Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 3, 2022

Help your team be more compassionate, courageous, and curious. During difficult times, what leadership values matter most? We’ve been asking this question of the leaders we work with around the world. Consistently, compassion, courage, and curiosity continue to top the list, closely followed by flexibility and authenticity. In fact, in our recent LinkedIn poll, 61% said “compassion” was most the most critical leadership value this year.

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Xebia

JANUARY 5, 2022

When you have a service running somewhere you need to find out whether it is functioning correctly. Besides the possible tests, liveness checks, metrics, you can use application logging. But what makes an application log “Good”? In this blog we discuss 6 pointers on application logging to help you on your way! 1. Purpose is everything! Before you start writing any log-output, first step back a little.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JANUARY 3, 2022

Our teams are under tremendous pressure. That pressure creates stress which diminishes performance. You can build a more resilient team through some simple leadership behaviors. Today’s post is by Jon Wortmann, thoughtLEADERS instructor and author of Hijacked by Your Brain. He’s our primary instructor for our Building Leadership Resilience course.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Anand Rao. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Anand Rao is global head of AI at PwC. The rocket ship trajectory of a startup is well known: Get an idea, build a team and slap together a minimum viable product (MVP) that you can get in front of users. However, today’s startups need to reconsider the MVP model as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) become ubiquitous in tech products and the market grows increasingly conscious of the ethical implications of AI augmenting or replacing

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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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The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 1, 2022

It is an open source library in java built for logging error messages in applications including networks, cloud computing services. This library has been used in many java programs designed for server as well as client applications. What is Log4Shell in Log4j? Log4Shell is a vulnerability that affects the core function of log4j. This allows the attacker to execute the code remotely leading to: Taking the complete control of the system.

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 6, 2022

This session centers around a visioning exercise that uses drawing. What are your intentions as you look at things from personal and professional points of view? Come learn and share Agile games and exercises that can help to create Aha! moments for yourself, your teams, and those that lead them. MEMBER? PLEASE LOG IN. To … Continued. The post Game On – Visioning Exercise first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Namibian business-to-business e-commerce startup JABU confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised a $3.2 million financing round. The seed round, which was closed last year, welcomed investors such as Afore Capital, Y Combinator, FJ Labs, Quiet Capital, Kli Capital, Pareto Capital and unnamed angels. As a last-mile distribution e-commerce company, JABU joins a list of startups across the continent that help small retailers order and stock their products and, at the same time, provide data-driven

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The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 7, 2022

The importance of data has reached an unimaginable height in recent years. Data is used everywhere across industries to understand the market, meet consumer demand, identify preferences, and ultimately make better business decisions. One of the best ways to take advantage of data is to display it visually with tools like FusionCharts. Data comes in various sizes and formats, and they are meaningless without proper analysis.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 7, 2022

oYou work hard to set a positive example for your team. You care about success, and you want your people to succeed. You’ve clarified what matters most and you’re committed to accountability. You’re intentional about your culture. But somehow, your leadership presence isn’t working. You don’t have the connection or influence you hope for. Committed, caring, hard-working leaders often find one or more of three overused strengths interfere with their influence.

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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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Xebia

JANUARY 7, 2022

How can you make your builds complete faster so that you can build more often and have earlier feedback? You could do this by caching your node modules in Azure DevOps. I’ll explain how to do this in this blog post. Creating a build pipeline in Azure DevOps for a Node.js based application is straightforward. You only need a few lines of code to achieve this.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fractal has raised $360 million from TPG in a new financing round and entered the unicorn club as the Mumbai and New York-based AI startup, which counts Google and Wells Fargo among its customers, scales its offerings and begins preparation for an IPO. The new financing round valued the 21-year-old startup “at well north of $1 billion,” said Srikanth Velamakanni, co-founder and group chief executive at Fractal, in an interview with TechCrunch.

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The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 5, 2022

HTML is one of the core technologies that power the web. It doesn’t matter if you are developing a simple website or an enterprise-grade web application, you will need to use HTML in some capacity. Quite simply, HTML is necessary for everything from creating basic email templates and formatting blog posts to building complete application front ends.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 1, 2022

Asking for a Friend: How do I Lead Well Through Uncertainty? Thanks to all of you who have joined our Asking for a Friend community this year! I’m so grateful for all the authors, executives and all of you human-centered leaders joining the conversation. So many great insights about the future of work and leading well through times of uncertainty and change. .

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Xebia

JANUARY 5, 2022

When you have a service running somewhere you need to find out whether it is functioning correctly. Besides the possible tests, liveness checks, metrics, you can use application logging. But what makes an application log “Good”? In this blog we discuss 6 pointers on application logging to help you on your way! 1. Purpose is everything! Before you start writing any log-output, first step back a little.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Most fintechs pride themselves on digital everything, including customer acquisition strategy. But Bankaya , a Mexico City-based financial services startup, is attributing its early traction on the opposite model — going after target customers in person. Founded in 2019 by CEO Mauricio Cordero, Ramón Chedraui and Diego Vargas , Bankaya launched one year ago and boasted 450,000 customers as of year’s end.

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The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 3, 2022

Resource pooling is a technical term that is commonly used in cloud computing. And it describes the cloud computing environment where the service provider serves many clients. Here tenants or clients can avail scalable services from the service providers. However, still, there might be some confusion in your mind. And still, you wish to know more about Resource Pooling in cloud computing.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 6, 2022

Technology trends simply cannot be ignored in today’s dynamic environment. As the world enters a post-digital era, organizations are exploring disruptive technology trends. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, intelligent process automation, advanced analytics, and robotic process automation (RPA) are among the top DevOps technology trends to watch.

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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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Xebia

JANUARY 3, 2022

A data pipeline component is nothing more than a normal application. Fig1. Example data pipeline: ELT. It goes through the same lifecycle as any other application: the component is developed and tested, an artifact is built and finally it gets deployed. The artifact is then run as part of your data pipeline. During this the application uses normal application development processes like: CI/CD.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The year 2021 saw more and bigger deals closed in Africa, as tech startups across the continent raised close to $5 billion. This amount was double the previous year’s investment, and nine times what was raised five years ago, an indication of how much the startup scene has transformed over the last few years. Fintechs dominated the fundraising, accounting for nearly $3 billion, or two thirds of all the investment realized by startups across the continent last year, a report by markets insights f

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The Daily WTF

JANUARY 2, 2022

In the long ago, wild-west days of the late 90s, there was an expectation that managers would put up with a certain degree of eccentricity from their software developers. The IT and software boom was still new , people didn't quite know what worked and what didn't, the "nerds had conquered the Earth" and managers just had to roll with this reality.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 5, 2022

Welcome to 2022! Let’s start this year’s blogging off with a bang, and point out that we are in the process of creating the biggest lock-in that we have ever had. And I do mean ever. Maybe the hardware lock-in of the old days where vendor A was incompatible with vendor B was worse, but […]. The post CI/CD is the New Lock-In appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Xebia

JANUARY 3, 2022

A data pipeline component is nothing more than a normal application. Fig1. Example data pipeline: ELT. It goes through the same lifecycle as any other application: the component is developed and tested, an artifact is built and finally it gets deployed. The artifact is then run as part of your data pipeline. During this the application uses normal application development processes like: CI/CD.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Liquid Death , a water brand that began life in 2018 with a funny video to first test the concept, has grown deadly serious about its growth prospects. The L.A.-based outfit, which sells canned mountain water from the Alps that will “murder your thirst,” has just landed $75 million in Series C funding led by the startup studio Science, which helped launch the company and now owns a “strong minority” position.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 3, 2022

It’s harder to understand and operate production systems in 2021 than it was in 2001. Why is that? Shouldn’t we have gotten better at this in the past two decades? There are valid reasons why it’s harder: The architecture of our systems has gotten a lot more sophisticated and complex over the past 20 years. We’re not running monoliths on a few beefy servers these days.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 4, 2022

IoT Analytics forecast the global number of connected IoT devices would grow to 12.3 billion active endpoints in 2021. That number is expected to grow exponentially in the near future as more and more industries make use of long-range wireless capability. For example, president Biden’s infrastructure plan promised major investment in smart cities and smart […].

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TechBeacon

JANUARY 4, 2022

Attending AI, analytics, big data, and machine-learning conferences helps you learn about the latest advancements and achievements in these technologies, things that would likely take too long and too much effort to research and master on your own. And you get this information from keynote speakers who are tops in their fields—information you can use to help you in your work.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

There are more than 54 million family caregivers in the United States. Working family caregivers spend an average of 25 hours a week caring for their loved ones on top of their full-time jobs, and ultimately, the current lack of support and resources drives 32% of them to leave their job to care full time. . Jessica Kim , chief executive officer of ianacare , understands these statistics deeply as she made the difficult choice to leave her job in 2016 to care for her mom full time, as do ne

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High Scalability

JANUARY 3, 2022

This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypotheses on Amazon product pages using reinforcement learning techniques.

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