N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

Don’t compete against how others do things, compete against your own thinking. More than 20 years ago I coined the term “ next” practices in an effort to focus people forward in their thinking. I’ve always wondered why any business would want to adopt the same practices their competitors utilize?

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 18, 2025

However, off-the-shelf LLMs cant be used without some modification. SQL is one of the key languages widely used across businesses, and it requires an understanding of databases and table metadata. This can be overwhelming for nontechnical users who lack proficiency in SQL. The following diagram provides more details about embeddings.

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Xebia

JULY 4, 2022

With the popularity of the Internet of Things, new proof of concepts and prototypes are starting everywhere. If you’re contemplating getting started with IoT or need a nudge in the right direction, this article will highlight some great options to get you started. Now, some projects go nowhere, with others end up being very successful.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 31, 2020

The data shelf life is decreasing,” said Marr. From leading banks, and insurance organizations to some of the largest telcos, manufacturers, retailers, healthcare and pharma, organizations across diverse verticals lead the way with real-time data and streaming analytics. This speed of change has enormous implications for businesses.

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 22, 2019

And we’ll cap it off referencing the key route optimization providers and their APIs for integration. Specific for each business, constraints vary from vehicle limitations, cost constraints, time windows, resource constraints that concern the loading process at the depot. It’s the need to plan daily routes with multiple stops.

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Tenable

JANUARY 27, 2021

Without a detailed view of the assets and vulnerabilities across your OT environment, security leaders face increased costs and delays when it comes to incident response efforts. A number of incident responders who I respect in the community noted that the first step in any response effort is to gain a full understanding of the environment.

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Lacework

AUGUST 9, 2022

A June 2022 study revealed that 70% of organizations struggle to keep up with the growing number of security alerts. This should come as no surprise. Cloud migration has only increased alert volume to exponential levels, especially for organizations using legacy rules- and signature-based security solutions that weren’t built for the cloud.

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Flexagon

JANUARY 25, 2023

Before we look ahead, let us appreciate how much we have evolved in delivering on our founders’ vision to simplify the complexity of deploying changes to Enterprise Software Platform Technologies. Looking Back to 2022 : Transforming Developer Productivity In the past year, we aspired to transform developer productivity and transform your business.

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Xebia

APRIL 4, 2025

What is still fantasy and what concrete potential exists? What should be automated and what should not? In this blogpost, we explore the GenAI automation potential that exists today for data extraction. Together, we will learn about: Why GenAI data extraction The automation levels The automation potential Let’s start!

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The Daily WTF

JANUARY 20, 2020

Couple that with the fact that each of your customers wants the off-the-shelf product you’re selling them to have every feature they need for their business case, you’re on a fast track to bloated software, inner platforms, and just general awfulness. Today, we’re not talking about Oracle, though. Jacek is in the healthcare industry.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as “Best Practices&# I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary.

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The Citus Data

MARCH 12, 2022

The first sections explore the different types of application workloads and their characteristics, plus the off-the-shelf benchmarks that are commonly used for each. So instead, you will likely want to run an off-the-shelf benchmark with a workload that is very similar to your own.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

Don’t compete against how others do things, compete against your own thinking. More than 20 years ago I coined the term “ next” practices in an effort to focus people forward in their thinking. I’ve always wondered why any business would want to adopt the same practices their competitors utilize?

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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Or a developer failed to test the app with real users to verify usage scenarios, hoping his idea will take off by itself. Why did you favor this tool over the thousands of similar ones? Maybe because of its stylish and easy interface, flawless work, or affordability. Besides, your close friends use this app too. A huge event.

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Erik Bernhardsson

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

When I started building up a tech team for Better , I made a very conscious decision to pay at the high end to get people. I thought this made more sense: they cost a bit more money to hire, but output usually more than compensates for it. Many fellow CTOs, some went for the other side of the spectrum. What is output? Headcount goals. I’ve seen it.

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Netflix Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This requirement then throws eventually consistent solutions out of the window, and means we want linearizable consistency at the queue level. Over the past 2.5 All in all, millions of critical workflows within Netflix now flow through Timestone on a daily basis. We explain the concept in detail in the sections that follow.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

DECEMBER 22, 2023

We start off with a baseline foundation model from SageMaker JumpStart and evaluate it with TruLens , an open source library for evaluating and tracking large language model (LLM) apps. These foundation models perform well with generative tasks, from crafting text and summaries, answering questions, to producing images and videos.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The financial service (FinServ) industry has unique generative AI requirements related to domain-specific data, data security, regulatory controls, and industry compliance standards. RAG is a framework for improving the quality of text generation by combining an LLM with an information retrieval (IR) system.

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Invid Group

APRIL 9, 2019

Sometimes, they can’t find a suitable off-the-shelf software application or service to solve their specific challenges. Other times, they lack the budget to have a custom app developed from scratch, making it difficult for them to compete with large enterprises that have already invested large sums of money to automate their processes.

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Xicom

MAY 24, 2022

That makes them faster, but also more expensive because it requires developing separate versions for each of Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 7, for example. . Table Of Contents. What is ChatterPix Kids App? Conclusion. What is ChatterPix Kids App ? Top Factors Affecting the Cost of ChatterPix Kids like App Development.

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Hypergrid

MARCH 9, 2020

When people move to a new house and handle the moving process themselves, they tend to move the easy stuff first, putting off those heavy or complex items as long as possible. Off the shelf applications are also far easier to move than customized business applications. Simplification yields large benefits.

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CloudSphere

MARCH 9, 2020

When people move to a new house and handle the moving process themselves, they tend to move the easy stuff first, putting off those heavy or complex items as long as possible. Off the shelf applications are also far easier to move than customized business applications. Simplification yields large benefits.

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StubHub

JUNE 13, 2019

By Jen Lau, Senior Product Manager & Kat Escudero, Global Head of Merchandising Every company’s homepage should serve as a window into its business, and the StubHub homepage is no different. It represents how we want our customers to see us. But, just as importantly, our homepage reflects how we at StubHub see ourselves.

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 20, 2017

Before I could even take my finger off the button, the door swung open and Mary Ellen stood there, beaming. Thank you,” she laughed, mercifully letting me off the hook. Chapter 27. I drove the winding road up the cliff overlooking the deepening Pacific and took in the ridiculously beautiful view. You look… you look…”. Not… a… problem.

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PowerSchool

JANUARY 28, 2021

You can give users the ability to export your metrics or view them in a new window. October 20, 2020. The Query Designer is the newest update to PowerSchool’s content development suite. This enhanced tool allows any user of the PowerSchool data and analytics platform to develop their own content, based on who client chooses to provide access.

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 23, 2017

Before I could even take my finger off the button, the door swung open and Mary Ellen stood there, beaming. Thank you,” she laughed, mercifully letting me off the hook. Chapter 27. I drove the winding road up the cliff overlooking the deepening Pacific and took in the ridiculously beautiful view. You look… you look…”. Not… a… problem.

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 30, 2018

Developers wrote code; the system administrators were responsible for its deployment and integration. As there was limited communication between these two silos, specialists worked mostly separately within a project. That was fine when Waterfall development dominated. Today, DevOps is one of the most discussed software development approaches.

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 7, 2024

For example, they repurpose malware and often use off-the-shelf toolkits like CobaltStrike and Brute Ratel C4 to exploit weaknesses and take malicious actions with minimal effort. While artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been around for a while, there is no arguing that it has become mainstream over the last year.

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Instaclustr

AUGUST 11, 2021

In Part 1 of this two-part blog series we discovered that Debezium is not a new metallic element (but the name was inspired by the periodic table), but a distributed open source CDC technology, and that CDC (in this context) stands for Change Data Capture (not Centers for Disease Control or the Control Data Corporation).

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 27, 2023

White-label solutions make building an online travel agency or OTA extremely easy and fast. You can establish your presence on the web in no time — and with minimal upfront cost. Plug-and-play platforms have many hidden limitations, preventing you from standing out in a saturated travel market. The channel share in US travel as of 2022.

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Netlify

APRIL 2, 2020

One of the fundamental elements of creating a site with the Jamstack architecture is pre-rendering content. This allows for faster delivery of your content, fewer security vulnerabilities, and immutable content. For this post, we will be storing static images in Cloudinary , a cloud service for images while also pre-rendering our assets.

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Actian

JANUARY 24, 2020

For this final installment, I realized that the argument for migrating off flat files probably needs to be done in a more prescriptive fashion. This is the final installment on the series of blogs I wrote on the continued use of flat files and why they are no longer viable for use in the future. Local data persistence and its changing use.

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 23, 2017

Before I could even take my finger off the button, the door swung open and Mary Ellen stood there, beaming. Thank you,” she laughed, mercifully letting me off the hook. Chapter 27. I drove the winding road up the cliff overlooking the deepening Pacific and took in the ridiculously beautiful view. You look… you look…”. Not… a… problem.

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Xicom

JUNE 14, 2021

So, if you are an aficionado developer, chances are you would not be sleeping this week as WWDC21 goes virtual, which kicks off on June 7 and runs till June 11. WWDC is one of the substantial events in Apple’s yearly calendar, second in importance to the new iPhone announcements in the autumn. So, we have decided to make it easy to digest.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With a few thoughtful touches and a keen eye for detail, you can transform it into a comforting refuge. Making small changes can have a big impact on the overall feel. So, are you ready to give your bedroom a personal touch? Here are some practical tips to help you craft the ultimate peaceful retreat. This limits their everyday activities.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 22, 2010

Using off-the-shelf components they built an open platform that anybody could replicate. Using off-the-shelf components they built an open platform that anybody could replicate. In the late 1970s, the microcomputer industry was still in its emergent stages. There also wasn’t clearly a “killer app” for them. Toys, really.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Digital twins play the same role for complex machines and processes as food tasters for monarchs or stunt doubles for movie stars. They prevent harm that otherwise could be done to precious assets. The article covers key questions about digital twins: how do they work? The twinning, however, doesn’t happen out of thin air. Hardware components.

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