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Datadog Extends Scope and Reach of Observability Platform

DevOps.com

Datadog at its DASH 2024 conference added a bevy of tools and capabilities to streamline DevSecOps workflows, including integration with open-source OpenTelemetry agent software developed under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the Datadog On-Call tool to optimize incident management workflows in a way that maintains context with observability data already collected.

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Healthcare’s long road to digitization gets an AI boost

CIO

The University of Pennsylvania Health System had an enormous amount of anonymized patient data in its Penn Medicine BioBank, and SVP and CIO Michael Restuccia’s team saw an opportunity to use it to benefit the research hospital’s patients. “We had a conversation about how to take some of the innovation occurring in research around AI and deploy it in the clinics,” he says.

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How Starbucks Devalued Its Own Brand

Harvard Business Review

Starbucks is struggling. It has strayed from its successful strategy of offering customers exceptional experiences and, in the process, has commoditized itself. This article analyzes where it went wrong and offers ideas for how the company can turn itself around. It holds lessons for other companies that compete by providing customers distinctive experiences.

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Leading tech in a PE portfolio company: 5 things you need to know

CIO

While the PE industry is not as active as it has been in previous years, what goes down typically comes back up, so CIOs are likely to get calls from recruiters about joining a PE portfolio company sometime soon. Some PE firms buy a portfolio company, replace key leaders (including the CIO) and let the management team figure out how to grow the value of their investment.

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SaaS Evolution: The Critical Role of Embedded Finance

Speaker: Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

Join us for an exclusive webinar hosted by Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, where he’ll explore the significant impact of embedded finance on the software industry! This session is designed to provide you with the strategic insights needed to navigate the future of SaaS successfully, all while gaining a deeper understanding of how these trends can enhance your competitive edge, boost revenue, and deepen customer loyalty.

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3 Exercises to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence, According to Research

Harvard Business Review

Everyone struggles to manage their emotions at times. It’s normal to have negative feelings and we can’t expect ourselves – or others – to leave those behind just because we’re at work. But those negative emotions can be detrimental to our relationships, performance, focus, and overall well-being. So it’s worthwhile to hone our emotional intelligence skills that help us handle negative feelings.

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No-Code Startup Creatio Hits Unicorn Status After $200M Raise

Crunchbase News

Low-code and no-code startups are not seeing the funding they did a couple of years ago, but it clearly has not dried up completely. Creatio achieved unicorn status after landing a $200 million round led by Sapphire Ventures , with participation from StepStone Group and current investors Volition Capital and Horizon Capital. The new cash, a minority investment, values the startup at $1.2 billion and will be used to help the company expand globally as it continues to grow revenue 50% year to year

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Stability.ai gets new CEO and investment dream team to start rescue mission

CIO

Troubled Stable Diffusion maker Stability.ai has finally named a new CEO as part of a turnaround plan that will see new investment and a star-studded cast of billionaire investors join its board. The new CEO is Prem Akkaraju, who stepped down from his post as CEO of famous digital effects company Weta Digital (now Weta FX) in May 2022. But somebody clearly believes in Stability.ai.

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Tap Into All Your Data's Senses: The Art of Multimodal ML

Dataiku

Discover real-world use cases where a multimodal machine learning approach is valuable (and how Dataiku's framework can help your team use this technique).

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París apuesta por la española Teldat para mejorar la conectividad del suburbano

CIO

París calienta motores y se pone a punto para acoger como anfitrión la edición 2024 de los Juegos Olímpicos. Así, en el marco de la celebración, Metro de París ha suscrito un acuerdo con la compañía especializada en telecomunicaciones y ciberseguridad, Teldat , con el propósito de mejorar la conectividad en el transporte público de la capital gala. En concreto, según se ha dado a conocer, la firma española desplegará sus soluciones de última generación en un total de 176 trenes y 857 coches de l

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.

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Cluster Logging of Telecom 5G IOT Microservice Pods

Dzone - DevOps

While Kubernetes, the industry standard for container orchestration, offers efficient management, deployment, and scaling capabilities, logging in this environment is not without its challenges. The dynamic and distributed nature of Kubernetes presents unique hurdles in log management. In this complex setting, centralized log management becomes a necessity for understanding and resolving anomalies.

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El éxito de la IA depende de una cultura de la innovación

CIO

En 2001, Steve Jobs dijo que era tan importante como el PC , y el inversor de capital riesgo John Doerr que podría ser más importante que Internet. ¿A qué tecnología revolucionaria se referían? Al Segway. Ya sabe, el dispositivo de transporte personal que fracasó en el mercado y se convirtió en sinónimo de los guardias de seguridad de los centros comerciales.

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How to install Python the smart way

InfoWorld

Python is easy to use, friendly to the beginner, and powerful enough to create robust software for nearly any application. But like any other piece of software, Python can be complex to set up and manage. In this article, we’ll walk through how to set up Python the right way. You'll learn how to pick the appropriate version, how to keep multiple versions from stepping on one another, and how to avoid sharp edges and potential pitfalls along the way.

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The rising software supply chain threat: Mounting a unified defense

CIO

Malicious actors have been pressing their advantage against vulnerable software supply chains with exponentially increasing attacks. Enterprises have been hampered in fighting back by lack of internal consensus on their security capabilities and practices. Recent survey findings uncovered multiple areas of disconnect between senior executives/managers (“executives”) and hands-on staff (“doers”).

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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How eBPF is shaping the future of Linux and platform engineering

InfoWorld

When Docker burst onto the scene in 2013, Linux containers seemed like an overnight success. But the evolution to containers—and microservices and Kubernetes —was actually decades in the making, based on kernel primitives in the Linux operating system. Docker used these primitives, namely cgroups and namespaces, as building blocks to create a lightweight, easy-to-use software packaging format.

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I 10 principali problemi che l’IT di oggi si trova ad affrontare

CIO

I CIO hanno un’agenda stracolma, fitta di numerose questioni critiche e complesse che dominano il loro tempo e la loro attenzione. Non sorprende che la capitalizzazione dell’IA sia in cima alla lista delle cose da fare, così come la creazione delle giuste aspettative, e di tutto ciò che può generare sicurezza e fiducia intorno a essa. Anche la gestione del cambiamento è fondamentale per i Chief Information Officer di oggi.

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Chaddha From Mayfield Fund On The Cognitive Economy

Crunchbase News

Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series in which Crunchbase News interviews active investors in artificial intelligence. Read previous interviews with Felicis , Battery Ventures , General Catalyst , Bessemer Venture Partners , Accel , Insight Partners , Index Ventures , Sequoia Capital , Section 32 , M12 , Sapphire Ventures and Bain Capital Ventures as well as highlights from these stories from 2023.

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Fostering an AI-Focused Engineering Team That Accelerates DevOps Maturity

DevOps.com

An AI agent is a series of prompts that leverage AI to carry out a role within the engineering team, such as the business owner or tester.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Kafka

Without proper guidance, it’s easy to miss out on Kafka’s full capabilities. While not the easiest technology to optimize, Kafka rewards those willing to explore its depths. Under the hood, it is an elegant system for stream processing, event sourcing, and data integration. Download this white paper to learn the 10 critical rules that will help you optimize your Kafka system and unlock its full potential.

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OpenJDK proposal would bring value classes and objects to Java

InfoWorld

An OpenJDK proposal would preview value classes and objects in a forthcoming version of Java. The feature would provide Java class instances that have only final fields and lack object identity. The Java enhancement proposal , which dates back to August 2020, was updated on June 21. The plan would allow developers to opt into a programming model for simple values in which objects are distinguished by their field values, much as the int value 3 is distinguished from the int value 4.

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How to Improve the Hiring Process for Disabled Candidates

Harvard Business Review

It takes more than lip service to convince disabled job applicants to apply to your company. These research-backed practices can demonstrate that you’re a truly equitable employer.

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Stream gatherers: A new way to manipulate Java streams

InfoWorld

Java 22 introduces stream gatherers , a new mechanism for manipulating streams of data. Stream gatherers are the delivered feature for JEP 461 , allowing developers to create custom intermediate operators that simplify complex operations. At first glance, stream gatherers seem a bit complex and obscure, and you might wonder why you'd need them. But when you are confronted with a situation that requires a certain kind of stream manipulation, gatherers become an obvious and welcome addition to the

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Revolutionize Your Business Dashboards with Large Language Models

Cloudera

In today’s data-driven world, businesses rely heavily on their dashboards to make informed decisions. However, traditional dashboards often lack the intuitive interface needed to truly harness the power of data. But what if you could simply talk to your data and get instant insights? In the latest version of Cloudera Data Visualization , we’re introducing a new AI visual that helps users leverage the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) to “talk” to their data.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Phantom Secrets: Undetected Secrets Expose Major Corporations

Aqua Security

For years, we’ve been educating developers not to hard-code secrets into their code. Now it turns out that even doing this once might permanently expose that secret, even after its apparent removal – and worse, most secrets scanning methods will miss it. Our research found that almost 18% of secrets might be overlooked.

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Logging Out

DevOps.com

There will come a time when our online accounts live on well after we are gone, and our credit cards will be charged accordingly. There will come a time when our online accounts live on well after we are gone, and our credit cards will be charged accordingly.

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SingleStoreDB joins the Apache Iceberg bandwagon

InfoWorld

Buoyed by customer demand, SingleStore, the company behind the relational database SingleStoreDB , has decided to natively integrate Apache Iceberg into its offering to help its enterprise customers make use of data stored in data lakehouses. “With this new integration, SingleStore aims to transform the dormant data inside lakehouses into a valuable real-time asset for enterprise applications.

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Leverage Platformization – Strengthen, Unify and Simplify Cybersecurity Tools

Palo Alto Networks

Cybersecurity is one of the most critical issues facing organizations today, and one of the most challenging to properly address. Technology trends take hold in organizations faster than ever before, constantly shifting and changing the attack surface that needs to be protected. At the same time, bad actors leverage new technologies to continue to evolve their own tools and techniques.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.