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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

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Is user interface and graphic design a necessity? You'll discover firms that are prolific in design/interface and light on development, and vice versa. This article will primarily focus on locating and evaluating development companies, rather than design firms. Or is your project a clean slate? If so, what’s the vibe like?

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

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Graphic design? UI/UX design? What is the business relationship with the third parties? Who controls access to the third-party accounts, if any? Existing Capabilities What capabilities and personnel do you already have access to? A Product Manager? How much availability do they have to work on this effort?

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Startup CTO or Developer

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And you certainly don’t want to be the company that spends time and money building something you could have picked up off the shelf. More on the Role of the Startup CTO Eric Ries, a great resource, answers the question What Does a Startup CTO actually do?

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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

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It plays a crucial role in product development too, where generative AI speeds up design processes, streamlines testing, and tailors user experiences effectively. In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 7

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As expected, reads are unaffected since the tests are designed to allow the database engine to fit the entire data set into memory. As confirmed by our previous spot checking in Round 5, database writes are about 20% to 30% faster across the board when using a ramdisk versus the Samsung 840 Pro SSD we had been using.

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How to Use Generative AI and LLMs to Improve Search

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Here's a suggested approach: Ground Truth Creation: Design a test dataset with established answers or recognized documents to serve as a reference point. Our expertise lies in navigating through these various techniques in order to determine the best solution across a variety of situations.

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Mangling JSON numbers

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Here it is worth considering who we actually talk to as we design our APIs. If our API is designed to be public and usable by any client, we should document our behavior with respect to number precision. What if the client really does mean to send us precisely the integer 4611686018427388000 ?

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