Toptal

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

UX designers must understand the needs and goals of potential users, their tasks, and context of use. User research will shape and define the guidelines for creating a product with great user experience.

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Akana

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The technical implications of complying to the PSD2 standard and how APIs can help. The post PSD2 & Open Banking: The technical implications appeared first on API Management Blog - Akana.

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Banking 72

Toptal

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

For a large codebase, managing database schema can become tedious, especially if you maintain multiple testing environments or customers that update the product at different paces. Sometimes, documenting the latest schema or database changes isn't enough. In this article, Toptal Database Engineer Ivan Pavlov introduces us to concepts that help manage database states.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

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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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Abstracta - Software Development

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Putting to bed your fears about outsourcing software testing and QA once and for all Have you turned your back on the idea of outsourcing your software testing and QA (what we prefer to call quality engineering)? Maybe it was brought up once during a meeting. The post [Infographic] 6 Software Testing Outsourcing Myths Debunked appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

GE is looking into networking gear in order to capture information from machines. Image Credit: Martin Abegglen. CIOs have discovered that they have a bit of a problem on their hands. The equipment that General Electric (GE) sells, power plant electrical gear, etc. to run factories is so big and so complex that nobody really understands how to use it correctly.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Firms in industries ranging from financial services to retail pharmacy to fast food aspire to be "platform companies." In the minds of their chief executives, the emergence of Amazon and the evident superiority of platform economics make this necessary for their continued survival. It is also a good story to tell Wall Street as it allows a firm to create the aura of being the technology leader in their space while trafficking in the success of companies like Amazon.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Most web content and application providers today utilize Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to ensure the best user experience. Therefore, CDN providers are constantly competing to deliver the fastest websites and software downloads, most responsive applications, highest-quality video, and lowest latency gaming. To thrive in the highly competitive CDN marketplace, operators must continuously optimize their globally distributed networks for both performance and cost, while strategically planning ca

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Coalfire

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

On February 21, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued the long overdue cybersecurity interpretive guidance to address the methods and timing of cybersecurity risks and incidents disclosures. To signify the importance of this updated guidance, five SEC commissioners issued the guidance. The new guidance does not change any of the existing SEC rules, but it does address two new topics.

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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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Kentik

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Using Kentik Detect to analyze and respond to memcached attacks. Attackers are using an open source software package called memcached to launch DDoS attacks, and multiple Kentik Detect® customers have reported experiencing the attack activity. It started over the weekend, with several external sources and mailing lists reporting increased spikes on Tuesday.

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Akana

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The technical implications of complying to the PSD2 standard and how APIs can help. The post PSD2 & Open Banking: The technical implications appeared first on API Management Blog - Akana.

Banking 40

Banking 40

O'Reilly Media - Data

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

A comparison of the accuracy and performance of Spark-NLP vs. spaCy, and some use case recommendations. This is the third and final installment in this blog series comparing two leading open source natural language processing software libraries: John Snow Labs’ NLP for Apache Spark and Explosion AI’s spaCy. In the previous two parts, we walked through the code for training tokenization and part-of-speech models, running them on a benchmark data set, and evaluating the results.

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Brainvire

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

You might have a question that what all jewels are treasured in node.js that all mega companies are using it. Below are the points that will help you to understand what node.js is: An open source server framework. Implemented on varied platforms – Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X etc). Javascript is used by js at server side. Let’s hear words of world’s renowned companies regarding node.js.

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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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