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GenAI Engineering: A Game Changer for Growing Tech Vendors  

IDC

This blog post delves into why GenAI Engineering matters for tech vendors and startups and how it can be a cornerstone of your growth strategy.

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Announcing Durable Caching

Netlify

Netlify brings ISR to any framework by launching a new cache primitive that enables persisting a response in a global object store and serving this as a static response for any cache miss from Netlify edge CDN servers.

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Workplace Communication: Stop Asking “Do You Understand?” (and do this instead)

Let's Grow Leaders

High-performing teams invest in clear workplace communication by ensuring shared understanding. When your organization or team communicates effectively, you’re nimble. You can respond to change quickly. But if your organization doesn’t invest in effective workplace communication, you’ll face a constant series of misunderstandings that waste time, create conflict, and drag down everyone’s performance.

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 vs Z Fold 5: Which premium model should you buy?

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Samsung just took the wraps off of its latest foldable phone, the Galaxy Z Fold 6, but how does it compare to last year's model? I break down the details.

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Prepare Now: 2025's Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce

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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Funding To European Startups Rose In Q2, Exceeding Investment To Asia For The First Time

Crunchbase News

Funding to European startups rose in Q2, reaching close to $16 billion. Overall, funding was up 31% quarter over quarter and 17% year over year, based on an analysis of Crunchbase data. Both early and late-stage funding was up — with a notable increase in late-stage funding. For the first time in a decade, quarterly funding to European startups was higher than in Asia.

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Millions Impacted by Breach at Advance Auto Parts Linked to Snowflake Incident

Ooda Loop

Advance Auto Parts says the personal information of 2.3 million was compromised in the Snowflake incident earlier this year.

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How to Integrate Cloud, Data, and AI Technologies — and Make Your Company More Adaptable

Harvard Business Review

Building a strong, flexible “digital core” that integrates cloud, data, and AI technologies to serve as an interconnected foundation for your company is the key to future growth. It is your means of supporting the current business drive toward efficiency and effectiveness, while remaining flexible enough to respond to the new needs of the organization and quickly adopt and scale the latest technology innovations.

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Why and How to Go All-In on GitOps 

DevOps.com

When you can manage every cloud native deployment using a GitOps approach, as a consequence, declarative and automated processes become baked into your culture and transform your business.

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GenAI sticker shock sends CIOs in search of solutions

CIO

The early bills for generative AI experimentation are coming in, and many CIOs are finding them more hefty than they’d like — some with only themselves to blame. “We’re getting back into this frenetic spend mode that we saw in the early days of cloud,” observed James Greenfield, vice president of AWS Commerce Platform, at the FinOps X conference in San Diego in June.

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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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Three Gorges Dam Could Break: Potential for large humanitarian crisis

Ooda Loop

The iconic Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, has been under significant pressure from floods for the last several months and is reaching crisis levels.

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The Limits of GenAI Educators

Harvard Business Review

While generative AI tools have been heralded as the future of education, more than 40 years of academic research suggests that it could also harm learning in realms from online tutoring to employee training for three reasons. First, the best student-teacher relationships are empathetic ones but it is biologically impossible for humans and AI to develop mutual empathy.

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Netlify + Astro are partnering!

Netlify

Netlify announce sponsorship of Astro as their Official Deployment Partner to help fund the development of the open source project. Additionally, we’ll be announcing several new core primitives from both Netlify and Astro, aimed at making the whole web ecosystem stronger.

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CIOs are stretched more than ever before — and that’s a good thing

CIO

The CIO role is in a constant state of flux. What was a thorough set of roles and responsibilities a few years ago is far from adequate today, so the operationally focused CIO of the last decade isn’t the digital leader of the future, says Omer Grossman, global CIO at technology specialist CyberArk. “Some CIOs just try and keep the lights on,” he says.

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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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Secure by Design Principles Are More Important Than Ever

Ivanti

The concept of Secure by Design, which means designing software with security built in before it leaves the drawing board, is fundamentally changing how software is developed. Software has often been designed with what’s known as “bolt-on security,” added after products are developed. But that means security is not inherent within the solution. Where there's a conjunction between the core product and a bolt-on, that’s an inflection point for an attack.

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The Risks of Botshit

Harvard Business Review

Botshit — made-up, inaccurate, and untruthful chatbot content that humans uncritically use for tasks — can pose major risks to your business in the form of reputational damage, incorrect decisions, legal liability, economic losses, and even human safety. Yet, it’s unlikely that chatbots are going away. How can you manage these risks while taking advantage of the benefits of promising new tools?

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Is it Time to Give Cyber Sovereignty a Real Chance?

Ooda Loop

In its latest International Cyberspace and Digital Policy Strategy, the Department of State promoted a technological future that supports “digital solidarity,” a term that repackages the United States’ long held position of preserving an open Internet via the collaboration of similarly-minded nations to align their goals with one another.

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SAP security holes raise questions about the rush to AI

CIO

Cloud security firm Wiz has probed SAP defenses as part of its tenant isolation research on AI service providers, and on Wednesday published a lengthy list of shortcomings. SAP says that they fixed all of the problems before Wiz published. Most deal with either a lack of meaningful segmentation or network components trusting other components without any authentication — a violation of the basic tenet of Zero Trust.

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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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Quali Bakes Generative AI into Environment as Code Platform

DevOps.com

Quali has added a generative artificial intelligence (AI) capability to its Torque platform for managing infrastructure-as-code that enables DevOps teams to use natural language to describe a template, that is then automatically created and implemented.

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How to Gracefully Decline a Networking Request

Harvard Business Review

When you’re new to the workforce, you may feel pressure to engage every possible connection. However, continuously giving your time, energy, and focus to the wrong people can add up and take away from more meaningful work. There are times when it’s to your benefit to respectfully decline a networking invitation. Here are a few red flags to look out for when deciding whether to accept a networking request: the person is primarily interested in selling you a product or service rather than building

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Why Netlify selected Astro for its developer hub and marketing site

Netlify

Learn how Netlify decided on Astro as the preferred frontend framework to power some of its key web properties, including its marketing site and developer hub.

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Fujitsu partners with Cohere to build LLMs for Japanese enterprises

CIO

Japanese cloud service and data intelligence firm, Fujjitsu, has formed a strategic alliance with Cohere, a Toronto and San Francisco-based enterprise AI company known for its focus on security and data privacy, to develop and provide secure, cutting-edge generative AI solutions for Japanese enterprises. This collaboration focuses on building large language models (LLMs) specifically tailored for the Japanese language, empowering businesses to enhance customer and employee experiences, the compa

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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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Latin American Startup Funding Rebounds After Deep Slide

Crunchbase News

Funding to Latin American startups rose in the second quarter, led by a resurgence in late-stage dealmaking. Altogether, companies in South and Central America raised $791 million in reported seed- through growth-stage financing in Q2 of 2024, per Crunchbase data. That’s a rise of 25% from the prior quarter and 17% from a year ago. Recent gains follow an unusually weak Q1, in which funding to the region hit a multi-year low.

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The CEO’s Journey Is a 3-Act Play

Harvard Business Review

Instead of treating a leadership role as an unending sprint, CEOs should approach their tenure as a series of three phases. Act one requires a leader to establish legitimacy, build a top team, and begin to communicate and implement a change agenda. Act two requires revisiting many of the choices made during the earlier phase, correcting mistakes, and reenergizing the organization.

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Cloud Canaries Emerges to Provide Alternative to Observability Platforms

DevOps.com

Cloud Canaries emerged from stealth today to provide a set of lightweight agents that leverage a neural network to detect issues, monitor performance in real-time and identify how to resolve software engineering issues.

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China leads world in genAI use — US in genAI maturity

CIO

IT decision-makers across China lead the pack in implementing generative AI for their businesses, while genAI use among US organizations is the most mature, according to a recent survey. In the meantime, IT decision-makers across the globe are finding it challenging to determine exactly how the technology fits into their companies’ overall business strategy.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.

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Going for Gold — Cybersecurity Training for the Paris 2024 Olympics

Palo Alto Networks

As the Paris 2024 Olympics approach, the excitement is palpable. Athletes from around the globe are gearing up to compete for gold, and behind the scenes, cybersecurity teams are preparing for their own version of the games. Just like athletes, CISOs and their teams must train, strategize and stay sharp to ensure a safe and secure event. In 2022, the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy partnered with Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 to secure the football World Cup in Qatar.

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Research: 4 Ways Employees Respond to DEI Initiatives

Harvard Business Review

A critical factor influencing the effectiveness of DEI initiatives is how employees respond to them. Traditionally, employee responses have been overly simplified as “resistors,” who complicate or hinder DEI initiatives, or “supporters” of DEI, who facilitate their implementation. Recent research suggests employee reactions can be broken down into four categories: excited supporters, calm compliers, torn shapers, and discontented opponents.

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The Cyber Resilience Act: A New Era for Mobile App Developers

DevOps.com

The European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a new law set to go into effect soon and serves as a framework designed to enhance the security of “products with digital elements.” It’s now clear the new law includes mobile apps.

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