Wed.Mar 27, 2024

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Farewell, John Kordyback

Martin Fowler

John Kordyback, a treasured colleague and friend, died last week, aged 64.

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Think you can ignore quantum computing? Think again.

CIO

“It’s been known since the 1990s that a large-scale quantum computer will be able to break many of the crypto systems we rely on for security,” says Dustin Moody, leader of Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland. In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed quantum algorithms to factor integers and solve the discrete logarithm problem.

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Uncovering Seams in a Mainframe's external interfaces

Martin Fowler

Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave start detailing the seams they explored with two areas of external interfaces. Batch input of files are copied to new implementations while comparing the output of the processing pipelines. API access points can be covered with a proxy and traffic gradually directed to the new implementation.

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What Erie Insurance does to develop transformational talent

CIO

When the leadership team at Erie Insurance planned a large-scale transformation, they knew it couldn’t be an IT-only effort. The themes of the transformation — modernization, best-in-class agent experience, multi-channel customer experience, product excellence, and innovation — are so business centric that they could only be achieved with an enterprise-wide effort.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Is Backstage the Right Internal Developer Portal for You?

DevOps.com

There has never been a better time to be a software developer. There is a language and framework to solve virtually any challenges we encounter. New tools, architectural patterns and methodologies like DevOps and Agile have changed how we work, architect our applications and organize ourselves.

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How To Leverage An Advisory Board To Accelerate Business Growth

Crunchbase News

By Kip Knight Advisory boards can be a decisive competitive advantage for a company, but too often they fail to deliver on their potential. The typical life cycle of many advisory boards follows a familiar pattern: Initial excitement surrounding the creation of the board. Initial meetings discussing potential ways to help the company. Scheduling issues leading to a loss of momentum and interest.

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How a Generic Marketing Strategy is Captivating Consumers on the Values of Natural Diamonds - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM NATURAL DIAMOND COUNCIL

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from Natural Diamond Council.

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How to Overcome Analysis Paralysis

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Do you struggle to get things done because you overthink your work? Try these three tips to overcome “analysis paralysis.” Many times I’ve heard it said that perfect is the enemy of done. A big barrier to executing initiatives is analysis paralysis. The team gets bogged down on proving their case is 100% accurate and risk-free before they act.

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Why Isn’t Your Strategy Sticking?

Harvard Business Review

It’s insufficient to just share the goals and objectives of your strategy and hope implementation will succeed. In this article, the author explains how to shift from an operational to a contextual mindset so that you can better identify the hidden obstacles that may be thwarting your strategy’s implementation so you can address them before they take root.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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These Are Lean Times For Fitness Startups — And Not In a Good Way

Crunchbase News

There are few drawbacks to getting fit. Investing in fitness companies, however, comes with plenty of downside risks. Over the past four years, as the pandemic boom in home workouts slowly gave way to a return to the gym, investors in fitness companies can attest. Valuations for both public and private companies have declined, investment is down, and fitness-related consumer spending remains tough to forecast.

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What Demographics Forms Say About Inclusivity at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

For members of minority groups, finding their identity omitted in an organization’s demographics forms can make them question whether their identity is valued and respected by that organization. The seemingly mundane choices companies make when designing demographics forms — such as those used in job applications or employee engagement surveys — can have relatively major implications.

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Chip Startup Celestial AI Lands Massive $175M  Series C

Crunchbase News

Optical interconnectivity startup Celestial AI raised a massive $175 million Series C led by Thomas Tull ’s US Innovative Technology Fund. With the explosion of generative AI, both compute power availability and memory capacity are becoming more and more crunched — and marriage between compute and memory causes both to increase simultaneously. However, Celestial’s photonic fabric platform helps separate computers and memory, making processing extensive AI faster and more energy-efficient c

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When a Top Performer Is Treating Colleagues Badly

Harvard Business Review

If you’re struggling to manage a difficult employee, this episode is for you.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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EP 43: DevOps Building Blocks Part 6 – Day 2 DevOps, Operations and SRE

DevOps.com

Day Two DevOps is a phase in the SDLC that focuses on enhancing, optimizing and continuously improving the software development and deployment processes to ensure increased efficiency, reliability and collaboration between development and operations teams.

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The Key to Preserving a Long-Term Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Learn how to repackage your company’s existing knowledge to pioneer new products and services.

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Making Herstory: Celebrating Women’s History Month with DWEN

Dell EMC

This Women’s History Month, we’re reviewing strides made in female entrepreneurship and celebrating DWEN’s 100,000-member milestone.

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Witnessing a Revolution in Cybersecurity with AI

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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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Connectivity Without Limits: CableLabs Unveils Transformative Technology Vision

CableLabs

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, connectivity is more essential than it ever has been before. It’s as much a part of our lives as the air we breathe. It’s all around us — the lifeblood of nearly every facet of our digital lives. And it puts the broadband industry at the forefront of some of the most promising innovations that will guide us into a future of ever-expanding potential.

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Achieve DevOps maturity with BMC AMI zAdviser Enterprise and Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In software engineering, there is a direct correlation between team performance and building robust, stable applications. The data community aims to adopt the rigorous engineering principles commonly used in software development into their own practices, which includes systematic approaches to design, development, testing, and maintenance. This requires carefully combining applications and metrics to provide complete awareness, accuracy, and control.

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Scaling Agile Teams

Agile42

We’ve been working with organizations for over 15 years and despite numerous existing frameworks and models, we’ve learned that there is no silver bullet when it comes to scaling Agile teams. Every context is different and complex. However, we believe that by applying Agile principles and some good practices, any organization can create a framework or model for scaling Agile teams: one that is best adapted to its respective environment and can grow organically.

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11 VS Code extensions you didn’t know you needed

InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code is a terrific software development environment, and not only because it has excellent code-editing features and language support. Thanks to its rich culture of extensions , VS Code supports many tasks besides editing. You’ll find VS Code extensions for everything from a speedier way to navigate the editor to effortlessly inserting placeholder text and images.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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Cloud Workload Security: Aqua Shines in GigaOm's Radar Report

Aqua Security

Cloud workload security (CWS) plays a critical role in safeguarding the integrity and resilience of cloud-native workloads. Defined through the lens of GigaOm, CWS primarily revolves around fortifying the dynamic and continuously evolving workloads within cloud environments. Its significance lies in bolstering security measures by pinpointing vulnerabilities, ensuring adherence to compliance standards, and swiftly mitigating potential threats.

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Survey Surfaces Lack of Significant Observability Progress

DevOps.com

A global survey of 500 IT professionals suggests organizations are not making a lot of progress in their ability to truly observe application environments.

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Databricks’ open-source DBRX LLM beats Llama 2, Mixtral, and Grok

InfoWorld

Data lakehouse provider Databricks has released a family of open-source large language models (LLM) , DBRX, that it says outperforms OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 and open-source models such as Mixtral, Claude 3, Llama 2 , and Grok-1 on standard benchmarking tests.

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ChatGPT: le nuove sfide della strategia sui dati nell’era dell’IA generativa

CIO

Le aziende italiane investono in infrastrutture, software e servizi per la gestione e l’analisi dei dati (+18% nel 2023, pari a 2,85 miliardi di euro, secondo l’Osservatorio Big Data & Business Analytics della School of Management del Politecnico di Milano), ma quante sono giunte alla data maturity? Il Data Strategy Index incluso nel report rileva che solo il 20% delle grandi aziende italiane ha una strategia avanzata sui dati.

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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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Survey Surfaces Substantial Platform Engineering Gains

DevOps.com

While most app developers work for organizations that have platform teams, there isn't much consistency regarding where that team reports.

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Why CIOs need to pay attention to the most significant overhaul of Australian privacy law in 40 years

CIO

Michael Fagan, former chief transformation officer at Village Roadshow, examines the proposed changes to the Privacy Act and what CIOs in Australia need to be aware of. I received 7 unsolicited CVs and resumes in the last 12 months, from well-educated and qualified people, seeking to join the organisation where I was working. Unbeknownst to the senders, they put me at risk of breaching one of the 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APP), despite me not really knowing these people, and never askin

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PHP vs. Python: How to Pick the Right Option for Your Web App

Zend

Get an overview of PHP vs. Python from our expert, including comparisons on performance, security, benefits, and use cases.

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