Wed.Jun 26, 2024

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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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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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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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Parada en boxes: gobernanza del dato y sostenibilidad, los grandes retos de la F1

CIO

A pie de pista, junto a una de las chicanes que otorgan personalidad propia al Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya en Montmeló, el rugir del motor es ensordecedor, la adrenalina se dispara y las milésimas de segundo que los pilotos aspiran a ganarle al cronómetro se traducen en un pestañeo. Es fin de semana de Fórmula 1 en la Ciudad Condal y CIO España atestigua de la mano de Lee Wright, director de Operaciones TI en la organización , cómo la tecnología se erige como catalizador a la hora de impulsar

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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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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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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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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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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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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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12 Reasons Snowflake Costs Get Out of Control — And How to Solve It

With no barriers to entry you can get started with Snowflake for next to nothing, but as you may already know, costs can quickly spiral out of control. While usage costs can be better managed for your internal BI use case, Snowflake costs skyrocket for SaaS providers because the need to deliver real-time, interactive analytics in a multi-tenant environment is always on.

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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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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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Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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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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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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Cloud-First, Cloud-Smart to Cloud-Minimalism – A Strategic Shift

DevOps.com

We do not know if cloud minimalism is the answer to cloud complexity, but it provides pathways to onboard and explore cloud computing.

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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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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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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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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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Oracle HeatWave’s in-database LLMs to help reduce infra costs

InfoWorld

Oracle is adding new generative AI-focused features to its Heatwave data analytics cloud service, previously known as MySQL HeatWave. The new name highlights how HeatWave offers more than just MySQL support, and also includes HeatWave Gen AI, HeatWave Lakehouse , and HeatWave AutoML , said Nipun Agarwal, senior vice president of HeatWave at Oracle.

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Confluent Is Named Microsoft’s 2024 OSS on Azure Global Partner of the Year

Confluent

Our OSS on Azure Partner of the Year Award highlights Confluent's data streaming solution, cloud Apache Kafka, and fully integrated Azure security, management, billing, and data analytics.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.