TechSoup
JANUARY 27, 2021
It's a new year, hopefully one that brings renewed energy to your nonprofit's mission. Whether your organization is recovering from the pandemic disruptions, launching new initiatives, or wanting to connect more with your community, digital advertising can be an effective strategy to include.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 25, 2021
From an organizational perspective, an analytics workload is a way to gain a data-driven business advantage. Analytics workloads can serve a primary objective that translates to an actionable business impact (such as analyzing A/B testing results, understanding user retention or finding anomalies in a flow, for instance) or can serve in a supporting role for […].
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 24, 2021
Buzzy live voice chat app Clubhouse has confirmed that it has raised new funding – without revealing how much – in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz through the firm’s partner Andrew Chen. The app was reported to be raising at a $1 billion valuation in a report from The Information that landed just before this confirmation. While we try to track down the actual value of this round and the subsequent valuation of the company, what we do know is that Clubhouse has confirmed it will
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 26, 2021
Tim finishes his article by looking at how highly effective organizations design their engineering organization to optimize for effectiveness and feedback loops. He illustrates what this looks like by the example of Etsy, who actively measures their ability to put valuable products into production quickly and safely, adjusting their technical investments to fix any blockers or slowness. more….
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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?
Agile Alliance
JANUARY 28, 2021
The team working on the Agile Alliance Agile Coaching Ethics Initiative has been working steadily over the last six months, and we have now published a draft Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching (Code) and a set of supporting Ethics Scenarios. The volunteer team started by examining existing codes of ethics from other industries … Continued.
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
Pula , a Kenyan insurtech startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a Series A investment of $6 million. The round was led by Pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, TLcom Capital , with participation from nonprofit Women’s World Banking. The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel i
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 26, 2021
Clients send requests to servers but might not get a response. It's impossible for clients to know if the response was lost or the server crashed before processing the request. To make sure that the request is processed, the client has to re-send the request. If the server had already processed the request and crashed after that, servers will get duplicate requests when the client retries. more….
Agile Alliance
JANUARY 26, 2021
Our world became topsy-turvy because of the COVID pandemic. Agile Coach Camp Worldwide (ACC-WW) was no exception. ACC-WW is normally held the weekend prior to the Agile20xx conference. With Agile2020 being cancelled due to the pandemic, we had to transition to being a remote event (or face cancellation ourselves). The onsite team for Orlando had … Continued.
The Crazy Programmer
JANUARY 29, 2021
Most new C++ programming students are taught to add “using namespace std” in the global scope after introducing the headers needed for their programs to compile successfully. As a result, students grow accustomed to engaging in this practice without realizing how bad it is. Including ‘using namespace std’ in the global scope is bad practice. Some programmers are simply unaware of this, while others find it less demanding to add that statement in the global scope.
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.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2021
Rami Essaid. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Rami Essaid is co-founder and CEO at Finmark , a technology company that provides financial planning and modeling software for startups. He previously was co-founder and CEO at Distil Networks, a bot attack mitigation company acquired by Imperva. More posts by this contributor. Internet Privacy Is The Wrong Conversation.
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 28, 2021
Pull Requests are a mechanism popularized by github, used to help facilitate merging of work, particularly in the context of open-source projects. A contributor works on their contribution in a fork (clone) of the central repository. Once their contribution is finished they create a pull request to notify the owner of the central repository that their work is ready to be merged into the mainline.
Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 29, 2021
Life will always include some level of the mundane and routine. As a leader, you can give your team energy to meet these challenges. In this episode, David shares some people who have inspired him to keep it fresh and four practical […]. The post Four Ways Leaders Can Re-energize Themselves and Their Teams appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
CTOvision
JANUARY 28, 2021
Instead of winding down at the end of the year, already strapped security teams were scrambling over the last week to ensure their organizations are safe in the wake of […].
Advertiser: Procom Services
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
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2021
In 2019, female-led companies received less than 5 percent of the global venture capital. Bringing it to Africa, only 10 percent of the West African startups that cumulatively raised $1 million had at least one female co-founder in the past decade. There are many stats to back up the underrepresentation of women in starting a company, raising money and general involvement in technology where the global tech workforce comprises 28.8% women.
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 28, 2021
When people think of code reviews, they usually think in terms of an explicit step in a development team's workflow. These days the Pre-Integration Review , carried out on a Pull Request is the most common mechanism for a code review, to the point that many people witlessly consider that not using pull requests removes all opportunities for doing code review.
CEO Insider
JANUARY 29, 2021
The industrial IoT market is of great interest to software developers and investors as it is growing so quickly. Cambashi’s analysis shows the route to market for industrial IoT is through Connected Applications that link real-world ‘things’ to information systems, and leverage AI (Artificial Intelligence), ML (Machine Learning) and other analytic capabilities to deliver business […].
CTOvision
JANUARY 25, 2021
Robotic process automation was already experiencing strong growth in 2019. By the middle of 2020, the pandemic had accelerated the automation mandate, pushing adoption up 27%. And the trend is not […].
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.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 29, 2021
In June of 1999, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins invested $25 million into an early-stage company developing a new search engine called Google, paving the way for a revolution in how knowledge online was organized and shared. Now, Sequoia Capital is placing another bet on a different kind of search engine, one for physical objects in three dimensions, just as the introduction of three-dimensional sensing technologies on consumer phones are poised to create a revolution in spatial computing.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 24, 2021
Within an organization, an operations model must be fit-for-purpose and be able to adapt as business needs change. At the same time, changing technology necessitates an advancement in how an organization operates. Small and medium-sized enterprises are faced with the difficult choice of how much to invest in operations and which approach to choose. In […].
Allen Holub
JANUARY 23, 2021
The notions of accountability and responsibility often pop up in the context of business, as if both of those ideas are good things. A culture of accountability, we’re told, is essential to running a business. The word “accountable” appears all over the 2020 Scrum Guide, as if it’s somehow an Agile notion instead of capitulation… The post #NoAccountability appeared first on Allen Holub.
CTOvision
JANUARY 28, 2021
Editor’s note: We frequently encounter people who think of Palantir as a high end analytical tool. It certainly transforms and improves analysis. But for years Palantir has been doing far […].
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
Jake Jolis. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. More posts by this contributor. 4-year founder vesting is dead. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. Dana Stalder. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests predominantly in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software.
Toptal
JANUARY 27, 2021
The Express.js REST API journey continues! Move from models to full DAOs and DTOs, validate requests with middleware, separate services from controllers, and prepare for a real database.
TechBeacon
JANUARY 27, 2021
The rise of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud, as well as hybrid IT, has led to the creation of a whole sub-science of tools, approaches, and techniques to manage complex and distributed cloud deployments.
CTOvision
JANUARY 25, 2021
When you think about Kubernetes, clusters of CPU and memory resources all scaling to meet the demands of container workloads probably springs to mind. But where does GPU acceleration fit […].
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
In a year marred by the coronavirus pandemic, it seems that early-stage startups on the African continent are continuing to see some notable growth, both in terms of their business and from investors looking to back them. . Microtraction , an early-stage venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria, saw funding nearly quadruple for its portfolio. In a review of the year published last week, the firm noted that 21 companies in its portfolio have raised more than $33 million in funding.
Confluent
JANUARY 26, 2021
Today, I am thrilled to announce a new strategic alliance with Microsoft to enable a seamless, integrated experience between Confluent Cloud and the Azure platform. This represents a significant milestone […].
DevOps.com
JANUARY 26, 2021
In response to market and competitive forces, many companies are using DevSecOps to develop higher quality and more secure software. Whether that software is their own product or is a component of their product, quality – and especially security – have become required rather than optional. To accommodate the security requirements, some companies have adopted […].
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