The Daily WTF

JANUARY 20, 2020

Couple that with the fact that each of your customers wants the off-the-shelf product you’re selling them to have every feature they need for their business case, you’re on a fast track to bloated software, inner platforms, and just general awfulness. Today, we’re not talking about Oracle, though. Jacek is in the healthcare industry.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

During its GPU Technology Conference in mid-March, Nvidia previewed Blackwell, a powerful new GPU designed to run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models (LLMs), and Nvidia Inference Microservices (NIM), a software package to optimize inference for dozens of popular AI models.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Innovators in this industry are displacing shelf labels in stores, printed signs, and printed timetables at bus stops and train stations. One thing I find fascinating about this industry is that you can’t write off any display technology when something new enters the market. It did not make it to the mainstream.

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Stacks on Stacks

JANUARY 8, 2019

After two-and-a-half years of building serverless applications, speaking at serverless conferences, and running the world’s leading serverless company, I have a few ideas of what’s in store for this technology. As the CEO of Stackery, I have had a unique, inside view of serverless since we launched in 2016. I’ll take it.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 27, 2015

The truth is that every organization needs some form of plan to guide its actions or it will simply “drift off course” in the chaos businesses often face in their daily operations. Myth #7: The plan is a binder on a shelf. Myth #1: “We don’t need a strategic plan!” Myth #3: “It interferes with our real jobs.”

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Altexsoft

JUNE 6, 2019

In-store cameras and sensors detect each product one takes from a shelf, and items are being added to a virtual cart while a customer proceeds. Physical stores still have a lion’s share of sales, but the tendency of the growing demand for online experiences shouldn’t be ignored. Source: Forrester Consulting. Amazon Go stores.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

A software developer with a computer science degree will produce the same quality of work as any other software developer with a computer science degree. It makes business sense to hire cheap programmers and put in place a standard process. Productivity of software teams, over the short and long-term, can vary by many orders of magnitude.

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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And what does it take to find the right person for the job? Too many queries are a natural thing considering the relative novelty of the title. While tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Uber, Adobe, and others already expanded their executive benches with CPOs, many companies have only a vague idea of the position.

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Gorilla Logic

JULY 2, 2018

Companies rely on a mix of off-the-shelf and custom software applications across their enterprise to accelerate growth initiatives, proactively address security and compliance mandates, and deliver new and hyper-relevant customer experiences. Outsourcing to the other side of the world can work for some projects. Read our Case Studies.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 31, 2020

If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). You already know the game and how it is played: you’re the coordinator who ties everything together, from the developers and designers to the executives.

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CIO

AUGUST 18, 2023

Turning data into intelligence MagnolAI ingests raw and processed data from all connected devices leveraged in clinical studies — whether those are off-the-shelf wearable devices to measure heart rate, or a Lilly innovation such as its sensor used to measure defecation for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 8, 2019

As companies begin to explore AI technologies, three areas in particular are garnering a lot of attention: computer vision, natural language applications, and speech technologies. Companies are awash with unstructured and semi-structured text, and many organizations already have some experience with NLP and text analytics.

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Openxcell

APRIL 3, 2023

A company or firm must stop using off-the-shelf software and leverage custom software development to thrive in this digital age. These reasons will make it necessary for you to confer with a custom software development company about your software needs. As a result, they benefit from improved momentum and greater efficiency.

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The Parallax

AUGUST 12, 2019

Using off-the-shelf parts and focused efforts, the biohacking group has designed and built a networked hard drive, coated in a biosafe resin, to be subcutaneously implanted in the human body. TEHACHAPI, Calif.—In READ MORE ON BIOHACKING AND MEDICAL SECURITY. How hackers are approaching medical cybersecurity. What’s a Pegleg?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Today's workforce will need three times the amount of training that it now gets if the organization intends to stay in business, remain competitive and tackle the future successfully. Training is rarely allowed to be extensive. It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. Knowledge.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

This article looks at those results in further detail, comparing high-level themes based on the three reports, plus related presentations at the Strata Data Conference and the AI Conference. That was the third of three industry surveys conducted in 2018 to probe trends in artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and cloud adoption.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 15, 2019

In our experience, many of the most popular conference talks on model explainability and interpretability are those given by speakers from finance. This is consistent with something ML developers have long known: models built and trained for a specific application are seldom (off-the-shelf) usable in other settings.

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Tenable

AUGUST 12, 2022

12 (Black Hat Special Edition) | The Black Hat USA conference returned to Las Vegas this week to celebrate its 25th anniversary, as thousands of security pros gathered in the desert to get wiser about critical challenges, including cloud security, software supply chain risks, ransomware and the rampant burnout and stress among their ranks.

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Tenable

AUGUST 12, 2022

12 (Black Hat Special Edition) | The Black Hat USA conference returned to Las Vegas this week to celebrate its 25th anniversary, as thousands of security pros gathered in the desert to get wiser about critical challenges, including cloud security, software supply chain risks, ransomware and the rampant burnout and stress among their ranks.

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Daniel Bryant

OCTOBER 18, 2021

CONFERENCE SUMMARY It’s that time of year again when we get to reflect on another awesome KubeCon NA. I know from past experience of running (smaller) hybrid events that it’s actually more work than running two individual conferences! I was presenting a session at the DevX Day colocated event.

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Netlify

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I was traveling a lot, speaking at a lot of conferences. First impressions of the company, once I visited the office, were that everyone gave off a really relaxed vibe. In this Netlify team interview series, we’ll be giving you a sneak peek of a day in the life of some of our teammates. After that, things moved quickly with the offer.

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Bernd Rucker

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Earlier this year, I introduced the idea of the process automation map. Over time, it has proven useful in several customer scenarios. In today’s post, I’ll dive deeper into the dimensions of the map to help you rate your processes. I recommend reviewing the introduction to the process automation map first. Let’s explore these dimensions one by one.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 21, 2022

We say ‘xerox’ speaking of any photocopy, whether or not it was created by a machine from the Xerox corporation. We describe information search on the Internet with just one word — ‘google’. We ‘photoshop pictures’ instead of editing them on the computer. And COVID-19 made ‘zoom’ a synonym for a videoconference. Practically, nothing.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The interesting questions is: what are the trade-offs of each approach and when should we prefer one over the other? One perspective is to organise teams ‘vertically’, aligned with the company’s products. Google might have a Google Drive department, a Google Maps department, an AdWords department and so on.

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The Daily WTF

DECEMBER 29, 2019

A new ticket had just come in, asking for someone to replace the DVI cable that'd gone missing from Conference Room 3. On a dusty shelf in a remote corner, she spotted what she was looking for. On a dusty shelf in a remote corner, she spotted what she was looking for. Original. -- Remy. Easy enough. What, is it—?"

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The Daily WTF

JULY 17, 2019

A new ticket had just come in, asking for someone to replace the DVI cable that'd gone missing from Conference Room 3. On a dusty shelf in a remote corner, she spotted what she was looking for. He also got notification of Jen's tickets, and they worked on them together. "That ticket that just came in? What, is it—?"

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Bernd Rucker

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

And a lot of companies struggle with legacy because of their own history: Off-the-shelf software was bought that never provided proper APIs and custom solutions where build as silos in a three-tier-architecture where the UI was the primary or only interface. The RPA tool market is very diverse.

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Altexsoft

MAY 8, 2020

A booking engine is the brains behind distributing travel products online. Without this software component, you can neither sell nor buy airline tickets or hotel reservations through the Internet. Trip-related companies employ different types of booking engines to run core processes instead of human personnel. airline reservation systems ( ARSs ).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

To start off, it appears that no-code/low-code tools hasn’t had much impact on the number of people working in IT. What can be done is deciding which technical debt is worth the flexibility low-code confers, and which technical debt does not reach that threshold. More posts by this contributor. Deb Gildersleeve , CIO, Quickbase.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

APRIL 2, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Ron Lichty, discuss what makes high-performance teams versus what makes low-performance teams. Most teams already know which category they fall into, but the solution to a low-performing team isn’t always clear. Show Notes. Learning what makes software development teams hum (1:40).

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 17, 2019

You probably heard these words from a conference lecturer or saw similar headlines online. Data is the lifeblood of an organization and its commercial success. In the first case, that’s accurate order details that you need. In the second case, you must segment customers based on their activity and interests.To Source: Skyscanner Facebook.

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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Or a developer failed to test the app with real users to verify usage scenarios, hoping his idea will take off by itself. Why did you favor this tool over the thousands of similar ones? Maybe because of its stylish and easy interface, flawless work, or affordability. Besides, your close friends use this app too. A huge event.

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The Parallax

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Experts say there is a straightforward response, however, to vulnerable voting-machine software. The problem is that it involves cooperation in Congress. This map shows which electronic voting systems are in use across the U.S., based on data from VerifiedVoting.org. Illustration by Pinguino Kolb/The Parallax. Following the 2016 election, the U.S.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 26, 2009

I am fortunate enough to spend a lot of time looking at various online products and services in the development stage, mostly of the Web 2.0 variety, meaning they use one or more of the principles in the Web 2.0 set of practices. However, most of the success of an online product, Web 2.0

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 26, 2009

I am fortunate enough to spend a lot of time looking at various online products and services in the development stage, mostly of the Web 2.0 variety, meaning they use one or more of the principles in the Web 2.0 set of practices. However, most of the success of an online product, Web 2.0

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 29, 2009

I am fortunate enough to spend a lot of time looking at various online products and services in the development stage, mostly of the Web 2.0 variety, meaning they use one or more of the principles in the Web 2.0 set of practices. The Web Community Gets Smarter Every Time It Builds A Product.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 26, 2009

I am fortunate enough to spend a lot of time looking at various online products and services in the development stage, mostly of the Web 2.0 variety, meaning they use one or more of the principles in the Web 2.0 set of practices. However, most of the success of an online product, Web 2.0

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