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Interested in Business Agility?

Agile Alliance

If you’re interested in Business Agility, here is some upcoming news, and an event that you will want to keep an eye out for. The post Interested in Business Agility? first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Why Organizational Innovation Demands Metric and KPI Dashboards

IDC

IDC's Joe Pucciarelli breaks down why it's imperative for CIOs and IT execs to deliver an objective and relevant suite of metrics and KPI performance dashboards.

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The 9 Best Programming Books to Read Right Now if You Want to Distinguish Yourself

Coding Dojo

If you read just one of the best programming books this year you’ll be a step ahead of nearly everyone … Read more >>. The post The 9 Best Programming Books to Read Right Now if You Want to Distinguish Yourself appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Coatue backs Kubercost’s goal of supply data to millions of Kubernetes developers

TechCrunch

In the past year, Kubernetes adoption exploded, with over 5.6 million developers using the cloud-native tools — an increase of 67% from the year prior. For those who need a refresher on Kubernetes, it is an open source container project created by Google in 2014 to automate, monitor and run applications. Kubernetes is one of the most-used tools by cloud-native developers and can be challenging as a company grows, but Kubecost aims to alleviate some of those growing pains through its open source

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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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The Rise of Hybrid Work and What it Means For Agile

Agile Alliance

Are hybrid workplaces compatible with the workflow teams are trying to achieve, or does it help or hinder them from living up to Agile values and principles? The post The Rise of Hybrid Work and What it Means For Agile first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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APILayer Launches New API Marketplace

The Crazy Programmer

APILayer is the cloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) market leader and API service provider. . Let’s know more about their recent launch, but before that, we will go a step further and know what “API Marketplace” is and understand more about it. What is API Marketplace? API marketplace is the user-friendly hub for the public where API providers publish their APIs for partners and developers to consume. .

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This UK startup got $9M so you’ll pay it to shrink your household bills

TechCrunch

The UK’s cost of living crisis has been making grim headlines for months — with no respite in sight. Just this week, newspapers reported that inflation had hit 5.5%, a 30-year high, further pushing up prices for everyday essentials like food. Worse is yet to come as an energy price cap will end in April, when bills are projected to rise by more than 50%.

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Velocity Without Direction is Speed

Agile Alliance

In physics, there’s a difference between “Speed” and “Velocity” While the first is a scalar quantity (the quantity itself plus the unit of measurement), the second is a vectorial quantity (quantity, unit of measurement plus direction). A metric called Velocity is used to measure the deliveries’ effort. In this short talk, I relate the physics … Continued.

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2022 Global C-Suite Talent Trends in the Mining Sector

N2Growth Blog

By Sandra Burmeister and Kelli Vukelic. Early figures and forecasts show that the mining sector is in for one of the most robust years off the back of the soaring demand for commodities and the industry’s impressive rebound in the second half of 2021. Even so, the sector is still grappling with a plateful of hot-button issues, including social restructuring, environmental protection, and the global push for de-carbonization placing particular pressure on the coal and platinum industries.

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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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The Past, Present and Future of OpenStack

DevOps.com

OpenStack, described as the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud software, will mark its 10-year anniversary milestone later in 2022. In September 2012, the OpenStack Foundation launched as an independent organization to manage and promote the technology—a watershed moment for a project announced just two years earlier. Today, with contributions from more than 34,000 […].

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Daily Crunch: Meta fires executive after ‘predator catchers’ interview video goes viral

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, February 18, 2022! First, a note that much of TechCrunch is off Monday for a U.S. holiday, so some regular stuff might land a day later than usual. But we’re a global team, so we will not be quiet to start next week.

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Escaping calendar gridlock: how do great product teams learn together, from each other?

Agile Alliance

Does your product team find the time to improve as a community of practice? Or does your team schedule every available moment for status meetings? Do you fail to create feedback loops that grow an individual's capabilities? When a team does eventually prioritize learning, does it end up being boring and ineffective? This is because … Continued.

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4 Strategies To Overcome the Executive Hiring Challenges of Today

N2Growth Blog

The process of sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding an executive continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Many corporations are overhauling their approach to hiring executives and are more open-minded to change than ever before. I recently had coffee with a newly retired HR executive for a Fortune 500 healthcare company and learned The Great Resignation had worked its way up to the executive shelf.

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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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IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office. The post IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate appeared first on DevOps.com.

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African fintech Flutterwave triples valuation to over $3B after $250M Series D

TechCrunch

African fintech Flutterwave has raised $250 million in a Series D round that tripled the company’s valuation to over $3 billion in just twelve months. In March 2021, the San Francisco-headquartered and Lagos-based startup raised $170 million in a Series C round from Tiger Global and Avenir at a valuation of $1 billion. The latest financing, which confirms a Bloomberg scoop from October, brings Flutterwave’s total raise since its inception six years ago to $475 million (it raised a $35 million Se

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Emotional culture – what is it and how to co-create it?

Agile Alliance

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast." But what is culture and how can we shape it? Let's explore why emotional culture matters to building a more high performing and connected team in a more human and empathetic way. You will leave this talk with an understanding of a framework to engage leaders, teams and individuals in … Continued. The post Emotional culture – what is it and how to co-create it?

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Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix

Netflix Tech

By: Ankush Gulati , David Gevorkyan Additional credits: Michael Clark , Gokhan Ozer Intro Netflix has more than 220 million active members who perform a variety of actions throughout each session, ranging from renaming a profile to watching a title. Reacting to these actions in near real-time to keep the experience consistent across devices is critical for ensuring an optimal member experience.

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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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The DevOps Journey: Continuous Mindset Starts With Cultural Change

DevOps.com

DevOps is not just about technology. In many ways, the technology aspect of DevOps is finite but the people, organizational and cultural aspects are infinite. We see many clients get so focused on the tools and technology that they forget about the impact beyond the technology. An important part of building a world-class DevOps process […]. The post The DevOps Journey: Continuous Mindset Starts With Cultural Change appeared first on DevOps.com.

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As Databricks reaches $800M ARR, a fresh look at its last private valuation

TechCrunch

Big-data analytics unicorn Databricks is back in the news, disclosing a new revenue figure and its 2021 growth rate. TechCrunch has been tracking the company for years, curious about its growth and what its rising worth said about its market. Today we’re revisiting its last private round measured against its most recent financial data. But to do that, we have to do a little background work first.

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Fortress Agile: nurturing and growing healthy practices in a hostile environment

Agile Alliance

When the broader organization just isn’t agile, teams can get stuck. They’re waiting for their knight in shining armor - the “enlightened” executive - to transform it all. What happens when the hero isn’t coming? Is it possible to realistically accept an organization’s limitations without killing morale? Can a manager or coach “shield” a team … Continued.

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How We Define SRE Work

Honeycomb

At the time of writing this post, I have officially been at Honeycomb for one year as a site reliability engineer (SRE). I had shared my initial experiences and impressions in this post and thought it would make sense to check back in now that I’ve had the opportunity to spend time learning about the team, the culture, and the code base more in depth. .

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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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Best Practices to Improve your Engineering Sprints

DevOps.com

What is the purpose of sprints? We break work into sprints so we can more easily monitor, estimate and predict what we want to ship and when. Over the years, engineering teams have gotten used to moving quickly from one sprint to the next, but I think it’s important to be more thoughtful in how […]. The post Best Practices to Improve your Engineering Sprints appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Appboxo raises $7M to turn any app into a super app

TechCrunch

Mini-apps are lightweight programs that run within a larger app and serve as additional sources of user engagement and revenue. They became popularized by “super apps” like WeChat, Alibaba and Grab. But not all developers have these tech giants’ resources. Based in Singapore, Appboxo wants to level the playing field. The startup’s platform lets developers turn their apps into super apps, either by building their own mini-apps or accessing them through Appboxo Showroom, a marketplace for th

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6 Must-Haves for Maximizing Virtual Dojo Engagement

Agile Alliance

Immersive Learning Dojos are an Agile staple that consistently yield longstanding success in terms of skill building and habit development. A major contributing factor to Dojo success is collocation. Think hyper-collocation?an open space concept filled with whiteboard walls, oversized monitors, pairing stations, and busy collaboration. But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the worldwide lockdown suddenly … Continued.

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Deprecating Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 images: stay secure with modern Ubuntu

CircleCI

CircleCI’s Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 Linux virtual machine (VM) images will be temporarily unavailable in late March 2022 and late April 2022, and they will be permanently unavailable as of May 31, 2022. If you are using either of these images, update your config with a newer Ubuntu machine image before the 14.04 and 16.04 images are removed at the end of May 2022.

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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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Snyk Acquires Fugue to Secure Cloud Infrastructure

DevOps.com

Snyk today announced it has acquired Fugue as part of an effort to embed security within an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) provisioning tool. The Fugue platform combines a unified policy engine with an implementation of the open source Open Policy Agent (OPA) software, dubbed Regula, to ensure security and compliance policies are consistently enforced.

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Fitness app FitOn raises $40M, acquires corporate wellness platform Peerfit

TechCrunch

Digital fitness and wellness company FitOn has raised $40 million in Series C funding led by Delta-v Capital, the company announced on Tuesday. FitOn is also expanding its reach in wellness by acquiring Tampa-based corporate wellness platform Peerfit. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Peerfit founder Ed Buckley will stay on in his current role as CEO.

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The Pencil Challenge

Agile Alliance

This session is called "The Pencil Challenge." Can you pass your pencil to other team members on a Zoom chat? Watch to see what problems a simple exercise such as this presents to teams. MEMBER? PLEASE LOG IN. To view the content on this page, you must be a Member of the Agile Alliance. Learn … Continued. The post The Pencil Challenge first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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