Sun.Jun 19, 2016

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Advice from Technology Dads on Celebrating Father's Day

Social, Agile and Transformation

Happy Father's Day! I find fellow tech dad's to have an interesting perspective on raising their children. So with that in mind, here's my advice for Techie Dads on this Father's Day. Drop the Technology - I'll get this post out, then turn the tech off for the day to spend time with the family and kids. . Teach your Kids to Code - Not today, but make a commitment to find a tool, an.

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Nasty online tricks

IT Toolbox

In the light of Microsoft?s recent ?trick? of assuming that any Windows users closing a pop-up box reminding them to upgrade to Windows 10 was actually giving consent for the upgrade to take place, I wondered what other online tricks companies were using. I found this interesting Web site called Dark Pattern that listed them.

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System Integration Morphs To Cloud Service Integration

Cloud Musings

Cloud Service Brokerage is changing from an industry footnote toward becoming a major system integration play. This role has now become a crucial component of a cloud computing transition because they help organizations aggregate multiple cloud services, integrate services with in-house applications, and customize these services to better meet customer needs.

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Running IT as an Innovation Hub

Future of CIO

Foster innovation via leveraging disruptive technologies and streamlining information flow. IT is omnipresent and permeated into every corner of the organization. Forward-looking organizations are also reinventing IT reputation from a cost center to a value creator, from a static support function to a dynamic change agent; and from inside-out operation driven to outside-in customer-centric.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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DockerCon 2016 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog for the day 2 keynote of DockerCon 2016, which wraps up today in Seattle, WA. While today’s pre-keynote warm-up doesn’t include laser-equipped kittens, the music is much more upbeat and energetic (as opposed to yesterday’s more somber, dramatic music). If the number of laptops on the podium is any indicator (yesterday it was a cue to the number of demos planned), then today’s keynote will include a few demos as well.

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DockerCon 2016 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog for the day 1 keynote of DockerCon 2016, taking place over the next couple of days in Seattle, WA. Before the keynote starts in earnest, Gordon the Turtle entertains attendees with some “special” Docker containers that affect the display on the main stage: showing butterflies, playing sounds, launching a Docker-customized version of Pac-Man, or initiating a full-out battle of laser-shooting kittens.