Mon.Jan 07, 2019

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Feature Flagging Poised for Wider Adoption

DevOps.com

Feature flags, also known as feature toggles, provide a means for DevOps teams to test and add new capabilities to their applications without having to take the entire application offline. The downside is they generally result in more branches of applications that need to be carefully managed within the context of a DevOps process. A […]. The post Feature Flagging Poised for Wider Adoption appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Difference between Function and Procedure

The Crazy Programmer

Procedure: In computer programming a specific set of instructions together called a procedure. Depending on the programming language it can be called as subroutine, subprogram or a function. Function: It is one of the basic concept in programming of computer. As it name says, it performs a function (work). It can be either user defined or system defined.

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Increase Your Agile Knowledge With Questions Answered By Our Resident Content Curator

Agile Alliance

At Agile Alliance, we pride ourselves on the wealth of high-quality, in-depth Agile-related resources we offer you. But we also realize that sometimes too much of a good thing can be overwhelming. In order to help combat that issue, I'm proud to begin offering curated monthly emails on subjects of interest to you. I’ve identified … Continued.

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Blockchain Technology can be Critical to IoT Infrastructure Security

CTOvision

Read why Floyd DCosta says that blockchain technology could be a crucial cog in the Internet of Things infrastructure on Entrepreneur : The era of the Internet of things (IoT) is upon us and it is impacting our lives. Today, technology has pervaded into nearly all walks of life, and constant innovation has made it […].

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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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ActiveResource.js ORM: Building a Powerful JavaScript SDK For Your JSON API, Fast

Toptal

As simple as your RESTful API may be, even internal users will want a JavaScript package that will do all the heavy lifting for them. Why build each CRUD request by hand, or worse, deal with related resources using custom code for every scenario? With ActiveResource.js, you don't have to.

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How Nailing Predictability Can Double the Size of Your Business

DevOps.com

In a rapidly changing world, predictability has never been more powerful. It’s also never been so underrated. While it is easy to think about predictability in terms of repetition or even monotony, predictability in business means being able to correctly estimate how long it will take to complete a project and how risky it is. […]. The post How Nailing Predictability Can Double the Size of Your Business appeared first on DevOps.com.

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IoT Applications in Consumer Healthcare

CTOvision

Read Carrie Cosgrove’s article about the Internet of Things applications in consumer healthcare on IoT for All : Have you been to a doctor at any point in your life? Congratulations, if you answered “yes,” you’re a healthcare consumer! Nearly 85 percent of US adults see a healthcare provider at least once a year and US children […].

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How to avoid hidden costs, other cloud 'gotchas'

TechBeacon

You've made the decision to migrate to a hybrid cloud environment because of the well-documented benefits. But if you thought it was a matter of simply lifting and shifting data and workloads, think again.

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DevOps and Retail: Transforming Brick-and-Mortar to Brick-and-Click

DevOps.com

Brick-and mortar-retail is rapidly transforming with the digital age. As physical storefronts turn digital, it’s safe to say that traditional retail is quickly becoming a mesh of “brick-and-click.” So, how are retail giants surviving in this new landscape? Interestingly enough, the remaining brick-and-mortar retail are reinventing themselves by applying helpful DevOps principles.

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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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The State of Enterprise Compute

Dell EMC

During the holiday break, and as we enter into a new year, I always like to reflect on the world of technology–where we have been and where we are heading. Not sure my wife Julie, 25 years on Jan 8th, I might add, shares the same enthusiasm on the technology front. However, I figured I could give her a shout out in a blog for a 25th anniversary; I’ll let you know how that goes.

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Ford Will Equip All New U.S. Vehicles With 5G Technology Starting in 2022

CTOvision

Ford Motor Co. is pursuing another path with talking-car technology that could reduce road deaths, break up gridlock, and even ease ordering at the McDonald’s drive-thru. The automaker announced Monday that it’s outfitting all its new U.S. models starting in 2022 with cellular vehicle-to-everything technology. Known as C-V2X, the system will enable Ford’s cars to communicate […].

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5 Tips on How to become a Better Boss

Career Advancement

“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”. ~Lee Iacocca~. Tom had been working as a manager for almost a year. He was good at evaluating people’s performance, pointing out areas for improvement, and saying “thank you” often. To him, those were the things that a good boss did. However, when Tom sat down with his mentor to talk about his progress, his mentor told him that those things are just the tip of the iceberg.

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Segway-Ninebot debuts new shared scooter and Loomo Delivery robot

CTOvision

Segway has unveiled Loomo Delivery, an autonomous delivery robot, and Shared Scooter Model Max, a rugged scooter aimed at scooter-sharing startups. Segway-Ninebot has morphed its signature electronic scooter technology for use in two new kinds of vehicles: the Shared Scooter Model Max and the Loomo Delivery robot. With a focus on short-distance transportation, Segway-Ninebot is working on […].

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Follow These Six Steps to Extreme Mentoring

Steve Farber

Set audacious goals, and don’t start the mentor relationship until you commit to these six steps. I recently Googled the word “ mentoring ,” and immediately noticed three things. One, it remains a trendy topic. Two, most everyone who writes about mentoring provides a definition of what mentoring is. And, three, many of them want to sell you a program on how to make mentoring work.

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How the Miracle on the Hudson Showed the Importance of Training a Team

Experience to Lead

It’s been 10 years since US Airways flight 1549 made an emergency landing on New York’s Hudson River. Passenger Dick Richardson and flight attendant Sheila Dail tell how team training played a major role in saving the lives of everyone on board. It sounded like a bowling ball was thrown through the engine. Then, less [ ] The post How the Miracle on the Hudson Showed the Importance of Training a Team appeared first on Experience to Lead.

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Trade Hubris for Humility

Mills Scofield

Salko ‘21, Kyra ‘20, Jake ‘20, me, Matt ‘18.5, Nate ‘19, John ‘21, Samanee ‘19. One of the reasons I love mentoring students is because it keeps me learning, exploring , questioning and challenging my beliefs – keeping me relevant and useful to the world (I hope!). So, I’m sharing part of a wonderful conversation with one of my #BlueLobsters (mentees), Salko, a second year at Brown (front left at the “we ate all the” sushi table) Salko Deb – a question that’s been on my mind recently: How do you

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Huawei launches next-generation chipset for servers as it aims to become a top 5 cloud player

CTOvision

Huawei unveiled on Monday a next-generation chipset for servers, potentially pitting it against the likes of AMD, even as the Chinese technology giant faces political headwinds around the world. The new chipset, called Kunpeng 920, is designed to go into data centers and will power the company’s TaiShan server, which was also launched on Monday. Huawei’s new […].

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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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Gender Bias: If You See Something, Say Something

Symantec

Cass A. unpacks what gender discrimination looks like at work, and what you can do about it.

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Who Was Smarter, Karl Benz or Sigmund Freud?

Teradata

David Socha compares Karl Benz and Sigmund Freud, two people that fundamentally and indisputably influenced how we live today.

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Akamai To Add Customer Identity Access Management Capability To Enhance Digital Trust By Acquiring Janrain Inc.

DevOps.com

Leading CIAM solution to make identity core to real-time security controls on Akamai’s Intelligent Edge offerings Cambridge, MA | January 07, 2019 Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, today announces the company has entered into an agreement to acquire Janrain, the company that pioneered the customer identity access management […].

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How Much Does Business Process Automation Cost?

Docuphase

Ever wonder about business process automation (BPA) and its associated costs? You’re certainly not alone. Think of BPA as your housekeeper, only instead of cleaning, it facilitates your business tasks that eat up everyone’s collective time. With demands in rapid implementation and immediate return on investment, there isn’t a better time to look for BPA than now.

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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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Give Them Something to Believe In

Nathan Magnuson

Recently retired Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder famously crafted 16 Goals for Success which he used with his football teams over his decades of coaching. Goal #13 stated, “Expect to win… and truly believe we will.” According to Coach Snyder, one of the root causes of success was belief itself. In my white paper Nine Ways to Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For , the very first best practice I share is “Belief in the cause.” As a leader, it’s not eno

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Delivering Quantifiable Customer Value with Dell EMC VMware-Based HCI

Dell EMC

Deploying Dell EMC VMware-based HCI provides a cost-effective and high-performing infrastructure foundation on which to run important business applications across distributed business environments. According to a recent IDC study, partners can help customers realize significant quantifiable value from these investments. Many of the IT processes put in place to support business operations are challenged to meet the demands of a rapidly changing digital world.

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How to avoid hidden costs, other cloud 'gotchas'

TechBeacon

You've made the decision to migrate to a hybrid cloud environment because of the well-documented benefits. But if you thought it was a matter of simply lifting and shifting data and workloads, think again.

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Delivering Knockout Innovations

Planbox

Nothing represents the epic struggle to win between two contenders better than a boxing match. You can apply many different strategies to achieve victory depending on your opponent’s style and the strengths you bring to the ring. You can try to go the distance for all 12 rounds and outlast your adversary while scoring more points, or you can go the knockout punch and end the fight without taking too many hits.

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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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CodeSOD: Without Compare

The Daily WTF

Operator overloading is a messy prospect. In theory, it means that you can naturally extend a language so that you can operate on objects naturally. An introductory CS class might have students implement a Ratio or Fraction class, then overload arithmetic operators so you can (a + b).reduce(). In practice, it means you use the bitshift operator also as the stream insertion operator.

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Top frameworks for app development companies in Dubai for 2019

Xicom

As we are already aware of the fact that app development Dubai is reaching high potential and the increasing need of the app development services in this hustling city of UAE calls for more and more app development companies in Dubai. Where there are companies and brands, there will be a sure demand of the mobile apps because of the awareness that the mobile apps have already become the backbone of the success of the businesses these days.

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Digging Deeper Into Zero Trust

Symantec

Enterprises can’t any longer rely on the once-popular castle-and-moat approach.

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