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FaceCode Update: 4 New Features That Make Remote Interviews Easier!

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

We released the updated version of our intelligent coding interview platform – FaceCode 2.0 – earlier this year in March. Following the release, we have seen a spike (57%) in the number of users on our platform. This quarter, our product whizkids also added more new features to the FaceCode platform to make the remote interview experience even better.

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UX Writing: How to Find the Right Words for Your Interface

Gorilla Logic

Words are persuasive. They can empower people, or they can make them feel lost. With just one word in an app or a website, you can engage and build trust with your users or, alternatively, lead them to frustration. When it comes to user experience, we tend to focus largely on graphic elements such as color, button appearance, and font. But how much time do we dedicate to writing the text that will be in our interfaces?

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DataOps vs. DevOps: What’s the Difference?

DevOps.com

There is a mindboggling amount of data today; to even measure it requires using a byte measurement called a zettabyte, which is one sextillion bytes (that’s 21 zeros). Currently, because such a ridiculous amount of data exists, there is a growing urgency to end wasteful data processes. From this environment, DataOps was born. Similar to […]. The post DataOps vs.

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5 ways AI can help mitigate the global shipping crisis

TechCrunch

Ahmer Inam. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ahmer Inam is the chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO) at Pactera EDGE. He has more than 20 years of experience driving organizational transformation. His experience includes leadership roles at Nike Inc., Wells Fargo, Sonic Automotive and Cambia Health Solutions. With the fourth quarter now upon us, every industry faces a challenge in managing a holiday production calendar that will deliver the goods.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Gateway Pattern

Martin Fowler

We often need to access APIs from foreign codebases, and these foreign codebases usually have different vocabularies to ours. I've found it useful to encapsulate this interaction with a gateway that translates between our code and foreign code.

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AnaElsa Aviles and Mimi LaRaque

Agile Alliance

AnaElsa Aviles and Mimi LaRaque talk about race and culture. The post AnaElsa Aviles and Mimi LaRaque first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Felt raised $4.5 million to get you to ‘think in maps’

TechCrunch

From vaccine distribution plans to fire trackers to bar crawls for your best friend’s birthday, maps help people visualize space and express impact. And Felt, a new Oakland-based startup co-founded by Sam Hashemi and Can Duruk , is on a mission to make the medium more mainstream. Felt is a collaborative software company that wants to make it easier for people to build maps on the internet.

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Top 7 business intelligence trends for 2021

CIO

Business intelligence is not an oxymoron like jumbo shrimp. It’s not dead. And it’s not being superseded by artificial intelligence.

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How Leaders Make The Most of Complaints

Let's Grow Leaders

You’ve got a clear focus on what matters most, and your team seems to work well together, but then you get a call. Hey, I need to talk to you about a conflict, a disagreement, a clash of personalities. What you do next will reinforce your leadership and influence or erode your credibility. Team conflict can feel like quicksand and a distraction from your work, but it can also be an excellent opportunity for your team to grow.

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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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Ashanti Gardner

Agile Alliance

Ashanti Gardner Shares experience as a BIPOC Graphic Recorder. The post Ashanti Gardner first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Latent AI, which says it can compress common AI models by 10x, lands some key backing

TechCrunch

Roughly a year ago, Latent AI , a now three-year-old, Menlo Park, Ca.-based startup, pitched a handful of investors during TechCrunch’s Battlefield competition. It didn’t win that contest, but that hasn’t kept it from winning the interest of investors elsewhere. It just closed on $19 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by Future Ventures and Blackhorn Ventures, with participation from Booz Allen, Lockheed Martin, 40 North Ventures, and Autotech Ventures.

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How Big Data Investments Could Affect A Variety Of Industries

CTOvision

Read Sylvia Jablonski explain how big data companies like Palantir Technologies, Inc. and Snowflake have a great future on Forbes : Big data describes the large amounts of information that could be analyzed or unanalyzed, structured or unstructured and an untapped resource or a potential headache for the whole range of businesses and sectors. Big […].

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Best Practices of High Performing Virtual Teams (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Start Here to Make Your High-Performing Virtual Teams Even Better. In this week’s Asking For a Friend, I share best practices I see continually being performed by high-performing virtual teams. Highlights from the Building High-Performing Virtual Teams Conversation. 0:54 High-performing teams invest in the people they are working with as genuine human beings.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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A Talk with Jenny Tarwater

Agile Alliance

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Motivo raises $12M Series A to speed up chip design with AI

TechCrunch

Chip design is a long slog of trial and error, taking years to bring a design to market. Motivo , a five year old startup from a chip industry veteran is creating software to speed up chip design from years to months using AI. Today the company announced a $12 million Series A. Intel Capital led the round along with new investors Storm Ventures and Seraph Group, as well as participation from Inventus Capital.

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Dell Technologies CFO Tom Sweet On The Chip Shortage, VMware Spin-Off And The Post-Pandemic IT Market

CTOvision

The global chip shortage has impacted everything from the production of game consoles and smartphones to computers and home appliances. One of the industries affected the most is tech, which saw an uptick in demand for PCs and laptops when Covid pivoted employees and students to work remotely. Even Dell Technologies, which has a global […].

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Programming Languages: Choose Wisely?

DevOps.com

We’ve got decades of experience in programming and language adoption under our belt at this point, and there are a few things we can say definitively that developers in general (and DevOps engineers specifically) should be aware of. First, it doesn’t matter as much as you think. It really doesn’t. Most developers don’t choose programming […].

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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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Ann-Marie Kong

Agile Alliance

Coaching social justice trauma. The post Ann-Marie Kong first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom

TechCrunch

Although older adults are one of the fastest-growing demographics, they’re quite underserved when it comes to consumer tech. The global population of people older than 65 will reach 1.5 billion by 2050, and members of this cohort — who are leading longer, active lives — have plenty of money to spend. Still, most startups persist in releasing products aimed at serving younger users, says Lawrence Kosick, co-founder of GetSetUp, an edtech company that targets 50+ learners. “If you can

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Bitcoin retakes $46,000 as rebound continues

CTOvision

Read explain why Bitcoin managed to break past the crucial $46,000 barrier despite the ongoing Senate debates on cryptocurrency as a part of the yet-to-be-passed infrastructure bill on CNBC : The price of bitcoin broke past $46,000 on Monday morning after a high-stakes weekend for the crypto industry as the Senate continued debating the details […].

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Top 5 KPIs to keep in mind for excellent customer experience

CEO Insider

You’ve put customer experience at the core of your contact center strategy, and you want to be sure that what you’re doing is on the correct track? Here are five indicators that you must be aware of in order to create a dashboard that accurately reflects your priorities, progress, and the influence of your activities […]. The post Top 5 KPIs to keep in mind for excellent customer experience appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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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 Africa

Agile Alliance

Patrick Taiwo, Elvin Assiam, Grace Johnson, and Nchimunya Kabunda discuss social justice. The post Agile Africa first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Robinhood buys Say Technologies for $140M to improve shareholder-company relations

TechCrunch

U.S. consumer investing and trading service Robinhood announced this morning that it will acquire Say Technologies in a $140 million cash deal. Say Technologies is a venture-backed startup, having raised $8 million in 2018, per Crunchbase data. PitchBook data indicates that the company was worth $28 million on a post-money basis following the investment, implying that the company’s backers managed a roughly 5x return on their investment.

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Article: Leveraging the Agile Manifesto for More Sustainability

InfoQ Culture Methods

This article explores what sustainability exactly means, the current status of sustainability of the major agile organizations (Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance), and the impact of software development on sustainability. The main focal point of this article is using the principles of the Agile Manifesto to guide actions that contribute to more sustainability.

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Google Unveils Tool to Better Secure GitHub Repos

DevOps.com

Google today launched a GitHub app that provides automated continuous enforcement of security best practices for GitHub projects. Kim Lewandowski, a product manager for open source software security at Google, said the Allstar application enables IT teams to assess any project on GitHub to check for security policy adherence. In addition, Allstar sets desired enforcement […].

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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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Devon Morris

Agile Alliance

Devon Morris - 1st Black Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) Shares Journey. The post Devon Morris first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Consumer goods software company Aforza bags $22M to open US headquarters

TechCrunch

Aforza , developing cloud and mobile apps for consumer goods companies, announced a $22 million Series A round led by DN Capital. The London-based company’s technology is built on the Salesforce and Google Cloud platforms so that consumer goods companies can digitally transform product distribution and customer engagement to combat issues like unprofitable promotions and declining market share, Aforza co-founder and CEO Dominic Dinardo told TechCrunch.

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Why Observability Requires a Distributed Column Store

Honeycomb

Honeycomb is known for its incredibly fast performance: you can sift through billions of rows, comparing high-cardinality data across thousands of fields, and get fast answers to your queries. And none of that is possible without our purpose-built distributed column store. This post is an introduction to what a distributed column store is, how it functions, and why a distributed column store is a fundamental requirement for achieving observability.

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