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How blockchain is a great opportunity for developers?

OTS Solutions

Why is Blockchain a Great Opportunity for Developers? The price spike in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin in the past year has revitalized public interest in blockchain technologies. Despite the common conception that the technology is only really used for the creation of cryptocurrencies, there exist a myriad of potential applications for blockchain technology.

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Data Visualization ? Best Practices and Foundations

Toptal

Data visualization is a coherent way to visually communicate quantitative content. Depending on its attributes, data may be represented in different ways, such as line graphs and scatter plots.

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The Problem with Patterns

A List Apart

It started off as an honest problem with a brilliant solution. As the ways we use the web continue to grow and evolve, we, as its well-intentioned makers and stewards, needed something better than making simple collections of pages over and over again. Design patterns, component libraries, or even style guides have become the norm for organizations big and small.

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What You Need to Know Before Starting Your Business

Women on Business

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Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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Do Economic Moats Still Matter?

Toptal

Companies, like castles, need a line of defense to repel the invaders' advances. Economic moats, taking a cue from their watery namesakes, are long-term and sustainable competitive advantages that protect others from seizing market share. But on the flipside, are they actually just lazy, passive strategies that shun innovation?

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Making Diamonds from your Retrospectives - The Diamond of Participatory Decision Making

Agile42

One of the techniques I have come to greatly appreciate as a facilitator is the diamond of participatory decision making (see “ The Leader’s Guide to Participatory Decision Making ”, 1998 by Sam Kaner). This technique/framework allows facilitators to better harness team’s collective intelligence. What problem does the diamond solve? As part of a business writing course I took years ago I learned about writer’s block: a state of mind in which professional writers (such as a novelist) cannot find

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7 Excellent Ideas to make mobile app development successful

Xicom

Mobile app development has shown it well that sky’s the limit for this digital marketing technology. Marketing? Are we talking about mobile marketing or apps? Well, most of us do not know that a mobile app is the most quickest and effective way of reaching the target base and the audience with the help of a mobile app: whether it’s iPhone application development or Android application development.

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Strong Passwords in iOS 12

Robots and Pencils

Create Strong Passwords in iOS 12 Security is a hot topic these days, especially after many of the high profile hacks that have occurred over the past couple of years. Passwords, in particular, are coming under scrutiny as insecure, as folks reuse passwords between websites or use weak/insecure passwords like ‘password123’ or ‘letmein’. It’s reaching a point where some companies, like Microsoft, are talking about doing away with passwords altogether.

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The Bottlenecks that Bog Down Your Recruiting Process

CodeSignal

Tired of feeling bogged down by recruiting bottlenecks? Maybe it’s time you stopped working in your pipeline and started working on it. Start by objectively evaluating your workflow and then seek solutions that will yield greater efficiency. It’s easy to feel overworked and underappreciated as a technical recruiter. You put in long hours sifting through countless profiles on job boards, only to be consistently disappointed by the handful of developers who actually apply.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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?Think Software 2018, London

OpenCredo

Join us at.think software 2018! Take one afternoon to learn about some of the most important topics of the day, hear from outstanding speakers all with hard-won experience delivering projects. Continue reading …Think Software 2018, London on opencredo.com.

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The Bottlenecks that Bog Down Your Recruiting Process

CodeSignal

Tired of feeling bogged down by recruiting bottlenecks? Maybe it’s time you stopped working in your pipeline and started working on it. Start by objectively evaluating your workflow and then seek solutions that will yield greater efficiency. It’s easy to feel overworked and underappreciated as a technical recruiter. You put in long hours sifting through countless profiles on job boards, only to be consistently disappointed by the handful of developers who actually apply.

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Training Room Layout

Rapid BI

Training room layout - When you run your meeting or training event, its not just room layout that is important, its about matching the room layout with the trainers style, the material to be covered and the required outcomes. The room shape and design can make or break an event. The post Training Room Layout appeared first on RapidBI.

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OKRs: A Simple But Awesome Strategy to Get Stuff Done

Evolution4all

The goal of OKRs is for every member of the organisation – from the key stakeholders and leaders down to the team members – understand the objectives of the company through a set of defined, specific and measurable actions. With today’s complex nature of organisations, team members often find themselves feeling lost amidst the rapid changes that they deal with every day.

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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. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Why a Company Blog Should be Incorporated into Your Marketing Strategy

Strategy Driven

As a business owner, you’re open to any and all tips to aid in the growth of your business. But, if you haven’t started your company blog yet, you may want to reevaluate your marketing strategy. A company blog has influential benefits, such as improving your website authority and raising awareness of your brand, which in turn produces loyal readers which translate into customers.

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8 Things Businesses Get Wrong About Innovation

Accenture

With our recent webinar on Agile product management as an enabler of product innovation, we wanted to dispel some common misconceptions about innovation. Resident innovator-consultant Jeff Steinberg outlined for us his ideas and shared his experiences with product innovation in a past Agile Amped podcast called “Creating Disruptive Innovation Inside the Enterprise.

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How to Encourage Teens to Get Jobs and Save Their Own Money

Strategy Driven

Instead of allowing your kiddo to laze around the house this summer, encourage your teen to get a job and save their own money instead. How so? Here are a few methods for talking your teen into taking on responsibilities and making their own cash this summer. Encourage Your Kids to Search for Local Part-Time Jobs. Older teens, around 15 and older, can apply for part-time jobs.

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The cost of not embarking on a customer 360 strategy

Cloudera

Gartner’s recently released report “Master Data Management Forms the Basis of a Trusted 360-Degree View of the Customer,” shares the results of an executive survey highlighting several key points, including that customer initiatives, are among CEOs’ top five priorities in 2018. The report includes numerous strategic recommendations and outlines the impact of a Master Data Management (MDM) strategy.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Estimating Program Increment Capacity in Scaled Agile (SAFe)

QSM

Scaled Agile (SAFe) is a methodology that applies Agile concepts to large complex environments. QSM recently worked with an organization that had implemented SAFe to develop an estimation methodology specifically tailored to it. This article discusses how it was implemented. Software estimation typically addresses three concerns: staffing, cost/effort, and schedule.

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How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 9: Tracing The Query Path

Honeycomb

This post continues our long-running dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb Part 8: A Bee’s Life. To understand how Honeycomb uses Honeycomb at a high level, check out our dogfooding blog posts first — they do a great job of telling the story of problems we’ve solved with Honeycomb. Last week we announced the general availability of tracing in Honeycomb.