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Creating a data-powered culture

Capgemini

Data provides answers, but people drive change. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” The famous quote by Peter Drucker is a perfect call out here as no matter how detailed and solid your data-powered vision and strategy are if the people executing it don’t nurture the data culture then your journey is likely to fail. Becoming a data-driven organization isn’t just about data or technology, it is about transforming the way decisions are made based on deep analysis of facts rather than intu

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How DevSecOps Teams Can Level Up

DevOps.com

In 2019, I wrote a post detailing the traits of DevSecOps—the practice can be defined as the process of security automation in which IT and security are more de-siloed. DevSecOps introduces a more intentional culture wherein security-by-design principles are baked into the software development process early on. All in all, the aim is to have […].

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Zambian card issuing startup Union54 raises $12M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

Zambian card issuing fintech Union54 has raised $12 million in a seed extension round led by Tiger Global. Other participating investors in this financing round include existing ones such as Vibe VC and new investors Earl Grey Capital and Packy Mccormick’s Not Boring Capital. It’s been only six months since Union54, whose API allows African software companies to issue and manage their debit cards without needing a bank or third-party processor, announced its seed round of $3 million,

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO

Behind every successful IT project, you’ll find a highly skilled project manager. From hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, to application development and the rollout of software itself, project managers keep your teams on task and productive. Almost any IT pro can benefit from adding a project management certification to their list of IT credentials, showing you have the know-how to plan, schedule, budget, execute, deliver, and report on IT initiatives.

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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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Protected: Lightning Talks: Your Chance to Share at Agile2022

Agile Alliance

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: Lightning Talks: Your Chance to Share at Agile2022 first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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AWS launches new $30M accelerator program aimed at minority founders

TechCrunch

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. The Amazon company claims that the three-year initiative will help recipients build successful businesses while “accelerating” growth in their respective markets.

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The Pros and Cons of Embedded SREs

DevOps.com

To embed or not to embed: That is the question. At least, that’s one of the questions that companies have to answer as they decide how to implement site reliability engineering. They can either embed SREs into existing teams, or they can build a new, separate team. Both approaches have their pros and cons. The […]. The post The Pros and Cons of Embedded SREs appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Hunting Rootkits with eBPF: Detecting Linux Syscall Hooking Using Tracee

Aqua Security

Today, cloud native platforms are increasingly using eBPF-based security technology. It enables the monitoring and analysis of applications’ runtime behavior by creating safe hooks for tracing internal functions and capturing important data for forensic purposes. Tracee is an open source runtime security and forensics tool for Linux that is powered by eBPF and is more optimized for secure tracing.

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Never stop learning – Thoughts after four years with our epic team

Xebia

On New Year’s Eve, I raised a glass (the last one for January) on four fantastic years at Xpirit (Part of Xebia) On a regular basis, I validate what I’m doing, both personal and professional. There’s definitely going to be a five-year celebration. My job gets a solid 10 out of 10. Actually, the only situation that could make me hesitate would be the F1 Red Bull team offering me the same job.

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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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Why SaaS is bucking the venture slowdown

TechCrunch

As the global startup market digests a changing valuation environment and climate for venture investment, not every sector is taking the same amount of damage. One is indeed faring better than the rest. It’s not the flashiest sector in startupland. Instead, it’s the tried-and-true software-as-a-service (SaaS) category that appears to be in the best shape to fend off a slowdown in private-market investment.

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Checkmarx Finds Malicious Open Source PyPi Repository

DevOps.com

Checkmarx, a provider of a platform for testing application security, this week disclosed it has discovered a malicious instance of a PyPi repository for Python code that has been downloaded more than 70,000 times. Tzachi Zorenshtain, head of supply chain security, said this discovery represents another instance where cybercriminals have made available a malicious copy […].

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Telco 5G Returns Will Come from Enterprise Data Solutions

Cloudera

This blog post was written by Dean Bubley , industry analyst, as a guest author for Cloudera. . Communications service providers (CSPs) are rethinking their approach to enterprise services in the era of advanced wireless connectivity and 5G networks, as well as with the continuing maturity of fibre and Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) portfolios. .

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React-native 0.68 with new architecture

Xebia

Since 2018 React Native team has been investing a lof of time and effort to re-build the current framework architecture. Last March 30, 2022 React Native version 0.68 was launched with a whole new main core implementation to get closer to Google Flutter framework. In this article I’ll try to keep things simple and explain the following main topics: Current architecture.

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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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China’s work automation startup Laiye raises $160M, acquires France’s Mindsay

TechCrunch

An ambitious Chinese startup wants a slice of the flourishing global work automation market. Laiye, a Beijing-based company that provides a one-stop platform for automating office tasks of varying degrees of complexity, just picked up $160 million from a Series C funding round to expand globally. Guanchun Wang, Laiye’s founder and CEO, saw the “value of artificial intelligence” in the years he worked at Baidu’s smart speaker department after his film discovery startup was

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Microsoft Taps vFunction to Refactor Java Apps for Azure

DevOps.com

Microsoft has teamed up with vFunction to make it easier to convert monolithic Java applications into a set of microservices that can be deployed on the Microsoft Azure cloud. The Microsoft Services Industry Solutions group is making available the Java Refactoring Service, through which IT teams will be able to both lift and shift Java […]. The post Microsoft Taps vFunction to Refactor Java Apps for Azure appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Open-source regulation—good idea?

TechBeacon

Earlier this year, the open-source community came under the scrutiny of a US Senate committee investigating a serious vulnerability in Log4j, a widely used, Java-based logging utility. Government experts say the vulnerability, called Log4Shell, was one of the most severe and widespread cybersecurity risks they've ever seen. The question is what to do now about security risks in open-source software—if anything.

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Escalation of Cybercrime-As-A-Service Has Major Ramifications

CEO Insider

As technology evolves, so does cybercrime. In fact, most people do not realize that today’s cybercriminals leverage the same technologies, business models, and service offerings that ordinary, non-criminal enterprises use. Similar to the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model where consumers access software and services in exchange for a monthly or recurring fee, the market for cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) […].

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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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Manila-based MadEats is more than a ghost kitchen startup

TechCrunch

MadEats , Y Combinator alum, claims to be the first “‘full-stack’ delivery-only startup in the Philippines,” with their own virtual storefront, ghost kitchens and fleet of drivers. More than that, they also conceptualize and launch their own brands, making them a delivery-only restaurant group. The company announced today it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding led by JAM Fund, Crystal Towers Capital, Starling Ventures, MAIN and Rebel Fund.

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Nurturing a Developer-Centric Culture

DevOps.com

The tech world is constantly, rapidly changing and many tech companies are growing up. They are adding to their product portfolios, increasing the number of employees, servicing more users, expanding global reach and more. Typically, when an organization grows up, it doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a lot of hard work, onboarding new talent and […].

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How to close OSS attack vectors in your supply chain

TechBeacon

In a software supply chain attack, a bad actor makes a malicious modification to a software component in the supply chain. This later affects any other software that uses the malicious component as a dependency.

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Understanding Your Options Following the Microsoft Program Changes

TechSoup

In April 2022, Microsoft took a major step in the direction of its cloud-first model for nonprofits , an effort to align Microsoft philanthropy efforts with the security and operational capabilities of cloud computing. Most donated, on-premises licenses were moved into discounted offers. It's the latest reason nonprofits are much better off moving to the cloud and leveraging its significant advantages.

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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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UPSIDE Foods bites into $400M round to serve cultivated meat later this year

TechCrunch

We’ve heard a lot about foodtech companies introducing new types of food products to fill the gap in what is expected to be a global food shortage in the next 30 years. Much of the focus over the past six years or so was on the technology to create these new foods and not so much on how companies will make enough of it. Now we are seeing companies taking on the scalability of these products.

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ForAllSecure Adds Free Testing Tools for OSS

DevOps.com

ForAllSecure is investing to make open source software (OSS) more secure and is making available free, personal-use versions of its Mayhem application security testing tools infused with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to anyone using GitHub repositories. Company CEO David Brumley said anyone who integrates Mayhem into a qualified GitHub repository being used to build open […].

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A New Frontier of Work-Life Flexibility

CEO Insider

The pandemic reignited the debate surrounding the need for society to visualize a new world of work. Empathy for people’s exhaustion is driving C-suite discussions on alternatives to the five-day, 40+-hour week. In response, the California state legislature which represents the world’s fifth-largest economy introduced legislation that would mandate a 4-day work week for large […].

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Leverage Docker to Produce Classic Deployment Artifacts

Dzone - DevOps

Traditionally, deployment artifacts were types of archives that were transferred to the target environment and installed there. They could be simple.zip archives with binaries, Java's.jar or.war files, or simply.exe executables, among others. It is worth saying that this approach implied preliminary preparation, like installing and configuring all software dependencies.

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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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Cruz Foam’s shell-based Styrofoam alternative brings in $3.4M seed with DiCaprio and Kutcher

TechCrunch

Plastic foam like Styrofoam is a ubiquitous, harmful, and nearly immortal single-use material that is long overdue for a good, green replacement — and Cruz Foam is here to supply it. The startup creates a durable yet backyard-compostable packing foam out of shrimp shells produced (and discarded) by the seafood industry. It recently extended its seed round to accommodate the interests of Leonardo DiCaprio and Ashton Kutcher, and is scaling up to meet the demands of its first major customer, Whir

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SolarWinds Unveils Unified Observability Platform

DevOps.com

SolarWinds this week launched an observability platform that makes available a range of tools and technologies that the company has developed and acquired via a common user interface. Rohini Kasturi, chief product officer for SolarWinds, said the SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability platform also makes an observability platform affordable for a much wider range of organizations. […].

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How we hired more engineers faster

CircleCI

About a year ago, our engineering organization realized it had a problem. CircleCI was in hyper-growth mode and needed to hire more engineers… and we needed to do it fast. But our current process was taking far too long. We knew the process could be improved, we just had to figure out how. So, as we often do at CircleCI, we began experimenting. We prioritized making more time for interviews, we tried outsourcing technical interviews to a third party, and we tried out new and different types of q