Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 12, 2017
In one way or another, your team has had an incredible year. Fill in the blank: It was incredibly __(successful, challenging, stressful). Maybe it was all you hoped and planned for. Maybe you got thrown a whopper of a curve ball. Or […].
CTOvision
DECEMBER 11, 2017
If you have not read it yet, I would like to bring your attention to the incredibly prescient science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke titled "Superiority" (available in the collection: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke). Written in 1951, this is such a great read because it captures some key, apparently enduring qualities […].
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Scott Berkun
DECEMBER 12, 2017
[On Tuesdays I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the archive ). This week’s question is from Regina [330 votes]: What gaps in communication exist in global virtual teams? Which I have simplified for your reading pleasure to why remote workers fail. ]. The best argument about the viability of remote work is that it’s about results: any boss should let their good employees work remotely on a trial basis and see how it goes.
Toptal
DECEMBER 14, 2017
Product innovation happens at the intersection of desirability, business viability, and technological feasibility. Design thinking—with a proven ROI—integrates all three and delivers business value.
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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.
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 14, 2017
Mark stared at the floor, his jaw clenched in frustration. I was sitting with a leader who had just crashed and burned. He’d made a decision that had cost him his reputation and maybe his job. He looked up at me and […].
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Women on Business
DECEMBER 15, 2017
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Toptal
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Magento 2 was initially greeted with skepticism, but the maturity of the next generation of Magento development has brought on an explosion of new users. In this article, Toptal Freelance Magento Developer Vivek Khatri explains why it's the top choice for eCommerce sites, new and old.
Steve Farber
DECEMBER 11, 2017
There’s this idea of late that the younger generations place a higher priority on living an integrated life than older generations. But I’m not so sure this is a generational concept. Instead, I suspect it’s more of a trend of our times, a trend that involves most of the workforce regardless of age. The belief that we should strive for balance in our work lives has been gaining momentum for a couple of decades, and it’s not going away.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 15, 2017
As our reliance on technology increases, so does the need for modern systems to support these devices and experiences. This has sparked a shift to services that deliver always-on, connected and remote-based content. Software-as-a-service has become increasingly reliable and necessary to keep up with modern trends. All of this, of course, relies on a solid, […].
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Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.
Women on Business
DECEMBER 12, 2017
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Toptal
DECEMBER 12, 2017
While there can be considerable overlap between user interface (UI) design and user experience (UX) design, they are distinct fields with different skills required for each role.
Storm Consulting
DECEMBER 11, 2017
One key action: Agile Guidance for C-Suite leadership. If my job title was a three-letter acronym and the first letter was a “C”, I might be un-festively fed-up with people telling me how to run my agile digital transformation. Two more ‘top ten something-or other things CEOs and CIOs should worry about’ appeared last week, which according to the advice in the lists themselves, is 75% more agile guidance than anyone can manage.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Blockchains first entered public consciousness as a means of managing crypto-currency, but as the use cases broaden what might be the impact on enterprise content management? SER’s Alexandra Lilienthal suggests that discounting the model’s potential in ECM may be shortsighted There may still be some significant challenges to overcome, but blockchains – used originally to […].
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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
Women on Business
DECEMBER 14, 2017
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Toptal
DECEMBER 12, 2017
To the novice investor or otherwise uninitiated, the ubiquity of palm oil as a global commodity cannot be overstated. It is a super crop with EBITDA margins > 50%, is the world’s most consumed edible oil, and is one of the most versatile raw material/substrate bases known to industry. This article explores the sparsely understood world of palm, including its cultivation, harvest, and application processes; its financial and investment profile; and ultimately the trends governing its future.
Nathan Magnuson
DECEMBER 11, 2017
6 years. That’s how long this Everyday Leadership blog has been running. I hope you’ve seen your leadership awareness and effectiveness grow over this time – as have mine. Below I’ve compiled the top 10 posts of 2017. You can also view the Top 10 list from past years. If you’re not a subscriber yet, sign up to receive my free content in 2018 and I’ll send you my ebook Trusted Leadership Advisor as well!
CTOvision
DECEMBER 13, 2017
If you have a clearance and work issues of operational military intelligence I would like to bring your attention to the 2 Feb 2018 Air Force A2 Industry Symposium on the USAF ISR Way Ahead. Speakers include subject matter experts, thought leaders and general officers (not meaning to imply that those three terms are mutually […].
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
DECEMBER 14, 2017
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Toptal
DECEMBER 14, 2017
Candy, cosmetics. and medical care? In a vertical merger valued at a whopping $69 billion, your favorite stop-in, CVS, plans to buy Aetna. If it goes through, it will be the largest deal of 2017 and the largest healthcare deal to date. Amidst all the buzz surrounding the merger, this article elucidates the motivations behind it, including. operational cost-cutting, expanded services as a competitive advantage, and threats from both Amazon and UnitedHealth.
TXI
DECEMBER 10, 2017
We developed our React Native stack because we’re constantly trying to find tools that will make our products better. Any time we hear about a new tool or technique, our mobile team has a process for testing them out. If it proves out – delivering value to our clients — we’re quick to work it […]. The post React Native Stack: Our full list of tools for building in React Native appeared first on Table XI.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 10, 2017
Strata Data Conference is where thousands of innovators, leaders, and practitioners gather to develop new skills, share best practices, and discover how tools and technologies are evolving to meet new challenges. O'Reilly and Cloudera jointly bring us this global event series. The place to interact with the businesses and tech providers moving data analytics forward […].
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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.
Women on Business
DECEMBER 13, 2017
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Toptal
DECEMBER 14, 2017
Working on an iOS application can be tedious, especially when you are wasting countless hours doing the most boring tasks: taking screenshots, signing code, and jumping through similar hoops to get your app to the users’ devices. In this article, Toptal Freelance iOS Developer Francisco Reynolds walks you through the ultimate release automation tool for your iOS app and shows how it can save you from all of the tedious tasks.
G2 Crowd Software
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Cloud platform as a service (PaaS) software has made its way into just about every application on the web. These tools can cut development time in half by providing backend infrastructure for core functionality and data storage. That gives developers more time to add features and fine-tune performance. Backend features typically include things like databases, web servers, operating systems and storage.
Professor Beekums
DECEMBER 10, 2017
Many developers have one of two opinions about unit tests: they believe 100% of the code has to be covered by unit tests, or they believe 100% of the code has to be covered by unit tests but they have reasons for not writing any. It isn’t common to find people who dislike the idea of unit tests. The main cost of having unit tests is spending time to write them.
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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.
Cloudera
DECEMBER 14, 2017
The Apache Hadoop community recently released version 3.0.0 GA , the third major release in Hadoop’s 10-year history at the Apache Software Foundation. We covered earlier releases like 3.0.0-alpha1 and 3.0.0-alpha2 on the Cloudera Engineering blog, and 3.0.0 GA is bigger and better than ever. General availability (GA) marks a point of quality and stability for the release series that indicates it’s ready for broader use.
Coalfire
DECEMBER 14, 2017
The recent news regarding the Uber breach has captured the attention of both the public and legislators. It seems that Uber’s security team discovered a breach, paid a ransom, and didn’t report the matter to company leaders, law enforcement, personnel, or customers.
Abhishek Tiwari
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Can machine learning-based data structures i.e. learned data structures replace traditional data structures? This is a question recently asked and explored by a team of Google researchers led by Jeff Dean with a major focus on database indexes. Jeff is a Google Senior Fellow in the Google Brain team and widely known as a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning community.
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