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Drive Innovation in Software Development: How to Choose Between Incremental and Fundamental Change

OverOps

Business success is driven by making the right choices so that desirable products or services can be delivered to customers with intended profit margin and customer satisfaction. [The following is a guest post from Derek D’Alessandro, a catalyst of successful technological change in areas such as DevOps, Agile and more.]. Appropriate technology choices drive long-term success by creating a sustainable quality level, cost structure and by defining the delivered product capabilities.

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Google and Facebook Diversifying Away from Advertising

NeverFriday

Rick Webb wrote an article last year on how Google and Facebook will eventually suffer from a massive devaluation. This is because while they dominate the digital advertising market, they cannot displace TV advertising easily. There’s an interesting comparison to traditional media companies, Disney, Time Warner, and Viacom: Disney made $55 billion in revenue last year.

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3 Ways to Be a More Productive Leader

Let's Grow Leaders

To be more productive, embrace the secret of every time management system. You want to be a productive leader, but your to-do list has more tasks, projects, and goals than you can possibly achieve. The never-ending list can feel overwhelming. Leadership means […]. The post 3 Ways to Be a More Productive Leader appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Working with Apps in Django

The Crazy Programmer

In this tutorial, we’ll learn about: What is app in django project and why to use it? How to create app in django project? So let’s start with very first question. What is app in django project and why to use it? We’ve seen that how to create a project in django. Actually each django project consist of some applications where each application have its task to perform.

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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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How Artificial intelligence (AI) is Enabling Creativity Across Businesses

OTS Solutions

How Artificial intelligence is Enabling Creativity Across Businesses. Finding ways to exercise creativity in the business world is essential to differentiate your brand, make meaningful innovations, and to serve customers effectively. Artificial intelligence (AI) is useful for every industry, and many modern, leading CEOs, CMOs, CFO’S, and CIOs have discovered creative ways to use AI and embed it as part of their strategy.

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The Best Way to Prepare for a Successful 2019

Let's Grow Leaders

How will you prepare for a successful 2019? It’s tricky, right? Because you just don’t know what’s going to happen. Or do you? I’ve got some predictions… ? The truth is, you can’t always choose what you show up to, but you […]. The post The Best Way to Prepare for a Successful 2019 appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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10 Ways Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing Sales

CTOvision

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning show the potential to reduce the most time-consuming, manual tasks that keep sales teams away from spending more time with customers. Automating account-based marketing support with predictive analytics and supporting account-centered research, forecasting, reporting, and recommending which customers to upsell first are all techniques freeing sales teams from manually […].

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Mobile UX Design – Best Practices, Constraints, and Working with Developers

Toptal

We can achieve better user experiences with mobile UX design by following best practices, understanding constraints and facilitating a solid working relationship with developers.

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Tips for a Successful and Smooth Launch

Women on Business

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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7 DevOps Lessons in 2018: The Path to DevOps Success in 2019

DevOps.com

We all learn from mistakes, right? But it would be better if we learned faster and didn’t repeat them in our future exercises. And this is exactly what we will discuss here in this blog. For a while now, we’ve been overwhelmed by the idea of the DevOps principle. We love how the collaboration between […]. The post 7 DevOps Lessons in 2018: The Path to DevOps Success in 2019 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Best Practice Response Can Mitigate Data Breaches Quickly

CTOvision

Read why Sue Poremba says that best practice response can help companies mitigate data breaches quickly on Security Boulevard : Data breaches are fairly common nowadays but it is the time that the company takes to identify the breach and notify its users that counts. It generally takes about six months for a company to […].

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Heuristic Principles for Mobile Interfaces

Toptal

Nielsen’s heuristic principles have stood the test of time, and have been revisited to be further integrated with human-centered design for mobile—including clear definitions and design examples.

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Building a Streaming App: QBurst’s Journey with Baiskoafu

QBurst

It was towards the end of 2017 that Baiskoafu, a client based in the Maldives, approached us to build a platform to stream and download multimedia content in Dhivehi, the Maldivian language. The client wanted the app to be a medium through which they could promote local talent and content across the globe. Apart from […]. The post Building a Streaming App: QBurst’s Journey with Baiskoafu appeared first on QBurst - Blog.

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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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The 4 Keys to Effective Continuous Testing

DevOps.com

In the digital era, products no longer can win on capabilities alone. Speed to market and buyer experience now matter just as much to customers as the extent to which a product meets a pressing need or outperforms competitive offerings. Against this backdrop, software developers find themselves under increasing pressure, left with no choice but […].

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How to Build a Balanced Healthcare Cybersecurity Budget

CTOvision

Read Jessica Davis’ tips to healthcare firms for building a balanced cybersecurity budget on Health IT Security : The majority of healthcare security stakeholders agree that cybersecurity budgets are underfunded. And frankly, health organizations aren’t keeping pace with hackers who are continuously improving in sophistication. Data security programs are still often underfunded and understaffed, according to a […].

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The Street Guide on How to Hire a Part-time CFO

Toptal

When does it make sense for a business to consider hiring a part-time CFO? Are there situations in which it doesn't make sense at all? What attributes and criteria should businesses use to filter and select candidates? This article by Toptal Finance Expert Scott Hoover looks at answers to all three questions, and is intended to be a practical guide based on nearly a decade of experience as a freelance CFO for privately held companies.

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The best DevOps conferences of 2019

TechBeacon

Whether you just started your DevOps journey or are already practicing its principles, this list of conferences is indispensable. Every team's DevOps implementation is different, so it's important to know your specific requirements and see how teams like yours are following DevOps best practices.

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Lessons Learned in PostgreSQL®

In today's digital landscape, the threat of ransomware demands proactive defense. This paper, inspired by a real PostgreSQL® database incident, offers vital strategies for effective mitigation. Instaclustr expert Perry Clark outlines immediate actions to minimize risks, ensuring a swift response to ransomware threats and protecting critical data assets.

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Distinguishing Between Cloud Washed and Cloud Native

DevOps.com

Don’t fall for the marketing jargon: Running legacy infrastructure on a cloud instance is not actually cloud computing. Unfortunately, “cloudwashing” is common among enterprises as they attempt to jump on the cloud trend. So, how do we dispel the hype to distinguish pure cloud software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and […].

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The hype around driverless cars came crashing down in 2018

CTOvision

Big players in autonomous driving like Uber, Tesla, and Waymo had a disappointing 2018, but several startups with a “minimum viable product” made good progress. As 2018 dawned, expectations for self-driving vehicles were sky-high. Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car company, was testing fully driverless cars and preparing for a commercial launch in the Phoenix area.

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What Does an Agile Coach Do and How Can You Become One?

Toptal

The role of Agile coach has been gaining popularity in recent years. In this article, we will talk about the different types of Agile coaches and their responsibilities. We will discuss how to effectively work with them as a project manager and give suggestions to PMs who want to become Agile coaches themselves.

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The Benefits of Working with Referral Partners

Women on Business

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Security and Speed: Why DevOps and Security Need to Play Nicely

DevOps.com

It isn’t news that DevOps and IT security teams often struggle to align their departments and maintain a coherent balance between keeping a business secure and developing new applications to maintain customer interest. While security processes are a necessity, they can be deemed by DevOps teams to be manual and cumbersome, blocking the agility that […].

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Hybrid cloud technologies become table stakes in IaaS market

CTOvision

Read Alan R. Earls’ articles about how IaaS providers will increase stakes in hybrid cloud on Tech Target : AWS, Azure, and Google made hybrid cloud technologies the main point of focus in 2018. Their strategies, however, were unique — and look to remain that way in 2019, as all three providers continue their efforts to […].

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Agile extended: 3 business agility trends to watch in 2019

TechBeacon

Enterprise agile practices are becoming more pervasive in product management, portfolio management, and human resources. So, what does this all mean for businesses and for IT?

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Background Sync with Service Workers

David Walsh

Service workers have been having a moment. In March 2018, iOS Safari began including service workers — so all major browsers at this point support offline options. And this is more important than ever — 20% of adults in the United States are without Internet at home, leaving these individuals relying solely on a cellphone to access most information.

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. But most products fail to do so. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook. He will explain his Product-Market Fit Pyramid and The Lean Product Process, a 6-step methodology that guides you through how to: Determine your target customer Identify underserved customer needs Define your

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What To Do When Your DevOps Initiative is Failing

DevOps.com

These days, it is difficult to find someone who hasn’t heard of DevOps. Statistics show that in 2017, just 6 percent of developers worldwide had never heard of it, and in 2018 this number decreased to 3 percent. You have to wonder who these 3 percent of developers are! Companies have been embracing DevOps initiatives […]. The post What To Do When Your DevOps Initiative is Failing appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Facebook AI Research (FAIR) turns five: What has accomplished and where they are headed

CTOvision

From Facebook on Facebook AI Research (FAIR) : Five years ago, we created the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) group to advance the state of the art of AI through open research for the benefit of all — it’s an effort to understand the nature of intelligence so that we might create intelligent machines. Since then, FAIR […].

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Automatically Update Elastic Stack with Ansible Playbooks

Toptal

The Elastic Stack is constantly releasing new and amazing features, and often delivers two new releases every month. However, even though the Elastic website maintains clear and detailed documentation, every upgrade involves a series of tedious steps. That is why one engineer decided to automate the whole process. In this article, Toptal Freelance Linux Developer Renato Araujo walks us through a series of Ansible Playbooks he developed to auto-upgrade his Elastic Stack installation.

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