Dataiku

JUNE 19, 2020

The term “ data scientist ” was coined in 2008 by two LinkedIn analysts to describe their work deriving business value from the masses of data being generated by their website. Since then, people haven't stopped wondering what a data scientist really is (even some companies looking to hire them aren't so sure). If you're seeing an intrepid data scientist to lead your company on the path to Enterprise AI, what skill sets should you be looking for?

Data 86

Data Enterprise Company 86

CEO Insider

JUNE 19, 2020

The racial reckoning of 2020 – in which politicians, corporations, organizations, influencers and celebrities large and small have been forced to acknowledge and answer for the structural inequalities present within their organizations and the United States at large – is still in full swing. The tireless advocacy of protestors and activists brought these issues to […].

Organization 76

Organization 76

PowerSchool

JUNE 19, 2020

Devices are changing education in the classroom but can be leveraged to increase student engagement. Finding ways to hold students’ attention has always been one of the biggest challenges for teachers and administrators. Some days, it can feel like new technologies are designed to add chaos to the classroom. From smart phones in students’ backpacks to district-issued iPads on their desks and personal computers at home, it’s hard to ignore the internet’s impact on education.

Technology 52

Technology Education Media Social 52

Agile Alliance

JUNE 19, 2020

Continuing my series of interviews with Latam Agile Luminaries, this time I had the great pleasure to interview Ana Carmona from Barcelona, Spain. Ana is a software crafter with more than fifteen years of experience in backend software development; she’s also a strong advocate for Clean Code and eXtreme Programing practices. Besides her passion for … Continued.

Agile 152

Agile Software Software Development Programming 152

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.

Artificial Inteligence

DevOps.com

JUNE 19, 2020

An ambitious German- and French-lead European Union (EU) initiative could wrestle tighter management, and eventually, control of data from commercial cloud providers. The project, dubbed as “Gaia-X,” is also intended to offer firewall-like protection for data sources from the EU. The initiative could have repercussions on how DevOps teams from outside of the EU manage […].

Firewall 142

Firewall Data DevOps Cloud 142

CEO Insider

JUNE 19, 2020

This tiger cub is indeed roaring to GO! INDIA has been ranked amongst the top 5 countries in the world to invest in the business in the year 2020 by the CEOWORLD magazine. Singapore, UK, Poland, and Indonesia are the other place holders in the report which analyzed and ranked 80 other countries according to […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Investment Report: India’s Crowning Investment Heartland is Rajasthan are those of the author Sophie Ireland alo

Report 129

Report 129

DevOps.com

JUNE 19, 2020

Pinpoint has extended its platform for managing software delivery to include the ability to analyze historical events to facility team reviews as well as more accurately predict where bottlenecks are likely to emerge based on the past performance of the DevOps team. Company CEO Jeff Haynie said the company’s namesake software is employed today mainly […].

Software Review 127

Software Review Analytics Software DevOps 127

Dzone - DevOps

JUNE 19, 2020

Remote work is the new normal. COVID-19 has caused a never-before crisis since the WHO declared coronavirus a global pandemic. Remote work, social distancing, and self-isolations became part of our lives.

DevOps 122

DevOps Social 122

DevOps.com

JUNE 19, 2020

Much like any other profession, the IT industry does not exist in a vacuum. Social upheaval will have as much impact on IT professionals as it does on any other. As conversations concerning race relations become more heated and, hopefully, elevated, many in the IT industry are reconsidering the use of terminology such as master/slave […]. The post DevOps Deeper Dive: IT Terminology Matters appeared first on DevOps.com.

DevOps 122

DevOps Social Industry Culture 122

Advertisement

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.

Analytics

Dzone - DevOps

JUNE 19, 2020

Welcome, AWS-CodeArtifact, to the world of repository managers. Amazon has marked the Managed Service AWS CodeArtifactory as a GA, thereby giving the general public access. But what is this service all about, and how does it compare to JFrog-Artifactory? We'll take a quick look at that here in detail. BirdEye View. In summary, one can say that Amazon is immersed in an existing market in which some competitors have a much longer history.

AWS 119

AWS Cloud Marketing Development 119

DevOps.com

JUNE 19, 2020

Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for modern enterprise software development, and DevOps.com are conducting a survey about the implementation of DevOps and related automation and security tools. The purpose of the survey is to help organizations evaluate their DevOps maturity, find out what are the most used DevOps tools and the most […].

Survey 117

Survey DevOps Software Development Tools 117

Confluent

JUNE 19, 2020

When I have a small software project that I want to share with the world, I don’t write my own version control system with a web UI. I don’t even […].

Engineering 123

Engineering Software System Cloud 123

DevOps.com

JUNE 19, 2020

SolarWinds has updated its application performance management (APM) platform to provide more visibility into the IT infrastructure on which applications depend. Jim Hansen, vice president of products for application management at SolarWinds, said the AppOptics service map within SolarWinds APM Suite now enables DevOps teams to visualize dynamic relationships between services and their dependencies.

Infrastructure 106

Infrastructure DevOps Applications Performance 106

Advertisement

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.

Open Source

Gitprime

JUNE 19, 2020

To mark World Refugee Day, Aaron Skonnard spoke with Jan Egeland , Secretary General of Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), about the global displacement crises, the impact of COVID-19 on those who are forced to flee, and the role of companies and technology in the response.

Technology 98

Technology Company 98

DevOps.com

JUNE 19, 2020

The Time Series Data Virtual Summit will bring together InfluxData community members for an unique learning experience focused on the impact of time series data. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on July 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST. This virtual event will focus on the impact of […]. The post Upcoming Event: Time Series Data Virtual Summit appeared first on DevOps.com.

Virtualization 101

Virtualization Data DevOps 101

InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 19, 2020

In these times of turmoil information technology is a strategic asset to weather the difficult times ahead. Companies launch projects to build digital products and seize new opportunities, but even with strong pressure to release as fast as possible, beware of the pitfalls of an unsustainable MVP. Building an MVP that is scale-ready takes careful consideration and disciplined practices.

Technology 88

Technology Company Agile Culture 88

Dataiku

JUNE 19, 2020

The most famous implementation of Gradient Boosting algorithm is probably XGBoost [ 1 ] for its wins in many Kaggle competitions. Although it performs very well on various tasks, it presents some limits with scalability. Recently, contenders such as LightGBM [ 2 ], HistGradientBoosting and CatBoost [ 3 ] have been developed, and they each come with their own implementation tricks to tackle this issue.

Scalability 72

Scalability Performance Development 72

Advertisement

“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.

Generative AI

Coalfire

JUNE 19, 2020

In honor of Juneteenth, I wanted to reflect and share my thoughts. At Coalfire, we are committed to living our values: Respect, Excellence, Leadership, Integrity, Teamwork, and Enthusiasm. As a result, Coalfire stands against racism, violence, and hate. We stand with fairness, equity, and justice.

Leadership 68

Leadership 68

Dataiku

JUNE 19, 2020

Today, we live in a world where employers are willing to invest a lot when it comes to employee comfort in a literal sense, and especially for data scientists’ comfort, particularly when they start asking the question: why are data scientists leaving their jobs ? Quite simply, they believe that investing in fancy perks will make data scientists stay.

Data 66

Data How To 66

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 19, 2020

Tsunami — a general purpose network security scanner with an extensible plugin system for detecting high severity vulnerabilities with high confidence. From Google. Quotebacks — like a quote retweet, but for any piece of content on the web. They work on any webpage, and gracefully fall back to a standard blockquote. (via Matt Webb ). Conferences in the Age of Zoom — (Matt Webb) Can virtual conferences be designed for multi-tasking?

Conference 54

Conference Virtualization Network Cloud 54

Xicom

JUNE 19, 2020

Planning to develop a mobile app? If yes, then the next question clicks to your mind is, whether you should hire a freelancer, offshore dedicated development team(DDT), or go for an in-house development team for your next app development project… Well deciding between these three options can be a serious concern for every business whether.

Development 52

Development How To Mobile Software Development 52

Advertisement

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.

Synopsys

JUNE 19, 2020

Register for our webinar about remote security testing, where we’ll discuss common concerns and how to make the transition from on-site to remote testing. The post [Webinar] Solutions for remote security testing and training appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

Training 52

Training Testing Software How To 52

Robots and Pencils

JUNE 19, 2020

If you’re wondering whether your software is working as well as it could, I’m going to tell you how to use exploratory testing as a tool to find out. I am Marianne Murray, QA Practice Lead at Robots & Pencils. I’ve been testing software for more years than I care to admit! I am posting here to share some of the things that bring our QA team joy in testing, and why we are so passionate about delivering a quality product.

Testing 52

Testing Software Tools Performance 52

IDC

JUNE 19, 2020

Smart cameras and video analytics are just two examples of the innovations changing the video surveillance market. Explore more technology with IDC's Mike Jude.

Video 52

Video Marketing Analytics Innovation 52

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

JUNE 19, 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutes. Feedback loops surround us everywhere. Feedback loops are a defining characteristic of any intelligent system, whether that’s a person, a group, or a company: An external stimulus provokes a required change to a situation. To determine the best way to react, we may test different options, measure the kind of impact they had, share that feedback for analysis, then proceed with an action that has been optimized based on the process.

Innovation 37

Innovation Culture Insurance Analytics 37

Advertisement

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.

Applications

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2020

A business is only as good as the people who run it. This can seem like a vast oversimplification, because systems, protocols and automated tasks can also help a business run. But sooner or later, even these will fail without maintenance from specialized personnel. Furthermore, not only does our business rely on the talent we hire, but the talent of other firms, too.

Recruiting 27

Recruiting Fashion Exercises Course 27

PowerSchool

JUNE 19, 2020

Technology 52

Technology 52

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2020

Facebook ads! They whisper promises of high revenue and ROI until they cost too much. People spend up to thousands of dollars on Facebook ads hoping for the best results, but there is usually more at play on how much to spend on Facebook ads. In 2019, Facebook ad spend reached $25.56 billion , which was a 107% increase from 2016. As a business, you obviously want to try out Facebook ads for yourself, but the question is, how much should you spend on them?

Advertising 26

Advertising Budget Marketing Mobile 26