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How to Estimate ROI and Costs for Machine Learning and Data Science Projects

Altexsoft

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How to Build a Resilient Company Culture That Will Help Every Employee Thrive

N2Growth Blog

A resilient culture is built one person at a time, winning companies cultivate cultures that enable their people to develop the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. Resiliency is important to businesses because it’s the DNA that enables the company to better anticipate, prepare for, respond and adapt to ever increasing market disruptions, shifts in customer preferences and challenging competitor tactics that can knock a business off its hinges.

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Continuous Reliability: How to Move Fast and NOT Break Things

OverOps

Development and IT Ops teams commonly find themselves in a game of tug-of-war between two key objectives: driving innovation and maintaining reliable (i.e. stable) software. To drive innovation, we’re seeing the emergence of CI/CD practices and the rise of automation. To maintain reliable software, DevOps practices and Site Reliability Engineering are being adopted to ensure the stability of software in fast-paced dev cycles.

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How Leaders Can Master Tough Performance Conversations

Let's Grow Leaders

One of the most important leadership skills you’ll ever need is the ability to hold tough conversations – and do it well. Master tough conversations and your influence will soar. Most managers, however, never learn how to have tough conversations in […]. The post How Leaders Can Master Tough Performance Conversations appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Three Scales of Organizational Change

Change Starts Here

I’ve often heard people say something along the lines of, “Organizations don’t change, individuals do,” which implies that the focus of our attention as change agents should be on individuals, not the organization.

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5 Reasons You Don’t Want to Miss DashCon This Year

OverOps

Looking for a place to connect and swap ideas with more than a thousand other engineers across both dev and ops? DashCon 2019 has exactly what you need. The conference will be held at Chelsea Piers, NYC from July 16-17, 2019, located right on the water at Pier Sixty. Get expert answers to your questions, explore the latest offerings from cutting-edge technology and discover how peers at other companies have handled challenges similar to yours.

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The Last Step In The Journey To Leadership Greatness

Terry Starbucker

As a good more human leader, you’ve framed your vision, set your strategy, built your model, hired your team, designed your processes, set expectations, established a culture of accountability , and pushed confidently forward on executing your path to success. But yet, there’s one last thing that you need to do to get it all from “just good” to true greatness.

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6 Traits That Define DevSecOps

DevOps.com

How do we define DevSecOps? A combination of DevOps and security is readily apparent, but the philosophy goes much deeper. In a recent eBook, The State of DevSecOps, we asked industry experts to define what DevSecOps meant to them. Below, we’ve condensed their answers into five core attributes. Following these principles, CIOs or CTOs now […].

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A Look at JavaScript’s Future

Toptal

In the past few years, we've seen the introduction of a lot of new technologies in JavaScript, but we needed time to see how the market was going to adopt them. In this article, Toptal Freelance JavaScript Developer Alejandro Hernandez takes a look at how popular JavaScript is becoming and the factors that may have affected this popularity, and he tries to predict what the future of JavaScript will look like.

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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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7 Fundamental Steps to Complete a Data Project

Dataiku

It's hard to know where to start once you’ve decided that yes, you want to dive into the fascinating world of data and AI. Just looking at all the technologies you have to understand and all the tools you’re supposed to master is enough to make your dizzy.

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Set Video Playback Speed with JavaScript

David Walsh

I love that media has moved from custom plugins (Flash…gross) to basic HTML <video> and <audio> elements. Treating these media sources as just another element allows us to use CSS filters to adjust display, for example. The less we need to do with ffmpeg or plugins, the better. I’ve been noticing that many video sites have implemented a feature to adjust video playback speed, which is awesome if you’re trying to get through some sports highlights faster or to see that monster sla

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How DevOps Teams Can Skill Up on DataOps

DevOps.com

If you’re a DevOps engineer, you probably don’t think of data operations as a key part of your job. You help to write code and deploy and manage applications, while someone else handles data management and analytics, right? Probably not. Although it might be comforting to imagine that every company has a dedicated team of […]. The post How DevOps Teams Can Skill Up on DataOps appeared first on DevOps.com.

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NLP With Google Cloud Natural Language API

Toptal

Natural language processing (NLP) has become one of the most researched subjects in the field of AI. This interest is driven by applications that have been brought to market in recent years. In this article, Toptal Deep Learning Developer Maximilian Hopf introduces you to Google’s Natural Language API and Google AutoML Natural Language.

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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 Get Your Personal Brand Positioned?

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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NIST report on IoT security raises awareness on risks of connected devices

CTOvision

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a US physical sciences laboratory that promotes innovation and industrial competitiveness, has released a report to help organizations understand and manage cybersecurity and privacy risks associated with the internet of things (IoT). Mike Fagan, a NIST computer scientist and one of the authors of the report, said the […].

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5 Ways DevSecOps Can Manage Software Supply Chains

DevOps.com

The unbridled use of open source components within the software supply chain is on a major uptick, according to new research. Even as this surge in open source dependencies fuels faster innovation, the study shows that it comes with high cybersecurity costs, as the number of breaches related to these components is similarly on the […]. The post 5 Ways DevSecOps Can Manage Software Supply Chains appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How to Approach Modern WordPress Development (Part 1)

Toptal

It's no secret that the WordPress codebase is a mess. Many developers use its legacy code as an excuse for writing sloppy code themselves, even if its newer additions follow best practices. If this is you, it's time to level up your skills!

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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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Why Leaders Need More Than Presentation Skills

CEO Insider

In the time it takes you to read this article, Google will perform over 15 million new searches, Twitter users will send close to 2 million new tweets and Netflix subscribers will stream nearly 400,000 hours of video content. Our world is more connected than ever before, with easier access to information and on-demand content […].

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7 pitfalls that could ruin your app testing cycle

TechBeacon

Automated testing may be increasingly popular, but it doesn't eliminate the need for manual testing. Proper manual testing increases application usability, especially during user acceptance testing.

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The Purpose of Microservice Architecture

DevOps.com

Microservice is an architectural style that can be implemented during complex application development within an organization. The implementation of this architecture allows the application being developed to be highly maintainable and testable, loose, independent during deployment and also strongly organized around business capabilities. In another way, the microservice architecture can be explained quite easily.

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Pinterest for Designers – An Overview

Toptal

When it comes to social media for designers, the first site that comes to mind is Instagram. But designers shouldn’t overlook the second-most-popular image-based social network: Pinterest.

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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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11 Key Enterprise IoT Security Recommendations

Altexsoft

This is a guest article by Brent Whitfield from DCG Technical Solutions Inc. The number of internet-connected devices expected to be online by 2020 varies wildly by source but it will be in the tens of billions. As we know, the IoT will enable businesses to capture more data for deep analysis while obtaining more granular control over processes. Combined with AI and machine learning, smart automation is an exciting prospect.

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How the Stars are Aligning Around Zero Trust

Symantec

The proper implementation of Zero Trust depends upon a well-defined strategy focused on a holistic approach towards protecting your data wherever it resides

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AI for IT Operations: All It’s Cracked Up To Be?

DevOps.com

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is becoming a critical tool for organizations attempting to bring automation quickly to network management and IT problem resolution. However, many organizations are still unsure how to deploy AIOps for the most value and to net the full, promised results. Perhaps the challenges come from not looking beyond data […].

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Optimizing the Future of Global Humanitarian Efforts

Toptal

The European and Americas winners of the Toptal Scholarship for Women are reinvigorating global humanitarian efforts by applying cutting-edge technologies to refugee relief and scientific research.

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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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Fixed-Everything: Agile?

Ron Jeffries

We're here to discuss whether Agile ideas fit in with fixed-scope efforts. We'll look at Agile values, principles, frameworks, and practices. The answer is that Agile works just fine.

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8 steps to recover quickly (and well) from a data breach

CTOvision

The most important thing to do prior to breach is to plan. Despite best efforts to protect the organization’s health information, a hacker has breached the walls and now client files are encrypted, ransom demands have been made to restore health records and more malware may have been placed on the network. An article from […].

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How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture

DevOps.com

If you have been in a scrum team (or even an agile software development team), you most certainly have had or heard about sprint retrospectives or gone through them. They often happen after the team showcases the work done during the sprint reviews or demos. The original intent behind retrospectives is to help the team […]. The post How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture appeared first on DevOps.com.

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