“How Do I Start With AI?”: Answering the Multi-Billion Dollar Question

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About a year ago, I was convinced that the key to succeeding with Artificial Intelligence (AI) was to take a platform approach. In other words, the synergies that accrue from appropriately bringing together the range of technologies that are making AI a reality for enterprises was, I believed, the way to go. I still firmly believe that.

In fact, having personally met over 200 executives (business and technology) since then, from around the world, who seek to find relief and new value from AI, I am convinced that opting for best of breed capabilities from a variety of vendors is not necessarily going to work out in practice. For one, despite claims of using only open standards in building these offerings, deploying the offerings from a variety of vendors in an integrated manner is a challenge. Further, the business and operational challenges that naturally occur in such situations with multiple providers are deterrents too.


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Get Ready to Accelerate AI

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Back in November last year, Forrester posted an article with a stark warning: "AI hard-fact — treat it like a plug-and-play panacea and fail." The hype surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) has only grown since then.

Today, a cursory Google search of the term "AI" results in 2.4 billion entries. That’s a lot of AI chatter! While a Google search may be a blunt instrument for measuring the true impact of AI, it does illustrate just how "big" it has grown. If your inbox is anything like mine, I’m sure you’re only too aware that AI-everything is being used to solve AI-anything. That is exactly why Forrester’s prediction was so apt.


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Build a Scheduler Slackbot in 30 Minutes!

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The days of leaving Slack to create an event on your calendar are over!

In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to create a scheduler bot that adds events to your personal calendar with a simple Slack slash command using the Nylas Calendar API.


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Grakn Python Driver and How to Roll Your Own

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At Grakn, we recently released Grakn 1.3, with a slew of new features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements. Included in this release are new gRPC-based drivers for Java, NodeJS, and Python. This article will walk you through the Python driver and provide guidelines on how you can write your own for your language of choice.

Overview

The main reason for rewriting our drivers was a move from REST to gRPC in Grakn. This change has cleaned up our API and should provide performance benefits. Further, all of our available drivers (Java, Node, and Python) now expose the same objects and methods to users, subject to language naming conventions and available types. To maintain this uniformity across the stack, new language drivers should provide the same interface. Note that you will require both gRPC and protobuf support to create a functioning driver, so double check a) that compilers for your language exist, and b) your target language version is compatible with the compiler.


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Interesting Facts About Software Development: Statistics 2018

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This year Apiumhub partnered up with Coding Sans and other software related companies like Instabug, Clutch, Shippable, Code Giant, Stride, Codeship, Usersnap, GitKraken, and took part in global software development research to find out how companies attract software developers, what are the most popular languages, what are the most frequent challenges, etc. We got more than 300 answers from different countries around the world and we really hope that you will find this report interesting. To get the full report with Interesting facts about software development, click here.

Sneak Peek: Interesting Facts About Software Development

And now, let’s look at some of the data from the report to get an idea of what to expect from this report. Let me highlight that in this article you won’t find a detailed explanation of each graph and question. It is just a sneak peek.

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Scrum and Technical Excellence

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One of the most common critiques about Scrum that I’ve heard from smart software engineers is that "Scrum does not care about technical practices. Scrum is for wimps." I’ve also heard managers down the hallway say that "Scrum is for wreckless developers because its main concern is only about fast delivery." I’ve heard many business analysts and solution architects tell me that "Scrum is too fragile because it does not specify the documentation the team needs to write."

People often say these things because they could not find in the Scrum Guide that says what technical practices the Scrum team need to do. But just because the Scrum Guide does not explicitly mention any technical practices you need to do, it doesn’t mean you couldn’t or shouldn’t do any technical practices. In fact, professional Scrum teams will find that technical practices are required for the software to be sustained in the long run. This is what agility is all about, not just about being fast in the beginning but slow at the end because of technical debts.

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Principles for Agile Transformation

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Agile – Roots and Current State

When the concept of Agile delivery was originally designed, it primarily focused on improving software development for small teams where nimbleness and efficiency were more easily attainable. However, with the spread of Agile in the software development community, more large enterprises desired to gain the efficiency and speed associated with Agile teams. Unfortunately for large enterprises, staying nimble and flexible while delivering code is difficult with all the established bureaucracy. However, as Agile has matured it has provided a method for large enterprises to maintain nimbleness and speed for delivering code.

To understand how Agile can improve software delivery for large enterprises, it’s important to understand traditional project management and how it differs from Agile. Most large enterprises use traditional project management guidelines due to strict constraints associated with their projects, which usually impact the entire enterprise. They use these constraints in an attempt to maintain quality in the product they are delivering. These three constraints are the following:

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How to Foster Software Developer Productivity [Video]

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Last month, we were very fortunate to have André Meyer come into Tasktop to give a presentation on fostering software developer productivity. For many years André has been working with a research team with one of our company co-founders, Gail Murphy, to address the ongoing supply and demand shortage in software delivery.

As "software continues to eat the world," the need for software is outstripping our ability to supply it. Just how do we enable and empower software developers to build better software faster and make them more productive?

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Simple Steps to Make Agile Retrospectives Fun and Effective

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Before explaining a sprint retrospective, I am assuming that you have a fairly good knowledge of Agile practice management. This blog doesn’t cover Agile basics. This blog is for anyone who wants to be successful in running an Agile Retrospective.

The sprint retrospective is just for Scrum teams and gives the team an opportunity at the end of the sprint to take a look back at the sprint that just ended, which may be one or two weeks depending on your sprint length and determine, what went well, what problem areas that may have had and how they can improve upon those areas as they move forward to the next sprint.

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Do You Love Your Job?

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Introduction

Do you love your job? I am sure that you have thought of this question before, or perhaps someone might have asked you this question. I agree that it is a simple question, and it has simple words in it. But were you able to answer that? If you have never tried to answer that, please try now. If you have a satisfying answer within you, then that is amazing. Unfortunately, if you can’t answer that positively or are uncertain, please read this post.

Background

If you want to see some tips to become a successful software engineer, I strongly recommend that you read my post here. Until now, I’ve worked with many companies, including startups and multinational companies. After joining a company, I asked this question “Do I love this job?”, “Is it what I am capable of?”, and “Is this work challenging me?” Sometimes, the answer to these questions came in the form of my resignations. In this 7-year span, I have learned a few things, and I am happy to share that information with you all. You can always see the articles related to career advice here.

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