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8 Security Considerations for CI/CD

DevOps.com

In the software development enterprise, CI/CD refers to the combined practices of continuous integration and either continuous delivery or continuous deployment. CI/CD enables organizations to bridge the gap between development, operation activities and teams by the use of automation when building, testing and deploying applications. How do you maintain quality and security with frequent deployments?

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Cryptocurrency company Circle to go public in SPAC deal

TechCrunch

Circle has announced that it plans to become a public company. The cryptocurrency company will merge with Concord Acquisition Corp, a SPAC. Circle is better known as one of the founding members of the Centre consortium with Coinbase. Along with other crypto partners , they have issued USD Coin (USDC), a popular stablecoin. A SPAC is a publicly traded blank-check company.

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Testing Assumptions at the Minimum Viable Conference

Agile Alliance

A quick recap of our Minimum Viable Conference event, a warm-up to THE Agile event of the year, Agile2021, happening online around the world from July 19-22, 2021. The post Testing Assumptions at the Minimum Viable Conference first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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How Do I Maintain Productivity as I Return to the Office? (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like so many managers we’re talking with, working from home enabled you to be surprisingly more productive. So, how do you maintain these new levels of productivity when you head back to the office? How do you “land in the and” to support your team without burning out. 7 Ways to Maintain Productivity as I Return to the Office #AskingForaFriend. 7 Tips for staying productive as you return to the office (or move to hybrid work. ).

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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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Palantir Has Quietly Become a Major SPAC Investor

CTOvision

Read Eric J. Savitz explain how Palantir Technologies, Inc. is quietly becoming a major Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) on Barrons : The big data analytics company Palantir Technologies has quietly become an aggressive investor in companies going public via SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies. A SPAC is basically a management group that raises capital […].

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

I suspect that when the legendary Ward Cunningham coined the term “technical debt”, it did not take him long to realize he’d created a monster: “ I am in favor of writing code to reflect your current understanding of a problem, even if that understanding is partial. If we fail to make our program align with what we then understood, we were going to continually stumble.” This definition, to reiterate my prior post on the subject , is most useful when it applies not m

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Share Your Ideas: Practical Ways to Ensure Your Voice is Heard

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Overcome FOSU (Fear of Speaking Up) and Share Your Ideas. You want to share your ideas to improve the business, but if you’re like many employees we work with sometimes it’s hard to know just how or when to share them. Maybe you’ve had a bad experience before and it feels safer to stay silent. Or, perhaps you’re not quite sure if your idea is a good idea.

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How can a business ensure the security of their supply chain?

CTOvision

Read Kevin Reed analyze how businesses can ensure the security of their supply chains on Help Net Security : Since the SolarWinds’ supply chain attack, there has been an increased focus on how organizations of all sizes ensure the security of their suppliers. Large and small organizations alike have been victims of supply chain attacks. […].

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MAGIC Fund raises $30M to scale its global founders-backing-founders fund

TechCrunch

Influential entrepreneurs like Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant always preach the need for startups to have founders-turned-investors on their cap table. As Ravikant puts it, “founders want to know that the people they are taking money from have first-hand experience.” . His platform AngelList has helped individual founders-cum-investors source and participate in deals via collectives.

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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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Datavail Achieves AWS Service Delivery Designation for Amazon RDS

Datavail

Datavail has reached an exciting milestone : We’ve achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Delivery Designation for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). This achievement recognizes that Datavail follows best practices and has proven success delivering AWS services to end customers. AWS created the AWS Service Delivery Program to highlight AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners that have an exceptional level of expertise in delivering its services.

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Leading from the Middle with Scott Mautz

Let's Grow Leaders

If you have a boss and are a boss, you’ll be very familiar with the messy middle. Leading from the middle requires a special mindset and specific leadership skills. In this episode, former P&G senior executive and author Scott Mautz, gives you practical skills and the mindset to thrive and transform your organization. Have something ready to write with – you’ll want to take notes!

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Palantir appoints former Cerner boss to cement place in UK health sector

CTOvision

Palantir has moved to further cement its place in the UK health sector by appointing a managing director for the country. Dr Justin Whatling joins the global tech firm from US health IT supplier Cerner. His main role will be to provide guidance to Palantir’s health and life sciences clients, including NHS England. He will continue his […].

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ManoMano raises $355 million for its home improvement e-commerce platform

TechCrunch

French startup ManoMano has raised a Series F funding round of $355 million led by Dragoneer Investment Group. The company operates an e-commerce platform focused on DIY, home improvement and gardening products. It is currently available in six European countries. Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $2.6 billion. In addition to Dragoneer Investment Group, Temasek, General Atlantic, Eurazeo, Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund, Aglaé Ventures, Kismet Holdings and Ar

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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 cyber-attacks take down critical infrastructure

Darktrace

Operational technology does not need to be directly targeted to be shut down by an attack. This blog discusses how cyber-attacks can disrupt the continuity of operations by creating safety concerns, as well as the limits of securing IT and OT in isolation on today’s threat landscape.

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Big Gains Are Made In The ‘Last Mile’ of DevOps

DevOps.com

A new study by mabl found a correlation between complete, fully automated test coverage and a significant increase in customer happiness and DevOps maturity. In contrast, those with moderate DevOps maturity and nearly automated testing coverage tend to experience a sharp decline in end-user satisfaction. Mabl recently released its 2021 State of Testing in DevOps […].

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The GPU power going into the ethereum network has dropped by 19% in just one month

CTOvision

The Ethereum cryptocurrency’s total network hash rate has dropped by 19% in just a single month. That’s the total power going into generating blocks, and represents the amount of hardware being pointed at the GPU-centric algorithm. This hefty drop in the network hash rate just highlights the huge impact that China’s recent crypto crackdown has […].

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Cloud security platform Netskope boosts valuation to $7.5B following $300M raise

TechCrunch

Netskope , focused on Secure Access Service Edge architecture, announced Friday a $300 million investment round on a post-money valuation of $7.5 billion. The oversubscribed insider investment was led by ICONIQ Growth, which was joined by other existing investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel, Sequoia Capital Global Equities, Base Partners, Sapphire Ventures and Geodesic Capital.

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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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Build wicked fast sites with Astro: An Introduction

Netlify

One of the hot new frameworks on the scene is Astro , and it’s all about shipping less client-side JavaScript. I decided to give in a whirl and was pretty pleased with being able to write React, and see the immediate performance benefits when loading scripts only when I want to. Astro is still early in its life (version 0.16.1 at the time of writing), but already has a great community going of folks playing with it.

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A Data-Driven Approach to DevOps: Tips for Improving Speed and Scale

DevOps.com

Data has an undeniable power in a business context — it can sway stakeholders, help identify pain points, and demonstrate how changes are making an impact on the company. As the creator of Jenkins, Kohsuke Kawaguchi has noticed from his conversations with business leaders in the industry that implementing a data-driven mindset can be a […]. The post A Data-Driven Approach to DevOps: Tips for Improving Speed and Scale appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Investing in Ethereum? What you need to know about it and why it’s not just another bitcoin

CTOvision

Read why Tanaya Macheel says Ethereum is a very good investment choice and explains how it differs from Bitcoin on CNBC : As institutional investors become more comfortable with bitcoin, many have also taken an interest in ether, the native currency of the most widely used blockchain-based development platform, as they seek further diversification beyond […].

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Nextdoor’s SPAC investor deck paints a picture of sizable scale and sticky users

TechCrunch

The SPAC parade continues in this shortened week with news that community social network Nextdoor will go public via a blank-check company. The unicorn will merge with Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. II, taking itself public and raising capital at the same time. Per the former startup, the transaction with the Khosla-affiliated SPAC will generate gross proceeds of around $686 million, inclusive of a $270 million private investment in public equity, or PIPE, which is being funded by a collection

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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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Remote, not re-moat

Toptal

In the name of “returning to normal,” companies are forcing employees back into the office, locking out both themselves and their employees from working remotely—and all of the benefits that it brings.

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A New DevOps Database Platform is Needed

DevOps.com

The diverse number of database platforms, deployment environments and data variants needed to support the plethora of applications and services required for rapid DevOps continuous delivery lead times, coupled with the challenges of integrating database changes for application pipelines, is a growing challenge for many organizations as they strive to accelerate their DevOps transformations.

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Supply Chain Finance, the Next Wave of Business Growth

CTOvision

Read Steve Murphy explain how supply chain financing is emerging as a next big business growth sector on Payments Journal : The use of working capital management tactics gained some further credibility during the past 16 months as certain industries, and many small businesses struggled to keep afloat amidst lockdowns. This was/is applied globally since […].

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Beyond ‘Netflix Party’: startups and their VCs bet we’ll browse more of the web together

TechCrunch

Last year, during the pandemic, a free browser extension called Netflix Party gained traction because it enabled people trapped in their homes to connect with far-flung friends and family by watching the same Netflix TV shows and movies simultaneously. It also enabled them to dish about the action in a side bar chat. Yet that company — later renamed Teleparty — was just the beginning, argue two young companies that have raised seed funding.

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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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News Roundup: A Brillant Copilot

The Daily WTF

The story of the week in software development is Github's Copilot , which promises to throw machine learning at autocomplete for a "smarter" experience. Notably, one of their examples highlights its ability to store currency values in a float. Or to generate nonsense. Or outputting GPLed code that was used in its training set. That last one raises all sorts of questions about copyright law , and the boundaries of what constitutes fair use and derivative works , and whether the GPL

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Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 1)

DevOps.com

This blog series explains how to engineer applications for DevOps. Topics covered in this blog series: • Factors to consider when deciding whether an application is a good candidate for DevOps. • Best practices for engineering designs for DevOps • DevOps applied to enterprise apps and software services • DevOps applied to COTS systems. • […]. The post Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 1) appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Immuta’s SaaS deployment option helps implement data access control across cloud data environment

CTOvision

Immuta launched new SaaS deployment option, enabling data teams to implement data access control across their entire cloud data environment in minutes. Modern data teams are moving to pure SaaS deployments for all of their analytics and data science, and they want access control delivered in the same way. Immuta’s SaaS deployment option addresses this […].

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