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Easy bash scripting with shflags : spf13.com

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'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Easy bash scripting with shflags. One of the most frustrating things about bash scripts is how challenging it is to create unix style executables.

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China leads the world in customer service, starting at its borders

Trends in the Living Networks

Last night I flew into Sanya, at the southernmost tip of China, to give the keynote at the NICE Interactions 2011 conference tomorrow. When I walked up to give my passport to the immigration official, on the counter in front of me was a box with 4 large buttons. There were green 2 smiley faces saying you were happy or very happy with your interaction, and two sad faces saying you were unhappy with the service or that it was taking too long.

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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2011 01:40 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The AWS Import/Export team has announced today that they have expanded their functionality significantly by adding Import into Amazon EBS.

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Easy bash scripting with shflags

SPF13

One of the most frustrating things about bash scripts is how challenging it is to create unix style executables. You know, the ones where you can pass in -h or –help and see the set of options for the program. Up until now this has been a very manual process in bash, but no longer. Enter the shflags project from Kate Ward where a bash library takes care of all the nasty work and producing an elegant way to add option (or argument) support to your scripts.

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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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APAC Summer Tour - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. APAC Summer Tour. By Werner Vogels on 03 July 2011 03:57 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I have just landed in Tokyo for what will be a month long tour visiting our customers in the Asia Pacific Region. Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners.

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Google+ may miss the big opportunity: spanning internal and external social networks

Trends in the Living Networks

I was delighted to get an invite to Google+. Then amazed when I was told I can’t use Google+ because we use Google Apps. It seems that Google is expecting to make Google+ available to Google Apps users “ in a few months &# with some.edu users possibly trialling it sooner. As many others have expressed, it is very frustrating to be delayed several months into the hottest new social space because we are more dedicated Google users than others.

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