A model for thnking about lock-in
Martin Fowler
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Gregor continues his article on lock-in by introducing a model, a quadrant based on switching cost and unique utility, to aid thinking. moreā¦.
Martin Fowler
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Gregor continues his article on lock-in by introducing a model, a quadrant based on switching cost and unique utility, to aid thinking. moreā¦.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Have you ever had a team member say something like this? āI just want to do my job. I know you want me to care, but I donāt. Itās a paycheck and Iāve got kids.ā Or perhaps youāve heard a leader tell […]. The post The Problem with Just Do Your Job appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
The cloud is a complex environment, with different groups managing different cloud services and environments. The most basic division is between the cloud provider, who provides the core infrastructure, and the customer, who leverages services or builds their applications using resources leased from the provider. Within larger organizations, different cloud resources, data and applications may […].
Xebia
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
The most important learning during my career is that the act of creating software is a team effort. We can be a one-person team, but there is someone else involved; at least someone to use it. As time goes by, I started to focus more on the collaboration between team members (and also teams, but […]. The post Augment your knowledge during software modelling sessions: Decision Log appeared first on Xebia Blog.
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. Itās 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.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
These powerful tips are all you have to do to fully connect with people when meeting new people or you want to strengthen your existing relationships. Todayās post is by Igor Smirnov. Whether you are meeting new people or you want to strengthen your existing relationships, these powerful tips are all you have to do […]. This is only the beginning of the thought.
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Teradata
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Companies are increasingly exploring opportunities to apply reinforcement learning to their most challenging problems. Learn what applications work the best.
Cory Foy
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Happy Mapping Monday! Today’s #mappingmondays video covers an interesting gameplay known as Tower and Moat which can be devastating to a market when executed well. As always, a full transcript is included below the video along with some links to the ILC play. And If youāre interested in finding out how to apply this to […].
Dzone - DevOps
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Jason McGee, IBM Cloud Platform CTO. First an apology, it has taken me months to get these KubeCon interviews published. Life, as it always does, got in the way. Each is likely to be two parts, a general interview, then a dive into a tool mentioned. The second part of the interview with Jason covers IBMās new tool, Razee. Hear the full interview below, itās the first of the three.
SQream
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
We’re just three weeks away from Strata 2019 in New York. Here’s what you can expect at this four day event. When. The post What to expect from Strata Conference 2019 appeared first on SQream - GPU Data Warehouse.
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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.
Infinidat
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Data mobility to the cloud and between clouds. reasonat. Mon, 11/04/2019 - 2:42am. BY: Nir Malik, Director of Tech Sales, APJ, INFINIDAT. One of my favorite movies is "The Martian". Matt Damon is an astronaut stranded on Mars. One of the challenges he encounters during his fight for survival is communication with NASA on earth. In the Movie, Network Latency between mars and Earth is 32 minutes and in reality, this latency can be even longer as the two planets move in space.
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Digital marketing is slowly, but surely growing from a ānice to haveā to a necessity. With so many audiences, especially the younger ones, moving away from linear television, barely touching newspapers or magazines and with their heads down into their phones even out on the streets, it seems that the only sensible place advertisers can find their audiences now is in the online space.
Infinidat
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Evolving Your Storage Strategy for GDPR Compliance and Ransomware Attacks. reasonat. Wed, 12/18/2019 - 2:36am. BY: ERAN BROWN, CTO EMEA. Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcement date was set at the end of May 2018, discussions about the risk of data breaches are abundant. This is a high-risk scenario for any business storing private data and it requires a lot of attention (see my previous blog on this topic).
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Hiring the wrong person can be a costly mistake and leave you feeling frustrated that you have no one to complete the work that needs to be done. Therefore, itās extremely important that if you want your organization to succeed, that you hire the right person for the job each and every time. There are steps you can take to help ensure you achieve this goal and arenāt wasting your time or anyone elseās.
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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.
Toptal
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
SaaS apps are among the most complex software written, but there are UX principles that can make any SaaS product a success. Learn to reduce churn and engage users with UX best practices for SaaS.
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
We live in a competitive environment where the business is fueled by technology 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and because of this, we need to be flexible. The days where you could create business plans a year ahead of time and expect to be able to stick to them with nothing changing are long gone. While planning is a necessity to succeed in business, particularly for long-term vision , short-term activity and flexibility are just as important.
Toptal
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Migrating in either direction between Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database? There are some significant pitfalls to be aware of.
Cabot Solutions
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
SAP migration includes moving a company s SAP applications data and technology to managed cloud services Here are 7 steps to migrating SAP to cloud
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āReimagined: Building Products with Generative AIā 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.
Beyond B2B
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
September 2019 is a triple milestone month for me. Not only do my wife and I celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary, but it also marks 5 years since I joined Software AG and 21 years since I took my first role in the software industry.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Enigma Simulator, Robot Startups, Code as Type, and Conversational Modeling. Visual Enigma Machine Simulator -- this is the triple threat: interesting, of historic interest, and PURTY. (via Tom MacWright ). Move Fast and (Donāt) Break Things: Commercializing Robotics at the Speed of Venture Capital (YouTube) -- interesting talk from a conference whose theme was "Notable Failures.".
Arcserve
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
The global information technology industry is on pace to reach $5 trillion this year. Although IT is a thriving market and an excellent business to be in, there are still challenges common to all MSPs. Cybersecurity, infrastructure management, and data protection can be challenging areas for MSPs. But many of the biggest hurdles for growing. Read more » The post MSPs, How to Stop Skills Gaps from Slowing Revenue Growth appeared first on StorageCraft Technology Corporation.
Marcusoft
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
From time to time I find myself in the position where I ask āstupidā questions. Iāve found that itās often the case that the question is not that āstupidā after all and if it is you get to learn a lot in the process. I have never been verbally abused, flamed or laughed at for my questions ā which often are the reasons that people donāt want to ask to āstupidā questions.
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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 youāve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzingās team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Capgemini
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Following BBCās marine documentary āBlue Planet 2,ā plastic became the buzzword of 2017. This led to widespread action on plastic straws and water bottles, resulting in a recent EU ban on single-use plastics, by 2021. What started with plastics hasnāt stopped there. Increasingly, other industries and product types are coming under scrutiny, such as wet wipes, nappies, and microplastics.
Infinidat
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
What storage specialists REALLY want? reasonat. Wed, 09/18/2019 - 2:53am. BY: ERAN BROWN, CTO EMEA. The results are in! Storage specialists really care about their challenges, not their vendorsā products. Ultimately, they purchase products to solve these challenges. Typically, as customers consider the potential solutions they find themselves in the unenviable position of compromising on one or more product features - performance, availability, or cost.
The Daily WTF
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
A few years ago, Naomi did an internship with Initech. Before her first day, she was very clear on what her responsibilities would be: she'd be on a team modernizing an older product called "Gem" (no relation to Ruby libraries). By the time her first day rolled around, however, Initech had new priorities. There were a collection of fires on some hyperspecific internal enterprise tool, and everyone was running around and screaming about the apocalypse while dealing with that.
CodeSignal
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
In this episode we revisited the same file system task that we saw last time, but with a focus on how the tests work. The main distinguishing feature of these tasks is that the tests are stored within the projectās file tree, similar to how a software engineer would write tests. Furthermore, the tests can be written to have any kind of interaction with the app, rather than just providing a set of inputs and expected outputs for a single function.
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Outdated or absent analytics wonāt cut it in todayās data-driven applications ā not for your end users, your development team, or your business. Thatās 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.
iTexico
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Lightning Decision Jams: Solve Any Business Problem in an Hour. Are problem-solving and decision-making activities part of your daily work life? More often than not, the answer is āYes!ā. But have you had any official training in problem-solving? How do you make sure you do it effectively? One thing is for certain: there are always going to be problems in the workplace.
iTexico
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Lightning Decision Jams: Solve Any Business Problem in an Hour. Are problem-solving and decision-making activities part of your daily work life? More often than not, the answer is āYes!ā. But have you had any official training in problem-solving? How do you make sure you do it effectively? One thing is for certain: there are always going to be problems in the workplace.
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