OverOps
MARCH 26, 2019
How many errors does the average application have? And, how much do these errors cost companies each year? We all know application issues cost money, but quantifying it – well, that’s a harder task. Many organizations have been struggling to understand not only the cost of downtime, but how to quantify the quality of their software and what the cost is of poor quality code.
Terry Starbucker
MARCH 26, 2019
How many times have we heard these words in a workplace? “We’re in the dark here”. “Nobody knows what’s going on”. “This is an information vacuum!” Too many times, right? These are classic signs of a (very) big leadership fail I call “ Leadership by Osmosis “. That is, the expectation that a leader’s knowledge can simply be transferred to others without the benefit of much verbal and written communication – kind of like Mr.
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CTOvision
MARCH 26, 2019
When people think about artificial intelligence or AI, they can be quick to jump to the all-too-common sci-fi depiction of a heartlessly rational computer willing to kill people to fulfill its programming. Real AI is light-years away from that. Today, AI is still pretty far from basic things humans can accomplish, like being able to […].
Confluent
MARCH 26, 2019
Apache-Kafka ® -based applications stand out for their ability to decouple producers and consumers using an event log as an intermediate layer. One result of this is that producers and consumers don’t know about each other, as there is no direct communication between them. This enables choreographed service collaborations, where many components can subscribe to events stored in the event log and react to them asynchronously.
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.
Toptal
MARCH 26, 2019
eCommerce sites and apps that are not mindful of mobile eCommerce best practices will be left in the dust and stand to lose billions. But successful mobile eCommerce experiences can be achieved by following these mobile eCommerce UX design best practices (with infographic).
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Toptal
MARCH 26, 2019
WordPress maintenance tends to be straightforward and some may even consider it mundane. However, this doesn’t mean you should take it lightly, as it can still consume a lot of time. In this article, Toptal WordPress Developer Hassan Jamal outlines ten essential WordPress maintenance tips that could help you save hours of work and keep your websites up to date with relative ease.
CTOvision
MARCH 26, 2019
Read Naga Rayapati list four reasons that AI community should think beyond deep learning on Forbes : Artificial intelligence (AI) is dominated by pattern recognition techniques. Recently, major advances have been made in the fields of image recognition, machine translation, audio processing and several others thanks to the development and refinement of deep learning.
David Walsh
MARCH 26, 2019
Did you know that you can learn programming online from institutions like Harvard, MIT and Microsoft on edX.org ? The nonprofit site offers 2000 online courses from 140 institutions worldwide. Courses are free to try. EdX has over 200 courses from Microsoft alone, including an 11 course program for Front End Web Development , described as follows: If you want to become a front-end web developer, it can be difficult to figure out where to begin.
CTOvision
MARCH 26, 2019
Machine learning is not real learning — machine learning would appear to be a misleading phrase, maybe as a result we need to re-think our understanding of AI; at least these are the implications of a recently published paper. Artificial intelligence is a misleading phrase, or so many argue. It is misleading because there is […].
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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.
Dell EMC
MARCH 26, 2019
Harsh operating environments for both workers and machinery are one of the key challenges in the mining industry. There are still many incidents where casualties happen due to explosions, cave-ins and equipment related accidents. Workers are also facing regular risks due to the toxic operating conditions. To overcome these occupational hazards while maximizing worker safety and efficiency, mining companies are investing in developing smart appliances and systems that harness the power of the Int
DevOps.com
MARCH 26, 2019
Consumers expect to be able to do anything, anywhere and at any time in our digital world. They’ve grown accustomed to this level of speed and efficiency because business-to-consumer (B2C) companies have been delivering a frictionless customer experience for years. PayPal and Venmo are great examples of frictionless transactions and instant gratification through digital platforms: […].
Edge Perspectives
MARCH 26, 2019
In our Big Shift world, we confront the imperative of institutional innovation – shifting from institutional models built on scalable efficiency to institutional models built on scalable learning. I’ve written and spoken about this a lot over the years and one of the most common pushbacks I get is – “so, are you against efficiency?” This post seeks to answer that question.
CTOvision
MARCH 26, 2019
Less than six months after launching my company I found myself at a diner with a friend. Over coffee, I began telling him about my recent successes — and struggles — as an entrepreneur. He stopped me. “Have you read The E-Myth?” I shook my head. “Then cancel everything you’re doing today and get yourself […].
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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. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
Stackery
MARCH 26, 2019
AWS Summit Santa Clara is one day away and you’ve barely looked at the agenda. You’re not alone. Since there isn’t a dedicated serverless track, we built one for you. Here are our five recommendations: 1) To find sessions and navigate the event, download the AWS Summits mobile app. Trust us on this one. 2) Tell your boss and architects to grab a box lunch before the noon session and then put these two sessions on their calendars: These talks will let you understand the serverless landscape and e
CTOvision
MARCH 26, 2019
In the coming weeks, AWS is launching new G4 instances with support for Nvidia’s T4 Tensor Core GPUs, the company today announced at Nvidia’s GTC conference. The T4, which is based on Nvidia’s Turing architecture, was specifically optimized for running AI models. The T4 will be supported by the EC2 compute service and the Amazon […].
CircleCI
MARCH 26, 2019
Photo credit: Meshstudio. Automating the delivery of software can solve many of the problems associated with manual deployments. The goal of this post is to provide insight into continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) for Node.js projects. The tutorial will feature the use of several tools: Docker to help us in containerization, Kubernetes will be used as our orchestration tool, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) will be the cloud service provider, and finally, CircleCI.
DevOps.com
MARCH 26, 2019
This article illustrates how to deploy an application into a Hadoop cluster using GitLab/Jenkins/Spark application. In this article, we will cover the following: Auto-triggering Jenkins build when code is committed in Git. Pulling the latest code from the repository through Jenkins. Building, compiling and packaging the “.jar” using SBT tool. Uploading the.jar to the […].
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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.
Agile42
MARCH 26, 2019
Istanbul Technical University Solar Car Team is a team made up completely of students who participate in solar car races. The team consists of 30 ITU students. They voluntarily put their hearts and efforts into being the champion of solar car races while getting through their undergraduate studies. Their goal is to promote and educate the use of clean energy.
Strategic Tech
MARCH 26, 2019
Software developers are interchangeable. 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. If that sounds like something you would say or think, then your perception of software development is severely detrimental to the health of your business.
Datavail
MARCH 26, 2019
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software started out as a tool for sales professionals. It let the sales person keep track of their interaction with prospects and customers. Today, a CRM is much more than that. It brings together information from a number of departments to improve your customers’ experience with your business. Moving CRM to the cloud is the best way to support all the features a CRM can offer.
DevOps.com
MARCH 26, 2019
Investment from Riverwood Capital enables continuous testing leader to drive strategic growth; fuels efforts to evolve portfolio beyond functional testing SAN FRANCISCO – March 26, 2019 – Sauce Labs Inc., provider of the world’s most comprehensive and trusted continuous testing cloud, today announced that it has secured a $50 million growth investment from Riverwood Capital.
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If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.
Honeycomb
MARCH 26, 2019
If you’re trying to evaluate and understand the ROI of building an observability practice and carve out a budget for it, you’re not alone. You’ve probably got some monitoring and metrics capability already, but that’s proving to not be enough–how can you empower your teams as your environment becomes too complex for the basics?
DevOps.com
MARCH 26, 2019
Hazelcast Cloud delivers simplified and instantaneous deployments for workloads requiring lowest latency at any scale Palo Alto, Calif., March 26, 2019 – Hazelcast, the leading in-memory computing platform company, today announced Hazelcast Cloud, a fully managed, low latency data layer for cloud-based workloads at any scale. With Hazelcast Cloud, companies can realize microsecond[1] performance for critical applications from […].
TechBeacon
MARCH 26, 2019
You can use The Open Group’s IT4IT Reference Architecture to deploy agile at enterprise scale, using either SAFe or other scalable agile methods—and that's exactly what our team did. The result: We increased our release cadence by a factor of 10.
CTOvision
MARCH 26, 2019
Optimizing AI in your organization requires attention to the closely interrelated topics of security, compliance and ethics. The need for specialized security around AI has been underscored by the proven ability for many kinds of algorithms to be deceived as well as the need to protect both data and algorithms from modification. The need for […].
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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.
TechBeacon
MARCH 26, 2019
If your company has adopted DevOps, you'll want to do performance testing as a part of your continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) release train.
Dataiku
MARCH 26, 2019
With some industry experts naming 2019 as the year of increased data regulation, it’s certainly true that at this point, there is no looking back - the use of data across roles and industry will only become increasingly restricted. But that doesn’t have to mean a pause or paralyzation in data use.
DataRobot
MARCH 26, 2019
DataRobot was proud to be a sponsor of the 2019 Queen City Hackathon in Charlotte, North Carolina. Although DataRobot did not officially compete in the hackathon, we had the opportunity to do a test-run of the DataRobot platform against the dataset used in the hackathon.
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