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Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

The Parallax

Did you get hacked in 2017? Chances are you did, thanks to Equifax’s inability to protect the data of more than 143 million of its customers. As a result, you might be feeling frustrated, vulnerable, even angry—not exactly a positive way to ring in the new year. If you want to channel those feelings into getting safer in 2018, follow these seven steps, garnered from how-tos we’ve published this year, to better secure your digital life.

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Toxic meeting culture

Erik Bernhardsson

I spent six years at a company that went from 50 people to 1500 and one contributing factor leading to my departure was that I went from a “maker” to a person stuck in meetings every day. It wasn’t that I wanted to do that, but everyone else kept dragging me into meetings. There’s about 47 million blog posts about why meetings suck and I’m not going to pile more onto that heap.

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How to Make Real Change Happen When You’re Not CEO

Let's Grow Leaders

Let’s Grow Leaders Q&A In a recent post we invited you to send us your biggest leadership challenge. We received a great question from a healthcare leader in the United Kingdom. It’s a question we hear all the time from audience members […].

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Introduction to Deep Learning Trading in Hedge Funds

Toptal

In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Neven Pi?uljan introduces you to the intricacies of deep learning in hedge funds and finance in general.

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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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How can you tell a wise person when you meet one?

Scott Berkun

On Tuesdays I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the archive ). This week’s question is from Mike: How can you tell a wise person when you meet one? If you can’t judge a book by its cover, how can you judge a person on their first impression? I’ve never liked the cliche about “you never get a second chance…” because it’s rarely true.

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Most Popular Leadership Advice of 2017: Top 10 Posts

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s always so much fun and interesting to see which of the year’s posts and topics resonate most with our Let’s Grow Leaders community. Here’s what you liked and shared the most as measured by page views. We want to write on […].

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Are You Dedicating Unnecessary Funding to IT?

CTOvision

You may view your company’s IT department as indispensable, especially as the workers within it troubleshoot issues with slow page loading times for a web browser, keep employees’ computers free from viruses and protect your network for interior or exterior threats. However, you also might have unnecessary expenditures associated with the IT department.

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Chasing the Entrepreneurial Dream – Is It Right For You?

Women on Business

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The Fundamental Guide to Mobile Usability

Toptal

Mobile usability isn’t just about scaling a website or app to fit various devices. It’s about understanding how people use mobile devices and that the mobile experience is as unique as the user.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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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How to shift the competition

Lead on Purpose

Successful business leaders thrive on competition. They’re at their best when contending for the top customers in high-end markets. They may feel that if they’re not in the middle of a cut-throat battle with competitors, they must not be succeeding.

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The Three Big Trends in 2018 That Will Matter When Doing Business in Europe

CTOvision

Having a crystal ball that predicts future trends would be immensely helpful for American tech CEOs to plot the optimum course and avoid speed bumps when it comes to doing business next year. So consider this a start in that direction by identifying three developments that will be a challenge unless companies are aware and […].

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Email Marketing Blunders Your Business Should Avoid At All Costs

Women on Business

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eCommerce UX for the Mobile Experience

Toptal

The explosive growth of eCommerce has created a need for online stores to adapt to mobile experiences. This post outlines the many aspects that make a successful mobile eCommerce experience.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Top 10 posts of 2017

Zend

Our top 10 posts from 2017, including PHP performance, security, Zend Server, Magento, IBM i, and Zend Expressive. The post Top 10 posts of 2017 appeared first on The Zend Blog.

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Kubernetes for Big Data Workloads

Abhishek Tiwari

Kubernetes has emerged as go to container orchestration platform for data engineering teams. Kubernetes has a massive community support and momentum behind it. In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Organisations are already using Kubernetes for a variety of workloads [1] [2] and data workloads are up next.

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Building a Great Online Fashion Brand

Women on Business

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Streamline Software Integration: An Apache Camel Tutorial

Toptal

Designing systems integration architecture can be a difficult task. And it gets worse if you're designing for software at scale. An enterprise service bus can be one way of working around the challenges. But this is definitely not the simplest of solutions. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Anton Goncharov gives us a detailed overview of the challenges of systems integration and a guide to addressing those challenges with Apache Camel.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

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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Microservices: Rearchitecting Your Stack With Tarantool

Dzone - DevOps

Microservices can decrease the risk of experimenting with new technologies and can enable each part of an application to scale at its own pace. Of course, each microservice should be as independent as possible from the other microservices in an ecosystem, ideally only connected by a communications interface. Powering your microservices with technologies that are both versatile and resource lean can help achieve this independence.

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5 data integration trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018

Abhishek Tiwari

ETL refers to extract, transform, load and it is generally used for data warehousing and data integration. ETL is a product of the relational database era and it has not evolved much in last decade. With the arrival of new cloud-native tools and platform, ETL is becoming obsolete. There are several emerging data trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018.

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How to Effectively Use Forex Trading to Create a Second Income

Women on Business

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Five Quick Posts to Get You Ready for Next Year

Next Level Blog

This is that wonderful week when things slow down and we do a little relaxing, reading and reflecting about what worked this year and changes we want to make for a successful next year. In that spirit, I want to share five of my favorite posts from 2017 that offer simple, practical and immediately actionable ideas on leading and living at your best.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

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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Blockchain Set to Redefine Ecommerce

Openxcell

Blockchain is a new force poised to revolutionize the Ecommerce and retail business. Yet, there are several who have less clarity about its potential. Imagine a business without centralized supply. Blockchain is a new force poised to revolutionize the Ecommerce and retail business. Yet, there are several who have less clarity about its potential. Imagine a business without centralized supply chains, un-tampered logistics, excessive fees, or exposing customers to risky transactions.

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“Comply, you must comply!” – How Nordea Bank deals with regulatory compliance

Cloudera

Regulatory compliance, like death and taxes, is something that is mandatory and the cost of doing business in the financial services industry. In fact, the only thing that’s guaranteed is that the rate of regulatory change will only continue to increase over time. How banks deal with regulatory compliance is actually changing for the better. With big data platforms, like ones based on open source software, banks can more effectively adapt to and quickly manage the wave of rules coming at them.

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Getting started with Conduit - lightweight service mesh for Kubernetes

Abhishek Tiwari

On this blog from very early on, we have advocated the concept of service mesh. In fact, our post a sidecar for your service mesh is one of the most viewed posts this year. When Buoyant announced the Conduit - their next-generation lightweight service mesh for Kubernetes - we were really thrilled. Buoyant is also the creator of Linkerd which is one of the most widely used service mesh currently available to the microservices community.

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Cool Green Science: Best of the Blog 2017

Strategy Driven

For five years, Cool Green Science has been connecting you to nature, whether it’s helping you understand the birds in your backyard or reporting on the biggest conservation science challenges around the globe. Here’s a look back at 10 of our most popular posts of 2017.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Defining Principles for Software Engineering

The Plain Programmer

Several months ago I wrote about my personal principles of software engineering. That post was informed by a talk a watched by Peter Campbell. Since then, I have been reflecting how to align various ideas I have been addressing independently up to this point. To help bring these various ideas together I want to start at what I think is the most fundamental and address how to define the principles that drive software engineering efforts.

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2017 in cybersecurity and privacy news

The Parallax

From rampant ransomware to the Equifax breach to geopolitical machinations, it’s hard not to be a cynic about the past 12 months of security and privacy news. But a few important highlights might help convince you not to throw your phone and laptop into the nearest trash fire. The biggest story anywhere this year was the aftermath of Donald Trump’s successful campaign for the highest office in the land.

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How machine learning is accelerating data integration?

Abhishek Tiwari

Data integration generally requires in-depth domain knowledge, a strong understanding of data schemas and underlying relationships. This can be time-consuming and bit challenging if you are dealing with hundreds of data sources and thousands of event types (see my recent article on ELT architecture ). Various data integration solution providers are trying to capitalize on this gap by offering various machine learning based features to overcome these challenges.