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OKR Guide: Understanding OKRs and How It Benefits Your Business

Evolution4all

OKR Guide – Objectives and Key Results (OKR) is a popular framework in goal setting and management that helps organisations implement a solid strategy. From improved focus to better team alignment, transparency, and accountability, OKR helps a company achieve its goals by helping team members create their own goals and take actions. The main components of an OKR are: objectives and key results.

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The Top 100 Java Libraries in 2018 – Based on 277,975 Source Files

OverOps

What are the most popular libraries Java developers use? 2018 edition. Time flies when you’re having fun, and the past year was pretty crazy. It included SpaceX successfully launching Falcon Heavy, their partially reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle (Yup, this happened in 2018), continued with Apple becoming the world’s first public company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion, and we even created embryo-like structures from stem cells alone, without using egg or sperm cells.

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Tech interviews simplified with HackerEarth FaceCode

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The all-new FaceCode is the result of extensive customer feedback and tons of engineering hours. This latest addition to our technical recruitment platform allows you to seamlessly conduct remote technical interviews. What is FaceCode? FaceCode is an online interviewing platform that lets you conduct remote video interviews to evaluate the programming skills of candidates without compromising on the interviewing experience.

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7 Icebreaker Questions to Melt Frustration and Build Trust

Let's Grow Leaders

Done well, an icebreaker can be valuable & strategic If the word icebreaker conjures up images of toothpicks and marshmallows and other fluffy activities that feel like a waste of time, you’re not alone. We’re not huge fans of icebreaking without meaning. But […]. The post 7 Icebreaker Questions to Melt Frustration and Build Trust appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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How Is Artificial Intelligence Changing The Business Landscape?

OTS Solutions

How Is Artificial Intelligence Changing The Business Landscape? While artificial intelligence has long been fodder for sci-fi novelists, but the reality is not nearly as dramatic as 2001 or The Terminator. In reality, artificial reality is an iterative tool that has helped automate the process of mundane activities and create an environment where employees can focus on the work that they’re exclusively equipped to do while eliminating much of the more banal busywork.

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What Recruiters Can Learn from Job Seekers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

I have just learned that 30% of vacancies are filled by recruiters. You probably already knew that. But it underscores the influence that recruiters have with employers and job seekers. To write my book, “ Fired: How to Manage Your Career in the Age of Job Uncertainty ” I interviewed 65 people who had lost jobs. I asked them about their experiences—how they lost their jobs, how they coped, how they recovered, and what advice they would give others.

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5 Ways Over-Aligning With Your Boss Can Damage your Credibility

Let's Grow Leaders

Building a great relationship with your boss is so important as you work to up your game, get the feedback you need, navigate organizational politics, and grow your influence and impact. A great boss can also be a remarkable career elixir. And, […]. The post 5 Ways Over-Aligning With Your Boss Can Damage your Credibility appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Global Race for AI Dominance

CTOvision

When people hear about the race for Artificial Intelligence (AI) dominance, they often think that the main competition is between the US and China. After all, the US and China have most of the largest and most well funded AI companies on the planet, and the pace of funding, company growth, and adoption doesn’t seem […].

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The Top 5 Things That’ll Scare Every Developer

OverOps

Halloween is here, and there’s nothing we like to do more than buy loads of candies, dress up and try to spook our friends. While each one of us have a different spook tolerance level, there are some we can all agree that are scary. Happy Halloween The Top 5 Things That’ll Spook Every Developer [link] pic.twitter.com/d1puXWaXzZ. — OverOps (@overopshq) October 31, 2018.

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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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Continuous Integration vs Continuous Delivery: Which is Right for Your Business?

Flexagon

Continuous integration or continuous delivery? Or both? It’s a question many IT teams are asking themselves. What are the key differences between each method and which will improve your processes so you deliver higher quality software to your end users in less time? Both continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) embody the culture and.

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Words Matter – The True Value of UX Copy

Toptal

Well-crafted words improve UX and provide people with decision-making clarity. We explore the true value of UX copy and provide sensible writing tips for greater user engagement.

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Machine learning: more than a buzzword

CTOvision

Read why Paul Fermor says that machine learning has more to it than just being a buzzword on Tech Radar : While artificial intelligence has long been heralded as the nextgen technology, many businesses are still afraid to dabble into it considering its very complicated nature. The IT industry has a severe case of Buzzword […].

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The Top 5 Things That’ll Scare Every Developer

OverOps

Halloween is here, and there’s nothing we like to do more than buy loads of candies, dress up and try to spook our friends. While each one of us have a different spook tolerance level, there are some we can all agree that are scary. Happy Halloween The Top 5 Things That’ll Spook Every Developer [link] pic.twitter.com/d1puXWaXzZ. — OverOps (@overopshq) October 31, 2018.

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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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Transforming to an Agile Mindset, Part 1

Accenture

“Martin’s Problem”. Once, over beers late into the evening in an old European pub not far from his office, an executive shared with me his personal Agile mindset transformation journey. It is an account that I have found representative of many when they begin to lead Business Agility transformation. But first, some background. A few years ago, I had the privilege of helping convene a Learning Consortium for a cohort of companies that were each on their own Agile transformation journeys.

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First Impressions – A Guide to Onboarding UX

Toptal

Nearly one in four users will abandon a mobile app after using it just once. Good onboarding makes a great first impression, gives users a guided introduction, and can significantly improve user retention.

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We Have Watched This Evolving: Artificial Intelligence Has A Big-Time Trust Issue

CTOvision

Read why Joe McKendrick says that AI has a big trust issue on Forbes : We’re reaching the point in which an AI-driven purchasing system can collect sales and shipping orders, looks at historical trends, and pre-orders and prepays for batches of materials for production before the demand is even apparent — without active human oversight. […].

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How Drift Gets Engineers Up to Speed by Day 3

Gitprime

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Every employee has that dreaded Day 1. But, if your hiring process is thorough, new hires will already have a sense of the organization’s culture and what’s expected of them in their new role. Even still, the difference between an employee on Day 1 and on Day 90 can seem heroic.

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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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Unlock Resistance to Change | New On-Demand Video Course

Change Starts Here

Confession: I broke the #1 rule of the internet. That’s right, I read the comments. A few years ago, I spoke at the Georgia State University TEDx event on the topic of “How to Deal With Resistance to Change.” As of today, the video has more than 93,000 views, and I still hear from people […].

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Is It Time to Use Node 8?

Toptal

Node 8 has brought significant performance and feature upgrades. Should you use it on new projects? Is it worth upgrading existing codebases? In this article, Toptal Freelance JavaScript Developer Youssef Sherif gives a tour of Node 8's biggest changes and what they mean for your project.

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Working in Cybersecurity: Life on the front lines, in the C-suite, and everywhere in-between

CTOvision

I am excited to announce a new book by Michael Tanji titled “Working in Cybersecurity” (and very happy to be among those profiled in the book). Michael has been a pioneer in modern cyber security and digital risk mitigation. He is a former soldier and intelligence officer who at one point managed the how the […].

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5 Ways AI Will Transform the Logistics Industry

Altexsoft

This is a guest story by tech blogger Camille Peters. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking an increasingly central role in the logistics industry. As the world’s logistical requirements continue to become even more complex, big-data driven applications have already stepped in to streamline logistics on a global scale. Supply Chain 24/7 put it best in 2016 when they explained that “The impact of data-driven and autonomous supply chains provides an opportunity for previously unimaginable leve

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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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Flexagon Delivers FlexDeploy 5.0

Flexagon

Today Flexagon released FlexDeploy 5.0 which includes a wealth of new features, enhancements, and usability improvements to help teams deliver high-quality software faster and with less cost and risk. FlexDeploy is a DevOps platform for Continuous Delivery and Release Automation which provides a comprehensive and integrated platform for orchestrating the entire build, deploy, and release.

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AI Investment Primer: A Practical Guide to Appraising Artificial Intelligence Dealflow (Part II)

Toptal

In part I of this two-part series, Toptal Finance Expert Carolyn Deng provided an overview of the world of AI aimed at investors, with a focus on understanding what factors make for a great AI company. In this follow-up post, she outlines five practical steps investors should follow when diligencing a potential AI investment.

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Opinion: Anyone with desire and a computer can have a successful career in AI

CTOvision

An opinion on Artificial Intelligence. Everything I have observed for decades leads me to believe that with hard work anyone can succeed in a career in AI. Of course this is a technical field, but it is actually not the most technical field. Everything a person needs to know about the tech of AI can […].

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Paper (Size), Please

The Daily WTF

Terje worked for an IT firm that serviced the purchasing department of a global corporation. To manage purchases, the department used an enterprise shipping and warehousing system that shall be called BLA to protect the guilty. The system ran on a Citrix farm in Norway with all the most impressive resources at its command. Just after a major upgrade of BLA, sporadic performance issues began cropping up in the Brazil and Perth offices.

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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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SamSam: Targeted Ransomware Attacks Continue

Symantec

Ransomware group remains highly active in 2018, focussing mainly on organizations in the U.S.

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A Deep Dive into Entity Framework Performance When Using "Contains"

Toptal

Entity Framework is a great tool, but in some cases its performance is slow. One such case arises when complex queries use "Contains". Join Toptal.?NET Developer Anton Shkuratov in exploring how performance issues can be mitigated and finding the best approach to this type of complex queries.

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A Perfect Team: How Blockchain Can Drive the Internet of Things

CTOvision

Read why Anoop Nannra says that blockchain technology and Internet of Things can be a perfect mix for businesses on IOT Evolution World: It’s not surprising that emerging technologies like blockchain and the Internet of Things draw a great amount of interest among enterprises. These technologies separately come with the significant potential to improve challenges that organizations […].