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How companies are innovating in the energy sector

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

When leaders from 193 countries created a plan labeled the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, it was the beginning of a new era of hope and possibilities. The ambitious goals promised equitable, sustainable growth for today’s and tomorrow’s generations by 2030. Fast forward to 2018. Unbelievable population growth, increasing urbanization and demands for power, water, and space, food insecurity, and anthropogenic climate change are majorly impeding the implementation of SDGs.

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Zeek Is New Name for Bro

CTOvision

Bro is a widely used open source platform for network security/monitoring. The name Bro was picked years ago by the creator of Bro (Vern Paxson) as a reminder that monitoring comes hand in hand with the potential for privacy violations (Bro like in Orwell’s Big Brother). See the reveal of the new name in this […].

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4 Things Newly Promoted Leaders Need to Do Right Away

Steve Farber

When the company taps you on the back, don’t look back. Think about what you need to do (and what not to do) to make yourself successful in your new role. If this scenario hasn’t happened to you, or not recently, it is surely something you dream about. You’re called in to the boss’s office for a meeting. There, you get the happy news that you’ve been tapped for a new role at your company, possibly with a new title, maybe with more money and a better set of perks.

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5 Ways to Improve Customer Experience

Dell EMC

Tuesday, October 2 was Customer Experience Day, an industry-wide celebration for professionals and companies that create great customer experiences. Dell Technologies participates every year, recognizing our team members and the work they do to put the transformative power of technology into your businesses, helping you achieve your desired outcomes and delight your own customers.

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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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A Commitment to Diversity: Reflections on GHC

LaunchDarkly

Diversity in technology has never been a more prominent issue than it is today. It seems every week there is an article or blog post decrying the lack of women and people of color in software engineering, or on the other side defending the gap. I recently attended Grace Hopper Celebration (from here on out to be abbreviated GHC, not to be confused with the Haskell compiler) in Houston, TX—I had a blast and learned a lot.

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The Great Cloud Migration – The Why?

Hypergrid

In an earlier HyperGrid blog, we wrote about how a “cloud-twofer ” can play a critical role in helping enterprises with cloud migration, adoption and operating at scale with public clouds like AWS and Azure. We also wrote about some of the key trends from VMWorld and how “deciding on the right cloud” was one of the top trends. What’s clear is that customers, Cloud MSPs and consulting firms need broader capabilities from their cloud management technology solutions to ensure successful

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IoT Solution for Surveillance at VMworld Europe

Dell EMC

Dell Technologies recently announced the Dell Technologies IoT Solution | Surveillance at VMworld in Las Vegas. The solution will also be highlighted at VMworld Europe in Barcelona and discussed in a breakout session by Frank McCarthy, Dell EMC CTO for Surveillance Solutions. The IoT Solution | Surveillance is the first Dell Technologies branded IoT solution to hit the market.

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Error'd: We Need a Windows Install CD in Aisle 7

The Daily WTF

"Encountered this one while attempting to weigh some vegetables and well.the scale crashed?" writes Sam. . John wrote, "Should I start binge drinking to fix this number?" . "Someone puked a UI all over my screen. The best part, although the video is buffering where it should be playing, the video behind the text is playing like this is normal." Steven B writes. . "Wow, Amazon is really angry about my promo code.which is particularly remarkable given that I hadn'

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Four short links: 26 October 2018

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Legit DRM Hacking, CPU Emulation, Phish Yourself, and Data Structures. Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Your Electronics Is Legal -- The Librarian of Congress and U.S. Copyright Office just proposed new rules that will give consumers and independent repair experts wide latitude to legally hack embedded software on their devices in order to repair or maintain them.

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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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Fun Friday – Office Password Security #HRBLOG #413

Rapid BI

A little laugh before the weekend – password security I don’t understand how this happened, I just changed my password from 12345 to 123456! Friday Fun – software security, password, office humour #413 #ff IT Says these new laptops they gave us […]. The post Fun Friday – Office Password Security #HRBLOG #413 appeared first on RapidBI.

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Gamification: A Game Insurers Must Play

Coforge

When it comes to influencing customer behavior, gamification is one of the most powerful digital levers for insurance agents and insurers. It can transform an otherwise tedious task into a fun and an engaging process. With radical changes in customer expectations and low tolerance for long drawn out processes, what becomes the turning point for an insurance business is the experience it consistently delivers.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 26th, 2018

High Scalability

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Sometimes old school is best. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (30 reviews!). They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. 23% : fraudulent ad impressions; 10 : years jQuery File Upload Plugin has been vulnerable; 240% : numpywren’s compute efficiency (total CPU-

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Performance redefined: Ideal tool for current performance testing needs

Zensar

With customer becoming the focus of every organization, and the rest realigning to meet customer expectations, performance cannot be neglected. Every second reduced in response time, thus enhancing the performance of the application under test adds to the business. When the business dynamics are fast paced, and demands flawless, ever faster responses for the customers, performance cannot be weighed using old scales.

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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.