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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. “Overspending is easy to do,” says Chris McMasters, CIO at the City of Corona, California. No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget.

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Tidy First?

Henrik Warne

“Software design is preparation for change; change of behavior” Tidy First? is a new book by Kent Beck. It is a short little book, only about 100 pages (and lots of white space on them), but it contains some deep insights about software development. The book has three parts, going from concrete to abstract. First there is a list of 15 tidyings , which are small refactorings.

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SAP doubles down on cloud-first innovation with executive reshuffle

CIO

SAP is reshuffling its executive board to place even more emphasis on serving its cloud customers. Executive board member Thomas Saueressig, previously responsible for product engineering, will soon take on a new role as head of customer services and delivery, focused on maximizing potential for customers in the cloud, said Hasso Plattner, chairman of the company’s board of directors.

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Star Those Important Messages in Google Chat! ??

Xebia

We’re all familiar with the ins and outs of it: You receive a crucial message that you can’t afford to lose track of. It could be a task at hand, a vital detail you’ll need later, or just a sweet message from a colleague that you’d like to revisit on a rough day. However, when the time comes to retrieve that message, the struggle begins.

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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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Canada Life’s efforts to equally strengthen talent and tech

CIO

With headquarters in Winnipeg and a total of nearly 11,000 employees worldwide, Canada Life prides itself on being a technology-first organization, but equally people-centric. From IT’s point of view, there’s going to be a steep trajectory over the next few years, spearheaded by generative AI and machine learning, that will dramatically change how people live and work.

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Your Boss Is Leaving for Another Job. Should You Follow?

Harvard Business Review

When your boss leaves for a new company, it can be tempting to try to follow them, especially if you’ve had a strong working relationship and built up trust. But is it a good idea? In this article, the author offers advice from Nancy Rothbard, a professor of management and the deputy dean at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Arika Pierce Williams, a leadership development consultant and the president and founder of Piercing Strategies.

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Pros, Cons, and Tips for Using AI in L&D Systems

Xebia

Giovanni Lanzani, Managing Director of Data & AI at Xebia, recently joined Archipel Academy’s "FutureFit" podcast , a dynamic space exploring the essentials of keeping your organization agile, staying abreast of the latest trends, and ensuring mental and physical well-being. Giovanni, a data expert, shares practical insights in an episode that sheds light on AI and its role in the business world, and the use of AI in L&D systems.

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How High-Performing Teams Build Trust

Harvard Business Review

It’s no surprise that trust is at the core of high-performing teams. But conversations about cultivating trust at work often focus on the relationship between managers and employees. As important — if not more so — is establishing trust between teammates. To understand how the best teams build trust among themselves, researchers interviewed 1,000 U.S.

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AI a Key Driver Behind HPE’s $14 Billion Deal for Juniper

DevOps.com

HPE's proposed Juniper buy hopes to center around its networking business with AI capabilities and its GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform at its foundation.

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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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3 Key Metrics That Employee Engagement Surveys Miss

Harvard Business Review

Traditional employee engagement surveys just aren’t working how we need them to. And they’re expensive, too. As the employee disengagement trends upward, the author suggests dispensing with these surveys and reinventing them internally, tailored to your organization’s unique context. She suggests three nontraditional KPIs to track instead to boost engagement: 1) team success, 2) innovation and new ideas, and 3) trends.

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6 Negotiation Techniques You Should Add to Your Playbook

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Your negotiation strategy can make or break a deal. Learning negotiation tactics is key to becoming a more strategic negotiator. Over the years, I’ve learned some great negotiating techniques and tactics. I’d like to share them now. The Invisible Man The first is called The Invisible Man. You can use this technique when you’re in the heat of a deal and you don’t want to give an answer right now, or you don’t like the position that the other party is taking.

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CodeSOD: The End of Time

The Daily WTF

We ofter talk about dates and timekeeping as extraordinarily difficult tasks. And, at least in part, that may have to do with their origins as legacy technologies in the most legacy sense: we have strong evidence of calendar systems all the way back into the Neolithic period, and maybe some hints of them as far back as the Paleolithic. Literally, stone age technology, still in use today.

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Life Sciences Executive Search Firms: Bridging Biotech and Leadership

N2Growth Blog

The Importance of Executive Search and Leadership Development to the Growth of the Life Sciences Industry Ensuring that organizations have access to top talent for key leadership positions and that talent is sufficiently supported and developed is critical to the growth of the life sciences industry. In this rapidly growing and highly specialized space, the stakes could not be higher, and the need for exceptional leaders and leadership is paramount.

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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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Apache Applications Targeted by Stealthy Attacker

Aqua Security

Researchers at Aqua Nautilus have uncovered a new attack targeting Apache Hadoop and Flink applications. This attack is particularly intriguing due to the attacker's use of packers and rootkits to conceal the malware. The simplicity with which these techniques are employed presents a significant challenge to traditional security defenses.

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Optimizely CMS – Working with special symbols in TinyMCE

Perficient

If you’ve worked with Optimizely CMS, you might be pretty familiar with TinyMCE. Its the amazing rich text editor that works seamlessly with Optimizely CMS. And some of you may have worked with some or other form of customization with it in projects, be it adding additional styles, work with different plugins, format the toolbar to suit your clients’ requirements and more.

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From Reaction to Robots: Riding the AI Wave in 2024

DevOps.com

Investment in security-aware developers and collaboration between them and AppSec teams should be a driving force in 2024.

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Building a Culture of Respect on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

There are two types of workplace respect: owed and earned. And your team needs both.

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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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15 Login Screen Examples for Mobile App Developers

Daffodil Software

User experience (UX) has always been the element of precedence in a mobile app. A lot of efforts are put in to refine usability of an app and all of it starts with the login screen design. Our mobile app consulting services offers comprehensive research, prototyping, and usability testing to ensure your app meets user needs across all devices. Designing login screen for a mobile app is a constructive step.

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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

Netflix Tech

Liwei Guo , Anush Moorthy , Li-Heng Chen , Vinicius Carvalho , Aditya Mavlankar , Agata Opalach , Adithya Prakash , Kyle Swanson, Jessica Tweneboah , Subbu Venkatrav , Lishan Zhu This is the first blog in a multi-part series on how Netflix rebuilt its video processing pipeline with microservices, so we can maintain our rapid pace of innovation and continuously improve the system for member streaming and studio operations.

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7 Considerations for Multi-Cluster Kubernetes

Dzone - DevOps

In the IT space today, customers often intermix Multi-Cloud and hybrid-cloud terms without necessarily understanding the distinction between them. Understanding Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments A hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment that combines public and private (typically on-premise) clouds, allowing organizations to utilize the benefits of both.

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Survey Says: Readers Forecast Sunnier Outlook For Startup World In 2024

Crunchbase News

Crunchbase News readers are more optimistic about the state of the economy and startup world going into 2024 than they were a year , or even just six months, ago , though they’re still skeptical about an IPO market rebound and many don’t expect AI to dramatically recharge the tech world this year. Those are among the sentiments from our latest reader survey, in which our audience shared its thoughts on tech, AI, the economy, startup funding, company cost-cutting, and more.

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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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A Comprehensive Guide to GitHub

Dzone - DevOps

GitHub is a popular development platform that allows developers to collaborate on projects, manage code repositories, and track changes made to files. Widely used in the software development industry, it offers a range of solutions and features to help enhance and streamline the development process. In this guide, we will outline a few key GitHub features and how to utilize them effectively. 1.

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Intro to PyScript: Run Python in your web browser

InfoWorld

Created by Anaconda and launched in April 2022, PyScript is an experimental but promising new technology that makes the Python runtime available as a scripting language in WebAssembly-enabled browsers. Every commonly used browser now supports WebAssembly , the high-speed runtime standard that languages like C , C++ , and Rust can compile to. Python's reference implementation is written in C, and one earlier project, Pyodide , provided a WebAssembly port of the Python runtime.

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Turbo-Charging Confluent Cloud To Be 10x Faster Than Apache Kafka®

Confluent

Confluent Cloud is now 10x faster than Apache Kafka. Read our latency benchmarking results, the innovations behind-the-scenes, and the lessons we learned.

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The Carta debacle, explained

The Hustle

The latest hot tech goss involves Carta, a $7.4B player on the VC scene, and a founder who accused it of misusing confidential data. Please join us for tea. Carta is a company that manages and protects cap tables (short for capitalization table) for ~40k startups, per Fortune. A cap table is a detailed list of a company’s current and potential stockholders.

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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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Dutch Engineer Used Water Pump to Get Billion-Dollar Stuxnet Malware Into Iranian Nuclear Facility: Report

Ooda Loop

The Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant’s investigation revealed a Dutch engineer recruited by the Netherlands’ intelligence services, the AIVD, likely played a role in deploying the Stuxnet malware at an Iranian nuclear facility.

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OpenAI launches GPT Store

InfoWorld

AI research and deployment company OpenAI has launched the GPT Store , a web directory of custom versions of ChatGPT. Unveiled January 10, the GPT Store offers a range of GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) models developed by OpenAI partners and the community. Since OpenAI introduced “GPTs” two months ago, users have built more than three million of the custom versions of ChatGPT, OpenAI said.

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How Ecuador descended into gang violence

Ooda Loop

Ecuador has been rocked by a surge in violence and chaos, leading President Daniel Noboa to declare an “armed internal conflict.” The unrest stemmed from the escape of two gang leaders from a prison in Guayaquil, triggering riots in multiple jails and escalating violence across cities.

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