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7 Fundamental Steps to Complete a Data Project

Dataiku

It's hard to know where to start once you’ve decided that yes, you want to dive into the fascinating world of data and AI. Just looking at all the technologies you have to understand and all the tools you’re supposed to master is enough to make your dizzy.

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State of the Software Supply Chain: Secure Coding Takes Spotlight

DevOps.com

After almost a year of research that involved studying 36,000 open source software projects, 12,000 enterprise development teams and 3.7 million open source releases, we at Sonatype are excited to share the “2019 State of the Software Supply Chain” report. This year, we worked with research partners Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution, and Dr. […].

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7 Feature Flag Best Practices for Short-Term and Permanent Flags

LaunchDarkly

Feature flags, sometimes called feature toggles, are a standard practice for many software development teams. We often are asked what are feature flag best practices?

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Struggling to Engage Employees? Here are 10 Ways to Engage

Women on Business

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Top Tips to Remember When Hiring a Web Development Company

KitelyTech

Web development companies have been helping small businesses to corporations for some time now. These teams of developers and designers have been able to turn companies websites completely upside down for the better. Hiring an outside company can be daunting, but web development companies have been created to help ease the experience. Web development teams are here to help you create a more convenient experience for both your business and your consumers.

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Benchmarking AWS Lambda runtimes in 2019 (part I)

The Agile Monkey

Have you ever wondered whether your AWS Lambda could be faster if you used a different runtime? AWS Lambda allows us to execute code in the cloud without needing to provision anything. In the past few years, it has become increasignly well-known thanks to the rise of serverless applications. As an addition to all the available runtimes in AWS Lambda, AWS announced Custom Runtimes at Re:Invent 2018.

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Classic WTF: Working Around, Over and Through the Process

The Daily WTF

It's still a holiday weekend in the US; after playing with fireworks yesterday, most of us have to spend today trying to find the fingers we lost. There are no fireworks in this classic story, but there may be some karma… Original -- Remy. When Kevin landed a job at Townbank in the late 1980s, he came face-to-face with the same thing that thousands of newly minted developers had encountered before and since – there is more to being a corporate programmer than just writing code – there’s the

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5 Tenets of Building an IT Team

Arcserve

Technology is rapidly changing how we conduct business. IT departments are undergoing drastic changes as their efforts spill over into sales, customer service, accounting, and other key areas. In some organizations, IT is a multifaceted spark plug that drives all aspects of the business. With a much bigger role to play, the importance of having. Read more » The post 5 Tenets of Building an IT Team appeared first on StorageCraft Technology Corporation.

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Planbox Sponsors Innovation Leader’s 2019 London Field Study

Planbox

Planbox invited attendees to participate in an interactive board game to showcase its Discovery Central software. LONDON, UK, July 4, 2019 – Planbox, the pioneering provider of cloud-based AI-powered Agile Work Innovation software solutions, sponsored Innovation Leader’s “Smart Risks & Bold Experiments: Creating an Innovation Culture in Established Organizations” on June 27–28.

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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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How effectively do you feel you navigate office politics?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How effectively do you feel you navigate office politics? Extremely. I’m a master at navigating office political intrigue: 7% Very. I navigate politics pretty well most of the time: 37% Somewhat. I sometimes miss important political issues: 33% Not very. I’m not very savvy at navigating political challenges: 16% Not […].

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Four short links: 4 July 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Debugging AI, Serverless Foundations, YouTube Bans, and Pathological UI. TensorWatch -- open source Microsoft, a debugging and visualization tool designed for data science, deep learning, and reinforcement learning. Formal Foundations of Serverless Computing -- the serverless computing abstraction exposes several low-level operational details that make it hard for programmers to write and reason about their code.

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Imagine the Possibilities: How to Break Ties That Hinder Our Potential

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Episode 10. Often times people find themselves in a place where they feel trapped or stagnant in their lives. It can be trapped in a job or in a relationship and making a change may not always be the easiest thing to do. Because we are human, we find ourselves in situations where it is hard to leave or change because we are connected to people, systems or organizations. .

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Build your personal assistant, build your future – with BOTS

Zensar

By now you would have realized and heard time and again from various sources that the future of jobs will primarily involve knowledge creation and innovation. Machines will be freeing you up from mundane tasks to explore, experiment and find interesting solutions to complex problems like climate change, renewable energy, earthquake forecasting, medical mentorship, organ / body part engineering and pollution.

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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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Does your approach create an organizational operating system?

Net Objectives

The term organizational operating system refers to standard, organization-wide collection of business processes used throughout the organization. The definition has also been extended to include the common structure, principles and practices necessary to drive the organization. Many organizations adopt a framework to achieve this. However, most frameworks have preset aspects to them and don’t modify … Continue reading "Does your approach create an organizational operating system?".

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Leveraging UX Testing for Conversions

Perficient

UX design and business goals should never be at odds when it comes to creating an effective application. But, implementing the right UX design to create a seamless experience for the user that also helps with conversions can be a challenge, especially if you aren't collecting the right information to understand which elements work best. Read.

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Why you need to ‘do Agile’ to ‘be Agile.’

Net Objectives

I keep hearing how you have to “be Agile.” But what does that really mean? How would you know if someone were “being Agile?” You’d probably look to their actions. But then, of course, you’d be looking to see if they were “doing Agile.” Agile, of course, has more to it than the actions people … Continue reading "Why you need to ‘do Agile’ to ‘be Agile.’".

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Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Training Workshop in Ottawa—October 17-18, 2019

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Agile Pain Relief presents a two-day Certified ScrumMaster Workshop in Ottawa—October 17-18, 2019 taught by certified Scrum Trainer Mark Levison.

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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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Tips for implementing CRM successfully

OTS Solutions

Important Tips for implementing CRM successfully. A customer relationship management system offers software-based tools that can unify your team. With a CRM in place, your business can process and nurture leads, convert sales, and serve customers. Although a CRM can deliver exceptional results to your business, its ability to increase productivity, efficiency, and profitability depends on how well you implement it.

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Why SEO Needs to be at the Heart of Your Corporate Strategy

Strategy Driven

By now, you’ve heard of SEO. Any business that has made a serious effort at launching their own website will either know what SEO is or, hopefully, have hired someone who understands (ask your web designer ). But is SEO just another corporate buzzword, or is it really as important as everyone makes out? The answer is an emphatic yes – SEO is very important to any business.

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Cloud Applications: Why Should You Outsource Cloud App Development?

iTexico

The internet is, without a doubt, one of humanity’s greatest achievements made in its lifetime. Connecting everyone on Earth, from the comfort of your desktop to the portability of your phone, was within living memory a pipe dream of impossible magnitude. Sometimes you need to take a step back to appreciate how far we’ve come. As encompassing as the internet has become in regards to how the world as a whole functions, we’ve really only just begun to scratch the surface of everything it’s capable

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4 Tips for Running a Home-Based Business from a Rented Apartment

Strategy Driven

You hear of home-based businesses all the time and, of course, you usually don’t think of them being run from a rented apartment. If you are honest, you think of a home that has a spare room in which to set up shop and perhaps even a nice area where you can meet and greet customers or clients if the need should arise. Actually, a huge number of home-based businesses are run from rented apartments, but there are a few challenges that are a bit different than what you’d experience when running a b

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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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Vim: from foe to friend in 9 minutes

ProdOps

An opinionated guide Lessons from 3-years of intensive learning TL;DR Using Vim is by-far the most productiveness-enhancing, enjoyable and rewarding tool you’ll ever adopt. This post was an idea I had for a long time; there are literally endless pieces of information about Vim out there, and every time I started writing I thought I was just adding to the chaos.

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3 Tips for Taking Your Small Business to the Next Level

Strategy Driven

Small businesses today have a lot of obstacles that they need to be able to overcome. The world of business has always been ruthless and punishing to those that aren’t prepared for it. However, even the smallest of businesses have the potential to grow into titans, as long as they play the game correctly. Making the right moves isn’t easy, and even if you do everything right, it doesn’t mean you will necessarily achieve your goals.

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How to Formulate a Killer Marketing Strategy

Strategy Driven

Marketing is one of the most important aspects of any business; if you aren’t marketing as effectively as you can, your business isn’t going to be performing as well as it should. It’s easy enough to understand the link between good marketing and increased sales, but many business owners are getting by with mediocre marketing and don’t even realize it.