Thu.Nov 29, 2018

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Top Five Ways AI Will Change Your Business Operations in Future

OTS Solutions

The Top 5 Artificial Intelligence Will Improve Your Business Operations. More companies than ever are spending their revenue on artificial intelligence. It’s time to get your company onboard with this trend that’s not going away anytime soon. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), the AI industry has boomed at $12 billion and could rise to as much as $57.6 billion by 2021.

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What Do I Do if They Cry?

Let's Grow Leaders

Let’s be real. No one likes to hear what they’re doing wrong, particularly if they know you’re right. Giving feedback is tough. Hearing tough feedback is even tougher. What do you do if they cry? We hear this “What do I do […]. The post What Do I Do if They Cry? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Crafting an AI-Relevant, Data-First, Agile Methodology for AI & ML Projects

CTOvision

Companies of all sizes are implementing AI, ML, and cognitive technology projects for a wide range of reasons in a disparate array of industries and customer sectors. Some AI efforts are focused on development of intelligent devices and vehicles, which incorporate three simultaneous development streams of software, hardware, and constantly evolving machine learning models.

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Breaking Down the Design Thinking Process

Toptal

Design thinking goes beyond the usual problem-solving focus of most UI and UX designers and adds the aspect of deep empathy for the user to the entire product design lifecycle, increasing the prospect of success.

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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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Digital Privacy and the Right to be Protected

Symantec

With our digital privacy at risk in unprecedented ways, there’s new urgency to find ways to safeguard people's digital life

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Digital Realty Transitions Oakland Data Center to 100% Renewable Energy and Earns Green Building LEED Certifications

Digital Realty

Making the shift towards a sustainable strategy is a continuous process that doesn’t happen overnight. Our approach has been to consistently implement greener practices, one data center, one city at a time.

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10 features every codeless test automation tool should offer

TechBeacon

Dear codeless test automation tool vendors:

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A List Apart - Untitled Article

A List Apart

In our previous article we described how the browser uses CSS to render beautiful pixels to the user’s screen. Although modern CSS can (and should!) be used to create highly interactive user experiences, for the last mile of interactivity, we need to dynamically update the HTML document. For that, we’re going to need JavaScript. Bundle to bytecode. For a modern web application, the JavaScript that the browser first sees will typically not be the JavaScript written by a developer.

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Overcoming Goliath: The New Nimbleness of BPM and Workflow

BPM

In this excerpt from the podcast, Peter Schooff and Taylor Dondich of ProcessMaker discuss the increasing need of nimbleness and flexibity needed as businesses undergo the digital transformations needed in today's market.

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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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var to JIT

A List Apart

In our previous article we described how the browser uses CSS to render beautiful pixels to the user’s screen. Although modern CSS can (and should!) be used to create highly interactive user experiences, for the last mile of interactivity, we need to dynamically update the HTML document. For that, we’re going to need JavaScript. Bundle to bytecode. For a modern web application, the JavaScript that the browser first sees will typically not be the JavaScript written by a developer.

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Four short links: 29 November 2018

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Security Sci-Fi, AWS Toys, Quantum Ledger, and Insecurity in Software in Hardware. The Cliff Nest -- sci-fi story with computer security challenges built in. Amazon Textract -- OCR in the cloud, extracting not just text but also structured tables. Part of a big feature dump Amazon's done today, including recommendations , AWS on-prem , and a fully managed time series database.

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Four disruptive technologies for Banking in 2019

Trigent

In the brave new world of banking and financial services, technology has become the key to a locker filled with goodies. As a result, it is not impossible to imagine a future where opening a bank or a financial company is as simple as connecting an appliance. In that world, a robot could guide an investor on the best possible options or you could walk into a bank manned by robot tellers.

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Phraudsters put the lock on phishing. Is it Google's fault?

TechBeacon

How do you protect your users against phishing? Do you teach them how to avoid phake sites?

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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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A Dark Cloud Looming

The Daily WTF

Buford was a contract developer working at a mid-sized financial firm. He had just wrapped up a lengthy project and was looking for something new to sink his teeth into. Tanner, the manager in his area, tasked him with moving their implementation of Jenkins into "this great new thing they call The Cloud." Tanner recently returned from a conference with a bunch of swag from a company called PuffyCloud.

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The MentorMate Test Automation Framework

Mentormate

QA Analysts often utilize technology to minimize the amount of manual work we do when testing software. More and more people are interested in using automation testing in their projects to save time and money during the development lifecycle. However, creating a test automation framework from scratch is often time-consuming and requires some trial and error.

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Three Ways Midsized Firms Can Take Advantage of Big Data

Arcserve

Big data is built on combing large amounts of information to uncover actionable insights. While the trend took flight in recent years, the concept itself is nothing new. In fact, companies have been gleaning data for business value since the 1950s. Instead of high-tech computers, they used spreadsheets and processed everything manually. Advanced technology has.

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CloudFormation Template Scanner: From code to scan results to fix — all before deployment!

Cloud Conformity

Earlier this week we introduced the game-changing CloudFormation Template Scanner from Cloud Conformity?—?now let’s see how it all works. Spoiler: It’s stupidly easy and you’ll wish you had it sooner! In our latest news, we introduced Cloud Conformity’s CloudFormation Template (CFT) Scanner?—?the service that will change AWS infrastructure deployment and security.

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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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Lambda Layers & Runtime API: More Modular, Flexible Functions

Stacks on Stacks

Lambda layers and runtime API are two new feature of AWS Lambda which open up fun possibilities for customizing the Lambda runtime and enable decreased duplication of code across Lambda functions. Layers lets you package up a set of files and include them in multiple functions. Runtime API provides an API for interacting with the Lambda service function lifecycle events which lets you be much more flexible about what you run in your Lambda.

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Honeycomb Beelines Verify Fast Time to Value at hCaptcha

Honeycomb

hCaptcha is a drop-in replacement for reCAPTCHA that earns website owners money and helps companies get their data labeled. Environment. Python, Go, Rust. Kubernetes. microservices (~20). Redis. PostgreSQL. Goals. An essential part of the hCaptcha service is a JavaScript library that the customer includes within the code of their website. Because the code runs in the customer’s environment, it was critical that the hCaptcha Customer Success team be alerted to problems with captcha sessions

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PHP on Lambda? Layers Makes it Possible!

Stacks on Stacks

AWS’s announcement of Lambda Layers means big things for those of us using serverless in production. The creation of set components that can be included with any number of Lambdas means you no longer have to zip up your application code and all its dependencies each time you deploy a serverless stack. This allows you to include dependencies that are much more bespoke to your particular serverless environment.

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Leadership is knowing when to let go

Dan Pupius

Micromanaging and tightly controlling your team will disempower them and erode initiative taking. This post was originally published on Range. Last week I was talking to an engineering leader who had been promoted to a manager of managers, let’s call him Isaac. Isaac was finding that his new role kept him further from the day-to-day work and that he had less visibility into what was happening.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Manager as Scrum Master

Agile Alliance

This session shares the story of how one organization adopted self-managing teams and the impact that change had on the roles of managers and scrum masters.

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Leadership is knowing when to let go

Dan Pupius

Micromanaging and tightly controlling your team will disempower them and erode initiative taking. This post was originally published on Range. Last week I was talking to an engineering leader who had been promoted to a manager of managers, let’s call him Isaac. Isaac was finding that his new role kept him further from the day-to-day work and that he had less visibility into what was happening.

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Hot Desking, Dedicated Desks And Coworking Spaces – What You Need To Know

Strategy Driven

If joining a coworking space, one can get lost in a maze of spaces, each offering similar amenities but also being very different in culture and attitude. In New Zealand’s coworking landscape, you can find a mash-up of spaces, but choosing one depends on the fit of your business. Unlike typical office space, spaces have a personality of their own. However, many spaces have a basic menu that provides a place to work and use the amenities associated with most offices.

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Dollars & Sense: The Business Case for Switching to K-12 Cloud Hosting

PowerSchool

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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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How to Market Yourself as a Freelancer

Strategy Driven

If you have a talent in a particular industry and you have the determination required to work for yourself successfully, then there are plentiful opportunities in the freelance sector at the moment. Freelancing has several advantages over setting up a business, because it requires a far lower level of investment and you don’t have to employ anyone else.

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Manager as Scrum Master

Agile Alliance

How one large-scale organization adopted Agile over three years, with the focus on the evolution of Scrum Master and manager role and the way they work together.

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Chatbot Tutorial Part 1: Artificial Intelligence Within Reach of Your Business

Gorilla Logic

Have you ever called your cable company and waited for hours to be served by their call center? (Of course you have.) Or maybe you contacted a company on Facebook and only got silence on chat? Well, that has happened to me way too many times, so I have found the perfect solution: chatbots. In this post, learn about the benefits and use cases of chatbots.