Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Most of us never consider how culture shapes our expectations and assumptions about relationship building. But research shows that our cultural upbringing influences how we form and maintain connections with others — often quite significantly. This article identifies six core elements of the relationship code: where relationship building takes place, who can initiate relationships with whom, what kinds of relationships people attempt to form, what types of personal information people share, how

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CIO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Generative AI offers great potential as an interface for enabling users to query your data in unique ways to receive answers honed for their needs. For example, as query assistants, generative AI tools can help customers better navigate an extensive product knowledge base using a simple question-and-answer format. But before using generative AI to answer questions about your data, it’s important to first evaluate the questions being asked.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Introduction Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML) is a popular machine learning service. Azure ML provides a lot of predefined functionality for deploying machine learning model endpoints, which is great. However, when you are trying to create a more custom solution, it can be quite difficult! In this blogpost we’ll dive into such a custom solution.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Captive centers are on the rise. You’d be forgiven if you’re wondering whether you’ve stumbled on an article from 2016 , but, in fact, the practice of launching an offshore IT center wholly owned and operated by the enterprise it serves is back in vogue with notable twists. Everest Group, which monitors 8,500 captive centers around the world, counted 452 new setups in 2023.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Too often, organizations bring in outside firms to develop their growth strategies — resulting in a smart plan without the motivation, skills, and resources to get it done. Instead, the author argues, organizations should involve all stakeholders — including those who will need to execute the growth strategy — in its conception and development. Doing this well requires trusting your team, incorporating a strong educational component in your strategy work, giving the process ample time, and incor

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Microstresses are the accumulation of unnoticed small stresses from routine interactions, and often are so brief that we barely register them. Individually, these microstresses might seem manageable, but cumulatively they take an enormous toll. How can you identify and reduce them? This article, based on research and experiments at several Fortune 100 organizations, lays out five steps that will help you identify where (and from whom) your stress is coming from, and how you can proactively reduc

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Cloud optimization involves ensuring that you're not overprovisioning–or underprovisioning–your resources and using the right services for the right tasks.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Amazon Bedrock provides a broad range of models from Amazon and third-party providers, including Anthropic, AI21, Meta, Cohere, and Stability AI, and covers a wide range of use cases, including text and image generation, embedding, chat, high-level agents with reasoning and orchestration, and more. Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock allows you to build performant and customized Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications on top of AWS and third-party vector stores using both AWS and third-

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

If I told you that there was a tool that could turn your people into superheroes, would you be interested? How about if I added that it costs little to nothing to do? Have I piqued your interest? The tool is appreciation, something so simple and straightforward and yet so misunderstood and underutilized. In fact, […] The post How the superpowers of appreciation drive performance and wellbeing appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Recently, the significance of gender diversity in corporate boardrooms and leadership has gained widespread recognition. The inclusion of women in such roles not only brings valuable perspectives and skills but also has a significant impact on organizations and society. However, progress in this direction has been slow. Currently, women hold less than a third of director positions in public company boardrooms.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on the state of venture funding to Black-founded startups in the U.S., based on 2023 data from Crunchbase and its Diversity Spotlight feature. Part 1 can be found here. As venture funding to Black-founded U.S. startups plummeted last year , many areas that have in the past served as strong pillars for such investment saw serious declines in those numbers.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Understanding the Landscape of the Remote Workforce The digital transformation is significantly changing the work landscape. One of the central aspects of this transformation is the shift towards a virtual workforce, which more and more businesses are embracing. I was fortunate to work in corporate recruiting for a global technology company in 2008 when the idea of a remote workforce was embraced.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A hybrid cloud is the future of cloud-native solutions for complex enterprise applications and data. Here's why.

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Daffodil Software

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

When it comes to online music streaming, Spotify's impact on the music industry is undeniable. Founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, Spotify was created to tackle music piracy and has successfully attracted millions of users who choose to pay for their music, which has significantly reduced piracy.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Read the other blogs in this series: Tutorial 01 – Microservices Architectural Design by using Spring Boot Tutorial 02 – Spring Cloud – Netflix Eureka Server Tutorial 03 – Publish Microservices to the Eureka Server / Blogs / Perficient In the Eureka Server environment, 3 “Client Component” types are possible: Discovery Client Component ( Legacy, No Support for Load Balancing ).

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Our reader poll today asks: How do you handle it when a customer is surprised by a fee you charge that is clearly stated in your contract? We point out the clause and charge the fee 66.14% We compromise somewhat on the fee but still charge something 11.12% We forgive the fee the first time and acknowledge the miscommunication 21.69% We renegotiate the contract to remove controversial fees 1.05% Profit or Relationship.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As an engineering manager, it is your responsibility to help facilitate creative thinking skills among the development team, but that's easier said than done. This article provides advice on how can you help amplify the creative thinking skills of your software development colleagues. we examine how different levels of creativity influence creativity and strategies to encourage creativity.

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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.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We had a client moving from an On-Prem v11 Optimizely instance to DXP v12 and we had a lot of blobs (over 40 GB) needing uploading to DXP as a part of the conversion. This was my first experience doing both a version and environment upgrade and I leaned heavily on Optimizely support to help me get it right. Along the way, I wrote down each step so that I could reference it for any future projects that were doing the same.

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Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dell Technologies and VMware by Broadcom reaffirm their dedication to VxRail and VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Firefly survey suggests usage of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools is evolving rapidly in the cloud computing era.

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Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions.

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There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

There are several steps involved in implementing a data pipeline that integrates Apache Kafka with AWS RDS and uses AWS Lambda and API Gateway to feed data into a web application. Here is a high-level overview of how to architect this solution: 1. Set Up Apache Kafka Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that is capable of handling trillions of events a day.

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TechSoup

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Most of us are familiar with the social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, X, and Instagram. After all, they’re cost-effective and far-reaching platforms that allow nonprofits to connect with supporters and raise awareness.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

By Dan Kraemer If 2023 was the year of generative AI experimentation, 2024 is the year of implementation. Companies in every sector know they need to add generative AI applications and frameworks to their tech stack this year — or get left behind. If the idea of becoming an AI-first company feels daunting, you are not alone. Even the largest enterprises are still figuring out how to weave generative AI into their everyday businesses.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Enterprise security teams face serious hurdles to safeguarding their critical OT/IoT infrastructure, including fragmented visibility, unanticipated risks and data silos. Discover how purpose-built solutions for OT/IoT exposure management can help organizations enhance visibility, prioritize cybersecurity efforts and communicate cyber risk effectively across organizational silos.

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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Java developers would gain an easier way to create records, and more streamlined code for declaring record classes, through derived record creation, a preview language feature being considered by the OpenJDK community. Derived record creation would allow developers to create new records from existing records, specifying only the components that are different.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The goal of Databricks Unity Catalog is to provide centralized security and management to data and AI assets across the data lakehouse. Unity Catalog provides fine-grained access control for all the securable objects in the lakehouse; databases, tables, files and even models. Gone are the limitations of the Hive metadata store. The Unity Catalog metastore manages all data and AI assets across different workspaces and storage locations.

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Ruby on Rails

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Hi, Wojtek from this side. Let’s explore this week’s few changes in the Rails codebase. Rails security update releases Rails Versions 6.1.7.7, 7.0.8.1, and 7.1.3.2 have been released last week which contain fixes for security issues. Expose a generic “fixture” method in tests To avoid conflicting methods, in example with Minitest, it is possible now to load fixtures like this: assert_equal "Ruby on Rails" , web_sites ( :rubyonrails ). name assert_equal "Ruby on Rails" , fixture ( :web_sites , :r

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