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AI adoption in the enterprise 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Last year, when we felt interest in artificial intelligence (AI) was approaching a fever pitch, we created a survey to ask about AI adoption. When we analyzed the results , we determined the AI space was in a state of rapid change, so we eagerly commissioned a follow-up survey to help find out where AI stands right now. The new survey, which ran for a few weeks in December 2019, generated an enthusiastic 1,388 responses.

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Success Story: Enabling Customer Agility During COVID-19 Shutdown

Blue Sentry

The post Success Story: Enabling Customer Agility During COVID-19 Shutdown appeared first on Blue Sentry.

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Hiring remote employees? Here’s how to keep your remote team aligned

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

We understand the paranoia you are experiencing with the thought of hiring a remote team. Remote teams are surely a constant challenge for project managers. While hiring the right resources from a different location altogether is the first challenge, hiring people from different backgrounds, thought processes, and skillsets aligned to common goals is another. .

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Observations on ARM64 & AWS’s Amazon EC2 M6g Instances

Honeycomb

At re:Invent in December, Amazon announced the AWS Graviton2 processor and its forthcoming availability powering Amazon EC2 M6g instances. While the first-generation Graviton processor that powered A1 instances was better suited to less compute-intensive workloads, this processor is intended to offer AWS customers a compelling alternative to conventional x86-powered instances on both performance and cost.

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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 5-step guide to gender-fluid tech job descriptions

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

If you are a recruiter or hiring manager in the technical recruitment space and are wondering why most men (or women) are applying for your organization’s open positions, here’s a hint for you. Look at the language in your tech job descriptions. Chances are, the wording is more biased toward one gender than you realize. . Whether you believe it or not, language matters and words have an impact on both genders in the workplace.

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A 5-step guide to gender-fluid tech job descriptions

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

If you are a recruiter or hiring manager in the technical recruitment space and are wondering why most men (or women) are applying for your organization’s open positions, here’s a hint for you. Look at the language in your tech job descriptions. Chances are, the wording is more biased toward one gender than you realize. . Whether you believe it or not, language matters and words have an impact on both genders in the workplace.

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5 Tips for Successful Remote Workforce IT Management

Kaseya

An unprecedented crisis is gripping the world today. At the time of this writing, hundreds of thousands are battling a new disease while billions have had to put their normal lives on hold to mitigate the damage COVID-19 could cause. Economies globally are in peril, and businesses are taking immediate steps to flatten out the curve of the impact of this virus.

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Why secure data analytics is critical for CCPA compliance

TechBeacon

IT and security leaders have difficult roles: They must support business initiatives, manage large numbers of vendors, maintain hybrid IT infrastructure, and defend against cyber-attack. Now, with new data protection and privacy laws, security and privacy practices are converging, and IT and security need to work with stakeholders in privacy, compliance, risk, and legal.

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Improving Prediction of the Unconfirmed COVID-19 Cases

Teradata

With the lack of available tests & uncertainty around the true number of COVID-19 cases, Teradata Epidemiologist Daniel Ulatowski & Data Scientist Jack McCush hypothesize how symptomatic data & the Vantage ML Engine can be utilized to predict cases.

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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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8 Tips for Holding Virtual Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic

TechSoup

In light of the increasing threat of the COVID-19 virus , a large number of nonprofits have temporarily transitioned to a remote workforce if possible. In this short post, we'd like to take a moment to share some best practices for holding virtual meetings during these times.

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Managing through the COVID-19 Crisis – An Interactive Discussion

CTOvision

Join OODA CEO Matt Devost and CTO Bob Gourley on 19 March 2020 at 2pm Eastern for an interactive discussion on managing through the COVID-19 Crisis. This online zoom based discussion is for OODA members as well as any who registered for our OODAcon Future Proof. If you did not receive your invite, Contact us here. In this […].

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Building a Cloud ETL Pipeline on Confluent Cloud

Confluent

As enterprises move more and more of their applications to the cloud, they are also moving their on-prem ETL (extract, transform, load) pipelines to the cloud, as well as building […].

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Data-driven software engineering: How to avoid common problems

TechBeacon

In today’s digital world, data is constantly being generated, evaluated, and updated. It also plays an important role in the work of software engineers by providing accurate, actionable feedback that helps engineers understand where and how to make improvements to a product or process.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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It’s an unprecedented crisis: 8 things to do right now

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Even with a stellar crisis plan, the COVID-19 pandemic presents a set of challenges unprecedented in our lifetimes. We don’t know what’s going to happen, and we’re dealing with something growing exponentially, creating uncertainty on a global scale. I managed a team of 40 in Singapore during SARS. That crisis was different, hitting Singapore and a handful of other cities.

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Providing Agility in a Time of Great Change

Linux Academy

A note from Sam Kroonenburg, CEO of A Cloud Guru and Linux Academy. The situation facing the world right now is unprecedented in modern times and everyone is navigating to find a new normal. I want to start by saying that A Cloud Guru and Linux Academy have adapted quickly and there will be no disruption to our services or product and content delivery schedules.

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7 Industries that are Affected by Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Daffodil Software

The coronavirus outbreak, which originated in China, has infected tens of thousands of people globally. With over 153,648 confirmed cases across 146 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared it a pandemic. ( Source ).

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Coronavirus Response: Atlassian Expands Free Software

DevOps.com

Atlassian announced today it will make cloud-based versions of Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Desk and Jira Core available for free as part of an effort to assist organizations whose employees are working remotely to help combat the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Robert Chatwani, chief marketing officer for Atlassian, said given the current unprecedented situation the […].

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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The Role of Data Integration during Pandemics such as the Coronavirus Outbreak

Data Virtualization

Just when we feel smug about having found cures to innumerable diseases, along comes a new kind of a disease, such as the Coronavirus, that humbles us. As dire as the situation may be, in terms of the rapid spread.

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42Crunch Launches New REST API Static Security Testing Extension for Azure Pipelines

DevOps.com

42Crunch Launches New REST API Static Security Testing Extension for Azure Pipelines Enables Azure DevOps customers to extend their DevSecOps practices to REST APIs IRVINE, CA, MARCH 18, 2020 — Today, the API security leader and creator of REST API DevSecOps tooling and the industry’s first API Firewall, 42Crunch, announced the launch of their new […].

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Balance is the Key Your Looking For

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Achieving balance with your work is a difficult task. There are busy periods and slow periods. Many times we seek to make the busy ones less busy and the slow ones busier by adding work. If that approach isn’t working for you, perhaps it’s time to embrace the highs and lows. Today’s post is by Mike Figliuolo, thoughtLEADERS’ Managing Director.

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Taking the Fear Out of Legacy Modernization

DevOps.com

Once a cutting edge and golden standard of technology, legacy-based monolithic applications have become a big burden for many organizations. While pivotal in supporting business functions, they have and will continue to lose the flexibility and overall usability required to be successful in today’s competitive digital and agile business landscape. But for most businesses, and […].

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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The Correlation between Hype and Opportunity in Product Development

Modus Create

A while ago I had a very interesting discussion on how we would evaluate the market’s readiness for a new product. We wished it were possible to say: “According to my brand new crystal ball, we should start developing The-Perfect-Product in Q1 and launch in Q4. That way we’ll catch sustainable traction and get the lowest CAC.” So I decided to drill deeper and see if it is really possible to analytically evaluate what products or features should be launched and when.

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Why A Great Website Design Is Important For Your Real Estate Business?

Xicom

Email leads are great! Sending a real-estate email newsletter or drip sequence needs a fair amount of work. You have to compose an email, proofread them, integrate impressive call-to-action and visualize some incredible subject lines that people will open. Sounds exhausting, right? Listen: You can build lists of thousand of peoples around you in your real estate newsletter.

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CodeSOD: Deep VB

The Daily WTF

Thomas had an application which was timing out. The code which he sent us has nothing to do with why it was timing out, but it provides a nice illustration of why timeouts and other bugs are a common “feature” of the application. The codebase contains 9000+ line classes, functions with hundreds of lines, and no concept of separation of function. So, when someone needed to look at an account number and decide if that account needs special handling, this is what they did: For i As Integer = 0 To R

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Book Review: “InSecurity”

Palo Alto Networks

Cybersecurity Canon Candidate Book Review: “InSecurity: Why a Failure to Attract and Retain Women in Cybersecurity is Making Us All Less Safe,” by Jane Frankland (Published October 20, 2017). Book Reviewed by: Greg Day, CSO EMEA. Bottom Line: I recommend this book for the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame. Review: Smart leaders build smart teams around them, yet the percentage of women in the cybersecurity industry is still low today.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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How I mastered my elevator pitch

CEO Insider

Everybody in business has a pitch. The goal is to deliver your pitch in the time taken for an average elevator ride being about thirty seconds. Whilst many pitches are refined by trial and error over time and serve their purpose well enough, in typical entrepreneurial fashion I have my own ideas about elevator pitches. […].

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Aligning Enterprise Cyber Risk and Business Strategy

Coalfire

Most business leaders have a contextual awareness of cyber risk and the threats facing their organizations. However, this contextual awareness rarely contributes to a clear, consolidated directive that can be applied across the organizations. Further, many organizations struggle to align their cyber risk management initiatives and their organization’s business strategies.

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The 4th Industrial Revolution: Digitally Transformed Workloads

Dell EMC

This blog was co-authored with Bright Computing Increasingly, engineers and infrastructure administrators are looking for workload agility. But what exactly is workload agility? First, let’s define workload. Workloads are the computing tasks that employees initiate on systems to complete their companies’ missions. Precision Medicine, Semiconductor Design, Digital Pathology, Connected Mobility, Quantitative Research, and Autonomous Driving are all examples of compute-intensive workloads that are