Sat.Dec 22, 2018 - Fri.Dec 28, 2018

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Four Steps for Inheriting a Codebase

Atomic Spin

In the last two years, I’ve worked on a few projects passed on to me by other teams. Inheriting an existing codebase can be a challenge, given you weren’t there when architectural decisions were made, you are less familiar with the project domain and client needs, and you are just new to the codebase. In this post, I’ll cover a few of the ways I’ve learned to ramp up quickly when taking over a project.

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What Small Businesses Need to Know About CRM

OTS Solutions

What Every Small Businesses Need to Know About CRM. Customer relationship management (CRM) software is designed to streamline your business’ interaction with customers and prospects. While it is used regularly in large corporations, many small business owners have not fully embraced CRM systems. This is a shame because CRM software development had advanced to the point where the user interface is extremely simple and easy to use and installation is a breeze.

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Application of advanced analytics and machine learning in the banking industry

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Banks have always been custodian of customer data, but they lack the technological and analytical capability to derive value from the data. On the other hand, fintech companies have the analytical capabilities and, thanks to payments services directives, they now have access to valuable data. Whether it is a bank, non-bank, or fintech, competing in the banking revolution comes down to how efficiently the available data can be used to solve business challenges and better serve the customers.

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6 Ways to Perfect the UI of Your Mobile App

The Crazy Programmer

One of the biggest headaches mobile app programmers face is how to make their app stand out from the rest. It’s a valid concern since the average app will be coming up against tens or hundreds of applications already in the market that do almost the same thing. Whereas making sure the app has the functionality users expect is vital, it’s the softer considerations such as the user interface (UI) that often determine what app a user will prefer.

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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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Best Leadership Articles of 2018 (based on your votes)

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to our annual best-of, round-up of your favorite posts on Let’s Grow Leaders. Here is a look at the best leadership articles of 2018 (as determined by your reading and sharing). (Click on the headline to view the article) Thank you for […]. The post Best Leadership Articles of 2018 (based on your votes) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Best of 2018: The Beauty of the COBOL Programming Language

DevOps.com

As we close out 2018, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the first in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. Well-written code is a work of art. Always has been, always will be. A programmer pulls a thought pretty much out of […]. The post Best of 2018: The Beauty of the COBOL Programming Language appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Tips To Spot A Phishing Or Spoofing Email

The Crazy Programmer

Even if you have security software, phishing emails will leave exposed to ransom wares. The phishing emails have become too common nowadays. This has continued to cost businesses and individuals a lot of money. Cyber criminals use phishing emails to get access to private and confidential information such as your passwords, credit cards, and other private information.

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A Day in the Freelance Life – Getting to Know Toptal Designers

Toptal

Are remote-working and freelancing viable options for designers? We interview Toptal designers to discover how they’re forging freelance careers with meaningful work for high-impact global companies.

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The Future Of Big Data Is In The Hybrid Cloud

CTOvision

Read Kunal Agarwal take a look at the future of big data in the hybrid cloud on Forbes : Earlier in the year, I attended the Strata Data Conference in New York. It was an exciting event, and my conversations with customers, reporters and influencers underscored how rapidly big data adoption has grown over the past […].

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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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Best of 2018: 11 Popular Open Source DevOps Tools Worth Knowing

DevOps.com

As we close out 2018, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourth in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. Companies implementing the best practices of DevOps have demonstrated that they are more effective and flexible in implementing as well as designing […]. The post Best of 2018: 11 Popular Open Source DevOps Tools Worth Knowing appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Why Are We Always Busy?

Women on Business

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A Lumpy Christmas

The Daily WTF

Every "enterprise" shop has that one system you hope you never need to touch. It's older than you are, "documentation" consists of whispers and rumors about its behavior, and it is absolutely 100% business critical. If it goes down, the business goes down. Fortunately, you'll never have to touch that system, because there's an Ancient Wizard who has been sitting in the same cube since 1973, and knows its secrets.

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6 steps for mitigating healthcare cybersecurity threats

CTOvision

Data breaches and other cyber attacks occur far too frequently in healthcare organizations. Hospital IT departments tend to invest in their readiness against healthcare cybersecurity threats by ensuring they have tools and procedures in place to block a threat from getting into their systems in the first place. However, they often fall short of preparing themselves […].

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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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Best of 2018: 5 Open Source SIEM Tools Worth Checking Out

DevOps.com

As we close out 2018, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the second in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. Security information and event management (SIEM) is the cornerstone of IT security. All other network solutions are merely data flows that feed […]. The post Best of 2018: 5 Open Source SIEM Tools Worth Checking Out appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Energy Vampires are Sucking the Life from You

Women on Business

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Force Download with JavaScript

David Walsh

Force download scripts have been an important part of internet usability for a long time. I can attest to that by the number of times I’ve implemented this feature on the server side and the popularity of my PHP Force Download post , even to this day. With the web world having moved much more the client side, I started looking for a method to force download without the need of a server, and I found it… right in the Firefox DevTools Debugger!

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Social media exposure can increase the cost of a data breach

CTOvision

Read why Ellen Tannam says that social media exposure can increase the cost of a data breach by many times on Silicon Republic : 2018 has been a year dominated by data breaches. Companies from Facebook to Google and Marriott all fell victim to data breaches in the past 12 months. The incidents exposed personal […].

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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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Best of 2018: 5 Best Node.js Frameworks to Know

DevOps.com

As we close out 2018, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the third in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. When it comes to development platforms, the choices are wide and varied. It can be a difficult task choosing the right framework […]. The post Best of 2018: 5 Best Node.js Frameworks to Know appeared first on DevOps.com.

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5 Ways To Be a Better Leader

Women on Business

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Nested Destructuring

David Walsh

Destructuring in JavaScript can initially feel confusing but the truth is that destructuring can make your code a bit more logical and straight forward. Destructuring does look a bit more complex when you’re looking for a property several objects deep, so let’s have a look at how to do that! Simple destructuring looks as follows: const { target } = event; Here we use {} and = to name a variable the same as the property name (you can also use an alias while destructuring!

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Applying a Factory Model to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

CTOvision

Read Doug Cackett’s article about how we can apply a factory model to implement artificial intelligence on CIO : Advanced analytics techniques, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, provide organizations with new insights not possible with traditional analytics. To take advantage of these technologies and drive competitive advantage, organizations need to design and build solutions […].

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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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Classic WTF: Power Supply

The Daily WTF

It's Christmas Eve, and as per usual, we're taking the day off. As you're thinking about your gifts, think about unwrapping THIS present, from a few years back. Original. -- Remy. MRI scans, while neat, do leave something to be desired in the “fun” and “comfort” departments. After surrendering every sliver of metal and some percentage of clothing, the patient must sit or lie stock-still in a cold room for long stretches of time.

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The Revealing Reason You Struggle To Communicate

Women on Business

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Best of TechBeacon 2018: Quality comes first for app dev and testing

TechBeacon

With more organizations implementing automated testing practices these days, developer and QA focus has shifted from "Do we need test automation?" to "How do with get the most out it?" The use of AI and machine learning in test automaton received a lot of attention this year, as did other core topics such as training testers to become automation engineers and developers to become better testers.

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No Target is Too Small: Why SMEs Must be Cyber-Resilient

CTOvision

Read why Marc Wilczek says that small and medium enterprises need to invest in cybersecurity on Infosec Magazine : Cyber-attacks have hit, and hurt, companies of all shapes and sizes. The financial costs arise from the attack itself, fixing it, and addressing the reputational impact by re-fostering public trust, along with potential regulatory fines and […].

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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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Hitting Refresh on Getting Results the Agile Way

J.D. Meier's Blog

Agile Results is a personal productivity system for learners, leaders, achievers, and even productive artists. With Agile Results you’ll improve your focus, master your motivation, develop a growth mindset, and use your strengths to compound your results. It’s effectively a whole person approach to productivity to help you realize your full potential while making progress on meaningful results.

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Why Women are Smashing the Glass Ceiling in the Insurance Industry

Women on Business

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Best of TechBeacon 2018: The DevOps journey continues

TechBeacon

Many enterprises that have embarked on a DevOps journey are running into problems scaling the practice across the enterprise for various reasons. TechBeacon 's top 12 DevOps stories for 2018 examine some of these reasons and offer useful advice and tips on how to navigate around them.

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