Wed.Mar 13, 2024

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3 areas where gen AI improves productivity — until its limits are exceeded

CIO

Even though generative AI is a relatively new technology, it’s now difficult to imagine a world without it, given the impact it’s making, and the business value it can create. According to a research report IDC released in November, based on a survey of over 2,100 business leaders and decision makers with responsibility for AI transformation, 71% of companies already using AI are seeing returns on their AI investments within 14 months, averaging $3.50 for every $1 spent.

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The Benefits of Qualitative Metrics

Martin Fowler

Abi Noda and Tim Cochran continue their discussion on using qualitative metrics to assess the productivity of development teams. In this installment they classify qualitative metrics into attitudinal and behavioral metrics. We also see that qualitative metrics allow you to measure things that are otherwise unmeasurable, provide missing visibility, and supply necessary context for quantitative data.

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Intelligenza artificiale e gen AI: i quattro elementi per passare al “next level”

CIO

Le capacità dell’intelligenza artificiale aprono le porte a una nuova era per l’efficienza in azienda. L’arrivo dell’IA generativa, poi, è una promessa senza precedenti: ChatGPT ha raggiunto il traguardo di 100 milioni di utenti in appena due mesi (analisi di Ubs su dati di Similarweb; il World Wide Web, negli Anni ’90, ha impiegato sette anni). Per i CIO, tuttavia, implementare l’IA non è così immediato.

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How Organizations Can Encourage Productive Allyship

Harvard Business Review

Many leaders want to be allies for underrepresented groups, but fear their attempts will be awkward or offensive. New research suggests these fears are often unfounded, with acts of allyship generally being appreciated more than anticipated. Organizations can help by educating potential allies on how their efforts are received and by creating a culture where open communication and support are encouraged.

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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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OneFamily’s response to the data quality question

CIO

OneFamily is a financial services organization, operating broadly in savings and investments, and responsible for £8 billion of assets under management. But what’s most interesting, says group CIO Graham O’Sullivan, is it’s also a mutual, which means its over two million customers across the UK are also members, so they have a strong voice in how it operates as an organization.

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The Rise Of The Solopreneur 

Crunchbase News

By Sailesh Ramakrishnan We’re officially in the era of the solopreneur, marking the next evolution of early-stage businesses. These solopreneurs are a one-person show, operating and managing a business independently, handling all aspects from product development to marketing to sales. And, solopreneurship is skyrocketing globally, thanks to tech advancements that make running a business smoother and more cost-effective.

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Lessons from Costco on Sustainable Growth

Harvard Business Review

Few companies succeed in growing at a sustainable rate over time. The reason is that leaders give in to the temptation to grow in ways that overlook the customer or they grow more quickly than their organizational capabilities allow. But the leaders of a handful of companies, including Costco and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, never forget that businesses are complex systems whose elements are interconnected.

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5 Considerations for Distributing Your Team’s Work

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Keep these five things in mind when you’re splitting up the work for your team. A key task as the leader of a high performing team is how you distribute work across the members of your team. It needs to be done fairly. Note, I didn’t say equally. Work allocation needs to be done fairly because you want perceptions of equality. You want people to work on things they’re good at but also that they’re excited by.

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Let AI Handle the Heavy Lifting in the Modern SOC

Palo Alto Networks

{{interview_audio_title}} 00:00 00:00 Volume Slider 10s 10s 10s 10s Seek Slider “AI’s Impact in Cybersecurity” is a blog series based on interviews with a variety of experts at Palo Alto Networks and Unit 42, with roles in AI research, product management, consulting, engineering and more. Our objective is to present different viewpoints and predictions on how artificial intelligence is impacting the current threat landscape, how Palo Alto Networks protects itself and its customers, as well as im

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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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Hiring Leaders in Alignment with Organizational Values

CEO Insider

Making bad hiring decisions is incredibly costly. Making hiring decisions in which a leader chosen who doesn’t uphold the organization’s values or is unethical is even more costly. At stake is the organization’s reputation, customer trust, and shareholder value. Selecting leaders who will promote an organization’s values or ethics is essential as more of today’s […] The post Hiring Leaders in Alignment with Organizational Values appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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New AI assistant threatens software engineering jobs

InfoWorld

San Francisco-based startup, Cognition AI, is trying to completely rehaul the software engineering landscape through its new AI assistant, Devin. The AI assistant can plan and execute complex engineering tasks, learning from its experiences and rectifying mistakes along the way. Equipped with essential developer tools like a shell, code editor, and browser, Devin operates within a sandboxed compute environment, mirroring the setup of a human developer.

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Developers are on edge

David Heinemeier Hansson

It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the layoffs are dragging on. The industry has shed more jobs in a shorter period than any time since the dot-com bust over twenty years ago. Seasoned veterans who used to have recruiters banging on their door nonstop can suddenly barely get a callback. And now the threat of AI suddenly got even more urgent and imminent with the launch of Devin.

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Complexity bad: An interview with HTMX creator Carson Gross

InfoWorld

Carson Gross is the creator of HTMX and Hyperscript , the mind behind The Grug Brained Developer , a professor of software engineering at Montana State University, and co-author of Hypermedia Systems. It was a pleasure to pick Carson's brain about the impetus behind projects like HTMX and Hyperscript, the failures of REST, why JavaScript is here to stay, and much more.

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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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Nozomi Networks Raises $100M As Investors Eye Industrial Cybersecurity Once Again

Crunchbase News

Every couple of years, industrial cybersecurity makes a comeback with investors — and it looks like it’s that time again now. Startup Nozomi Networks locked up a $100 million Series E from investors including Mitsubishi Electric and Schneider Electric. The San Francisco-based company offers industrial security — also called operational technology (OT) security — and IoT security platforms.

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How to use uv: A superfast Python package installer

InfoWorld

Of all the criticisms leveled at Python , one of the most valid—and unfortunately long-lived—is the chaotic state of its packaging ecosystem. It's less of a mess than it used to be, as so memorably illustrated by XKCD , but it's still hardly ideal. Third parties such as poetry and pipenv have filled the gaps by offering tools that are built atop Python's existing standards but designed around more elegant workflows.

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Introducing Tenable AI Assistant: Your Generative AI Analyst To Achieve Proactive Security

Tenable

Context is critical when it comes to analyzing and prioritizing your exposures. Learn how Tenable AI Assistant, your new Gen AI-based security analyst, can help you answer specific questions, interpret exposure findings and respond to security issues faster than ever. In today's dynamic threat landscape, staying ahead of cyberattacks requires more than just reactive measures.

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OutSystems unveils no-code AI Agent Builder

InfoWorld

Low-code development platform provider OutSystems has released AI Agent Builder, a no-code tool for building custom generative AI agents using large language models (LLMs) from Azure OpenAI or Amazon Bedrock.

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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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Empowering DevOps: The Crucial Role of Platform Engineering

Dzone - DevOps

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, DevOps has emerged as a critical methodology for organizations looking to streamline their software development and delivery processes. At the heart of DevOps lies the concept of collaboration between development and operations teams, enabled by a set of practices and tools aimed at automating and improving the efficiency of the software delivery lifecycle.

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Visual Studio taps more GitHub Copilot capabilities

InfoWorld

Microsoft has released a second preview of Visual Studio 2022 17.10, featuring GitHub Copilot integrations for generating pull request descriptions and explaining commits. Introduced March 12 , Visual Studio 2022 17.10 Preview 2 can be downloaded from the Visual Studio website. This planned update to Microsoft’s flagship IDE enables developers to generate a first draft of a pull request description driven by GitHub Copilot analysis of all changes in a pull request.

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CodeSOD: Query the Contract Status

The Daily WTF

Rui recently pulled an all-nighter on a new contract. The underlying system is… complicated. There's a PHP front end, which also talks directly to the database, as well as a Java backend, which also talks to point-of-sale terminals. The high-level architecture is a bit of a mess. The actual code architecture is also a mess. For example, this code lives in the Java portion. final class Status { static byte [] status; static byte [] normal = { 22 , 18 , 18 , 18 }; //snip public static boolean

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Nozomi Networks Raises $100 Million to Expand Industrial Cybersecurity Business

Ooda Loop

Nozomi Networks, an industrial and IoT cybersecurity firm, has secured a substantial $100 million Series E funding round, raising its total funding to over $250 million. Mitsubishi Electric and Schneider Electric are among the investors, joining previous backers such as Honeywell and Johnson Controls.

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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: Getting Technical Decision Buy-In Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

InfoQ Culture Methods

Making large, important technical decisions is a critical aspect of a senior individual contributor's role. This article examines how Comcast has employed the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a decision-making framework developed in the 1970s, and adapted it for making technical and non-technical decisions both large and small.

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A ChatGPT Use Case for the Board of Directors: Corporate Disclosure and Policy Assessments

Ooda Loop

Researchers from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) offer some foundational thinking on how ChatGPT can be applied to corporate disclosures and policies. According to the authors, this “study provides a first look at the potential of ChatGPT to extract managerial expectations and corporate policies.

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The IaC Weight on DevOps’ Shoulders

DevOps.com

It’s often challenging to adopt modern DevOps practices around infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Here's how to make the journey smoother.

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How to Become More Persuasive at Work

Harvard Business Review

If you’re a leader, you need to know how to influence people.

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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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White House Budget Proposal Seeks Cybersecurity Funding Boost 

Ooda Loop

The White House has unveiled a $7.3 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2025, with a significant focus on increasing cybersecurity spending.

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Feds seek attestation on secure software

InfoWorld

The US federal government has released a software attestation form intended to ensure that software producers partnering with the government leverage minimum secure development techniques and tool sets. The form was announced March 11 by the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which developed the form with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

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Healthcare’s Ransomware Epidemic: Why Cyberattacks Hit the Medical Sector With Alarming Frequency

Ooda Loop

The healthcare industry remains a prime target for ransomware attacks due to its critical nature, extensive use of IT and OT, and low tolerance for disruptions, as highlighted in Claroty/Team82’s State of CPS Security – Healthcare 2023 report.