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What is Collision in Networking? – Detection & Avoidance

The Crazy Programmer

Do you want to learn about collisions in networking? If yes, stay on this article because we have covered this topic in detail. And in this article, you will learn collision in computer networking and how it works. We will also discover some brief information about collision detection and avoidance. So, if you want to get every detail systematically.

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Writing Useful Performance Reviews: Delivering the review

Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

This article is the final in my series on valuable performance reviews. The first part addressed preparing for the evaluation. The second part covered writing the assessment. The third part explained how to make a salary recommendation. Finally, this article discusses how to deliver the review and salary news to your report. Each review discussion is one of the most important meetings in a person’s professional life.

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Rebundle raises $1.4M for plant-based hair extensions

TechCrunch

This morning Rebundle , a hair-focused startup based in St. Louis, announced that it has raised $1.4 million in a pre-seed round. M25 , a venture firm with a geographic focus on the Midwest, led the funding event. Prior to its pre-seed round, Rebundle had raised what CEO and co-founder Ciara Imani May described as six-figures worth of grant, and other non-dilutive capital in an interview with TechCrunch.

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Two Phase Commit

Martin Fowler

Continuing his exploration of important patterns to maintain consistency across a cluster, Unmesh Joshi now looks at Two Phase Commit. It's broadly the most familiar approach, but comes with lots of complexities to make it work in practice over unreliable networks.

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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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A Guide to the Agile Approach and Why It Matters to Your Company

Agile Alliance

Many companies have trouble adopting Agile, so let’s revisit the fundamentals, its importance to organizations, and what you need to know to start applying it. The post A Guide to the Agile Approach and Why It Matters to Your Company first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Ghanaian fintech Float raises $17M seed to power cash flow for commerce in Africa

TechCrunch

Cash flow is a major pain point for small businesses in Africa. Long payment cycles, which can take 30-90 days after services or products have been rendered, and little or no capital, of which research says 85% of African small and medium businesses are subject to, are the main culprits of cash flow issues. Many startups are solving these problems for African SMBs in one form or another, and the demand for their services has seen Ghanaian startup Float pick up a significant round of funding.

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Critical Aggregator

Martin Fowler

Business Leaders often need to make decisions that are influenced by a wide range of activity throughout the whole enterprise. To support this systems often have a what Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis call a Critical Aggregator : a component whose job is to visit various other systems and pull this information together. A critical aggregator is important, but often metastasizes into an Invasive Critical Aggregator.

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Database Languages in DBMS – DDL, DML, DCL, DQL

The Crazy Programmer

Programming languages which are used to create and operate database, known as database language like Structured Query language aka SQL etc. Most of database languages are non-procedural, means the language focus on “what to do instead of how to do?”. We can further divide database languages in these 4 categories as per the type of users: Data definition language aka DDL.

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How to Quickly Build Team Commitment

Let's Grow Leaders

Trust takes time, but sometimes you need to get everyone working together quickly. If you’re going to succeed, you have to build a team that’s able to work well together and get results, and you need to be able to do that quickly. In, How to Quickly Build Team Commitment, get four activities to speed up the process and improve your team’s commitment to outcomes and to one another.

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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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Will quantum computing remain the domain of the specialist VC?

TechCrunch

Maria Lepskaya. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Maria Lepskaya is a senior associate at Runa Capital , leading investments in different branches of quantum technologies and advanced materials. Market trends are the best indicators we have to judge the maturity of the quantum industry. While they don’t perfectly reflect technological progress, they showcase investors’ willingness to write checks for the industry.

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Divert the Flow

Martin Fowler

Yesterday Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis. described the Critical Aggregator and how it can metastasize into an invasive form. When a legacy system has such an Invasive Critical Aggregator it's often best, if a little counter-intuitive, to Divert the Flow of data by building a new critical aggregator first. Once this is done, we have far more freedom to change or relocate the various upstream data sources.

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Learning Python for Healthcare – Is Python HIPAA Compliant?

The Crazy Programmer

Python coding language is prominent among developers. It’s mainly used for the creation of applications. The language is easy to learn, and that’s why most developers prefer it. In fact, some giant applications such as Instagram, YouTube, and Spotify are written in Python language. But when it comes to building healthcare apps, it’s critical to consider if Python is a safe language to serve this purpose.

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Asking for a Friend 2021 Video Highlights Part 3

Let's Grow Leaders

What matters most now? #askingforafriend. In our final Asking For a Friend highlights reel, thought leaders share inspiration and ideas to help you and your team prepare for a brighter, bolder future. I would love to hear from you. Do you have topics or guest recommendations for the coming year? Leave me your thoughts in the comments or drop me a note at karin.hurt@letsgrowleaders.com.

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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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How should non technical founders collaborate with software developers?

TechCrunch

Software consultants come in many forms, but if you cannot write your own code, finding a developer who meets your needs can be a stressful process that involves much trial and error. To narrow down good consultancies, we polled experts across the world about the best software development consultants through our TechCrunch Experts program. One of the most-recommended firms we learned about is WolfPack Digital.

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Survey Predicts Massive Migration to the Cloud

DevOps.com

A global survey of 1,600 enterprise IT decision-makers found more than half are working for organizations that plan to eliminate the use of data centers over the next two years. The survey was conducted by Aryaka, a provider of a secure access service edge (SASE) platform, and found a quarter of the respondents have closed […]. The post Survey Predicts Massive Migration to the Cloud appeared first on DevOps.com.

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What Is Causal Inference?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The Unreasonable Importance of Causal Reasoning. We are immersed in cause and effect. Whether we are shooting pool or getting vaccinated, we are always thinking about causality. If I shoot the cue ball at this angle, will the 3 ball go into the corner pocket? What would happen if I tried a different angle? If I get vaccinated, am I more or less likely to get COVID?

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How to Be a More Compassionate and Skillful Listener (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Karin and Jess Pettitt, author of Good Enough Now , answer the question: “How do I become a more compassionate and skillful listener?” 2:00 Jess shares what has been a source of inspiration and strength during this tricky time. She has been encouraged that people are still trying to have challenging conversations and have a higher tolerance level for the unknown.

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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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Former SpaceX engineers bring autonomous, electric rail vehicle startup out of stealth

TechCrunch

Parallel Systems, a company founded by three former SpaceX engineers to build autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles, came out of stealth mode on Wednesday with a $49.55 million Series A raise. The company, which has raised $53.15 million to date, including a $3.6 million seed round, is working to create a more efficient, decarbonized freight network that flows on top of existing railway infrastructure.

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How Test Automation Can Help Drive DevOps Success

DevOps.com

Testing can be one of the more time-consuming aspects of the DevOps process. It can be exhaustive, frustrating, requires a lot of hands-on labor hours and people seldom enjoy it. But testing is vital, and no developer should simply skip it. Recently, a strong trend has emerged wherein DevOps experts encouraged developers to automate their […].

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How To Deploy and Manage Redis Database on AWS Using Terraform

Dzone - DevOps

Development teams today are embracing more and more DevOps principles, such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Therefore, the need to manage infrastructure-as-code (IaC) has become an essential capability for any cloud service. IaC tools allow you to manage infrastructure with configuration files rather than through a graphical user interface.

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Advancing 10G: CableLabs Reached Several Key Milestones in 2021

CableLabs

Last year, CableLabs and its members took major steps toward making 10G a reality. There were numerous launches, enhancements, and even a couple of “firsts.” Every one of these initiatives—from launching the 10G Challenge to enhancing specification requirements—will play an important role in building the faster, more secure and reliable networks of the future.

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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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Nigerian restaurant management platform Orda gets $1.1M, wants to be the Toast of Africa

TechCrunch

Cloud-based point of sales for small, medium and large-sized restaurants has increased tremendously in both size and popularity. The market, dominated by incumbents like Toast and upcoming players such as MarginEdge and Brazil’s Zak , has its value pegged at over $70 billion globally and is expected to reach $116 billion in the next four years. As with most technologies, Africa is playing catch up in this food-tech segment.

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White House Meeting Puts Spotlight on OSS Sustainability

DevOps.com

A recent meeting between IT industry leaders and White House officials highlighted open source software sustainability concerns as high-profile breaches and zero-day attacks have many organizations reviewing their software supply chains. The White House published a statement describing, among other things, how participants had a “substantive and constructive” discussion on how to make a difference […].

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Infracost: How to Get Started

Dzone - DevOps

Infracost is an open-source project released in June 2020 on their 0.1.0 version. It was created by cloud computer experts Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini , Ali Khajeh-Hosseini , and Alistair Scott. They have been working with cloud technologies since 2012 by providing solutions to tech giants such as Sony, Samsung, and Netflix. Working with cloud providers and DevOps is all about speed, efficiency, and cost management.

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Coding bootcamps won't make you a developer: Here's what will

TechBeacon

The headlines are hard to resist. Salaries for programmers are said to be soaring. Annual paychecks for AI experts are topping $1 million. Why dream of winning the lottery when coding bootcamps are springing up with promises to teach everyone what they need to get a ticket on the gravy train?

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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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Social robotics company Furhat buys Sphero spin-out company Misty Robotics

TechCrunch

Misty has had a hell of a journey of it. After raising $11.5 million from Foundry and Venrock , then crowdfunding its personal robot , the company hit a series of challenges. Today, Swedish social robotics company Furhat Robotics is offering the beleaguered startup a gentle landing in what the Swedish company says is an all-cash deal. Furhat is tight-lipped about the financial details of the deal, but tells TechCrunch that the acquisition was designed to give Furhat a leg up on the hardware side

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How Are API Management and Service Mesh Different?

DevOps.com

The use of APIs and microservices is increasing—a recent study from F5 estimated that the industry is approaching 200 million total APIs. As organizations expand their use of APIs and microservices, they inevitably require some form of service management architecture. There are primarily two major design options for implementing this: An API management system or […].

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Designing Tinder

High Scalability

This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypotheses on Amazon product pages using reinforcement learning techniques.