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NLP—The Emerging Force within the AI Family

QBurst

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field within Artificial Intelligence (AI) that allows machines to parse, understand, and generate human language. This branch of AI can be applied to multiple languages and across many different formats (for example, unstructured documents, audio, etc.). Considering that the NLP market is anticipated to be worth $13.4 billion in […].

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Epic Focus: Measure your way to a better time to market

Xebia

There are several recurring wishes our clients bring to us, one of which is speed, to improve time to market. However, there is no dial that we can turn to deliver value faster. Software teams are not like cars; there’s no accelerator pedal. Even if we try to speed up by adding more resources, in […]. The post Epic Focus: Measure your way to a better time to market appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Conflict: Uncomfortable, Yet Necessary with Jennifer Jones-Patulli

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Episode 29. ?Is conflict always a bad thing? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Jennifer Jones-Patulli, discuss how people tend to think about conflict and how they handle it. Jennifer provides insight and tools to use as leaders to help handle conflict situations within an organization and among staff. Conflict may be uncomfortable, but it is not always bad.

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Bliki: WaterfallProcess

Martin Fowler

In the software world, “waterfall” is commonly used to describe a style of software process, one that contrasts with the ideas of iterative, or agile styles. Like many well-known terms in software it's meaning is ill-defined and origins are obscure - but I find its essential theme is breaking down a large effort into phases based on activity. It's not clear how the word “waterfall” became so prevalent, but most people base its origin on a paper by Winston Royce , in particular this figure: Altho

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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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Is Agile Accountability an Oxymoron?

Agile Alliance

Despite what some people may think, accountability and Agile are not mutually exclusive. How does your organization incorporate accountability? Is it part of your organization’s value statement or part of your enterprise culture? Most companies and leaders I’ve worked with (Agile or otherwise) are not very good with accountability. Most are either too lenient (they … Continued.

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Maintaining Strategic Focus During Agile Releases

DevOps.com

In today’s hyper-competitive world, releasing early and often is a business necessity. When done right, this unrelenting commitment to speed enables product teams to quickly respond to shifting market conditions. But sometimes, agility can lead to a lack of strategic focus. Releases degenerate delivering shiny objects that temporarily fascinate the product or sales organizations without […].

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How to Encourage Your Team When Results are Disappointing

Let's Grow Leaders

What do you do when everyone gets an “A” for effort, but the results are disappointing? How do you encourage your team while building a recovery plan? 6 Ways to Encourage Your Team When Results Are Disappointing It’s easy to lead when […]. The post How to Encourage Your Team When Results are Disappointing appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Focus on what was “Done” during Sprint Review

Xebia

As Scrum Trainer I get to meet a lot of teams and hear of many different ways to do Scrum. Most are valid ways, yet some seem more aligned with the values of Scrum or the purpose of the specific Scrum Element. In this post we’ll have a look at the Sprint Review. The Sprint […]. The post Focus on what was “Done” during Sprint Review appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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“AI is a lie”

O'Reilly Media - Data

In this interview from O’Reilly Foo Camp 2019, Eric Jonas, assistant professor at the University of Chicago, pierces the hype around artificial intelligence. Highlights from the interview include: Jonas argues that “AI is a lie”—meaning that our expectations far outsize the reality of what’s currently possible. One of the issues arising from that disconnect is a level of corporate investment in the research process that hasn’t been seen before.

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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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7 steps to improve your data structure and algorithm skills

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

This blog is a guest contribution from Harsh Goel, Founder @ InterviewCamp.io – Online Bootcamp for Technical Interviews. Machine Learning or Blockchain might be the next big thing, but interview problem-solving is the skill of the decade. Here is a step-by-step plan to improve your data structure and algorithm skills: Step 1: Understand Depth vs.

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A Big Mistake Leaders Make When Answering Questions

Let's Grow Leaders

The wind shifted, the mainsail swung over the boat, and the deck leaned until I found myself staring at water where the horizon used to be. It looked like we were all going to get wet – but I was actually about […]. The post A Big Mistake Leaders Make When Answering Questions appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Is Cloud AI a Fad? The Shortcomings of Cloud Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

Read Christopher Tozzi explain the shortcomings of cloud artificial intelligence on IT Pro Portal : Want to build artificial intelligence (AI) into your app, but don’t want to have to collect your own data or train your own models? The cloud has a solution for you. Cloud-based AI services have emerged as one of the […].

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8 DevOps Trends to Watch For in 2020

Dzone - DevOps

Here's what you can look forward to for DevOps 2020. According to a collective study, the DevOps market generated 2.9 billion in 2017 and the market is expected to reach $6.6 billion by 2022. DevOps has become a key focus and has shaped the world of software and many experts predict that DevOps is going to be the mainstream and is going to reach its peak in 2020.

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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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Achieving Organizational Change Through Scaled DevOps

DevOps.com

The rapid pace of technological change has had a major impact on customer expectation, forcing IT decision-makers to adopt agile processes to ensure the continual delivery of innovation. This has led to the mass adoption of DevOps practices, with 77% of organizations indicating they rely on DevOps to deploy software, or plan to, in the near future. […].

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Just starting out with test automation? Don't make this mistake

TechBeacon

I often work with clients who are either just beginning, or trying to grow, their test automation capabilities, and more often than not they all make the same, fatal mistakes.

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How to Become a Better Mentor

Career Advancement

“One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.” — John C. Maxwell Tamra asks: When I asked my direct reports for feedback on my own performance recently , I was surprised by the answer one of them gave. He said he’d love more mentoring to help him get to the next level in his career.

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DevOps Demand in the Market Will Skyrocket in the Next 5 Years

Dzone - DevOps

DevOps may never stop, and it waits for no one. DevOps demand in the market is still high. However, since there are always some doubters around, I’ll explain why the need for this process is shooting up. In this article, therefore, you’ll find 5 undeniable reasons why this implementation is going to take over the whole industry.

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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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Five Microservices Worst Practices

DevOps.com

Microservices are moving to the mainstream. The IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2019 Predictions states that by 2022, 90% of all new apps will feature microservices architecture that “improve the ability to design, debug, update and leverage third-party code.” With so many organizations adopting or about to adopt microservices, they must be doing something right. […].

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3 keys to a highly effective product release

TechBeacon

With the adoption of DevOps and continuous delivery, modern-day product release cycles can be unforgiving. What's worse, an error-prone release has the potential to put the customer experience, reputation of your company, security, and data privacy at risk. How do engineering teams ensure effective, agile product releases when they're under the gun?

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NET Core Roadmap: Reasons to Use.NET Core Now and in the Future

Gorilla Logic

NET Core is an open-source, free, multi-platform framework from Microsoft; it replaces.NET Framework.NET Core 3.0 was released in September 2019. In this post, I will present to you a.NET Core roadmap and will discuss why to use it in your projects and what you should know about its future. .NET Core Performance Speed Stands Out. The open-source philosophy behind.NET Core, combined with its features, makes it increasingly popular with developers.NET Core is one of the faster frameworks in the ma

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Back to Black: Thoughts on VC Valuation in the Wake of WeWork

Battery Ventures

Is it better to invest in a fast-growing company, or a profitable one? One innovating on existing technology products, or bringing a technology approach to a traditional market? While the past few years have broken new ground on these questions, lately investors have lost sight of what makes a company worth a particular sum in the first place. A string of recent stumbles from newly public or nearly-public companies should serve as a wake-up call to bring investors back to reality.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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IT Enables Scale in Digital Transformation

DevOps.com

Few corporate functions have seen their role disrupted as much as IT these last few years. The help desk days are long gone. As digital transformation accelerates, IT is becoming less about outright technology and more about creating capabilities that enable the overarching business strategy. As such, IT is the engine behind any company’s digital […].

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5 key elements of the next-gen security operations center

TechBeacon

Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) recently surveyed 372 IT and security professionals about issues surrounding enterprise security analytics and operations processes. The results: Cloud migration, digital transformation initiatives, and the IoT are imposing new requirements on the security operations center (SOC).

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AI development has major security, privacy and ethical blind spots

CTOvision

Read why O’Reilly says that security, privacy and ethics are low-priority issues for developers when modeling their machine learning solutions on Help Net Security : Security is the most serious blind spot. Nearly three-quarters (73 per cent) of respondents indicated they don’t check for security vulnerabilities during model building. More than half (59 per cent) […].

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Data Science Fails: Change is the Only Constant

DataRobot

Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher who lived 2,500 years ago, is credited with saying, “Change is the only constant.” Similarly, in 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” This blog is about how we sometimes forget these two ideas when using artificial intelligence systems.

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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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The Time Has Come for an Engineering Approach to DevOps

DevOps.com

Do you want to know how to do DevOps? Are you doing DevOps but not satisfied with the results you are getting? DevOps is complex. It does not come with a prescription, installation guide, user’s manual or maintenance manual. It doesn’t even have a standard definition. How can anyone expect to get good results with […]. The post The Time Has Come for an Engineering Approach to DevOps appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Top Leadership Blogs & Podcasts for 2020

Experience to Lead

An insightful leadership blog adds incredible value to your development as a leader, and even more so when it’s written by an expert who has encountered the challenges you’re facing. That said, you don’t have hours to search online for the blogs most relevant to your leadership challenges. As you look forward to 2020 and [.]. The post Top Leadership Blogs & Podcasts for 2020 appeared first on Experience to Lead.

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Top 5 Post-Cloud Migration Tips

CTOvision

Read Bill Saltys list five top post-cloud migration tips for businesses on Information Week : The benefits of migrating to the cloud are well-documented: increased efficiency, scalability, business agility, simplified management and overall lower costs. Moving operations to the cloud initiates a digital transformation for organizations and allows them to adapt more quickly to new […].

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