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Difference between Software Engineering and Computer Science

The Crazy Programmer

Although these fields initially appear comparable, their variability quickly becomes apparent when several studies are performed. The most important critical question is: which career is better in the long run? Both software engineers and computer scientists are concerned with computer programs and software improvement and various related fields. Investigators in a profession focused on software improvement and software engineering are regularly aware of one of the recognized specialties: comput

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How to Build a High-Performing Team: Ten Vital Conversations

Let's Grow Leaders

Invest One Hour a Month to Help Your Team Perform Even Better. Every truly high-performing team has one thing in common: They spend time in candid conversation talking about what’s working and consistently look for ways to improve. They look at the work they’re doing and ask “how can we” do this EVEN BETTER? And they enjoy and celebrate their success.

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When One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Agile Alliance

In the years since the Agile Manifesto was written, there have been numerous Frameworks and other tools that have been created to support companies who are attempting to leverage Agile mindset and methodologies to provide value to customers. There is great value in these tools, but they are not one-size-fits-all. One of the most common … Continued.

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Request Batch

Martin Fowler

When distributing data leads to lots of small messages around a cluster then network latency and the request processing time (including serialization, deserialization of the request on the server side) can add significant overhead. Unmesh Joshi shows how requests can be combined into a Request Batch to improve throughput.

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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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Hire1O(1): 5 Takeaways From The Biggest Tech Conference in 2022

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

We at HackerEarth are excited to announce that the first physical edition of Hire 10(1) held on August 25th, 2022 in Bangalore was a roaring success! We have been virtually hosting this tech conference of (and for) tech recruiters and engineering managers since 2020, and this was the first time we got to meet everyone in person. For the uninitiated, Hire10(1) is a mini event that is designed to do one thing above all else: share actionable insights to help recruiters and hiring managers build gr

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How to Shift Your Strategic Focus

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Market and organizational changes can require you to shift your strategic focus. Being explicit about the details of the shift will help you and your team adjust to these changes. Market and organizational changes can require you to shift your focus. This can mean temporarily pausing some work to accelerate or add new projects. Remember that your team’s time and energy is a fixed asset.

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New Practices in Data Governance and Data Fabric for Telecommunications

Cloudera

“There are some unique challenges introduced by the requirement to govern data across a mixture of public cloud and on-premise data resources, ” according to the latest whitepaper published by the TM Forum , as “ their different characteristics require an awareness at the governance level in order to maintain cost, residency, performance, accessibility, and other objectives.” .

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It Was Never Just About Software – Agile and Our Planetary Challenges

Agile Alliance

If Agile is no “accident” and has emerged at exactly the right time, then what is its purpose in meeting today’s significant challenges and paradigm shifts? This is the question our panelists will help you explore as they share how they are applying agility to address planetary-level issues such as climate change, poverty, sustainability, and … Continued.

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Making AI accessible leads to greater innovation

CIO

It’s difficult to visualise the true scale of AI, as it’s almost certainly more than you imagine – it’s going to contribute more to the global economy than the current GDP of India and China combined. PwC research suggests that AI could contribute as much as $15.7 trillion by 2030, and by singularly responsible for a 26 per cent boost in the GDP of local economies.

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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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YC Demo Day did not have a very long list of creator companies, but here’s who stood out

TechCrunch

Creator economy startups are tricky. It can be risky to ask creators to rely on a possibly precarious, pre-seed company to power an important aspect of their business — if you fail, as most startups do, you might inadvertently end up hurting other independent entrepreneurs, which is (hopefully) the last thing a founder wants. But some startups in the sector have had the opposite effect, making creative, online careers more attainable than ever.

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Request Waiting List

Martin Fowler

Nodes often have to contact several other nodes to form a quorum to handle a client request. Unmesh Joshi how. a waiting list keeps track of the outstanding requests and sorting out what to do when it receives enough responses.

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Create Belonging, Deliver Value While Ending Global Inequality – Sarucia & Kvedaras

Agile Alliance

No one is immune from the impact of Global Inequality. Whether it’s hiring diverse talent, retaining diverse talent or creating an environment that fosters innovation, creativity and belonging. The post Create Belonging, Deliver Value While Ending Global Inequality – Sarucia & Kvedaras first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Government tech procurement takes three times longer than average

CIO

Government organizations have the longest average buying cycle for technology when compared to other sectors, with procurement laws injecting complexity into the procurement process, according to a Gartner report. The report, which is based on a survey of 1,120 executives with the inclusion of 79 public sector employees across the US, Canada, France, Germany, the UK, Australia and Singapore, showed that the average buying cycle for government entities is 22 months.

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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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Indian agency searches fintech Paytm, Razorpay and Cashfree offices in Chinese loan apps probe

TechCrunch

India’s financial crime fighting agency searched the offices of fintech unicorns Paytm and Razorpay as well as Cashfree on Friday as part of an ongoing investigation into fraudulent Chinese loan apps, it said Saturday, the latest in a series of probes in recent months. The Enforcement Directorate said its searches at high profile Indian firms and businesses controlled by Chinese personnel were prompted by 18 complaints made to the Cyber Crime Police in Bengaluru.

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The Future of FinTech and the Cloud

DevOps.com

The integration of FinTech continues to revolutionize the way businesses interact with their consumers. What started as a viable solution to eliminating the need to carry physical currency has now become a multi-billion-dollar industry. Basically, FinTech is a catch-all term used to describe software, mobile applications and other integrated technologies that improve and automate traditional […].

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Quickly Creating Psychological Safety During Change

Agile Alliance

What if your team blazed past the stress of the pandemic, complexities of remote work, and the great resignation without missing a beat? The post Quickly Creating Psychological Safety During Change first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO

Human resources has long understood that money is an inadequate motivator. We know that because workers don’t simply operate according to market conditions, always favoring more money above all else. Instead, people are looking for something more ephemeral, which we’ll call meaning. . Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious.

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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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Tracking cybersecurity investment during the venture downturn

TechCrunch

Yesterday’s tech stock rout was not evenly distributed ; some companies and technology sectors fared better than others. The same can be said about tech sectors in 2022 more generally. For example, the basket of cloud stocks that we track was off 45% year to date before the open today, while cybersecurity index funds ($IHAK, $CIBR, etc.) are off around 20% apiece, a far smaller decline.

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Detecting Drovorub's File Operations Hooking with Tracee

Aqua Security

This blog was co-authored by Itamar Maouda Two years ago, the NSA (the United States' National Security Agency) revealed that Drovorub, an advanced Russian malware created by the GRU 85th GTsSS team, had been discovered targeting Linux systems. Drovorub works by introducing advanced techniques which can manipulate the Linux operation system. It has an advanced kernel rootkit that hooks several kernel functions.

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Project to Product: Learn from Our Mistakes

Agile Alliance

Our modern development landscape demands organizations shift from a project-centric view of development to a product-centric view. The post Project to Product: Learn from Our Mistakes first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Better, faster decisions: Why businesses thrive on real-time data

CIO

Most organizations understand the profound impact that data is having on modern business. In Foundry’s 2022 Data & Analytics Study , 88% of IT decision-makers agree that data collection and analysis have the potential to fundamentally change their business models over the next three years. The ability to pivot quickly to address rapidly changing customer or market demands is driving the need for real-time data.

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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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7 conversations with YC founders about their entrepreneurial journeys

TechCrunch

It’s YC Demo Day week, which has us nostalgic for the conversations Found hosts have had with founders who have been through the famed accelerator program. In every episode of Found, hosts Darrell Etherington and Jordan Crook dig into a founder’s background, the peaks and pits of starting and running a company, and relationships and mentors who have helped along the way.

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How’s Facebook Work? They Don’t Know! | Cali. Pay Law | NASA RISC-V Launch

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: Facebook engineers admit they’ve no idea what Meta stores (or where), California requires job ads quote salaries, and RISC-V will power future NASA spacecraft. The post How’s Facebook Work? They Don’t Know! | Cali. Pay Law | NASA RISC-V Launch appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Looking Ahead Using Wardley Mapping

Agile Alliance

In a company, department, or team, we will often talk about “strategy”. This term is rarely well defined, or at least not defined in a way that is useful. The post Looking Ahead Using Wardley Mapping first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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7 ways to create a more IT-savvy C-suite

CIO

Business is business and IT is IT and never the twain shall meet. At least that’s the way it too often seems when a CIO attempts to show business management how a technology initiative can lead to tangible benefits. Helping enterprise business leaders, C-suite colleagues, and boards understand the value inherent in complex new technologies is a challenge most CIOs face from time to time.

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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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Bond Pet Foods enters meat proteins phase with $17.5M Series A

TechCrunch

Bond Pet Foods , known for making plant-based pet treats, is shifting its focus from treats to pet food applications as it leans into the creation of “nature-identical” chicken, beef, fish and other meat proteins using precision fermentation. Last November, Bond kicked this off by announcing a partnership with Hill’s Pet Nutrition to develop a craft meat protein for its product portfolio.

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GDPR vs. PIPL: 4 differences

TechBeacon

On November 1, the jungle of privacy compliance got thicker. That's when the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) went into effect in China.

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When Culture Matters

CEO Insider

In early 1945 the planet was ravaged. A deadly world war had consumed the globe and killed tens of millions; most people were living with unimaginable stress. However, the tide was turning in favor of the allies; Hitler had overplayed his hand at the Battle of the Bulge. War in the European theatre would soon […]. The post When Culture Matters appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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