Mon.Aug 27, 2018

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Jupyter notebooks and the intersection of data science and data engineering

O'Reilly Media - Data

David Schaaf explains how data science and data engineering can work together to deliver results to decision makers. Continue reading Jupyter notebooks and the intersection of data science and data engineering.

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A blockchain platforms comparison

VironIT

The buzz around blockchain has already created a global industry that aims to develop and capitalize on the huge potential of this technology. Blockchain started as a public permissionless technology. Since then, other types of blockchains have been created, each for its own specific set of use cases. Public/permissionless blockchains are open, decentralized and slow. […].

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Agile Australia Keynote: State of Agile in 2018

Martin Fowler

The transcript of my Agile Australia keynote on agile in 2018. I comment that although agile is now mainstream, much of what is done is faux-agile. I outline three main challenges: stop Agile Industrial Complex imposing process. raise importance of tech excellence. prefer products over projects. and one reason to be optimistic.

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Sea change: What happens when Jupyter becomes pervasive at a university?

O'Reilly Media - Data

Fernando Perez talks about UC Berkeley's transition into an environment where many undergraduates use Jupyter and the open data ecosystem as naturally as they use email. Continue reading Sea change: What happens when Jupyter becomes pervasive at a university?

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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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Step 4 of extracting a data-rich service

Martin Fowler

Praful's 4th step is to build the new service, which initially uses the tables in the monolith. more….

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8 AWS Security Best Practices to Mitigate Security Risks

Prisma Clud

There are a lot of benefits that come with having AWS services as your cloud platform, alone or as part of a hybrid or multicloud environment. The agility and flexibility … Continue reading "8 AWS Security Best Practices to Mitigate Security Risks". The post 8 AWS Security Best Practices to Mitigate Security Risks appeared first on RedLock.

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Data science as a catalyst for scientific discovery

O'Reilly Media - Data

Michelle Gill discusses how data science methods and tools can link information from different scientific fields and accelerate discovery. Continue reading Data science as a catalyst for scientific discovery.

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Going Beyond Borders

Women on Business

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Beyond interactive: Scaling impact with notebooks at Netflix

O'Reilly Media - Data

Michelle Ufford shares how Netflix leverages notebooks today and describes a brief vision for the future. Continue reading Beyond interactive: Scaling impact with notebooks at Netflix.

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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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Blockchain myths, AMD’s future plans, Apple’s September launch, Alphabet’s China obstacles, Leveraging IoT for business

CTOvision

Busting The Myths And Understanding The True Potential Of Blockchain There has been much excitement about the disruptive potential of blockchain technology, but there is also much confusion. Some people think blockchain is used only with Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies or that it’s only used to enable nefarious, anonymous online transactions. In reality, blockchain is one […].

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The future of data-driven discovery in the cloud

O'Reilly Media - Data

Ryan Abernathey makes the case for the large-scale migration of scientific data and research to the cloud. Continue reading The future of data-driven discovery in the cloud.

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Does Cloud Reliance Lead to a “Digitization Gap” or a “Governance Gap”?

CTOvision

In What is the Digitization Gap and How Can We Manage It? author Bali Kuchipudi warns about the extra stresses that reliance on cloud based IT resources can place on companies. These “digitization gap” stressors are on top of serious management challenges already posed by technology siloes and “shadow IT.” As a consideration, perhaps a better way to refer […].

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Personal Branding at Work

Career Advancement

“An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.”. ~Daniel J. Boorstin~. Stella went out for drinks with a few coworkers after work. Over their conversation, she realized they had no clue what she did or what value she contributed.

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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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vSAN Ready Nodes on PowerEdge MX

Dell EMC

Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are coming to the new Dell EMC PowerEdge MX architecture. This combination makes a lot of exciting things possible. The best of two worlds comes together this week as we announce new Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes specifically for the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX modular architecture. This combination sweetens the pot for organizations that want to capitalize on the power of vSAN on their terms.

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CodeSOD: Assertive Programming

The Daily WTF

Defensive programming is an important tool in any developer's toolbox. In strictly typed languages, types themselves provide a natural defense against certain classes of bugs, but in loosely typed languages, you may have to be more clear about your assumptions. For example, in Python, you might choose to use the assert keyword to, well, assert that something is true.

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Introducing the new Dell EMC ECS EX-Series

Dell EMC

One of the favorite parts of my role at Dell EMC is that I get to speak to our incredible customers almost every day. It is apparent from these conversations that data is playing an increasingly important role in determining whether organizations will thrive in a digital-first world or not. To truly unlock the value of their data, however, organizations need a fundamentally different approach to IT, as traditional infrastructure was not built to handle the magnitude of data that is generated by

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Calling all Finnish coaches

Agile42

As we mentioned in an earlier blog post , agile42 is looking to expand its team of coaches in most markets where we have a presence. Specifically, our team in Finland is looking for new members that would love to pursue a career as an Agile coach. You can read the full job description (in Finnish) on our site or on LinkedIn. Your job is to support our customers on their way to more agile business through coaching and training.

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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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Dell EMC News at VMworld 2018

Dell EMC

Welcome to the Dell EMC Vmworld 2018 news site. Here you will find all the Dell EMC happenings at Vmworld 2018 including our latest news, information on how to find us and more. Keep up with us at the show by following @DellTech and @DellEMC Join the conversation using #VMworld. And please visit us in our 3 Dell Technologies booths: Dell Technologies’ Modern Workforce Solutions Booth #1100 Dell Technologies’ Multi-Cloud Solutions Booth #1024 Dell Technologies’ Modern Infrastructure Solutions Boo

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A Conversation with James Matsumura

Aviatrix

Meet James Matsumura , software engineer at Casechek , a startup company automating the implant supply chain. James is a typical startup engineer who does the heavy lifting in building the service. I caught up with James at the recent AWS Summit. Sherry : Tell us what you do at Casechek? James : I’m a back end software engineer, but my work moves to full stack for some projects.

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Accelerating Predictable IT Transformation: 10 Reasons VxRail and VxRack SDDC Are Better Than Ever

Dell EMC

Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) has become the primary infrastructure for transformation, on-premises, and cloud-first applications and workloads that require Innovation, certainty and predictability. VxRail and VxRack SDDC not only enable organizations to continuously innovate and rapidly provide transparent service delivery on premises and across multi-cloud environments, but they also help achieve the promise of the Software Defined Data Center.

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How Startups Can Avoid Paying for Customers

Battery Ventures

Lately, I’ve heard a lot of pessimism around the outlook for consumer-facing startups, both from investors and operators. While I remain optimistic that there are still large opportunities that will be buoyed by new technology waves, I can understand the doom and gloom. The internet has enabled widespread distribution of goods and services, but that distribution power has consolidated in a handful of incumbent aggregators: Google?

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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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The Future is Bright in a Multi-Cloud World

Dell EMC

Future-Proof Loyalty Program Expands with HCI and Cloud Components Since its launch in November of 2017, the Future-Proof Loyalty Program has provided additional peace of mind and investment protection with Dell EMC storage and data protection purchases. Now we’re making the program even stronger and more flexible by adding support to Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions and expanded cloud offerings.

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Reasons to hire app developer for medical and healthcare apps

Xicom

With the emergence of medical app development , there is no reason to look back. The demand for creating mobile apps for the patients and health freaks for better experience and even more facilities. It is quite surprising to know that healthcare industry is growing at a fast rate and almost every healthcare executive, company or a professional is bent upon creating unique experiences in the form of smartphone apps that let the app users book their appointments with the doctors quite easily with

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Making HCI Network Fabric Design Fast, Easy and Reliable

Dell EMC

In a world that is increasingly software-defined, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a fast mover. Analysts expect adoption to accelerate at a 42% CAGR from 2016 to 2023, reaching $17B. Done right, it’s an IT dream because it makes deploying private cloud services much easier, faster and more reliable. But if you don’t get the most overlooked part right – the network design – it quickly becomes a nightmare.

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Tips For Improving Your Small Business Using Technology

Strategy Driven

There are many advantages to using more technology solutions in your small business that are worth you learning more about. Now is a good time to work through any fears you have and start to become more open-minded about bringing these types of advancements into your workplace. Although you may be apprehensive about this transition, keep in mind how much more productive you and your employees will be.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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It’s Now Possible to Run Unified Storage in the Cloud with Dell EMC Unity VSA Cloud Edition

Dell EMC

All customers, large or small enterprises, firmly established or relatively new, are deploying storage and servers in new and innovative ways; far differently than a just few years ago. Today, most IT environments are highly virtualized and leverage the cloud for cost-optimized data placement. For Midrange customers, our new Dell EMC Cloud Edition software helps drive new flexibility with the cloud and virtualized infrastructures.

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Auth0 Architecture: Running In Multiple Cloud Providers And Regions

High Scalability

This is article was written by Dirceu Pereira Tiegs, Site Reliability Engineer at Auth0, and originally was originally published in Auth0. Auth0 provides authentication, authorization, and single sign-on services for apps of any type (mobile, web, native) on any stack. Authentication is critical for the vast majority of apps. We designed Auth0 from the beginning so that it could run anywhere: on our cloud, on your cloud, or even on your own private infrastructure.

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Ready, Set, Work: Set IT Up for Success With Dell Provisioning for VMware Workspace ONE

Dell EMC

You’re the resident IT decision maker for a fast-growing company that has recently opened a new office. A new hire named Leah started this morning. Your company mission statement of efficiency and innovation aligns with her personal values. It’s near the end of her first day and you still haven’t been able to set up her workstation. While you’re spending precious time chasing down the device and trouble-shooting issues, her opinion of her new IT team and new employer begins to sour.