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What is a Cross-Functional Team?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Learn what a cross-functional team is and why they can be so rewarding to manage. Imagine an orchestra made up of nothing but trumpets. Imagine a baseball team of all catchers. Imagine a medical team that’s nothing but radiologists. Those aren’t good situations. A cross-functional team is a group of people with different functional expertise working toward a common goal.

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Ghanaian fintech Dash raises $32.8M seed to build connected wallets for Africans

TechCrunch

Global financial transactions are facilitated mainly by payment processors such as Visa or Mastercard. They are responsible for communication between banks and fintechs to settle transactions for consumers and businesses swiftly. Africa has it different. It’s not a predominantly card continent. Telecoms and banks lead the majority of online financial transactions carried out in the region via mobile money wallets and bank accounts.

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How to get out of the tech debt bottleneck

Martin Fowler

Tim Cochran and Carl Nygard finish their examination of the tech debt bottleneck by looking at how to get out of it. This includes close collaboration betwen product and engineering, a strategy for the four phases of a startup's journey, and empowering teams to fix the tech debt problems. more….

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Building a Beautiful Data Lakehouse

CIO

Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to data analytics for deeper, better insights and automation is a growing enterprise IT priority. But the data repository options that have been around for a while tend to fall short in their ability to serve as the foundation for big data analytics powered by AI. Traditional data warehouses, for example, support datasets from multiple sources but require a consistent data structure.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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How Rocket Mortgage Used Scaled Agile and Scrum to Dominate the Mortgage Industry

Agile Alliance

In 2000 Quicken Loans was the first company to do mortgages online and launched its Rocket Mortgage product in 2016 during the Super Bowl, quickly becoming the largest mortgage originator in the US. With more than 17,000 team members and a culture of being obsessed with finding a better way, the leadership team at Quicken … Continued. The post How Rocket Mortgage Used Scaled Agile and Scrum to Dominate the Mortgage Industry first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Bottlenecks of Scaleups: How did you get tech debt?

Martin Fowler

In its early days, a startup searches for a good product-market fit. When it finds one it looks to grow rapidly, a phase known as a scaleup. At this time it's growing rapidly along many dimensions: revenues, customer, headcount. At Thoughtworks, we've worked with many such scaleups, and our work has focused on how to help them overcome various bottlenecks that impede this growth.

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Mediastack Review – Be Always Up-To-Date With a Real-Time News API

The Crazy Programmer

There has been a tremendous shift in how we watch television and read newspapers for the last years. These days many people prefer getting instant news updates online. The best part is many people are now turning to the internet as an essential source of current information. It is pretty clear, online content and news are the big business today. The question is: where does this content come from?

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How reinventing to stay relevant lead to being an Agile Great Place to Work

Agile Alliance

Here’s the story of a once industry-leading organization that fell into the pitfalls of success: complacency, bureaucracy and aging technology. Through acquisition and merger, it was given the opportunity to be reborn itself as a nimble, agile organization. Keen to find out how a once-successful company reinvents itself through agile, so as to stay relevant … Continued.

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100ms secures $20M to power next generation of live video apps

TechCrunch

100ms , the live video conferencing infrastructure startup based in India, has raised $20 million in Series A funding to power the next generation of live video apps, coming barely five months after they closed the seed round. This latest round was led by Falcon Edge’s Alpha Wave Incubation, with participation from Matrix Partners India and LocalGlobe, and existing investors Accel and Strive.vc.

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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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How scaleups get constrained by talent

Martin Fowler

The second bottleneck in the series looks at talent, and how scaleups struggle to hire enough good people. Tim Cochran and Roni Smith explain how the small network and informal processes that allow early stage startups to grow begin to fail during the scaleup phase, and what signs indicate a new approach is needed.

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The Simplest Way to Get Better Results From Your team (with Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

How I Learned the Secret to Better Results the Hard Way. Before I share this secret to getting better results, I’d like you to think back to your senior year in high school. Do you remember being really sensitive to all the “lasts?” The last big game. The last show you were in. Or, the last summer night before you and your friends all went their separate ways?

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How I Used My Agile and Design Thinking Toolkit to Navigate the Unknown and Drive Change

Agile Alliance

As a Technical Lead and Systems Engineer for the Department of Defense (DoD), I took a one year career broadening assignment to be an external change agent at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) with the task of leading a change management effort within the Engineering organization. For years, the organization faced the challenge of … Continued.

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Diamond Age picks up $50M to lay the foundation for the future of houses built by robots

TechCrunch

Hot on the heels from its $8 million fundraise just a few months ago , Diamond Age is back for a top-up, with a $50 million Series A financing to continue its mission to make homeownership more affordable by using 3D printing and robotics technologies to make home construction significantly cheaper — a welcome change in a world where there’s a 7-million-home shortage in the U.S. housing market.

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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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How to Find a Balance Between SEO and Web Design?

The Crazy Programmer

Can a well-optimized site have an attractive design? High-quality text content, relevant keywords, competent internal linking, and backlinks from authoritative sites – all this helps to promote Internet resources. However, what about design? Many people focus on SEO optimization, forgetting that visitors come to the site, and for them, the design of the resource plays an essential role.

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Authenticate Once with Playwright

Xebia

Suppose you have a web application for which you would like to write browser tests using Playwright. This web application contains a login screen and after successful authentication, all functionality is loaded. This means that in order to test the application, each test requires an authenticated user. Because each test runs in isolation, each test needs to authenticate.

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Green Tests and Red Tests

Agile Alliance

A central benefit of doing test-first development is getting a suite of behavioral tests to regress code and support refactoring efforts. But when doing test-first development in practice, many developers write too many tests and implementation-dependent tests that break during refactoring. They spend more time rewriting tests than refactoring code.

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Ardoq, the enterprise architecture startup, raises $125M to help organizations make sense of their networks

TechCrunch

As organizations continue to build out their digital architecture, a new category of enterprise software has emerged to help them manage that process. Now, Ardoq — which makes enterprise architecture tools that give organizations an accurate picture of their digital networks, including who is working on what and when and where — has closed a round that will help it build out its own business: the startup has raised $125 million in a Series D that sources close to the company tell us

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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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How Hackathons Can Help You Attract, Engage, Hire, And Train Top Talent

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Ever since the pandemic hit, employers have had to fill positions without requiring candidates to go through an extensive in-person interview process. As a result, many companies have turned to virtual hiring programs as well as hackathons to reach their recruiting goals. A study found that 40% of companies use a hackathon hiring process as part of their recruitment strategies.

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Quality Management is Risk Management

Xebia

In my previous blog I wrote how embracing failure can be a viable strategy , depending on the current quality level. Before we can determine this quality level, we first need to understand what quality is and ask the question “why do we even want quality?”. . Many books have been written on the concept of quality and the Wikipedia page on quality provides the following summary: . “ Quality is a perceptual, conditional, and somewhat subjective attribute and may be understood differe

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What is MLOps? DataOps? And Why do They Matter?

DevOps.com

Let’s look at three distinct disciplines—DevOps, MLOps and DataOps. In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously proclaimed that software was “eating the world.” A little more than a decade later, it’s all but impossible to argue with his premonition as software has embedded itself into virtually every industry. But now another shift is underway and AI is gobbling […].

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Spotify and Discord go down, forcing Tuesday upon us

TechCrunch

Spotify and Discord both appear to be down. TechCrunchers and the Twittersphere alike are experiencing difficulty logging in to Spotify. Folks are reporting on Twitter that opening the Spotify app on mobile leads to a login flow, but even the correct username and password results in a failed attempt to in fact log in. The music streaming company confirmed the issue on Twitter: Something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it.

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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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The FBI Was Our #1 Partner During the Worst Time of Our Company’s History, and They Should Be Yours Too

Kaseya

As the CEO of Kaseya, I have intimate and detailed first-hand experience of what it’s like to deal with a cyberattack. In July of 2021, our company was attacked. We had the distinction of being on every major news outlet around the world, discussing the incident.?It was a 24X7 media frenzy for a few days, until the facts were revealed, and the impact of the attack proved to be minimal.?

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Dirty Pipe Linux Vulnerability: Overwriting Files in Container Images

Aqua Security

A new CVE in the Linux kernel was released this week. CVE-2022-0847, aka “Dirty Pipe”, is a vulnerability that allows users on a Linux system to overwrite the contents of files that they can read but shouldn’t be able to write to. Looking at this vulnerability from the perspective of hosts using containerization software such as Docker, it was possible to modify files from container images on the host, from inside a container — something that generally shouldn’t be possible.

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Behind the Scenes: How We Picked 2021’s Top Vulnerabilities – and What We Left Out

Tenable

The 2021 Threat Landscape Retrospective explored the top five vulnerabilities of the year. Learn about other high-impact vulnerabilities that nearly made our list. When putting together the Threat Landscape Retrospective (TLR) for 2021 , the Security Response Team had a particularly difficult challenge picking the top five vulnerabilities for the year out of the many candidates.

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Better.com plans to lay off about 4,000 people this week, sources say

TechCrunch

Online mortgage lender Better.com is poised to lay off roughly 50% of its staff of about 8,000 this week, according to sources familiar with internal happenings at the company. TechCrunch first reported on February 18 that the new round of layoffs were coming. . The move comes just over three months after the New York-based startup laid off 9% of its staff — or 900 people — during a Zoom call that went viral and led to a number of top executives resigning and a flurry of bad publicit

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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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DevOps and Containers

DevOps.com

“Works on my machine!” We’ve all had that co-worker. I have had one at pretty much every company I’ve worked for. At several jobs, it devolved into a running joke. There is a belief that containers alleviate this issue. And they may—or they may simply mask the issue. The choice is up to IT. Inevitably, […]. The post DevOps and Containers appeared first on DevOps.com.

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On the brittleness of dashboards

Honeycomb

Dashboards are one of the most basic and popular tools software engineers use to operate their systems. In this post, I’ll make the argument that their use is unfortunately too widespread, and that the reflex we have to use and rely on them tends to drown out better, more adapted approaches, particularly in the context of incidents. Why dashboards work.

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Confessions of a Web Developer XIX

David Walsh

It’s been a while since I’ve gotten a few things off of my chest and since I’m always full of peeves and annoyances I thought it was time to unleash: Due to the immensely negative response to any tweet about crypto from my blog account, I created a second account just for crypto musings. I’ll be honest — it hurt that I needed to do that.