iain Smart of NCC Group, we looked at how granting rights to node/proxy resources in Kubernetes could allow for audit logs and other security controls to be bypassed.

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The Manager’s Playbook with Joel Trammell and Alicia Thrasher

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you worked in an organization that suffers from a crisis of management and leadership? Then you know how important it is to have a Manager’s Playbook. Under-trained and under-equipped, many great people have turned out to be not-great managers and their employees and companies’ bottom lines are suffering the consequences. In this episode, David talks with Joel Trammell and Alicia Thrasher, co-authors of The Manager’s Playbook, about the massive difference that simple manag

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Tabnine, GitLab Build Custom Apps Faster With AI

DevOps.com

Tabnine today revealed it has integrated its code completion tool with the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Tabnine’s platform employs artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate application development. Brandon Jung, vice president of ecosystems and business development at Tabnine, said the goal is to make it easier for developers to automatically write code based on […].

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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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B2B e-commerce platform Chari is acquiring the credit line of Axa Assurance in Morocco for $22M

TechCrunch

Moroccan B2B e-commerce and retail startup Chari has acquired Axa Credit, the credit branch of Axa Assurance Maroc, for $22 million, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. The news comes off the back of Chari’s recently closed seed extension round that saw it valued at $100 million and begin offering BNPL services to its customers. It is one of the few African startups to publicly disclose its valuation.

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Acing Google's PageSpeed Insights Assessment

Toptal

Page speed is an important ranking attribute for search engines, making performance optimization a prerequisite for successful sites. Here's how Google PageSpeed Insights can help identify and rectify performance issues.

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The Leadership Secrets of Ted Lasso

CEO Insider

Ted Lasso, the sports comedy-drama series, can make anyone a better leader, if you can stop laughing long enough to pay attention. At first, I was just enjoying the comedy and the setting in London, but after a few episodes I started to experience something deeper. Apart from earning more Emmys than any other debut […]. The post The Leadership Secrets of Ted Lasso appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Boosting DevOps Productivity Requires Visibility, Automation

DevOps.com

Engineering teams continue to struggle with roadblocks and bottlenecks during the development process, according to Software’s recent 2021 Code Time Report. The study, which is based on feedback from more than 250,000 developers using the Code Time plugin, found the median code time per developer is 52 minutes per day, or four hours and 21 minutes of […].

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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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D’Amelio family launches VC fund 444 Capital to invest up to $25M in high-growth startups

TechCrunch

The D’Amelio family, including TikTok stars and digital creators Charli D’Amelio and sister Dixie , are formalizing their investments in startups with the launch of a new VC fund, 444 Capital. The family is teaming up with Doug Renert of Tandem Capital and producer Jeff Beacher of Beacher Media Group on the fund, which aims to back high-growth companies with strong end-user brands, including those in the direct-to-consumer space, fintech, edtech, healthcare, insurtech and other B2B2C

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The 6 Most Frequently Asked Digital Marketing Questions Answered

TechSoup

Marketing is a key component of any organization's business strategy. It is how a company's value is shown to the unique audiences it serves. It is the voice of an organization. Marketing ultimately answers the questions of what is offered, who it is offered to, where one can obtain it, and how much of an investment is required.

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Bandwidth Usage of Popular Video Conferencing Applications on a 50/10 Mbps Service Tier

CableLabs

As we enter the new year, consumers, workplaces, and schools continue to rely on video conference applications. We previously studied Bandwidth Usage of Popular Video Conferencing Applications in November 2020 and February 2021. In May 2021 , we studied Hourly Data Consumption of Popular Video Conferencing Applications. Today, we share a study of bandwidth usage on a 50Mbps/10Mbps Service Tier by popular video conferencing applications and how they perform with the addition of background traffi

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