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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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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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 2, 2022

Most artificial intelligence models are trained through supervised learning, meaning that humans must label raw data. Data labeling is a critical part of automating artificial intelligence and machine learning model, but at the same time, it can be time-consuming and tedious work. A Korean startup called AIMMO , which uses software and humans to label and categorize image, video, sound, text and sensor fusion data, built an AI data annotation platform, enabling the data labeling faster for enter

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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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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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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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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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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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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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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 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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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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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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The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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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

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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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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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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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 5, 2022

Miro is indeed still in the right place at the right time. With remote work continuing to rise, or a hybrid of that and in-person, the online workspace company finds itself with 30 million users and counts nearly all of the Fortune 100 companies as clients. And now today, the company announced its largest round to date, $400 million in a Series C that propels its valuation to $17.5 billion.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 7, 2022

Digital transformation, business agility and enterprise architecture are frequently heard terms in this era of digital technologies and rapid change. The appropriation of digitalized applications, solutions and processes has enabled organizations to increase efficiencies. In turn, this allows them to respond to shifting customer needs and trends in a more flexible and agile manner.

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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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Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 6, 2022

Continuous Delivery isn’t about how fast you can deliver, it’s about the outcome your delivery achieves. Bryan Finster, author of the 5-minute DevOps series and founder of the DevOps Dojo, joined our Dev Interrupted Discord community to answer your questions about outcome-based development, continuous delivery, and why failing small is better than failing fast.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Rebecca Lynn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Rebecca Lynn is co-founder and general partner of Canvas Ventures. More posts by this contributor. Startups And The Un-Banking Of America. Marketing makes or breaks a company. When I am asked what is the No. 1 thing that I would do to help a company scale massively, it is focusing on marketing. Period. I learned long ago that the best product doesn’t always win.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 5, 2022

We’ve been talking about DevSecOps and shift-left security for years. Although this approach probably didn’t “cross the chasm” in 2021, we did see some very telling milestones. Cybersecurity VC funding surged to record heights with a focus on DevOps and cloud security and the need for DevSecOps became glaringly evident with the Log4j vulnerability. On a […].

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