Mon.Aug 13, 2018

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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago?

High Scalability

Decentralized systems will continue to lose to centralized systems until there's a driver requiring decentralization to deliver a clearly superior consumer experience. Unfortunately, that may not happen for quite some time. I say unfortunately because ten years ago, even five years ago, I still believed decentralization would win. Why? For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud.

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Virtual Reality Next Game-Changer for Medicine

Dell EMC

Edgar Sosa was born with a condition called Craniosynostosis where one or more of the sutures in a child’s skull fuses or closes too early. Untreated, it could have hurt his brain development. Then, in the first weeks of his own child’s life, Sosa learned he had passed the genetic condition on to her. But one thing was very different this time – while the same surgeon who treated the father would be treating the child, the way he prepared was totally different.

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A Tapestry of Threads

The Daily WTF

A project is planned. Gantt charts are drawn up. Timelines are set. They're tight up against the critical path, because including any slack time in the project plan is like planning for failure. PMs have meetings. Timelines slip. Something must be done, and the PMs form a nugget of a plan. That nugget squeezes out of their meeting, and rolls downhill until it lands on some poor developer's desk.

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Radical Candor: Love your work and the people you work with

Agile Alliance

Kim Scott discusses Radical Candor, a framework that helps you improve your feedback by both caring personally and challenging directly at the same time.

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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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Effective Leadership requires Key Ingredients

General Leadership

The more humble and transparent a leader is, the more effective he or she will be. Michael Hyatt. Across my leadership journey, I have worked with and for many leaders. Some were very good, some good, and some not-so-good. As I have reflected on each of those experiences, I recognized traits, skills, or abilities that each leader either possessed or was lacking.

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6 Tips to Balance Your Work & Life

Career Advancement

“Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.”. ~Betsy Jacobson~. Kathy asks: My job keeps demanding more and more of me. I’m passionate about my career, but I don’t want it to be my entire life. How can I find work/life balance ? Joel replies: Kathy, you’re in good company—countless employees in the U.S. are working long, hard hours.

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5 Affordable Meals Packed with Protein for Business Women

Women on Business

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China outspends US in 5G tech, Facebook’s mission to connect all, Hollywood gets its own open source foundation, IoT spending to touch half a trillion dollars in four years

CTOvision

China has outspent the US by $24 billion in 5G technology since 2015, study shows 5G is coming soon but it seems that China and not the US may be the first to provide 5G services to its citizens. This is because China has outspent the US by a whopping $24 billion building 5G infrastructure.

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Managing Priorities: Are You Tired of Carrying Around Rocks?

CO2 Business Leadership

By: Thomas Schlick Company Rocks? Department Rocks? Individual Rocks? My guess is they don’t make you feel like “you rock”! If you are using the E.O.S. (Entrepreneurial Operating System) of Traction , these “Rocks” are the priorities you and your company need to tackle and accomplish in the next 90 days. There are typically 3 to 7 of them every 90 days.

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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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Hottest MusicTech startups of 2018

Apiumhub

The music industry is not an exception, it got influenced by technology as well. Innovators are developing MusicTech to find new ways music can be created and performed. And startups try to automate everything that can be automated, eliminating pain points for artists. The digital era also gave a lot of opportunities for followers and admirers to interact with their favourite artists and music bands.

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How to Effectively Manage Multi-Cloud Security Challenges

Prisma Clud

“Products provide some protection, but the only way to effectively do business in an insecure world is to put processes in place that recognize the inherent insecurity in the products. … Continue reading "How to Effectively Manage Multi-Cloud Security Challenges". The post How to Effectively Manage Multi-Cloud Security Challenges appeared first on RedLock.

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MyRepublic: How Telcotechs are disrupting the Telco Industry

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

On one of my trips to Singapore in June 2016, I was invited to meet with a new startup in the telco space. A company called MyRepublic. MyRepublic was started in 2011 to leverage Singapore’s exciting Next Gen NBN roll-out – the first of many National Broadband Networks (NBN) happening in the Asia Pacific region. By January 2014, this startup was able to launch the world’s first 1Gbps broadband plan in Singapore under S$50.

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monday.com: the Total Team Management Tool

David Walsh

Intro. Whether you’re a solo freelancer, an open source team, a large company, or a worldwide organization, having a consistent and usable team management tool is the difference between a well oiled machine and chaos. Managing people, projects, tasks, payments…there’s always so much going on! monday.com has the perfect team management tool: easy to use, all-encompassing, flexible, and ready for you to try out today !

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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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Why iPhone app development is the prerequisite of a successful business?

Xicom

App development has become the order of the day which means that almost every business and brand is bent upon getting a beautiful and productive app for their business. An app is everything for the business and if it’s made by the professionals and experts, it can add so much value to your business and double and triple the ROI as well which is always the utmost goal of every brand owner.

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Five Questions in Five Minutes with the CEO of WebPT

Battery Ventures

Portfolio Spotlight: Nancy Ham, CEO of WebPT. Each month, Battery highlights a different portfolio-company CEO with our “Five Questions in Five Minutes” feature, showcasing the diversity of the Battery portfolio across investment stages, sectors and geographies. What does your company do in 10 words or less? Electronic medical records (EMR), practice management, and other tech solutions for outpatient rehabilitation clinics.

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The Coming Chinese Storm

The Cipher Brief

Mark Kelton, the CIA’s Former Deputy Director for Counterintelligence writes that “the Chinese intelligence storm bearing down on the U.S. has long since announced itself, building from that portentous breeze to a truly gale force. It is a secret assault on America that is without parallel since the assault mounted by Moscow in the 1930’s and 40’s. [1] As was the case during that so-called “Golden Age” of Soviet espionage, Beijing’s ongoing intelligence campaign has garnered n

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Objective and Key Results: Engaging Your Employees To Commit to the Company Goals

Evolution4all

Objective and Key Results: How to engage your employees to commit to the company goals. Keeping everyone in your team in sync can be a real challenge especially if you don’t hold the members of your team engaged with the visions of your company. For a traditional corporate milieu, this is not a surprise. And probably the reason why many feel that they’re a bit lost about the direction of the company that they are working for.

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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.