The Daily WTF
APRIL 8, 2024
Gloria was a senior developer at IniMirage, a company that makes custom visualizations for their clients. Over a few years, IniMirage had grown to more than 100 people, but was still very much in startup mode. Because of that, Gloria tried to keep her teams sized for two pizzas. Thomas, the product manager, on the other hand, felt that the company was ready to make big moves, and could scale up the teams: more people could move products faster.
DevOps.com
APRIL 8, 2024
Simple tests can demonstrate whether a code generator is actually doing what you ask. That can be important for developers and DevOps who want to use these tools for activities like code or script generation.
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thoughtLEADERS, LLC
APRIL 11, 2024
Our reader poll today asks: What portion of your team works remotely? We’re 100% remote 1 4.61% We’re 75-99% remote 13.78% We’re 50-74% remote 15.70% We’re 25-49% remote 16.25% We’re less than 25% remote 19.00% We’re 100% onsite 20.66% Staying connected. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.
CIO
APRIL 11, 2024
In 2023, the United Arab Emirates actively repelled more than 50.000 cyberattacks daily, explained the UAE Cybersecurity Council. In the first three quarters of the same year, the country successfully prevented over 71 million attempted attacks in total. According to a report from Frost & Sullivan, the GCC cybersecurity industry continues to grow, with F&S estimating it to triple in value by 2030 to reach 13.4 billion USD, countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia continue to reduce their
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Martin Fowler
APRIL 10, 2024
Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave complete their article about introducing seams into mainframe systems by looking how we can use data replication.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 8, 2024
Most people can spot a toxic leader and connect the dots on why and how they are causing damage. But it’s much harder to recognize when well-intentioned leaders are actually hurting their teams because they aren’t aware of their negative impact, and team members aren’t always comfortable pushing back. If you’re a manager with a strong desire to be helpful to your team, be aware of these five common ways you may inadvertently hurt them despite your best intentions.
DevOps.com
APRIL 10, 2024
Rocket Software this week extended its DevOps platform for iSeries platforms from IBM to make it simpler to test applications in a way that ensures sensitive data isn’t inadvertently exposed to application developers.
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 11, 2024
Effective leadership is vital in finance and is crucial in guiding organizations toward success in a rapidly changing business landscape. Navigating complex financial markets, making informed decisions, and driving profitability requires strong leadership that inspires and motivates teams to achieve their goals. Finance leaders must possess a deep understanding of their organizations’ financial intricacies and the broader economic landscape to make informed and strategic decisions that wil
Crunchbase News
APRIL 9, 2024
While it is true cybersecurity funding has significantly slowed , it certainly has not dried up. Data security startup Cyera raised a $300 million Series C led by Coatue at a $1.4 billion valuation. New investors Spark Capital , Georgian and AT&T Ventures , alongside existing investors Sequoia Capital , Accel , Redpoint Ventures , and Cyberstarts also participated in the round.
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CIO
APRIL 12, 2024
Global banks and investment firms are currently mulling plans to replace entry-level financial analyst positions with artificial intelligence (AI), with as many as two-thirds of these positions potentially on the chopping block. This anticipated move could completely transform how these companies hire new employees and how they manage and deliver the technology employees use.
Agile Alliance
APRIL 12, 2024
We need to reimagine Agile by focusing on innovation, adaptability, and collaboration. The post Agile – One conversation, two views first appeared on Agile Alliance.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 12, 2024
Episode 252: In this episode, David introduces you to 12 effective phrases to help you improve your communication skills and effectively navigate workplace conflict. He organizes these phrases into four critical areas: connection, clarity, curiosity, and commitment. You’ll learn to express care and investment through phrases like, “I care about you, this team, this project.” He encourages you to seek understanding with questions such as, “What would a successful outcome d
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 11, 2024
Understanding the Importance of Proactive Succession Planning Proactive succession planning is pivotal for an organization’s sustainability and long-term growth. It ensures that companies are prepared for any unforeseen changes in leadership due to retirement, emergencies, or sudden departures. Carefully cultivating a pool of able leaders within the organization drastically reduces the risks associated with unexpected vacancies.
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.
CIO
APRIL 8, 2024
Customer centricity is hardly a new organizational imperative, but some organizations have gone a step further, instituting new C-suite roles to help lead the charge. Interlace Health is one such entity, having named Maggie Peña as the electronic forms company’s first-ever chief experience officer. Peña has been with the company for nearly 13 years in customer-facing roles, most recently, building a customer success management team.
Xebia
APRIL 11, 2024
Since last year, Google Workspace enables you to create a booking page with appointment units in your Google Calendar. Through booking pages, others can schedule time with you as you deem fitting. At that time, it already embodied a lot of the functionality of other third party tooling, such as Calendly. Google has now further expanded this functionality.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 8, 2024
Got Conflict at Work? Help your remote team do conflict better with a few Powerful Phrases Navigating conflict at work is hard. Doing conflict at work well when you’re not in the same room, in different time zones, when you’re dealing with what Phil, our IT guy, would call “a crap ton” of rapid change is even harder. We call this conflict cocktail, The “Wedge Driver. 1.
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 11, 2024
Understanding the Evolution of the IT Industry Over the past few decades, the IT industry has undergone several remarkable transformations. From the era of large mainframes, command line interfaces, and backing up data on tape to the modern world of cloud computing, user-friendly interfaces, and low-code/no-code software development, technology has continued to change rapidly and has significantly shaped our lives and businesses.
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CIO
APRIL 10, 2024
Higher-level languages, automation, low-code and no-code development platforms, and better programming environments have been gradually reducing the need for IT staff to perform low-level, routine tasks for years so they can take on more innovative challenges. With generative AI, this trend is accelerating dramatically, and technology professionals will have to diversify their skillsets faster than ever to stay a step ahead.
Xebia
APRIL 12, 2024
Unwanted emails in your mailbox can be a source of frustration, which is why Google has announced new guidelines for bulk senders. However, unwanted emails have not completely disappeared. People may have initially registered themselves to receive messages from an organization. The senders are then legitimate and marking as spam will negatively impact the sender’s email reputation and can potentially affect the deliverability of future emails.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 9, 2024
Research suggests that the most effective leaders adapt their style to different circumstances — be it a change in setting, a shift in organizational dynamics, or a turn in the business cycle. But what if you feel like you’re not equipped to take on a new and different leadership style — let alone more than one? In this article, the author outlines the six leadership styles Daniel Goleman first introduced in his 2000 HBR article, “Leadership That Gets Results,” and explains when to use each one.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 8, 2024
In December 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) issued an alert regarding the activities of Iranian cyber actors dubbed “CyberAv3ngers” believed to be tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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CIO
APRIL 10, 2024
Inferencing has emerged as among the most exciting aspects of generative AI large language models (LLMs). A quick explainer: In AI inferencing , organizations take a LLM that is pretrained to recognize relationships in large datasets and generate new content based on input, such as text or images. Crunching mathematical calculations, the model then makes predictions based on what it has learned during training.
Xebia
APRIL 12, 2024
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, efficient collaboration and secure version control are indispensable for any software development project. With AWS CodeCommit, developers and cloud engineers are empowered with a robust and scalable solution for hosting secure Git repositories, seamlessly integrated into or close to their AWS environments. Creating a repository within AWS CodeCommit is not a difficult process.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 11, 2024
Gartner research has found that managers today are accountable for 51% more responsibilities than they can effectively manage — and they’re starting to buckle under the pressure: 54% are suffering from work-induced stress and fatigue, and 44% are struggling to provide personalized support to their direct reports. Ultimately, one in five managers said they would prefer not being people managers given a choice.
Tenable
APRIL 12, 2024
A critical severity command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS has been exploited in limited targeted attacks. While a fix is not yet available, patches are expected to be released on April 14 and mitigation steps are available. Background On April 12, Palo Alto Networks released a security advisory for a critical command injection vulnerability affecting PAN-OS, the custom operating system (OS) Palo Alto Networks (PAN) uses in their next-generation firewalls.
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CIO
APRIL 12, 2024
IT has always been known as a lucrative industry for job seekers, but in the past year, with increased layoffs, some of that confidence has wavered. According to a report from Indeed , a large part of this shift has come as organizations focus more on adopting AI in the workplace. As a result, AI skills are now among the most sought-after skills, even as companies retrench via layoffs.
Xebia
APRIL 10, 2024
You can protect yourself from losing logs on Amazon EC2 by using CloudWatch Logs. Configure the CloudWatch Agent to stream your logs to a LogGroup. This protects you from losing logs. For example, when the instance is replaced by autoscaling. You are also protected against tampering of the logs. An attacker who has gained access to your system can remove the logs.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 12, 2024
When you’re a manager, at some point, regardless of how the circumstances arise, your team will blame you for something that’s making them unhappy, whether you have control over it or not. Being accused by your team of failing them in some way induces a threat state in your brain, impairing your ability to think clearly and triggering a variety of cognitive distortions and defensive behaviors.
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