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The hype around driverless cars came crashing down in 2018

CTOvision

Big players in autonomous driving like Uber, Tesla, and Waymo had a disappointing 2018, but several startups with a “minimum viable product” made good progress. As 2018 dawned, expectations for self-driving vehicles were sky-high. Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car company, was testing fully driverless cars and preparing for a commercial launch in the Phoenix area.

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Cloud Trends: Look Behind the Numbers

Information Week

For all the market research numbers floating around about cloud computing, what is missing is advice on what IT organizations should be doing with IaaS, SaaS, and other cloud concepts.

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Hybrid cloud technologies become table stakes in IaaS market

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Read Alan R. Earls’ articles about how IaaS providers will increase stakes in hybrid cloud on Tech Target : AWS, Azure, and Google made hybrid cloud technologies the main point of focus in 2018. Their strategies, however, were unique — and look to remain that way in 2019, as all three providers continue their efforts to […].

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5 New Year's Resolutions for CIO and Digital Transformation Leaders

Social, Agile and Transformation

Happy holidays and new year everyone! Have your final cocktails of 2018, read up on my driving digital predictions for 2019, and get ready to lead your organizations through what is likely going to be a jittery year of successes, surprises, and necessary pivots. I'm guessing you have your 2019 plan locked and loaded, but if you're a reader of my book Driving Digital, my articles (here and.

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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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The big three in 2019: Apple, Google and Microsoft’s upcoming hardware year

CTOvision

While 2018 was a year of iterative updates, Apple, Google and Microsoft all released some of their best products yet, even if they weren’t as innovative as some would like. While many flagships went without any upgrades – we didn’t even see a new MacBook or Surface Book – devices like the MacBook Air and […].

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IoT: Living on the Edge

Information Week

Where is your data when you need it? Edge computing offers an alternative to processing all data in the cloud or the data center.

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The Linux Migration: December 2018 Progress Report

Scott Lowe

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration from macOS to Linux as my primary laptop OS. Throughout 2017, I chronicled my progress and challenges along the way; links to all those posts are found here. Although I stopped the migration in August 2017, I restarted it in April 2018 when I left VMware to join Heptio. In this post, I’d like to recap where things stand as of December 2018, after 8 months of full-time use of Linux as my primary laptop OS.

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SaaS In Blockchain

CTOvision

Read Neeraj Sabharwal’s article about software as a service in blockchain technology on Forbes : I know that most of you have probably heard initial coin offerings and cryptocurrencies. But what about enterprise blockchain? ICOs have made a significant impact — both in a positive sense and in a negative one — across several industries thanks to […].

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The Monthly Digital Principles/Practices Summary: New Year Digital Practices Dec. 2018

Future of CIO

The New Year is around the corner. It’s the time to make some predictions and reflections. It’s also time to set some digital rules and develop digital practices. Digital rules are based on a set of fundamental beliefs behind the methodologies and they help to shape mindsets behind behaviors. Besides building a set of principles to follow, it’s also important to develop a series of best/next practice to scale up and amplify digital effects in the New Year.

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On Thinking About Infrastructure as Code

Scott Lowe

I just finished reading Cindy Sridharan’s excellent post titled “ Effective Mental Models for Code and Systems ,” and some of the points Sridharan makes immediately jumped out to me—not for “traditional” code development, but for the development of infrastructure as code. Take a few minutes to go read the post—seriously, it’s really good.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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The Popular Quotes about “New Year Reflection & Resolution”

Future of CIO

New Year is around the corner, it’s also the time to celebrate the “Future of CIO” blog #5300 blog posting. Blogging is not about writing, but about brainstorming, innovating and sharing insight. Here is a set of quotes about New Year reflection and resolution. Slideshares , Video Keep fit, start at the mindset level, make the new year resolution rolling into the reality.

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