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AI-empowered business: Five foundational elements

DXC

Successful AI implementations rarely hinge on the unique innovation of a specific algorithm or data science technique. Those are important factors, but even more foundational to successful AI enablement are the core data operations and enabling platforms. These act as the fuel and chassis of the AI machine that a business must build and evolve […].

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10 Reasons Why You Should Prototype before Developing

Invid Group

10 Reasons Why You Should Prototype before Developing BY: EMMANUEL URIAS. Creating a prototype of a project is an essential step. It’s not just to have a clear concept, but to ensure that you have a clear roadmap for your plan. Here are some of the reasons why you should prototype: 1. Prototypes help you win the client. Having a working prototype makes it easier to bag the client because they can see the end design instead of just imagining it.

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Is Innovation manageable?

N2Growth Blog

In the years leading up to 2018, I have spent my time bringing innovation to the financial services space. Fintech, as this sector is colloquially referred, focuses for the most part on disrupting the state of affairs induced by the use of technology. As such it is all about innovation. And now, from a distance, my optimism regarding the sector’s ability to innovate and capture opportunities has not changed.

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Mark Your Calendar Now For 24-26 June 2019 AI World Government Conference

CTOvision

If you are in government or are in a position to help the government make the most of Artificial Intelligence please mark your calendar now for the 24-26 June 2019 AI World Government conference, which will be held at the Reagan Center in DC. This event is being sponsored by OODA, with both CTOvision and […].

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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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DevSecOps Days Virtual Summit on April 2nd

DevOps.com

Thank you to everyone who attended our 5th Annual DevSecOps Days @ RSA Conference. We had an exceptional lineup of speakers and a variety of informative sessions, providing an unparalleled experience for all. If you couldn’t make it to San Francisco for RSAC or missed any sessions, we are happy to announce that we’ll be […]. The post DevSecOps Days Virtual Summit on April 2nd appeared first on DevOps.com.

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We Won’t Grow Tired of This: Dell EMC Leads PC, Servers and Storage Revenue, Yet Again

Dell EMC

Dell Technologies is a data-driven company, and the past few weeks have been gratifying for us as IDC has released its latest worldwide trackers for PCs, servers and enterprise storage systems. Yet again, the reports show that our strategy is working. I invite you to read the reports from top to bottom. Or, to save you some time: Dell Technologies continues to lead in every category.

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3 ways silos sneak into agile teams—and how to tear them down

TechBeacon

Almost two decades after the creation of the manifesto, agile has become one of the most discussed software development methodologies, if not the most commonly implemented. But even with such broad adoption, many attempts to implement agile practices fail within just a few months.

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In Service Management, AI Is Still Aspirational

DevOps.com

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a matured concept, the excitement of which is bearing results for a number of sectors and it holds a good deal of promise for a bright future. AI is the act of making possible for machines to learn from “experience” while adjusting to new input and stimuli so they can […]. The post In Service Management, AI Is Still Aspirational appeared first on DevOps.com.

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A Better Approach to Google Cloud Continuous Deployment

Toptal

Continuous deployment is the practice of automatically deploying new code to production. Most continuous deployment systems validate that the code to be deployed with tests, and then build and deploy if everything looks good. However, there’s a better way. In this article, Toptal Freelance DevOps Engineer Antoine Reversat builds an event-driven continuous deployment pipeline that builds first and then runs tests on our final deployment artifact before deploying.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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How One Cloud Storage Platform Protects Itself and Its Nearly 50 Million Users

CTOvision

In the age of cybercrime, cloud storage providers are facing more pressure than ever to preempt data breaches – or risk becoming the next big headline. Since 2013, over 14.6 billion records have been stolen (that’s almost 7 million per day, and 81 per second) – which goes to show, it’s no longer “if” an […].

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The Linux Foundation Launches Continuous Delivery Foundation

DevOps.com

The Linux Foundation announced it will provide the home base for a vendor-neutral Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) committed to making it easier to build and reuse DevOps pipelines across multiple continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms. The first projects to be hosted under the auspices of CDF, which was launched at the Open Source Leadership Summit […].

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Learn Things Your Competitors Don’t Want You To Know at OODAloop

CTOvision

The membership network at OODAloop.com provides actionable insights you can use to inform better decisions and to execute actions that will help you win in the modern marketplace. Members receive access to research and analysis, special reports and early insights into shifting trends the modern executive needs to track. Learn more about OODA network resources […].

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The World Wide Web: 30 Years On—What's in Store for the Next 30?

Digital Realty

Today marks the 30th anniversary of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s creation of the world wide web. We tend to overlook how far it has come since its inception, but it is undeniable that the impact the web has made on the world has been unprecedented.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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6 Reasons Why We Haven’t Seen Full AI Adoption

CTOvision

Read Daniel Newman take a look at the reasons behind lack of artificial intelligence adoption by tech companies on Forbes : On one hand, we know AI is the future of business. After all, manpower simply isn’t fast enough to keep up with the pace of consumer demand. That said, there’s a big difference between […].

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Major Benefits of Outsourcing to Commercial Cleaning Services

Women on Business

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LightStep Unfurls Dynamic Tracing Service

DevOps.com

LightStep announced a stand-alone dynamic tracing tools capability that visualizes patterns in code based on 100 percent of the data available. Company CEO, Ben Sigelman, said LightStep Tracing differs from other approaches to tracing because it does not rely on a small sample of data that usually doesn’t wind up providing much actionable insight. Instead, […].

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Don’t look now: why you should be worried about machines reading your emotions

CTOvision

Could a program detect potential terrorists by reading their facial expressions and behavior? This was the hypothesis put to the test by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in 2003, as it began testing a new surveillance program called the Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques program, or Spot for short. While developing the program, they […].

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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F5 Networks Acquires NGINX to Meld NetOps with DevOps

DevOps.com

As part of an effort to better align DevOps and network operations (NetOps), F5 Networks plans to acquire NGINX, a provider of widely employed open source loading balancing software. The two companies revealed in a call with financial analysts that the primary goal of the $760 million deal is to meld the two companies’ combined expertise […].

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Future of the firm

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Mapping the complex forces that are reshaping organizations and changing the employee/employer relationship. The “future of the firm” is a big deal. As jobs become more automated, and people more often work in teams, with work increasingly done on a contingent and contract basis, you have to ask: “What does a firm really do?” Yes, successful businesses are increasingly digital and technologically astute.

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The Power of a Game: What I Learned from Facilitating The Phoenix Project Simulation

DevOps.com

I recently had the opportunity to become certified to lead a simulation based on the best-selling IT book, “The Phoenix Project.” The Phoenix Project simulation is not a product as much as it is an experience. The realistic scenarios, challenges and pain points embedded in the game built a creative tension in a safe environment […].

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Google previews TensorFlow 2.0 alpha with focus on simplicity and ML beginners

CTOvision

At the 2019 TensorFlow Dev Summit today, Google announced a number of updates for its open-source machine learning library aimed at research and production. The TensorFlow 2.0 alpha provides a preview of upcoming changes aimed at making ML easier for beginners. TensorFlow celebrated its third birthday last November with a total of 41 million downloads and […].

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Five Battle-tested Techniques Your WordPress API Developer Isn't Using

Toptal

One of the best ways to elevate your status as a WordPress developer, at least in the eyes of your clients, is to become skilled at writing API consumers. In this article, Toptal Freelance WordPress Developer Scott Fennell guides you through five techniques that will help you create powerful WordPress API clients to perfectly suit your needs.

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Why A.I. Without Humans Will Not Solve Our Problems

CTOvision

Read why Katherine Maher says that artificial intelligence without human touch is bound to be a failure on the New York Times : The year 1989 is often remembered for events that challenged the Cold War world order, from the protests in Tiananmen Square to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is less well remembered […].

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Spinnaker Sets Sail to the Continuous Delivery Foundation

Netflix Tech

Author: Andy Glover Since releasing Spinnaker to the open source community in 2015 , the platform has flourished with the addition of new cloud providers, triggers, pipeline stages, and much more. Myriad new features, improvements, and innovations have been added by an ever growing, actively engaged community. Each new innovation has been a step towards an even better Continuous Delivery platform that facilitates rapid, reliable, safe delivery of flexible assets to pluggable deployment targets.

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How artificial intelligence will revolutionize the way video games are developed and played

CTOvision

To better understand how AI might become more intertwined with video games in the future, it’s important to know the two fields’ shared history. Since the earliest days of the medium, game developers have been programming software both to pretend like it’s a human and to help create virtual worlds without a human designer needing […].

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Deque Systems to Expand Open Source Accessibility Tools in Collaboration with Microsoft

DevOps.com

Deque’s axe accessibility engine is bolstered by Microsoft collaboration, addition of new Windows rules, and the release of Deque’s open source Android and iOS rules March 12, 2019 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time ANAHEIM, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Deque Systems, a leading accessibility software company specializing in digital equality, announced at CSUN 2019 that it is working with Microsoft to […].

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What Makes for a Successful Management Buyout Process?

Toptal

Buying out the business you work for and then running it yourself doesn’t have to be a pipe dream. Management buyouts (MBOs) have been popular since the 1980s and when aligned correctly are appealing propositions for owners and motivated management teams.

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The Hierarchy of Cloud Orchestration Technology

DevOps.com

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