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 363
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Self-Guided Meditations With AI On Azure

Xebia

How to create unique content with Large Language Models Do you sometimes struggle with creating content? Do you fall victim to repetition? Whether it’s a blog/manual/podcast you’re trying to produce, Large Language Models can help you to create unique content if you use them correctly. In this post, I’ll combine GPT-4, GPT-3.5, DALL-E, Azure Machine Learning and Azure AI Speech (formerly Cognitive Services) to create fresh daily content.

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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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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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The Making Of The Techorama Escape Room

Xebia

From Caffeine to Culture: Xebia at Techorama At Xebia we’re a passionate team always eager to learn, grow, and innovate. When it comes to our outings at various events, there’s one that stands out: Techorama. We attend both its Belgium edition in May and the Netherlands edition in October. Over the years, we’ve tried to bring something new and refreshing to Techorama attendees.

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Fuzzing in C#

Xebia

Today, we’re exploring another technique that can significantly elevate your software’s quality: Fuzzing. At its core, fuzzing revolves around a straightforward concept: Supply a program with invalid, random, or unexpected input until it encounters a crash. Understanding the basics Imagine you’ve developed a program designed to process JPEG images. Now, picture loading a PNG image, a PDF file, a hefty 200MB PowerPoint presentation, or even a file filled with random gibberish.

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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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Let’s Playwright with.NET 6 MVC

Xebia

Let’s start this story with our protagonist, a consultant in the role of a backend developer with a focus on.NET 6 and Azure. Let us call him Mike. Mike likes to deliver quality. He works with automated unit tests and integration tests and ensures those run in the project’s CI pipeline. He uses XUnit and NSubstitute, WireMock.Net and FluentAssertions.

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CIOs rise to the ESG reporting challenge

CIO

Corporate ESG reporting is getting real for companies around the globe. Enacted and proposed regulations in the EU, US, and beyond are deepening reporting requirements in an effort to change business behavior. What were once theoretical goals around environmental, social, and governance issues are rapidly evolving into mandatory efforts. The foundation for ESG reporting, of course, is data.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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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.

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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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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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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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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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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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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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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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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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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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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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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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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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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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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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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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Can Second-Generation Ethanol Production Help Decarbonize the World?

Harvard Business Review

How Brazil’s green energy champion, Raízen, is expanding the market for second-generation ethanol and other sugar-cane waste biofuels.

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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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How to Reduce the Friction that Hurts You — and Harness the Friction that Helps

Harvard Business Review

Stanford’s Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao on how to boost efficiency and satisfaction while also improving innovation and decision-making.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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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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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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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.