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Changing the Culture by Changing Habits

Agile Alliance

By Jutta Eckstein and John Buck We hear people often say that an Agile transformation implies a culture change and that this culture change refers actually to a change of the mindset. However, what does this really mean, and how can you possibly change the culture (or help others do it)? The very first answer … Continued.

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Doing good data science

O'Reilly Media - Data

Data scientists, data engineers, AI and ML developers, and other data professionals need to live ethical values, not just talk about them. The hard thing about being an ethical data scientist isn’t understanding ethics. It’s the junction between ethical ideas and practice. It’s doing good data science. There has been a lot of healthy discussion about data ethics lately.

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DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?

OverOps

DevOps or SRE? We’re going over the two concepts, highlighting the differences between them and trying to understand how each one came to be. DevOps and SRE seem like two sides of the same coin. Both titles aim to bridge the gap between development and operation teams, with a unified goal of enhancing the release cycle without any compromises. And indeed, in most companies we can see that there’s a requirement for just one of these positions, with an overlap in responsibilities and abilities.

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The Role of AI in Improving Customer Experience

OTS Solutions

The Role of AI in Improving Customer Experience. A lot has been said about artificial intelligence. In today’s world, you cannot ignore it. Big data has enabled organizations to boost AI. As a result, the AI has managed to improve customer experience. The clients are the most critical entity of any business, and therefore as a business owner, you have to figure out all the ways of making your clients happy.

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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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Lightning Talks: Your Chance to Share at the Agile2018 Conference

Agile Alliance

Agile2018 is fast approaching, and I can't wait for the chance to see old friends, meet new ones, and learn from some of the veterans in the Agile community. One of my favorite tracks at Agile20xx conferences has always been the Lightning Talks. Lightning Talks are created and presented by the attendees of the conference, … Continued.

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Biotech Valuation Idiosyncrasies and Best Practices

Toptal

Biotech companies with little to no revenue can still be worth billions. Consider the most prominent 2017 biotech M&A deal when Gilead bought Kite Pharma for almost $12 billion. At the time of the deal, Kite had over $600 million in accumulated deficit, but it also had a pipeline of CAR-T cell therapies, which treat cancer. This article examines how to value such pipelines.

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Interesting facts about software development: statistics 2018

Apiumhub

This year Apiumhub partnered up with codignsans and other software related companies like: instabug , clutch , shippable , codegiant , stride , codeship , usersnap , gitkraken and took part in a global software development research to find out how companies attract software developers, what are the most popular languages, what are the most frequent challenges, etc.

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What Is DNSSEC and Why Is It Important?

CTOvision

Meta description: DNSSEC is an essential part of modern enterprise DNS security. We discuss how DNSSEC contributes to security and privacy for your business, its communications, and its customers. What Is DNSSEC and Why Is It Important? The Domain Name System (DNS) is responsible for converting URLs like www.example.com into IP addresses like 192.0.2.123.

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Are You Accidentally Reinforcing What You’re Trying to Change?

Change Starts Here

There once was an organization that was very hierarchical and authoritarian. People were accustomed to waiting until their boss told them what to do, even at the highest levels of leadership. Working, or even talking, with someone who was more than one organizational level away (like your boss’s boss) wasn’t “allowed.” As a result, no […].

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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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The Present and Future of AI in Design [Infographic]

Toptal

AI has become an over-hyped buzzword and the design world is no exception. Instead of resisting it, designers will soon be co-creating with AI. It will make them smarter.

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How a Leader Can Make 10 Minus One Equal 12 (and other feats of magical math)

Terry Starbucker

Let’s set the scene: we’re eavesdropping on the (fictional) conversation between SVP “Jerry” and his teammate “George”, in Jerry’s office…… “I promise Jerry, I’ll do better – just give me another chance”. This was the third time George was in Jerry’s office in the past 6 months. First it was for some poorly completed work.

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Atlassian: The tools every developer team wants badly

CTOvision

Atlassian is focused like a laser beam on unleashing the potential of every team. Their collaboration software helps teams organize, discuss and complete shared work. Teams at more than 112,000 customers use Atlassian's project tracking, content creation and sharing, real-time communication and service management products to work better together and deliver quality results.

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4 Ways Brand Trust Gives Your Business a Competitive Advantage

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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How to Create a Sketch Style Guide, Library, and UI Kit

Toptal

Sketch is a valuable, time-saving resource for any designer’s toolbox. Though not every designer chooses to do so, creating style guides in Sketch can make it even more of a time-saver.

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How Strong is Your Leadership Pyramid?

Next Level Blog

This post is adapted from the forthcoming third edition of my book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success. Available in October, you can pre-order it here. Research shows that moving to the executive level is among the toughest transitions of any career. For example, a study conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership shows that 40 percent of new executives fail within eighteen months of being named to their positions.

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JASK: Modernizing security operations via an Autonomous Security Operations Center

CTOvision

Driven by AI and ML, the JASK autonomous security operations center (ASOC) platform frees analysts to become proactive threat investigators and responders. We believe the JASK approach is exactly what is needed in the continual struggle to automate security response. This is a great way to use computers for what they do best to free [.].

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5 Reasons You Need to Take a Vacation

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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Creating a Cryptocurrency in the Crystal Programming Language

Toptal

Crystal is an up and coming programming language that should appeal to Ruby veterans in demand for more performance and flexibility. It may even be the most promising programming language of 2018. In this tutorial, Toptal Ruby Developer Eqbal Quran demonstrates how you can harness Crystal’s potential to create your own blockchain and cryptocurrency.

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New Name + New Coding Score + New User Profile ??

CodeSignal

Since we launched back in 2014, we’ve created a diverse community of developers who learn new coding skills and practice for technical interviews on our platform every day. We learned a lot over these years and one of our top priorities is still to make our platform as useful to our users as possible. We want our brand and our products to best reflect why we exist, what we believe in, and where we’re headed.

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The Technology To See at the 2018 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference

CTOvision

One of the great things about the DoDIIS Worldwide Conference (Aug 12-15 Omaha, Nebraska) is the expo floor. It is unlike any other tech conference. This one is filled with providers of great technology who know the importance of support to national security missions. The problem is that there are so many great solutions demonstrated [.].

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How to Transform Your Hobby into a Successful Business

Women on Business

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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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For Founders Raising Capital: Thinking Through the Implications of Convertible Notes

Toptal

Convertible notes have become an increasingly popular and common method for raising capital by startups, but how well do founders truly understand the implications of going down this route? In this article, Toptal Finance Expert Jeffrey Briggs outlines the basics of convertible note structures, and runs through the pros and cons of using them to raise money for new entrepreneurial ventures.

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Walking on the Sun

The Daily WTF

In 1992, I worked at a shop that was all SunOS. Most people had a Sparc-1. Production boxes were the mighty Sparc-2, and secretaries had the lowly Sun 360. Somewhat typical hardware for the day. Sun was giving birth to their brand spanking new Solaris, and was pushing everyone to convert from SunOS. As with any OS change in a large shop, it doesn't just happen; migration planning needs to occur.

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Stop Drowning in Big Data: How to Gain Insights with a Complementary Approach of Technologies from AI to IoT

CTOvision

The 21st century is all about data, and IoT devices excel at producing it. The world has generated more data in 2017 than in the previous 5000 years added together. When you feel your data analysts cannot handle the amount of data, or that their analysis is one step behind, machine learning may be your [.].

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3 Weekend Activities that Make You an Exceptional Woman Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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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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Building an ASP.NET Web API with ASP.NET Core

Toptal

ASP.NET Core is a leaner and more modular redesign of ASP.NET 4.x. In this article, Toptal Freelance ASP.NET Developer Damir Imangulov shows how to build a robust RESTful API using ASP.NET, EF Core, AutoMapper, and XUnit.

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Top 4 Benefits of learning 3 stacks Instead of Just 1

Coding Dojo

With the unstoppable growth of technology, the demand for multi-stack developers is also increasing. In fact, in this year’s Indeed … Read more >>. The post Top 4 Benefits of learning 3 stacks Instead of Just 1 appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Datatribe: a new kind of startup studio

CTOvision

Datatribe is unique. It seems like a VC firm, it makes investments. But it is run more like a company focused on building businesses. It also seems like a startup accelerator/incubator, providing leadership advice, space and assistance to startups that it invests in. But it is far more than that. Here is how they describe [.].