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Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Human Intelligence?

The Crazy Programmer

Artificial Intelligence is a science of making intelligent and smarter human-like machines that have sparked a debate on Human Intelligence Vs Artificial Intelligence. There is no doubt that Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms are made to make these machines learn on their own and able to make decisions like humans. With an attempt of making smarter and intelligent machines, we are overlooking the real impact of Artificial Intelligence takeovers on our future careers?

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Is 2022 Ready for You?

CEO Insider

As we approach the close of 2021, you’re probably being questioned about whether you’re ready for the new year. It may be more appropriate to ask: Is 2022 ready for you? Rather than brace yourself for the uncertainty of what’s next, it’s time to be proactive. To start, reflect on what you’re grateful for, take […]. The post Is 2022 Ready for You?

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Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era

Coding Horror

In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn't boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command line. From here, if you were lucky, you might have a cassette tape drive. If you knew the right commands, you could type them in to load programs from cassette tape.

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African tech took center stage in 2021

TechCrunch

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. With high-profile visits from the most famous Jacks (Ma and Dorsey), a long-awaited first IPO by e-commerce giant Jumia and massive $100 million rounds, it was a sign of things to come for African tech.

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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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My favorite musical discoveries of 2021

Martin Fowler

I listen to a lot of interesting music, so picked out my six favorite. new-to-me albums this year. I hope you find something interesting to groove to in there.

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Provisioning in Cloud Computing – Types, Benefits, Tools, Challenges

The Crazy Programmer

Provisioning in layman’s terms is to provide something. In technical terms, it is the set-up operation of IT infrastructure. Cloud Provisioning is the allocation of the cloud provider’s resources to a client. It is exactly the process of amalgamation and execution of cloud computing resources within an IT organization. It is basically an important aspect of the cloud computing model, which tells how a client acquires cloud services and resources from a cloud supplier.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2021

TechCrunch

When we penned the intro for this piece last year , little did we know that — in many ways — we’d still be deep in it by the time 2021’s feature rolled around. Amid another holiday season marred by a new variant, seemingly the more things change — well, you get the picture. Surprisingly, however, in spite of the fact that we’re still very much in the throes of a global pandemic, 2021 hasn’t been punctuated by as many high-profile losses in the startup world as the year prior.

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The best security conferences of 2022

TechBeacon

To keep ahead of the security curve, you have to be constantly learning. As malicious threats become more sophisticated on an almost daily basis, continuously evolving your security knowledge is really the only way to keep up.

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I Interviewed Nearly 200 Apache Kafka Experts and I Learned These 10 Things

Confluent

Many leading lights of the Apache Kafka® community have appeared as guests on Streaming Audio at one time or another in the past three years. But some of its episodes […].

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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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Why Do You Need to Move From CRUD to Event Sourcing Architecture?

Dzone - DevOps

Having a firm understanding of the various architectural formats allow designers to build innovative, reactive, and resilient applications to scale. As such, following these industry-vetted standards can save time, ensure reliability, and drive results. After all, why should businesses spend time and resources reinventing the wheel? But mere acquaintance with the different architectures like CRUD-based architecture, Microservices-based architecture , and event sourcing-based architecture will ju

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Southeast Asian startups to watch in 2022

TechCrunch

As someone who covers Southeast Asia startups and funding stories, the best word I can think of to describe 2021 is “whoa!” This was the year that global investors not only started to pay close attention to the region’s tech ecosystems, but also began putting real money into them. Backed by international LPs, Southeast Asia-focused venture firms like Alpha JWC , AC Ventures and Jungle Ventures raised their largest funds yet.

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CVE-2021-44832: New Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Log4j

Aqua Security

This holiday season, adversaries aren’t taking a vacation, massively exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in Log4j, a highly popular Java logging library. Amid the ongoing efforts of organizations to patch their vulnerable systems, a new Log4j vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-44832, has been discovered. It allows for an arbitrary code execution via JDBC Appender when an attacker can modify the logging configuration.

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Consulting For Executives: A Framework to Package & Position Your Expertise

CEO Insider

Have you ever wondered how you could monetize your expertise outside of your corporate role? As an executive and business leader, other companies would benefit from your expertise. Companies around the world will pay you to solve problems and create results for their business. However, your challenge isn’t delivering your expertise. You do this on […].

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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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Improving Development Velocity Using Ephemeral Environments

Dzone - DevOps

Velocity is a measurement of how many story points a software development team can finish within a sprint (usually one or two weeks). These points are set by the software development team when they review a ticket and estimate how complex the ticket is. When a team measures this output over a period of time, generally they have a consistent amount of story points they can deliver in a sprint and their velocity is known.

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3 views: How due diligence will change in 2022

TechCrunch

A few years ago, VCs were expected to perform extensive due diligence on startups. Investors dove into financials, called customers and vetted founders. But power has now shifted toward the founders after a long run of investors holding more than half the power thanks to the commoditization of capital. The pace at which deals were done increased, and the time to reach what VCs love to call “conviction” fell sharply.

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Threat Alert: Evolving Attack Techniques of Autom Cryptomining Campaign

Aqua Security

Over the past three years, we at Team Nautilus have been tracking an ongoing cryptomining campaign attacking our honeypots. It got the name Autom due to a shell script that was downloaded and that initiated the attack. Through the years, the campaign has evolved, demonstrating new techniques to hide the attack. In this blog, we examine the campaign, its techniques, and how organizations can protect against similar threats.

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40 predictions for 2022

TechBeacon

With 2022 just around the corner, IT professionals are wondering whether the new year will remain as challenging as this year and last.

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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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SonarQube Local Setup Using Docker

Dzone - DevOps

SonarQube is a static code scanning tool that helps us to improve code quality. Join me in this video tutorial as I explain three easy steps to set up SonarQube using the Docker tool for our development environment in your local machine.

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TuSimple completes its first driverless autonomous truck run on public roads

TechCrunch

Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple has completed its first autonomous truck run on open public roads without a human in the vehicle, according to the company. TuSimple’s Autonomous Driving System (ADS) navigated 100% of the 80-mile run along surface streets and highways between a railyard in Tuscon, Arizona and a distribution center in Phoenix, which took place with no human intervention, marking a milestone for the company that aims to scale its technology into purpose-built trucks by 2

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Looking Ahead: 7 Cloud Native Security Predictions for 2022

Aqua Security

It’s been an incredibly busy year for cloud native and security practitioners! As we wrap up 2021, it’s time to look at what will shape our industry in the year ahead. In that spirit, we asked experts from across the company to share their take on what’s coming next for cloud native security and what to expect in 2022. Here’s our list of the biggest themes and trends to watch in the coming year and beyond.

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9 Nonprofit Website Trends for 2022

TechSoup

With a rapidly changing industry, nonprofit marketers and organizations have needed to become more effective and efficient in their strategy and implementation. Changes are occurring so quickly that 89 percent of nonprofit marketers have already changed their digital engagement strategy in the last year.

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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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Holidays, Entrepreneurship and SLOs with Nobl9

Dzone - DevOps

It's finally here, the end of season 1 of the podcast is upon us! To celebrate, Santa is bringing something special - entrepreneurship advice for all the would-be founders of the world, ages 1 to 92. Brian Singer, co-founder & CPO of Nobl9, sits down with Dev Interrupted to help us close out season 1 with a conversation on what it takes to found your own company.

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Voyant raises $15M to scale production of its tiny, inexpensive lidar tech

TechCrunch

The future of lidar is uncertain unless, as Voyant hopes to do, its price and size are reduced to fractions of their current values. As long as lidars are sandwich-sized devices that cost thousands, they won’t be ubiquitous — so Voyant has raised some cash to bring its smaller, cheaper, more easily manufactured, yet still highly capable lidar to production.

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From Log4j to the Future of Business: Our year in review

Lacework

Here at Lacework we’ve had a really busy and wonderful year. Our editorial team, Lacework Labs and our leaders have been busy writing about everything from Jay Parikh joining Lacework as co-CEO, to the Log4j vulnerability and everything in between. We wanted to make sure you had a chance to catch up on our whereabouts [.]. Read More. from From Log4j to the Future of Business: Our year in review.

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A Holiday Story, Internet Edition: The Impact Of Assessing And Addressing Log4j Installations Proactively

Tenable

A Holiday Story, Internet Edition: The Impact Of Assessing And Addressing Log4j Installations Proactively. Glen Pendley. Thu, 12/30/2021 - 12:00. A look at our log4j data. On December 10th, a critical, once in a generation security flaw was discovered in log4j. With a deep heritage in understanding and assessing vulnerabilities, Tenable began our efforts right away to create many different ways to audit for this flaw, knowing it was and remains a race against the clock before many of these metho

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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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Lessons Learned from the Former CEO of Pepsico – Indra Nooyi

Women on Business

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How to be one of the ‘haves’ of SaaS

TechCrunch

Sean Fanning. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sean Fanning is a vice president on OpenView ’s Investment team. Before that, he led the firm’s Proactive Portfolio Management function and acted as director of corporate development, supporting the portfolio on inorganic and balance sheet related initiatives. The flow of capital in SaaS is becoming increasingly bifurcated.

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Vite JS – The Installation Guide

Radixweb

In the first article from the Vite JS introduction series, we have covered what Vite JS is, its advantages, features, and how to build an app. In case if you did not get a chance to walk through the basic introduction, well, you can read on Vite JS – the next-gen frontend build tool.

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