Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 31, 2017
“This guy opened his door and hit your car!” Sebastian, our 12-year-old, announced as Karin and I returned to the car, our arms full of office supplies. He pointed out a small scratch on the door. We laughed about it and how […].
Martin Fowler
OCTOBER 31, 2017
From time to time I draw a bunch of diagrams in Omnigraffle, and then need to convert them all to a format I can show in a web page. If I only have one or two, then doing it each time works ok. But if I have a dozen or more, then I find it easier to have a script. That way I can safely export them all whenever I need to.
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Erik Bernhardsson
OCTOBER 29, 2017
There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it’s well known that retention has a super strong impact on the valuation of a subscription business. Or that the % of occupied seats is super important for an airline. A fun little toy model that I can up with generates a curious relationship between conversion rates and revenue.
Change Starts Here
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
Have you ever worked for an organization that says they want change and then demonstrates the opposite? It's frustrating when you're an employee, and embarrassing when you're the one trying to implement change. What can you do when you see these mixed messages about a change you're trying to implement?
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Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
Sometimes when you go to build your strategic plan, it can seem like there are more questions than answers. We’ve seen changing regulatory environments, disruptive technology, and natural disasters lead to a paralyzing cycle of “what ifs” that lead to inaction. One […].
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Erik Bernhardsson
OCTOBER 29, 2017
There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it’s well known that retention has a super strong impact on the valuation of a subscription business. Or that the % of occupied seats is super important for an airline. A fun little toy model that I can up with generates a curious relationship between conversion rates and revenue.
Toptal
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
By leveraging new and emerging technologies like AI, AR, VR, and MR, designers have fresh and exciting opportunities ahead in designing future products.
J.D. Meier's Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2017
“With you, we seek to unlock the unimaginable, and to solve the impossible.” – Satya Nadella. Satya Nadella shared his take on how Microsoft can enable digital transformation at Ignite: Satya Nadella at Ignite: “We collectively have the opportunity to lead in this transformation”. Here is Satya’s mental model for framing how Microsoft is enabling digital transformation for the world: 4 Digital Transformation Pillars.
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Each week I read leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. Click on the title of the article to read the full text. I have […].
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.
Women on Business
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
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Toptal
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
By now, most have heard of Big Data – the buzzword d’jour across most business circles. In this exploratory piece, Finance Expert, Gregory Thompson, introduces us to the wonderful world of Small Data. Specifically, he guides us through its broader market dynamics, tools, players and solutions, and includes a practical implementation guide for how small businesses might add analytics as a core-capability to their respective business arsenals.
CTOvision
OCTOBER 31, 2017
A trend we have noticed in engagements across multiple sectors of the economy is an absolute thirst for information on best practices for protecting information at home. Every employee of every company, from the most senior executive to most junior intern, is now leveraging advanced interconnected technologies in amazing new ways at home. In doing […].
Openxcell
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
History of the Internet and E-commerce The inception of WWW fueled the rapid rise of Internet users worldwide. The users around the world started using the Internet for communication purposes. History of the Internet and E-commerce. The inception of WWW fueled the rapid rise of Internet users worldwide. The users around the world started using the Internet for communication purposes.
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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.
Michal Komorowski
OCTOBER 30, 2017
I heard and read a lot about Event Sourcing (ES) but earlier I hadn't had occasion to use it in the real-life system. This year I got this opportunity :) For many years I was working with traditional architectures so ES + CQRS + DDD is like a new world to me. Very refreshing experience! I've already learned a lot but I'm still learning and discovering new things.
Toptal
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Have you been googling articles on how to build an outstanding developer resume? Stop right now. It's a waste of time! Cover letter? That's a waste as well.
Mike Roberts
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Error Handling This is Part 7 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda. To see the other articles in this series please visit the series home page. To be alerted about future installments subscribe to our newsletter , follow Symphonia on twitter @symphoniacloud , and our blog at The Symphonium. Welcome to Part 7 of Learning Lambda!
CO2 Business Leadership
OCTOBER 31, 2017
ARC Advisory Group conducted research in Q4 of 2016 to understand how companies were dealing with the “great digitization”. Their overarching conclusion: Digital Transformation is happening much faster than most leaders anticipated, and the pace of change is accelerating. Smart connected sensors, digital networks, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics are turning scores of data into actionable information.
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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.
Lead on Purpose
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Whether you recognize it or not, the organization you work in has a culture. Big or small, every company has beliefs and values that drive its core philosophy.
Toptal
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Emojis are universal symbols of expression, transcending cultural and linguistic divides. As technology continues to advance, designers will be the ones to define the next evolution of human communication.
The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
How important is it that others know that the bad guys got in? Image Credit: Carl Jones. As CIOs we spend a great deal of our time attempting to secure the company’s networks from the bad guys because we understand the importance of information technology. This activity takes on a whole host of different forms: firewalls, end user training, security sweeps, etc.
Cloudera
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Cloudera was recently named to the San Francisco Business Times “Fast 100” list of the fastest-growing private companies in the Bay Area. We were selected based on our pre-IPO revenue growth driven by demand for our machine learning and analytic platform. This year’s winners were selected based on percent growth in revenue from fiscal years 2014 to 2016. .
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Kentik
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
This week’s top story picks from the Kentik team. This week, VMware announced plans to acquire SD-WAN startup VeloCloud. Google released a new Andromeda SDN to reduce its cloud latency. SoftBank, Facebook, Amazon and others made plans to lay a 60-Tbps undersea cable from Juniper. And Energy giant Chevron selected Microsoft as its preferred cloud provider.
Toptal
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
In WordPress, taxonomies allow you to flexibly organize your content in categories with tags and more. However, when defining custom taxonomies, you may not get the desired behavior out of the box. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Rodrigo Donini shows how exclusive custom taxonomies can be implemented in WordPress for strict categorization of posts.
Haft of the Spear
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
It was that time of year again. The day I lie and promise to be good the rest of the year: dental check-up day. During this most recent visit I was struck at how much people treat the security of their computers and accounts in the same way they treat their oral health. You know what you’re supposed to do, but you don’t do it. “How often do you floss?
The Agile Manager
OCTOBER 31, 2017
It is appealing to think of your trading partners and competitors seeing your company as an industry leading innovator. More soberly, you know it's only a matter of time before the fundamental economics of your business shift not only out of your favor, but out of what you've always known them to be. Unfortunately, as we saw last month, innovation is an increasingly expensive game.
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Kentik
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Troubleshooting Our SaaS… With Our Own Platform. Effective Site Reliability practices include monitoring and alerting to improve incident response. Here at Kentik, we use a microservices architecture for our production Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, and we also happen to have a great solution for monitoring and alerting about the performance of that kind of application.
Toptal
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Today, there are many celebrities that have become investors, and many investors that are borderline celebrities. One thing is clear: The division between Hollywood and Silicon Valley has become increasingly blurred. Though in the past it has been common for famous entertainers, musicians, or actors to grow their wealth through real estate, royalties, or restaurants, celebrities today are turning towards tech investments.
Darktrace
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Earlier this year, Darktrace detected a new botnet engaged in a large-scale reflection and amplification attack targeting organizations around the world, including several governmental bodies.
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