Agile Alliance
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Are you concerned that your team might have strayed from the foundational principles of Scrum? This checklist will help you stay on track. The post A Scrum Flight Checklist first appeared on Agile Alliance.
Allstacks
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Companies have embraced and evolved through decades of software development methodologies, principles, tools, and processes that all set out to improve how we build software. More often than not, these resulted in mostly well-intentioned consultants losing sight of the intent of our task - building high-quality software more efficiently (read: faster) and more enjoyably while delivering additional customer value.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Martin Fowler
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Those of us developing software don’t need to be told what a big impact it’s had on humanity this century. I’ve long maintained that this places a serious responsibility on our profession. Whether asked to or not, we have a duty to ensure our systems don’t degrade our society. But in the tumult of so many software projects, it can be difficult to step back and understand the implications of our work.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Berlin-based climate tech startup, Made of Air , has closed a €5 million (~$5.8 million) seed funding round, led by Norwegian sustainability-focused family fund, TD Veen. Also participating are Patrick Pichette (former CFO of Google & chairman of the Board of Twitter), EQT Group, Thomas Von Koch (CEO & cofounder of EQT Group), Tuesday Capital, the co-founders of Pexip, and Olympic gold medalist skier, Aksel Lund Svindal.
Advertisement
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?
CTO Universe Submitted Awards Articles
OCTOBER 7, 2021
If you work with video on the internet, you know how resource-intensive encoding can be. While moving from in-house to cloud-hosted servers can save you a lot of money, that doesn’t change the fact that processing large videos with modern codecs takes significant computing power.
CTO Universe brings together the best content for CTOs from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Impactful authentic leadership requires careful judgment and context. Authentic leadership matters even more during times of stress, uncertainty, and change. Of course, you want your team to be real with you. You can’t help them if you don’t know what’s really going on. And if you’re not real with them, they won’t be real with you.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 8, 2021
Productfy Inc. , a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform that aims to build “DeFi for traditional finance,” has raised $16 million in a Series A round of funding led by CM Ventures. Existing backers Point72 Ventures, 500 Startups and Envestnet | Yodlee also participated in the financing, which brings its total raised since its 2018 inception to nearly $19 million.
CTO Universe Submitted Awards Articles
OCTOBER 7, 2021
In the last 10 years, over 100 unique streaming services have launched around the world, with a mass acceleration of new services launched in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. This growth in new services shows no indication of slowing any time soon, as new niche verticals like eLearning, faith-based services, fitness, and entertainment (live music/theater) are building out their own services to expand their reach and monetize their content.
Agile Alliance
OCTOBER 5, 2021
How do you shift from a component, technology aligned organization to a product-centric organization? This is a challenge many organizations are now facing as they aspire to go beyond agile at the team level and align their whole organization for product-centric discovery and delivery. This experience report shares the story of a transformation to product-centricity … Continued.
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.
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 8, 2021
As a business leader, how do you create a purposeful, positive, and productive work environment for you employees and customers while improving your bottom line? In short, “good” comes first. Your culture is imperative. In this episode, culture experts Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt give you a practical roadmap to building the culture you want (hint – it takes commitment and accountability equal to your focus on results).
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Regions once overlooked by the venture capital industry are racking up impressive investment totals in recent quarters. African startups, for example, were long ignored by the global VC scene, with totals for the continent’s upstart technology companies representing a fraction of a fraction of the funds made available to other regions’ next-generation companies.
Kentik
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Yesterday the world’s largest social media platform suffered a global outage of all of its services for nearly six hours. Facebook and its subsidiaries, including WhatsApp, Instagram and Oculus, were unavailable to its 3.5 billion users in what can arguably be considered the most impactful internet service outage in modern history. When we first heard about problems with Facebook, we checked Kentik’s OTT Service Tracker, which analyzes traffic by over-the-top (OTT) service.
Tenable
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The Apache HTTP Server Project patched a path traversal vulnerability introduced less than a month ago that has been exploited in the wild. Background. On October 5, the Apache HTTP Server Project patched CVE-2021-41773, a path traversal and file disclosure vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server, an open-source web server for Unix and Windows that is among the most widely used web servers.
Advertiser: Procom Services
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
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 7, 2021
How To Get Better at Managing Up (Even With the Tough Feedback). Karin, I want to get better at managing up. But it’s hard. And, I’m scared. How do I do this well? #AskingForAFriend. Your boss is an imperfect human, doing the best they can. Just like you. They don’t brush their teeth in the morning dreaming up ways to be more difficult and frustrating to you and the rest of the team.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 8, 2021
As we get into our dive into Q3 2021 venture capital numbers, one region in particular has our attention: Europe. While venture capital gains in markets like India, Latin America and the larger African startup ecosystem have proved impressive, Europe has posted strong results of its own. A string of recent exits from European startup hubs makes its performance all the more intriguing.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 3, 2021
Mainframes are historically clunky systems. They are incredibly secure and can process impressive calculations, yet they are complex to manage and challenging to extract data from. This reality is at odds with modern cloud-native infrastructure, which emphasizes distributed computing and portable microservices. So, how can existing mainframes adapt to this connected, data-driven economy?
TechBeacon
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Test data used throughout the application lifecycle is stale, dirty, or polluted. The lack of adequate test data is eating into productivity gains from agile and DevOps investments because testing failures are slowing down the speed of software delivery.
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.
Dataiku
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Using RNNs & DeepAR Models to Find Out. Time series forecasting use cases are certainly the most common time series use cases, as they can be found in all types of industries and in various contexts. Whether it is forecasting future sales to optimize inventory, predicting energy consumption to adapt production levels, or estimating the number of airline passengers to ensure high-quality services, time is a key variable.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Avatar startups have come and gone over the past few years, but the future that many of the entrepreneurs behind them originally imagined has proven more or less accurate. Apple is increasingly interested in avatar representations through Memoji, Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be a metaverse company and platforms like Roblox, where users enter a virtual world and buy accessories for their character, have never been more popular.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Container orchestration is a must-have technical skill, according to 51% of respondents to the 2021 Upskilling survey from DevOps Institute. So, it’s no surprise, then, that container technology is becoming increasingly popular. However, container environments are far more complex and dynamic than other infrastructure, making container security essential.
TechBeacon
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Many companies are still trying to work out strategies to incorporate cloud services and open-source software, two of the most significant developments to hit enterprise IT in the past decade.
Advertisement
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
Robots and Pencils
OCTOBER 8, 2021
Planning your digital transformation strategy for 2022? We thought so. Therefore, we rounded up a bunch of experts to share their tips on digital transformation to shape your 2022 strategy. Check out the tips and be ready to supercharge the processes and technologies at your company. Let’s dive in! Tips On Internal Communication Brian Nagele Brian is the CEO at Restaurant Clicks.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2021
The adoption of telehealth services has boomed in the pandemic — with usage up 38-fold since January 2020, according to a report by McKinsey. While a lot of the attention has been on companies that are building the communications layer between consumers and clinicians, there are also a wave of companies building devices to expand what can be monitored and addressed in a telehealth environment. .
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Low-code and no-code development platforms have revolutionized how companies think about application development. The same can be said for software for quality assurance (QA), where codeless test automation solutions handle the burden of coding for organizations that can’t allocate extra programming resources or keep up with extensive writing and maintenance of automated tests.
The Daily WTF
OCTOBER 5, 2021
This past Monday, Facebook experienced an outage which lasted almost six hours. This had rattle-on effects. Facebook's pile of services all failed, from the core application to WhatsApp to Oculus. Many other services use Facebook for authentication, so people lost access to those (which highlights some rather horrifying dependencies on Facebook's infrastructure).
Advertisement
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.
InfoQ Culture Methods
OCTOBER 6, 2021
None of us are born toxic leaders, but anyone can easily become one. In the past several year’s workplaces have started to feel the effects of “Toxic Leadership.” Now is the time to educate everyone on the importance of speaking right, doing right, treating each other right in the workplace, and above all, being a nontoxic leader. By Raj Subrameyer.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Ally.io , a software service that helps companies measure their progress against OKRs or objectives and key results, a common way the management measures both individual and company progress. The two firms did not share the purchase price. Microsoft plans to incorporate Ally into its Viva family of employee experience products.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 4, 2021
A DevOps implementation, if done correctly, can do wonders for any organization that’s on the hunt for efficiency, productivity and speed. As per the 2020 survey conducted by Atlassian, 99% of survey respondents said that DevOps has had a positive impact on their organization. However, it won’t do any good if security isn’t prioritized while […].
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
303 
Let's personalize your content