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A Cold Dive into React Native (Tutorial for Beginners)

Toptal

The development of cross-platform mobile applications has always been a source of many challenges. Although tools like Apache Cordova and Haxe do solve some of the associated issues, they are still not the ideal solution in many cases. React Native changes that by providing the power of React.js for mobile platforms and a promise of consistent developer experience across multiple platforms.

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4 Tips to Make Your Video Advertising Better

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The Opportunity Loop: An Inside Look at How to Attract and Retain Top Talent

Toptal

Elite talent has plenty of options. This article explores some of the key lessons Toptal and its clients have learned in how to best attract, retain, and motivate top talent.

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Scary Words For Anyone: Microsoft and Amazon Are Entering Your Market

CTOvision

These are some of the enterprise IT stories we are following: Microsoft’s GitHub takeover sends shockwaves through the open-source developer ecosystem The worlds largest git repository is getting a second lease of life. GitHub has been struggling with revenues even as it is facing new rivals. The knight in shining armor for GitHub is none [.].

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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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Digital Transformation Requires an Agile Storage Infrastructure

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

In order for companies to be more agile in responding to changing customer needs and market dynamics, they must have a storage infrastructure that makes data available at the right time, at the right place and in the right format, so that they can derive value from it and turn raw data into insights that drive business outcomes. With the explosion of data and the increasing demands on that data, data centers must focus more on the data and the information that can be derived from it than the sto

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Making Processes Lean Isn’t Lean Enough

Cutter Consortium

Copycats abound for the Toyota Production System (TPS), which for years has been held out as the benchmark for Lean processes. There’s a widely-held belief that practicing Lean means eliminating waste in a process or in an organization, as the TPS does.

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Are we getting better at software development?

SIG

Our benchmark of development best practices shows piece-meal improvement By Joost Visser Following best practices or typing away blindly? Deployment automation is quickly gaining ground. Backlog grooming is being perfected further. Code quality control and automated testing are improving, but still not fully adopted by most teams. These are just 3 of the lessons we learned from the yearly re-calibration of our […].

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Making a Start in Social Media Marketing for Your Business

Strategy Driven

Social media marketing can seem like a quick win for many businesses, but if you don’t fully understand how to utilize these platforms, the millions of likes and followers won’t mean much if they are not converting. Many businesses are fixated on high numbers when it comes to social presence, but in fact, engagement is an accurate representation of the quality leads you can expect from this form of marketing.

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Are we getting better at software development?

SIG

Our benchmark of development best practices shows piece-meal improvement By Joost Visser Following best practices or typing away blindly? Deployment automation is quickly gaining ground. Backlog grooming is being perfected further. Code quality control and automated testing are improving, but still not fully adopted by most teams. These are just 3 of the lessons we learned from the yearly re-calibration of our […].

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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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More Smiles, More Dollars

Nathan Magnuson

Several years ago I had a shocking experience that permanently changed my outlook. I’m afraid the traces of that experience began in high school. As a high school football player, we had a strictly enforced protocol among the players for team photos. Forget saying, “Cheese” – everyone needed to wear a game face. Later, I joined the military and the same code of conduct applied.

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VMware vSphere 6.7: A Strong Foundation for a More Flexible Future in the Cloud

Presidio

As everyone in IT knows, the demands on the data center (DC) keep growing – and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. So, how can businesses manage this trend and turn it into a competitive advantage? First, let’s examine some of the drivers behind this explosion in data center demand: Expanding DC footprints – In recent years, data centers have grown from hundreds and thousands to tens of thousands of server workloads.

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Turning petabytes of pharmaceutical data into actionable insights

Cloudera

Authors: Mai N. Nguyen, Accenture & Mitch Gomulinski, Cloudera. Imagine storing the DNA of the entire population of the US – and then cloning them, twice. That’s the equivalent of 1 petabyte ( ComputerWeekly ) – the amount of unstructured data available within our large pharmaceutical client’s business. Then imagine the insights that are locked in that massive amount of data.

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Latest Updates – June 2018

NeverFriday

Here are some of the latest updates: Passed the CAPM Certified Associate in Project Management exam, which means that yes I can manage projects and lead your team. Produced a (short) video on using Local Storage for caching with AngularJS (this is a supplement to the article I wrote about the subject). Updated the article on evaluating projects with an infographic.

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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.