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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower CTO

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things.

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LaLiga transforms fan experience with AI

CIO

IT is playing a key role in how the world’s most popular sport is played and experienced in Spain. The country’s premier football division, LaLiga, is leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) to deliver new insights to players and coaches, and to transform how fans enjoy and understand the game. The transformation, which started in partnership with Microsoft in 2016, is also enabling LaLiga to expand its business by offering technology platforms and services to the sports and

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3 Characteristics That Could Be Preventing Your Good Team from Becoming Great

Let's Grow Leaders

You’ve Got a Good Team, Don’t Let That Stop You From Making it Great You’ve got a good team. The results are solid. You genuinely like one another. Trust is good too. And yet. You have a feeling you’re capable of more. What’s missing? If you’re fortunate to be working on a good team, it can be tempting to keep doing what you’ve always done.

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When Your Employee Isn’t Reaching Their Full Potential

Harvard Business Review

It can be frustrating to feel that your employees aren’t taking the initiative to do more with their talents. As their manager, you may even wonder if it’s a question of knowledge or willpower: Do they not understand what’s necessary to perform at their best? Or are they just unmotivated? In this article, the authors examine three main reasons why your employee may not be reaching their full potential: personal challenges, interpersonal issues, and leadership problems.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Is cybersecurity a creative field? A Q&A with Merritt Baer, new Field CISO at Lacework

Lacework

Who can teach us the most: an industry expert, a peer, or a toddler? Merritt Baer, our new Field CISO, would suggest you keep an open mind. In Merritt’s experience, great advice can come from the most unexpected sources, a concept that even led her to establish a network of tech experts.

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How to Effectively — and Legally — Use Racial Data for DEI

Harvard Business Review

After the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking against affirmative action in higher education, leaders might be concerned that their DEI initiatives and programs will face additional scrutiny and legal challenge. While reducing liability is a responsible move, the author cautions against letting these efforts lead to a fear-driven abandonment of effective DEI practices.

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Flexagon Shines in Top Technology Publications

Flexagon

As we open the July edition of the acclaimed Technology, FinTech, InsurTech, Datacenter, and AI Magazines, we find a full-page spread and an enlightening video featuring Flexagon. This significant exposure results from our collaborative effort with Oracle, marking the occasion of Oracle being named a leader and positioned highest for the ability to execute in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) Worldwide 2023.

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Making Apps More Accessible: An Introduction to the New Accessibility Audit Test for iOS

Apiumhub

A Brief Introduction to Accessibility When it comes to mobile applications, particularly on iOS, ensuring accessibility has become an integral part of the development process. Apple, the creator of iOS, has been a long-time proponent of accessibility, emphasizing its importance in creating an inclusive experience for all users. They have incorporated several accessibility features and tools within their ecosystem, such as VoiceOver, Switch Control, and AssistiveTouch.

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at SAP, Citigroup, J. Crew and more!

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Enhancing PowerApps with SVG Icons

Perficient

Introduction : PowerApps is a versatile low-code platform that enables users to create custom applications without requiring extensive coding knowledge. To enhance the visual appeal of PowerApps, incorporating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) icons proves to be a valuable option. SVG icons bring several advantages, including scalability, flexibility, and a wide range of customization options.

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Why Reinvent the Wheel? The Challenges of DIY Open Source Analytics Platforms

Cloudera

In their effort to reduce their technology spend, some organizations that leverage open source projects for advanced analytics often consider either building and maintaining their own runtime with the required data processing engines or retaining older, now obsolete, versions of legacy Cloudera runtimes (CDH or HDP). However, both of these options are associated with substantial cost and risk , as organizations underestimate the complexity and the necessary expertise required to not only build b

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3 Questions Sales Teams Should Ask After Losing (or Winning) a Deal

Harvard Business Review

When salespeople lose a deal, most prefer to move on rather than linger over the specifics of the loss. Similarly, when they win a deal, most are quick to celebrate. But very few take the time to assess why they won the business. In the authors’ experience leading and coaching sales teams, they see evidence that a brief, well-pointed sales retrospective, where you unpack the reasons behind a win or a loss, can significantly improve a team’s future win rate.

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CVE-2023-35078 - New Ivanti EPMM Vulnerability

Ivanti

At Ivanti, our top priority is upholding our commitment to deliver and maintain secure products. We continue to invest significant resources to ensure that all our solutions continue to meet our own high standards. A vulnerability has been discovered in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), formerly known as MobileIron Core. We will be reporting this as CVE-2023-35078.

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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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Continuous Integration for iOS and macOS

Dzone - DevOps

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Development at Scale Trend Report. For more: Read the Report The no-code approach to continuous integration (CI) on mobile projects works reasonably well when teams start with one or two developers, a small project, and a cloud service. Over time, as a team grows and a project becomes more complex, it is natural to transition to self-hosted runners for faster feedback, more reliable tests, and code in production.

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Art of Agile Development in India and Africa (English)

James Shore

I’m pleased to announce that there’s a special edition of The Art of Agile Development available in the Indian subcontinent and Africa! (It’s in English.) You can buy it here. Many thanks to Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt. Ltd. (SPD) for making this edition available.

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Cross-Cloud Connectivity Made Easy with Oracle and Megaport

Megaport

In Flexera’s 2022 State of the Cloud Report, 89% of respondents reported having a multicloud strategy. And, according to a 2022 HashiCorp survey, 90% of businesses that have adopted a multicloud strategy say it’s working for them. With its slew of benefits, multicloud has made itself an intrinsic part of the business world, and for good reason – but it comes with new challenges of its own.

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CodeSOD: The Set Up

The Daily WTF

My heretical opinion on object-oriented programming is that I don't like getters and setters. They're often trivial boilerplate (boilerplate is a code smell), or they're hiding behavior where behavior probably doesn't belong. Yes, yes, I understand the importance of encapsulation, but in a lot of ways, trivial getters/setters break encapsulation. void setFoo(T foo) { this.foo = foo; } does nothing to protect foo against unauthorized modifications.

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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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Setting up a local docker environment with Sitecore 10.3 and SXA

Perficient

We as developers/consultants set up our local Sitecore instances for our project developments, some are simple and easy, and some are complex and take time as you may come across errors. Now, as Sitecore is moving towards headless and containerized solutions, the way how to get local development instances up and running has changed from what had to be done for on-prem instances.

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Cross-Cloud Connectivity Made Easy with Oracle and Megaport

Megaport

In Flexera’s 2022 State of the Cloud Report, 89% of respondents reported having a multicloud strategy. And, according to a 2022 HashiCorp survey, 90% of businesses that have adopted a multicloud strategy say it’s working for them. With its slew of benefits, multicloud has made itself an intrinsic part of the business world, and for good reason – but it comes with new challenges of its own.

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Don’t Let Poor Data Quality Derail Your AI Dreams

Perficient

AI is reliant upon data to acquire knowledge and drive decision-making processes. Therefore, the data quality utilized for training AI models is vital in influencing their accuracy and dependability. Data noise in machine learning refers to the occurrence of errors, outliers, or inconsistencies within the data, which can degrade the quality and reliability of AI models.

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7 Strategies to Boost Product Roadmapping Success

Gorilla Logic

As an experienced product manager, you know that product roadmaps are crucial for aligning stakeholders, clarifying strategy and direction, and making informed, timely decisions. But product roadmapping is hard work, and gaining consensus on product direction ranks as the top challenge for product managers. In this blog post, we’ll refresh on why a great product roadmap is well worth the effort.

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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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Understanding Visual Disabilities: Categories, Characteristics and Associated Barriers – Part 1

Perficient

Welcome to the first session of our blog series on disabilities, where we aim to shed light on various impairments and the challenges individuals face in their everyday lives. In this installment, we focus on visual disabilities, exploring the categories, characteristics, and barriers encountered by those living with visual impairments. Defining Visual Disabilities Defining Visual Disabilities refers to the process of describing and understanding the various impairments or conditions that affect

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Tenable Cyber Watch: U.S. Gov Outlines Cybersecurity Investment Priorities, Study Shows Cyber Teams Are Too Confident, and more

Tenable

This week’s edition of Tenable Cyber Watch unpacks CISA and the NSA’s CI/CD defense guidance and explores the White House’s cybersecurity investment priorities. Also covered: why one study says cyber teams are too confident. Looking for recommendations and best practices to improve the security of your CI/CD pipelines? Curious to know the cybersecurity investment areas that U.S. government departments and agencies should prioritize for fiscal year 2025?

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People of Perficient: Meet Kaushal Shah, Lead Business Consultant

Perficient

Our consultants bring decades of deep industry and technical experience t o help our client’s build strategies for an evolving market and solve complex technical challenges. ​ I recently connected with Kaushal Shah, lead business consultant at Perficient to discuss his 20+ years of experience in IT quality, validation, and regulations management.

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Cloud Computing in Healthcare: How Cloud is Transforming Patient Services

Daffodil Software

Even before the pandemic hit, healthcare organizations were already embracing digital transformation strategies to provide patient-centered experiences and ensure their survival in a competitive landscape. However, when the world faced an unprecedented crisis, hospitals and health systems had to kick their transformation into high gear. In a matter of months, the healthcare industry experienced a digital revolution that would normally take years to accomplish.

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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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Hemant Rao Raghunath Makes the World Brighter Through Volunteer Efforts

Perficient

Perficient is focused on building a stronger future, and our colleagues inspire action by devoting their time, energy, and talent to giving back to those in need. Perficient’s corporate giving philosophy is supported by two core pillars: advancing STEM education and improving health and well-being. Through individual philanthropic efforts, coupled with the work of Perficient’s Giving Employee Resource Group (ERG), our people can make a difference in the global community and bring a touch of joy

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Making Enterprise Generative AI Safe & Responsible

Dataiku

There's a lot of recent excitement around Generative AI — in particular Large Language Models (LLMs). This means business leaders are pushing forward with the use of AI at an unprecedented pace.

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Talks with Software Development Experts Initiative Part 2

Apiumhub

In our last article , we introduced our newest initiative, Talk with Software Development Experts, a space where we interview tech experts to get to know more about them, their careers, their experience, and their interests. In this article, we will continue sharing great interviews with software development experts we had the opportunity to do online.