September, 2021

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The Blind Men & The Elephant: An Open Innovation Blueprint

Planbox

Curb Transactional Open Innovation and Embrace an Integrated Ecosystem Strategy “It’s a wall,” “It’s a snake,” “It’s a rope,” “It’s a spear,” “It’s a fan,” no, “It’s a tree,” and so goes the story of “The Blind Men & The Elephant”.

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The Next Phase of Pandemic Tech Transformation

DevOps.com

Last spring, we were inundated with headlines, tweets and Medium posts applauding the rapid digital transformation that businesses were going through—almost overnight—due to the pandemic and the shift to remote work. It made for an interesting feel-good narrative at the time, but it didn’t paint the full picture. Companies were thrown into the deep end; […].

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The next healthcare revolution will have AI at its center

TechCrunch

Kai-Fu Lee. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kai-Fu Lee is a co-author of AI 2041: Ten Visions For Our Future. The global pandemic has heightened our understanding and sense of importance of our own health and the fragility of healthcare systems around the world. We’ve all come to realize how archaic many of our health processes are, and that, if we really want to, we can move at lightning speed.

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10 Power BI mistakes to avoid

CIO

As a leading business intelligence tool, Power BI offers business users power and flexibility in dealing with data. The Microsoft tool provides everything from Excel integration to enterprise reporting and an increasing number of AI features that simplify getting deeper insights. In fact, the latest Forrester Wave report on augmented BI goes as far as to say “it is hard not to consider Power BI as your top choice for an enterprise BI platform.

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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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11 Best Telegram Programming Groups and Channels

The Crazy Programmer

Do you want to know about the best programming Telegram groups? If we need to choose from WhatsApp and Telegram, we mostly choose Telegram for learning new skills. As WhatsApp is only suitable for chatting and connecting. However, Telegram has become the best platform for learning new skills without any spam. There are many channels where you can learn a wide range of programming skills.

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Embracing DE&I At The Workplace – #1 Back To The Basics

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Figuring out the ins and outs of as broad a subject as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) can be tough. You could be chasing the wrong goals too. And as someone who has worked at places that had zero education and sensitization on this subject, I know firsthand the hit their workplace culture would take. . I am passionate about creating awareness around diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is why I am very vocal about my learnings on this journey.

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How to Build a Better Network of Peer Relationships

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t Overlook The Importance of Peers in Your Network of Strategic Advisors. When it comes to building a network of strategic advisors, it’s natural to look to people with more position power, access, and influence as your primary go-to’s. Yes, you want a productive relationship with your boss, a mentor who will challenge you, and—if you’re really lucky—a genuine sponsor opening doors.

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Do you need another app to discover beautiful places when you travel?

TechCrunch

In the summer of 2019, Timilehin Ajiboye became intrigued with the idea of building a travel app after conversations with a circle of friends. One friend reached out to Ajiboye asking if he knew of any platform where she could find new, aesthetically pleasing places to dine in, visit and take pictures. And then, during a trip to Miami, he and his friends actively sought out beautiful places to eat — and take photographs.

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How the right automation strategy can unlock data silos

CIO

A recent Ernst and Young report found that 81% of organizations embrace the notion that data should be at the heart of all decision making. Yet, in many organization the decision-making process is stalled because data is still kept in silos.

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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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8 Different Types of Programmers

The Crazy Programmer

Computer programming has become a significant industry, and because of the various technological advancements are becoming possible. From smartphones to laptops, computers, robots, automated factories, automated machines, and all the other advanced machinery are becoming successful with the help of programmers. If you also want to become a programmer , it is essential to learn about the types of programmers first.

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The Next Paradigm Shift: From Agile to Future-Fit

Planbox

Good news is 2021 will be shorter since Earth is spinning faster and faster, scientists say. Bad news is the pace of technology advancements is speeding up exponentially, and it’s getting harder to stay in the game.

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The Metaverse Is Here. Is Your Company Ready?

CTOvision

Read Joan Westenberg explain how you can get your business ready for The Metaverse on Inc.: With the digitization of our lives, we’ve become citizens of the metaverse. It’s not science fiction; it’s the shift of our experiences from offline to digital. Every day we create and share content online. We share our thoughts, opinions, […].

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7 Reasons Your Feedback is Being Ignored

Let's Grow Leaders

Start with yourself to ensure everyone can receive feedback. It’s a frustration we hear all the time. “My people aren’t coachable. They’re defensive. It’s like they have a wall and just won’t listen.” We get it. One of the most frustrating human experiences is feeling ignored or unheard. And sometimes people who can’t grow aren’t in the right position.

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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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AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again

TechCrunch

Ralf Haller. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ralf Haller is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at NNAISENSE. SaaS, PaaS – and now AIaaS: Entrepreneurial, forward-thinking companies will attempt to provide customers of all types with artificial intelligence-powered plug-and-play solutions for myriad business problems. Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions.

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The Right-Sizing Problem in Cloud Computing

CTO Universe Submitted Awards Articles

Today, businesses of every shape and size are reliant on the Internet - even the smallest ones have at least a website for representation and advertising, while some are run entirely online. However, maintaining a company’s own servers is a costly and tedious procedure, which creates the need in cloud computing services.

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DevOps Engineer vs Software Engineer

The Crazy Programmer

With each passing day, a variety of technological advances and fields emerge at a rapid pace. The maintenance and development of software involve many different areas. It is common for people to confuse these two prominent career options – DevOps Engineer and Software Engineer. With today’s article, all confusion will move on, so without wasting a second, let’s start.

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911, What Are Your Innovation Emergency OKRs?

Planbox

There is a reason why firefighters say be fast or be last: they have 60 seconds or less to act before they have a major house fire on their hands. A home can catch fire entirely in just 4 minutes.

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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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What’s New in Apache Kafka 3.0.0

Confluent

I’m pleased to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. Apache Kafka 3.0 is a major release in more ways than one. Apache […].

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Resourcefulness Matters: How to Help Your Team Be More Resourceful

Let's Grow Leaders

7 Ways to Encourage Your Team to Be More Resourceful. What does it mean to be resourceful? Our favorite definition of resourceful is, “The ability to find quick and clever ways to overcome difficulties.” Quick and clever. Overcome difficulties. Who doesn’t need more of that on their team right now? And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow

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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

TechCrunch

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.” Having grown up in Karachi, childhood friends Ahmed and Aziz are aware of the challenges about the Pakistani education system, which is notably worse for those not living in large urban areas (the nation’s

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Ensemble Methods: The Kaggle Machine Learning Champion

Toptal

Two heads are better than one. This proverb describes the concept behind ensemble methods in machine learning. Let's examine why ensembles dominate ML competitions and what makes them so powerful.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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5 Different Types of Programming Languages

The Crazy Programmer

Computer programming languages are designed to execute the given instructions to digital computers these days. Currently, the world has over 9000 programming languages of various types. All those come in use for multiple purposes and program various types of applications. Thus, if you are assuming to build a career in programming or have a passion for learning.

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How to Build a Future-Fit Innovation Portfolio

Planbox

We used to think of the future as something that is far, far away. Time between disruptive changes has become significantly more compressed and how much time we have to prepare for the future is shrinking ever faster. The pressure this places on organizations to continually reinvent themselves is staggering.

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Harnessing the Value of Log Data Analytics

DevOps.com

Each day, the average enterprise’s cloud applications, containers, compute nodes and other components throw off millions of tiny logs. Each log is a file whose data describes an event such as a user action, service request, application task or compute error. Logs also capture messages that applications and other components send to one another. There’s […].

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Team Conflict: How to Surface and Discuss Simmering Issues (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Address Team Conflict Early Before it Erupts into Something Bigger. We all know that when there is team conflict brewing, it’s only a matter of time before it erupts into something bigger. It’s like families refusing to talk about the tough stuff, and then one day Uncle Joe is throwing the Thanksgiving turkey off the balcony. Here’s the good news.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Fintech startup Jeeves raises $57M, goes from YC to $500M valuation in one year

TechCrunch

Last summer, Jeeves was participating in Y Combinator’s summer batch as a fledgling fintech. This June, the startup emerged from stealth with $31 million in equity and $100 million in debt financing. . Today, the company, which is building an “all-in-one expense management platform” for global startups, is announcing that it has raised a $57 million Series B at a $500 million valuation.

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Microservices quality issues? A modern DevOps approach can help

TechBeacon

Your team has followed industry trends and shifted from a monolithic system to a widely distributed, scalable, and highly available microservices architecture. But instead of solving all the problems with your fragile legacy architecture, you ended up with a set of federated services that have hidden dependencies maintained by teams that don't talk to each other.

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Types and Functions of Network Interface Card (NIC)

The Crazy Programmer

NIC card or network adapter is the crucial component in devices like computers and servers. They help such devices connect with the network. These devices have several types and crucial roles in operating computers and other similar devices that use the network connection. In this article, you will understand the meaning of network interface card, their working process, and some significant types.

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