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4 Steps to Better Technical Hires

CodeSignal

Technical recruiting placements can be a blessing and a curse for companies of all sizes. On one hand, companies have an ever-growing need for highly qualified developers, system architects, database engineers, network administrators, and other technical talent. Demand for application developers is particularly high, as verified by a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics forecast that projects 31% growth by 2026.

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Top Five Futuristic Technologies That Will Transform The World

OTS Solutions

Forecasters in the 1950s predicted that airborne robots and flying cars would be part of everyday life by the 2000s. Instead, social media networks, smartphones, and live streaming have dominated the world. While the timing of these futurists wasn’t right, their predictions became true. The world is currently on the brink of another revolution in the tech world, where robot assistant, self-driving vehicles, and mobile application development will transform the way people go about their daily wor

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Java 11 is Here, Are You Ready to Make the Switch?

OverOps

A year after the Java 9 release was supposed to “rock our worlds”, the LTS version we’ve ACTUALLY been waiting for is finally here. Most of the developers, teams, companies, etc. that we know haven’t updated past Java 8 yet. Even with the release of module Java 9 last year, and the quick release of Java 10 that followed in March. It’s a bit shocking, though not surprising, that two new versions of the JDK were released in the last year and that relatively few people are using them.

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Why it’s hard to design fair machine learning models

O'Reilly Media - Data

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Sharad Goel and Sam Corbett-Davies on the limitations of popular mathematical formalizations of fairness. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Sharad Goel , assistant professor at Stanford, and his student Sam Corbett-Davies. They recently wrote a survey paper, “A Critical Review of Fair Machine Learning,” where they carefully examined the standard statistical tools used to check for fairness in machine learning models.

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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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How do we get better at our jobs? Practice, practice, practice …

Agile Alliance

I’ve asked this question a lot over the last few years to a wide range of professionals across different occupations and get similar answers. We can read, take classes, attend seminars, find a mentor, or attend conferences. If I change up the question slightly and ask, “How would you get better at sport or playing … Continued.

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What Is VPS Hosting And Why Do You Need It?

The Crazy Programmer

A VPS is a virtualized server that has the tendency to mimic the dedicated server within the environment of hosting. In simple words, it is technically a virtual shared hosting but has the characteristics of a dedicated hosting. To have your website running at its full potential online, you need to have a good hosting environment. VPS hosting is one of the major three types of hosting that businesses these days preferred to opt for. .

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A Powerful, Proven Technique for Overcoming Negativity at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

Your team’s rightfully discouraged and a little stymied. Their negativity is rooted in facts. The truth is, you’re frustrated too. The struggle is real. So as a leader, how can you stay positive without looking out of touch? How do you harness […]. The post A Powerful, Proven Technique for Overcoming Negativity at Work appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Servant Leadership at Vistaprint

Agile Alliance

At Agile2018, I had a conversation with experience report authors David Grabel and David Reichert. I met with them along with Serena Godfrey (who the report was about) and some members of her leadership team. Earlier in the day, Serena and three members of her leadership team — Bryan Stewart, Nigel Thomas, and Randy Malcom — were … Continued.

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How to Properly Conduct an OKR Evaluation to Keep Your Team Aligned

Evolution4all

At least two weeks before the quarter ends, it’s time to assess the OKRs of you team in your department. Has your team been successful? As a department, have you achieved your goals? Were your team’s key results effective? Also, you need to plan for your OKRs in the next quarter. If you want to have an effective way of assessing the OKR of your department, there are two ways/methods to do this.

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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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5 Essential Tips for Writing Computer Science Research Project

The Crazy Programmer

Working on computer science research projects can be a difficult task, partly because computer science projects are unlike research projects in any other discipline. Depending on the area of study, a research project can be defined differently. A general definition of a research project states that a research project aims to take old research (done by others) and either expand on it or create something new with the discovered research.

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A Practical Guide to Finding a Great Place to Work

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t Accept that New Job Until You Ask These Important Questions You’re looking for a great place to work; with people you admire and where jerks don’t survive. A place where you can get results, without losing your soul. A great place […]. The post A Practical Guide to Finding a Great Place to Work appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Life in the POCLAC

Agile Alliance

At Agile2018, I had a conversation with Nienke Alma about her experiences as a member of a POCLAC leadership team at ING. POCLAC stands for Product Owner, Chapter Lead, and Agile Coach (pronounced Pok-lack). In 2015, ING decided to base it new organizational structure on small teams, or squads, containing no more than nine people. … Continued.

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Will blockchain revolutionize the Internet of Things?

CTOvision

Read why Megan Ray Nichols says that blockchain technology can be used to revolutionize the Internet of Things on Euro Scientist : Here is an interesting convergence no one is talking about – blockchain technology and Internet of Things. Blockchain technology is essentially a secure, distributed ledger that can serve as the foundation for many systems. […].

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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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What is Python used for?

The Crazy Programmer

In this article you will get to know what is python used for or its applications. Python is an ubiquitous scripting language. Of course many of us might be aware of the magical things we can do with the help of python, that is another story all the way and we will talk about this sometimes later for sure. These days python has found its way to web development, app development, scientific and numeric field, business applications, GUI designing, automation, artificial intelligence, machine learnin

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The biggest insights and trends in digital transformation for 2019

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Many organizations have embarked on the journey of digital transformation over the last several years to sustainably reinvent themselves in modern terms. The first crop of lessons learned should now be evident but have been challenging to isolate and capture until recently. It's also clear that those lessons learned have been hard won, so we must build on them.

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Visual Designers vs. Graphic Designers – Who Does What and Why (with Infographic)

Toptal

Because graphic design and visual design both focus on aesthetics, the line between the two disciplines is often blurred, especially when referencing digital designs (includes infographic).

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An interview with Robert Fink, Architect of Foundry, Palantir’s open data platform Part One: Open Data Architectures

CTOvision

Editor’s note: This post is the first of a series of three capturing the result of recent interview/discussions I had with Robert Fink of Palantir. The conversation was wide ranging, hitting on topics of design, development environments and a bit on the philosophy of enterprise tech. Several common themes emerged in those topic areas, including […].

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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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Code Refactoring Best Practices: When (and When Not) to Do It

Altexsoft

This is a guest story by Sydney Stone, a writer for a software development company iTechArt. Code refactoring is a process used in the DevOps software development approach that involves editing and cleaning up previously written software code without changing the function of the code at all. Refactoring is not unlike the editing process of a writer.

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Wife, Mother, Entrepreneur? 6 Tips to Help You Get Started in Business

Women on Business

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YouTube API Integration: Uploading Videos with Django

Toptal

Uploading a video to YouTube seems like a simple enough task, but non-existent documentation and unmaintained libraries can make even the simplest of tasks seem daunting. In this post, Toptal Freelance Django Developer Ivan Carmo da Rocha Neto guides you through how to post YouTube videos from your Django app.

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Information Age Presents A CTO guide: Cyber security best practice tips

CTOvision

Like probably all technologists we keep our own lists of best practices. We have shared them multiple times (but hey here they are again: Crucial Point Cybersecurity Best Practices). But we love staying up with what others think and really enjoyed reading the roundup produced by Information age. They do more than just recap a […].

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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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App design cost. How much does it cost to design a mobile app?

VironIT

Design is the first thing users see when running an application. This initial impression your app makes is likely to influence their behavior, turning them either loyal or fickle. A recent research proves it: 65% of users claim that a poor mobile experience affects their opinion of the brand. That’s why the look and feel […].

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Using LinkedIn to Pitch to Journalists

Women on Business

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Zeplin Sketch Plugin – The Workflow Bridge Between Design and Engineering

Toptal

Creating a dynamic, organized, and collaborative workflow between design and development teams is essential to building great digital products. This tutorial outlines how Sketch, working in tandem with Zeplin, can facilitate this collaboration seamlessly.

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Blockchain: The Strong Backbone for Businesses

CTOvision

Read Vinod Sharma’s article about how blockchain can offer a strong backbone for business on Finextra Blog : What is Blockchain Technology? How one blockchain can have Infinite possibilities & opportunities in hand in this red ocean market world. Blockchain as on date is a mystery story for many (Including my self). We have heard a […].

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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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Dell EMC and Microsoft Deliver for the Data Center with Windows Server 2019

Dell EMC

Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd running Windows Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017 processed 6.7 times as many orders per minute and lowered average application latencies by 88 percent.[i] Promising seamless integration on-premise, in the cloud and everywhere in between, the new Windows Server 2019 is designed to support you at every stage in your transformation journey.

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Women Entrepreneurs and Thinkers Change the Fintech Industry

Women on Business

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Business Plan Consultants: Who They Are And How they Create Value

Toptal

Due in part to the unceremonial nature of its title, the value-creation potential of business plan consultants is often misunderstood and underappreciated. Questions such as, "What do they do that I can’t?", "Why do they cost so much?” and, "Don’t you think we can handle this ourselves?", all too often haunt their practice. Having prolifically added value to 25+ clients across a range of industries, sizes, and mandates, Toptal Finance Expert, Josh Chapman, sheds light on the full scope of busine