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Save on Your AWS Bill: Tips to Optimize Your Cloud Costs

Mentormate

MentorMate has clients across a variety of industries with very specific technology needs. Our Cloud Center of Excellence, on its part, helps fintech, healthcare, and education companies — among others — achieve a well-architected environment. As specified in the AWS Well-Architected framework , there are five distinct pillars in this regard: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization.

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Branching Patterns: Hotfix Branch

Martin Fowler

Hotfix Branch: A branch to capture work to fix an urgent production defect. more….

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Decoding NLP Attention Mechanisms to Understand Transformer Models

Dataiku

Arguably more famous today than Michael Bay’s Transformers (at least among the deep learning community), NLP transformer architecture and transformer-based models have been breaking all kinds of performance records across an array of NLP tasks.

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Resilience And Innovation: Lessons From Pandemic

CEO Insider

Leaders have a lot on their plates right now. Pandemic presents a multi-dimensional challenge: Public health, operational, and economic crises, all rolled into one. Wrestling this three-headed beast is the metaphorical equivalent of having to walk, chew gum, and juggle chainsaws at the same time. Adding complexity, each crisis demands short- and long-term strategic responses. […].

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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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Self-Service Data Protection at Scale, Brought to You by Dataiku, Snowflake and Protegrity

Dataiku

Ever heard of Doorstep Dispensaree Ltd? Probably not. But in December 2019, they became the first-ever company in the UK to be fined for failing to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Branching Patterns: Release Train

Martin Fowler

Release Train: Release on a set interval of time, like trains departing on a regular schedule. Developers choose which train to catch when they have completed their feature. more….

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Developing a Ride-Sharing App? Here are Some of the Most Essential Features

Xicom

Do you own a collection of taxicabs? Feeling the weight from taxi aggregators like Uber and ola? All things considered, the perfect method to keep up the significance of your image and remain above water is to construct an application that includes the experience offered by these taxi providers. Be that as it may, how might one copy the achievement that these on-request specialist co-ops have made?

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Decoding the Self-Healing Kubernetes

DevOps.com

A business application that fails to operate 24/7 would be considered inefficient in the market. The idea is that applications run uninterrupted, irrespective of a technical glitch, feature update or a natural disaster. In today’s heterogeneous environment where infrastructure is intricately layered, a continuous workflow of application is possible via self-healing.

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Secure contact tracing needs more transparent development

The Parallax

Public-health officials have long relied on tracking infectious diseases as common as tuberculosis and as lethal as ebola as a way to stop their spread. But manual contact tracing requires boots on the ground — people to track down patients, interview them about where they’ve been and with whom they’ve met, then find those people and let them know that they’ve been in contact with someone who has tested positive.

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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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Branching Patterns: Environment Branch

Martin Fowler

Environment Branch: Configure a product to run in a new environment by applying a source code commit. This pattern is a bad smell, only useful as a jerry-rigged mechanism for an application lacking that design, but then should be a high priority for removal with a sustainable alternative. more….

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How to Tap into Past Moments of Courage to Cultivate More

Let's Grow Leaders

The best way to find courage, is to remember that last time you did the right thing and how it made you feel. Small moments of courage make it easier the next time. “All courage is a threshold crossing. Often there is […]. The post How to Tap into Past Moments of Courage to Cultivate More appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Solve SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

The Crazy Programmer

How many of us are Python Programmers here? I hope many of us and I hope almost all of us might have come across SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing and we might have tried to look for it somewhere online. But do you exactly know what is this error all about and how we can remove it from our python code? So, what exactly an EOF is? EOF stands for End Of File.

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Webinar Recap: Tools for Effective Remote Agile Teams

Agile Alliance

Sprint planning. Product backlog refinement. Daily stand-ups. Sprint review. Demos. And then the retrospective. How you adapt these practices to meet the needs of your suddenly distributed team can make the difference between daily success and just making it through another day on the calendar. On April 30, four Agile and collaboration experts got together … Continued.

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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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Branching Patterns: Release-Ready Mainline

Martin Fowler

Release-Ready Mainline: Keep mainline sufficiently healthy that the head of mainline can always be put directly into production. The recent patterns I've published are useful, but keeping a release-ready mainline is often the simplest and best choice. more….

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5 Can’t-Miss Virtual Events for the DevOps Community

OverOps

Network and collaborate with your fellow software development and delivery peers at one of these virtual events. The COVID-19 pandemic is changing a lot about how the software engineering community operates – including how we exchange ideas and best practices. If you were looking forward to a packed calendar of conferences and meetups this summer, have no fear!

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How to Start Your Next Zoom Meeting In a More Meaningful Way

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you noticed that most zoom meetings start one of two ways? Friendly banter. “Hey Lauren, why did you choose Tiger King as your virtual background?” “Oh my gosh, I need a haircut.” “Haha, not me. There are some advantages to […]. The post How to Start Your Next Zoom Meeting In a More Meaningful Way appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Amazon launches cognitive search service Kendra in general availability

CTOvision

Amazon today launched Kendra, an AI and machine learning-powered service for enterprise search, in general availability. Kendra debuted in preview last December during Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2019 in […].

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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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Change Management for Reopening Offices

Change Starts Here

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, change happened overnight. Offices and other locations closed, and people were forced to work from home. Now, in some areas, offices are starting to open back up again.

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Pitching it to the Team!

Agile Alliance

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Apache Kafka Needs No Keeper: Removing the Apache ZooKeeper Dependency

Confluent

Currently, Apache Kafka® uses Apache ZooKeeper™ to store its metadata. Data such as the location of partitions and the configuration of topics are stored outside of Kafka itself, in a […].

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Learn OPSWAT’s Unique Contributions To Cybersecurity 13 May 2020: From SDP to Endpoint Configuration Control In One Well Thoughtout Approach

CTOvision

Register now for a 13 May 2020 virtual panel I’ll be participating in with Bob Flores, former CTO of the Central Intelligence Agency and Michael Hylton of OPSWAT as we […].

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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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A Short on How Zoom Works

High Scalability

Zoom scaled from 20 million to 300 million users virtually over night. What's incredible is from the outside they've shown little in the way of apparent growing pains, though on the inside it's a good bet a lot of craziness is going on. Sure, Zoom has made some design decisions that made sense as a small spunky startup that don't make a lot of sense as a defacto standard, but that's to be expected.

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Practical Skills for The AI Product Manager

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In our previous article, What You Need to Know About Product Management for AI , we discussed the need for an AI Product Manager. This role includes everything a traditional PM does, but also requires an operational understanding of machine learning software development, along with a realistic view of its capabilities and limitations. In this article, we shift our focus to the AI Product Manager’s skill set, as it is applied to day to day work in the design, development, and maintenance of AI p

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A Hitchhiker?s Guide to Windows Containers

Linux Academy

If you’re a.NET developer, you’ve probably been wondering how to run your app in a container and take advantage of the isolated and portable nature of containers. This article will give you the full lowdown on Windows Containers, to prepare you to do just that. Why Windows? First, I want to acknowledge that there is a big difference between Linux and Windows containers.

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Common Sense Comes Closer to Computers

CTOvision

Read John Pavlus explain how researchers are working to build AI with common-sense reasoning, such as the COMET system, which combines symbolic reasoning and neural language modeling on Quanta : […].

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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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The Secure Software Development Life Cycle: Syncing Development and Security

DevOps.com

Over the last five to 10 years, the nature of software development has shifted dramatically. Whereas large software releases occurred every six to 18 months in the past, current release schedules have become much more frequent. The waterfall model of software development has morphed into what we now know as the DevOps model. As a […]. The post The Secure Software Development Life Cycle: Syncing Development and Security appeared first on DevOps.com.

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5 Reasons Why Disaster Recovery Plans Fail

Kaseya

It is a scenario that every IT team fears. You diligently back up critical servers to your on-site appliance or to the cloud, but when an incident happens and you need it the most, the backup recovery fails. . Let’s take a look at why disaster recovery fails and how you can avoid the factors that lead to this failure: . 1. Failure to Identify and Understand Recovery Dependencies .

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Building a Telegram Bot Powered by Apache Kafka and ksqlDB

Confluent

Imagine you’ve got a stream of data; it’s not “big data,” but it’s certainly a lot. Within the data, you’ve got some bits you’re interested in, and of those bits, […].

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