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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. While weather may have been the root cause, the 16,000 flights canceled between Dec. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts.

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How real-time operational insights drive superior tech platform development

CIO

So as organizations face evolving challenges and digitally transform, they offer advantages to make complex business operations more efficient, including flexibility and scalability, as well as advanced automation, collaborative communication, analytics, security, and compliance features. Cost overruns have been another significant concern.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

Altexsoft

It offers high throughput, low latency, and scalability that meets the requirements of Big Data. We say ‘xerox’ speaking of any photocopy, whether or not it was created by a machine from the Xerox corporation. We describe information search on the Internet with just one word — ‘google’. How Apache Kafka streams relate to Franz Kafka’s books.

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Interpreting predictive models with Skater: Unboxing model opacity

O'Reilly Media - Data

Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil has recently written an entire book filled with examples of poor interpretability as a dire warning of the potential social carnage from misunderstood models—e.g., There is also a trade off in balancing a model’s interpretability and its performance.

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The Problem with Patterns

A List Apart

It started off as an honest problem with a brilliant solution. In order to achieve what they promise, they should be adaptable, flexible, and scalable. Design patterns, component libraries, or even style guides have become the norm for organizations big and small. Again, in theory. Buttons and links from Co-op.

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Why You Should Hire A Mobile App Development Company

Sunflower Lab

Why You Should Hire A Mobile App Development Company. With a customized experience from start to finish, beautiful and powerful products, and experience to back their promises, hiring a mobile app development company is the correct and only first step. Offer More Value To Customers With A Mobile App Development Company.

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What are The key Factors To Determine Whether To Build Or Buy Custom Software?

Sunflower Lab

Neither of them is bad. But, it depends on various factors which will determine whether to build custom software or buy pre-built software (off-the-shelf software) from the market. Custom software allows a lot of flexibility when it comes to integration with existing systems but, is costly as compared to off-the-shelf software.