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4 Best Practices For Software Documentation

The Crazy Programmer

In computer science, software documentation is the procedure of writing, designing, and documenting an application. In software engineering, this refers to the formal specification of a software product or component. Software documentation should serve as an instructional manual for users and developers alike. It also refers to the textual, visual, or audio instructions accompanying computer software.

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Stuck in the Middle: A New Agile Leader’s Experience

Agile Alliance

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Orum raises $56M to help speed up interbank transfers

TechCrunch

Orum , which aims to speed up the amount of time it takes to transfer money between banks, announced today it has raised $56 million in a Series B round of funding. Accel and Canapi Ventures co-led the round, which also included participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures, Inspired Capital, Homebrew, Acrew, Primary, Clocktower and Box Group.

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Follower Reads

Martin Fowler

When you are using Leaders and Followers, you can use Follower Reads to achieve better throughput and lower latency. However there is always a replication lag between the leader and the followers, so you may need to take action to preserve consistency. more….

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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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Lead Your Team to Make Better Decisions, Faster

Let's Grow Leaders

When decision-making or problem-solving meetings bog down and become a waste of time, there are usually two problems causing the stagnation. In this episode, you’ll get the tools to overcome both of these problems before they derail your team. Take these two quick actions before you discuss any problem and your team will make better decisions – faster.

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To guard against data loss and misuse, the cybersecurity conversation must evolve

TechCrunch

Sid Trivedi. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sid Trivedi is a partner at Foundation Capital where he leads cybersecurity and IT investments. He serves on the advisory boards for entrepreneurship at Cornell University and the California Israel Chamber of Commerce. Mark Settle. Contributor. Mark Settle is a seven-time CIO, three-time CIO 100 award winner and two-time book author.

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Version Vector

Martin Fowler

A Lamport Clock is effective to order events on a single server, but with multiple servers we need a vector of version numbers to detect concurrent updates. more….

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How to Stay Productive as You Return to the Office

Let's Grow Leaders

As You Return to the Office, Make a Deliberate Plan. You’ve learned a lot about how you work and what makes you most productive over the last year. You had more choices on how to structure your day, when (and with whom) to engage. You figured out what worked best for you. The return to the office can feel as overwhelming as that initial, emergency pivot to working from home. 7 Tips for staying productive as you return to the office (or move to hybrid work. ).

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Software Supply Chain Security – How Not To Get Attacked

CTOvision

Read Bernadine Racoma explain how small and medium businesses can protect their software supply chains from cyber threats on MarTech Series : According to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), there are many challenges that organizations face on a day-to-day basis. Included in that list is the number one problem of cyber attacks. This is […].

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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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Real estate tech startup Side raises $50M more at a $2B valuation as it preps for an IPO

TechCrunch

Side , a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, has raised “$50 million-plus” in a funding round that doubles its valuation to $2 billion. The latest financing comes just three months after the San Francisco-based startup raised $150 million in a Series D funding round led by Coatue Management at a $1 billion valuation.

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Stepping Back from Speaking

Martin Fowler

A personal note on why I wish to give up doing talks.

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Best Practices for AWS Tagging With Yor

DevOps.com

On the surface, AWS resource tags are simple, informational key:value metadata that you can assign to most AWS resources. They also have many hidden benefits, as outlined in this AWS Tagging Best Practices guide for improving cloud operations. There are six use cases author Brian Yost calls out in particular: AWS console organization and resource […].

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Using Automation to Kick Your Cybersecurity Program Into High Gear

CTOvision

Steve Zalewski is the Interim CISO at Levi Strauss & Co., and an esteemed member of the Balbix Advisory Board. Balbix founder and CEO Gaurav Banga recently met Steve for a chat on how organizations can kick their cybersecurity programs into high gear to keep up with the attackers and the general need for speed […].

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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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Don’t send VC a cold deck ever again: Start sending video pitches

TechCrunch

Evan Fisher. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Founder of Unicorn Capital and Minimal Capital, Evan Fisher 's pitching and investor strategy has helped startups raise more than $2.5 billion. Let’s play out this scenario. Your deck is ready and you’re just about to start reaching out. What does conventional wisdom say that you should send? A three-paragraph overview, four bullet points outlining the problem, and three bullet points on how you solve it and why you’re the best.

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Citus Tips: JOINs between local & distributed Postgres tables

The Citus Data

If you have a large PostgreSQL database that runs on a single node, eventually the single node’s resources—such as memory, CPU, and disk—may deliver query responses that are too slow. That is when you may want to use the Citus extension to Postgres to distribute your tables across a cluster of Postgres nodes. In your large database, Citus will shine for large tables, since the distributed Citus tables will benefit from the memory across all of the nodes in the cluster.

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Survey Finds Biggest DevOps Obstacles are Organizational

DevOps.com

A survey of 600 IT professionals published this week by mabl finds the biggest barriers to adopting DevOps practices are more closely related to organizational issues rather than any technology. Conducted by mabl, a provider of a test automation platform, the survey identified non-technological issues as the main inhibitor to DevOps by a wide margin […].

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The Circular Supply Chain: A Push For Sustainability

CTOvision

Read Steve Banker explain the concept of circular supply chain and how it can lead to supply chain sustainability on Forbes : Supply chain sustainability is increasingly important for the future of business and the world as a whole. Companies are investing more money into sustainability initiatives, seeking to reduce waste and carbon emissions. As […].

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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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Meet Mighty, an e-commerce platform where kids are the boss; a “digital lemonade stand”

TechCrunch

Until children reach a certain age, enrichment programs are somewhat limited to school, sports, and camps, while money-making opportunities are largely non-existent. Now, a year-old, L.A.-based startup called Mighty , a kind of Shopify that invites younger kids to open a store online, aims to partly fill the void. In fact, Mighty — led by founders Ben Goldhirsh, who previously founded GOOD magazine, and Dana Mauriello, who spent nearly five years with Etsy and was most recently an advisor

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Shipping on a Spent Error Budget

Honeycomb

Modern software services are expected to be highly available, and running a service with minimal interruptions requires a certain amount of reliability-focused engineering work. At the same time, teams also need to build new features and improve existing ones, so that users are delighted and don’t churn. Balancing these two categories of work is a challenge for every engineering team.

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The State of Continuous Delivery in 2021

DevOps.com

One of the hallmarks of DevOps is to improve the delivery of software. Therefore, mature DevOps systems employ continuous delivery (CD), the process of releasing bite-sized software changes on a regular basis. Amid high demand for digital innovation, streamlining this release pipeline is becoming more and more crucial for enabling overall software fluidity.

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Banks Edge Closer to Ethereum 2.0 Staking

CTOvision

Read why Ian Allison feels that in the near future, mainstream banks could opt for Ethereum 2.0 on Coindesk : Banks could one day be key participants in Ethereum 2.0. It’s a trend that will soon garner as much attention as institutional interest in bitcoin, say firms like Blockdaemon and Bison Trails, which provide the […].

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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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Vietnamese investment app Infina lands $2M seed round

TechCrunch

The pandemic has spurred interest in saving and investment apps around the world , especially ones geared toward newer investors. In Southeast Asia, startups in this space that have raised funding over the past few months include Ajaib , Bibit and Stashaway —and that’s just a (very) partial list. Now Infina , which calls itself the “Robinhood of Vietnam,” is announcing an oversubscribed $2 million seed round.

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Cloud management headaches? How AIOps is a force multiplier

TechBeacon

As multi-cloud and hybrid cloud become the norm, enterprises have come to understand that they need a tool set that sits above the cloud brands to manage all public and private clouds.

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How To Change Certificate Without Downtime

Dzone - DevOps

Certificates are always a pain in the production environment! Security is the one the most important part of any application these days especially the fact that most of the applications are running on a public cloud provider puts the security part on a higher priority. One of the ways application are using to keep communications secure is through the certificate.

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The Power of Anonymity in Supply Chain Security

CTOvision

Read Adrien Gendre’s analytical article about why anonymity is an important aspect of supply chain security on Infosec Magazine : The SolarWinds breach of 2020 was widely considered the biggest cyber-attack in history. Just three months later, the Microsoft Exchange hack took its place. Both had far-reaching consequences that affected not only SolarWinds and Microsoft, […].

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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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Kikoff raises $30M for its hybrid consumer-credit and financial-literacy service

TechCrunch

Kikoff , a personal finance platform aimed at helping consumers build credit, announced today that it has raised $30 million in a Series B round. The capital is in addition to the $12.5 million the startup raised across previously unannounced seed and Series A rounds, which were both led by Lightspeed Venture partners. Portage Ventures led Kickoff’s Series B, which included participation from Lightspeed, GGV, Coatue and Core Innovation Capital.

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How Low-Code Makes DevOps Stronger

DevOps.com

While its roots can be traced back to rapid-application development (RAD), low-code application development started to gain serious momentum about three years ago. Initially, some in the DevOps community dismissed the trend, even as myriad approaches—from no-code to low-code for professional developers—started to enter the market. At the time, enterprises of all sizes had embraced […].

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How Create a More Inclusive Workplace for LGBTQ Employees

Let's Grow Leaders

Move Past a “Check the Box” Approach. and Create a More Inclusive Workplace. If you’re looking to move beyond a “check the box” approach to LGBTQ inclusion and create a more inclusive workplace, you won’t want to miss this important episode of Asking For a Friend. Tammy Cravit is a data engineer, friend, and advocate for LGBTQ inclusion.