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How Your Small Business Can Begin To Use Big Data

CTOvision

While big data can seem like an intimidating term when you are running a small business, it can be a very useful tool to drive your business’s success. Big data, as a term, encompasses many sources of information, some of which you may already use. Big data has many benefits to offer you, from a […].

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Before You Forget, Stop and Do This Immediately

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever met a truly humble person– someone who’s entire life is a sacrificial commitment to a cause they deeply believe in? As I spoke with Sister Louise in Thailand about her 50-year commitment to helping women and children out of extreme poverty and danger, I was blown away by her selfless mission. Although she’s Catholic her focus is not about a conversion of her 95% Buddhist community– it’s about “saving (with a little “s”) lost sheep.

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Laravel API Tutorial: How to Build and Test a RESTful API

Toptal

Laravel is a PHP framework developed with developer productivity in mind. Written and maintained by Taylor Otwell, the framework is very opinionated and strives to save developer time by favoring convention over configuration. The framework also aims to evolve with the web and has already incorporated several new features and ideas in the web development world such as job queues, API authentication out of the box, real-time communication, and much more.

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Three Things Executives Around the World Tell Me Always Work

Next Level Blog

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to speak over the course of several programs in the U.K. with a couple of hundred executives from around the world. During those sessions I was struck by the commonalities of what helps high capacity people lead and live at their best. In fact, when I have the opportunity to talk with executives who have participated in my programs six months or a year later, there are three tactics that are always on the short list of things they’re still doing: T

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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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6 ways security pros unwittingly compromise enterprise security

Kacy Zurkus - CSO Online

That executives bypass security controls due to a lack of engagement between security and business decision makers seems logical, but the C-suite folks are not the only ones guilty of self-defeating behavior that creates more risk. Security professionals also do things that unwittingly introduce risks and compromise enterprise security. Here's a look at six self-defeating behaviors you should avoid: 1.

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Angular vs. React: Which Is Better for Web Development?

Toptal

Is Angular vs. React just a matter of personal preference? This article gives an in-depth comparison and analysis of various Angular and React components in light of real-world applications.

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The Perks and Perils of Using Social Media in Career Building

Women on Business

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How to Develop Realtime Chat Room Android App

ShepHertz

In this blog we will learn how to develop a chat room Android App by leveraging AppWarp—which enables realtime communication in any kind of app and helps game developers to develop realtime multiplayer games. This will highlight AppWarp’s match-making APIs […]. The post How to Develop Realtime Chat Room Android App appeared first on ShepHertz App42 Blog.

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8 Major Problems Healthcare CIOs are Facing

CTOvision

The role of CIOs is increasingly changing as the business technology undergoes a major shift, making them face a difficult task of incorporating new technology while still retaining ethical standards of the healthcare industry. Below are some of the major challenges faced by CIOs in their efforts of implementing new technology. Security and Privacy While […].

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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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Advanced PowerPoint Presentation Tips & Hacks

Toptal

Many have a love-hate relationship with Microsoft’s PowerPoint. While super flexible, the tool can also be manual, tedious, and all-consuming, especially for the uninitiated. Authored by a former management consultant and finance expert, this article will help every user—from the beginner to the advanced operator—smooth out some of their points of friction and become an expert-level user of the application.

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Should You Throw out Your Business Plan?

Women on Business

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Death Marches Aren't Worth It

Professor Beekums

Imagine you’re a manager on a large software project. You’ve got about a month to go before the intended deadline and your team appears to need at least 3 more months before being done. What do you do? Many come under the temptation to start a so called “death march”. It essentially means having folks work as many hours as possible: nights, weekends, whenever.

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CTOvision Assessment On The Megatrend of the Internet of Things

CTOvision

There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Mobility, Big Data, Robotics, Internet of Things, CyberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the Internet of Things. Today's Internet connects people, governments, academia and business.

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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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Effective Communication Strategies for Designers

Toptal

It’s crucial that designers focus not only on cultivating their abilities with creative tools but also improve their ability to communicate design effectively.

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Why Your Retail Business Needs a Mobile POS System

Women on Business

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To Succeed, Focus on Inputs Not Results

CoachStation

The ability and desire to focus on those areas of our lives that provide the greatest return can often be confusing. Change and growth comes first through understanding and acknowledgement. When there is understanding, there is the potential for action. Without understanding and action, it is too easy to continue to do what you have always done. That may of course be justified in your mind, but it rarely leads to progression, growth and development.

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The Value Myth

The Agile Manager

When we think about value, we think in terms of hard measures like increasing revenue or decreasing cost, or soft measures like increasing customer satisfaction or reducing customer friction. This all sounds great, but we know in practice that value is not as concrete as we would like to believe: projections are conjecture, there are multiple forces at work that determine the result we get, and counterfactuals can't be proven to know for fact whether we'd have been better off doing something dif

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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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How To Build A Successful Minimum Viable Product

Toptal

Vadim Dagman, a former startup CEO and Toptal Product Engineer, introduces a set of practical tactics that can help teams create successful MVPs.

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5 Products You Can Create for Your Online Business

Women on Business

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SWOT or SOAR? – Strategy and tools in business

Rapid BI

Time to SOAR or SWOT? Some people have argued that it is time to move on from SWOT analysis to other things – in this piece we explore SOAR analysis an Appreciative Inquiry tool. The post SWOT or SOAR? – Strategy and tools in business appeared first on RapidBI.

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How to Develop Realtime Chat Room Android AppBagaimana Cara Mengembangkan Ruang Obrolan (Chat Room) Secara Real-Time Pada Aplikasi Android

ShepHertz

In this blog we will learn how to develop a chat room Android App by leveraging AppWarp—which enables realtime communication in any kind of app and helps game developers to develop realtime multiplayer games. This will highlight AppWarp’s match-making APIs […].

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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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Creating New Concepts With Design Thinking

Toptal

Michael Abehsera, a UI/UX Designer and Lead Editor of the Design Blog at Toptal, explains how teams can apply principles of design thinking to generate innovative ideas.

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Persistence—the key to winning

Lead on Purpose

In recent weeks I have interacted with several friends and family who are working through difficult situations. We’ve had informative conversations about what motivates them to keep going. Though their motivations vary, the commonality is their desire to succeed.

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Domain Models - Early Abstractions and Polymorphic Domain Behaviors

Ruminations of a Programmer

Let's talk genericity or generic abstractions. In the last post we talked about an abstraction Money , which, BTW was not generic. But we expressed some of the operations on Money in terms of a Money[Monoid] , where Monoid is a generic algebraic structure. By algebraic we mean that a Monoid is generic in types offers operations that are completely generic on the types all operations honor the algebraic laws of left and right identities and associativity But when we design a domain model, what do

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GE Is Changing How They Evaluate Their Employees, Should You?

The Accidental Successful CIO

General Electric wants to change how they evaluate their employees Image Credit: Jeff Turner. I’m pretty sure that we all know who General Electic (GE) is. The company has been around for 124 years and employees over 315,000 people. The company has made everything from toasters to railway locomotives to aircraft engines to nuclear power plants.

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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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6 ways security pros unwittingly compromise enterprise security

Kacy Zurkus - CSO Online

That executives bypass security controls due to a lack of engagement between security and business decision makers seems logical, but the C-suite folks are not the only ones guilty of self-defeating behavior that creates more risk. Security professionals also do things that unwittingly introduce risks and compromise enterprise security. Here's a look at six self-defeating behaviors you should avoid: 1.

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Getting the Most Value Out of Your Phishing Program

Coalfire

Are your phishing tests worth the money you are spending on them? Please don't misinterpret that as suggesting you shouldn't be testing your users. To the contrary, I think you should be testing all your users (executives of all ranks included) on a regular basis. What I mean by that question is; are you really "testing" your users, or are you merely spot quizzing them?

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Bundlefox review

Successful Software

I have been using bundles and 1-day sales as a useful way to increase the exposure for my visual planning software. I have had positive experiences with BitsDuJour, Macupdate and BundleHunt. Once you put your software in one bundle you inevitably get approached by people who run other bundle promotions. I was approached by Bundlefox and agreed to put Hyper Plan in their Mac software bundle.