Wed.Feb 14, 2024

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

Generative AI continues to dominate IT projects for many organizations, with two thirds of business leaders telling a Harris Poll they’ve already deployed generative AI tools internally, and IDC predicting spend on gen AI will more than double in 2024. But the usual laundry list of priorities for IT hasn’t gone away. Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with.

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Don’t get lost in your plans

Xebia

Today I got a call from a customer who is trying to understand what’s going on in their teams and is getting lost among the many different Features and Product Backlog Items on their boards. There are 2 things going on at this customer. They’re changing how they use their tools to better fit their needs. They’re changing their delivery process to improve collaboration in and among teams.

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CIO

デジタル技術を活用してビジネスモデルを変革し、企業の競争上の優位性を確立するDX(デジタルトランスフォーメーション)を進めていくうえでAIを活用する企業が増えてきている。 AI活用することでビックデータの分析や分析結果に基づく予測を自動化することが可能になるだけでなく、事業戦略の立案や業務効率化の有効なツールにもなるからだ。 ATMサービスの変革によって現金だけでなく情報の出し入れができる「プラットフォーム」づくりに力を入れるセブン銀行はAIモデル(機械学習モデル)・データを活用し、2つの改革を進めている。   一つはATMやセブン&アイグループのデータを使って新しい商品やサービスを開発したり、潜在的な顧客ニーズを発掘したりして収益拡大につなげる「データビジネス」の領域。 そしてもう一つは各事業部門などが持つ社内データをAIで分析し業務の効率化を図る「データ経営」の領域だ。

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People Probably Like You More Than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Do people understand the impressions they make on others or do their anxieties lead them to assume the worst? Across nearly 10 years of research and tens of thousands of observations, the authors have come to this answer: people underestimate how much others like them, and this bias has important implications for how people work together.

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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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5 modi in cui i CIO possono aiutare l’IA generativa a raggiungere il suo momento di gloria

CIO

La rapida adozione e il processo di democratizzazione che sta interessando l’IA generativa sono stati paragonati all’avvento della lampadina, che ha fatto lo stesso per l’elettricità, quasi 150 anni fa: la sua invenzione, avvenuta nel 1879, decenni dopo l’invenzione dell’elettricità (1831), ha portato a un radicale cambiamento nella vita per masse di individui e aziende, così come la gen AI sta facendo, oggi, per l’intelligenza artificiale.

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Mapping the progress of Air New Zealand’s digital rebuild

CIO

As a household name in international air carriers, Air New Zealand is used to punching above its weight, mainly due to being so remotely based; if you draw 1,200-mile line from Auckland, you don’t even get to the east coast of Australia. So meeting challenges to compete is nothing new, but business all but came to a halt during the pandemic in 2020.

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New with Confluent Platform: Seamless Migration Off ZooKeeper, Arm64 Support, and More

Confluent

Confluent Platform 7.6 brings upgrading for existing clusters from ZooKeeper to KRaft, compaction support for Tiered Storage, OAuth (early access), improvements to the Oracle CDC premium connector, and more.

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Build generative AI chatbots using prompt engineering with Amazon Redshift and Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

With the advent of generative AI solutions, organizations are finding different ways to apply these technologies to gain edge over their competitors. Intelligent applications, powered by advanced foundation models (FMs) trained on huge datasets, can now understand natural language, interpret meaning and intent, and generate contextually relevant and human-like responses.

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Nudging Employees to Make More Sustainable Choices

Harvard Business Review

Decarbonization efforts across various sectors have affected the car industry tremendously — especially sports car manufacturers. At Porsche, efforts such as the development of the electric Taycan in 2019 have begun to disrupt a “petrol head” culture enamored with the Porsche’s traditional, distinctive flat-six engine. The company itself has endeavored to encourage “employee sustainable behaviors,” such as the voluntary adoption of electric vehicles for employees eligible for company cars.

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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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Perficient’s Thoughts on use of GenAI in Commerce Solutions

Perficient

Revolutionizing B2C Commerce: The Impact of Generative AI In the dynamic landscape of commerce and consumer-driven markets, Business-to-Consumer (B2C) organizations are increasingly turning to generative AI to revolutionize their operations and enhance customer experiences. Generative AI, a subset of artificial intelligence, empowers these organizations to create content, personalize interactions, and optimize various aspects of their business processes.

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Nations Agree to Reign in Commercial Spyware- How Serious Are They?

Ooda Loop

ecently, more than 35 nations have signed a new international agreement to collaborate on reigning in the “hacker for hire” commercial market, in which private interests sell tools and services to support offensive cyber activities.

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Safer Client-Side Instrumentation with Honeycomb’s Ingest-Only API Keys

Honeycomb

We’re delighted to introduce our new Ingest API Keys, a significant step toward enabling all Honeycomb customers to manage their observability complexity simply, efficiently, and securely. Ingest Keys are currently available for Environment & Services customers, with Classic support and programmatic key management capabilities under development and coming soon!

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Globalization Transformed: Where Should Your Organization “Nearshore” and/or “Friendshore”?

Ooda Loop

Various perspectives - on Latin American nearshoring and Indo-Pacific "friendshoring" with allied nations in an effort to secure and shorten global supply chains - as well as the emergence of "China +1" - four emergent manufacturing hubs - can be found here in this post.

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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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Crunchbase Monthly Recap: Venture Investors Keep The Brakes On For The First Month Of 2024 

Crunchbase News

By all accounts, venture funding will continue to be constrained in 2024 unless the IPO market bursts open with a lineup of companies that slowed their exit plans over the past two years. The subdued funding climate was evident in January. Global startup funding for the first month of the year reached close to $22 billion — slightly below the monthly average for 2023 — according to an analysis of Crunchbase data.

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Snap Trap: The Hidden Dangers Within Ubuntu's Package Suggestion System

Aqua Security

Aqua Nautilus researchers have identified a security issue that arises from the interaction between Ubuntu's command-not-found package and the snap package repository. While command-not-found serves as a convenient tool for suggesting installations for uninstalled commands, it can be inadvertently manipulated by attackers through the snap repository, leading to deceptive recommendations of malicious packages.

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How companies are using AI to spy on Slack

The Hustle

It should be an inalienable right to message your co-worker the eye roll emoji whenever your other co-worker does something cringe on Zoom. It is the glue that binds. However, several employers are now using an AI-powered app to analyze and monitor messages across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and other platforms. What spy is this? It’s called Aware, an Ohio-based startup that launched in 2017, per CNBC , and its clients include Nestle, Walmart, Delta Air Lines, and Starbucks.

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Future of Software Development

Dzone - DevOps

The landscape of software development is constantly evolving, with emerging technologies reshaping the way applications are built and deployed. Among the most notable trends gaining traction is serverless architecture , offering developers a paradigm shift in how they approach application development. In this article, we delve into the world of serverless architecture, exploring its key concepts, benefits, and implications for the future of software development.

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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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AI’s newest use case: Bedbug detection

The Hustle

Even reading the word “bedbugs” is enough to make you itchy. And finding the little creatures in your hotel sheets — like what happened last fall in Paris — is a real-life nightmare that’s becoming more common. Luckily, it’s AI to the rescue. Spotta, a UK-based company founded in 2017, is developing tech to spot bedbugs on hotel mattresses and put a stop to outbreaks, per Hotel Dive.

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Leveraging Azure Cloud and Docker for ASP.NET Core Projects: A Comprehensive Guide for Businesses

Dzone - DevOps

Businesses are constantly seeking robust, scalable, and efficient solutions to develop, deploy, and manage their applications. Microsoft's Azure Cloud services, along with Docker support for ASP.NET Core, present a compelling proposition for those aiming to enhance their project development lifecycle. This guide explores the integration of Azure Cloud and Docker for ASP.NET Core projects and elucidates why businesses should consider this powerful combination for their ventures.

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3 Ways To Optimize Your Incentive Compensation Program

Crunchbase News

By Mark Schopmeyer Variable compensation is the largest sales expense for most businesses, averaging roughly 40% of total sales costs. It’s also incredibly complex and, without the right optimization strategy, can end up detracting from profits instead of efficiently driving more revenue. For most companies, offering an effective incentive compensation program without spending more than necessary is a delicate balancing act.

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5 things to consider before you deploy an LLM

InfoWorld

If the screwdriver were invented by the tech industry today, then it would be widely deployed for a variety of tasks, including hammering nails. Since the debut of ChatGPT , there has been a growing fervor and backlash against large language models (LLMs). Indeed, many adaptations of the technology seem misappropriated, and its capabilities are overhyped, given its frequent lack of veracity.

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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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Article: Multiplying Engineering Productivity in the Face of Constant Change

InfoQ Culture Methods

Leaders know that they need to support organizational efficiency, but how they do that ca vary based on the situation and context of the organization. Learning how to utilize a few key leadership frameworks in certain environments can help maintain the appropriate level of support, urgency, and independence when situations shift.

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Reactive magic in Svelte 5: Understanding Runes

InfoWorld

Svelte 5 brings improvements under the hood—namely functional components and the adoption of signals—but is otherwise a mostly incremental update. The one exception is the new Runes feature, which introduces a host of ideas for dealing with reactivity in a more modular, succinct, and fine-grained way. In this article, you'll get a hands-on introduction to the main runes shipping with Svelte 5: $state() , $derived() , $props() , $inspectI() , and $effect().

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How the Best Leaders Drive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

They learn how to take on three key roles: architect, bridger, and catalyst.

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Microsoft kicks off.NET 9

InfoWorld

Microsoft’s upcoming.NET 9 release, a planned major update to the company’s cross-platform development platform, will focus on the development of cloud-native and AI-powered applications, the company said in a bulletin on February 13. For cloud-native developers, Microsoft will aim at improving runtime performance, application monitoring, and delivering “paved paths” to popular production infrastructure and services.

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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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IT Professionals Have Mixed Emotions About AI

DevOps.com

A JumpCloud survey revealed IT pros are excited about the potential positives of AI, but also realize the possible negative security implications.

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How to get started with Python

InfoWorld

Python is often described as an easy language—both easy to learn and easy to use. Python makes it easy to develop powerful software for an enormous variety of applications. But it can be as difficult to get started with Python as with any other programming language. Every choice you make will matter. The Python operating system and runtime you use will matter, as will the IDE or editor you use to write your code.

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CodeSOD: While Nothing

The Daily WTF

José received a bit of VB.Net UI code that left him scratching his head. While IsNothing( Me.FfrmWait) If Not IsNothing( Me.FfrmWait) Then Exit While End If End While While a form doesn't exist, if the form does exist, break out of the loop. I suspect this was intended as a busy loop, waiting for some UI element to be ready. Because busy loops are always the best way to wait for things.