CEO Insider

AUGUST 12, 2023

Despite the many CEOs throwing tantrums over return to office mandates, and the numerous headlines about large companies like JP Morgan Chase demanding full-time office work, the data doesn’t lie. And the data shows that we’ve seen a growth in remote work in recent weeks, according to the latest edition of LinkedIn’s Workforce Confidence Index, […] The post Remote Teams Got You Stressed?

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 15, 2023

To follow up on our previous survey about low-code and no-code tools, we decided to run another short survey about tools specifically for software developers—including, but not limited to, GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT. We’re interested in how “developer enablement” tools of all sorts are changing the workplace. Our survey 1 showed that while these tools increased productivity, they aren’t without their costs.

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 14, 2023

There’s a huge range of knowledge, skills and abilities that DevOps professionals will need to master if they want to thrive in 2023.

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Perficient

AUGUST 16, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, staying ahead of the curve is crucial, but so is selecting the right platform. If you find yourself overwhelmed by the multitude of options and the complexities involved in the selection process, you’re not alone. To help you make an informed decision and find the ultimate technology platform for your organization, here are the top five factors you need to consider: Prioritize Your Requirements: To ensure seamless alignment with your orga

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With no barriers to entry you can get started with Snowflake for next to nothing, but as you may already know, costs can quickly spiral out of control. While usage costs can be better managed for your internal BI use case, Snowflake costs skyrocket for SaaS providers because the need to deliver real-time, interactive analytics in a multi-tenant environment is always on.

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CableLabs

AUGUST 15, 2023

In a digital world where every second counts, technologies that enable smooth, efficient transmission of data are paramount to ensuring the quality of our online experiences. Reliable connectivity is a must, and the need for it grows exponentially more essential every day, particularly as more applications harness the power of 10G. The 10G platform is a game-changing, multigigabit network made possible by DOCSIS technologies.

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Martin Fowler

AUGUST 15, 2023

When scaling up, getting costs under control is vital to stabilizing financial health. But as a weight-loss expert might say, the key to long-term health is to do things that promote a sustainable lifestyle. Sofia Tania and Stefania Stefansdottir now move on to begin to describe these initiatives : federated accountability, visibility, and nudges towards better financial discipline.

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Agile Alliance

AUGUST 16, 2023

If you implement Scrum ceremonies, you are technically doing Scrum, but are you embracing an Agile philosophy? Is your team engaged in productive work valued by the stakeholders? What do we mean by productive? We will define productivity in terms of value. Value has a broader definition than just commercial value. It also makes the … Continued The post An Agile focus on value first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following a crash Thursday night with a fire truck. The California Department of Motor Vehicles, the agency that regulates the testing and deployment of autonomous vehicles in the state, requested the reduction in operations. The state agency said it is investigating “recent concerning incidents” involving Cruise vehicles in San Francisco.

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2023

Digi-Key Electronics was digital before digital was even a buzzword. The company launched in 1972 to provide electronic components and automation products to design engineers. Instead of putting salespeople on the ground, we pioneered a business model built around mail-order catalog sales. Before long, we expanded into online sales and, today, Digi-Key offers the world’s largest selection of electronic components that are both in-stock and available for immediate shipment.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Martin Fowler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Join Tim Cochran and Rickey Zachery on Thursday, September 7th 1-2pm EST for a webinar on Bottlenecks of Scaleups: Technology mistakes every growing startup makes. They researched Thoughtwork's portfolio to analyze why companies struggle to scale, spanning across Technology, People, and Product. Covering areas such as experimentation culture, overcomplicated architectures, onboarding, developer productivity, product and engineering collaboration, and cost efficiency.

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Agile Alliance

AUGUST 15, 2023

Wow! Thank you to all our members, speakers, sponsors, and guests who made Agile2023 another extraordinary Agile conference! The post Reflections on Agile2023: Gratitude and hope first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Part of the X (née Twitter) roadmap? Off-handed reply? Simple attempt to get a rise out of people? Time will tell. The one thing we can say for sure is that X’s owner responded to a post on the platform today foreshadowing the potential removal of the block feature. “Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs,” Elon Musk wrote. “Makes no sense.

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is the largest tribe in the US, with more than 460,000 citizens living across a 7,000-square-mile reservation in Oklahoma and around the world. As a widespread community, when COVID-19 struck, Cherokee Nation’s IT services department knew it needed a way to connect citizens digitally with government services, emergency relief, COVID-19 aid, and other vital resources for support.

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Martin Fowler

AUGUST 16, 2023

Sofia Tania and Stefania Stefansdottir complete their examination of how to overcome the bottleneck that costs impose on a scaleup. In this final installment, they look at how to review and govern the technology portfolio, optimize rates, and provide a general view of cost efficiency initiatives during the life-cycle of a scaleup.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 14, 2023

Why All-Hands Meetings are so Important (Particularly Now) Now that “You’re muted'” is the catchphrase of the decade, having a great all-hands meeting or remarkable company offsite is a great way to foster human-centered collaboration. Getting your team together for a strategic team event, especially in person, isn’t just about getting everyone on the same page.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

The @jack handle on Instagram is back up for grabs. Today, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, now Block CEO, announced he has deleted his Instagram account — the one with the coveted first-name handle. Typically, handles like these sell for thousands of dollars on the secondary market, so if the handle becomes available again, someone might make a killing by snagging it.

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2023

This is the story of how one aromatics leader found a way to make a digital bouquet in the cloud. With 128 international companies under its corporate umbrella, China’s largest aromatics enterprise, the Huabao Group , has struggled with updating its technology to meet the challenges and opportunities that come with rapid growth. Up until 2021, it often fell short – and for good reason.

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Martin Fowler

AUGUST 17, 2023

At Thoughtworks, we are strong practitioners of Test Driven Development (TDD). Naturally this leads to the question of how generative AI can help with this technique. Paul Sobocinski writes a brief memo explaining how some of our teams have used TDD with GitHub Copilot. As ever, co-pilot can't be relied on to fly the plane, but can suggest some useful ideas for the red and green steps.

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Xebia

AUGUST 17, 2023

Leveraging Serverless and Generative AI for Image Captioning on GCP In today’s age of abundant data, especially visual data, it’s imperative to understand and categorize images efficiently. Whether it’s for enhancing search functionality, assisting differently-abled individuals, or simply summarizing vast galleries, the automation of image captioning is becoming increasingly relevant.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

The initial research papers date back to 2018, but for most, the notion of liquid networks (or liquid neural networks) is a new one. It was “Liquid Time-constant Networks,” published at the tail end of 2020, that put the work on other researchers’ radar. In the intervening time, the paper’s authors have presented the work to a wider audience through a series of lectures.

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CIO

AUGUST 17, 2023

Generative AI is widely regarded as one of the great technology breakthroughs of our time. On the back of thousands of headlines provoked by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, it’s provoked urgent responses from many tech giants and is the theme of, and main topic of discussion at, tech conferences worldwide. But, as with any big new wave, there is a risk of once-promising projects being washed up and there are clear and obvious concerns over governance, quality and security.

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Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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Martin Fowler

AUGUST 16, 2023

Time for two more strategic directions from Sarah Taraporewalla. These look at the questions that need to be investigated when reducing cost, minimizing operation risk, and enabling data-driven decision making.

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Xebia

AUGUST 18, 2023

Lessons Learned From Over 100 Implementations As we have learned in the previous three blogs of this series, from over 100 Freshworks implementations, there are four universal goals: Improved operational control Lower customer contact costs Better customer experience Enhanced employee experience In the previous two blogs, we discussed how to achieve lower customer contact costs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Elon Musk-owned social network X, formerly Twitter, has made X Pro — which was previously known as TweetDeck — a subscriber-only product. Several users noted on the platform that while trying to access TweetDeck they were shown a popup prompting them to buy a Blue subscription. welp tweetdeck finally went bye-bye for me and this popped up and lmao no. pic.twitter.com/z2sWXz18nx — russ bengtson (@russbengtson) August 15, 2023 X has finally killed free access to tweetdeck It’s now officially

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CIO

AUGUST 18, 2023

For organizations seeking a collaborative win-win approach to outsourcing, the Vested sourcing business model is worth consideration. It is the product of nearly 20 years of research at the University of Tennessee, beginning with a deep-dive funded by the United States Air Force on outcome-based outsourcing in 2003. UT’s ongoing research into the world’s most successful outsourcing relationships, including those from Dell’s and the Canadian government , has uncovered five key rules for establish

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Martin Fowler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Any business that wants to grow needs to be built on strong and stable foundations. While these strategic directions are often familiar to technical folks it's important that the improvements to engineering align with the themes that resonate with the rest of the organization. Sarah Taraporewalla illustrates how this appears with two strategic directions that consider improvements in efficiency and quality.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

One of the most widely used programming languages in the world, C++ is about 4 decades old. In comparison, Blockchain tech only arrived at the scene sometime in 2008, and is still considered comparatively ‘new’. Developers and companies alike are still learning how to adopt Blockchain. One of the ways to disseminate information about the tech is via industry conferences which help Blockchain developers network with and learn from their peers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

X, formerly known as Twitter, was throttling traffic to websites that the social network’s owner Elon Musk publicly dislikes. The platform slowed down the speed it takes when accessing links to a handful of websites, including The New York Times, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, Threads, Reuters and Substack. The platform appears to be reversing the slow access to news sites on Tuesday afternoon.

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