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10 tips for speeding up Python programs

InfoWorld

By and large, people use Python because it’s convenient and programmer-friendly, not because it’s fast. The plethora of third-party libraries and the breadth of industry support for Python compensate heavily for its not having the raw performance of Java or C. Speed of development takes precedence over speed of execution.

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For IT leaders, operationalized gen AI is still a moving target

CIO

The rate of companies that have either already deployed generative AI or are actively exploring it is accelerating to the point where, combined, there are very few holdouts. The use of gen AI in the enterprise was nearly nothing in November 2022, where the only tools commonly available were AI image or early text generators. But by May 2023, according to an IDC survey, 65% of companies were using gen AI, and in September, that number rose to 71%, with another 22% planning to implement it in the

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How to Make Small Talk with Anyone from Anywhere

Harvard Business Review

Meet-and-greet conversations can be uncomfortable. And they can feel especially daunting when you’re paired with strangers from different cultures, like when networking in a global business context. In this setting, light and introductory-style conversations (what some of us know as “small talk”) can be very helpful, and even necessary. Small talk is a quasi-universal tool for initiating conversations with strangers from different cultures, for building a quick rapport, and for planting the seed

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Bio digital twins and the future of health innovation

CIO

Healthcare technology innovation is poised to revolutionize the medical landscape. At the forefront of this transformation lies biological digital twin (bio digital twin) technology. This technology will help to improve personal, social, and economic outcomes, and help to build a healthier, more prosperous and sustainable future for all. The promise of bio digital twin technology The groundbreaking work underway in the development of bio digital twin technology holds immense promise in both savi

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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What Employees Need from Leaders in Uncertain Times

Harvard Business Review

It’s one thing to lead through a normal range of uncertainty with its ups and downs. But how do you lead when the inflections, disruptions, dislocations, and other threat conditions pile up, as they have in the last few years? While the leader has little to no control over the external competitive environment, they have astonishing influence over the internal performance environment, including employee engagement, morale, and productivity.

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Bringing Sustainability and Security to the Edge

Dell EMC

Keep your data local and support ultra-low latency applications with Vodafone Business and Dell Technologies.

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How technology is reshaping the college student experience

CIO

Question: Is higher education worth it? Only 59% of students who say they’re likely to re-enroll at their four-year university seem to think so, according to a study recently conducted by RNL , and that number is only slightly higher for community college students. The rest report being dissatisfied with their overall experience at the institution they attend.

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How Etsy Became Profitable — Without Sacrificing Its Purpose

Harvard Business Review

If you’re trying to define your organization’s purpose, this episode is for you.

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Why cloud evolution needs a cohesive approach to succeed

CIO

Many organisations in India are migrating to the cloud, and there is no shortage of cloud providers. But if you want cloud to revolutionise your business, it won’t help to get stuck with a basic cloud configuration that works by default but doesn’t keep pace with your evolving goals. This is what Mobicule Technologies , an independent software vendor (ISV) in fintech, realised as they expanded their client base in India’s financial services industry.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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The Difference Between Startup Valuation And Round Pricing

Crunchbase News

By Dan Gray On Aug. 20, 2011, Marc Andreessen published the definitive manifesto for a generation of technologists and investors, with “ Why Software Is Eating the World.” It kicked off an era of immense enthusiasm for software startups, coinciding with a period of historically low interest rates. The pace of investment accelerated over the next decade, and without sifting too finely through recent history we can reflect back on a quote from Andreessen’s essay: “Too much of the debate is still a

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Ecco come i CIO stanno ripensando alle strategie sul cloud

CIO

Dopo anni di marcia al ritmo della migrazione al cloud, i CIO stanno diventando sempre più cauti riguardo al mantra cloud-first, comprendendo la necessità di estromettere alcuni carichi di lavoro dal cloud pubblico verso piattaforme in cui verranno eseguiti in modo più produttivo, più efficiente e più economico. “La ‘Cloud exit’ è diventata un tema importante nel 2023 e ci sono buone probabilità che si trasformi in una vera tendenza per il 2024.

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The Key to a Fulfilling Career? Variety.

Harvard Business Review

If you feel bored or unfulfilled by a job you once relished, you might be succumbing to what scientists call habituation: our brain’s tendency to react less and less to things that don’t change, so that what once brought joy and meaning can stop doing so over time. The antidote is to pursue variety, both inside and outside of work, since ample research shows that people are most engaged and satisfied when they are learning something new.

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Navigating the future: the rise of SD-WAN in India

CIO

In the realm of Wide Area Networks (WANs), traditional routers have long been the backbone of network infrastructure, albeit with their limitations. The conventional approach involves configuring and maintaining each router individually, which often lacks the flexibility required for the dynamic needs of modern businesses. However, a transformative technology known as Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is making significant waves in India and globally.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Amazon Aggregator Thrasio Files For Bankruptcy Protection After Raising Billions From Investors

Crunchbase News

Thrasio , a startup that rolls up third-party sellers on Amazon , on Wednesday said it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and entered a restructuring agreement that includes reduced debt and fresh capital. The bankruptcy filing marks a dramatic reversal for Thrasio, which once bore a $10 billion valuation after raising $3.4 billion from investors including Silver Lake , Oaktree Capital Management and Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

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The multi-faceted digital transformation of Barcelona City Council

CIO

A holistic digital transformation of its services, comprised of many technological initiatives, earned Barcelona City Council a place as a finalist for Public Entity of the Year at the CIO 100 Awards Spain 2023 in December. And as its CIO, Nacho Santillana Montiel was the central figure of this distinction due to a series of innovative projects including integrating various emerging technologies into daily life at the City Council and for Catalan citizens.

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Build a robust text-to-SQL solution generating complex queries, self-correcting, and querying diverse data sources

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a complex language that requires an understanding of databases and metadata. Today, generative AI can enable people without SQL knowledge. This generative AI task is called text-to-SQL, which generates SQL queries from natural language processing (NLP) and converts text into semantically correct SQL. The solution in this post aims to bring enterprise analytics operations to the next level by shortening the path to your data using natural language.

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How Much Testing is Too Much?

DevOps.com

Advances in automated testing have great potential, but there are also downsides to consider as the technology matures.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Morgan Stanley Supercharged Its Customer Journey. Learn How at Adobe Summit 2024!

Perficient

Adobe Summit 2024 is right around the corner, and we’re excited to sit down with the executive director of marketing applications at Morgan Stanley Dorothy Joseph on March 27 at 11:30 A.M PST at The Grand Lux Café in The Palazzo. Perficient’s Jay Jackson, director of Adobe Digital Marketing and CDP, will host a fireside chat with Joseph about the global financial services leader’s successful journey to consolidate and optimize the Adobe Experience Platform.

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Celebrity Crypto Backers Hit Pause On Startup Deals

Crunchbase News

Things haven’t worked out well for promoters of FTX. The company is in bankruptcy, its founder is in jail, and its venture backers have written off the investment. Celebrities who endorsed the company are also regretting their choice. Beyond the reputational damage and shortfall in expected compensation, they’re also defending themselves in what could be a costly class-action lawsuit.

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How to Beat the Average When it Comes to Cybersecurity

IDC

Let's face it: The sad-but-true reality of modern cybersecurity is that doing what lots of organizations do means you're probably doing something wrong. You need to do it better.

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Much Ado About OpenTelemetry

Honeycomb

There is so much good work that OpenTelemetry has done in the software industry, specifically around the domain of observability, in the last five years. Bringing users and vendors together to define the future of telemetry? Check! Unify logs, traces, and metrics under a completely vendor-neutral API? Check! Deprecate other standards by bringing their collaborators to the table to ensure their use cases are met?

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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How to Recruit the Right People For Your Team

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Recruiting the right people involves creating appropriate role descriptions and knowing where to look. One of the most exciting aspects of building a high-performing team is recruiting people to be members of that team. There’s nothing better than finding that really talented person who wants to come work with you. So as you think about doing this recruiting and finding the right people, you need to understand how to create role descriptions based on the team’s skill needs.

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Breaking Down The Reddit IPO

Crunchbase News

By John S. Kim It is now official: After a false alarm in 2021, the Reddit IPO is finally coming. And the market looks far different than it did the last time. What should we expect both from Reddit and the larger IPO market? After collaborating with Reddit for a number of years (Reddit was one of the earliest customers at my company Sendbird ), here’s my take.

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Dockerization of Java applications using Google Jib Plugin

InnovationM

Prerequisites Basic docker knowledge & commands, can go through this blog Docker-For-Beginners by InnovationM. Introduction In this blog I will guide you step-by-step how to use google jib plugin with docker. What is Jib ? Jib is part of Google Container Tools which builds optimized Docker and OCI images for your java application and push them to your public or private docker repositories without the need for Docker daemon.

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Simplifying SQL Server and Kubernetes Across Hybrid/Multi-Cloud

Dzone - DevOps

The complexity of managing business-critical Microsoft SQL Server workloads with Kubernetes, especially across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, can stall many organizations’ modernization plans. However, DH2i 's new DxOperator tool aims to change that dynamic with automated deployment and simplified management capabilities purpose-built for SQL Server availability groups in Kubernetes environments.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Laravel Table Relationship Methods With Example

Php,Mysql,Jquery Tutorial And Interview Question

This Laravel tutorial helps to understand table Relationships using Elequonte ORM. We’ll explore laravel table Relationships usage and best practices with examples. Understanding Laravel Table Relationships There are the following types of table relationships supported by Laravel: One-to-One One-to-Many Many-to-One (Inverse of One-to-Many) Many-to-Many Let’s assume you have an “employees” and a “departments” table, and […] The post Laravel Table Relation

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Logging and Monitoring in AWS

Dzone - DevOps

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a popular cloud platform that provides a variety of services for developing, deploying, and managing applications. It is critical to develop good logging and monitoring practices while running workloads on AWS to ensure the health, security, and performance of your cloud-based infrastructure. In this post, we will look at the significance of logging and monitoring in AWS, as well as the many alternatives and best practices for logging and monitoring, as well as promi

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Observability Best Practices in Software Development

Apiumhub

Observability best practices in software development are fundamental pillars that enable developers to gain profound insights into the internal dynamics of a system by scrutinizing its outputs, logs, and other external indicators. In an era where software systems are becoming increasingly intricate and multifaceted, observability serves as a critical tool for comprehending, troubleshooting, and refining these complex structures.