Cloudera

DECEMBER 15, 2020

It is crucial for organizations to focus on supporting the new way of work, enhancing productivity, and improving cost efficiency to ensure business survival in the post-pandemic world. However, those that are overly focused on these short-term goals risk losing sight of what’s truly important. As shared in my previous post , diverse teams can help organizations unlock innovations that allow them to adapt to market changes quickly and drive business growth.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 13, 2020

As Software 2.0 takes shape, how are AI processes—and the jobs that go with them—changing? When it comes to new AI automation, the Software 2.0 movement can be seen as akin to the auto industry’s recent evolution. Beginning in the 1990s and rapidly progressing into the 2000s, the auto industry saw a huge rise in […]. The post AI Automation Won’t Replace Jobs – It Will Replace Processes appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Roger Hurwitz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Roger Hurwitz is a founding partner at Volition Capital. He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. More posts by this contributor. Should SaaS founders be raising capital now? The don’ts of debt for fast-growing startups. The global software as a service (SaaS) industry is sustaining its steep growth trajectory, but developing and pricing professional services is oftentimes a difficult proposition

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 15, 2020

It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering changing in ways that have made us orders of magnitude more productive.

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Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Wondering how Agile Alliance conference gets the most innovative, thought-provoking, and noteworthy sessions? Our reviewers find them among the hundreds of submissions we receive. Now is the time to join the review team — we are looking for you! As a reviewer, you will be guided by the track chairs about what the program is … Continued. The post Agile2021 Call for Reviewers first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Social gaming platform Rec Room has scored some new funding as it aims to bring its once VR-centric world to every major gaming platform out there. The startup has closed a $20 million Series C led by Madrona Venture Group. Existing investors, including First Round Capital, Index, Sequoia and DAG, also participated in the round. They’ve raised just shy of $50 million to date.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Has this ever happened to you? You sit down for an earnest performance improvement conversation. Your employee listens intently. She thanks you for the feedback, and promises to try harder. Things improve for a minute. But a week later, they’re back to […]. The post How to Hold a Better Performance Improvement Conversation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Your company values are defined by the worst behaviors permitted within your business. I always thought that was a rather negative world view. But it helped me to think of defining business performance in terms of our habituations. In Behavioral Science, people habituate to a stimulus, which is the opposite of forming a habit. It … Continued. The post Your Backlog Nullifies Your Strategy first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 16, 2020

When FireEye Inc. discovered that it was hacked this month, the cybersecurity firm’s investigators immediately set about trying to figure out how attackers got past its defenses. It wasn’t just […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Only about a third of the yields Indian farmers produce reaches the big markets. Those whose produce makes it there today are able to leverage post-harvest services. Everyone else is missing out. A Noida-based startup is working with all the stakeholders — farmers, food processors, traders and financial institutions — to bridge this post-harvest services gap — and it just secured new funds to continue its journey.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 17, 2020

If you’re like many leaders we talk with, you’ve been on such a fast pivot this year, you may not have had all the strategic planning time you’d hoped for. Or, your business has changed so much, it’s the perfect time to […]. The post Strategic Planning Tool: How to Engage Your Team in Better Conversation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 16, 2020

To keep pace with the swiftly changing digital ecosystem, organizations can’t afford to stand still. It’s vital for organizations to continually assess their business models as part of their digital transformation. Organizations must walk a difficult line between maintaining their core competencies while successfully anticipating what is ahead.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Atlanta, Georgia-based internet of things company Bastille Networks has received an other transaction agreement from the Department of Homeland Security to continue the development of a technology designed to protect […].

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

French fintech startup Lydia has extended its Series B round. Accel is leading the extension with all major existing shareholders also participating. Lydia first raised $45 million in January 2020 — Tencent led that investment. The startup is now raising another $86 million, which means that Lydia has raised $131 million in total as part of its Series B round.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Whether affected by the pandemic or some other unforeseen and monumental setback, to lead, you have to find a way to move beyond anger, guilt, emptiness or pain. It’s not only possible to overcome adversity, but it’s imperative. In this episode, retired […]. The post Overcoming Adversity – Interview with Jason Redman appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Toptal

DECEMBER 17, 2020

WebAssembly gives near-native performance to web apps and allows languages other than JavaScript—plus their libraries—to be used on the web. This tutorial leverages Rust and the Web Audio API to make a basic guitar tuner app that runs at 60 FPS, even on mobile.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Palo Alto Networks has rolled out a series of as-a-service offerings to help service providers and enterprises secure 5G networks, services, applications and devices. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based platform security vendor […].

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Advertiser: Procom Services

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here. Maybe it is a stock market bubble, or a tech-stock bubble at least. And maybe DoorDash, Airbnb and C3.ai and their bankers should have priced higher regardless to take advantage of all of the enthusiasm.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Companies that are working toward optimizing DevOps processes have over the past few years adopted a practice of testing throughout the software application design, development and production phases—a practice of continuous testing throughout the product life cycle. This includes shifting testing operations “left,” i.e. beginning testing earlier in the life cycle, to catch any software […].

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TechBeacon

DECEMBER 14, 2020

As IT environments become more dynamic, hybrid, and complex, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for security operations center (SOC) teams to quickly detect and address critical threats with traditional tools.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Read Diego Asturias explain how Pulumi and Snowflake are enabling a big shift in how cloud engineering works on Silicon Angle: More than 10 years ago, cloud computing began offering […].

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Now more than ever both the importance and limitations of the global delivery infrastructure are on full display. But while Amazon and others try to speed up last mile delivery using drones, Dash Systems hopes to expedite the middle mile — with military-inspired airdrops putting pallets of parcels down at their penultimate destinations, even in the most inaccessible of locations.

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Confluent

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Consuming messages in parallel is what Apache Kafka® is all about, so you may well wonder, why would we want anything else? It turns out that, in practice, there are […].

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David Walsh

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Knowing what input type you’ve received is hugely important in JavaScript, which is a big reason for Flow and TypeScript’s rise. One such case where it’s useful to know what an object represents is if the input is a string or a React element. To detect if an object is a React element, you can use React.isValidElement(obj) : // Add a wrapping DIV if the content isn't a React element // PropTypes.oneOfType([PropTypes.string, PropTypes.element]) render() { const { content } = this

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Read Andrew Wooler explain how Kinetica can provide a cost-effective streaming data warehouse on Forbes : I recently watched the movie Ford v Ferrari, based on the true story of […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While there’s been plenty of recent debate around the gig economy, Jarah Euston argued that it’s time to rethink a bigger part of the workforce — hourly workers. Euston, who was previously an executive at mobile advertising startup Flurry and a co-founder at data operations startup Nexla , told me that although 80 million Americans are paid on an hourly basis , the current system doesn’t work particular well for either employers or workers.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer?—?The case of the extra 40 ms By: John Blair , Netflix Partner Engineering The Netflix application runs on hundreds of smart TVs, streaming sticks and pay TV set top boxes. The role of a Partner Engineer at Netflix is to help device manufacturers launch the Netflix application on their devices. In this article we talk about one particularly difficult issue that blocked the launch of a device in Europe.

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Synopsys

DECEMBER 17, 2020

CVE-2020-28052 is an authentication bypass vulnerability discovered in Bouncy Castle’s OpenBSDBcrypt class. It allows attackers to bypass password checks. The post CyRC analysis: Authentication bypass vulnerability in Bouncy Castle appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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