TechBeacon
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Despite its importance in creating a proactive posture toward cyber attacks, threat modeling remains largely misunderstood by many organizations. To clarify matters, a group of 15 security community leaders released the Threat Modeling Manifesto to inform and educate other practitioners as well as to inspire them to adopt threat modeling and improve security and privacy during software development.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
As IBM transitions from software and services to a company fully focussed on hybrid cloud management, it announced its intention to buy Instana , an applications performance management startup with a cloud native approach that fits firmly within that strategy. The companies did not reveal the purchase price. With Instana, IBM can build on its internal management tools, giving it a way to monitor containerized environments running Kubernetes.
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Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
We've come across many clients who are interested in taking the computational notebooks developed by their data scientists, and putting them directly into the codebase of production applications. My colleague David Johnston points out that while data science ideas do need to move out of notebooks and into production, trying to deploy that notebooks as a code artifact breaks a multitude of good software practices.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Meet Bella , a new challenger bank launching on November 30th. The company is trying to differentiate itself with two distinctive features. First, you can interact with the app using keywords and text commands. Second, Bella is trying to build a community that helps each other to differentiate its product from soulless monolithic banking services. Let’s start with the basics.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
A computational notebook is an environment for writing a prose document that allows the author to embed code which can be easily executed with the results also incorporated into the document. It's a platform particularly well-suited for data science work. Such environments include Jupyter Notebook, R Markdown, Mathematica, and Emacs's org-mode. When I'm exploring some data, it's useful to keep my notes close together with the code that performs the exploration.
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CTOvision
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) used to be an emerging trend in the workplace, one that allowed professionals a bit more flexibility and comfort by using their personal computers and […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
The term “DevOps” has been rendered meaningless and developers still don’t have access to the right tools to put the overall idea into practice, the team behind DevOps startup OpsLevel argues. The company, which was co-founded by John Laban and Kenneth Rose, two of PagerDuty’s earliest employees, today announced that it has raised a $5 million seed funding round, led by Vertex Ventures.
The Crazy Programmer
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Many times we ran into problems where nothing related to Python seems working fine and we want to uninstall it completely and re-install it to remove the problem. So, in this post, we are going to see How to uninstall Python on Windows, Mac and Linux. Uninstall Python on Windows. Uninstalling Python on Windows is an easy task. You just need to follow some steps and you are good to go.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Creating a great customer experience requires a lot of data from a variety of sources, and pulling that disparate data together has captured the attention of companies and big and small from Salesforce and Adobe to Segment and Klaviyo. Today, Grouparoo , a new startup from three industry vets is the next company up with an open source framework designed to make it easier for developers to access and make use of customer data.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
AT&T, the third largest mobile operator in the United States in terms of subscribers, has deployed a next-gen open dis-aggregated IP edge routing platform with support from Broadcom, Cisco, and […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Farmstead , a startup that operates an online grocery business while also selling software to other grocers, is announcing that it has raised $7.9 million in Series A funding. While there’s been plenty of demand for grocery delivery this year, the major players like Instacart are making purchases and deliveries from existing supermarkets. Farmstead co-founder and CEO Pradeep Elankumaran said that this model puts a big constraint on the number of possible deliveries, which is why you may be
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Wasabi, the hot cloud storage company, today announced a new partnership with DataCore Software, the authority on software-defined storage (SDS), to provide customers with a fast, practical, and cost-effective solution […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
AI startup RealityEngines.AI changed its name to Abacus.AI in July. At the same time, it announced a $13 million Series A round. Today, only a few months later, it is not changing its name again, but it is announcing a $22 million Series B round, led by Coatue, with Decibel Ventures and Index Partners participating as well. With this, the company, which was co-founded by former AWS and Google exec Bindu Reddy, has now raised a total of $40.3 million.
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
As a relatively new practice, chaos engineering has plenty of myths surrounding it, from randomly shutting down production systems to requiring huge investments of time and money. There’s a lot of confusion over the purpose, the value and the practice of chaos engineering. This presents a problem for DevOps teams, especially since more than half […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Japanese startup Astroscale is aiming for March 2021 for a launch of its first-ever active orbital debris removal mission. This demonstration of its technology, which it hopes to use to help ensure that low-Earth orbit becomes a sustainable environment for commercial activity as it becomes increasingly crowded thanks to the rapid pace of new spacecraft launches.
TechBeacon
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Companies looking for more efficient software development—and to head off security threats—are increasingly integrating security with a DevOps-style pipeline, but budget issues and a shortage of knowledgeable application security professionals are hindering efforts, a survey of nearly 1,200 IT and software-security leaders found.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Bay Area-based Rapid Robotics today announced it has raised $5.5 million in seed funding in a round led by Greycroft and Bee Partners. The announcement comes during what has been a solid several months for robotics funding, and more and more companies are looking to automate workforces as the COVID-19 pandemic has ground a lot of productivity to a halt.
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
In this DevOps Chat, Akshay Anand, ITSM product ambassador at AXELOS, and David Crouch, senior advisor at Beyond20, join Mitch Ashley to share best practices and learnings from introducing and adopting Agile and DevOps in large organizations. Akshay and David discuss overcoming change management challenges and obstacles to increase adoption. As usual, the streaming audio […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
When Zoom announced Zapps last month — the name has since been wisely changed to Zoom Apps — VC Twitter immediately began speculating that Zoom could make the leap from successful video conferencing service to becoming a launching pad for startup innovation. It certainly caught the attention of former TechCrunch writer and current investor at Signal Fire Josh Constine, who tweeted that “Zoom’s new ‘Zapps’ app platform will crush or king-make lots of startups.” Zoom&
Confluent
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
This blog post presents the use cases and architectures of REST APIs and Confluent REST Proxy, and explores a new management API and improved integrations into Confluent Server and Confluent […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Build.security, a Tel Aviv and Sunnyvale-based startup that aims to make it easier for developers to bake authorization policy management right into their applications, today announced a $6 million seed funding round led by cybersecurity-centric firm YL Ventures. CrowdStrike CEO and co-founder George Kurtz also participated in this round, in addition to former Zscaler CISO Michael Sutton, former Bank of America Chief Security Scientist Sounil Yu, Fireglass co-founder Dan Amiga, Cynet CEO and co-
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Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
In 2019, enterprises worldwide reported that every hour of infrastructure downtime cost them an average of $301,000- $400,000. If a system is down for five hours, that’s $1.5 million lost—and that’s on the low end. Five hours of downtime can impact companies for months down the road. It’s in the hands of DevOps practitioners to […]. The post How to Make a Self-Healing IT Infrastructure a Reality appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
We already knew there was a big trend toward remote working, and this has only been drastically accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the distractions of daily life can easily impinge on the “deep work” many need to get done when working on something important, like writing a book, or launching a company for instance. For many individuals and teams looking to get real, focused work done, the solution is often to book an Airbnb somewhere for several days.
CircleCI
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Go , an open-source programming language backed by Google, makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Go’s efficiency with network servers and its friendly syntax make it a useful alternative to Node.js. All network applications need well-tested features, and those developed in Go are no different. In this tutorial, we will be building and testing a simple Go blog.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Actress Kerry Washington has made an investment of undisclosed size in direct-to-consumer jewelry startup Aurate. This isn’t Washington’s first startup investment — she’s also backed The Wing, Community and Byte. In fact, when we asked her about her dream investment at Disrupt in September, she hinted at a new deal that “feels pretty dreamy.” When I brought up those comments earlier this week, Washington laughed and confirmed that Aurate is exactly what she’d
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.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
TOP500 has released the 56th edition of its list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world revealing that nearly 70 percent of them are now powered by Nvidia technology. When […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Cloudbolt , a Bethesda, MD startup that helps companies manage hybrid cloud environments, announced a $35 million Series B investment today. It was split between $15 million in equity investment and $20 Million in debt. Insight Partners provided the equity side of the equation, while Hercules Capital and Bridge Bank supplied the venture debt. The company has now raised over $61 million in equity and debt, according to Crunchbase data.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Zoom on Monday released new features designed to remove and report “Zoombombers,” or uninvited attendees who break into and disrupt meetings. The features are available on the Zoom desktop clients […].
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