Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 9, 2018
“I’m sick of this crap! Why can’t they just figure this out?” Scott was CEO of an engineering firm that produced communications hardware and software for industries around the globe. He had worked hard with his board and senior leadership team to […].
CTOvision
JANUARY 10, 2018
Cybersecurity is the new chief concern for every organization. Recent global attacks like Wannacry and NotPetya have proved that hackers aren’t sparing any institution in their latest show of might. Most companies have thus resulted in the internet of things, and it's cybersecurity features to help keep their digital assets safe. But does IoT offer […].
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Change Starts Here
JANUARY 10, 2018
In your efforts to influence change at work, you may be making some common assumptions that reduce your effectiveness. These assumptions are blind spots that are lucky if they’re right, but more often, they’re wrong. They prevent you from taking action that would help your change initiative succeed. The following are common assumptions to avoid […].
Toptal
JANUARY 11, 2018
Asynchronous programming used to be a challenge even for seasoned professionals, leading to aptly named phenomena like Callback Hell. In this article, Toptal JavaScript Developer Demir Selmanovic explains how async functions took us out of purgatory and why you should be using them.
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 11, 2018
Dear Karin & David, What do you do with a boss who makes it impossible to focus? We agree on a direction and three days later he has seventeen new ideas, dumps them on us, and the managers are expected to somehow […].
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Joel on Software
JANUARY 11, 2018
My new year’s resolution was to give up on reading Twitter and Facebook. I gave up on the feeds because they were making me angry. A lot of times I was angry because of politics, but even on non-political things, the feeds seemed like they were full of conflict and stress. I can’t tell you how much happier I am without them. Am I the only one that hated reading feeds?
Women on Business
JANUARY 10, 2018
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Career Advancement
JANUARY 8, 2018
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” ~Colin Powell~. Maura wants to expand her influence in her company , but she’s realizing some major barriers have existed there for years. “Maybe I should just find a new job in a company with a different culture,” she said to a trusted colleague over coffee.
Kash Shaikh - Dell EMC
JANUARY 10, 2018
The biggest source of climate uncertainty is white and fluffy. How clouds will respond to global warming is the largest source of uncertainty in climate change predictions. In the past, discussion about cloud forecasts were only about the weather, and today there is strong chance that it could be about Cloud computing and business agility. Up in the clouds, we go.
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.
Toptal
JANUARY 9, 2018
How are blockchain applications starting to help enterprises solve complex, costly problems? Saurin Patel, Client Partner at Toptal, provides a comprehensive, non-technical overview of blockchain as an enabling technology for the enterprise, and highlights recent use cases of the world's leading companies harnessing the fledgling technology's great potential.
Women on Business
JANUARY 9, 2018
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Career Advancement
JANUARY 8, 2018
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” ~Colin Powell~. Maura wants to expand her influence in her company , but she’s realizing some major barriers have existed there for years. “Maybe I should just find a new job in a company with a different culture,” she said to a trusted colleague over coffee.
CTOvision
JANUARY 9, 2018
Why Becoming Tech Savvy is Good for You If you’re a technophobe, you’re probably wary of the rapid way that technology has taken over our world. From the internet to A.I., technology seems to have its hands in every part of your life. You probably think that giving up on technology is the best thing […].
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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.
Toptal
JANUARY 9, 2018
Flinto is a simple and easy to use tool for creating interactive prototypes. This tutorial teaches you how to quickly create mobile dashboard microinteractions in order to improve your prototype.
Women on Business
JANUARY 12, 2018
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Keith Manthey - Dell EMC
JANUARY 10, 2018
Like many industries, it’s easy for financial services companies to get complacent and fall into lulls. We’ve all been there, you get into a process, you build out the process, you get comfortable with it and you don’t generally question the process. But we’re living in a new world order when it comes to security, risk, hacks and breaches, spanning cyberterrorism, identity fraud, nation states and the like – which all bring significant and dire consequences for financial services organizations a
CTOvision
JANUARY 10, 2018
The Daily Threat Brief is an open source intelligence report modeled after the concept of the President’s Daily Brief (PDB). This free report provides strategic insights into the cyber threats you need to track. The report is produced by the analysts of Cognitio to provide insights into global risk and security issues. The insightful information in […].
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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.
Toptal
JANUARY 11, 2018
So, you’ve decided to get exposure to cryptocurrencies. In this newer space, a personal financial advisor may not be of great help. Neither will your banker, unless you are a customer of a limited number of progressive Swiss private banks, which facilitate crypto trading. What now? This article provides practical information and resources around passive vs. active cryptocurrency investing, how to buy, sell, store, and monitor cryptocurrencies, as well as tax regulations in the space.
Women on Business
JANUARY 6, 2018
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Loom Systems
JANUARY 10, 2018
A new year has come, and here at Loom Systems, we can’t think of a better way to start it than announcing that Sophie 2.4 is now available for all of our customers! While deployment has started for many of our customers, we wanted to share with you some of our new features and key changes. ServiceNow Integration. With an ever-increasing number of tools and solutions, users often find themselves forced to change their workflow and adapt to the whims and quirks of new tools.
CTOvision
JANUARY 11, 2018
Walking out the door one morning to discover your car has been stolen can be a shocking experience. Car thefts, however, do occur with alarming frequency all over the world. Even owners with decent alarm systems find their vehicles targeted and successfully stolen. The positive news here comes in the form of current technology developments. […].
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Toptal
JANUARY 11, 2018
Redesigning a website is about more than making cosmetic changes; it's about identifying the real issues that the business is facing and solving them with design.
Women on Business
JANUARY 11, 2018
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CoachStation
JANUARY 7, 2018
There is little doubt that being a leader offers many challenges and rewards. Being close to those you lead via proximity and emotionally provides the opportunity to meet the challenges and feel the benefits and rewards. . Leaders who are present and accessible concentrate on more than simply having an ‘open-door policy’ They build relationships and understand their employees as individual people.
CTOvision
JANUARY 9, 2018
The Cyber Threat was written to help executives, especially those without a deep background in cybersecurity, understand the nature of adversaries in cyberspace. The book includes a new section on the technological environment that can help decision-makers get their heads around the new tech enabled world arising around us. The book also captures key lessons […].
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“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.
Toptal
JANUARY 11, 2018
Fragment caching in Rails provides an easy yet a powerful way of improving your application's performance. However, some real-world scenarios do not work quite well with how the Rails cache behaves by default. In this article, Toptal Ruby on Rails Developer Orban Botond shows how you can implement a small DSL to optimize how the cache for related entities is invalidated to improve template rendering performance.
Scott Berkun
JANUARY 9, 2018
On Tuesdays I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the lovely archive ). This week’s question came from Daniel H. [23 votes]: Does the attention economy lead to creative burnout? (And make life harder?). Trying to make a living doing creative work has always been hard for two reasons: The work is more emotionally challenging than other kinds of work.
Cloudera
JANUARY 12, 2018
I mentioned in an earlier blog titled, “Staffing your big data team, ” that data engineers are critical to a successful data journey. That said, most companies that are early in their journey lack a dedicated engineering group. And the longer it takes to put a team in place, the likelier it is that your big data project will stall. The data engineering team is responsible for collecting and ingesting batch and stream-oriented data, inventorying the data, working through ingest bottlenecks, and d
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