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Chaos Engineering as management practice

Xebia

Chaos Engineering is perceived as a technical practice. However, it can be leveraged as a management practice to create a safe environment for individuals and teams. It is one of the practices that an organisation can leverage to be anti-fragile. The post Chaos Engineering as management practice appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Intrusion Detection with ksqlDB

Confluent

Apache Kafka® is a distributed real-time processing platform that allows for the ingestion of huge volumes of data. ksqlDB is part of the Kafka ecosystem and offers a SQL-like language […].

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

European entrepreneurs who want to launch startups could do worse than Switzerland. In a report analyzing Europe’s general economic health, cost of doing business, business environment and labor force quality, analysts looked for highly educated populations, strong economies, healthy business environments and relatively low costs for conducting business.

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The Shape of Things to Come: What’s the Future of Computer Programming?

The Crazy Programmer

What will computer programming look like in the future? Will, there even be programming jobs, and what will they entail? Is there still a point to going into a computer programming career? These questions are weighing heavily on the minds of both established programmers and newcomers to the field. Computer programming has always been an ever-changing environment.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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How to Get Better at Remote Small Talk

Let's Grow Leaders

“Yeah, I don’t do small talk.” “My team understands, I’m cool with THEIR chit chat in-between meetings, but I don’t really have time for that stuff. I’m all business. That’s why I’m so productive.” “I get that small talk is important, but […]. The post How to Get Better at Remote Small Talk appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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7 investors discuss augmented reality and VR startup opportunities in 2020

TechCrunch

For all of the investors preaching that augmented reality technology will likely be the successor to the modern smartphone, today, most venture capitalists are still quite wary to back AR plays. The reasons are plentiful, but all tend to circle around the idea that it’s too early for software and too expensive to try to take on Apple or Facebook on the hardware front.

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How Is Building Websites Different For iOS Users When Compared To Windows Users?

The Crazy Programmer

Maybe you’ve thought of building an iOS app or a website for windows users but can’t decide how to go about it. The truth of the matter is, what you build for your audience will largely depend on your requirements and various business specifications. There is no black and white answer to this. The hardware you have at your disposal will influence whether you want to develop for Windows or iOS.

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share about Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

In this month’s Frontline Festival, top leadership experts share a variety of perspectives and insights on culture. We’ve also included some quotations from our newest book, Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers and Customer Advocates. You can download a […]. The post Frontline Festival: Leaders Share about Culture appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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[Cheat Sheet] Starting, Sustaining, and Growing Your Technical Career in a Pandemic

Agile Alliance

On October 15th, deliver:Agile Live! hosted a panel on the unique challenges technical job seekers may be facing during the pandemic. There have been many requests for a short cheat sheet that summarizes the most important tips and tricks. This is that sheet. What should I put in front of hiring managers (Resume, LinkedIn, GitHub, … Continued.

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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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Ready, Set, Raise, an accelerator for women built by women, announces third class

TechCrunch

In 2018, Leslie Feinzaig , the founder of Female Founders Alliance , launched a free, equity-free accelerator for women called Ready, Set, Raise. The goal was to provide under-networked female founders the coaching and connections needed to raise money. This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day.

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5 Best Universities to Study Computer Science

The Crazy Programmer

These days, software engineering and creating computer programs are need regions, for which numerous understudies pick foreign instruction. Schools the world over offer understudies state-of-the-art coding courses that coordinate the most recent industry patterns and genuine understudy needs. What’s more, the understudies are given the most recent hardware and programming.

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Are We Overly Infatuated with Deep Learning?

CTOvision

The love affair with deep learning runs deep. After all, deep learning is responsible for much of the advancements in machine learning we’ve realized in the past decade. But are […].

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A Medical Innovation Factory in the Middle of the Desert

N2Growth Blog

Do surgeons have a God complex? Are doctors stubborn, control freaks? Sometimes, yes. But it’s not necessarily a bad thing. A surgeon, making life or death decisions during a heart transplant, for example, can see things go terribly wrong in the matter of a millisecond. Inevitably, the patient wants a supremely confident and competent doctor who is in total control.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Solve the ‘dead equity’ problem with a longer founder vesting schedule

TechCrunch

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here. The four-year vesting schedule that the typical startup uses today is a problem waiting to happen. If one founder ends up quitting a year or two before the last cliff, they still own a large share of the cap table through many rounds to come.

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Harness to Apply AI to DevOps

DevOps.com

Harness, at its {Unscripted} 2020 conference today, announced its plans in the fourth quarter to make available as a beta a module that leverages machine learning algorithms to optimize build and test cycles on the Harness Continuous Integration (CI) Enterprise platform. At the same time, Harness is adding a beta of a Continuous Features module […].

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: 5 ways to get your org up to speed

TechBeacon

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) is upon us again, but the pandemic makes this October like no other in the 17 years that cybersecurity firms and associations have used the month to prompt businesses to think about their approach to cybersecurity.

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cookieStore: Async Cookie API

David Walsh

One pattern in the JavaScript API world that web development veterans will notice is that we’ve been creating new methods to accomplish what older, grosser APIs once achieved. XMLHttpRequest became the fetch API, some APIs like Battery became async, and there are dozens of other examples. Another API desperately in need of updating is the cookie API…and we’ve finally go it: cookieStore.

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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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Health insurance startup Alan lets you chat with a doctor

TechCrunch

French startup Alan is building health insurance products. And 100,000 people are now covered through Alan. I caught up with the company’s co-founder and CEO Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve so that he could give us an update on the product. Alan has obtained its own health insurance license and is a proper insurance company. It doesn’t partner with existing insurance companies.

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How open source leads to open doors

DevOps.com

Black Girls CODE awarded IBM Open Source Community Grant By Todd Moore, Guillermo Miranda, Yolanda Rabun Published October 19, 2020 In today’s climate, racial equality and equity is top of mind. The tech industry has a renewed focus on giving girls in underrepresented communities access and exposure to STEM, particularly in the pre-teen and teen years […].

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Software Engineering Apprenticeship Program: Open for Applications Monday, October 26

Tandem

We’re excited to announce that we will be accepting applications for our next cohort of software engineer apprentices starting Monday, October 26 ! Tandem’s Apprenticeship Program for software engineers is geared towards individuals who have no prior professional experience as a programmer, but may have gone through a code school, completed a degree program, or self-taught themselves the fundamentals.

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Angular's Static Site Generator, Scully, Officially Releases v1

Netlify

Using Angular in your Jamstack architecture? Me too! I’m very excited that the #1, and only (*??-), static site generator for Angular, Scully , has officially released their v1! I made a little video with some information and a few resources to boot. Hope you enjoy it. As always, the Scully team would love your ideas, code, and feedback in the Open Source repo for Scully.

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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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Chinese live tutoring app Yuanfudao is now worth $15.5 billion

TechCrunch

Yuanfudao , a homework tutoring-app founded in 2012, has raised $2.2 billion from investors, surpassing Byju’s as the most valuable edtech company in the world. The Beijing-based company is now worth $15.5 billion dollars, almost double its valuation set in March. The company views the new capital as two separate extension rounds of its March raise, a $1 billion Series G financing event.

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The Low-Code/No-Code Revolution: Join the Conversation

DevOps.com

Make plans to take part in the low-code/no-code conversation at an upcoming daylong virtual conference MediaOps, the company behind DevOps.com, is excited to announce it will be producing Low Code Today, a new live virtual event taking place Nov. 19. The call for speakers is now open and actively accepting submissions. The low-code/no-code market has […].

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Now Lead the Change – Interview with Nick Jankel

Let's Grow Leaders

Three unprecedented sources of change in the outside world are putting intense pressure on every organization and leader to adapt quickly. Enterprises that don’t transform what they do and how they do it (repeatedly) will inevitably fail. In this information-packed episode with Nick […]. The post Now Lead the Change – Interview with Nick Jankel appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How big data and IoT connection has transformed the automotive industry

CTOvision

Read Alex M and Ramesh A explain how big data and the Internet of Things connected devices are changing the automotive sector on Financial Express: Internet of Things (IoT) makes […].

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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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Here’s how fast a few dozen startups grew in Q3 2020

TechCrunch

Earlier this week I asked startups to share their Q3 growth metrics and whether they were performing ahead or behind of their yearly goals. Lots of companies responded. More than I could have anticipated, frankly. Instead of merely giving me a few data points to learn from, The Exchange wound up collecting sheafs of interesting data from upstart companies with big Q3 performance.

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A Matter of Reputation

DevOps.com

The post A Matter of Reputation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Article: 7 Hard-Earned Lessons Learned Migrating a Monolith to Microservices

InfoQ Culture Methods

Based on experience gained from several microservices migrations, these seven lessons can help you be successful and overcome or avoid common challenges. By Jon Edvald.