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UX Writing: How to Find the Right Words for Your Interface

Gorilla Logic

Words are persuasive. They can empower people, or they can make them feel lost. With just one word in an app or a website, you can engage and build trust with your users or, alternatively, lead them to frustration. When it comes to user experience, we tend to focus largely on graphic elements such as color, button appearance, and font. But how much time do we dedicate to writing the text that will be in our interfaces?

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DataOps vs. DevOps: What’s the Difference?

DevOps.com

There is a mindboggling amount of data today; to even measure it requires using a byte measurement called a zettabyte, which is one sextillion bytes (that’s 21 zeros). Currently, because such a ridiculous amount of data exists, there is a growing urgency to end wasteful data processes. From this environment, DataOps was born. Similar to […]. The post DataOps vs.

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5 ways AI can help mitigate the global shipping crisis

TechCrunch

Ahmer Inam. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ahmer Inam is the chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO) at Pactera EDGE. He has more than 20 years of experience driving organizational transformation. His experience includes leadership roles at Nike Inc., Wells Fargo, Sonic Automotive and Cambia Health Solutions. With the fourth quarter now upon us, every industry faces a challenge in managing a holiday production calendar that will deliver the goods.

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Gateway Pattern

Martin Fowler

We often need to access APIs from foreign codebases, and these foreign codebases usually have different vocabularies to ours. I've found it useful to encapsulate this interaction with a gateway that translates between our code and foreign code.

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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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5 essential traits of elite business analysts

CIO

If you’re interested in data and how it relates to business processes, a career as a business analyst (BA) might be for you. Business analysis will enable you to spend your days burrowing into numbers and emerging with nuggets of insight. You will need to really know your data to succeed. But as experienced business analysts will tell you, there’s much more to it than that.

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Felt raised $4.5 million to get you to ‘think in maps’

TechCrunch

From vaccine distribution plans to fire trackers to bar crawls for your best friend’s birthday, maps help people visualize space and express impact. And Felt, a new Oakland-based startup co-founded by Sam Hashemi and Can Duruk , is on a mission to make the medium more mainstream. Felt is a collaborative software company that wants to make it easier for people to build maps on the internet.

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How Leaders Make The Most of Complaints

Let's Grow Leaders

You’ve got a clear focus on what matters most, and your team seems to work well together, but then you get a call. Hey, I need to talk to you about a conflict, a disagreement, a clash of personalities. What you do next will reinforce your leadership and influence or erode your credibility. Team conflict can feel like quicksand and a distraction from your work, but it can also be an excellent opportunity for your team to grow.

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Top 7 business intelligence trends for 2021

CIO

Business intelligence is not an oxymoron like jumbo shrimp. It’s not dead. And it’s not being superseded by artificial intelligence.

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Ashanti Gardner

Agile Alliance

Ashanti Gardner Shares experience as a BIPOC Graphic Recorder. The post Ashanti Gardner first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Latent AI, which says it can compress common AI models by 10x, lands some key backing

TechCrunch

Roughly a year ago, Latent AI , a now three-year-old, Menlo Park, Ca.-based startup, pitched a handful of investors during TechCrunch’s Battlefield competition. It didn’t win that contest, but that hasn’t kept it from winning the interest of investors elsewhere. It just closed on $19 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by Future Ventures and Blackhorn Ventures, with participation from Booz Allen, Lockheed Martin, 40 North Ventures, and Autotech Ventures.

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Best Practices of High Performing Virtual Teams (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Start Here to Make Your High-Performing Virtual Teams Even Better. In this week’s Asking For a Friend, I share best practices I see continually being performed by high-performing virtual teams. Highlights from the Building High-Performing Virtual Teams Conversation. 0:54 High-performing teams invest in the people they are working with as genuine human beings.

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How Big Data Investments Could Affect A Variety Of Industries

CTOvision

Read Sylvia Jablonski explain how big data companies like Palantir Technologies, Inc. and Snowflake have a great future on Forbes : Big data describes the large amounts of information that could be analyzed or unanalyzed, structured or unstructured and an untapped resource or a potential headache for the whole range of businesses and sectors. Big […].

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Agile Africa

Agile Alliance

Patrick Taiwo, Elvin Assiam, Grace Johnson, and Nchimunya Kabunda discuss social justice. The post Agile Africa first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Motivo raises $12M Series A to speed up chip design with AI

TechCrunch

Chip design is a long slog of trial and error, taking years to bring a design to market. Motivo , a five year old startup from a chip industry veteran is creating software to speed up chip design from years to months using AI. Today the company announced a $12 million Series A. Intel Capital led the round along with new investors Storm Ventures and Seraph Group, as well as participation from Inventus Capital.

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Article: Leveraging the Agile Manifesto for More Sustainability

InfoQ Culture Methods

This article explores what sustainability exactly means, the current status of sustainability of the major agile organizations (Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance), and the impact of software development on sustainability. The main focal point of this article is using the principles of the Agile Manifesto to guide actions that contribute to more sustainability.

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Dell Technologies CFO Tom Sweet On The Chip Shortage, VMware Spin-Off And The Post-Pandemic IT Market

CTOvision

The global chip shortage has impacted everything from the production of game consoles and smartphones to computers and home appliances. One of the industries affected the most is tech, which saw an uptick in demand for PCs and laptops when Covid pivoted employees and students to work remotely. Even Dell Technologies, which has a global […].

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Devon Morris

Agile Alliance

Devon Morris - 1st Black Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) Shares Journey. The post Devon Morris first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom

TechCrunch

Although older adults are one of the fastest-growing demographics, they’re quite underserved when it comes to consumer tech. The global population of people older than 65 will reach 1.5 billion by 2050, and members of this cohort — who are leading longer, active lives — have plenty of money to spend. Still, most startups persist in releasing products aimed at serving younger users, says Lawrence Kosick, co-founder of GetSetUp, an edtech company that targets 50+ learners. “If you can

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Programming Languages: Choose Wisely?

DevOps.com

We’ve got decades of experience in programming and language adoption under our belt at this point, and there are a few things we can say definitively that developers in general (and DevOps engineers specifically) should be aware of. First, it doesn’t matter as much as you think. It really doesn’t. Most developers don’t choose programming […].

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Bitcoin retakes $46,000 as rebound continues

CTOvision

Read explain why Bitcoin managed to break past the crucial $46,000 barrier despite the ongoing Senate debates on cryptocurrency as a part of the yet-to-be-passed infrastructure bill on CNBC : The price of bitcoin broke past $46,000 on Monday morning after a high-stakes weekend for the crypto industry as the Senate continued debating the details […].

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A Talk with Jenny Tarwater

Agile Alliance

Jenny Tarwater discusses becoming more aware of social injustice. The post A Talk with Jenny Tarwater first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Robinhood buys Say Technologies for $140M to improve shareholder-company relations

TechCrunch

U.S. consumer investing and trading service Robinhood announced this morning that it will acquire Say Technologies in a $140 million cash deal. Say Technologies is a venture-backed startup, having raised $8 million in 2018, per Crunchbase data. PitchBook data indicates that the company was worth $28 million on a post-money basis following the investment, implying that the company’s backers managed a roughly 5x return on their investment.

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Google Unveils Tool to Better Secure GitHub Repos

DevOps.com

Google today launched a GitHub app that provides automated continuous enforcement of security best practices for GitHub projects. Kim Lewandowski, a product manager for open source software security at Google, said the Allstar application enables IT teams to assess any project on GitHub to check for security policy adherence. In addition, Allstar sets desired enforcement […].

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A Purposeful Mission and a Culture of Innovation Fuels Balbix

CTOvision

Our CEO and Founder Gaurav Banga recently shared a post (excerpted below, full post here) on LinkedIn which talked about how cybersecurity is now a big data problem. “With the exploding enterprise attack surface, there are practically unlimited permutations and combinations of methods that attackers use to breach organizations. Enterprises have deployed dozens of security tools, […].

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Ann-Marie Kong

Agile Alliance

Coaching social justice trauma. The post Ann-Marie Kong first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Consumer goods software company Aforza bags $22M to open US headquarters

TechCrunch

Aforza , developing cloud and mobile apps for consumer goods companies, announced a $22 million Series A round led by DN Capital. The London-based company’s technology is built on the Salesforce and Google Cloud platforms so that consumer goods companies can digitally transform product distribution and customer engagement to combat issues like unprofitable promotions and declining market share, Aforza co-founder and CEO Dominic Dinardo told TechCrunch.

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The SolarWinds Query Report 2021: Database Priorities and Pitfalls

DevOps.com

The rise of hybrid IT and the accelerated adoption of cloud-native apps have evolved traditional database design, management and monitoring. Workloads are rapidly shifting to the cloud and application performance is heavily dependent on the performance of the underlying database. Meanwhile, the global COVID-19 pandemic has forced companies to make significant changes in the last […].

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Top 5 KPIs to keep in mind for excellent customer experience

CEO Insider

You’ve put customer experience at the core of your contact center strategy, and you want to be sure that what you’re doing is on the correct track? Here are five indicators that you must be aware of in order to create a dashboard that accurately reflects your priorities, progress, and the influence of your activities […]. The post Top 5 KPIs to keep in mind for excellent customer experience appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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