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6 ways self-disruption makes you a better leader

CEO Insider

To stay relevant and ahead of the curve, we must disrupt and innovate ourselves while the world changes at an unprecedented rate. Leaders who can adjust well can prosper in today’s fast-paced corporate world. Disrupting outdated worldviews, mindsets, and leadership styles allows us to adapt. Our research indicated that many leaders interviewed spend a lot […] The post 6 ways self-disruption makes you a better leader appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Predicting, Preventing and Resolving Incidents With AIOps

DevOps.com

IT operations teams, site reliability engineers (SREs) and service providers are on a mission to scale across geographies, expand their digital services and create new experiences for customers. Amid this drive, their backend IT systems are getting more complex. This hinders visibility into applications and makes monitoring and troubleshooting cumbersome.

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Guide To 7 Best Tech Stack 2023 for Software Development

Sunflower Lab

Choosing the best tech stack is integral as it gives your development team tools that will be used from inception to deployment. Also, as a product owner, it gives you more flexibility and control over the finished software. Our experts at Sunflower Lab have compiled a list of the best tech stack 2023 so that you get the gist of which tech stack would best fit the bill.

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What’s Multicloud by Design and Why Does It Matter?

Dell EMC

Multicloud by design lets you innovate faster by removing the constraints of proprietary tools and siloed ecosystems.

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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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The Paradigm Shift to Cloudless Computing

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

TLDR: Cloudless apps use protocols instead of centralized services, making them easily portable. (Imagine application storage and compute as unstoppable as blockchain, but faster and cheaper than the cloud.) Cloudless is tractable now that enough people are familiar with cryptographic signing, and key-handling infrastructure has become part of the browser.

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An example of LLM prompting for programming

Martin Fowler

A couple of weeks ago I watched a fascinating Zoom call hosted by Xu Hao , Thoughtworks's Head of Technology in China. He showed an example of how he uses ChatGPT to help him code in a self-testing style. His initial prompt primes the LLM with an implementation strategy (chain of thought prompting). His prompt also asks for an implementation plan rather than code (general knowledge prompting).

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Building a vision for real-time artificial intelligence

CIO

By George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, DataStax I recently had a conversation with a senior executive who had just landed at a new organization. He had been trying to gather new data insights but was frustrated at how long it was taking. (Sound familiar?) After walking his executive team through the data hops, flows, integrations, and processing across different ingestion software, databases, and analytical platforms, they were shocked by the complexity of their current data architecture

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Fintech startup Clear Street raises $270M at a $2B valuation

TechCrunch

Clear Street , which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation. Growth equity firm Prysm Capital led the financing, which brings the round total to $435 million. New York-based Clear Street raised the first tranche of the round in May of 2022 at a $1.7 billion valuation.

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Niklaus Wirth Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Nikalus Emil Wirth was born on 15 February 1934 in Winterthur, Switzerland. He is a Swiss computer scientist. In the year 1984, he was honored with the Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages like EULER, MODULA, ALGOL-W, and Pascal. Birth 15 February 1934 Birthplace Winterthur, Switzerland Education B.S., MSc, and Ph.D.

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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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Ukraine’s Wartime Internet from the Inside

Kentik

This February marked a grim milestone in the ongoing war in Ukraine. It has now been over a year since Russian forces invaded its neighbor to the west leading to the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. In the past year, we have used Kentik’s unique datasets to show some of the conflict’s impacts on Ukraine’s external internet connectivity, ranging from DDoS attacks and large outages , to the rerouting of internet service in the southern region of Kherson.

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Accelerating innovation with cloud-native apps on Microsoft Cloud

CIO

The financial services sector is undergoing rapid change as fintechs develop convenient, consumer-focused services that were once the province of traditional banks. We spoke with Siddhartha Gupta, Global Head of Application Modernization on Azure at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , about this trend and what financial services organizations need to do to improve their capacity for agility and innovation.

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Selling insurance is hard, but that’s not bad news for insurtechs

TechCrunch

W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. I spent quite a bit of time lately looking at the latest in insurtech. What’s great about zooming in on a sector is that I hear things that I didn’t expect.

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How the ‘Great Rebalance’ Accelerates Low-Code/No-Code Adoption

DevOps.com

If you were just reading headlines, you would think that careers in tech were limited—especially developers and DevOps professionals. The media and job sites have highlighted layoffs weekly since the beginning of the year, with over 120,000 employees eliminated from 400+ companies (including Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and others). With this much shedding of technical […] The post How the ‘Great Rebalance’ Accelerates Low-Code/No-Code Adoption appeared first on DevOps.com

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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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Leadership Visibility: How to Ensure Your Team Gets the Attention They Deserve

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Work is Valuable – Let’s Make Sure You Get Leadership Visibility Let’s talk about getting more leadership better visibility and recognition for YOU – and YOUR TEAM’s – work. Today’s #AskingForaFriend came in from our Micro-Learning Lab. “I’ve always had trouble “selling” my (or our) job to higher management.

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6 best practices to develop a corporate use policy for generative AI

CIO

While there’s an open letter calling for all AI labs to immediately pause training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for six months, the reality is the genie is already out of the bottle. Here are ways to get a better grasp of what these systems are capable of, and utilize them to construct an effective corporate use policy for your organization.

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If you’ve raised venture capital, you have to pay yourself

TechCrunch

Forgive me, but this post will likely be a bit of a rant. I had a call with a founder I’m advising this morning. He is out there raising money, and he received a term sheet from an investor (yay!), but the investor suggested that the founder and his co-founder shouldn’t be taking a salary. The investor argued that the founders were “working for equity,” and that his investment shouldn’t go to the founding team.

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Can ChatGPT Fix Bugs? ‘Wolverine’ Dev Says YES

DevOps.com

In this week’s #TheLongView: Instead of AI aids for programming, what about for debugging? The pseudonymous “BioBootloader” says he’s persuaded GPT-4 to make his code self heal. The post Can ChatGPT Fix Bugs? ‘Wolverine’ Dev Says YES appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Not Forgotten

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Since the release of ChatGPT last November, it has sucked all the air out of technology discussions. This may be well deserved—in some respects, large language models represent the biggest step forward in computing since the PC. But it makes me wonder what topics aren’t getting the attention that they deserve. Two topics that started the year strong have fallen off the radar: blockchain-related technologies and “the Metaverse,” whatever that is.

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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

CIO

Gartner projects that spending on information security and risk management products and services will grow 11.3% to reach more than $188.3 billion this year. But despite those expenditures, there have already been at least 13 major data breaches, including at Apple, Meta and Twitter. To better focus security spend, some chief information security officers (CISOs) are shifting their risk assessments from IT systems to the data, applications, and processes that keep the business going.

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Why the startup sector should keep its eye on the SEC

TechCrunch

Anthony Cimino Contributor Share on Twitter Anthony Cimino , head of policy at Carta , works with policymakers and innovators to drive economic opportunity through expanding equity ownership and private market liquidity. More posts by this contributor What the growing federal focus on ESG means for private markets Holli Heiles Pandol Contributor Holli Heiles Pandol is policy counsel at Carta.

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Why Monitoring-as-Code Will be a Must for DevOps Teams

DevOps.com

Over the last decade, we’ve seen an increasing number of operations teams and development teams using an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) process for provisioning cloud-based infrastructure. In that model, IaC tools like CDK, Pulumi or Terraform are employed to allow developers to code, deploy and manage cloud-based infrastructure. The advent of cloud services and IaC tools has […] The post Why Monitoring-as-Code Will be a Must for DevOps Teams 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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Building Blocks for a Successful Nonprofit Website

TechSoup

Your website is like the storefront for your organization. It's where people go to find out more about who you are and what you do, to donate, volunteer, or access a service. In order to keep people moving through the process of becoming a supporter or a part of your community, you'll need to make sure your site is informative and easy to navigate.

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plusserver: Offering a sovereign GDPR-compliant cloud “made in Germany”

CIO

Alexander Wallner, CEO of plusserver, believes the importance of the sovereign cloud services and solutions needed to ensure that data is protected, safe, and compliant cannot be overemphasized. He is also quick to point out that plusserver takes responsibility for the cloud-based operations of its growing customer base, which includes enterprises across industries and throughout Germany’s public and private sectors.

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LMS365, a learning management system built into Microsoft 365 and Teams, raises $20M

TechCrunch

Danish company LMS365 , an online learning management system (LMS) built for use inside Microsoft products, has raised $20 million in its first institutional round of funding. Used by companies including logistics giant Hellmann and soda bottling franchise G&J Pepsi , LMS365 allows users to create their own courses from scratch or import them from a third-party such as Go1 or LinkedIn Learning , which LMS365 announced a partnership with just last month.

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Turning Software Testers Into 10xers

DevOps.com

How do you make technical processes faster and more scalable? If your answer is simply to automate them, you’re stuck in the 2010s. Today, automation is widespread, and automating processes in a basic sense is no longer enough on its own to maximize efficiency and velocity. Instead, teams who want to excel–who want to become […] The post Turning Software Testers Into 10xers appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Predict and Prevent Oil and Gas Equipment Downtime with Digital Oilfield Solutions 

Perficient

The Future of Preventative Maintenance Is Waiting Imagine a world where you’d be alerted that your car or HVAC unit was about to break down before it does. For oil and gas companies, that possibility is already a reality for their equipment, and it can be found in cutting-edge digital solutions that manage equipment performance data and analyze it in real time.

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Buying advice for CIOs as low-code/no-code spending rises

CIO

Faced with a long-running shortage of experienced professional developers, enterprise IT leaders have been exploring fresh ways of unlocking software development talent by training up non-IT staff and deploying tools that enable even business users to build or customize applications to suit their needs. A broad spectrum of tools has arisen to facilitate software development in the enterprise, from no-code platforms like Bubble and low-code drag-and-drop tools , both stand-alone and integrated in

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Ukrainian startup Zeely raises $1M for SMB growth app aimed at US, UK, Brazil, Mexico

TechCrunch

As Gen Z turns into their early-to-mid 20s, a new generation of business owners is coming online. Many of these new entrepreneurs do the vast majority of work on their phones. This is especially true in emerging markets like Latin America, where SMEs comprise 99.5% of firms in the region. In Mexico, for instance, 97.4% of businesses are micro-enterprises But although small businesses are generally considered to be the primary driver of new job growth, few have the technical capability to spin up

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