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It's time to establish big data standards

O'Reilly Media - Data

The deployment of big data tools is being held back by the lack of standards in a number of growth areas. Technologies for streaming, storing, and querying big data have matured to the point where the computer industry can usefully establish standards. As in other areas of engineering, standardization allows practitioners to port their learnings across a multitude of solutions, and to more easily employ different technologies together; standardization also allows solution providers to take advan

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Make Something Great: Become an Open Source Contributor

A List Apart

My first contribution to Bootstrap was a tiny line of CSS. It was a no-brainer to merge, but the feeling of seeing that bit of code in the project’s codebase was unreal and addictive. You may think that open source is not for you. After all, it has always been a developer-dominant ecosystem. But code is by no means the only thing a piece of software is made of.

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Top 10 things to keep in mind for data security in building mobile apps.

OTS Solutions

Top Ten Things to Keep in Mind for Data Security in Building Mobile Apps. When the first mobile phone was invented in 1973, nobody knew that this small hand-held device would one day change the world. Nowadays, mobile phones can do anything:from checking one’s blood pressure to monitoring one’s heart beat. Some mobile applications even allow the user to make current account transactions without physically going to the bank.

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Simplifying machine learning lifecycle management

O'Reilly Media - Data

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Harish Doddi on accelerating the path from prototype to production. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Harish Doddi , co-founder and CEO of Datatron , a startup focused on helping companies deploy and manage machine learning models. As companies move from machine learning prototypes to products and services, tools and best practices for productionizing and managing models are just starting to emerge.

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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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Understanding Event & Log Management Best Practices

The Crazy Programmer

Log management is considered one of the key elements when it comes to managing, maintaining and troubleshooting IT systems. However, the success that you can reap from log management will trickle down to the practices that you indulge in. Without setting the best practices in place, it can be quite easy for your staff to be overwhelmed with managing your logs, which could end up putting your business at risk of system or application issues.

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Leaders Share about Courage, Influence and Hope: August Frontline Festival (with video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on courage, influence, and hope, celebrating our new book for kids, Glowstone Peak. We asked thought leaders from around the world to share their very best post on these topics. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of […]. The post Leaders Share about Courage, Influence and Hope: August Frontline Festival (with video) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Do Companies Need a Chief AI Officer (CAIO)?

CTOvision

The short answer to the above question is “no”. But let’s get into the specifics. Clearly for many companies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the range of Cognitive Technologies are strategic to their businesses and organizations. Indeed, for many companies, AI is as fundamentally important to their long-term well being as their IT organizations and finances.

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Leaders Share about Courage, Influence and Hope: August Frontline Festival (with video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on courage, influence, and hope, celebrating our new book for kids, Glowstone Peak. We asked thought leaders from around the world to share their very best post on these topics. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of […]. The post Leaders Share about Courage, Influence and Hope: August Frontline Festival (with video) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The 2nd Biggest Leap You’ll Ever Take in Your Business

Women on Business

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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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Spookstock: A virtuous, but secretive, battle of the bands

CTOvision

JJ Green at WTOP News produced a segment on a very virtuous yearly event called Spookstock which I would like to draw your attention to.

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Data Capital: What’s That?

Dell EMC

Digital Transformation is creating massive opportunities for technology sellers but customer success is dependent on the data Your customers, their competitors, even the media all know that digital transformation is here, but how does the modern company succeed with it? The hype behind this term, the underlying buzzwords (AI, Big Data, IoT, and Digital Experiences just to name a few) are looked at as the way to lock in long-term success as we move into the 4th industrial age.

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Representative Line: Tern This Statement Around and Go Home

The Daily WTF

When looking for representative lines, ternaries are almost easy mode. While there’s nothing wrong with a good ternary expression, they have a bad reputation because they can quickly drift out towards “utterly unreadable”. Or, sometimes, they can drift towards “incredibly stupid”. This anonymous submission is a pretty brazen example of the latter: return (accounts == 1 ?

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TDD example in software development (Part I)

Apiumhub

After a while thinking about what type of TDD article to write about and, since there are many of them and very good theoretical ones (written by influencers in the world of software development), I have chosen to develop a mini-project while explaining the key points of the development of the application, basically giving you a TDD example. The application will be a notes manager with users where we can see how we test each layer of our application using TDD.

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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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Senior Executives Explain What Sets PowerEdge Technology Apart

Dell EMC

See which words top Dell EMC executives choose to describe the latest PowerEdge servers… In the first of two blogs based on our On the Road series of video interviews with top executives, we introduce their thoughts on why the no-compromise servers in the latest Dell EMC PowerEdge portfolio are arguably the best possible choice for your customers. Across a series of six short and very accessible videos, they give an overview of what it is that sets pioneering PowerEdge technology apart.

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Demystifying ‘Internet of Value’

Zensar

‘Internet of Value’ is the buzzword which is living out on the blockchain hype cycle. To fathom the impact of ‘Internet of Value’, we first need to understand the meaning of the word ‘Value’. The dictionary meaning of this word, if used as a noun, is: – “ the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something.”. e.g. “your support is of great value” To enable a ‘Value transfer’, it is important that the subject under consideration has si

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Manager Responsibilities

Ron Jeffries

I tweeted a storm about responsibility when 'Agile' doesn't go well. Here we'll unroll it and say a few more words.

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Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Training Workshop in Toronto—November 6-7, 2018

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Agile Pain Relief presents a two-day Certified ScrumMaster Workshop in Toronto—November 6-7, 2018 taught by certified Scrum Trainer Mark Levison.

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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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Making the most of your brick and mortar premises

Strategy Driven

In the digital age, most business strategies are focused solely on the importance of a strong online presence. While there’s no disputing the fact that making use of social media is a proven way of reaching new people and encouraging sales through a variety of online strategies, it’s important that you don’t neglect your real-world business premises as well.

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Women in Agile: Compassion at Work

Accenture

In the workplace women are often given the following advice in order to not sound like women: Don’t say “I think” or “I feel” because that’s considered weak language. Stop apologizing. Don’t use emojis or exclamation points; it’s not professional. Don’t use rising intonation at the end of a sentence; it portrays a lack of confidence. Basically, the message women are given is this: “Stop being yourself.

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Distributed Tracing with Java “MicroDonuts”, Kubernetes and the Ambassador API Gateway

Daniel Bryant

Distributing tracing is increasingly seen as an essential component for observing microservice-based applications, and many of the modern microservice language frameworks are being provided with support for tracing implementations such as Open Zipkin , Jaeger , OpenCensus , and LightStep xPM. Google were one of the first organisations to talk about their use of distributed tracing in a 2010 paper that described their Dapper implementation, and one of the requirements that they concluded essentia

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Article in Harvard Business manager: sipgate’s agile transformation

Agile42

Harvard Business manager, the German edition of the Harvard Business Review, published in its August edition an article by Tim Mois, the CEO of our client sipgate , on how his company confronted its “Black Hole”, learned about Scrum, and with the help of agile42 wholeheartedly embraced an agile way of working that they are now modelling for others.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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3 Huge Customer Service Mistakes You Could Be Making

Strategy Driven

The majority of customers prioritize good service when they’re choosing a company to deal with and they certainly won’t become repeat customers if they don’t feel that your customer service is up to scratch. That’s why it’s vital that you know how to make the customer experience perfect every single time. There are a lot of things that you should be doing , but it’s equally as important to understand the things that you shouldn’t be doing.

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Why current funding to secure U.S. elections ‘doesn’t cut it’ (Q&A)

The Parallax

LAS VEGAS —When it comes to election security, politicians like Alex Padilla, the top election official for the most populous state in the nation, are more worried about how they’re going to fund election modernization and counter disinformation campaigns than about hackers slipping into voting machines. Padilla, California’s secretary of state, says that in the “new reality” of election security, there’s a “distinction” to be made between exposing security vulnerabilities in voting machines and