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The Arrival of Open AI Networking

Arista

Recently I attended the 50 th golden anniversary of Ethernet at the Computer History Museum. It was a reminder of how familiar and widely deployed Ethernet is and how it has evolved by orders of magnitude. Since the 1970s, it has progressed from a shared collision network at 2.95 megabits in the file/print/share era to the promise of Terabit Ethernet switching in the AI/ML era.

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The Hidden Power of Vulnerability: Why Great Leaders Dare to Be Wrong

Let's Grow Leaders

Why Is It So Hard to Be Wrong? Vulnerability is the Gateway to Growth. You’re an experienced leader with a track record of success. You’re brilliant at what you do, and you’ve got where you are today because you consistently have the answers. But could this need to have the answers stop you from achieving even more? I’ve had a couple of experiences recently that reminded me of the vast power of vulnerability for a leader’s (and my) growth.

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Mitigating Risks When Using ChatGPT

TechSoup

ChatGPT and emerging technology in general is a huge point of interest in the nonprofit community, and it can be a fantastic tool. While ChatGPT offers exciting functionality that can enable nonprofits to save time and money, it is still very new and does have limitations. In this post, we'll explore some security, data privacy, and legal risks that you take by using ChatGPT, and discuss how you can mitigate them.

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Understanding the Role of DevOps in Digital Engineering

OTS Solutions

In today’s digital age, the success of any enterprise is increasingly dependent on its ability to deliver high-quality software products and services quickly and efficiently. To meet this demand, enterprises have turned to DevOps and digital engineering practices to streamline their software development and delivery processes. DevOps methodology is an approach that emphasizes collaboration, automation, and continuous delivery, while digital engineering is a framework for developing, operat

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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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The Future is Now: Embracing AI Platforms to Stay Ahead in Business

Openxcell

Transformative power of AI in business Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transcended science fiction and emerged as a captivating and intriguing concept. It’s here, redefining how businesses operate, compete, and thrive. AI has swiftly evolved as a game-changer in business by automating mundane tasks while predicting market trends. The practical implementation of this technology offers numerous benefits, ranging from improved operational efficiency to enhanced workflows to enhanced user con

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Is It Time To Change The IT Department?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Is it time for CIOs to change the IT department? Image Credit: Georgie PauwelsFollow I suspect that one thing that a CIO does not spend a great deal of time thinking about is completely restructuring the IT department. However, perhaps we should. Let’s face it, the way that your IT department was set up was established years ago. You know, back when computers were a precious commodity and there needed to be a special department dedicated to acquiring, installing, and maintaining them.

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Unlock The Full Potential Of Hive

Cloudera

In the realm of big data analytics, Hive has been a trusted companion for summarizing, querying, and analyzing huge and disparate datasets. But let’s face it, navigating the world of any SQL engine is a daunting task, and Hive is no exception. As a Hive user, you will find yourself wanting to go beyond surface-level analysis, and deep dive into the intricacies of how a Hive query is executed.

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Empathetic Technology: The Future of Workplace DE&I?

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

This article was written with insights from James Deverick at Sage The current state of workplace DE&I When it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I), it’s crucial to understand that these are three different ideas. Of course, they are related, but developing an effective overall DEI strategy means understanding where they overlap and where they’re distinct.

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Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Imagine for a minute that you’re a programming instructor who’s spent many hours making creative homework problems to introduce your students to the world of programming. One day, a colleague tells you about an AI tool called ChatGPT. To your surprise (and alarm), when you give it your homework problems, it solves most of them perfectly, maybe even better than you can!

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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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Banking on customer experience and security via technology-based innovation

CIO

I’ll never forget the look on my first mortgage clients’ faces as they signed for their new home – the joy and relief washing over them in equal measure. After weeks of exhausting back-and-forth requests and paperwork transferred in ways that seem naively unsecure by today’s standards, their prize was the key to the front door. Since then, automation has filled the gap in improving customer experience and security.

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Mapping the river: discovering value streams and implementing meaningful transformations

Agile Alliance

Dive into the power of value streams. Learn how discovery and full process visibility drive successful enterprise transformations, leading to optimized efficiency and boosted ROI. The post Mapping the river: discovering value streams and implementing meaningful transformations first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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How platform teams get stuff done

Martin Fowler

Platform teams have a unique reliance on other teams to ensure adoption of their platform - getting code changes into other teams' codebase is critical to their success. Pete Hodgson structures how platform teams collaborate into phases of migration, consumption, and evolution. He describes what's different in each of these phases, the operating models to adopt, and which cross-team collaboration patterns work best.

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Understanding the Role of DevOps in Digital Engineering

OTS Solutions

In today’s digital age, the success of any enterprise is increasingly dependent on its ability to deliver high-quality software products and services quickly and efficiently. To meet this demand, enterprises have turned to DevOps and digital engineering practices to streamline their software development and delivery processes. DevOps methodology is an approach that emphasizes collaboration, automation, and continuous delivery, while digital engineering is a framework for developing, operat

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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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Dissecting Alstom’s three-part IT strategy

CIO

Alstom builds high-speed trains, subways, monorails, and trams, but also develops turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signaling, and digital mobility. And with a presence in 70 countries and around 74,000 employees, 3,100 of which are in Spain, the French multinational has important weight in the country, where it introduced a high-speed train, the first automatic metro, the latest generation signaling systems, and the return of the modern tram.

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Transform your Agile journey by encouraging experimentation

Agile Alliance

Learn about the challenges, benefits, and the importance of embracing failures for success. Ideal for leaders aiming to enhance resilience, market speed, and productivity in a dynamic business environment. The post Transform your Agile journey by encouraging experimentation first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Modern AI for the JVM – Xef.ai 0.2

Xebia

Last month, our team introduced a new project, Xef.ai. The project aims to offer the most convenient interface to modern AI techniques, including Large Language Models and image generation, enabling developers to integrate those as part of larger systems and applications. After the release of 0.1 , we’ve developed some proof of concept applications internally and for our clients.

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Decentralizing the Practice of Architecture at Xapo Bank

Martin Fowler

It's common to see a centralized architecture function that sets standards and oversees development projects. Such teams often suffer from being far removed from the issues of implementation with long feedback loops that slow down the flow of work. To counter these problems, many organizations have explored a decentralized approach to yield alignment between teams without these problems.

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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 Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO

Nvidia’s transformation from an accelerator of video games to an enabler of artificial intelligence (AI) and the industrial metaverse didn’t happen overnight—but the leap in its stock market value to over a trillion dollars did. It was when Nvidia reported strong results for the three months to April 30, 2023, and forecast that its sales could jump by 50% in the following fiscal quarter, that its stock market valuation soared, catapulting it into the exclusive trillion-dollar club alongside well

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As a New Employee, How to I Ensure My Ideas at Work are Taken Seriously

Let's Grow Leaders

Want to make an impact in your new role? Position your ideas at work so they’re more likely to be heard. “Hey Karin, “I was hired for my ideas and my extensive experience. I was told “We welcome your different perspectives, experiences, and ideas at work. That’s exactly what we need here! And now, I’m here. And I’m constantly hearing, “ahhh, I don’t think we can do it that way.” “Eh… we tried that before…” “

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Lower customer contact costs

Xebia

The Number two Goal of Freshworks Implementations: Lower costs of customer contact Lessons Learned From Over 100 Implementations At Xebia, we have done over 100 Freshdesk, Freshchat and Freshservice implementations since 2014. All these implementations have had their own reasons for companies, but in the end we have seen that four of these reasons came back almost every time.

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Splunk Adds Hub to Extend Observability to Edge Computing Platforms

DevOps.com

Splunk's Edge Hub ingests data from sensors, industrial equipment and internet-of-things (IoT) platforms so that it can be analyzed alongside data collected from IT environments.

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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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3 benefits of engaging hyperscalers when evaluating SAP RISE

CIO

Since SAP RISE came to the market, it seems that SAP’s goal is to force organizations into a relatively unproven and inflexible RISE model. To do so, they are obfuscating reality, limiting transparency, and changing their historic business practices to make RISE appear financially superior to the traditional perpetual license models. Because of the way SAP is positioning RISE in the market, organizations must also re-evaluate their cloud strategy.

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Leadership Decisions with Richard Moran

Let's Grow Leaders

The numerous daily leadership decisions we make, both at work and in life, are small chances to make a big impact. In this episode Richard Moran, author of Never Say Whenever: How Small Decisions Make a Big Difference, offers a blueprint to help everyone understand why and how the choices we make, even the minor ones, are pivotal to professional development and career trajectory.

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Conversations With Leaders: Wes Davis

CoachStation

Different industries require subtle differences in style and how leaders impact their teams and results. As part of our occasional series chatting with industry leaders, we recently spoke with engineer and senior leader, Wes Davis. His story is an interesting one, with Wes focusing much of his time and development on the topic of leadership within engineering, rather than simply learning and applying the technical aspects.

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AI ‘is Getting Worse’ ¦ AI ‘Will Lose India Jobs’ (Probably Isn’t ¦ Probably Won’t)

DevOps.com

In this week’s #TheLongView, a conundrum: On the one hand, researchers say ChatGPT is losing the plot; and on the other, outsourced coding jobs in India will be replaced by AI.

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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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Microsoft offers Dynamics users fresh incentives to move to the cloud

CIO

Microsoft unveiled a new incentive program on Tuesday to help enterprises still running its Dynamics ERP and CRM software on premises to move to the cloud. The Accelerate, Innovate, and Move program (AIM) covers a broad range of on-premises business applications, including Dynamics AX, Dynamics CRM, Dynamics GP, Dynamics NAV, Dynamics SL, and Dynamics 365 Business, Microsoft said.

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Practical Solutions to Common Challenges of a Remote CTO Position

CTO Academy

In this article, we are a) examining the most critical challenges of the Remote CTO role and, more importantly, b) providing practical solutions. The post Practical Solutions to Common Challenges of a Remote CTO Position appeared first on CTO Academy.

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Research: A Little Nature in the Office Boosts Morale and Productivity

Harvard Business Review

Research on “micro-nature” — the incorporation of small, affordable natural elements into workplaces — demonstrates its positive impact on employee performance and well-being. Studies show exposure to nature at work boosted productivity, helpfulness, and creativity, with no evidence of negative effects. Recommendations include both real and artificial nature, extending beyond the office environment, utilizing underused spaces, and encouraging nature exposure outside work hours.