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What machine learning engineers need to know

O'Reilly Media - Data

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Jesse Anderson and Paco Nathan on organizing data teams and next-generation messaging with Apache Pulsar. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Jesse Anderson , managing director of the Big Data Institute , and my colleague Paco Nathan , who recently became co-chair of Jupytercon. This conversation grew out of a recent email thread the three of us had on machine learning engineers , a new job role that LinkedIn recently pegged as the fastest growing job

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How to Dramatically Improve Your Team Communication

Let's Grow Leaders

The best way to improve your team communication is to talk about it. Most team frustration stems from expectation violations, not just about what we’re communicating, but how. It’s always inspiring to see a team carve out some time, shut the door, […]. The post How to Dramatically Improve Your Team Communication appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Comprehensive Guide to JavaScript Design Patterns

Toptal

As a good JavaScript developer, you strive to write clean, healthy, and maintainable code. While you solve interesting and unique challenges, you’ve likely found that you’re often writing code that looks similar to the code for an entirely different problem you’ve handled before. You may not know it, but you’ve used a design pattern.

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The Three Gaps of Creativity: Effort, Skill and Quality

Scott Berkun

[This is an excerpt from the book The Dance of The Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity. If you enjoy it, imagine how much you’ll like the whole book?]. The great surprise for people with good ideas is the gap between how an idea feels in their mind and how it feels when they try to put the idea to work. When a good idea comes together it feels fantastic.

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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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The Financial Implications of Technical Debt

Toptal

Technical debt, which relates to suboptimal technology infrastructure in an organization, can actually be a huge financial burden on a business. However, like traditional financial debt, there are steps and processes that can be taken to manage and mitigate the risk. In this article, we elaborate on how CFOs can tackle their technical debt burden.

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Altered Carbon: SciFi Action Exploring Concepts Of Bio-Sciences and The Ultimate In Personal IT

CTOvision

Altered Carbon is a great series examining lots of interesting and thought provoking questions of what our future might be and what we might not want to see happen to humanity. It is based on an award-winning cyberpunk novel by Richard K. Morgan, and stars Joel Kinnaman (which you may recall from Robocop). We most […].

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Announcing Sophie version 2.5 – Role-Based Access Control, New User Interface, and Retention Management

Loom Systems

As an avid prank enthusiast, I was eager for the opportunity to write an April fools' blog post full of fake features to accompany our latest release, alas Sophie version 2.5 is just too awesome and totally stole the thunder. ( I guess AI for log analysis will have to wait for next year …). Our newest version is all about visibility and giving more control to our users, so with no further ado allow me to introduce Sophie 2.5!

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Here’s How Machine Learning Will Provide Structure to Unstructured Data

CTOvision

Unstructured data is the content an organization possesses that is not categorized or otherwise in a beneficial and usable format. However, data scientists are successfully implementing ways to depend on machine learning algorithms to give it structure and help the owners of that data extract essential details from it. Why Is Unstructured Data So Prevalent […].

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Continuous Delivery in the World of Serverless

CloudZero

Here at CloudZero we're building the world's first Serverless Reliability Management platform, enabling our customers to forecast reliability and address weaknesses in their cloud deployments before they become incidents.

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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. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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A simple diagram and some conversations on flow efficiency

Marcusoft

The last couple of weeks I have been re-discovering an old diagram (eerm … sketch really). You can find it scribbled on close to every whiteboard in our office now. Because it opened a lot of interesting discussions on flow, flow efficiency and optimizations for value delivery. I wanted to share this with you here, in a few iterations and also share some of the discussion that it triggered.

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How to Effectively Run a Planning Meeting: Decision-Making Meeting Tips

CO2 Business Leadership

The quality of an organization’s meetings is often tied to the quality of the organization’s overall work. Like effective organizations, effective meetings have clearly defined roles and objectives. There are four different types of meetings : decision-making, informational, creative, and motivational. While every meeting type is important, decision-making meetings are perhaps the most common.

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Integration Roundup: API Management

Dzone - DevOps

Image Source Okay, so supervisor and manager kind of mean the same thing; I'll be honest, I just really wanted to use this Archer quote. Anyway. welcome to this month's edition of the Integration Roundup! Last time, we discussed integration projects using the Spring framework for Java. Today, we'll take a look at what the DZone Community is doing with API Managment Systems, and see what API experts have to say on the subject.

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VR app development for medical training and education

VironIT

For hundreds of years, medical students have been dissecting cadavers to learn about the inner workings of the human body. Nowadays, however, virtual reality app development will become the new standard for medical training and education. Millennial students can put on a headset and their teacher can guide them through a lesson on a virtual […].

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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.

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Impact of technology on insurance industry

Hacker Earth

Like every other industry, the global insurance sector, worth over $5 trillion, has undergone an immense overhaul because of disruptive technologies in recent years. Customer expectations have changed, and the digitally savvy people who have grown up in the last couple of decades are used to personalized interactions and instant gratification. Admittedly, the insurance industry (risk, premium, claims) has been slow to keep pace with digitization and are only slowly beginning to grasp the power o

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One Way We Retain the Best Software Engineers with Gorilla Labs

Gorilla Logic

I met a university student at a technical meet up in Costa Rica who was enrolled in a software engineering program. The student was networking in hopes of finding his first job out of college. “You work for Gorilla Logic? They are the best!” he exclaimed. The word is out. Gorilla Logic hires the best software engineers in Costa Rica. And once we find them, we want to keep them.

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How to Effectively Run a Planning Meeting: Decision-Making Meeting Tips

CO2 Business Leadership

The quality of an organization’s meetings is often tied to the quality of the organization’s overall work. Like effective organizations, effective meetings have clearly defined roles and objectives. There are four different types of meetings : decision-making, informational, creative, and motivational. While every meeting type is important, decision-making meetings are perhaps the most common.

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How secure is your data?

Robots and Pencils

Questions to ask your CIO or IT team As Facebook’s stock takes a tumble and Mark Zuckerberg declines a state sponsored London vacation to the Houses of Parliament, data security is becoming more and more buzzy in executive circles. No one wants their name splashed with the words breach, compromised or abused, especially when it comes to data. With today’s digital first ethos and the broadening of technology adoption in the workplace, you should know the questions that need to be asked to get a “

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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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Looking Into The New World of Virtual Reality

Brainvire

Manipulation of your sense organs is what virtual reality does, sounds ambiguous right? But yes that’s what virtual reality does, it just influences your senses in a manner that you are suspended in the world it shoes to you. So, virtual reality is an easy concept that summarizes to near reality. Though “near reality” isn’t a clear impression but we can infer that virtual reality is an artificial environment created through computers that is so immersive that the person experiencing it believes

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The Software-Defined Future, Brought to You by TidalScale

TidalScale

Last week at Silicon Valley’s storied Computer History Museum, some 200 people came together to see what’s next.

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HIMSS 2018 over so What's.Next!

Nutanix

One of the largest healthcare IT shows, HIMSS 2018 wrapped up in Las Vegas back in the first week of March and as expected over 1300 companies exhibited in the areas such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, clinical workflows, and interoperability.

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Meeting Design

A List Apart

A note from the editors: We’re pleased to share an excerpt from Chapter 2 (“The Design Constraint of All Meetings”) of Meeting Design: For Managers, Makers, and Everyone by Kevin Hoffman , available now from Two Waves. Jane is a “do it right, or I’ll do it myself ” kind of person. She leads marketing, customer service, and information technology teams for a small airline that operates between islands of the Caribbean.

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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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Why And When To Choose Microservices Over Monolithic Application Architecture

Sunflower Lab

Understand the pros and cons of monolithic and microservices architectures and when they should be used – Why microservices development is popular. Business processes are largely dependent upon market-centric requirements. Consumer needs and buying-behavior evolve over time, and as they do, businesses need to change their product or services model to fulfil the changing consumer demands.

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Bitcoin Basics Infographic – What Is Cryptocurrency and Why Should You Care?

Women on Business

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