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Udacity raises $75M in debt, says its tech education business is profitable after enterprise pivot

TechCrunch

Udacity , which provides online courses and popularized the concept of “Nanodegrees” in tech-related subjects like artificial intelligence, programming, autonomous driving and cloud computing, has secured $75 million in the form of a debt facility. Now it’s time to build out a sales team to go after them.”

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Book review: Accelerate

Henrik Warne

The book Accelerate details the findings of four years of research on how DevOps affects various outcomes, such as software delivery tempo and stability, as well as the organizations’ profitability and market share. The findings of the research are presented in the first part of the book (a bit more than half of it).

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5 ways to improve mental health for software developers

TechCrunch

In Daniel Pink’s book “Drive,” he covers how autonomy, mastery and purpose are the main drivers of motivation. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. Give the gift of autonomy.

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Six Essentials for Your Cloud Security Program

Palo Alto Networks

If the applications are open source or off-the-shelf, make sure to patch regularly and be sure to patch critical security flaws immediately. A good place to look for guidance on how to start an application security program is the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). In cloud deployments, it doesn’t work that way.

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Interpreting predictive models with Skater: Unboxing model opacity

O'Reilly Media - Data

Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil has recently written an entire book filled with examples of poor interpretability as a dire warning of the potential social carnage from misunderstood models—e.g., There is also a trade off in balancing a model’s interpretability and its performance.

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Six Essentials for Your Cloud Security Program

Palo Alto Networks

If the applications are open source or off-the-shelf, make sure to patch regularly and be sure to patch critical security flaws immediately. A good place to look for guidance on how to start an application security program is the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). In cloud deployments, it doesn’t work that way.

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The Process Automation Map

Bernd Rucker

In this case, the decision is not too hard: as thousands of companies have the exact same requirements you have, you can simply buy a standard HR software or leverage an off-the-shelf cloud service around payroll. As a first project, you need to automate the payroll run, which is a manual and tedious process at your company currently.