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Article: Finding Adequate Metrics for Outer, Inner, and Process Quality in Software Development

InfoQ Articles

Implementing a feature can be measured. Quality is harder to measure. This article explores how to balance improving quality and adding new features. It dives into different domains of quality: Outer quality which is owned by the product people (e.g. product owners, testers), inner quality owned by the developers, and process quality owned by managers.

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The Best Time to Post on Social Media for Events

Eventbrite

Find out the best length & time to post on each network for your social media event marketing, according to the experts at Buffer.

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New Built-in Functions for Databricks SQL

databricks

Built-in functions extend the power of SQL with specific transformations of values for common needs and use cases. For example, the LOG10 function.

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What’s Your Data Culture Plan for 2023?

TDAN

As we start the new year, it is a good chance for us to take a step back and re-think how we are approaching our data culture. How are we improving data trust? Are we being intentional about our data communications? Are we supported by senior leadership? Every organization has a data culture: the organizational […].

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Article: Why Team-Level Metrics Matter in Software Engineering

InfoQ Articles

In a world where everything can have perspective, context and data, it doesn’t make sense to limit that to just part of your software development process. The DORA metrics can provide insight into the health of your development environment, where value is being delivered and opportunities for improvement. Metrics must be used with careful insight to separate the signal from the noise.

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10 Steps to Build a Successful Event PR Strategy

Eventbrite

PR is critical to event promotion success. Get press coverage with a smart event PR strategy that increases interest and attendance.

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AI Trends Are Shaping Sales

TDAN

The sales industry has been witnessing the rise of AI and automation over many years and 2023 will not be an exception. To stand out in a competitive industry, businesses must invest in revamping their existing sales processes and crafting a modern sales strategy that aligns with the sales predictions for 2023. The role AI […].

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iPaaS Is Broken – Here’s How to Fix It

Dataversity

An Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) can help businesses obtain the full value of their software investments, delivering speed, agility, and scalability, along with a host of other benefits. But the current approach to iPaaS is instead holding businesses back. As the pace of digital transformation has kicked into overdrive in recent years, IT teams and […] The post iPaaS Is Broken – Here’s How to Fix It appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Your Secret Sauce for Growing Attendees, by Tayleur Crenshaw, Founder of Gold Beams

Eventbrite

What’s up? My name is Tayleur. I’m an event producer and the founder of Gold Beams (website / Instagram / YouTube). Gold Beams is a production company. We produce events for Black creatives and the Black community at large. We’re also contracted to produce and project manage events for others. Gold Beams’ internal events have […].

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What’s New With SQL User-Defined Functions

databricks

Since their initial release, SQL user-defined functions have become hugely popular among both Databricks Runtime and Databricks SQL customers. This simple yet powerful.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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Article: Data Protection Methods for Federal Organizations and Beyond

InfoQ Articles

The Federal Data Strategy describes a plan to “accelerate the use of data to deliver on mission, serve the public, and steward resources while protecting security, privacy, and confidentiality. This article covers what it is and how it can be applied to any organization. By Alex Tray.

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How to Speed Up SwiftUI Development and Testing Using PreviewSnapshots

DoorDash Engineering

One of the great features of developing in SwiftUI is Xcode Previews which enable rapid UI iteration by rendering code changes in near real-time alongside the SwiftUI code. At DoorDash we make heavy use of Xcode Previews along with the SnapshotTesting library from Point-Free to ensure that screens look how we expect while developing them and ensure they don’t change in unexpected ways over time.

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Heavy Networking 662: Home Lab In The Cloud Or Your Basement?

Packet Pushers

On today's Heavy Networking, guest Tom Costello walks us through his personal lab in the cloud. We discuss pros and cons of the cloud vs. a basement, using EVE-NG vs. CML, how automation can help you manage cloud costs, resources for those who might want a cloud lab, and more. On today's Heavy Networking, guest Tom Costello walks us through his personal lab in the cloud.

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Beyond Traditional Backup Services: The Evolution of Workloads

Dataversity

Between 2020 and today, we have seen a tumultuous and transformative shift in the technological world. Of particular concern among organizations was a growing interest in new ways to manage invaluable data. Traditionally, data was stored in legacy backup services, including physical data centers, so when digital transformation accelerated, ensuring data remain secure and accessible became a […] The post Beyond Traditional Backup Services: The Evolution of Workloads appeared first on DATAVE

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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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Article: PHP 8 - Type System Improvements

InfoQ Articles

In this article we will discuss extensions to the PHP type system introduced in PHP 8, 8.1, and 8.2. Those include union, intersection, and mixed types, as well as the static and never return types. Additionally, PHP 8 also brings support for true, null, and false stand-alone types.

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The 10 Hidden Costs of Cybersecurity Breaches

Akins IT

The cost of cybersecurity breaches can be significant. The most obvious ones are the costs to your company in terms of both money and time. But breaches also result in a number of other costs that arent as obvious and are often either overlooked or underestimated. These hidden costs include: 1. Human cost: Cybersecurity breaches impact employees in numerous ways.

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Day Two Cloud 178: Implementing Zero Standing Privilege (Sponsored)

Packet Pushers

On today's sponsored Day Two Cloud podcast we talk about zero standing privilege with strongDM. Zero standing privilege goes beyond just-in-time credentials to a model where no credentials pre-exist, but are created in real-time and paired with appropriate permissions built from policy, also created in real-time. Can such a thing be accomplished technically and without irritating all your end users?

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Goodbye Dashboards: How Modern BI Tools Are Being Used to Analyze Data

Dataversity

Not all that long ago, the only way for businesses to readily access their data was through dashboards. And, even then, these predefined and static dashboards provided data that was restricted only to citizen data scientists and data analysts. Standalone, static dashboards also inadvertently distract users and force them to shift their focus from their typical tasks […] The post Goodbye Dashboards: How Modern BI Tools Are Being Used to Analyze Data appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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Article: Proven Solutions to Five Test Automation Issues

InfoQ Articles

Automated testing is often blocked due to some well-known issues, especially in a microservices architecture. API and service simulators can eliminate five common issues that block test automation. By Wojciech Bulaty.

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Los Angeles at the Epicenter of New Ransomware

Akins IT

Its a common movie plot that weve seen play out a million times. A criminal steals something (or kidnaps someone) and demands a ransom payment to get it back. But this isnt the movies. And these crimes dont always target wealthy businessmen or multi-billion dollar corporations. The recent cyberattack on the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, which provides affordable housing to more than 19,000 low-income families across Los Angeles, illustrates that the reality of this disturbing tre

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Remote Access VPNs are a Short-Term Solution

CATO Networks

The face of the modern corporate network is changing rapidly. Digital transformation initiatives, cloud adoption, remote work, and other factors all have a significant impact on where corporate IT assets are located and how corporate networks are used. Companies looking to provide secure remote access to their off-site employees have largely chosen to expand their existing virtual private network (VPN) deployments.

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21 Post-Virtual Event Survey Questions to Ask Attendees, Sponsors, and Investors

Eventbrite

You just wrapped a major virtual event. You’re exhausted, you’re happy — and you’re curious. What did your attendees think about your event? How about your sponsors? Are they likely to support your event next year?

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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2023 Predictions for AI, Machine Learning, and NLP

Dataversity

It’s been an exciting year in AI, machine learning, and NLP, with text-to-image generators and large language models delivering some very impressive results and a lot of promise for the future – while noting all of the important caveats about their shortcomings including mitigating societal biases, the possibility of them being used to generate “fake […].

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Data Value Chain: EDM Block (formerly Lego) Framework – Levels 3 & 4

TDAN

In 2022, we saw that Data Strategy played key role in the success of top performing companies globally. One of the reasons for the continued success of companies like Walmart, Amazon, Apple, Exxon Mobil, Google, CVS health, Toyota, Samsung etc. is being “data driven”. This article is continuation of the proposed enterprise data management block […].

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Network Break 413: 800G Switches, Intel’s Big Hopes For 4th-Gen CPUs, And Reading Cyber Insurance Fine Print

Packet Pushers

Take a Network Break! This week's episode covers a bunch of tech news including Arista rolling out a heap of new switches, Intel pinning its comeback hopes on newly released Xeon CPUs, a serious exploit of a Fortinet SSL VPN vulnerability, Dell pulling away from China-made chips, and more. Take a Network Break! This week's episode covers a bunch of tech news including Arista rolling out a heap of new switches, Intel pinning its comeback hopes on newly released Xeon CPUs, a serious exploit of a F

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21 Post-Virtual Event Survey Questions to Ask Attendees, Sponsors, and Investors

Eventbrite

You just wrapped a major virtual event. You’re exhausted, you’re happy — and you’re curious. What did your attendees think about your event? How about your sponsors? Are they likely to support your event next year?

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Merging Fast and Slow Data for a Full View of Human Intent

Dataversity

The digital industry has evolved massively and consistently over the years, often taking off in surprising directions. But one thing has remained constant: The role that data plays in driving business success has only grown. Looking toward the future, data-driven decision-making is an increasingly complex process, involving more and varied sources of data to stay ahead of […].

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IT Industry Has No Building Code

TDAN

According to a Gartner report, 6.7 trillion dollars are spent annually on enterprise software. Yet, as much as we spend on enterprise software, there are no standards or principles for creating software. Teams literally do whatever they want when they create systems. They name things however they like, use whatever primary key method they prefer […].

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Data Science for SaaS Companies

TDAN

Having a data science plan in place is important for any business. However, for a SaaS company, it becomes even more important as you handle a large volume of data that needs to be stored and processed in a variety of ways. The collection and analysis of data has many business benefits. It can help […].

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All in the Data: Empower Stewards with a Data Governance Toolkit – Part 1

TDAN

Most organizations that are implementing formal data governance programs understand that it is important to engage their data stewards. Data stewards should not sit around waiting to be told what to do, nor should they be expected to know how to act as formal data stewards. Data governance programs must focus on engaging and empowering […].

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo