Sat.Aug 14, 2021 - Fri.Aug 20, 2021

article thumbnail

5 Ways to Embed Accessibility in Your SDLC

DevOps.com

Developing an accessible software development life cycle (SDLC) requires a commitment to inclusion from everyone at the beginning of every project. By committing to developing accessible products, you will avoid costly and timely remediation prior to deployment at the end of your product roadmap. Creating An Accessible Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) An accessible SDLC […].

SDLC 145
article thumbnail

Stretch Your Leadership Muscles: Leading Up, Down, and Across!

Agile Alliance

Agile leaders need a variety of tools in their toolbox that allows them to respond to the people and situations at hand. The post Stretch Your Leadership Muscles: Leading Up, Down, and Across! first appeared on Agile Alliance.

article thumbnail

Alerzo raises $10.5M Series A to bring Nigeria’s informal retail sector online

TechCrunch

The process of digitizing the operations of mom and pop stores in Nigeria is serious business right now. In fact, it might be the second-best thing after fintech at the moment. Today’s news is from Alerzo , a little-known B2B e-commerce retail startup based in Ibadan, Nigeria. The company is announcing a $10.5 million Series A round led by New York-based Nosara Capital.

Retail 363
article thumbnail

Top 5 JavaScript Trends in 2021

The Crazy Programmer

What are the most vital characteristics that developers seek in a JavaScript framework? There is no definitive answer, but there might be some insight to glean from exploring performance, speed, and popularity. For starters: Performance (how long it takes for your application’s code to execute), Speed (how long does it take you to get something running on your browser?

Trends 363
article thumbnail

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?

article thumbnail

CBAP certification: A high-profile credential for business analysts

CIO

The Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) is a credential for business analysts offered by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA). IIBA is a nonprofit professional association founded in 2003 to promote the field of business analysis. The organization describes CBAP as a credential that “recognizes seasoned BA professionals who have over five years of practical business analysis work experience.

Nonprofit 290

More Trending

article thumbnail

Arianna Simpson of a16z on Yield Guild Games, the firm’s newest bet on crypto + gaming

TechCrunch

As one of four general partners at Andreessen Horowitz who are investing the venture firm’s new $2.2 billion crypto fund, Arianna Simpson is very focused on how to return that capital and much more to the firm’s limited partners. Toward that end, she has been more focused of late on startups that combine crypto with gaming. Last month, for example, her team co-led an investment in Virtually Human Studio , the startup behind a digital horse racing service Zed Run, wherein users buy, s

Games 362
article thumbnail

Cyware and RiskIQ provide threat intelligence necessary to stay ahead of attackers

CTOvision

Cyware announced a partnership with RiskIQ. The partnership combines advanced global threat intelligence automation with enriched, high-fidelity threat intelligence data to enable customers to more effectively respond to attacks. “As we expand our partner ecosystem to facilitate more threat intelligence sharing and collaboration across the industry, this partnership with RiskIQ could not be a more perfect […].

Industry 164
article thumbnail

Graph Data Science With Python/NetworkX

Toptal

Data inundates us like never before—how can we hope to analyze it? Graphs (networks, not bar graphs) provide an elegant approach. Find out how to start with the Python NetworkX library to describe, visualize, and analyze "graph theory" datasets.

Data 145
article thumbnail

Overcome the Great Resignation: How Great Leaders Put People Before Projects

Let's Grow Leaders

The Great Resignation is new–the art of cultivating loyalty is consistent. When you hear stats like 4 million Americans resigned their roles in one month or that 40% are considering a change in job , you might feel nervous about the future of work, and how the heck you build a culture of sustained performance in all that turmoil. The pandemic has certainly created upheaval and transformed work.

Culture 190
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Stacker raises $20M Series A to help business units build software without coding

TechCrunch

No-code platforms have developed into a hot market , and Stacker , a London-based no-code platform is attempting to bring the concept to a new level. Not only can you create a web application from a spreadsheet, you can pull data from a variety of sources to create a sophisticated business application automatically (although some tweaking may be required).

Software 355
article thumbnail

BlackSky and Palantir’s pilot program boosts geospatial intelligence

CTOvision

BlackSky and Palantir have announced the results of their geospatial pilot project. As part of their strategic partnership, BlackSky integrated commercial satellite imagery and analytics with Palantir’s enterprise platform Palantir Foundry. This combination creates an intelligent monitoring system capable of predicting Earth events from space.

article thumbnail

Low-Code is Table Stakes for Enterprises

DevOps.com

Enterprises across all industries are facing mounting pressure to deliver business value with speed and agility. In the digital age, companies that can’t keep pace often fall to the wayside, especially in light of increasing customer expectations and dynamic regulatory requirements. Speed has become table stakes. And business leaders have risen to the challenge across […].

article thumbnail

Honeycomb Is All-In on OpenTelemetry

Honeycomb

OpenTelemetry (or “OTel”) helps you get your instrumentation started quickly, and it helps you get the most out of that telemetry data by providing flexible exporting options. As a result, it’s emerging as the new standard for instrumentation. To that end, today we’re sharing more insight into the work we’ve done (and are doing) to enable a path for all Honeycomb users toward OTel adoption.

Metrics 144
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Early-stage benchmarks for young cybersecurity companies

TechCrunch

Yoav Leitersdorf. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Yoav Leitersdorf is the Silicon Valley-based managing partner at YL Ventures, where he accelerates cybersecurity startups in the U.S. market. More posts by this contributor. Israel’s cybersecurity startup scene spawned new entrants in 2019. A look back at the Israeli cybersecurity industry in 2018.

Company 355
article thumbnail

Ethereum’s rise to No. 1 crypto ‘seems unstoppable,’ says deVere Group CEO

CTOvision

The CEO and founder of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organizations, the deVere Group, has stated that Ether’s (ETH) price appreciation should continue to beat Bitcoin’s in 2021. DeVere Group CEO Nigel Green also believes that Ether’s value will have exceeded Bitcoin’s within a few short years. “Ethereum is outperforming Bitcoin, and it can […].

Groups 163
article thumbnail

How to Prepare Your DevOps Environment for DevSecOps

DevOps.com

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a deep, irreversible change within work environments, as most organizations are reimagining this “new normal” with a combination of fully remote or hybrid work. DevOps practices are being increasingly normalized and relied upon to respond to the needs of modern, digitized companies. Coming out of the pandemic, organizations now better […].

DevOps 145
article thumbnail

Reflections on trusting plugins: Backdooring Jenkins builds

Synopsys

In this post we explore how an attacker who has compromised a Jenkins instance can backdoor software built with it and what security measures are critical to ensure protection against attacks. The post Reflections on trusting plugins: Backdooring Jenkins builds appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

Software 143
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

API platform Postman valued at $5.6 billion in $225 million fundraise

TechCrunch

San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 billion, up from $2 billion a year ago. The startup’s new financing round — a Series D — was led by existing investor New York-headquartered Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and CRV.

article thumbnail

Ethereum ‘liquidity crisis’ could see new ETH all-time high before Bitcoin — Analyst

CTOvision

Read why William Suberg says that Ethereum will cross all-time high before Bitcoin due to its liquidity crisis on Coin Telegraph : Ethereum‘s native token, Ether (ETH), may beat Bitcoin (BTC) to new all-time highs, fresh analysis reveals. In a tweet on Wednesday, Ki-Young Ju, CEO of on-chain analytics service CryptoQuant, highlighted a “sell-side liquidity […].

Analysis 163
article thumbnail

How CIOs Can Measure Digital Transformation ROI

DevOps.com

To fully grasp how to measure success and gauge progress toward goals in any digital transformation, it’s important to understand the shifting expectations of CIOs who must report these objectives and outcomes. The pandemic has substantially changed the role of the CIO, giving them heftier goals and a shift away from IT. Today’s CIO is […]. The post How CIOs Can Measure Digital Transformation ROI appeared first on DevOps.com.

Report 145
article thumbnail

ContainerD Kubernetes Syslog Forwarding

Dzone - DevOps

You might have heard that starting version 1.20, Docker is no longer the container runtime in Kubernetes. Although this change didn't affect the core functionality of Kubernetes, or how pods work in their clusters, there were users that relied on resources provided by the Docker engine. A small sentence in the blog article calls out that a critical component would be affected: logging.

Resources 143
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Split.io announces $50M Series D to continue growing feature flag platform

TechCrunch

As developers build applications, they often want to test new functionality on a limited set of users to blunt any possible negative impact or to gauge user reaction to the change before rolling it out more broadly. They use a technique called a feature flag, and Split.io , a startup that has built a platform to help manage feature flags, announced a $50 million Series D today.

article thumbnail

Elastic enables deeper search experience insights with Kibana visualizations

CTOvision

Elastic announces a single management interface for Elastic Enterprise Search in Kibana, updated App Search precision tuning capabilities, and content source flexibility and synonym support for Workplace Search in the 7.14 release of Elastic Enterprise Search. Elastic Enterprise Search can now be centrally managed in Kibana, the single management interface for all Elastic solutions.

article thumbnail

Measuring Value Streams by Analyzing Flow Metrics

DevOps.com

There is increasing pressure and demand for IT administrators to bring software to market quickly and cost-effectively. To achieve that goal, IT departments frequently compile various metrics that measure specific development processes. Data and metrics are important tools, but administrators sometimes don’t think to look at projects through a wider lens—by measuring total production workflows. […].

Metrics 143
article thumbnail

Article: Software Testing in the World of Next-Gen Technologies

InfoQ Culture Methods

The introduction of next-gen technologies like AI, Big Data, Robotics and IoT have quickly redefined the way the world looks at software technology. Some of the biggest impacts of these changing trends can be seen in the software testing industry. This article discusses how these emerging technologies need some new approaches, and changes to existing approaches to software testing.

Testing 142
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Companies betting on data must value people as much as AI

TechCrunch

Asaf Cohen. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Asaf Cohen is co-founder and CEO at Metrolink.ai , a data operations platform. The Pareto principle, also known as the 80-20 rule, asserts that 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes, rendering the remainder way less impactful. Those working with data may have heard a different rendition of the 80-20 rule: A data scientist spends 80% of their time at work cleaning up messy data as opposed to doing actual analysis or generating insights.

Company 314
article thumbnail

Facebook launches VR remote work app, calling it a step to the ‘metaverse’

CTOvision

Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Thursday launched a test of a new virtual-reality remote work app where users of the company’s Oculus Quest 2 headsets can hold meetings as avatar versions of themselves. The beta test of Facebook’s Horizon Workrooms app comes as many companies continue to work from home after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down physical […].

VR 160
article thumbnail

What is No-Code and Low-Code?

Dzone - DevOps

According to Gartner No-Code and Low-Code will deliver 50% of all software projects in the year 2021. Even if these numbers are inflated, you'd have to be living under a rock to avoid noticing it is gaining traction, and it is gaining traction very, very, very fast. Hence; What exactly is it? Will it steal your job? And why should you even care? The difference between Low-Code and No-Code.