Tue.May 21, 2019

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Sage Advice For The First-Time Leader

Terry Starbucker

Dear First-Time Leader: Congratulations! You’ve just been given a fantastic opportunity. But before you dive in, I’d like to pass along a little sage advice. I remember my first day as a leader, 35 years ago. I was not long out of college and I thought what I had learned in the classroom and my first few years in the working world would be enough.

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Becoming a machine learning company means investing in foundational technologies

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Companies successfully adopt machine learning either by building on existing data products and services, or by modernizing existing models and algorithms. In this post, I share slides and notes from a keynote I gave at the Strata Data Conference in London earlier this year. I will highlight the results of a recent survey on machine learning adoption, and along the way describe recent trends in data and machine learning (ML) within companies.

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Native Java Debugging on Alpine Linux: GDB, OpenJDK and the Mysterious Unknown Signal

OverOps

Porting a software project to a new operating system is always interesting and fun, and Alpine Linux with its musl libc brings a unique set of challenges. A while ago, I was tasked with porting OverOps’ native agent to Alpine Linux. In this previous blog post , I got started with Alpine Linux by setting up a fresh Alpine disk install and desktop environment on my laptop, stacked up with C++ and Java development tools.

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Agile Q&A: How Far Ahead Should a Team Estimate Product Backlog Items?

Agile Alliance

Explore the main reasons organizations adopt Agile and why your organization's rationale for adopting Agile may impact the implementation's success.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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FlexDeploy vs Jenkins for Git Sparse Checkouts

Flexagon

While working with many FlexDeploy customers on DevOps for middleware and enterprise applications, I have noticed that organizations setup a multitude of Git repositories and each repository is used to store source code for many artifacts. For example, one Git repository may contain a few integration composites, service bus projects, application server configurations etc., and.

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5 Crucial Elements of Application Release Automation

Flexagon

Today’s IT departments are under increasing pressure to release new solutions and enhancements to existing capabilities. Many are expected to deliver updates and new applications in tight timeframes. In a recent survey, 90 percent of DevOps professionals report increasing pressure to accelerate application release, and 93 percent link challenges to manual processes.

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What Makes Product Managers Effective?

DevOps.com

Product managers can specialize in all sorts of disciplines. Some are better at hardware development while others are better at staying on budget. However, there are a number of traits that are easily identifiable in great product managers regardless of specialty. Great product managers share great traits including confidence, compassion and curiosity.

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Design Strategy – A Guide to Tactical Thinking in Design

Toptal

A strategic mindset helps designers develop a design strategy framework which contributes to improved client relationships and better user experiences, and aligns projects with business results.

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CTOs Should Embrace, Stick to a No-Meeting Day

DevOps.com

You know the feeling: You open your calendar in the morning to find a completely booked day, back-to-back meetings and not even 15 minutes of time to complete any of the items on your to-do list. In fact, your day tomorrow and the day after look just as booked. An HBR study conducted last year […]. The post CTOs Should Embrace, Stick to a No-Meeting Day appeared first on DevOps.com.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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The 5 Elements Your AI Strategy’s Code of Ethics Needs

IDC

As artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) potential grows, so does the need for a cohesive AI strategy to leverage AI to prioritize and execute the enterprise’s goals. Aside from articulating business goals and mapping out the ways organizations can use AI to achieve those goals, there is another extremely important element that every AI strategy needs: a code of ethics.

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Three Steps To Promoting Productivity In The Workplace With AI

CTOvision

Read James Freeze list three steps you can use to promote productivity in your organization with artificial intelligence on Forbes : Since artificial intelligence (AI) entered popular conversation, the narrative surrounding the technology has been dominated by excitement — and also apprehension. In the media and around dinner tables, among academics, politicians and everyday workers, […].

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Four Customer Success Metrics You’re Not Watching (But Should)

Battery Ventures

Imagine trying to run your business if you could only monitor topline revenue. You’d be totally lost—you need so much more information to truly understand what’s working and what isn’t. And yet I’ve seen many companies try to run customer success (CS) teams without gathering sufficient data to know how the CS team is actually doing. When it comes to customer success, most companies are measuring customer retention or expansion rates.

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Chef Extends Automation Reach and Scope

DevOps.com

At its ChefConf 2019 conference today, Chef extended its core platform in ways that collectively serve to automate further the management of applications and the IT infrastructure they are deployed on. Extensions to the Chef Enterprise Automation (EAS) Stack include the addition of Application Operations Dashboards, Migration Accelerators for moving applications to the cloud and […].

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Object Detection Using OpenCV and Swift

Toptal

Swift is great, but what if your application relies on a library that’s written using C++? Luckily Objective-C++ is here to save the day. In this article, Toptal Freelance Swift Developer Josip Bernat integrates C++ code with Swift by using wrapper classes as a bridge and then creates an app that recognizes the Toptal logo using OpenCV.

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Artificial intelligence better than humans at spotting lung cancer

CTOvision

Lung cancer causes almost 160,000 deaths in the United States, according to the most recent estimates. The condition is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the U.S., and early detection is crucial for both stopping the spread of tumors and improving patient outcomes. As an alternative to chest X-rays, healthcare professionals have recently been using […].

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HSBC BANKS ON DEVOPS, INVESTS $10M IN CLOUDBEES

DevOps.com

Leading DevOps Provider Has Raised More than $120M in Funding Since 2010 LONDON – May 21, 2019 – CloudBees, an enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, today announced that it has secured a $10 million capital investment from HSBC, one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations. Today’s announcement is a follow-on […].

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Research indicates the only defense against killer AI is not developing it

CTOvision

Read Tristan Greene’s article about why the only defense against killer AI is not developing it on The Next Web : A recent analysis on the future of warfare indicates that countries that continue to develop AI for military use risk losing control of the battlefield. Those that don’t risk eradication. Whether you’re for or […].

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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How to scale your Web app security testing with Selenium

TechBeacon

There are some powerful methods for finding more security bugs with fewer false positives while using the test framework you already have for your web apps. Doing it doesn't need to be complex or expensive.

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Libation Frontiers – A Deep Dive into the World Wine Industry

Toptal

The global wine industry generates $29 billion in annual revenue and is at an inflection point. Societal and taste changes are poised to bring new frontiers and opportunities to the industry.

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Inside Facebook’s New Robotics Lab, Where AI and Machines Friend One Another

CTOvision

Read Matt Simon take a look inside Facebook’s new robotics lab, where the company is teaching robots to walk on their own on the Wired : At first glance, Facebook’s nascent robotic platform looks a bit … chaotic. In a new lab in its palatial Silicon Valley HQ, a red and black Sawyer robot arm […].

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You Can Always Rely on the Gay Community

Symantec

Moving away from everything you know can be scary. Ian K. shares his experience of moving from his lifelong hometown to a new city, being welcomed by the locals, and the lessons we can all learn to create inclusive cultures.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le

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Intel’s Mobileye chief bemoans tweaking of AI, talks up MaaS, moving beyond LIDAR

CTOvision

Several years back, Amnon Shashua was merely a very eloquent voice for self-driving car technology popping up at trade shows, usually to packed crowds. Then came Intel’s roughly $15 billion purchase of the company, completed in April of last year. Now part of one of the biggest semiconductor companies in the world, Shashua leads a key […].

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Here's a better way to do compliance and risk management

TechBeacon

As government regulations spread around the globe, geopolitical, regulatory, legal, and compliance risks continue to present challenges in the enterprise. With the proliferation of laws and rules and the increase in stakeholder expectations, your organization may be more vulnerable to compliance risks than ever.

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Resize Observer

David Walsh

Creating websites that are reactive and responsive used to be considered advanced but responsiveness is a necessity for successful websites and apps. We’ve added media queries, matchMedia , and a host of other APIs to help developers make responsiveness easier and now we get a new one: ResizeObserver. With the Resize Observer API, we can watch for resizing on individual elements!

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SaaS vs. PaaS vs. IaaS – Where the Market is Going

ParkMyCloud

SaaS, PaaS, IaaS – these are the three essential models of cloud services to compare, otherwise known as Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Each of these has its own benefits, and it’s good to understand why providers offer these different models and what implications they have for the market.

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Lessons Learned in PostgreSQL®

In today's digital landscape, the threat of ransomware demands proactive defense. This paper, inspired by a real PostgreSQL® database incident, offers vital strategies for effective mitigation. Instaclustr expert Perry Clark outlines immediate actions to minimize risks, ensuring a swift response to ransomware threats and protecting critical data assets.

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Practical Deep Learning

Dataiku

If this month’s Google I/O conference is any indication , then incorporating machine learning (and deep learning) into existing products and processes to make them more efficient or useful is the future. From healthcare to sales , deep learning has wide applications; and with last week’s launch of Hailo ’s newest deep learning chip, they will only get wider.

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How Does Compounding Interest Relate to Your Investments in Data & Analytics?

Teradata

Chad Meley explains how the concept of compound interest can be applied to your data and analytics investment strategy.

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Avoiding cyber attacks while on the road to digital transformation

DXC

No matter where your organization may be on its digital transformation journey, beware the dangers lurking along the way. Fellow travelers down this road have been waylaid time and again by cybercriminals wreaking havoc through ransomware, distributed denial of service attacks, data breaches and other types of attacks. Digitizing more core business processes, after all, […].

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