Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 8, 2018
“Why does my manager care if I go directly to his boss with an idea? Good ideas are good ideas, right?” “Customers don’t need all that formality. They’re chill. Why can’t I just show up and give them an update?” “When the […]. The post How Do I Convince My Manager I’m a Professional appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Scott Berkun
MAY 8, 2018
Creative abrasion is Jerry Hirshberg’s term for the kinds of friction that helps develop better ideas. Hirshberg, a former design manager at Nissan, realized that some kinds of resistance are useful in the creative process and should be deliberately created by the leader of a team. This could be a timely critique, a barrage of difficult questions or even a temporary reworking of team processes and roles.
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Toptal
MAY 8, 2018
Fewer than 3% of applicants make it through Toptal Finance’s rigorous screening process. How do the best of the best become such effective financial consultants? We sat down with one of Toptal’s most on-demand financial consultants, Jeffrey Fidelman, who shared his proprietary methods for ensuring success for his clients and how he has grown his own business exponentially.
CTOvision
MAY 8, 2018
When accountability is used as innovation, it not only drives social change but also helps solve seemingly intractable problems. Here’s a recent example: In the fall of 2014, CVS decided to stop selling cigarettes. The company would forego $2 billion in revenue, because “the sale of tobacco products is inconsistent with our purpose – helping […].
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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.
Toptal
MAY 8, 2018
Two Toptal designers engage in a lively debate about aesthetics, objectivity, and the definition of art and design.
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Loom Systems
MAY 8, 2018
You're not the only one who gets trolled by Windows! Well folks, does the above image look familiar? Have you ever seen this screen pop up suddenly during the middle of your work and caused you to bang your head right on the screen which caused all your past work to disappear? Well, this is what we call the “Blue Screen of Death” or simply “BSOD” and you’re simply not the only one who just got trolled by Windows!
Dzone - DevOps
MAY 8, 2018
It's been a long week, y'all. I mean, a really long week. My manager isn't here today, so I'll go ahead and say it: I don't feel like doing a Zone Roundup this month.
Brainvire
MAY 8, 2018
The timeline of Industry 1.0 to 4.0 depicts evolution that industries underwent through and how all integrated changes as per technology shifts. First arrived steam power, mechanization, and water power. The second was the establishment of mass production, assembly line, and electricity. The third was the dawn of computers and automation. And current the 4.0 is blending computer and automation to derive the concept of the smart factory.
Dzone - DevOps
MAY 8, 2018
The past nine weeks of blog posts have introduced, explained, and demonstrated some of the many features of the Istio service mesh when combined it is with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes. This, the final post in this series, is a recap. [This is part ten of my ten-part Introduction to Istio series. My previous article was Part 9: Istio Egress: Exit Through the Gift Shop.
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Strategy Driven
MAY 8, 2018
E-commerce businesses are conquering more and more market shares. Since it is tempting to be there among the top performers, you can get a head start by implementing a few straightforward things. These are some of the most important steps. Have A Unique Business Idea. The business idea is, of course, the starting point and the heart of every online business.
Nutanix
MAY 8, 2018
Reputation matters. Especially for fast growing companies like ours. When you are hiring fast, it helps to have your good reputation precede you. That’s why we are really happy to have been named one of the top public cloud companies to work for in 2018 by Glassdoor and Battery Ventures.
Strategy Driven
MAY 8, 2018
Running your company in the most cost effective way possible should be your number one priority right now. If it’s not, that suggests there’s something wrong. So why is this so important? Most business owners assume that things are being run efficiently and cost effectively, but that’s often not the case at all. Making those kinds of assumptions as an entrepreneur is almost always a bad idea.
Nutanix
MAY 8, 2018
Earlier today, at Nutanix.NEXT in Anaheim, we shared with the 7,000+ attendees that you can now use Frame to provision one-click virtual desktops on your own Nutanix cluster running AHV.
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.
Strategy Driven
MAY 8, 2018
Procurement is a term you will hear often in business , but it may not be one which you are instantly familiar with. Procurement is all about making sure that all products a company gets are from trusted suppliers and are of good value. For example, if you had a company whose sole focus was to be environmentally friendly, the procurement team would make sure that their suppliers were environmentally friendly and that all product is sourced naturally wherever possible.
Accenture
MAY 8, 2018
Below is an amalgamation of answers by both Brent Barton and Mike De Luca. In our last webinar “Organizational Adaptability Through Active Executive Sponsorship” – the third installation in our Business Agility Webinar Series – SolutionsIQ’s Brent Barton and Beyond Budgeting Round Table North America’s Mike De Luca focused on a typical mistake that executives do in their Agile transformation initiatives: delegating the entire change initiative rather than actively engaging in and supporting the
ProtectWise
MAY 8, 2018
It’s been widely reported that the global cybersecurity talent shortage is projected to reach 1.8 million unfilled roles by 2020. In the meantime, the talent shortage causes open cybersecurity jobs to often take months or even years to fill, while cybercriminals capitalize on short-staffed businesses. Fueling the widening gap are perception challenges about careers in cybersecurity, negligible information about the field, lack of access to early instruction and mentoring, and unrealistic r
A List Apart
MAY 8, 2018
Here at A List Apart , we’re looking for new authors , and that means you. What should you write about? Glad you asked! You should write about topics that keep you up at night, passions that make you the first to show up in the office each morning, ideas that matter to our community and about which you have a story to tell or an insight to share. We’re not looking for case studies about your company or thousand-foot overviews of topics most ALA readers already know about (i.e., you don’t have to
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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.
Daniel Bryant
MAY 8, 2018
In the first article of this Rate Limiting series I introduced the motivations for rate limiting, and discussed several implementation options (depending whether you own both sides of the communication, or not) and the associated tradeoffs. This article dives a little deeper into the need for rate limiting with API gateways Why Rate Limit with an API Gateway?
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