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Data Lake vs Data Warehouse

The Crazy Programmer

Companies everywhere are handling more data than ever and all these terabytes of data need to be stored somewhere. Should you store the data in a database, a data warehouse, or a data lake? How do you know what is best for your company? Choosing the right data storage solution will depend greatly on how the data is going to be used. While both a data lake and a data warehouse share the goal of the process data queries to facilitate analytics, their functions are different.

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Don’t hate on low-code and no-code

TechCrunch

As far as I can tell, low-code and no-code services are rapidly proving that prior models for products as broad as enterprise app creation and AI-powered data analytics were lackluster. My evidence? A mix of public- and private-market low- and no-code companies are putting up impressive results. The Exchange caught up with Appian CEO Matt Calkins after his enterprise app software company reported its first-quarter performance to discuss the low-code market and what he’s hearing in customer

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Agile2021: Better Together

Agile Alliance

In this podcast, Howard Sublett and I chat about how Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance are working together this year to create a one-of-a-kind experience for the Agile community. Moving Agile2021 online has opened up opportunities for making our annual conference more accessible in ways that were simply not possible before, and we’re both excited … Continued.

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The Intersection of Change Management and Design Thinking

Change Starts Here

I’ve recently partnered with DesignThinkers Group, USA to explore how the disciplines of Design Thinking and Change Management can expand the impact of both. This Venn diagram highlights some of the similarities and differences between Design Thinking and Change Management. I’ll explore these at a high level below.

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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 to Print Address in C

The Crazy Programmer

In this article, we will first look at how can we assign an address to a variable and then print the address using C language. First of all, we will take a look at how addresses are assigned to any variable. Whenever we declare a variable of any data type (int, float, double, char, etc.), some memory is allocated to the variable by the operating system which can be any random number but cannot be negative.

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How to Ask for What You Need (and get it) featuring Heather Hansen

Let's Grow Leaders

Life is full of trials, and sometimes you need a warrior spirit to overcome them. Award-winning attorney Heather Hansen has spent over twenty years fighting on the battlefields of the courts—but even in her fiercest clashes, she’s remained true to herself and her principles. She shares her journey to becoming an Elegant Warrior, and imparts the wisdom she’s learned from her decades on the bar to help you know how to ask for what you need.

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Using Attack, Detect and Respond Tools To Mature Cybersecurity

CTOvision

Security can be enhanced and major risks mitigated by realistic threat emulation. This is needed now more than ever. Professionals in the security community except it as a given that we should all raise defenses, but prepare for breach. Raising defenses means checking for gaps so appropriate controls can be applied. And preparing for breach […].

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The Role of APIs In Digital Transformation

DevOps.com

Digital transformation is increasingly propelled by rapidly changing user expectations. Release frequency is increasing, as is the need to connect a growing number of applications and digital experiences. As a result, 83% of IT specialists consider API integration critical to their business, found the State of API Integration Report. Application programming interfaces (APIs) hold powerful […].

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The motorcycle ride-hailing wars in Nigeria and Uganda is SafeBoda’s to lose

TechCrunch

On April 16, Uganda-based two-wheel ride-hailing platform SafeBoda announced that it had completed 1 million rides in Ibadan, a southwestern city in Nigeria. T his might not seem spectacular from a global perspective because it took the startup a year and two months to achieve but it’s a noteworthy feat in African markets. Ibadan is one of the cities where SafeBoda operates.

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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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The Hidden Cost of Retaining a Bad Hire

Let's Grow Leaders

Avoid This Huge Mistake with a Bad Hire. As a human-centered leader, you might just be tempted to hold onto an obviously bad hire too long. And, holding onto a bad hire (after you’ve done all you can) is one of the biggest leadership mistakes you can make. We see so many managers hold on to false hope, increasing the agony for everyone. The Bad Hire Question I’ve Asked Hundreds of Times. “When did you know he was a bad hire?

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Aerospike Turbocharges Spark ML Training with Pushdown Processing

CTOvision

Read Alex Woodie explain how Aerospike is pushing Spark machine learning training with pushdown processing on Datanami : Companies that need to access a lot of data in a hurry, such as retraining a machine learning model in Spark, have traditionally had to move that data from the edge to a central repository, such as […].

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Solving Bottlenecks With SQL Indexes and Partitions

Toptal

Indexes and partitioning can help with SQL performance, but they're not cure-alls. Through everyday examples of date range and LIKE queries, find out how to "think like an RDBMS" to make yours run faster.

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Lisbon’s Kitch raises $4M to help restaurants take control of the delivery app mess

TechCrunch

Lisbon-based food delivery startup Kitch hopes to hand back control to restaurants dogged by the mess of food delivery apps today, by aggregating the apps onto one tablet and platform. Restaurants then get one place to manage all their delivery orders, track couriers and update their menus across all the delivery apps. It’s now raised a €3.25 million ($4 million) seed round led by Atlantic Food Labs, with participation from Market One Capital and the company’s initial investors, Seedcamp and Lis

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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 do I Teach my Team Critical Thinking? (With Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical Ways to Develop Critical Thinking on Your Team. “Hey Karin, I want to develop critical thinking I really do. I want to empower them and help them grow. But…you would be surprised some of the decisions they make or things they do. How do I get my team to think more strategically? #AskingFriend. What is Critical Thinking? Critical thinking is a systematic process for gathering, synthesizing, and making sense of information in order to make informed decisions. 4 Ways to Help Y

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Seven Reasons You Shouldn’t Hire a DevOps Engineer

DevOps.com

DevOps is a culture, not a title. Therefore, companies should follow DevOps principles, rather than hiring one savant to fix an entire organization’s delivery model. I recently spoke with Uri Zaidenberg, DevOps Lead at Replix, to understand the current state of DevOps. As more robust DevOps tools emerge and practices proliferate across organizations, developers are […].

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Top 35 Git Commands With Examples

Dzone - DevOps

If you are a new or experienced developer, you have to use source control. And good chances are you are using Git to manage your source code. And to use Git to its full potential, you need to know Git commands. Here you will learn the most helpful Git commands that will take you from one level to another.

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As tech offices begin to reopen, the workplace could look very different

TechCrunch

The pandemic forced many employees to begin working from home , and, in doing so, may have changed the way we think about work. While some businesses have slowly returned to the office, depending on where you live and what you do, many information workers remain at home. That could change in the coming months as more people get vaccinated and the infection rate begins to drop in the U.S.

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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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Our Generation’s Thomas Edison: Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin becomes the world’s youngest crypto billionaire

CTOvision

The price of Ether surged past $3,000 on May 4 making its creator, Vitalik Buterin, the world’s youngest crypto billionaire at the age of 27. Cryptocurrency ether extended gains to another record peak, after breaking above $3,000 for the first time a day earlier as investors bet on its growing utility. Early in Asia trade it […].

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How to Become Your Boss’s Favorite Employee

Career Advancement

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie. Maybe you see yourself as a consistent overachiever—someone who always gets the job done well and on time—but you still have the sneaking suspicion that you’re not one of the boss’s favorite employees. Perhaps one of your coworkers has a much stronger rapport with your boss, even though you always go above and beyond expectations.

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Web Application Security is not API Security

DevOps.com

Do you follow the same procedures to secure a web application as you do an API? Is there a difference between the two? We’ve spoken about API security quite a bit in the past few months because we believe that there are critical differences between API security and traditional web application security. A lack of […]. The post Web Application Security is not API Security appeared first on DevOps.com.

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The hamburger model is a winning go-to-market strategy

TechCrunch

Caryn Marooney. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Caryn Marooney is general partner at Coatue Management and sits on the boards of Zendesk and Elastic. In prior roles she oversaw communications for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus and co-founded The OutCast Agency, which served clients like Salesforce.com and Amazon. More posts by this contributor.

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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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How AI defends critical infrastructure from ransomware

Darktrace

In the wake of the Colonial Pipeline cyber-attack, this blog discusses the many threats facing critical infrastructure, and how Cyber AI disrupted a similar ‘double extortion’ ransomware attack against an electrical utilities supplier.

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Converging Technologies Driving Billion-scale Elasticsearch

CTOvision

Read Mark Wright explains how converging technologies are driving up usage of Elasticsearch on EE Times. Digital convergence is happening all around us as technologies that were originally unrelated come together in exciting new ways. The iPhone is a perfect example, combining a phone with a computer, a camera and sensors to deliver an outstanding […].

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Why DevOps Will Cease to Exist

DevOps.com

Nowadays I feel like there is no need to explain why DevOps as a methodology exists, as it is widely understood and accepted. But the reason DevOps engineers exist is not to ensure the success of its namesake methodology, nor, if we’re being honest, is the practice evolving into a role that’s viable for future […]. The post Why DevOps Will Cease to Exist appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How a band of P2P hackers planted the seeds of a unique expense management giant

TechCrunch

Individuality often has no place in the enterprise software space. In a market where a single contract can easily run into the millions, homogeneity is the herald of reliability and serves to reassure buyers of the worth of their potential purchase. So it’s natural to think a company in the expense report management business would keep it simple and play it by the book.

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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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How Do I Build a High-Performing Team (with Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Building a High-Performing Team Takes Rhythm. In this week’s episode of Asking for a Friend, we talk with Virg Palumbo, Regional President at Kforce. A former marine, Virg is an absolute expert in creating an operating cadence to build a high-performing team. In this episode, we discuss. What an operating cadence is (and why it matters). Best practices for establishing your own operating cadence.

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AXA axes ransomware insurance. Who’s next?

TechBeacon

Huge multinational insurance firm AXA Group has announced it will no longer write cyber-insurance policies that pay out extortionate ransoms to hackers. So far, this applies only to France, but observers wonder if the strategy will spread.

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Empowering BizDevOps Teams With SLOs

DevOps.com

When BizDevOps teams are drowning in logs and false alerts and are spending more time on manual processes than on building and deploying new applications and features, the work suffers, morale suffers and the organization as a whole suffers. Releasing better and more secure software, faster and with real business impacts starts with a robust […].