Erik Bernhardsson
APRIL 18, 2021
Software infrastructure (by which I include everything ending with *aaS, or anything remotely similar to it) is an exciting field, in particular because (despite what the neo-luddites may say) it keeps getting better every year! I love working with something that moves so quickly. In the last few months, I've thought a lot about where it's going in the next 5-10 years and an wishlist has taken shape in my head.
TechCrunch
APRIL 21, 2021
The last five years have seen a plethora of fintech applications in Nigeria (and Africa, in general) grow at an astonishing rate. But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. This, in turn, creates a bottleneck when onboarding and verifying customers. Since 2019, Plaid-esque companies, but with different twists to their offerings, have emerged to solve these issues.
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The Crazy Programmer
APRIL 14, 2021
Cloud technology is the new normal for tech-savvy people who consider themselves Digital Nomads. With the rise in a shift towards cloud technology, especially IT people, have changed the way they work. Besides, it has made it easier for professionals and even ordinary people to access the data on any device from anywhere. Shells is one such platform for hosting a Virtual Desktop/ Computer on the cloud.
Martin Fowler
APRIL 27, 2021
Recently there's been a lot of interest, indeed hype, around building developer productivity platforms. Done well, they make it easier for developers to build systems aligned with the technology strategy and allow them to build useful features more quickly. However many organizations struggle because in order to do a good job of platforms, you need to have a number of baseline capabilities in place first.
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Agile Alliance
APRIL 30, 2021
Agile is built on many ideas (Kaizan, Lean, Kanban, etc.), but one of the most important is a body of research into human motivation. This article explores some of these ideas and highlights how it is very easy to adopt Agile but miss out on these motivational factors I often ask organisations why they want … Continued. The post Agile: Harnessing Human Motivation first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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CTOvision
APRIL 17, 2021
The launch of Bitcoin over a decade ago opened up opportunities for the development and launch of a ton of other cryptocurrencies, Ethereum being the foremost. Often compared to Bitcoin, Ethereum 2.0 is a truly decentralized P2P (peer-to-peer) blockchain-powered cryptocurrency. Transitioning from the energy-consuming and inherently flawed proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to the proof-of-stake (PoS), Ethereum […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 13, 2021
Before a startup can achieve product-market fit, founders must first listen to their customers, build what they require and fashion a business plan that makes the whole enterprise worthwhile. The numbers will tell the true story, but when it happens, you’ll feel it in your bones because sales will be good, customers will happy and revenue will growing.
Flexagon
APRIL 28, 2021
The following is a summary of the information covered in the webinar: 5 DevOps Mistakes to Avoid. You can watch the recording here. Most enterprises are somewhere along their DevOps journey to address software delivery challenges concerning cost, speed, and quality. DevOps is founded on solving these issues by marrying development and operations and automating.
Martin Fowler
APRIL 7, 2021
It's often necessary to access the historical values of some property. But sometimes this history itself needs to be modified in response to retroactive updates. Bitemporal history treats time as two dimensions: actual history records what history should be given perfect transmission of information, while record history captures how our knowledge of history changes.
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.
DevOps.com
APRIL 29, 2021
While having a mature digital enterprise helped organizations to better survive – and even thrive, in some cases – the pandemic, that’s not the primary reason why organizations will continue to invest in their digital transformation efforts. According to new research from consultancy Deloitte, businesses will continue to invest in their digital transformation capabilities to […].
TechBeacon
APRIL 27, 2021
Migrating to the cloud? What will you do with your mainframe-based applications? Luckily, a new approach is coming into vogue, where you can partition, refactor, and then move mainframe apps. Parts of the application run on the mainframe, and parts run as cloud-native applications.
CTOvision
APRIL 12, 2021
Decentralized smart contracts platform, Avalanche, has integrated with The Graph to expand querying and indexing on the platform. According to a press release shared with Coin Rivet, developers building on Avalanche can easily query custom on-chain data requests, without having to run a full node, via subgraphs, which are indexes of specifically-defined blockchain data.
TechCrunch
APRIL 7, 2021
As a company founded by data scientists, Streamlit may be in a unique position to develop tooling to help companies build machine learning applications. For starters, it developed an open-source project, but today the startup announced an expanded beta of a new commercial offering and $35 million in Series B funding. Sequoia led the investment with help from previous investors Gradient Ventures and GGV Capital.
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The Citus Data
APRIL 10, 2021
Last month we released Citus 10 and we’ve received an overwhelming amount of positive feedback on the new columnar compression and single node Citus features, as well as the news that we’ve open sourced the shard rebalancer. The new and exciting Citus 10 features are bringing in lots of new users of Citus open source and the managed Hyperscale (Citus) option in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Dzone - DevOps
APRIL 28, 2021
AWS offers a lot of options when it comes to deploying containers. But knowing which service does what can leave even the most seasoned pros scratching their heads. In this blog, we look at EKS, ECS, Fargate, EC2, and Kubernetes, explaining the role of each in deploying containers on AWS, as well as their pros and cons.
DevOps.com
APRIL 28, 2021
In a prior blog I explained my 27-factor DevOps assessment model which includes nine pillars of DevOps and three dimensions of people, process and technology. The nine pillars represent categories of practices. In this blog, I include examples of practices for each of the nine pillars. In a future blog I will explain how to […]. The post Nine Pillars of DevOps Best Practices appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechBeacon
APRIL 20, 2021
Whether you’re reviewing a team member’s pull request, pairing, or even reviewing your own code before deploying, code review provides a moment to step back from the code and ask yourself the important questions.
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.
CTOvision
APRIL 1, 2021
A company is suing Palo Alto Networks for patent infringement, alleging that proprietary technologies were demonstrated to the cybersecurity giant, then used in a number of its major security products and systems. The episode highlights the peril that some companies face in the preliminary stage of business discussions before any formal agreements are reached and in […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 28, 2021
Opsera, a startup that’s building an orchestration platform for DevOps teams, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Felicis Ventures. New investor HMG Ventures, as well as existing investors Clear Ventures, Trinity Partners and Firebolt Ventures also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $19.3 million.
David Walsh
APRIL 19, 2021
Improving the user experience of web applications has always been a priority of mine. I always come back to the same though I’ve had for 20 years: “users expect a web app to work — let’s make the app a joy to use.” Over the years we’ve employed JavaScript to improve the UX, but over time those strategies either become clunky or get baked into the web languages themselves.
Honeycomb
APRIL 8, 2021
Over the last few months, Honeycomb’s platform team migrated to a new iteration of our ingest pipeline for customer events. Our migration to this newer architecture did not go too smoothly, as can be attested by our status page since February. There were also many near-incidents where we got paged and reacted quickly enough to avoid major issues. We’ve decided to write a full overview of all the challenges we had encountered, which you can can download.
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DevOps.com
APRIL 21, 2021
Engineers at fast-paced startups often wear both Dev and DevOps hats. Early in my career, as a developer at a sentiment-analysis startup, I was tasked with writing scripts to spin up servers, configure them, install necessary software and deploy the code we wrote. My custom shell scripts, Python scripts and cron jobs did all the […]. The post DevOps Trends to Watch in 2021 appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechBeacon
APRIL 13, 2021
The pandemic encouraged organizations to accelerate their digital transformation plans, and many are already kicking off new initiatives. An important shift is an increased focus on performance-driven milestone planning.
CTOvision
APRIL 1, 2021
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is close to offering investment vehicles for Bitcoin and other digital assets to clients of its private wealth management unit. ?We are working closely with teams across the firm to explore ways to offer thoughtful and appropriate access to the ecosystem for private wealth clients, and that is something we expect to […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 7, 2021
One of the more tedious aspects of machine learning is providing a set of labels to teach the machine learning model what it needs to know. Snorkel AI wants to make it easier for subject matter experts to apply those labels programmatically, and today the startup announced a $35 million Series B. It also announced a new tool called Application Studio that provides a way to build common machine learning applications using templates and predefined components.
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O'Reilly Media - Ideas
APRIL 19, 2021
During the first weeks of February, we asked recipients of our Data & AI Newsletter to participate in a survey on AI adoption in the enterprise. We were interested in answering two questions. First, we wanted to understand how the use of AI grew in the past year. We were also interested in the practice of AI: how developers work, what techniques and tools they use, what their concerns are, and what development practices are in place.
David Walsh
APRIL 12, 2021
Formatting numbers on the client side is an important task, especially when you consider how much raw API usage is in play these days. What’s also important is ensuring those numbers are meaningful to users, no matter where they are in the world, especially if you’re an eCommerce website. Writing internationalization code can be a nightmare but luckily JavaScript provides us Intl.NumberFormat , an API for internationalizing numbers as currencies and more.
DevOps.com
APRIL 20, 2021
While modern business software solutions unlock organizational efficiencies, agility and the ability to deliver new value to customers, such tools were not available when applications deployed on mainframe systems were being developed. Today, many of the Fortune 500 companies, the world’s largest banks and insurance companies and several of the largest retailers in the U.S. […].
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