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Seize the Moment

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. The most effective way to do it, is to do it. Amelia Earhart. Have you ever paused to consider that in every great story or notable achievement there is a footnote behind the headline? The footnote is the hard work, sweat, tears, failures and disappointments that went into preparation for the main event.

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6 Quick Ways To Know If You Are An Effective Leader

Terry Starbucker

In a fast-paced and ultra-competitive business world, it’s rare when a leader can get immediate feedback about how they are doing. Annual, semi-annual, and even monthly performance evaluations and “360 Degree” feedback from your bosses, peers and teammates just don’t have the same impact, especially when it comes to the quality of the leadership itself.

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3 Marketing Tactics for Small Business Success

Women on Business

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You Can’t Fake Urgency

Change Starts Here

A lesson from parenthood: All the motivation in the world can't beat a true sense of urgency.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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How to Simplify Concurrency with Reactive Modelling on Android

Toptal

Dealing with concurrency in Android through imperative-style programming can be quite the hassle. RxJava, a library for reactive and functional style programming, allows concurrency constructs to be modeled in a reactive way in Android's non-reactive world. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Christopher Arriola shows us how RxJava can be incrementally introduced to existing Android projects and leveraged to simplify concurrency.

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3 Ways Personal Branding Helps You Claim Your Personal Power

Women on Business

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Eric Schmidt Provides Insights Into The Future of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at RSAC2017

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. There are many great ways to learn about Artificial Intelligence. An important one is to listen to those strategic thinkers who are helping drive real advancements into applications. As a long term student of AI, I have other videos I will recommend to you to better learn the history of AI and its many AI winters and bursts of advancements.

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Design for Emotion to Increase User Engagement

Toptal

When done well, emotional design increases engagement and can elicit an emotion that will deliver a positive response in users.

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The Agile Fluency Game: Now Available!

James Shore

01 Mar 2017. James Shore/Blog. Five years ago, Arlo Belshee and I created a game about agile adoption. The ideas in that game influenced the Agile Fluency™ Model , Arlo's Agile Engineering Fluency map , and the Agile Fluency Diagnostic. We always intended to publish the game more widely, but the time and money required to do professional publishing job was just too much.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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We stayed up when AWS went down

Akana

AWS had a well-documented failure of the S3 service in its US East region this week. Our Akana API Management SaaS platform is hosted in AWS, so how were we able to offer a seamless service to our customers throughout this disruption? The post We stayed up when AWS went down appeared first on API Management Blog - Akana.

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6 Eco-Friendly Ways to Improve the Positive Cashflow of Your Business

Women on Business

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Snapchat IPO: It’s All About the ARPU, Dummy

Toptal

Ahead of Snap's IPO, we take a look at whether the rumoured valuation makes sense, and find that whilst overall market concerns regarding DAU growth are justified, the market is likely under-valuing the company’s ARPU growth prospects. For us, Snap is a Buy.

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Hearing Crickets in a Keynote Address

Steve Farber

I wasn’t sure if crickets lived in the deserts of the Middle East, but I fully expected to hear them if they did. This probably won’t come as a surprise, but that’s seldom the goal for a keynote speaker, and it wasn’t my goal at the Leaders in Dubai Conference in the United Arab Emirates. This was one of those big-time conferences that every keynote speaker wants to work.

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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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Report from the battlefield #8 - always remember about the context

Michal Komorowski

Title: Sunrise seen from the top of Mount Fuji, , Source: own resources, Authors: Agnieszka and Micha? Komorowscy. I decided to change a little bit a character of Report from the battlefield series. Initially, in this series, I was describing my observations from my work as a reviewer for a recruitment company. Now, I'll be also writing about my findings from my day-to-day work.

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Agile Working – Benefits for Women and Industry

Women on Business

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A Guide to CloudKit: How to Sync User Data Across iOS Devices

Toptal

Modern mobile application development requires a well thought-out plan for keeping user data in sync across various devices. This is a thorny problem with many gotchas and pitfalls, but users expect the feature and expect it to work well. For iOS and macOS, Apple provides a robust toolkit, called CloudKit API, which allows developers targeting Apple platforms to solve this synchronization problem.

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The Reunion 1.7 – 1.8

Steve Farber

Chapter 37. I must have made a wrong turn as I walked down the hallway away from Rich’s office. I thought reception would be on my right, but, instead, I was looking at a row of offices I’d never seen before. In an attempt to get my bearings I glanced around and bam ! there he was in the office across the way. Cam was working like a vortex: he had a phone on one ear and a headset wrapped around the other.

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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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Estimating Software Bugs

Professor Beekums

Software bugs are an inevitable part of any complex application. The human mind may be able to understand how an application works at a high level, but being able to have every detail floating around in your head is impossible. That means that it is very easy for a programmer to miss handling a specific situation in their code, aka edge cases, because they aren’t thinking about it.

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How One Entrepreneur Made $75K In Less Than 6 Months

Women on Business

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We stayed up when AWS went down

Akana

AWS had a well-documented failure of the S3 service in its US East region this week. Our Akana API Management SaaS platform is hosted in AWS, so how were we able to offer a seamless service to our customers throughout this disruption? The post We stayed up when AWS went down appeared first on API Management Blog - Akana.

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New York State Implements Cybersecurity Regulation 23 NYCRR 500

Coalfire

On March 1 st , 2017, sweeping new cybersecurity requirements were placed on organizations regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services. The law applies to a broad set of ‘covered entities’ that are supervised by the NYDFS, including banks, trusts, budget planners, check cashers, credit unions, money transmitters, licensed lenders, mortgage brokers or bankers, and insurance companies that do business in New York.

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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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Our Once and Future Wisdom: Re-acquiring Lost Institutional Knowledge

The Agile Manager

Last month we looked at the loss of institutional memory and the reasons for it. This month, we look at our options for re-acquiring it. The erosion of business knowledge is not a recent phenomenon. Management textbooks dating at least as far back as the 1980s included stories of employees performing tasks the reasons for which they didn't really understand.

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Christy Westerfeld, Esq. Joins the Women on Business Contributor Team

Women on Business

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The Agile Fluency Game: Now Available!

James Shore

01 Mar 2017. James Shore/Blog. Five years ago, Arlo Belshee and I created a game about agile adoption. The ideas in that game influenced the Agile Fluency™ Model , Arlo's Agile Engineering Fluency map , and the Agile Fluency Diagnostic. We always intended to publish the game more widely, but the time and money required to do professional publishing job was just too much.

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Cloud Burst?

Coalfire

The cloud can burst!? This week’s AWS service disruption showed us the importance of architecting a system to account for failure, and how to be successful when deploying your solution in the cloud.

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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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SAP's platform strategy doubles down on cloud, IoT, AI, and user experience

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

A series of strategic communications this month demonstrates that SAP is not just serious about cloud, but is betting the business that it can create the most contemporary, compelling, and capable enterprise cloud platform.

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Modern NPM: Critical for Effective APM

Kentik

Distributed Applications Make Network Role Key. Network operations is no longer about the free and unfettered flow of packets across the wire. It’s bigger than that. Network managers are increasingly supporting cross-domain efforts to deliver high-performing applications. And effective application performance management (APM) depends on modern network performance management (NPM) tools.

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Taking ownership—leading with accountability

Lead on Purpose

Accountability is a key leadership principle. Those who do great things, or do small things in a positive way, succeed because they apply the right principles, they do the right thing.