Mon.Mar 05, 2018

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms

Martin Fowler

Evan Bottcher has been involved with several of our clients with microservices and platform building over the last few years. A couple of years ago, at one of our radar writing meetings, he gave a great presentation on what makes an effective way to think about platforms. We urged him to turn it into an article, but for a long time he was too busy to write it down.

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Professional Development Goals for Work

Career Advancement

“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.”. ~Bo Bennett~. Gianna had achieved some big milestones over the past year. Instead of coasting on these successes, she wanted to make a plan for building upon them.

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Time-locked Wallets: An Introduction to Ethereum Smart Contracts

Toptal

Launch yourself into Ethereum smart contract development with the Truffle framework! In this tutorial, Toptal Freelance Ethereum Developer Radek Ostrowski shows you how to create a practical ?App in the Solidity language, complete with its own ERC20 token.

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Professional Development Goals for Work

Career Advancement

“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.” ~Bo Bennett~. Gianna had achieved some big milestones over the past year. Instead of coasting on these successes, she wanted to make a plan for building upon them.

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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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Why Bitcoin Continues to Rule the Cryptocurrency Market Despite its High Volatility

CTOvision

Even though Bitcoin was launched in 2009, it became very popular in 2017. High speculation saw its price rise throughout the year to a high of almost $20,000, up from $1000 at the beginning of the year. Despite its speedy growth in value, this leading cryptocurrency has had its fair share of high volatility characterised […].

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Ending the Entropy Drought

CTOvision

Federal agencies are modernizing with cloud and mobile technologies, yet both will present new security challenges. One such challenge is the ability to handle the magnitude of requests for good random numbers, which are required for most security services to function correctly. And a high amount of entropy – the degree of randomness in a […].

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Improve Customer Experience via Semantic Ontologies

Cutter Consortium

The technology associated with ontologies has been around for quite some time. But since high-level, key decision-making employees often don’t understand how an ontology could benefit the business, they don’t see them as an immediate need and are loath to invest in them. However, Dean Crowley and Oliver Browne, in an article they wrote for Cutter’s annual trends and prediction series , believe that is about to change — especially in the financial industry.

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Mapping Your Way To Success

Cory Foy

Ever seen an island in a lake in an island in a lake? This unusual combination exists, and you can go check it out. I included a map above for you to find it. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Did you find it? Chances are, the “map” I gave you wasn’t very useful.

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Developing a Servant Leadership Strategy

Nathan Magnuson

I first heard the term “servant leadership” in high school. Since then, I’ve seen and heard it referenced over and over again in books, presentations and casual business conversations. One of my initial aversions to the term was that while it sounded nice, the connection to results was soft or overlooked entirely. In other words, it felt like a “nice guys finish last” strategy.

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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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Successful Estimation Begins with Collaboration

QSM

This post was originally published on Linkedin. Join the QSM Linkedin Group and Company Page to stay up-to-date with more content like this. Software estimation is no longer a solitary activity - as more organizations continue to move away from silo-driven development methodologies, the role of collaboration becomes increasingly essential. Organizations may have estimation experts within their companies, but there’s now a huge push towards bringing all stakeholders together throughout the estima

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Healthcare Leaders Wonder: Build vs Buy Software?

Mentormate

Businesses building out digital capabilities in healthcare will never have it easy. But developing a digital health solution is not the Wild West anymore. Paths in digital health have been blazed and the tripping points are now understood better than ever before. One thing is especially clear: not including a mobile app in your strategic vision is like putting off paying credit card debt.

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Finding Bots with Kentik Detect

Kentik

New Feature Uses Threat Feeds to Reveal Compromised Hosts. In our previous post, on CDN Attribution , we mentioned that our development team has been hard at work enabling new ways to visualize and investigate network traffic patterns in Kentik Detect®. One of these new features is the ability to find traffic from infected or compromised hosts. What makes this possible is the fact that we now enrich flow records (NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, etc.) in Kentik Detect with IP reputation data from our frie

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NIST Interagency Report on IoT: An Incremental Step Toward IoT Standards

Coalfire

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been widely regarded as representing a significant cybersecurity risk, which will only grow as connected devices continue to proliferate. As an important step in addressing these concerns, the Interagency International Cybersecurity Standardization Working Group (IICS WG) has developed a draft National Institute of Standards and Technology Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8200, Interagency Report on Status of International Cybersecurity Standardization for the Interne

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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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Twitter Drawings: My Thoughts on Scrum

Cory Foy

From time to time people on Twitter ask me things and I record a little video about them. This first one came from Susan Almon who wanted to know my thoughts on Scrum: Ok, so @susanalmon asked me for my thoughts on Scrum. Here's the first go at this.

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DFARS 7012 Compliance

Coalfire

At Coalfire, we field a lot of questions from government contractors about compliance with National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-171. We also address requests for help with “DFARS 7012,” which is a commonly used shorthand for Defense Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) 252.204-7012. The information below should help to clarify some common questions around the purpose of each and links between them.

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3 common pitfalls in microservice integration — and how to avoid them

Bernd Rucker

This blog post was originally published at InfoWorld two weeks ago. I also gave a couple of talks on this topic, e.g. at QCon London ( Slides, Recording ). Microservices are all the rage. They have an interesting value proposition, which is getting software to market fast while developing with multiple software development teams. So, microservices are about scaling your development force while maintaining high agility and a rapid development pace.

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The Insanity of looking at the “wrong” LinkedIn metrics on articles

Rapid BI

Looking at the wrong LinkedIn metrics? Are you guilty of looking and focusing on inefficient LinkedIn metrics? There are some an old sayings, Just because you can measure something, does not mean you should. And What gets measured gets done. Looking at the wrong LinkedIn metrics? Why do we focus on some metrics […]. The post The Insanity of looking at the “wrong” LinkedIn metrics on articles appeared first on RapidBI.

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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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Get The Gear and Catch The Kit: Keeping Your Business Equipment Up To Date

Strategy Driven

Your business flows like a well-oiled machine each day; with hard working employees, solid business plans and well-functioning equipment. You often find it a challenge to keep your business in line with the rest of the trends in the market and this includes trying to choose the best equipment for your business. If you rely profoundly on heavy duty, reliable equipment to keep your business running, you will know the importance of sourcing high quality products without the extortionate price tag.

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Never Break The Chain

Derek Huether

With an ongoing quest to be as productive as possible and continue forming good habits, I decided to test a new strategy this last week. It's called “never break the chain”. Years ago, comedian Jerry Seinfeld shared the biggest secret of his continued success. When Seinfeld was a new television show, Jerry Seinfeld was still a touring comic. He said the way to be a better comic was to create better jokes and the way to create better jokes was to write every day.

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Perfect Profits: Which Types of Businesses Have The Best Earning Potential?

Strategy Driven

When it comes to business, the bottom line is always going to be how much profit you earn. Your success as a company depends on how well you can balance all of the various elements- from sourcing raw materials, manufacturing, marketing, shipping and more to create product or services that sell for a profit. So when you’re looking to set up a company, choosing a type of business that’s known for doing well is a smart move.

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Is Your Company Safe?

Strategy Driven

This is a question you should be asking yourself all the time. Your company is never safe, and that is something you should always remember, but can you keep your company safe? Yes you can. All you need to do is know what areas you might be most vulnerable at. Everyone is always so focused on the strengths of their business, but the weaknesses are often where safety issues might lie.

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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.