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It's time to establish big data standards

O'Reilly Media - Data

The deployment of big data tools is being held back by the lack of standards in a number of growth areas. Technologies for streaming, storing, and querying big data have matured to the point where the computer industry can usefully establish standards. As in other areas of engineering, standardization allows practitioners to port their learnings across a multitude of solutions, and to more easily employ different technologies together; standardization also allows solution providers to take advan

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Distributed Tracing with Java “MicroDonuts”, Kubernetes and the Ambassador API Gateway

Daniel Bryant

Distributing tracing is increasingly seen as an essential component for observing microservice-based applications, and many of the modern microservice language frameworks are being provided with support for tracing implementations such as Open Zipkin , Jaeger , OpenCensus , and LightStep xPM. Google were one of the first organisations to talk about their use of distributed tracing in a 2010 paper that described their Dapper implementation, and one of the requirements that they concluded essentia

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What is change management and why is it essential for digital transformation

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

“When it comes to change management, “implementation” isn’t the end—it’s just the beginning.” –Beth Banks Cohen. What is change management? Change management may be defined as a structured process that ensures that required changes are thoroughly and smoothly carried out, and that the long-term benefits of the change are realized.

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Radical Candor: Love your work and the people you work with

Agile Alliance

Kim Scott discusses Radical Candor, a framework that helps you improve your feedback by both caring personally and challenging directly at the same time.

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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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Effective Leadership requires Key Ingredients

General Leadership

The more humble and transparent a leader is, the more effective he or she will be. Michael Hyatt. Across my leadership journey, I have worked with and for many leaders. Some were very good, some good, and some not-so-good. As I have reflected on each of those experiences, I recognized traits, skills, or abilities that each leader either possessed or was lacking.

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How to Communicate Remarkably Clear Leadership Expectations

Let's Grow Leaders

“These guys are seasoned managers, and these are fundamental leadership expectations. Shouldn’t they just know the right thing to do?” “I’m so frustrated, my team is just not executing on what I consider fundamentals.” “There’s just no accountability here. If someone is going […]. The post How to Communicate Remarkably Clear Leadership Expectations appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Business secrets from terrible people

Erik Bernhardsson

I get bored reading management books very easily and lately I’ve been reading about a wide range of almost arbitrary topics. One of the lenses I tend to read through is to see different management styles in different environments. It turns out that some truly f—ng horrific people have some smart management ideas. This is not maybe surprising. If you have some twisted goals, you can’t have incompetent leadership or you won’t get anywhere.

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My Favorite Command-Line Shortcuts

Henrik Warne

I use a shell every day. Almost always, I want to repeat a previous command, or repeat it after a slight modification. A very convenient way is to use arrow-up to get the most recent command back. Another common trick is to type ctrl-r and incrementally search for a previously used command. However, there are two other tricks for repeating previous commands that I use all the time, which are not as well known.

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Simplifying machine learning lifecycle management

O'Reilly Media - Data

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Harish Doddi on accelerating the path from prototype to production. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Harish Doddi , co-founder and CEO of Datatron , a startup focused on helping companies deploy and manage machine learning models. As companies move from machine learning prototypes to products and services, tools and best practices for productionizing and managing models are just starting to emerge.

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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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Life of a C# Developer: How to build and test an AWS Lambda locally

Xebia

Today Serverless is a thing. Although everyone can write a blog post about how Serverless run on servers, I share the same visions as Mathias Verraes: If you want to tweet or blog about how serverless actually runs on servers, let me save you some time: Nobody thinks that serverless doesn't run on servers. Nobody. […]. The post Life of a C# Developer: How to build and test an AWS Lambda locally appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Business secrets from terrible people

Erik Bernhardsson

I get bored reading management books very easily and lately I’ve been reading about a wide range of almost arbitrary topics. One of the lenses I tend to read through is to see different management styles in different environments. It turns out that some truly f—ng horrific people have some smart management ideas. This is not maybe surprising. If you have some twisted goals, you can’t have incompetent leadership or you won’t get anywhere.

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Top 10 things to keep in mind for data security in building mobile apps.

OTS Solutions

Top Ten Things to Keep in Mind for Data Security in Building Mobile Apps. When the first mobile phone was invented in 1973, nobody knew that this small hand-held device would one day change the world. Nowadays, mobile phones can do anything:from checking one’s blood pressure to monitoring one’s heart beat. Some mobile applications even allow the user to make current account transactions without physically going to the bank.

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Understanding Event & Log Management Best Practices

The Crazy Programmer

Log management is considered one of the key elements when it comes to managing, maintaining and troubleshooting IT systems. However, the success that you can reap from log management will trickle down to the practices that you indulge in. Without setting the best practices in place, it can be quite easy for your staff to be overwhelmed with managing your logs, which could end up putting your business at risk of system or application issues.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Is the OKR Approach the right Goal Setting Framework for your company?

Evolution4all

OKR approach – Objectives and Key Results , popularly known as OKR, is a contemporary leadership principle that helps organisations set, communicate, and measure their goals. Its primary function is to connect a member’s personal objectives with the team and the company as a whole in a hierarchical approach. Through OKRs, your team will work together in a defined direction which is moulded or shaped by measurable factors.

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Leaders Share about Courage, Influence and Hope: August Frontline Festival (with video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on courage, influence, and hope, celebrating our new book for kids, Glowstone Peak. We asked thought leaders from around the world to share their very best post on these topics. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of […]. The post Leaders Share about Courage, Influence and Hope: August Frontline Festival (with video) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Role of Color in UX

Toptal

A well-thought-out color palette can elevate a design from “good” to “great” while a mediocre palette can detract from a user’s experience and even interfere with their ability to use a site or app.

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Do Companies Need a Chief AI Officer (CAIO)?

CTOvision

The short answer to the above question is “no”. But let’s get into the specifics. Clearly for many companies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the range of Cognitive Technologies are strategic to their businesses and organizations. Indeed, for many companies, AI is as fundamentally important to their long-term well being as their IT organizations and finances.

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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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6 Tips to Balance Your Work & Life

Career Advancement

“Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.”. ~Betsy Jacobson~. Kathy asks: My job keeps demanding more and more of me. I’m passionate about my career, but I don’t want it to be my entire life. How can I find work/life balance ? Joel replies: Kathy, you’re in good company—countless employees in the U.S. are working long, hard hours.

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WordPress Resources at SiteGround

Let's Grow Leaders

WordPress is an award-winning web software, used by millions of webmasters worldwide for building their website or blog. SiteGround is proud to host this particular WordPress installation and provide users with multiple resources to facilitate the management of their WP websites: Expert WordPress Hosting. SiteGround provides superior WordPress hosting focused on speed, security and customer service.

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Dive into React Native for Android Development

Toptal

Despite initial skepticism, React Native is very much in demand today! In this article, Toptal Freelance React Native Developer, and former React Native skeptic, Alexander Pataridze talks about why he became a React Native advocate instead and introduces us to the technology by illustrating four use-cases.

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React Emoji Picker

David Walsh

When emojis first hit the web scene I rolled my eyes — they seemed like a lame communication method for giggling kids. After years more experience working remotely, managing open source communities, and communicating with people that may not get my sense of humor, I’ve realized that emojis go a long way in representing the tone of comment.

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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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The 2nd Biggest Leap You’ll Ever Take in Your Business

Women on Business

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Leaders Share about Courage, Influence and Hope: August Frontline Festival (with video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on courage, influence, and hope, celebrating our new book for kids, Glowstone Peak. We asked thought leaders from around the world to share their very best post on these topics. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of […]. The post Leaders Share about Courage, Influence and Hope: August Frontline Festival (with video) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Tried and True Laws of UX (with Infographic)

Toptal

Just as there are cause and effect relationships, there are the laws of UX: predictable outcomes and human behaviors in UX a designer can use to design superior products. This infographic explains it all.

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Coding Dojo Alumni: From Business Management and Marketing to A Full Stack Engineer

Coding Dojo

Refayat Haque is one of our Coding Dojo alumni of our Washington D.C. bootcamp. He used to work in the … Read more >>. The post Coding Dojo Alumni: From Business Management and Marketing to A Full Stack Engineer appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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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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5 Affordable Meals Packed with Protein for Business Women

Women on Business

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Are We Heading to Another AI Winter?

CTOvision

Amongst all this hype and bandwagon jumping on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Cognitive Technologies is also a sense of unease.

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Online Dating Industry: The Business of Love

Toptal

Though matchmaking is one of the oldest industries in existence, online matchmaking is now having a moment of its own. This article explores the business of dating: the market size of dating apps in the U.S., the industry’s biggest players, and how these products actually make money (if they even do).

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