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10 ways to improve IT performance (without killing morale)

CIO

To establish a high-performing IT culture, IT leaders must be able to push their teams to the limit without crippling morale. Improving IT team performance is a constant, ongoing effort, says Dena Campbell, CIO at Vaco Holdings, a global professional services firm.

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Why Internet Performance Monitoring is the new frontier in a distributed world

CIO

Moreover, with users spread across the globe, understanding regional performance variations has become crucial to ensuring experiences for your customers and employees. Given this backdrop, it’s unsurprising that traditional Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) tools are struggling to keep pace.

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How engineering leaders can use AI to optimize performance

TechCrunch

Alex Circei Contributor Share on X Alex Circei is the CEO and co-founder of Waydev, a development analytics tool that measures engineering teams' performance.

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How to Measure Your MLOps Performance

Xebia

Ironically, for a discipline that builds their products with data, we often don’t measure our own performance with data. In this blog, we will propose indicators and metrics to determine the performance of your MLOps practice. Performance metrics for ML and MLOps teams. How can you measure how your teams is doing?

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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.

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Performance Review: How to respond to frustrating or lazy performance feedback

Let's Grow Leaders

Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review. A few years ago, I wrote “Avoid These Infuriating Phrases in End-of-Year Feedback” to encourage managers to stop making stupid comments when giving a performance review. How to Respond to the Most Infuriating Kind of Performance Review.

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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments

Xebia

Balancing these factors is critical to good performance in Agile organizations. To help, we’ve created a model for Agile performance management that highlights everything needed for the creation of ahigh-alignment, high-autonomy environment. Agile isn’t about performance!”

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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. The topics covered include: Using Cassandra as if it were a Relational Database.

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What E-Commerce Performance Metrics Are CTOs Monitoring?

In this eBook, Danny Miles, CTO of Dollar Shave Club, reveals an efficient framework for thinking about and prioritizing the performance metrics that matter most to him, providing a blueprint for fellow e-commerce CTOs to follow as they evaluate their own business.

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Modernizing Workloads with the Cloud: How to Improve Performance & Reduce Costs

By modernizing and shifting legacy workloads to the cloud, organizations are able to improve the performance and reliability of their applications while reducing infrastructure cost and management.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Join Travis Addair, CTO of Predibase, in this exclusive webinar to learn: How guardrails can be used to mitigate risks and enhance the safety and efficiency of LLMs, delving into specific techniques and advanced control mechanisms that enable developers to optimize model performance effectively Why implementing safeguards can significantly improve (..)

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Transform Product Developers Into High Performing Collaborators with These 5 Factors

Speaker: Kim Burgaard, Head of Engineering at Fernish

Developer productivity is an output of many factors, including the people on the team, company culture, processes, and tools. Aligning smart people on goals and empowering them to take ownership is a productivity superpower. Don't focus on points and velocity, but on value and outcomes.

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Cloud-Scale Monitoring With AWS and Datadog

Find out the key performance metrics for each service to track in order to ensure workloads are operating efficiently. Lastly, learn how a monitoring solution like Datadog can easily track every stage of a migration to AWS as well as the performance of each of your AWS services side-by-side.

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The Unexpected Cost of Data Copies

An organization’s data is copied for many reasons, namely ingesting datasets into data warehouses, creating performance-optimized copies, and building BI extracts for analysis. How Dremio delivers clear business advantages in productivity, security, and performance. What to consider when implementing a "no-copy" data strategy.

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Drive GTM Efficiency with Tech Stack Consolidation

What you’ll learn: How consolidation creates a more valuable tech stack and delivers better results How high quality data and an integrated platform drive efficiency and performance What questions you should ask before cutting an existing vendor or adding a new vendor to your tech stack Why a data-first mindset helps you avoid a lot of costly mistakes (..)