Tue.Sep 04, 2018

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (and Reusing Their Queries)

Honeycomb

“What was the query that Erica ran last week?” mused Scott as he tapped rhythmically on the desk. “There was this spike, and the table explained what was going on. What was it?”. Here at Honeycomb, we spend lots of time thinking about how to help our users be more awesome at unearthing insights from their data so they can solve production issues in real-time.

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Gamification projects that make our lives better

Apiumhub

I strongly believe that gamification projects should create meaningful experiences. There are different purposes for gamification projects, it can be used to encourage people to power through necessary tasks, it can be used to motivate people to learn more than they normally would, it can inspire them to innovate and open their mind for changes, etc.

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Are AI Apps Delivering Benefits?

Cutter Consortium

Are the AI apps organizations have deployed actually delivering benefits? That’s a question Curt Hall has had for some time. The latest results from Cutter Consortium’s ongoing survey examining the adoption and application of AI technology in the enterprise holds some answers. Our research has found that while most (45%) organizations report that it’s still too early to determine or measure any real benefits from their AI deployments, just under 30% are already realizing measurable benefits from

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What is in Your Head is Going to be in Your Hands

Agile Alliance

Farzaneh Orak's talk from Women in Agile 2018 in San Diego, CA.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Angular 6 Tutorial: New Features with New Power

Toptal

Angular 6 is out! The most outstanding changes are in its CLI and how services get injected. In this tutorial, Toptal Freelance Angular Developer Joaquin Cid goes over the basic steps of initial setup and then creates a small diary app using Material Design for the front end and Firebase for the back end.

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Exploring the Release Phase of a Scrum Project

SCRUMstudy

A Scrum project often goes through a number of phases. Five phases, composed of nineteen processes, are suggested in A Guide to the Scrum Body of Knowledge ( SBOK ). The Release phase is the final stage of a Scrum project. This phase includes two processes that emphasize delivering the Accepted Deliverables to the customer and identifying, documenting and internalizing the lessons learned during the project.

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UX Portfolio Tips and Best Practices

Toptal

This guide shows UX designers how to craft a brilliant portfolio by examining questions about process and sharing practical design tips.

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Tips for Hosting Your Own Webinar

Women on Business

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Google’s new AI tool to fight pedophiles, Microsoft to power OneDrive with AI, Why bad data will kill AI, Baidu’s EZDL tool for machine learning and how AI is changing ERP

CTOvision

Google releases AI-powered Content Safety API to identify more child abuse images Pedophilia is one of the greatest curses of the Internet with pedophiles using children’s pics posted online for abuse. Google has taken an initiative to control online child abuse with an AI-powered tool called Content Safety API. Content Safety will identify online child sexual abuse […].

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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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Cacophony of Collaboration Tools May Not Be Helping Productivity

Presidio

What does Collaboration mean for technology today? Nothing, but what does technology mean for Collaboration, now that is the question. It seems like every day we hear that we have more choices than ever before to communicate, but somewhere along the way we gave up on the dream of Unified Communications, and just moved on to Collaboration. But what does that mean, really?

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Developer Hiring Trends in Mobile in 2018

Agile Engine

Two global tendencies have been driving the mobile developer hiring trends over the past decade. These same two tendencies hold true in 2018. They are market growth and the persistently high demand for tech talent. Ever-growing market, high demand. Few things are as indicative of the mobile market situation as the earnings of mobile app publishers. On August 7, 2008, a month after the App Store had launched, Apple reported having paid $21 million to third-party app developers.

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Storage Capacity is More of a Concern Than Performance

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

Enterprise Storage Forum recently published their 2018 Storage Trends survey which made some interesting observations. The biggest challenges for IT and business leaders with operating their current storage infrastructure were aging equipment and lack of storage capacity. While much of the focus today is on high performance flash and NVMe, the critical concerns are still around aging gear, lack of capacity, high cost of operations, security, high maintenance costs, and silos before poor performa

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SLA-p the Salesman

The Daily WTF

A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) is meant to ensure customer issues receive the attention they deserve based on severity. It also protects the support company from having customers breathing down their neck for frivolous issues. All of the parameters are agreed upon in writing ahead of time and both sides know the expectations. That is, until a salesman starts to meddle and mess things up, as happened at the place Dominick worked for.

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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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Abstraction For The Sake Of Abstraction

Professor Beekums

There’s something deeply ingrained in many developers, including myself, that creates a tendency to over-engineer. Maybe it’s how we’re taught or maybe it’s a natural desire to “future proof” our code. Regardless, this tendency is so strong that even being aware of it is not enough to prevent the behavior. Earlier this year, I was working on a system for helping users filter their emails.

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Flash Storage has the Power to Boost All-Round Business Performance

Dell EMC

Discover how to promote the benefits of Flash storage – and help your customers achieve better results faster. In the second of a series of blogs inspired by influential research published by industry analyst ESG, we look at how Flash storage has the ability to accelerate IT Transformation. When it comes to speaking to your customers about embracing the need for IT Transformation, deciding to modernize their storage environment by incorporating All-Flash arrays is one of the most high-impact ac

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Sponsored Post: NationBuilder, Twitch, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Etleap, Stream, Scalyr, MemSQL

High Scalability

Who's Hiring? NationBuilder — if you’re a systems engineer, SRE or DevOps focused developer and have been looking for a place where you can help other people while still working in tech? We can give that opportunity. Please apply here. Twitch's commerce team in San Francisco is looking to hire senior developers to keep up with rapidly increasing demand for our Subscriptions and Payment platform.

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Repeat Bash Prompts

David Walsh

I’m sure you wont be surprised when I tell you it’s my job to automate things in our my household. My wife is tech savvy but she relies on me to make tech matters easy for everyone; I guess it’s flattering that she trusts me to do that. One easy task she’s trusted me with is make it easy to grab music from YouTube so she can put it on her phone or rock to on AudioShield.

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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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4 Great Ideation Techniques When Nothing Else Seems to Work

Planbox

Not everything has to be organized and structured – have fun! Are your ideation and brainstorming sessions mostly filled with people keeping to themselves while a select few contribute? Is it possible to have better ideation sessions? Let go of conventional idea generation techniques and try some fun, innovative ideation tactics to transform those good ideas into great ones.

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Exploiting Blind Java Deserialization with Burp and Ysoserial

Coalfire

While performing a web application penetration test, I stumbled upon a parameter with some base64 encoded data within a POST parameter. Curious as to what it was, I sent it over to Burp decoder.

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How to Grow Your Startup Business in 2018

Strategy Driven

Nothing can be more exciting for an entrepreneur than watching their business attract many customers, increase its profit margin, and develop a positive reputation. However, business growth can prove a challenge if you do not have the knowledge, tools, and experience to scale your startup. While enjoying fast and substantial growth can be overwhelming, there are some tactics you can undertake to help you turn your small company into a big brand.

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A Digital Ecommerce Transformation – 2012, The First Cloud Holiday – Part XXII

Joel Crabb

This will be the last entry in this series, at least for the foreseeable future. Writing all this out has finally put this era of life firmly in the past, even though there were three more years of work to deliver an infinitely scalable cloud based ecommerce system. This really only scratched the surface of the amount of work and amazing team that delivered mobile and browser based ecommerce to TWLER during a time of incredible hardship for the company.

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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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Heralding a new era in GDPR compliance with Accenture and Cloudera

Cloudera

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in force since May 25, strengthens and unifies data protection laws for individuals within the European Union (EU), making personal data privacy a fundamental right for all. Traditionally, while companies have relied on time-consuming manual processes to achieve compliance, Accenture and Cloudera are harnessing advances in technology to simplify the compliance.

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A Digital Ecommerce Transformation – 2012, The First Cloud Holiday – Part XXII

Joel Crabb

This will be the last entry in this series, at least for the foreseeable future. Writing all this out has finally put this era of life firmly in the past, even though there were three more years of work to deliver an infinitely scalable cloud based ecommerce system. This really only scratched the surface of the amount of work and amazing team that delivered mobile and browser based ecommerce to TWLER during a time of incredible hardship for the company.

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How startups can use reverse mergers to go public

Strategy Driven

There are a number of compelling reasons that a new startup might seek to take itself public. Pubic companies, on the whole, usually have much higher valuations than private firms. They also have a patina of legitimacy and transparency that private companies lack. As a consequence, public firms often have access to many different credit facilities and financing options that private companies do not enjoy.

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A Digital Ecommerce Transformation – 2012, The First Cloud Holiday – Part XXII

Joel Crabb

This will be the last entry in this series, at least for the foreseeable future. Writing all this out has finally put this era of life firmly in the past, even though there were three more years of work to deliver an infinitely scalable cloud based ecommerce system. This really only scratched the surface of the amount of work and amazing team that delivered mobile and browser based ecommerce to TWLER during a time of incredible hardship for the company.

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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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AML: Past, Present and Future Part I

Cloudera

This is the first installment in a 3 part series. It provides a short background on anti-money laundering for the layperson. AML professionals may wish to skip this installment and go directly to the second and third parts. The second installment examines common AML problems faced by financial institutions today. The third installment introduces an approach that carries AML into the future.