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Six principles of system design

Intercom, Inc.

What you need to create is a clear overview of the system you’re all about to build – you need system design (not to be confused with a design system ). Creating a system design. As we’ve written before , a good system design defines the following: Elements : What are the core elements or objects in the system?

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Building a resilient system: Our journey to observability at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

That requires a strong culture of observability across our teams and systems. We operate a socio-technical system, and its ability to recover when faced with adversity is called resilience. We operate a socio-technical system, and its ability to recover when faced with adversity is called resilience.

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Comparing a Systems Product Manager to a Feature Product Manager

Mind the Product

Vignesh Balagopalakrishnan, Group Product Manager at Yelp, looks at the key differences and similarities between a Systems Product Manager and Feature Product Manager. Read more » The post Comparing a Systems Product Manager to a Feature Product Manager appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Systems, not mandates: how to build better product teams

Mind the Product

In this guest post, regular Mind the Product contributor and Product Leader, Alex Hughes, delves into the conversation of building better product teams, and why focusing on the system matters the most. Read more » The post Systems, not mandates: how to build better product teams appeared first on Mind the Product.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Kafka

Under the hood, it is an elegant system for stream processing, event sourcing, and data integration. Download this white paper to learn the 10 critical rules that will help you optimize your Kafka system and unlock its full potential. While not the easiest technology to optimize, Kafka rewards those willing to explore its depths.

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Intercom’s product principles: How connected, modular systems help us to focus on important decisions

Intercom, Inc.

When I joined Intercom eight years ago, I knew nothing about system design. They were quick to put together, and so I assumed that even wireframes were a waste of time, let alone system design diagrams. Here, Gustavs discusses our design principle of “Connected, Modular Systems”. System design for Intercom Articles.

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In Pursuit of the Checkered Flag: The Challenge of Developing a Driverless Race Car System

Product Management Unpacked

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. His was one of six sub-teams all designing portions of the autonomous driving system. “I Mid-summer test.

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10 Rules to More Streamlined Data Modeling

Learn 10 rules that will help you perfect your Kafka system to get ahead. Apache Kafka is a powerful piece of software that can solve a lot of problems. Like most libraries and frameworks, you get out of it what you put into it.

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Entity Resolution: Your Guide to Deciding Whether to Build It or Buy It

This will help you decide whether to build an in-house entity resolution system or utilize an existing solution like the Senzing® API for entity resolution. By the end, you'll understand what to look for, the most common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid, and your options.

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From Concepts to Actionable Insights: Powering Digital Transformation Success

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

To be successful, digital transformation involves the strategic application of digitalization to improve a business’ entire system of production, procurement, sales, operations, human resources, and financial management. Learn how you can quickly improve that success rate.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Innovation Systems: Advancing Practices to Create New Value

As technology transforms the global business landscape, companies need to examine and update their internal processes for innovation to keep pace. Ultimately, organizations will have to improve the velocity of innovation by creating repeatable processes that support ideation, exploration, and incubation, essential to capturing an idea’s full value.

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Trusted AI 102: A Guide to Building Fair and Unbiased AI Systems

The risk of bias in artificial intelligence (AI) has been the source of much concern and debate. Numerous high-profile examples demonstrate the reality that AI is not a default “neutral” technology and can come to reflect or exacerbate bias encoded in human data.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Kafka

Learn ten rules that will help you perfect your Kafka system to get ahead. Kafka is a powerful piece of software that can solve a lot of problems. Like most libraries and frameworks, you get out of it what you put into it.

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Resilient Machine Learning with MLOps

But we can take the right actions to prevent failure and ensure that AI systems perform to predictably high standards, meet business needs, unlock additional resources for financial sustainability, and reflect the real patterns observed in the outside world.