Sat.Nov 10, 2018 - Fri.Nov 16, 2018

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Managing risk in machine learning

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Considerations for a world where ML models are becoming mission critical. In this post, I share slides and notes from a keynote I gave at the Strata Data Conference in New York last September. As the data community begins to deploy more machine learning (ML) models, I wanted to review some important considerations. Let’s begin by looking at the state of adoption.

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3 Reasons You Should Add AIOps to Your Tooling Arsenal

OverOps

AIOps, at its core, is a data-driven practice of bridging resources and leveraging AI and machine learning to make predictions based on historical data. AIOps seems to be all the rage these days, and it’s not hard to figure out why. It sounds like a new magical solution to resolving all errors ever! Ok maybe not quite, but it certainly promises to add serious firepower to DevOps teams’ monitoring arsenals.

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The Surprising Reason Emerging Leaders Stop Emerging

Let's Grow Leaders

I met a fellow keynote speaker at a conference where we both presenting. She was a seasoned entrepreneur who had built a successful business from scratch, so what she had to share with me was surprising. Karin, I’m so intrigued by this […]. The post The Surprising Reason Emerging Leaders Stop Emerging appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The fascinating story of Giffgaff: A co-creation case study

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Co-creation: A key to innovation. What is co-creation? Innovation driven by end users and providers working together…. In value co-creation , firms benefit from increased innovation capacity and speed, reduced risk, a consistent and rich idea pipeline, and faster time-to-market with promising products and services. Unlike crowdsourcing, co-creation uses a small group of known partners and involves deeper collaboration. 58% of the businesses have piloted co-creation projects to help them innovate

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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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CodeGym.cc – Gamified Online Course to Learn Java

The Crazy Programmer

In this article, we’ll review the benefits and perspectives of learning Java and probably the best way to master programming in it – through gamified education. Why Java is a smart choice for starting a career in programming? Skeptics say, that this language is too old, and will become rudimental in no longer than 20 years. It’s true, that age matters in a fast-changing programming ecosystem.

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Building a Great Corporate Culture: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on building a great corporate culture. We asked thought leaders from around the world to share their very best post on culture and to answer two pertinent questions in the process: what does a great corporate […]. The post Building a Great Corporate Culture: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Pub-Sub messaging with AWS SNS and SQS

Xebia

When setting up a new application or platform, one of the most important things that you will need is messaging. As every part of the platform has a certain need for data, either realtime or after the fact, messages from other services within the application boundary need to be processed as efficiently as possible. This […]. The post Pub-Sub messaging with AWS SNS and SQS appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Please Spread The Word: Cybersecurity Scholarships From (ISC)² and the Center for Cyber Safety and Education

CTOvision

The following info comes via friends at isc2.org, please share this with any you believe eligible: Each year, (ISC)² and the Center for Cyber Safety and Education partner together to offer scholarships to students around the world. There are three categories of scholarships in this program: Graduate, Undergraduate and Women’s. All are open to students […].

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The Importance of Human-centered Design in Product Design

Toptal

Human-centered design is about solving problems, not implementing solutions. This guide provides an overview of HCD, a process that ensures optimum user experiences, effortless interaction, and ultimately, business benefits.

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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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33 test automation leaders to follow in 2019

TechBeacon

Test automation technologies and best practices are changing so rapidly that it can be hard to keep up. Fortunately, you'll find a tight community of test automation pros out there who regularly share tips and insights on Twitter.

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The State of the Octoverse: top programming languages of 2018

Github

This article is part of a series based on our 2018 State of the Octoverse report —trends and insights into GitHub activity, the open source community, and more from the GitHub Data Science Team. At the core of every technology on GitHub is a programming language. In this year’s Octoverse report , we published a brief analysis of which ones were best represented or trending on GitHub.

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The importance of maintaining cyber security in your business

CTOvision

Read why Scott Bordoni says that maintaining cybersecurity is important for any business – big or small on IT Pro Portal : Technology over the past few decades has become an increasingly integral aspect of the workplace. From email correspondence and financial transactions to professional networking and collaborative work documents, businesses rely on technology to be […].

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UX Research Methods and the Path to User Empathy

Toptal

How can designers move beyond personal insights to understand the problems users face? We introduce time-tested UX research methods that inspire user empathy and lead to better user experiences.

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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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Top 10 Leadership Blogs of 2018

Experience to Lead

Achieving operational excellence requires driving continuous improvement in all aspects of your organization but especially in leadership development. And being realistic, you likely face new leadership challenges nearly every day. Whether you’re challenged by the need for a more innovative culture, managing disruption in your market or dynamics amongst your team, brushing up on [ ] The post Top 10 Leadership Blogs of 2018 appeared first on Experience to Lead.

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Making Headlines at SC18 with Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

Dell EMC

Dell EMC brings homes three HPCwire awards — for workforce diversity, data analytics and HPC in life sciences. In any business, it’s always gratifying when people in your field take the time to recognize you for some of the good things you are doing. That was the case this week at the SC18 supercomputing conference in Dallas when HPCwire named Dell EMC as the recipient of three awards.

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13 Tech Experts Share What Facebook Should Do Post-Data Breach

CTOvision

Facebook has had a harrowing 2018. First the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal and then the issue of selling personal user information to Chinese smartphone companies for profit. And now, the recent data breach which could have affected millions of its users. When a business experiences a security breach, there are a lot of steps […].

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Aligned for Success – A Guide to What Investors Look For in a Startup

Toptal

Startup investors are not benevolent creatures, they’re looking for certain signals that help to persuade them to part with their money. This guide, written from an investor’s perspective, intends to help startups understand the key areas to focus on and emphasize when raising money.

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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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Visualizing WSJF

Accenture

On a recent Slack conversation with my colleagues, we were discussing Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) and alternate prioritization models. It reminded me of a previous job in which my team was tasked with prioritizing a bunch of architectural initiatives. In that instance, we had a lot of trouble expressing the results of our work in the tabular form of an Excel spreadsheet.

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High-Touch Leadership in Buffer’s Fully Remote Culture

Gitprime

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. When you’re running a startup company, things just work differently than they do in a more established one. You’re all in each other’s faces and spaces. You know almost everything your coworkers are doing at work, not to mention what’s going on in each other’s lives.

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Ransomware is the most significant cyber threat to SMBs

CTOvision

While the hype around ransomware attacks has died down, it still construes a significant risk to small and medium businesses, especially those who don’t afford high-quality anti-virus solutions and other tools. Ransomware continues to be the leading cyberattack method experienced by small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) according to new research from Datto Inc.

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Ethereum Oracle Contracts: Can We Trust the Oracle?

Toptal

The whole point of smart contracts is that they need to be more secure and efficient than traditional contracts. So where do smart contract oracles fit in? In the final installment of our three-part series, Toptal Blockchain Developer John R. Kosinski explains the role of oracles in the evolution of trust.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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FlexDeploy for Continuous: Test Automation

Flexagon

This is the third article in the series on FlexDeploy’s support for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, shown with a use case for SOA/MDS, OSB, WebLogic Resource Management, and Oracle Integration Cloud. CI/CD for your Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Integration Cloud FlexDeploy for Continuous: Continuous Integration and Issue Tracking FlexDeploy for Continuous: Test Automation.

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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Goes Mainstream

Dell EMC

The Opportunity to Help Customers Adopt HCI for Business-Critical Applications In an environment of industry-changing innovation and disruptive business models, embracing new technology is more important than ever. Customers need to accelerate the pace of digital business activity, but how can they drive changes in data center infrastructure while also improving IT’s ability to meet business needs?

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Digital Marketing

CTOvision

ReadNicole Martin explain how AI is revolutionizing digital marketing on Forbes : Artificial Intelligence and digital marketing are beginning to go hand in hand. With the ability to collect data, analyze it, apply it and then learn from it- AI is transforming digital strategy. As it continues to advance, so will the capabilities to use […].

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How PMs Can Be Ready for Robotic Process Automation

Toptal

Robotic Process Automation has become a top priority for many companies in the last two years. Project Managers will increasingly have to manage projects developing software used not only by humans but also by bots. This article covers the opportunities and challenges for Project Managers brought forth by Robotic Process Automation.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Oracle OpenWorld 2018 Takeaways: The Latest on Cloud, Containers, and DevOps

Flexagon

The end of October brought us the largest conference for companies running Oracle: OpenWorld. We were at the conference in full force, and when we weren’t presenting sessions, we were attending presentations and talking with partners, attendees, and members of the Oracle team. During it all, our team took notes on the biggest insights and. Read more.

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Be Your Own Boss: How to Take Control of Your Career and Start Your Own Business

Women on Business

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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FTC Launches New Cyber Security Tools for Small Business

CTOvision

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched a resource to raise awareness about the vital role cybersecurity plays for the 32+ million small businesses in the US. This effort was part of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) in October, which has been recognized every month since 2003. The NCSAM was established with the collaboration […].