InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Chatbots like ChatGPT , Claude.ai , and phind can be quite helpful, but you might not always want your questions or sensitive data handled by an external application. That's especially true on platforms where your interactions may be reviewed by humans and otherwise used to help train future models. One solution is to download a large language model (LLM) and run it on your own machine.
CIO
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Four years ago, German multinational Henkel found itself at a crossroads. Like many incumbents in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, Henkel was slow to embrace digital technologies, resulting in a widening disconnect between the 147-year-old company and the changing needs of its customers. As Henkel CDIO Michael Nilles puts it, by 2019, Marc Andreessen’s pronouncement that “software is eating the world” had come true for the CPG sector, and Henkel was at risk of falling behind.
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Xebia
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
In the second post of this three-part series, we explored entity-component-system (ECS) architecture and built a static user interface with Bevy. In this post, the finale of the three-part series, we implement the numerous systems that together drive the evolution of our elementary cellular automaton and support user interaction via the keyboard and mouse.
CIO
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
In the age of digital transformation, the CIO’s role is increasingly central to business, focused on driving growth and establishing a new digital culture across the organization. But without the full support of the CEO, a CIO’s innovation and digital transformation agenda will only go so far. If the CEO doesn’t understand how the CIO role is evolving, or the CIO isn’t ready to make the leap to being a business leader in the C-suite, a company’s ability to innovate in a competitive and challengi
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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?
Xebia
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Introduction Among the sea of metrics, vanity numbers have often taken the spotlight, leaving many organizations lost in a world of misleading indicators and superficial gains. The catch is that many of these metrics (Website views, Leads in Sales Funnel, Marketing spent, Revenue without profit etc.) are more like flashy billboards on a highway, catching your eye but not necessarily leading you to the best destination.
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Xebia
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
In the dynamic realm of software development, success isn’t solely about constructing impeccable code. It’s about grasping the process flow that wraps around the entire software-business domain – a domain that holds many more challenges than what traditional “developmental problems” confine. Why dive into Holistic Horizons ? Working in the software domain is no easy feat.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
To achieve efficiencies and reduce costs, more and more companies are managing their employees by algorithm. In this article, the authors present some of the first research findings concerning the effects of algorithmic management on workplace dynamics. One important finding is that employees managed by algorithm are less likely than colleagues managed by algorithm to help others.
Xebia
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
In my previous blog I showed you how you can write your own config rules. But it will only bring you value if you deploy the rule in your AWS Accounts. In this blog we will dive into the distribution of these config rules. What are my options? There are many ways you can deploy these rules in your member accounts. In this blog I will only focus on the 2 real options: Deploy the rules using CloudFormation StackSets in each account.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Concerns that short-term rentals fueled by platforms like Airbnb have caused long-term rents to rise in major cities has caused some governments to place limits, including bans, on them. But research of New York City found that short-term rentals are not the biggest contributor to high rents, especially when it comes to the most vulnerable segments of a city’s residents.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Generative AI can go so many places that AIOps could never, and provides a general-purpose approach that can be applied in many different ways.
Ooda Loop
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
On the morning of November 18, during a tech conference in Tokyo, Ting Cai received a news alert about OpenAI’s Sam Altman, who had been ousted in a boardroom coup. Cai, chief data officer of Japanese tech giant Rakuten, was caught off guard.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
As with any aspect of digital transformation, the effective deployment of generative AI will depend less on technological capability than on human adaptability. Indeed, the human factor — people and culture — will drive the adoption of AI, or lack thereof. Looking at scientific research and real-world case studies, there are seven generalizable lessons for improving your ability to adopt GenAI, and any novel technology, at an organizational level: innovation boosts your organization’s immunity,
Crunchbase News
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Whether by choice or necessity, the share of workers who are self-employed or toiling in the gig economy continues to grow. And with it, tools to manage all the attendant accounting and job-finding burdens have been scaling up too. Startups are taking a leading role. Over the past few quarters, venture investors have poured hundreds of millions into companies with offerings aimed at freelance and gig workers.
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The Hustle
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Every day, millions of people in the US wash their hands, flush toilets, and take showers. All of that water — ~34B gallons worth — goes down the drain and through the pipes before being processed at a treatment facility and released into nature. But with water becoming an increasingly scarce resource , a company called Epic Cleantec is rethinking how wastewater gets recycled, per Wired.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
AI will profoundly change the software engineering profession, but those changes will mostly drive inventive and capable developers to greater innovation.
InnovationM
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, Google’s Dialogflow is a powerful tool that enables developers to build conversational interfaces form applications, and integrating it with a Spring Boot backend can provide a seamless and efficient user experience. In this guide, we will explore the steps to integrate Dialogflow into a Spring Boot application, empowering developers to create intelligent and user-friendly conversational applications. 1.
Crunchbase News
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The venture market was down 38% last year as investors continued to reel back their funding with money becoming more expensive and liquidity options drying up. In such an environment, most would think the tech sector most greatly affected by the pullback would be deep tech — casually defined as cutting-edge scientific innovation that can create brand-new industries.
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.
Cloudera
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
It’s hard to believe it’s been 15 years since the global financial crisis of 2007/2008. While this might be a blast from the past we’d rather leave in the proverbial rear-view mirror, in March of 2023 we were back to the future with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the largest US bank to fail since 2008. While there are clear reasons SVB collapsed, which can be reviewed here , my purpose in this post isn’t to rehash the past but to present some of the regulatory and compliance c
Crunchbase News
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Nvidia ’s AI success is definitely having a trickle-down effect. Lambda hit unicorn status after a $320 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation. The company offers cloud computing services and hardware for training artificial intelligence software. The startup is a provider of Nvidia’s latest GPUs, which are highly sought after by AI developers.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
In the fast-changing world of software development, a disruptive technique has acquired significant traction: API-First Development. This strategy substantially transforms the old application development paradigms, putting Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) at the center of the development lifecycle. Understanding API-First Development API-First Development is more than a development approach; it’s a concept that changes the way we think about, create, and implement software.
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Classes, structs, and records are fundamental concepts in C# programming. Each is a different kind of type, with different features, capabilities, and limitations. To make matters more confusing, they have features and characteristics in common. Classes are reference types that provide support for useful object-oriented concepts such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.
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Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Redis is a popular in-memory data store known for its speed and flexibility. It operates efficiently when a particular workload's memory and computational demands can be managed within a single node. However, scaling beyond a single node often leads to the consideration of the Redis Cluster. There's a common assumption that transitioning to the Redis Cluster is straightforward and existing applications will behave the same, but that's not the case in reality.
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Oracle has updated its Autonomous Database offering in an effort to maintain its lead over competing cloud-based database services from rivals such as AWS, Google Cloud, IBM, and Snowflake. Oracle Autonomous Database is an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service. Oracle Autonomous Database, which is based on Oracle’s proprietary relational database management system (RDBMS), currently Oracle Database 23c , supports both transactional and analytical workloads.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
When it comes to Java web servers, Apache Tomcat remains a strong favorite. Some of these instances have been containerized over the years, but many still run in the traditional setup of a Linux -based virtual machine or even on bare metal. Red Hat JBoss Web Server (JWS) combines the servlet engine (Apache Tomcat) with the web server (Apache HTTPD), and modules for load balancing (mod_jk and mod_cluster).
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Microsoft has made Visual Studio 2022 17.9 generally available, and introduced a preview of Visual Studio 2022 17.10. Visual Studio 17.9 adds AI-generated Git commits and enhances extensibility, while Visual Studio 17.10 brings AI-powered chat into the IDE. Announced February 13 , Visual Studio 17.9 can be downloaded from the Visual Studio website. The update features AI-generated Git commit messages using GitHub Copilot.
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Dell EMC
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Learn how Dell is integrating ISV software with NativeEdge to provide a ready solution for resiliency and customer satisfaction.
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
If you’re a happy RStudio user like me, you may never have felt the urge to try another editor for R (or even Python ). But if you want the best experience when using GitHub Copilot generative AI, especially Copilot Chat, it’s worth giving Visual Studio Code a try to compare. While Copilot is available in the RStudio IDE and you can ask questions of it by prefixing your queries with # q , I find the new Copilot Chat interface in VS Code is more helpful.
Prisma Clud
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The integration of OpenAI's Custom GPTs with personal data files and third-party APIs offers new opportunities for organizations looking for custom LLMs for a variety of needs. They also open the door to many significant security risks, particularly accidental leakage of sensitive data through uploaded files and API interactions. Additionally, external APIs can subtly change GPT's responses through prompt injections.
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