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Your MVP doesn’t need to be perfect; it needs to be stage appropriate

TechCrunch

Startups are essentially machines that build MVPs (minimum viable products) that help answer questions and gradually de-risk the value proposition of the company. The key is that every MVP a company builds needs to be laser focused on answering a very particular question. If it does anything more than that, it’s time and effort wasted. In my experience, a lot of startups worry about scaling way too early, wasting resources on something that may never be needed.

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The Secret Behind Steady App Performance: Asynchronous JavaScript

Toptal

JavaScript’s default synchronous methods can freeze an application, scaring off end users. Here’s how you can leverage asynchronous JavaScript techniques to increase control over front-end responsiveness.

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Layoffs spell opportunity for some fintech startups

TechCrunch

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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CodeSOD: Unequal Code

The Daily WTF

Ryan 's co-worker caught a high priority ticket- certain features of their dashboard app were crashing when anyone tried to access them. It didn't take long to figure out that there was a stack overflow, and that some recursive function was blowing out the stack. It took a little longer to find the recursive function in their C# code base: public static bool operator !

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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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Carbon Maps helps the food industry reduce their climate impact

TechCrunch

Meet Carbon Maps , a new French startup that raised $4.3 million (€4 million) just a few weeks after its inception. The company is building a software-as-a-service platform for the food industry so that they can track the environmental impact of each of their products in their lineup. The platform can be used as a basis for eco ratings. While there are quite a few carbon accounting startups like Greenly , Sweep , Persefoni and Watershed , Carbon Maps isn’t an exact competitor as it doesn’t calcu

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Dynatrace Perform: Day Two

Dzone - DevOps

The second day of Dynatrace Perform kicked off with a great discussion between Kelsey Hightower, distinguished developer advocate at Google Cloud Platform, and Andi Grabner, DevOps evangelist at Dynatrace. The theme of their discussion was redefining the boundaries of people, processes, and platforms. There were so many great insights in this discussion; I will cover it in much greater detail in a separate article.

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From Static to Dynamic: The Shift Towards Contextual Commerce in Retail

Perficient

Every year, new technology and trends emerge in the e-commerce industry. Chatbots, AI, and customer experience have all been hailed as game changers in recent years, with retailers keen to adopt them to improve their digital capabilities. Still, consumers face: Multiple navigation steps Too many products to browse Lengthier checkout process etc. However, what if there was a way to streamline the process while improving the consumer experience?

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Alarmed About AI?

Crafty CTO

We’re currently experiencing a wave of AI news stories, including: Uproar over artists’ work being used without permission by art AIs like Midjourney and DALL-E 2 A flood of ChatGPT stories, including the phenomenon of ChatGPT confidently presenting information that proves to be completely erroneous, and even hallucinating non-existent references Microsoft’s just released Bing AI, acquired through a 10 or 11 figure investment in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, is spawning multiple person

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Past experiences and statistical deception

CEO Insider

Statistics is more complex than our minds want us to believe. We are inclined to think in very different ways, often leading to errors of judgement. For example, when an event occurs more often than expected in a certain period of time, we tend to believe that it will occur less frequently in the next […] The post Past experiences and statistical deception appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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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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Why You Don’t Need to Be Afraid to Change Careers Right Now

Women on Business

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Advanced Time Intelligence Functions in Power BI (Series -1)

Perficient

DAX provides a whole host of powerful time intelligence functions, allowing you to do things like build custom calendars, define dynamic date ranges, and compare performance over specific periods. Common Use Cases: Creating custom calendar tables with DAX instead of using the default auto-generated versions. Writing measures to calculate period-over-period, moving average, or running total calculations.

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What are Responsive Search Ads?

Strategy Driven

In the ever-evolving Google Ads world, online marketers are used to different ads coming and going. Since the introduction of ads, there have been text ads, expanded ads, and responsive search ads. Google introduced responsive search ads in 2018 to match effortlessly with its push for automation and machine learning. With responsive search ads, marketers have better chances of advancing from one base to another while at the same time scoring a run.

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Optimizely Data Platform: The Future of Customer Experience Management

Perficient

In today’s saturated world of marketing data, the customer remains at the centre of what marketers do. Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) often face higher expectations from their management and customers regarding personalizing marketing data for optimizing the marketing dollar. Fact Check! According to a Forbes Insights and Epsilon survey, 81% of marketers said they face data quality challenges, with missing or incomplete data being the top issue.

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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.