Mon.Oct 26, 2020

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Data security vs usability: you can have it all

Cloudera

Growing up, were you ever told you can’t have it all? That you can’t eat all the snacks in one sitting? That you can’t watch the complete Back to the Future trilogy as well as study for your science exam in one evening? Over time, we learn to set priorities, make a decision for one thing over the other, and compromise. Just like when it comes to data access in business.

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Tencent leads $100M Series B funding round into China-based esport provider VSPN

TechCrunch

Further confirmation that the esports market is booming amid the pandemic comes today with the news that esports “total solutions provider” VSPN (Versus Programming Network) has raised what it describes as “close to” $100 million in a Series B funding round, led by Tencent Holdings. Other investors that participated in the round include Tiantu Capital, SIG (Susquehanna International Group), and Kuaishou.

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How to Help Your Team Prepare for the Turbulent Aftermath of the Election

Let's Grow Leaders

Are your managers prepared to deal with the turbulent aftermath of the election? Regardless of the election’s outcome, it’s smart to be ready for a firestorm of distracted, energized, frustrated, hopeful, distraught, elated, concerned, confused, uncertain, joyful, worried hearts and minds… All […]. The post How to Help Your Team Prepare for the Turbulent Aftermath of the Election appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Hubilo raises $4.5 million, led by Lightspeed, to focus on virtual events

TechCrunch

Earlier this year, the founders of event analytics platform Hubilo pivoted to become a virtual events platform to survive the impact of COVID-19. Today, the startup announced it has raised a $4.5 million seed round, led by Lightspeed, and says it expects to exceed $10 million bookings run rate and host more than one million attendees over the next few months.

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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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How to Successfully Integrate Security and DevOps

DevOps.com

As digitalization transforms industries and business models, organizations increasingly are adopting modern software engineering practices such as DevOps and agile to become competitive in the modern marketplace. DevOps enables organizations to release new products and features faster, but this pace and frequency of application releases can conflict with established practices of handling security and compliance. […].

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Survey Sees Surge in Demand for DevOps Skills

DevOps.com

The Linux Foundation and edX, a provider of an online learning platform, jointly released an annual report today that for the first time finds organizations are looking for more IT personnel with open source DevOps skills (65%) than developers (59%). Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president and general manager for training and certification at The Linux […].

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Ant Group could raise as much as $34.5B in IPO in what would be world’s largest IPO

TechCrunch

The long-anticipated IPO of Alibaba-affiliated Chinese fintech giant Ant Group could raise tens of billions of dollars in a dual-listing on both the Shanghai and Hong Kong exchanges. Shares for the company formerly known as Ant Financial are expected to price at around HK$80, or roughly 68 to 69 Chinese Yuan. The company is selling around 134 million shares in the Hong Kong portion of its debut, worth around $17.25 billion American dollars at HK$80 apiece.

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Grafana Labs Looks to Simplify Observability

DevOps.com

Grafana Labs, at its online ObservabilityCON conference today, unveiled a distributed tracing platform dubbed Grafana Tempo that makes it possible to leverage existing object storage platforms and services to analyze traces. At the same time, Grafana Labs announced version 2.0 of Loki, which normalizes different structured, unstructured or JSON log formats in a way that […].

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Good and bad board members (and what to do about them)

TechCrunch

Ryan Caldbeck, co-founder and former CEO of consumer-brands-focused crowdfunding site CircleUp , recently published an email he’d written to a former director on the board of the company. According to Caldbeck, he wrote the letter after CircleUp had bought out the investor’s firm because he wanted to provide constructive feedback, given that this individual’s “involvement was incredibly difficult for all of CircleUp and our board,” as he explained to this person, wh

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Ethical Concerns of AI

CTOvision

Read this article by Kathleen Walch in Forbes about ethical concerns of artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is seen by many as a great transformative tech. Will AI systems one day drive […].

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UK’s PrimaryBid raises $50M as its retail investing platform sees a Covid-19 surge of activity

TechCrunch

One of the biggest trends in the world of fintech in the last several years has been the emergence (and surging popularity) of startups building platforms that help more people take a more proactive role in the world of financial services. Today, one of the more promising hopefuls building an investing service in the UK is announcing a significant growth round after seeing a surge of attention this year in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Cracking Production Performance Issues With Open Source Observability

DevOps.com

I would like to share a recent case study on our organization, Logz.io, which battled a very serious performance issue, the solution for which turned out to be a small change in code but with a huge impact on all of our HTTP endpoints in our platform. Among other topics, I’ll cover: How we investigated […]. The post Cracking Production Performance Issues With Open Source Observability appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Dallas’ ShearShare has a marketplace connecting stylists with available seats at salons and $2.3 million in funding

TechCrunch

Courtney Caldwell and her husband Tye have been building the Dallas-based startup ShearShare , which provides a marketplace service connecting stylists with open seats at hair salons, since 2017. Since their launch the two co-founders have been committed to the humble hustle of starting their own business — including flying between San Francisco and Dallas weekly to participate in the 19th 500 Startups cohort or participating in Y Combinator’s Fellowship program.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Diverge and converge to create a Context Map

Xebia

Context Map was the first visualisation for the Bounded Context pattern from Domain-Driven Design. In a nutshell, it is a map of the different Bounded Contexts and their relationships. I tend to create a Context Map during or after a Big Picture EventStorming. Changing perspectives can be helpful, to challenge assumptions and get the best […].

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Water quality and distribution monitoring software Ketos raises $18 million

TechCrunch

Water quality and logistics monitoring software Ketos has raised $15 million from a group of investors to take advantage of the growing demand for better water management tools and technologies. The potential for more stringent regulatory oversight of industrial water use and wastewater management from local, state and federal government, coupled with increasing consumer and investor demands for better corporate environmental stewardship, is driving an unprecedented adoption of technology and se

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The age of the value stream: What your software team needs to know

TechBeacon

Agile and DevOps have defined the last two decades in software delivery. Value stream management (VSM) will define the next one.

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What would Databricks be worth in a 2021 IPO?

TechCrunch

TechCrunch recently covered Databricks’ financial performance in 2020 , contrasting its recent performance to some historical 2019 data that the company shared. The data-and-analysis focused unicorn grew its annual run rate 75% to $350 million, compared to its year-ago quarter, meaning that the firm is growing well at scale. TechCrunch described it as “an obvious IPO candidate” at the time, a little under two weeks ago.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Detect Changed Files with git

David Walsh

There are numerous reasons to want to know which files have been added or modified in a git repository, one of which is your text editor highlighting those files. Another use case is running tasks against only files which are presently changed, like lint or other validation routines. So how can we identify files which are added or changed? Like this: git ls-files --others --exclude-standard ; git diff-index --name-only --diff-filter=d HEAD ; And if you only want to run a routine on a certain por

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Equity Monday: SAP’s warning, and IPO updates for both Airbnb and Databricks

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big news, chats about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here — and don’t forget to check out last Friday’s episode that includes some high-quality Quibi jokes,

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How Leaders Can Prepare for an Election Disaster

CEO Insider

Are you prepared as a leader for the possibility of a disastrous result for the US Presidential election? Such an outcome might seem impossible. Yet it doesn’t sound so far-fetched to many top political leaders and experts observing the run-up to the election. With many more mail-in ballots, which are much more vulnerable to legal […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article How Leaders Can Prepare for an Election Disaster are those of the author Dr.

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How Nonprofits Can Navigate Facebook's Political Ad Ban

TechSoup

Starting October 27, Facebook will prohibit new advertisements related to political and social issues for an undetermined amount of time. Previously, a political advertisement restriction was set to end after Election Day, but now it extends beyond November 3.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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The Secrets to Building a Product-Led Organization

Battery Ventures

This season of the Powered by Battery podcast features portfolio executives representing companies from various geographies and technology sectors. The views expressed here are solely those of podcast guests, not Battery. If you’re interested in learning more about these companies, or others in the Battery portfolio, you can access more information here.

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Article: Q&A on The Book AO, Concepts and Patterns of 21-st Century Agile Organizations

InfoQ Culture Methods

The book AO, concepts and patterns of 21-st century agile organizations by Pierre Neis explores the concept of designing systems to allow for agile behaviour. It provides patterns to establish agile organizations that are able to respond to 21-st century challenges. By Ben Linders, Pierre Neis.

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Authenticity Lies in Your Ability to Cut The Crap

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Authentic means getting rid of the B.S. and buzzwords and layers of ‘protective’ crap. Sharing who you truly are is the best way to establish a connection and build trust with your team. Today’s post is by Mike Figliuolo, Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS and author of One Piece of Paper(CLICK HERE to get your copy). The only way I know to roll back the tide of all the meaningless jargon in our world is to say what you really mean.

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Active-Active Storage Replication: Why don’t more organizations get it, or “get it”?

Infinidat

Active-Active Storage Replication: Why don’t more organizations get it, or “get it”? Hillel Nakache. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 08:53. In 2003 RoperASW conducted a survey of business executives and IT executives relative to their perceptions about their organization’s ability to provide Business Continuity in the event of an IT disaster. That survey exposed a chasm of difference of opinion between the business execs and the IT execs in the U.S. relative to how well protected they thought they were, while

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Myth #4: Real-Time Visibility Is Impossible

Firemon

This is part 4 of a 4-part series addressing compliance myths and what you need to know about uniting compliance and security in a hybrid environment. Read myth #3 here. The levels of manual effort put in by security teams involved in reducing risk and completing compliance audits are compounded by the lack of real-time visibility of what is truly going on in their networks.

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How to Leverage Nessus Scan Reports for Better Vulnerability Assessment

Tenable

Turning your Nessus scan results into actionable reports helps you dynamically visualize the vulnerability assessment process. Vulnerability scanning is typically a multi-step process, one that doesn't simply begin and end with the scan itself. This is certainly true of a comprehensive assessment tool like Nessus Professional. Whether you're using it as part of an internal information security team or as a third-party consultant, one of the essential steps is to report the results of your scan a

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Means and Production

DevOps.com

The post Means and Production appeared first on DevOps.com.

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