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7 Surefire Ways to Gain More Credibility in the New Year

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s the time of year where many of us are talking about what we want to lose–a few pounds, some bad habits, a toxic relationship. Today, I’m inviting you to consider what you have to gain– investing in a few key actions to improve your credibility and enhance your reputation. 7 Surefire Ways to Gain More Credibility in 2017.

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The Leadership Wonder Drug (But Beware Of The Side Effects)

Terry Starbucker

It’s a leadership wonder drug of 5 simple words that can make a huge difference in the workplace. A real shot of motivation and inspiration that, if delivered at the right time and place, can spur your team to the pinnacle of success. But if it’s overused, or delivered incorrectly, its potency can be radically reduced – or it could cause awful side effects.

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How an Inventor Can Make Her Dreams Come True

Women on Business

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PostCSS: Sass’s New Play Date

Toptal

PostCSS is the hot new tool that’s making the rounds on the front-end side of web development. It has been quickly and widely adopted, and possibly will have a significant impact on how we base our present-day CSS. In this article, Toptal Software Engineer Nicolás J. Engler introduces us and guides us on how to start using this tool, expand it with plugins, or integrate with other CSS processors, task runners, or bundlers.

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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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Build a Strong Work Culture with Big Data

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. When you think of Big Data, you think of companies leveraging analytics to predict consumer interests, habits, and buying histories in order to improve the way they market their products or services. However, Big Data isn’t only used externally – it can be used internally. Harnessing the limitless data your business itself generates can create better business practices and, most importantly, a strong work culture for your employees.

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4 Things Extremely Successful People Do over Holiday Breaks

Women on Business

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Realm Is the Best Android Database Solution

Toptal

Since the inception of the platform, Android developers have had pretty much only one option for a database: SQLite. Although feature-rich and powerful, it wasn’t quite what Android app developers needed. Realm, a modern, efficient database solution for mobile platforms, turned out to be an amazing replacement for SQLite on Android. In this article, Toptal Software Engineer Mateus Gondim Romão Batista explains why you should use Realm for your next Android application.

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Are you ready for a state-sponsored cyber attack?

CTOvision

Junaid Islam. Geopolitical tensions ensure that 2017 will be another big year for state-sponsored cyber attacks. The lethality of state-sponsored attacks derives from their ability to bypass security point products by combining device, network and data center vulnerabilities into an integrated assault. Another aspect of state-sponsored cyber attacks is their willingness to patiently creep from organization to organization to get to their target.

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New Year, New You? Three steps to actually change yourself this year

Next Level Blog

OK, it’s January 2, 2017. Have you transformed yourself yet? No? C’mon man! What are we even doing out here, man? Time’s a wasting! Get busy! Sorry about that. I got caught up in all of the annual and predictable “New Year, New You!” hype we’re reading everywhere this week. Yes, this is the time of year when we are bombarded with messages saying now is the time to change whatever you need to change to turn your life around.

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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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6 Challenges You Will Face as a Woman Pursuing Your Career Goals

Women on Business

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The 11 Photoshop Plugins That Made Me a Better Designer

Toptal

Photoshop is packed with features, but it's lacking in areas. Fortunately, there's a community of third-party developers who regularly create fantastic extensions to help designers improve workflow.

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Happy New Year: Here Are Five Suggestions To Reduce Your Digital Risk

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. This is the time of year when we think about change and make lists of resolutions to keep in the new year. As you think of your resolution list we have five topics for you to consider: Use a managed DNS service at home and office: This can help prevent accidental navigation to websites that have been taken over by malicious actors and contain bad code.

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FASCINATION, GRATITUDE, AND THOU 1.4-1.5

Steve Farber

Chapter 23. “You fascinate me, Cam,” Agnes cooed. “Excuse me?”. “You heard me, fascinate. That’s why I’ve been spending all this time with you. I love to discover things about people; and in that act of discovery I can oftentimes—not always, but often enough—figure out how to help. And if I can do that, I’ve earned a customer, a partner, or a treasured friend for life.”.

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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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10 Ways to Increase Your Small Business Website Conversions

Women on Business

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Please Your Readers With These Blog Layout Inspirations

Toptal

Blogs are all about one thing: Readers. With that in mind, we've curated a group of inspiring blog layouts that are designed to provide users with an easy and engaging redaing experience.

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Strata + Hadoop World is March 13–16, 2017 in San Jose, CA

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Strata + Hadoop World 2017 (happening March 13–16 in San Jose) has its strongest program ever. You'll find Business Case Studies and Data-driven Business Management. Sessions on essential topics like Data Science & Advanced Analytics, Enterprise Adoption, Real-time Applications, Spark (& Beyond), and Stream Processing & Analytics—nearly 180 sessions to choose from.

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3 Key Considerations for Vetting Threat Intelligence.

ProtectWise

Most professionals in the InfoSec community have experienced the varying quality of intelligence reports and feeds available today. At ProtectWise, we are constantly evaluating and integrating new sources of threat intelligence into our own platform, The ProtectWise Grid™ , which provides us with a unique view on how to evaluate a variety of intelligence providers on mass scale.

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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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7 Attributes of a Great Management Hire

Women on Business

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Hack a Happy New Year!

J.D. Meier's Blog

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. It’s time to dig down, dig in, and dig deep to create a great year for yourself and others. I’m a fan of hacks for work and life. I find that hacking away at challenges is a great way to make progress and to eventually overcome them.

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Help Shape how AI is Used To Transform Your Enterprise at AI Evolution

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. All of us have been closing watching Artificial Intelligence. For decades it has been a concept with huge potential. For the last few years we have watched it deliver incremental capabilities to a wide range of technologies in the consumer and enterprise space. Now it is clearly set to deliver transformative capabilities that can change the way we work.

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What Does A CIO Need To Be Doing Now To Prepare For The Future?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to be focused on what they need to be doing to prepare for the future Image Credit: Scott Smithson. Being a CIO is a demanding job. It seems as though there is too much to be done almost every day. There are people to be managed, vendors to be talked to, and technology decisions that because of the importance of information technology will affect the entire company that have to be made each and every day.

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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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4 Keys to Enhance Female Leadership in Your Business

Women on Business

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Follow Up On "What Makes A Senior Software Developer"

Professor Beekums

A few readers asked me to do a follow up with the responses people sent in for what they thought made a developer a senior developer. I compiled all the emails I received with the comments on Hacker News. Many folks had their own version of the checklist with different items on their respective lists. I found one to be very interesting though. I was sent a link to a post on this exact topic by Frontside.

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FASCINATION, GRATITUDE, AND THOU 1.4-1.5

Steve Farber

Chapter 23. “You fascinate me, Cam,” Agnes cooed. “Excuse me?”. “You heard me, fascinate. That’s why I’ve been spending all this time with you. I love to discover things about people; and in that act of discovery I can oftentimes—not always, but often enough—figure out how to help. And if I can do that, I’ve earned a customer, a partner, or a treasured friend for life.”.

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Kentik Earns Forrester Nod as Breakout Vendor

Kentik

Kentik Detect Recognized for Virtual Network Infrastructure. Kentik is honored to have been named by Forrester Research as a breakout vendor in the Virtual Network Infrastructure (VNI) space. In fact, Kentik was the sole network monitoring vendor included in the report “Breakout Vendors: Virtual Network Infrastructure — Four Vendors That Can Help Build a VNI.

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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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What I’m doing to make 2017 the year of action

Lead on Purpose

It’s been on my mind for the last few months. Everything I’ve read lately seems to speak it to me. Over the last few weeks as I’ve been planning 2017 this word keeps coming back with force.

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Myths of Replatforming

The Agile Manager

Replatforming is all the rage these days. Platforms are conceptually popular with investors: in theory, a platform makes the mundane portions of a business efficient, scalable and adaptable, allowing a company to release the creative talents of its people to pursue growth and innovation. Replatforming makes for a convincing story following an acquisition because it explains to investors how deal synergies will be achieved, sets a tone of equivalency among employees of both the acquired and acqui

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