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The Next Evolutions of DevOps

DevOps.com

As society continues to recover from the global COVID-19 pandemic and some semblance of normal starts to return, technology continues to move forward. The pandemic certainly changed what normal means and people, processes and technologies all have adapted and evolved to meet those challenges. The narrative that the pandemic caused of your organization’s digital transformation […].

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A thinking and recording tool: Decision Records

Martin Fowler

The Advice Process works when supported by four elements. Andrew describes the first of these, Decision Records , which act as a tool for thinking about and recording the decision process. more….

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors 1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Other pure-software providers will build all the stuff on top of it. Databases, running code, you name it. We currently have cloud vendors that offer end-to-end solutions from the developer experience down to the hardware: What if cloud vendors focus on the lowest layer, and other (pure software)

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Bolt makes first acquisition with Tipser, launches ‘Remote Checkout’

TechCrunch

The ability to purchase something at the point of discovery from digital content exists, but checkout technology company Bolt has the opportunity to give that its “one-click” treatment. It announced Monday that it made its first acquisition in Tipser , a Swedish-based technology company enabling direct checkout on any digital surface. San Francisco-based Bolt is fresh off of raising $393 million in Series D funding in October, bringing total capital raised to date to $600 million.

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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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Benefits and Challenges of Adopting SAFe – An Empirical Survey

Agile Alliance

During the last two decades, turbulent business environments tempted firms to adopt agile methods to cope with the ever-changing customer demands. The success of agile methods in small and co-located teams inspired companies to apply them to large-scale endeavors. Agile scaling frameworks, such as the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) have been proposed by practitioners to … Continued.

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5 Reasons For Bad Candidate Experience In Tech Interviews

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In 2022, the one thing on top of the mind of any tech organization should be aiming for happier employees. Happier employees are more productive and more likely to stay longer in their current jobs. You may argue that this has nothing to do with the bad candidate experience faced by developers who are not even your employees yet. But it has everything to do with making a good impression on developers who may or may not become a part of your company, someday.

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Fundbox, a fintech focused on SMBs, raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation

TechCrunch

Fundbox, a company that offers loans and financial products to small businesses, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series D round at a valuation of $1.1 billion. Or more simply, the company aims to solve SMBs’ working capital needs through its credit and payments offerings. It is particularly focused on B2B-focused small businesses. “We use artificial intelligence to deliver financial products that small business owners use to better run and grow their businesses,” CEO Prashant Ful

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Leading Other Leaders to Solve Problems

Let's Grow Leaders

Take the initiative with confidence and humility to lead other leaders. This question came in from a member of the Let’s Grow Leaders community and it’s such a fantastic opportunity to lead that we wanted to share it with you. The question is about leading other leaders without excess drama. Here’s how Maria describes the situation: “We work in a 24 x 7 environment with multiple shifts.

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You Can't Buy Integration

Martin Fowler

“Build versus buy” decisions are everywhere today, and rightly so. Building software is risky and expensive, and software product companies can spread that risk and expense across multiple customers. But my colleague Brandon Byars argues that the kinds of tools that are available to buy for systems integration are not products that directly solve a business problem.

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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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Agile at scale: A transformation journey leveraging SAFe

Agile Alliance

70% of executives are increasing their organization’s digital transformation. ServiceNow product leader, Thom Gray, Sr. Principal Product Manager, will sit down with Damaris Sevilla, Director, Agile Enablement Office at Assurant, to discuss their digital transformation journey. Assurant, a global fortune 500 company, will share how digital transformation helped them to improve their delivery to market … Continued.

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Glorify, an ambitious app for Christians, just landed $40 million in Series A funding led by a16z

TechCrunch

Religion-based apps, tools and communities aren’t brand new, including to investors. Pray.com, for example, an LA-based app for daily prayer and bedtime Bible stories that was founded in 2016, has raised at least $34 million from investors, including Kleiner Perkins. Ministry Brands, a nine-year-old, Knoxville, Tennessee-based outfit that now includes dozens of software and payments brands tailored to faith-based organizations, was acquired by Insight Partners in 2016 for $1.4 billion (whi

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JSON Minify Online

The Crazy Programmer

Welcome to JSON minifier online free tool. This awesome tool will help you to minify your JSON data. All you need to do is just paste your data in the below box, click on the button, after that you will instantly get the compressed JSON. For making your work easier we have also provided a copy and a clear button. ?. It helps you to compress or minify JSON.

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Put most of your energy into building clean interfaces

Martin Fowler

While we have historically drawn up our project plans and costs around the boxes—the digital products we are introducing—the lines are the hidden and often primary driver of organizational tech debt. They are the reason that things just take longer now than they used to. more….

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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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And That’s Agile, Jack!

Agile Alliance

Ever had two tacos at Jack in the Box? Ever wonder what goes in to every decision of how to source, price, prepare, and deliver that taco to you? There’s a lot of data that feeds those questions. Jack in the Box sells a million+ tacos per day, so we’re also talking BIG transactional data … Continued. The post And That’s Agile, Jack! first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Social app IRL makes its first acquisition with deal for digital nutrition company AaBeZe Labs

TechCrunch

IRL, the SoftBank-backed social app and recent unicorn , is today announcing its first acquisition. The company is purchasing, for an undisclosed sum, the “digital nutrition” company AaBeZe Labs and its portfolio of IP with the goal of making IRL a healthier and more ethically designed social networking app. AaBeZe’s founders Michael Phillips Moskowitz, the former “Global Chief Curator” of eBay, and former Medium Product Lead Brad Artizinega, along with other member

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What is Tailgating in Cyber Security

The Crazy Programmer

Want to know what tailgating is in cyber security? Tailgating or piggybacking is one of the hacking techniques hackers use. The main goal of tailgating is to enter the local place with no proper authentication. So, do you want to know more about tailgating in-depth? You must read this article because here I have explained it in detail. You will also understand various ways to prevent such hacking efforts from hackers.

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Transforming Fear with Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas

Let's Grow Leaders

Most of us have seen fear drive short-term results, but it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover. Winning organizations know how to reframe fear into opportunities for learning and growth. They create resilient cultures of unfear. In this episode, Gaurav and Mark, authors of Unfear , give you the rundown about the impact and archetypes of fear in the workplace and provide strategies, techniques, and actions you need to bring about an unfear transformation.

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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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Agile Conferences and Communities -Then & Now

Agile Alliance

You are attending this Agile2021 conference. Ever wonder how it got started? How it has evolved? The conference actually has two beginnings, as the Agile2005 conference was the merger of the Agile Development Conference and XP/Agile Universe. Todd Little was one of the co-founders along with Alistair Cockburn who brought forth the Agile Development Conference … Continued.

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Don’t let new hybrid workplaces keep the old systemic racism

TechCrunch

Donald R. Cravins Jr. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Donald R. Cravins Jr. is the executive vice president of the National Urban League. Systemic racism is nothing new in America, and the effects of unconscious racial bias have long created inequity in the workplace. So why — when presented with the task of developing new “normal” hybrid workplaces — are we allowing the same systemic problems that boxed generations of Black and brown people out of the workforce to exist?

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Is TypeScript the New JavaScript?

DevOps.com

While JavaScript is frequently the language of choice for all sizes of frontend and backend applications, it’s not the only option; nor is it necessarily the most efficient or cost-effective. Increasingly, TypeScript is becoming the go-to language for app development—particularly for larger apps. The time- and cost-saving benefits are significant enough that some organizations are […].

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Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb

Honeycomb

When you send telemetry into Honeycomb, our infrastructure needs to buffer your data before processing it in our “retriever” columnar storage database. For the entirety of Honeycomb’s existence, we have used Apache Kafka to perform this buffering function in our observability pipeline. In this post, we’ll review the history of how we got here, why we’re so picky about Kafka software and hardware, and how we qualified and adopted the new AWS Graviton2-based storage instanc

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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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Agile Alliance at 20

Agile Alliance

A look at Agile Alliance on its 20th anniversary. MEMBER? PLEASE LOG IN. To view the content on this page, you must be a Member of the Agile Alliance. Learn more about becoming a Member of the Agile Alliance, or visit our Membership Options and join today! The post Agile Alliance at 20 first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Picsart acquires R&D company DeepCraft in seven-figure deal to aid video push

TechCrunch

SoftBank-based digital creation platform Picsart , which recently hit uniciorn status , announced today it’s acquiring the research and development company DeepCraft. The deal is a combination of both cash and stock and is in the seven-figure range, but the exact terms aren’t being disclosed. Picsart today offers a range of digital creation and editing tools aimed at both consumers and professionals alike that make photo and video editing more fun and approachable.

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Anima Anandkumar: What’s in the Future for AI?

DataRobot

Anima Anandkumar joined Ben Taylor, Chief AI Evangelist at DataRobot, on the More Intelligent Tomorrow podcast to discuss the future direction of AI technology and its possible enhancement by the addition of more human capabilities. Bren Professor of Technology at California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Anima joined Nvidia three years ago as the Director of Machine Learning Research.

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Why Trust and Integrity are Critical to IoT

DevOps.com

We hear a lot about how the IoT is transforming people’s work and daily lives, but for me, its impact goes deeper. As a Type I diabetic, I depend on data from an IoT device to stay healthy. If I can’t trust my latest blood sugar reading, the results can be catastrophic. Health care use […]. The post Why Trust and Integrity are Critical to IoT appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Prioritizing user stories remotely – a framework to help an agile team

Agile Alliance

Prioritizing the stories in the backlog of a project with a large team, where the Product Owner does not have much experience in product management is already a big task itself and, in a remote context in the middle of a pandemic, it can be an even greater challenge. The idea of this lightning talk … Continued. The post Prioritizing user stories remotely – a framework to help an agile team first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Karamba Security raises another $10M for its IoT and automotive security platform

TechCrunch

Karamba Security , an Israel-based security startup that focuses on the IoT and automotive industry, today announced a $10 million extension to its $12 million Series B round from 2017. This extension was led by automotive startup VinFast, a member of Vietnam’s Vingroup conglomerate, which itself is reportedly looking to raised $1 billion for VinFast.

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The 10 top network outages of 2021

Kentik

Every year the internet experiences numerous disruptions and outages, and 2021 was certainly no exception. This year we documented outages, including multiple government-directed shutdowns, as well as what might be the internet’s biggest outage in history. In this post, I run through 10 of the top outages that we covered in 2021. Needless to say, the world’s network engineers deserve a load of #HugOps in 2021.

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