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How to Code Faster: 7 Quick Tips to Increase Productivity

Coding Dojo

Whether you’re currently pursuing a degree in computer science, a veteran using the GI Bill to choose their next mission, … Read more >>. The post How to Code Faster: 7 Quick Tips to Increase Productivity appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Where Has All the Testing Gone?

DevOps.com

Testing has long been a problem child of IT in general, AppDev in particular, and now it is DevOps’ problem. There are things that DevOps can do to improve the chances of tests actually occurring for your application(s). Interestingly, there are some that think we no longer need testing; the argument is that because new […]. The post Where Has All the Testing Gone?

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M-KOPA raises $75M as it clocks 2 million customers across four African markets

TechCrunch

A 2019 World Bank report says 85% of Africans live on less than $5.50 per day. A large percentage of these adults are unbanked and underbanked; thus, they don’t have access to credit and can’t afford important purchases outright. M-KOPA’s financing platform has proved helpful to this set of users since launching as an energy provider in 2011. The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarant

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The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet

Coding Horror

It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for passenger use in major cities. I am betting against , and John is betting for.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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An Identity Crisis Averted

Agile Alliance

As an Enterprise Transformation Coach, one of the greatest challenges tends to be bringing teams along a journey that appears to be top-down, even when support exists at a team level. Working with a global financial services provider, once I understood the organisation's vision and path to transformation, I busied myself focusing on individual teams, … Continued.

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Payhawk becomes a unicorn as it extends its Series B

TechCrunch

European spend management startup Payhawk has added $100 million to its Series B round that I already covered back in November. The startup confirms that it has reached a post-money valuation of $1 billion, as The Information’s Kate Clark previous reported. Lightspeed Venture Partners is leading the new $100 million investment. Sprints Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, HubSpot Ventures and Jigsaw VC are also participating in the round.

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VPS Hosting – Uses, Advantages, and Disadvantages

The Crazy Programmer

Web hosting is serious business, and if you are new to the game, getting your website up and running on the Internet can come with all sorts of unique challenges. The established industry standards like dedicated or shared web hosting are hard to ignore. Even the latest addition to the team – cloud computing – has a hidden allure that’s hard to resist, especially if you like to test the latest technologies offered.

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Welcoming our new Agile Alliance Managing Director, Teresa Foster

Agile Alliance

We’re excited to announce Teresa Foster as the new managing director for Agile Alliance! Teresa is a visionary leader with extensive experience with non-profit member associations. The post Welcoming our new Agile Alliance Managing Director, Teresa Foster first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Civility at Work: How Do I Deal with a Mean Co-Worker? (video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Civility at Work is a Team Sport. What do you do if you’re dealing with a co-worker who is completely uncivil? I mean down-right mean, their momma should have taught them better kind of uncivil? How can you address civility at work at a team level? #Askingforafriend. I was talking with an HR leader the other day about some of the challenges they were facing after a very turbulent year, the stressful year.

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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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Volocopter raises $170M, now valued at $1.87B, to fuel the first commercial launches of its flying taxi fleet

TechCrunch

Volocopter , the startup out of southern Germany (Bruchsal) that has been developing electric VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft and a business model for operating them in taxi-style fleets in urban areas, has picked up another big round of funding as it inches closer to its first commercial launches. It has raised $170 million, funding that it said it will be using to kick off its first air taxi services, which it noted in an announcement would be “in cities like Singapore, Rom

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How Startups Can Revamp Their Executive Leadership Talent for Growth

N2Growth Blog

Organizations, particularly startups, require changes in executive leadership talent in the business lifecycle to capitalize on growth potential. Sometimes CEOs are late to make the necessary executive team changes, which comes at a cost. Today, I’d like to share some examples and critical considerations for companies that fit in this category. NerdWallet is an example of when the rapidly growing company missed profitability targets and subsequently changed its leadership team.

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The changing role of the Agile Coach – business agility requires different coaching

Agile Alliance

Striving for business agility requires a different approach from the agile coaches. When organizations proceed on their agile journey their needs shift. I’ll share my experience of how this insight came to me and what this shift meant for us as agile coaches. In my organisation the agile coaches where organised in an CoE. Last … Continued. The post The changing role of the Agile Coach – business agility requires different coaching first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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The Most Challenging Person for a Human-Centered Leader

Let's Grow Leaders

To be a human-centered leader requires compassion, empathy, and kindness for someone it’s easy to overlook. If you’re serious about becoming a more human-centered leader, it’s vital to master one specific relationship: the one with yourself. This is a leadership relationship I often overlook. It’s so easy to have compassion and grace for other people while pushing myself for more and holding myself to an unreasonable standard of perfection or achievement.

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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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Disco gets brands to boogie together on customer acquisition

TechCrunch

As more companies establish an e-commerce presence, the stakes have never been higher for brands to cut through the clutter to land new customers. Disco , formerly known as Co-op Commerce, doesn’t think the cost of acquiring costs should be so reliant on Big Tech platforms. Instead, Conner Sherline, founder and CEO, says that when independent brands come together across partnerships, data and merchandising, they have the buying power to produce results for everyone.

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Things The Pandemic Taught Us About Diverse Tech Teams

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Over the last decade, organizations from all over the world were slowly gaining momentum when it came to diversity and inclusion at the workplace. But studies show that ever since the pandemic hit, the importance of diversity and inclusion slowly took a backseat while organizations focused on more pressing issues at hand. Now that the world is slowly easing back into the pre-COVID life, what can you do, as an employer, to make sure your workforce is diverse and inclusive?

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Using a Low Code Development Environment to Teach the Agile Methodology

Agile Alliance

The Agile development methodology is soaring in popularity in the business world. Companies are turning to Agile to develop products quickly and to achieve digital transformation of their organization. Because of this push, com-panies need employees who understand Agile. Therefore, higher education is obligated to provide an understanding of Agile to students as they enter … Continued.

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Second, there is no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture (the second principle is a corollary of the first). The challenge is to build common ground between business and architecture so as to translate business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs.

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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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Source makes greenhouses smarter to secure the future of food supply

TechCrunch

Agtech startup Source.ag today announced it harvested a $10 million investment to make greenhouses smarter. The founders have set their eyes on a horizon where, driven by climate change and a rapid increase in global food demand as population continues to increase, more crops are being forced indoors to secure greater crop yields. You wouldn’t believe the amount of restraint it takes to not make a pun about seed funding in a piece about greenhouses.

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3 Things To Know About Remote Proctoring

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Before we get into how to make your proctoring experience fool-proof and hassle-free, let us take a look at what remote proctoring is. Remote proctoring is a way in which candidates can appear for tests remotely, from any location of their choosing, instead of arriving at a traditional test center. . Instead of an in-person invigilator as in traditional tests, a person or remote interview software proctors the test virtually from another location.

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Privilege Escalation from Node/Proxy Rights in Kubernetes RBAC

Aqua Security

One of the side effects of Kubernetes’ rich API and extensive functionality is that sometimes there are security implications to granting users permissions. Security architects should be aware of these side effects when designing platforms that use Kubernetes. In recent research with Iain Smart of NCC Group, we looked at how granting rights to node/proxy resources in Kubernetes could allow for audit logs and other security controls to be bypassed.

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Acing Google's PageSpeed Insights Assessment

Toptal

Page speed is an important ranking attribute for search engines, making performance optimization a prerequisite for successful sites. Here's how Google PageSpeed Insights can help identify and rectify performance issues.

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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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Real estate developer turned prefab home builder Veev closes on $400M in fresh funding

TechCrunch

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million. Bond led the latest round, which also included participation from LenX (formerly Lennar Ventures), Zeev Ventures, Fifth Wall Climate Tech and JLL Spark Global Ventures.

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The Manager’s Playbook with Joel Trammell and Alicia Thrasher

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you worked in an organization that suffers from a crisis of management and leadership? Then you know how important it is to have a Manager’s Playbook. Under-trained and under-equipped, many great people have turned out to be not-great managers and their employees and companies’ bottom lines are suffering the consequences. In this episode, David talks with Joel Trammell and Alicia Thrasher, co-authors of The Manager’s Playbook, about the massive difference that simple manag

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Tabnine, GitLab Build Custom Apps Faster With AI

DevOps.com

Tabnine today revealed it has integrated its code completion tool with the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Tabnine’s platform employs artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate application development. Brandon Jung, vice president of ecosystems and business development at Tabnine, said the goal is to make it easier for developers to automatically write code based on […].

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The Leadership Secrets of Ted Lasso

CEO Insider

Ted Lasso, the sports comedy-drama series, can make anyone a better leader, if you can stop laughing long enough to pay attention. At first, I was just enjoying the comedy and the setting in London, but after a few episodes I started to experience something deeper. Apart from earning more Emmys than any other debut […]. The post The Leadership Secrets of Ted Lasso appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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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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Zero Systems gets $12M Series A to bring automation to professional services

TechCrunch

Zero Systems launched seven years ago with an idea to bring automation to professional services like law firms. They wanted to focus on speeding up manual tasks, rather than moving large volumes of information, to help lawyers work more efficiently. They came up with an AI-driven system that can identify work product on a lawyer’s work systems like their inbox or messaging apps, classify it according to client and project and then move the different kinds of information into adjacent syste

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The 6 Most Frequently Asked Digital Marketing Questions Answered

TechSoup

Marketing is a key component of any organization's business strategy. It is how a company's value is shown to the unique audiences it serves. It is the voice of an organization. Marketing ultimately answers the questions of what is offered, who it is offered to, where one can obtain it, and how much of an investment is required.

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Boosting DevOps Productivity Requires Visibility, Automation

DevOps.com

Engineering teams continue to struggle with roadblocks and bottlenecks during the development process, according to Software’s recent 2021 Code Time Report. The study, which is based on feedback from more than 250,000 developers using the Code Time plugin, found the median code time per developer is 52 minutes per day, or four hours and 21 minutes of […].

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