4 signs your company has an innovation-minded culture
It’s important that your organization communicates its values clearly and
executes tactics consistently. If your organization values a culture of
innovation, communicate that importance while putting your plan into action.
This commitment might require you to divert some resources from production at
times, but it’s an incredibly worthwhile investment. A workforce that feels
valued will help you enjoy the impacts of innovation down the road. Career paths
don’t happen in a straight line—by empowering people with tools, training, and
resources, they’ll excel in their unique development journey and support a
culture of innovation. To invest in our people, we created Zotec University, a
learning development platform offering hundreds of custom learning journeys to
help participants hone their skills. We also offer a performance development
platform that places team members in control of their own career experiences.
Creating a culture of innovation takes careful planning, purposeful
decision-making, intentionality, and consistent communication.
What is a chief technology officer? The exec who sets tech strategy
“As companies push to effectively drive technology transformation, we believe
there is a very strong push to find technology leaders [who] bring experience
and capabilities from hands-on leadership and stewardship of such activities,”
Stephenson says. The CTO role naturally requires a strong knowledge of various
technologies, and “real technology acumen, especially in the architecture,
software, and technology strategy areas to address legacy technology
challenges,” Stephenson says. Knowing how technology works is crucial, but it’s
also important to be able to explain the business value of a particular
technology to C-level colleagues who might not be technically inclined. It’s
also vital to be able to see how technology fits with strategic business goals.
“Technology vision coupled with strategic thinking beyond technology” is
important, says Ozgur Aksakai, president of the Global CTO Forum, an
independent, global organization for technology professionals. “There are a lot
of technology trends that do not live up to their promises,” Aksakai
says.
Reasons to Opt for a Multicloud Strategy
It is like giving all the critical keys to one person. Do you know the
dependency and expectations this creates? Huge. What if you carefully select the
best of the best services from different cloud providers? It looks like a
feasible solution, and this is how a multicloud strategy works. A multicloud
strategy empowers and upgrades a company’s IT systems, performance, cloud
deployment, cloud cost optimization and more. The multicloud approach presents a
lot of options for the enterprise. For example, some services are more
cost-effective from one provider at scale versus those from others. Multicloud
avoids vendor lock-in by not depending on only one cloud provider, but by
helping companies select the best breed of cloud services from different
providers for application workloads. The multicloud pattern provides system
redundancy that reduces the hazards of downtimes, if they occur. The multicloud
strategy will help companies raise their security bar by selecting the best
breed DevSecOps solutions. An organization that implements a multicloud strategy
can raise the bar on security, disaster recovery capabilities and increased
uptime.
How Blockchain Startups Transform Banking and Payments Industry
Payments industry today has been deeply impacted by the rise of blockchain
technology and cryptocurrencies. The legacy system is built upon the inheritance
of technologies dating to the advent of credit cards and interbank settlement
developed in the mid-1900s for use in centralized, established financial
institutions with both institutional as well as retail clients in the era when
the post-war fiat money system was the only option for private financial
representation. Upon the advent of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies,
it gradually became increasingly clear that the legacy system, while
revolutionary in its early days, still is quite inefficient and is designed from
the perspective of an institutional client. This leads to relatively limited
access to financial services by the majority of the retail market segment.
Especially retail clients in developing nations have been hit particularly hard
with higher fees, longer processing times for transactions, more invasive and
ineffective KYC/AML processes and limited access to technology and thus limited
access to all types of financial services.
Cerebras Upgrades Trillion-Transistor Chip to Train ‘Brain-Scale’ AI
A major challenge for large neural networks is shuttling around all the data
involved in their calculations. Most chips have a limited amount of memory
on-chip, and every time data has to be shuffled in and out it creates a
bottleneck, which limits the practical size of networks. The WSE-2 already has
an enormous 40 gigabytes of on-chip memory, which means it can hold even the
largest of today’s networks. But the company has also built an external unit
called MemoryX that provides up to 2.4 Petabytes of high-performance memory,
which is so tightly integrated it behaves as if it were on-chip. Cerebras has
also revamped its approach to that data it shuffles around. Previously the guts
of the neural network would be stored on the chip, and only the training data
would be fed in. Now, though, the weights of the connections between the
network’s neurons are kept in the MemoryX unit and streamed in during training.
By combining these two innovations, the company says, they can train networks
two orders of magnitude larger than anything that exists today.
No-Code Automated Testing: Best Practices and Tools
No-code automated tests are usually at a system or application level, which
makes creating a test suite more daunting. It is important not to become fixated
on getting 100% test coverage from the get-go. 100% coverage is a great goal,
but it can seem so far away when starting out. Instead, we should focus on
getting a handful of test cases created and really understanding how the tools
we select work. Becoming an expert in our tools is much more beneficial than
creating dozens of tests in an unfamiliar tool. It can be tempting to focus on
every use case all at once, but it is important to prioritize which use cases to
target first. The reality of development and testing is that we may not be able
to test every single use case. ... It can be tempting to exercise every nook and
cranny of an application, but it is important to start with only the actions the
user will take. For example, when testing a login form, it is important to test
the fields visible to the user and the login button, since that is what the user
will likely interact with in most cases. Testing the edge cases is important,
but we should always start with the happy-path before moving onto edge cases.
9 Automated Testing Practices To Avoid Tutorial (Escape Pitfalls)
Most people spend way more time reading source code than writing it, so making
your code as easy to read as possible is an excellent decision. It'll never read
like Hemingway, but that doesn't mean it can't be readable to anyone but
you. Yoni Goldberg considers this the Golden Rule for testing: one must
instantly understand the test's intent. You will love yourself (and your team
members will pat you on the back) for making your tests readable. When you read
those same tests a year down the road, you won't be thinking, “What was I
doing?” or “What was this test even for?” If you don't understand what a test is
for, you obviously can't use it. And if you can't use a test, what value does it
have to you or your team? ... If your new test relies on a successful previous
test, you're asking for trouble. If the previous test failed or corrupted the
data, any subsequent tests will likely fail or provide incorrect results.
Isolating your tests will give you more consistent results, and accurate and
consistent results will make your tests worthwhile.
Facilitate collaborative breakthrough with these moves
Vertical facilitation is common and seductive because it offers straightforward
and familiar answers to these five questions. In this approach, both the
participants and the facilitator typically give confident, superior, controlling
answers to the five questions (i.e., they identify one way to reach their
goals). In horizontal facilitation, by contrast, participants typically give
defiant, defensive, autonomous answers, and the facilitator supports this
autonomy. The vertical and horizontal approaches answer the five collaboration
questions in opposite ways. In transformative facilitation, the facilitator
helps the participants alternate between the two approaches. ... Often, when
collaborating, each of the participants and the facilitator starts off with a
confident vertical perspective: “I have the right answer.” Each person thinks,
“If only the others would agree with me, then the group would be able to move
forward together more quickly and easily.” But when members of the group take
this position too far or hold it for too long and start to get stuck in rigid
certainty, the facilitator needs to help them explore other points of view, a
collaboration move I call inquiring.
Private 5G: Tips on how to implement it, from enterprises that already have
The first rule is your private 5G is a user of your IP network, not an extension
of it. Every location you expect to host private 5G cells and every site you
expect will have some 5G features hosted will need to be on your corporate VPN,
supported by the switches and routers you'd typically use. Since all three
private-5G enterprises were using their 5G networks largely for IoT that was
focused on some large facilities, that didn’t present a problem for them. It
seems likely that most future private 5G adoption will fit the same model, so
this rule should be easy to follow overall. The second rule is that 5G
control-plane functions will be hosted on servers. 5G RAN and O-RAN
control-plane elements should be hosted close to your 5G cells, and 5G core
features at points where it's convenient to concentrate private 5G traffic. Try
to use the same kind of server technology, the same middleware, and the same
software source for all of this, and be sure you get high-availability features.
Rule three is that 5G user-plane functions associated with the RAN should be
hosted on servers, located with the 5G RAN control-plane features.
5 DevSecOps open source projects to know
Properly securing a software supply chain involves more than simply doing a
point-in-time scan as part of a DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline. With the help of a
working partnership that includes Google, the Linux Foundation, Red Hat, and
Purdue University, sigstore brings together a set of tools developers, software
maintainers, package managers, and security experts can benefit from. It handles
the digital signing, verification, and logs data for transparent auditing,
making it safer to distribute and use any signed software. The goal is to
provide a free and transparent chain of custody tracing service for everyone.
This sigstore service will run as a non-profit, public good service to provide
software signing. Cosign, which released its 1.0 version in July 2021, signs and
verifies artifacts stored in Open Container Initiative (OCI) registries. It also
includes underlying specifications for storing and discovering signatures.
Fulcio is a Root Certificate Authority (CA) for code-signing certificates. It
issues certificates based on an Open ID Connect (OIDC) email address.The
certificates that Fulcio issues to clients in order for them to sign an artifact
are short-lived.
Quote for the day:
"Leadership, on the other hand, is
about creating change you believe in." -- Seth Godin
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