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Edge Computing: The Driving Force in New Architecture Innovation

Dell EMC

Edge computing is a very widely used term these days in lot of technology blogs, analyst reports, conferences and product announcements. Many companies are positioning themselves to grab a share of the edge computing addressable market. A lot of announcements try to position their existing products for edge deployments and few try to innovate for purpose built edge architectures.

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Test automation?—?From basics to advanced

Xebia

This article answers the following questions: What are the prerequisites for test automation? What do you achieve by automating tests? What steps do you take to get test automation in place? You’ve decided you need test automation. Awesome! Next phase: Get cracking! You’ve read what considerations to keep in mind when creating a successful automated testing […].

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Types of Data Structures

The Crazy Programmer

Data structures are a very important programming concept. They provide us with a means to store, organize and retrieve data in an efficient manner. The data structures are used to make working with our data, easier. There are many data structures which help us with this. Types of Data Structures. Image Source. Primitive Data Structures. These are the structures which are supported at the machine level, they can be used to make non-primitive data structures.

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How to check whether a link is safe

The Parallax

The sharp flutter of momentary panic that stabs at you when a website link arrives in your inbox or by text message may not (yet) have a specific term in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , but that doesn’t mean you’re wrong to worry about whether that link is safe to click on. Certainly, it’s not hard to imagine a feeling of dread in the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, when John Podesta’s email account was notoriously phished by now indicted Ru

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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 Overcome a Frustrating Setback at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

I know it’s painful, but take a minute to consider the most frustrating setback you’ve ever had at work. If you’re like me, you’ve got plenty to choose from. Pick the most gnarly, frustrating one. Chances are you didn’t “deserve” this thing […]. The post How to Overcome a Frustrating Setback at Work appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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5 ways to improve employee development programs for your organization

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

“Companies that transform their learning and development organizations are not only able to accelerate skills development but also can dramatically improve employee engagement and retention—one of the biggest challenges cited by this year’s respondents.”- Deloitte University Press’s Human Capital Trends 2015 Survey. In 2015, McLean & company trends survey, Learning & Development topped the list of project spending.

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Applying Leadership by the Numbers

General Leadership

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” Colin Powell. Successful organizations possess numerous attributes that distinguish them from their competitors. Leadership is the key component that contributes to the success of these effective teams. At the helm of these organizations is the individual hired to lead, whether they are the commander of a military unit, the CEO of a large corporation or

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Two Leadership Mistakes that Cripple Your Talent Development

Let's Grow Leaders

You Never Outgrow Your Responsibility for Talent Development “Why doesn’t anyone care? Don’t they get it? There’s no one I can trust or depend on!” We have heard those frustrated words from more than one senior leader across a range of industries. […]. The post Two Leadership Mistakes that Cripple Your Talent Development appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Five Stages in the Change Process Where You Can Involve People

Change Starts Here

Early in my career, I was an engineer responsible for process improvements. I quickly discovered that as the only engineer, I could get a lot more done if I involved more people in the effort to identify opportunities and implement solutions. Involving more people had the added benefit that they owned the outcome and supported […].

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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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How HackerEarth can help your organizations in Learning & Development

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

“Companies that transform their learning and development organizations are not only able to accelerate skills development but also can dramatically improve employee engagement and retention—one of the biggest challenges cited by this year’s respondents.”- Deloitte University Press’s Human Capital Trends 2015 Survey. In 2015, McLean & company trends survey, Learning & Development topped the list of project spending.

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Leadership and Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

News Flash : The #1 thing leaders need to understand is that the Digital Transformation train left the station a few years ago. If you weren’t onboard back then, you need to stop looking for the next train and rapidly go in search of building a rocket ship. Businesses simply have run out of time to embark on multi-year transformation projects – that window has closed.

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Is Cognitive Technology a Better Term than Artificial Intelligence?

CTOvision

One of the challenges for those tracking the artificial intelligence industry is that, surprisingly, there’s no accepted, standard definition of what artificial intelligence really is. As Rodney Brooks puts it starkly in the recently released “This is AI” video, “artificial intelligence doesn’t mean one thing… it’s a collection of practices and pieces that people put […].

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The Psychology of Design

A List Apart

There are a number of debates about which additional skills designers should learn. Should designers code, write, or understand business? These skills are incredibly valuable but perhaps not essential. However, I would argue that every designer should learn the fundamentals of psychology. As humans, we have an underlying “blueprint” for how we perceive and process the world around us, and the study of psychology helps us define this blueprint.

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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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Four Pitfalls of Sentiment Analysis Accuracy

Toptal

Manually gathering information about user-generated data is time-consuming, to say the least. That's why more organizations are turning to automatic sentiment analysis methods—but basic models don't always cut it. In this article, Toptal Freelance Data Scientist Rudolf Eremyan gives an overview of some sentiment analysis gotchas and what can be done to address them.

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Blind Leading the Blind

The Daily WTF

Corporate Standards. You know, all those rules created over time by bureaucrats who think that they're making things better by mandating consistency. The ones that force you to take time to change an otherwise properly-functioning system to comply with rules that don't really apply in the context of the application, but need to be blindly followed anyway.

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Unstructured Data: Vulnerable, Uncontrolled, and Getting Bigger Every Day

CTOvision

Unstructured data–data in documents, spreadsheets, images, and other files–accounts for the vast majority of the sensitive information created and stored by a typical organization. These files represent some of an organization’s most valuable assets, as well as some of its greatest security risks. To keep pace with the exponential growth of unstructured data and the […].

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Building Your Capacity to Take on What’s Next

Women on 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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5 Indispensable Qualities of Top Project Managers

Toptal

Top PMs are always in demand in organizations around the globe. This is a list of some really useful habits Top PMs possess. Hopefully, they will help you to become one or check if you already have these habits at your disposal.

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CODE BETTER BY LEARNING HOW TO FOCUS

Coding Dojo

WHY IS CODING HARD? “The purpose of life is not to get. The main aim of life is to grow. … Read more >>. The post CODE BETTER BY LEARNING HOW TO FOCUS appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Amazon rolls out High Memory Instances for in-memory databases

CTOvision

AWS is looking to push up its leadership position in business cloud computing a notch with the new EC2 high memory instances for in-memory databases like SAP HANA. The new EC2 high memory instances offer a choice of a whopping 6, 9, and 12 terabytes of memory. AWS has said that it is now planning […].

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5 Tips to Launch a Beauty Salon in a Competitive Market

Women on Business

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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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Product Managers vs. Project Managers: Understanding Core Similarities and Differences

Toptal

Product managers and project managers are two of the most important roles in every technology company and are crucial to the future of tech. Yet they are often conflated and misunderstood. In this article (Part I in a two-part series), Johnny Chao -- Product Management Vertical Lead at Toptal, and a career product manager -- outlines the similarities and differences between each role, as well as the core skill sets that allow product and project managers to excel.

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Tell Your Own Story

Symantec

In honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Noel Kriedler shares her story of living with a disability, and offers some insight on how to be a better ally for people with disabilities in the workplace.

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FireEye unmasks a new North Korean threat group

CTOvision

FireEye researchers have identified a distinct North Korean hacking group called APT38, which focuses almost exclusively on financial crimes. The researchers claimed that the group has already tried to steal $1.1 billion so far. The researcher said that APT38, is distinct from other Pyongyang-linked hackers because of its overriding financial motivation — as opposed to […].

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Star Wars and Coffee to Go Meets the Internet of Things

Dell EMC

First introduced in 1810, tin cans were a great innovation for food storage but did you know it took 48 years to develop the can opener? Up until then, the consumer had to resort to chisels, hammers and knives to open the can. Of course, today, we don’t even need a can opener – we simply use the ring-pull mechanism and the job is done in seconds. The story shows that innovation – no matter how great – will never be broadly adopted if things are too complicated.

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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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B2B UX – Common Obstacles and Attainable Solutions

Toptal

Bad B2B UX is everywhere—but the situation is not hopeless. By understanding the pitfalls, and having a strategic user-centered design plan, designers can pave the way to saving enterprise software.

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Let Immigrants Innovate—in the U.S.

Battery Ventures

Three years ago I wrote here about a landmark, but little-understood, piece of U.S. legislation: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. This new law, signed on Oct. 3 of that year, dramatically changed the way the U.S. admitted new immigrants to the country. Instead of relying on strict quotas based on an immigrant’s country of origin—and favoring immigrants from just three European countries—the act called for admitting people based on family ties and their specific work skills.

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How Google’s DeepMind will train its AI inside Unity’s video game worlds

CTOvision

Alphabet’s DeepMind is partnering with Unity to accelerate machine learning by building virtual environments to develop and test AI algorithms. The collaboration between Unity Technologies (which powers games like Monument Valley and Pokémon Go) and DeepMind will run the software at a giant scale to train algorithms in physics-realistic environments–part of a growing trend in […].

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