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The Spark Engine

Agile Alliance

This book describes creative exercises that foster team-building and warm up the right side of your brain – the creative side.

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5 Ways to Gain More Influence and Impact

Let's Grow Leaders

Jessica approached me after my keynote last week. “My boss is about to make a REALLY big mistake and I don’t think I have the influence to stop it. What can I do?” She continued: My boss says we need to eliminate […]. The post 5 Ways to Gain More Influence and Impact appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Best Tips to Reduce Mobile App Development Cost

OTS Solutions

Best Tips To Reduce Mobile App Development Cost. Technology is changing every day. Today, with technology it is very easy to reach out to people through mobile applications as almost everyone uses mobile devices in their everyday life for different reasons like communication, entertainment and for business amongst others. This has led to a huge demand for mobile app developers across the world.

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3 Tips for Remote Retros

Accenture

I’m the type of person who is up for just about anything. Some of it has to do with being a part of the story that will be told later. Or I just like trying new things and don’t embarrass easily. Either way, if someone suggests an outlandish activity, everyone will eventually look my way. Exhibit A: Some colleagues bet me that I couldn’t eat a 6-pound lobster in Las Vegas while we were attending a conference.

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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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2018 Scrummer Reading List

scruminc

2018 Scrummer Reading List. Our annual tribute to beach reads is back. We asked our team what books they are taking to the beach this summer and they responded with some great suggestions; a combination of fiction, non-fiction, business books and academic papers that make for great additions to any reading list. (Also good for cozy winter reading for our friends in the southern hemisphere).

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Russian hackers gained control to US utilities, Common ways for identity theft, GDPR changes the way companies notify data breaches, Google’s WMD against phishing, Intel issues fix for Intel Management Engine

CTOvision

Russian Hackers Reach U.S. Utility Control Rooms, Homeland Security Officials Say Russian hackers have managed to hack into control rooms of US electric utilities according to Department of Homeland Security. The DHS officials today said “hundreds of victims”may have been impacted since the hack attacks started last year in a giant and long-running campaign that [.].

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CodeSOD: An Incomparable Event

The Daily WTF

Sandra ’s ongoing battles continue. She currently works for Initrovent, and is doing her best to clean Karl’s dirty fingerprints off their event-planning codebase. Now, as it turns out, Karl wasn’t their only developer. Another previous developer was a physicist who knew their way around APL and Fortran, then decided to follow the early 2000s money and became a self-taught web developer.

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10 eCommerce trends to watch out for this year 2018

Apiumhub

Ecommerce is a huge industry. Here are a few mind-boggling numbers for you. According to Statista , sales from eCommerce in 2021 are expected to exceed $4.8 trillion. And how’s eCommerce shaping up in the US? Retail eCommerce sales in the US are expected to exceed $485 billion in 2021. To be upfront, eCommerce is one of the few industries to register double-digit growth rate year on year in many countries.

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Increase Innovation Performance with an Innovation Contest

Planbox

Improve your company’s innovation culture. Many businesses find major success in the competition format. Fortune 500 companies like American Express and AT&T often inspire creativity by sponsoring online innovation contests while other platforms like Kickstarter have a competition for funding. And businesses can use contests to increase innovation within their own organization.

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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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Create the Google Button Effect with CSS

David Walsh

I always found Google’s branding simple but grew to realize that was the beauty in their design; there’s something about “just enough” that is the perfect balance between bland and over the top. GMail’s design grew old over the years and Google just got around to updating its design and it’s true to the Google design pattern: simple enough with a bit of flair.

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Storage Center OS 7.3 Brings Big Performance Boost to SC Series Arrays

Dell EMC

Dell EMC just released for general availability the latest in beef-up and bulk-out SC Series storage performance. This new firmware release doubles the maximum IOPS achievable across every array model. 1 That, by itself, is great news. But it gets better — if you already have an SC Series array 2, you get all this goodness at no cost. It’s a simple software upgrade to your existing SC Series arrays.

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Sophie’s New and Improved Dynamic Filter

Loom Systems

Quality of life improvement ahead! As part of our next release, we will be updating our incidents filter with additional capabilities and a fresh new interface. Whether you are looking to prioritize critical events or filter events handled by other teams, we are giving you additional control over Sophie via the dynamic filter. With a simple click of a button, Sophie will modify to fit even better into your current workflow.

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Five Questions in Five Minutes with the CEO of Enviance

Battery Ventures

Portfolio Spotlight: Amy Stelling, CEO of Enviance. Each month, Battery highlights a different portfolio-company CEO with our “Five Questions in Five Minutes” feature, showcasing the diversity of the Battery portfolio across investment stages, sectors and geographies. What does your company do in 10 words or less? Cloud software provider that helps solve complex EH&S (environmental, health and safety) problems.

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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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It’s not the meeting’s fault that it sucked!

Agile42

We’ve all been in meetings or other sessions which have sucked all our energy, haven’t we? I know I have. Sessions where people have been on their laptops or checking email on their phones and not paying attention to the proceedings. What about when 1 or 2 people dominate? We’ve also experienced meetings where everyone is in love with the shape of the problem; when the time allotted for the session is over and no decisions have been made.

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What to Look for in a Coworking Space

Strategy Driven

Coworking spaces are becoming much more popular. There’s at least one coworking office in most large towns and cities, and some companies offer their members the use of their offices all over the world. There are fantastic. They give homeworkers a chance to work in a positive and energetic environment that’s full of creative spark. They are a great way to make connections that could be useful to your business, friends that can help you combat the loneliness of working from home and experts that

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New eBook Explores Impact of IoT, AI, and Automation on Manufacturing

Nutanix

Manufacturing organizations often join us in our Executive Briefing Center (EBC) to learn how Nutanix Enterprise Cloud can help modernize their infrastructure. We value the opportunity to hear about their vision and the challenges they face.

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How To Decide If A Career In Healthcare Is Right For You

Strategy Driven

A career in healthcare offers various opportunities – including becoming a doctor, nurse, chiropractor, physiotherapist, and dentist, to name a few. If you are reading this article, you may already be thinking about pursuing a career in healthcare but are not yet completely sure. The same way you would choose any career path, you need to think about the choices you are making, and thus weigh the pros and cons.

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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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What Android app creator should know about Android Jetpack

Xicom

Android applications development is surely soaring new heights these days with back to back announcements in the Google conferences being held. In the 2018 conference of Google IO, Sundar made an appearance to announce that Android Jetpack is launched to speed up the process of developing the apps in any Android development company for sure. How Android Jetpack helps in Android app development?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 27th, 2018

High Scalability

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Startup opportunity? Space Garbage Collection service. 18,000+ known Near-Earth Objects. ( NASA ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.